My metal experience for the weekend was, I had to drive the (old) New Beetle for a while so I put in the "Powerslave/number of the beast" in the cassette player.

Some other Looney Toons Show observations - Speedy is a hard working immigrant instead of a hearthrob, Bugs is sorta Seinfeldian - mostly straight man with a few eccentricities.

I was scrolling through the cable guide the other night and I saw "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and I said "they just showed that two months ago". Oh it's the 30's version in Switzerland, not 50's in Morocco

I like the Trump charade pic

TRON - For me, The most significant aspect of this movie was actually the arcade game. I played the arcade game before I read the novelization before I saw the movie (on a Selectavision CED disc player!). I knew all the plot points ahead of time so the only new thing was the visuals (there were some stills in the…

Farming in the early 90's was "go big or go home" Some of that was the scaling up of Ag mechanization ($200,000 for a combine?).
In the Red River Valley in particular, the summers in 88 and 89 were terrible drought years and that broke the back of many of the small farmers, including the farm on my dad's side of the…

I thought Matlock was NBC.

The first one burned down and fell into the Missouri River (OK i made the last part up) in 1930 so they went with a modern (for the time) design.

There was a scientist (maybe Feynman?) showing President Carter a solar mirror array, and Carter looked like he was going to touch the mirror, which would have burned him badly. The scientist quickly grabbed his hand out of the way, drawing a lot of attention from the Secret Service.

While completely disregarding the instructions of his assistant, Mr Hammer.

Ditto Bismarck. The capitol doesn't have a dome either

Bismarck. People sometimes even misspell it.

Dr Zhivago and Lara?

He does Breaking Madden? This just became a must read.

I felt the same way when I had one on New Orleans a couple of years back. I was looking at my phone while it was being made and I was doubting myself. "Did he just dump the absinthe? Naw, he couldn't have, that's expensive"

But if your coverage gets you the viral video like the "this is the first time I've been on TV" kid, it's worth it.

It's not on Netflix. Torrent?

If I do I won't use my actual name. I guess I'll have to come up with something clever.

I love that sketch! Kiddo laughed his ass off the first time someone turned into a Scot.

The writing and commentariat were top notch at The Dissolve.