Dude, (Jefferson) Starship was big in the Star Wars universe. I’ve seen the Holiday Special.

Don’t forget Indigenous Ewok Music.

“Isn’t it a whole different kind of blinkered nostalgia to imagine that the youth of 2045 will still be hung up on “Staying Alive” and Atari and, well, Spielberg movies?” I mean, I grew up in the ‘80s obsessed with a franchise inspired by 1930s sci fi serials and 1950s samurai movies, a toy line/cartoon show that was…

Salinger didn’t allow for his name, or any hint of his persona to be used in the book. Hence his character changes from a novelist to a journalist.

After hearing so much hype, I read Ready Player One last year. I was born in the 70s. I study media. I am the target demographic for this book. I thought the book was terrible. It is like listening to a kid talk about a game: “First we fought this boss and it was awesome and we thought it was the end but then it…

Christ, the only things more wretchedly insufferable than American pseudo-royalty are the British actual-royalty. 

Yep, it’s price segmentation based on willingness to pay.

Or because Pence’s personal beliefs have more in common with someone who lived in the mid 19th century?

He’d get full off of one of their Bloody Marys: onion rings atop a burger atop fried cheese curds atop a bratwurst atop a thimble of vodka and V8.

And religions would have been banned a couple millennia ago...

It’s too bad this guy wasn’t alive today to see Wisconsin.

“who has hiked in six contestants”

Neat story, but “...hiked in six contestants”? What was he in, Willy Wonka or Fantastic Voyage?

Someone please tell my advisor that a dissertation is 15,000 words.

This is interesting. I have a cousin who has ALS and she went downhill over the course of a 2 or 3 years and then plateaued. She can speak if she goes slowly and she uses a computer with her foot. I think she has been at this level for the past 15 to 20 years. The family had a charity golf tournament for a while to…

We’re still doing a lot of blind groping around in this area; the definition of Bell’s palsy is literally “anything that affects the facial muscles that can’t be explained by something else.”

> Wouldn’t they just plug their genitals/hair into a fish

I’ve always wondered how well this could work, if it were to be really immersive as on “WestWorld”. If Alex had been wearing old-timey clothes, could he have taken off the hat and pretended to be an employee? Could he have told other journalists to go do naked jumping jacks in the saloon to solve their mystery?…

I’vealways found it off-putting their way of domesticating animals is domination by bestiality.

I remember a “character” in Williamsburg, VA at one of the reenactment houses who was young, I asked her what choices were available to her as a grown up and she said straight-faced “Most people here tell me I won’t make it to the age of 16" and her “Father” chimed in about people having lots of kids so at least a few…