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A few weeks ago, I was in New York and I saw Bell's Two-Hearted on the shelf at Trader Joe's. I've never had it (they don't sell it in Massachusetts), but I recognized it as the beer that people on the AV Club are always talking about.

Why did you say T? His middle name is John.

They also have no idea how many periods make up an ellipsis,….or how to use an ellipsis . . properly.

Did the underwater scene remind anyone else of Transparent? The sad piano music sounded like the theme song, and everyone sitting in a circle reminded me of the Pfefferman's underwater tea party.

This was the show I wanted LMOE to be. Weird, sad, visually interesting, and funny. They actually talked about the virus and what the world is like without any people.

Is the mysterious bunker woman really Jude, Scotty, and Rhonda's mother? I assumed she was Mary's mother.

There's a fair amount of detail scattered throughout the books. There are explanations of why a few people still have jobs despite not needing to work, how the rare criminals are handled, how people complete for status that's not based on material possessions, etc. It helps that many Culture novels focus on

"Buy something or get out. We've got a big wedding coming through."

My big problem with the ending is the two groups that survived on Earth.

I'm looking forwarding to rereading Seveneves in a month or two. I tend to enjoy Stephenson's work more the second time, when I know which parts can safely be skipped/skimmed.

I'm rereading Snuff. It's terrible. There was a definite slide in quality at the end of the Discworld series, but I'd forgotten just how bad it got.

Sometimes, for no apparent reason, I think about fart dip. Then I can't stop giggling.

You thrust your pelvis: UNGH!
You thrust your pelvis: UNGH!

The Friday after Bowie's death, a DJ said that he counted over 160 plays of Bowie, across more than 20 different shows. WMBR practically became the all-Bowie station.

It's also available on YouTube. Except for one episode that was only available in a low-quality version with bad frame rate; I found that on DailyMotion.

NOVELTY GRILL?

Where did you get elderflowers? What did you use for a base?

Before that he was in a couple scenes of "Undeclared", Judd Apatow's short-lived college sitcom.

The AV Club turned into wrestlecrap.com so gradually that I didn't even notice.