Enjoyable as always. I mostly know Pat Healy from Cheap Thrills, but great to read these stories about Home Alone and Ford and The Post.

Per Wikipedia: A fatal heart attack suffered by one visitor in 1984 was unofficially believed to have been triggered by the shock of the cold water in the pool beneath the Tarzan Swing. The water on the ride and in that swimming area was 50–60 °F (10–16 °C), while other water areas were in the 70–80 °F (21–27 °C)…

I don’t know anyone who refers to flying on a crowded plane as ‘fine’.  You don’t gather in a grocery store, you buy your shit and you get out of there.  And you can go to protests outside.

I remember feeling like U2's “Beautiful Day” was inescapable that fall— people were so relieved that the ‘experimental’ Zooropa/Pop era was over, coupled with the misplaced optimism about the new millennium.

‘99 was the year I really became a film buff, but ‘00 was the year I graduated college, moved to Boston, and had numerous theaters at my disposal. I remember seeing Crouching Tiger and State and Main a few days apart at the Kendall, and I remember taking in Almost Famous and O Brother on Friday nights at the…

Wikipedia data suggests that SNES had about 50% market share in that hardware generation, with Genesis taking about 35% and the TurboGrafx-16 taking about 10%.

Per Wikipedia, the main processor in the Genesis was a Motorola 68000, which ran at 7.67 MHz, compared to the SNES’s custom Ricoh 5A22, which ran at 3.58 MHz. There were 34 SNES games (including Super Mario RPG) that utilized a custom in-cartridge 65C816 chip that ran at 10.74 MHz, a speed that was only surpassed on…

If you don’t already know who they are, congratulations on being “cool”

Many years ago my wife and I were making out while listening to Picaresque; things moved into the bedroom just as “The Mariner’s Revenge Song” came on, which pretty much put an end to that.

My wife has begged me to toss out my old, disintegrating Weird Al cassettes, but I told her that I’m not throwing away my shit.

I am neither mesmerized nor hypnotized by this squabbling.

So there were two tweets? Maybe he’s wrong, but how does that make him loud? What’s your subtext there?

You know, if my first name was Tucker, and I knew that T and F were adjacent on a keyboard, I’d double-check my spelling on the regular.

For years, my old band Ghosts of Sailors at Sea did an annual Halloween show as Fugazi. In on the Kill Taker and End Hits tended to dominate the setlists — we recorded a cover of “Arpeggiator” with Kurt Ballou to include as a hidden digital track with a 7" — but for my money Red Medicine is the desert-island Fugazi…

Not to worry, attendees will still have access to Butt Trumpet’s 3am performance in the basement of Kung Fu Saloon.

When I view the site in Chrome, there’s a large empty margin on the left side of the browser, and the content continues off the right side, but I can’t scroll over.  Noticed this too on the Onion site when it switched.

I have seen Lee Pace in the 2018 Broadway revival of Angels in America, and by extension I have seen Lee Pace’s penis in the 2018 Broadway revival of Angels in America.

Each of the Muppet movies should be called “The Muppet Movie”.

You realize Cars was followed immediately followed by Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3, yes?

Movies like Live. Die. Repeat.: Edge of Tomorrow (ugh) and Ghostbusters: Answer the Call changed their titles after their theatrical runs were over, prior to home release. Birds of Prey is changing it after opening weekend?