OMG, yes! I was obsessed with that episode when it came out and my dad eventually told me it was just a parody of an existing TV show and I was SO HAPPY there was more of that nonsense out there. I didn’t even get my hands on The Prisoner until many years later but I was ready & waiting.

Every once in a while I’ll pretend to have a migraine, and spend the day in bed binging on it all by myself ;) I love it!

Love Midsomer Murders! It’s has the can’t-eat-just-one quality of SVU without the nightmare inducing content.

It was given to Queen Elizabeth’s aunt and passed down through her family. No one really knows who bought it from them, but there’s a pretty good reconstruction of its history here.

truly, I watch more Acorn than Netflix now.

The fact that they place embargos on treasures leaving the country is ironic given how GB got some of the treasures that they display. Oh well.

I swear, it’s like the British know that we’d just yank all the jewels out and have them reset into a grill.

no no no no no no no no no no no no

Can we distract them by calling the palace and asking if they have Prince Albert in a can?

Very interesting. I guess they want to keep their treasures, but why isn’t this with the crown?

The British understand that you shouldn’t be allowed to remove culturally significant artifacts from a country.

Indeed the British crown feel a strong sense of ownership of many of the jewels they pillaged from their colonies! Some of which are really suffering now, but those valuable resources just LOOK BETTER on a white woman’s head or neck.

Last night I watched Willy Wonka with my parents and brother over Facetime. It was one of the movies I watched a lot as a child and growing up, my family would often quote Willy Wonka’s lines to each other. “Stop. Don’t. Come back,” was one of our favorites. Without Gene Wilder, that movie probably would have faded…

It appears that some other alien civilization has already sent to Earth orange people with little fingers. And they are orange people with serious mental health problems. Sad!

It’s true. When HD 164595 sends its little green people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending little green men that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re bringing alien drugs. They’re bringing alien crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good bug-eyed people.

Some Astronomers think that, although the life is probably prolific in the universe, the chance of two advanced civilizations overlapping each other is infinitesimal. The universe is so vast that whole civilizations like ours could have lived, evolved, and been wiped out before we ever even came around. So even if…

There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow

Or they could have existed a billion years ago or a billion years in the future and we’d never exist at the same time.

I guess I technically believe in aliens. Our universe is fucking massive so it’s a little presumptuous to think Earth is the only planet to have the right mix of sun and water to sustain life. Depending on where the “aliens” are in their evolution they may be more primitive than us or they could have been around…

I’m pretty sure I know how this ends. The rise of Trump portends all this.