Ix-nay on the Equod's-Pay…
Don't let the tourists find out about it.

What about giardiniera that's packed in oil (not vinegar)? Since I moved away, this is the definitive Chicago item that I now have to order online, seeing as I can't get it at my neighborhood Jewel-Osco. From what I hear, it's the same for Chicago expatriates whether they move to the South, the West Coast/Mountain…

And Carol would be the studio exec who's constantly threatening to shut down production if she doesn't get in line.

Y'know, in the end it comes down to characters. The spinoff just doesn't have any characters that really stick with me. There's a certain…contrivance.

Don't forget Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper! Oh wait, they're on the second stage.

Once you make the foray into musical theater, it's hard to come back from that (unless you're Pete Townshend).

Ever hear that story about when he toured with the Rolling Stones? They were largely responsible for his music becoming popular again, but he still disdained them at every turn. And the more he disdained them, the more they worshiped him.

Great musician, great innovator, a legend…but he had a reputation for treating his bandmates like shit.

We crusty old commenters will never change our ways, no matter what newfangled kajiggery is foisted upon us!

Although Jar Jar was despised on his home planet of Naboo, he was inexplicably revered as a comic genius in the Francooine System.

So if Trump's eyes were to turn red because he's in thrall to the Pah-Wraiths, that might fall under "Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office" under Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution.

More Klown Sightings!!!!!

Ugh, that scene where Porun's daughter died right in front of Sigurd was brutal. No wonder he turned out to be the angsty, Holden-Caulfield-esque Son of Ragnar.

Here in Atlanta, we used to have an award-winning, student-run radio station at Georgia State University, known as WRAS or Album 88. This station was devoured by NPR in Alien-like fashion a couple of years ago. The students overwhelmingly wanted to keep WRAS, but the faculty overruled them and brought in NPR, to…

I wonder, did the Norse women of the time really wear all that eyeliner, or is that a bit of aesthetic license from the costume designers? Not that I'm complaining, I think it looks great on Lagertha, Astrid, Helga, and sure, Floki. Helps bring out the Gothiness. (Shit, those four could start a Bauhaus tribute band)

It probably didn't help that the architects of the ACA were explicitly relying on "the stupidity of the American voter" in order to get it passed. Things like that tend to throw off your "soaring oratory" karma.

Ah, the German-American Indiana Vonnegut childhood, with oompa-bands and drinking… but after he came to my college and gave a lecture about his suicide attempt, I was sort of afraid to read any more. "If you stare into the abyss for long enough, it starts to stare back into you."

All joking aside, this is actually kind of "Fascinating!" Once again, Star Trek is at the forefront of new developments in pop culture, bumping up against the limits of media and tech…oh, sort of like porn.

I just re-watched it on YouTube. Definitely more engaging than the second half of Return of the Jedi.

But not Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye? He has the coolest name of the bunch, imho. Too bad the show is portraying him like some '80s hair-metal kid.