Surprised no one has mentioned the Not-A-Perfect-Person-but-a-Perfect-Mom sketch. Easily the best of the night; the intergenerational hypocrisy was outrageously funny, even to McKinnon’s grandma screaming at David Bowie to take her panties. ‘You blew my roommate/I thought it was you!” was definitely the spit out your…

Gwen, you’ve been one of my favorite writers across all the sites for a while.  Maybe it’s being a fellow old in watching shows that don’t have splosions and shallow characters, or maybe it’s that you put an awful lot of work in to whatever you do.

I’ve found that trying to do anything but provide very basic requests of - not instructions to - a process server tends to result in a rather pissed off one. They have their realm, know the law of it vastly better than 99% of the attorneys they work for, and do not appreciate any perceived ‘interference’.

I’d wondered why Bosch’s half brother Mickey Haller - aka the Lincoln Lawyer - never made an appearance in the early years of Bosch. We found out a couple years ago: Connelly was smart and sold the rights for those books to a competitor. Must have made for interesting times when he dealt with Amazon suits on what was…

As I’ve written before, the sad part about this is that The Crown really is at its most effective when it stays close to what actually happened, and if they’d stuck with that the show would be more interesting to watch as well as probably be allowed to shoot without interference.

Collagen starts melting at 160℉, and continues to do so until it hits 180℉, transforming these structural proteins into rich, silky gelatin. This gelatin—along with rendered fat—will saturate the meat, making it nice and juicy.

Thanks for the Jabbar piece; I’ve been a fan of his writing for a while, and hadn’t realized he weighed in.  It’s easily the best take I’ve seen on the subject.

I’m watching an international stream that’s uncensored and the Will Smith-Chris Rock part was definitely unscripted.

Sorry to hear this, Jesse.

The ships do have CO2 suppression systems precisely for this reason, but they’ve clearly got a bunch of work to do; not having compartments on these things (they have fire curtains) limits just how effective this is. Halon engine room systems work because you’re in a small sealed chamber - even if it’s a raging…

Sal Mercogliano is as good as it gets when it comes to shipping (with the bonus of having 20 years of volunteer and paid firefighting experience as well) and he’s summarized what’s going on here:

Nope, the Fugitive Slave Act went so far as to assign penalties for anyone who even passively didn’t assist in capturing someone accused of being an escaped slave. It also compensated the judges (at a trial where the slave couldn’t even speak up for themselves, which resulted in some being sent to their ‘owner’ only…

I will say solely for making you stop what you’re doing and watch, the Sopranos Chevy ad was the one commercial that did so more than any others.

Not counterpoints per se, but worth noting since it’s rather noticeably omitted in this review:

Your reaction has become more and more commonplace as the years have passed since the series was finished.

I’m glad he was alive to get Ghostbusters: Afterlife done. The interviews for the film make clear that it was both a passion project as well as something that really mattered to him as a father to have the son who tagged along with him during the original helm it, and he apparently had a cameo as a CGI stand in for…

‘Musician’ requires someone to not phone it in more than about 2% of the time, which he hasn’t really done since Joy Division.

I’ll ungrey you for just mentioning The The, but I still think their best work was pre-Marr - and I thought a lot of his stuff with Electronic was pretty decent given he was the only real musician in that band.

Also, this is a great story about how she put the volunteer who cleans her late husband’s grave on the same level as Ryan Reynolds and Robert Redford.

Three weeks away from a very vibrant 100. What a life, and I suspect White would have cracked a smile with the obit of her adopted hometown newspaper, the L.A. Times.