It’s been more than 20 years since I read it, but I seem to remember a line from Don DeLillo’s “White Noise” (1985), where a character from New York says that in NY the measure of wit is how cleverly you can express your unhappiness.

I was amused to find out that during the learning-to-dance montage when Patrick Swayze runs his fingers down her armpit and she bursts out laughing and he looks pissed that they weren’t acting. 

Man this might raise some hackles, but I roll my eyes at parents who use their children to express their (parents’) nonconformity—which in my personal experience is usually pretty performative.

I really wonder if headlines like this portend the ‘20s. If so, I’m gonna spend a lot of the decade going, ‘wait... who am I supposed to be mad at?’

Great choice and write-up. We watched this as college freshmen (‘92) because it was touted as one of the great pot comedies. Even on pot we were frustrated-the movie never went anywhere! When they started doing the subplot about the guy they think is the mad bomber or whatever, we were like, ‘finally, a plot.’

Read “The Fountainhead.” I think it’s a book you’ll enjoy.

Gawd I’d forgotten about those. It’s amazing the filmmakers actually though there was enough interest there for a trilogy.

Whenever I hear these I’m-tottaly-against-this-but-hey-if-it’s-there arguments, I’ll never not think of: https://politics.theonion.com/libertarian-reluctantly-calls-fire-department-1819567309

My friend had his wedding reception in his extended family’s backyard. He wanted me to be the MC, with a mic and everything. I did it but was really getting a cold reception, i.e., I’d try to get the audience to clap after dance numbers and they’d sit stone-faced, etc (they were pretty religious). So during my friend…

Thank you. There are even a couple I’d add to that.

Whoa, did I just read an article on Jezebel that I actually liked? Yes, yes I did. Well done.

...he was going to take the crowd back to the ‘90s, when they “didn’t have coronavirus, or cell phones, or computers.”

:: drives faster toward edge of cliff ::

I remember during that time that there were countless similarly-themed shows, both half-hour sitcoms and hour dramas. Most died quickly. I don’t know what it was about this particular show that “succeeded.”

I’ll probably buy this album after seeing your post. HUM was always an interesting band (even if there were times I admired them more than enjoyed them), and I had no idea they had reunited... I remember in the early days of Amazon looking at album reviews and learning that band who had one hit in the summer of ‘95…

You should look up what became of “Puck”... even by the standards of a former reality TV figure, it’s pretty dire. 

They’ll eventually change their name to The New Originals. 

It could almost be one of those aptitude tests where you can read the article for 5 mins and then have to answer 10 questions about the content. 

...but it would be his third feature, St. Elmo’s Fire (1985), that would become a generation-defining hit.

Ha, ha, “Buttafuoco.”