In case you wanted to read the actual article mentioned, it’s now open access.

In case you wanted to read the actual article mentioned, it’s now open access.

I was the soul of the piece, the heart of the show

The other aspect of movies on television in that time frame was that brief period in the mid 80s where censorship restrictions got dropped on broadcast TV. I don’t think my parents ever noticed, but I certainly did.

For me it was the salt monster episode in Star Trek TOS at about 7 or so. Freaked me out for months.

I finished up the last 5 episodes of The Magicians - first time I’ve had time to sit down and binge in over a month.

As I commented during the article when he passed, Hauer and Miranda Richardson shined despite the substandard adaptation of the book. The two scenes that still jump out at me are the one with the old, vain actress explaining to Richardson’s character that the Jews ‘went up in smoke’ as she imitates a chimney with her…

On my time travel bucket list for shows, the late 1970s B-52s are definitely prominent.

I’ve been wondering when AVClub might write on this again. Marginal spoilers ahead if you’ve not watched this season.

Yep, this has long been a bone of contention among my friends who, like me, read the books.

I’ve had a number of inspirational events for improving my cooking. One I’ve told before is the 50-something senior enlisted roommate during a TDY who stocked our freezer full of Hungry Man breakfasts and dinners since his wife cooked at home and the service generally did so when he was deployed. I definitely did not…

Even during normal times Costco seem to run out of bacon for a few days - the lower sodium version has gone out of stock at the ones around me for a week at a time.

It’s a definite and welcome throwback to Mark Russell, although his chops remind me a bit of Stephen DeRosa’s Eddie Cantor in Boardwalk Empire.

I’ve described the first season to others like this: you’ll love the opening, be bored stiff once they get bogged down in the middle (both literally and geographically), and then the last two episodes will blow your mind - I mean, it’s not just that a show is crazy enough to argue for a scenario where Hitler’s…

Finished watching McMillions; what a great documentary.

I went to an Asian supermarket last weekend - I needed Shaoxing wine and sesame seeds to make the asparagus recipe posted here - and the woman in line in front of me was complaining to the cashier that she’d been trying to get Jasmine rice every day for a week. No dice.

Since I stopped watching around episode 3 or 4, something I’m curious about: did the show ever figure out what it was trying to be?

Oddly, the biggest complaint people have are very vivid dreams

A friend recently turned me onto using creme fraiche instead of cheese for scrambled eggs, and it’s fantastic. Just a bit of a problem finding it cheaply, although one Costco nearby has it semi-regularly (and another rarely.)

I’ve been on montelukast for like 15 years and it’s made a tremendous difference for my allergies. Fantastic drug.

I think when we get to a later point in time where we can review what’s been going on that we’re going to find the prepping community played a role in fanning the flames of encouraging people to stockpile everything.