“Le Jour où L’Empereur a Pleuré”

Napoleon wasn’t even French! He was Corsican (who speak a language closer to Italian than French). It’s funny how these things work. Napoleon was Corsican, Stalin was Georgian, and Hitler was Austrian!

It reminds me of how there was a Japanese brand of chalk that mathematicians and physicists swore by and claimed that its smooth writing helped them do research (for the types that liked to use blackboards for research). The company closed down and mathematicans freaked out but apparently a Korean company bought the…

I get the joke, but given that the show went off the air nearly 25 years ago, it’s not like the sons would even have to be characters without having to kill them off -- just say they moved out of state for work or something.

Just googled it now. Yeah, that seems like a weird dish, but I was amused that author of the article I read seemed to be most amazed by the fact thst the recipe involves microwaving pasta. As if that was some unheard of thing. Yes, I know traditional Italian chefs would be aghast at the idea, but honestly, once you…

The 1993 Christian Slater movie with a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino (but not directed by him)? How so? It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but I seem to remember much more battling drug dealers than in Scott Pilgrim.

I suppose, but that implies he bought a boat before a mattress, which is odd. Unless maybe he escaped from a flood, leaving his boat his sole possession, I guess.

Wait until he learns that the gene “Sonic Hedgehog”, which is responsible for a lot of embryonic development in all animals (including humans) was named after Sonic the Hedgehog!

Although it’s weird that Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City did the same thing recently (except instead of a radio program it turns out that the movie was really an episode of a highbrow 1950s TV program similar to Playhouse 90.

And the character should be Dun€an Idaho.

Ignoring the weird backwards way of describing his stint on SNL, surely he’s better known from the Wayne’s World movies (which I realize started as SNL sketches with him and Mike Myers). Many more people have enjoyed the movies than ever saw the sketches.

Fucking Minecraft videos

That’s just weird. An air mattress (which I in fact slept on for a few years in my youth) is cheaper and better than an inflatable boat.

Yeah, most of the first season was pretty weak. I know a lot of friends I recommended it to gave up on it a few episodes in. But those later seasons made BH probably the most touching animated series ever. But in the past, series took their time to find their footing. Star Trek TNG wasn’t that great in the first…

Nah, the in-thing among the kids is TikTok. YouTube, like Facebook, is for the olds. Those TikTok influencers (most recently, Osama bin Laden) must really enjoy their fame!

They do if the producer happens to be famous. For example movies produced by Steven Spielberg always bring up his name, even if he isn’t actually the director, who often goes almost noticed by the public.

Yeah, although I think the younger people (under 45 or so) remember Streisand less for things like Yentl and more for the eponymous “Streisand effect” where trying to suppress information on the Internet (in her case pictures of her house) backfire because everybody wants to see what people are trying to hide.

It'll be interesting to see if she just cashes out or becomes somebody like Paul McCartney who, while being less famous than at his peak, is a still a fairly major celebrity for decades afterwards.

And defend shirtless athletic contests! Oh, wait, that’s his other famous character, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.

Are they going to cast Boo-Boo? And Ranger Smith? Somebody has to stop them from taking the pic-a-nic baskets!