If by "strange" you mean "really shitty", then yes. Clancy just couldn't get it together after the Cold War ended. He used the 'Ebola as biological warfare weapon' in back-to-back books.

I have to admit that as far as monarchy goes, I think Oliver Cromwell and Robespierre had the right idea. That colored my reaction to the craziness in England in 1997.

Hammy. Hammy and stagey, like all acting of the day. Hollywood didn't make a good talking film until 1930 with "All Quiet on the Western Front".

I also got a kick out of the two slender blond gay kids saying that they both like big muscular types.

Both 1939 and 1940 were pretty damn solid.

Here's a good article about it.

I've never seen the Lange version of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" but the Turner version is completely ridiculous. Lana Turner is sexy as hell in it but the plot is just goofy.

Ah, Interchangeable Marvel Action Hero #8.

Did they show an old-timey SNL show tonight?

One of the things that made The Wonder Years great was how Kevin Arnold could sometimes be an awful dick. There's the episode you mention and the one where he dumped that nerdy pigtailed girl he was going to the dance with. Kids, even good kids, can be little shits sometimes, but you don't usually see that in…

Watched "Disraeli" the other day. Was reminded again of how shitty all the early talking films were and what a massive artistic step backwards the conversion to sound was.

I think "Rocky" falls squarely into the "how the fuck did Popular Movie X beat Great Classic Y" discussion. And the increasingly stupid sequels cast some unfair stigma.

This "blind date" version of "The Amazing Race" is not working. Although it's fun watching the blind date couples grow to hate each other. So maybe it is working. I enjoyed the doctor looking like he wanted to get hit by a meteor while the nurse just WOULD NOT SHUT UP about how he should have listened to her.

Or the line where Joe gets all the fancy luggage trunks and the salesman says "May you live to be a thousand years." Lots of great lines in that movie.

I remember watching the news from America and just being utterly astonished at how bananas people were going in England. Here's a country that is content to pledge fealty to this one particular aristocratic family for no reason and pay them tens of millions of pounds a year to do nothing. The asinine custom of…

…no.

Sex addiction is not a thing.

And Kevin, the mad doctor's little monkey buddy on South Park.

If the character of Kitty Winter weren't 1) horribly damaged and 2) obviously not going to be a permanent fixture on the show—she and Marcus would have some goddamn beautiful babies.

In the past I've been able to actually realize when I'm falling asleep. Just keep a stream of thought going, keep your internal monologue going as you close your eyes, and when things start getting weirder, you're falling asleep.