This is also why it really irritates me when filmmakers try to reboot a successful television series for which I have a lot of nostalgia they so often insist on doing an origin story. As if it matters. And which they botch up.

The more I think about the books and about the television series, the more Lovecraftian the ring-builders and the protomolecule-creators seem: the war between the Elder Things and the Old Ones destroyed both civilizations, leaving traces of the protomolecule and the ring gates behind. The ring gates are The Expanse’s…

Yes. I have a spare set of wheels for my WRX on which I keep Blizzak’s mounted. Unfortunately, I was a little late this year: I haven’t swapped them on yet because we’ve had unseasonable warm temperatures this fall here in the Denver metro area; and then last night we got several inches of snow. Oops.

Sadly, I’ve been using my WRX as a means to make sure my battery trickle charger still works.

My spousal unit and I - we’re both in our 60s - play this game all the time.

Does no one remember the BLACK MIRROR episode “Metalhead”?

Nothing like a movie in which the opening scene is a delivery room where the newborn immediately kills everyone in the operating theatre!

I dimly remember going to a SubGenius revival meeting back in the 1980s, led by none other than the Rev. Ivan Stang himself, at a science fiction convention. “Did Bob die for our sins? NO! HE LIVED FOR OUR SINS!” I was converted. (I best remember him remarking on how easy it was to get an FM radio station license from…

... now I kinda want one...

[1] I see you’re going to burn your yoga mats. Good plan.

The room you begin in is deliberately totally lame. You’re in a primer grey room, told to stand carefully on marked spots on the floor, and watching your completely generic safety video. You are standing on what looks like a concrete floor with a shiny service (but is really I suspect a projection from below).…

If this had been anywhere except Las Vegas, it probably would have been a non-issue. But the exhibits, events, and rides seem to pull an astonishing range of people.

My spousal unit might play all of US$20 or so in the slots during a single trip. Once she said “I’m going to go play some slots” and I said “okay, I’ll window shop in the stores over here.” She came back five minutes later. “What happened, did you already loose your $20?” “No, I was three quarters in and I won a $17…

I love Las Vegas, but I admit it takes a special mind set. I don’t gamble. We like to people watch, eat well, take long walks, window shop, and check out exhibits and rides. LV serves us well in this regard. We go almost ever year in February (when the weather is perfect, sometimes even rainy) for our anniversary for…

My spousal unit and I got to Las Vegas for a long weekend - it being an easy short cheap flight from Denver - almost every year for our anniversary in February (when the weather is especially temperate). We starting going to The Experience every trip, if not to ride the ride, then at least to have lunch at Quark’s and…

Waiting for this to show up on PornHub, in 3... 2... 1...

It’s late. I’m a morning person and the alarm goes off at 5AM. Around 9PM, I’m pondering whether it’s time to turn off the TV, throw down some cat treats for the nightly ritual, and start getting ready for bed. OTOH, these days, in the Plague Times, I’m not sure exactly what the heck I’m getting up early for anymore.

The serial killer - WHOEVER THAT MIGHT BE - is *so* good at framing the other person... he (or she) convinces them they actually did it. “All of this evidence... it convinces me... I MUST have done it!” Remarkable!

The statisticians at the FBI who study patterns of crimes would be all over Cabot Cove like white on rice. It must have orders of magnitude more murders per capita than any comparable town. It’s surely the murder capital of the U.S.! It’s *almost* as if there is a brilliant serial killer there who manages to pin all…

The score by John Williams isn’t so bad, either.