There are many idiotic parts to this.

Glad to help.

Not really.

And Tabitha Soren was simply cute.

A decent list. I’d put “Friday I’m In Love” quite a bit lower given, as you say, it’s a quintessential pop hit that doesn’t really reflect the rest of their repertoire and “Just Like Heaven” is a better representative of that. I’d also nominate the title track of Disintegration for inclusion somewhere in that list; it…

While I really liked Season 1 and thought Season 2 was ok, one of the reasons why I pretty much did the watch-the-episode-in-15-minutes skip ahead technique in Seasons 3 and 4 is that I found the show’s insistence of portraying Midge as this airbrushed trailblazing heroine teeth-grindingly incompatible with the…

I found the last book interesting largely because despite being yet another retread it was a fairly accurate portrayal of someone with actual PTSD shortly before PTSD became watered down as the preferred self diagnosed mental illness of Gen Z. Come to think of it, I now wonder if those two developments may have been…

This is why I’m really curious to see what the post-mortem takes on him look like. I think he was in the right place at the right time, but it also took someone with his particular skillset to exploit it back then - where now, as you say, it’s unremarkable.

Springer’s impact - along with the man himself - is a tough nut to crack; I’m genuinely looking forward to the more in depth obits by media analysts. It’s a little surprising, but he only two other talk shows of that era that lasted that long were Oprah and Phil Donahue, with Jenny Jones (bet you forgot about her!) bei…

Thank you for this; it’s something that should have been covered in the article. I saw the video still and without knowing the background immediately went “they’re going to lose a 50/50 initiative so they’re going to to try to force 60.”

Hey, only 13 days until AVClub would have been forced to write an article about this and we finally get something. That’s progress, I suppose, even if it means that another slideshow and/or snark has been tragically delayed.

I vaguely remember some of the really screwed up mom stuff coming out during FNL, but the depth of it is new here. I had long suspected the former might be related to why she went through a slew of very successful men but never settled down; it’ll be interesting to see if she talks about therapy in her book, because…

Jaffee moved with his deeply-religious mother and three brothers to her hometown of Zarasai, Lithuania, at age 6

Get your blood pressure and cholesterol checked.  Doesn’t matter if you’re in perfect physical condition as Reddick was; plaque build up will kill you, and it’s almost entirely preventable nowadays.  RIP.

I’ve almost always tipped cash for decades except when it’s on the company’s dime. I remember the gratitude for slipping a $50 to the one long employed doorman at a place I was moving out of and who’d helped from time to time; they’d replaced the longstanding ones with minimum wage guys who were getting 15 minute…

I really wish there was any sort of citation for the linked article’s claim of:

Also, since this was a substantial pain to track down despite being on his channel (it’s buried deep in it), the Wild Palms soundtrack and one of my favorites from it. I’d forgotten the peak 1993 guitar lead over synth.

It just struck me that the piano version of this would be entirely appropriate for a funeral, and I hope it gets played at his.

Or you could just read Alex Wellerstein’s blog over at blog.nuclearsecrecy.com (he’s got a twitter account too and posts on reddit as /r/restricteddata, the title of his first book), who is probably the single leading tenured historian on the history of nuclear development. He’s also the developer of the Nukemap,…

I’d never even thought to connect the soundtracks to Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and Wild Palms together before but the sweeping synths should have given it away.  He did some memorable work.  RIP.