Because he was inconveniently dead. The theory is the writers planned for Michael to sing them and Michael may even have planned to sing them too, but he was dead before it could happen meaning the writers would get $0 for writing the songs. On the other hand, if a fake Michael sang them they could still make bank by…

I didn’t know Night Sky had been cancelled. Boo. I liked those characters, despite the sometimes overly slow pace. It ended on a tantalising note.

Lesley Ann Warren

I don’t understand how archive.org continues to exist (but I’m glad it does).

“We made a joke. It’s funny because it’s a joke we made.”

“any other plausible explanation”.

As a kid in Lanarkshire (Scotland) the stock response to someone whose trousers were that high was “yer cat’s deid!”*

It’s that he’s not charismatic.

Thing is, even now he officially was responsible (which, by the way, means it’s not a “myth” as described in the header), he actually had nothing to do with it. He was going to put his name to it after his team had done it. Brad Buxer is the true composer (and also, of the music in Sonic 3-adjacent cut Stranger In…

Well, not based on how he lived, but certainly if the sole criterion was his talent. (See also James Brown, Marvin Gaye, John Lennon... most people).

Whilst quoting the immortal Chuck D can only be applauded... he was wrong about Elvis and also significantly wronger about Farrakhan.

Like many, I hate and never bought the Danny-Karen plot, but I enjoyed the episode. As for the review, I think the balance is off (90% summary, 10% review isn't much of a review).

McMahon is sleazy. In other “news,” Hulk Hogan is a racist.

Obviously it’s common knowledge to those steeped in video game culture but I’m amazed that Activision cost more than ten times what the whole Star Wars property cost.

How careless of the seemingly otherwise fairly effective killing machine, Darth Vader then. Oh well. Maybe he'll kill her next week.

And how is it that a lightsabre through the chest is, to quote the immortal Monty Python, “only a flesh wound?”

That’s why one moment of murder (of his master) in ROTJ totally redeems him and he ends up in the light side of the force.

Funny. Not that I'm disagreeing, but I work in education and for at least a decade here there has been a forced shift from referring to pupils as pupils, students or candidates towards instead calling them learners. Obviously this is long after Lucas was writing (and he was indeed terrible with dialogue).

Possibly to someone misreading what I said. I never denied I was annoyed, I denied your characterisation of it being a choice (“determined”); suggested you’d never self-apply that label, and denied what it was about.

I’m not determined to be angry about anything and I doubt that’s how you would characterise your own angry posts. As I alluded to before, I don’t believe we should accept royalist crap without dissent and that includes even the significant amount of coverage on the G/O media sites. It is far less critical than it…