Trump is going to crow about the ratings for a few days because the numbers for his town hall will almost certainly top Biden’s. Even though a lot of the people watching Biden will trend younger and be watching on non-traditional forms of TV that aren’t tracked by Nielsen.

Ha!  As if there will be election results by Thanksgiving!!  Good one!

A couple of years ago I started a “Read all of Shakespeare in a Year’ list, and it was going fine for the first two months or so. Then I realized I had stopped reading and was just looking at each word with little comprehension or retention. I threw out the ‘in a year’ part and just followed the list at my own pace,…

Elf on the Shelf comes in a close second to Pumpkin Spice on the ‘Seasonal Things White People Love That Inexplicably Annoy the Crap Out Of Me’

‘...Operation Christmas Drop, which is not, as its title would suggest, a Christmas-themed reboot of the Bill Murray classic...’ I’m assuming you’re referring to Operation Dumbo Drop here, which did not star Bill Murray. However, Bill Murray did later star in Larger than Life, which featured an elephant named Tai who…

‘two complex consumer marketing tie-ins” with McDonalds and Crown Royal,’

Looks like a quick shot of Trashy there with the guy hauling something up out of an underground bunker.  Not a close look at him, though.  

Makes perfect sense to me. The Clamp character in The New Batch was a pretty direct take-off on Trump anyway.

The best part of the book (and also the movie) was Wolfe contrasting the Mercury 7 astronaut’s stories with those of other test pilots who either didn’t make the cut or weren’t qualified to try out in the first place, Chuck Yeager being the most prominent one. This review doesn’t make any mention of that subplot, so…

Love that ad and watch it all the time.  Too bad it was better than the game it was advertising.  

I’m one of those who puts on a vr headset of any kind and becomes nauseous the second it starts up.  It’s really bugging me, because this looks like it would be a ball.  Still, I’m loving the game, and it brings me back solidly to the days of obsessively playing the Lucasarts X-wing sims.

Apparently being an idiot doesn’t preclude someone from spitting some pretty good burns on Twitter.  

Jesus.  Can somebody please go check on Mel Brooks and Dick Van Dyke?

‘While Sorkin wrote Spencers death into the show...’ Sorkin left the show after the fourth season, a couple of years before John Spencer died. People just discovering the show should know that before blaming Sorkin for the god-awful Season 5.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I can not WAIT to see this coin.

Well, isn’t it obvious? His whole look is ‘cokehead from Die Hard’.

I loved Wendy’s superbar, but the potato bar that I remember wasn’t unlimited potatoes, it was just unlimited toppings.  You bought a potato at the counter, and then you could carry it over and dump as much bacon, cheese, etc. on there as your heart desired. Or as much as your heart could stand before exploding.

Wired wasn’t a documentary. It was a very badly-reviewed flop of a movie based on a over-sensationalized book by Bob Woodward that was written about 3 minutes after he died. Pretty much everyone who ever knew Belushi loudly denounced the book and the movie.

‘...through the perspectives of his friends and loved ones, including Dan Aykroyd, Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase, Penny Marshall, and Jim Belushi, as well as fellow departed icons Harold Ramis and Carrie Fisher.’

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