There is, of course, never a bad time to post this song.

Endgame was Exile On Main Street. The end and finale of the classic era, the imperial phase, whatever. Everything else is Goat’s Head Soup forward. Have we had a Some Girls yet? I don’t know because I stopped paying attention. It feels like we’ve had more than one Dirty Work though, and that’s not a good thing.

This is a weird context in which to make that point but OK. 

“While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.”

I’m fine with it as long as they eventually make a big spherical object with really powerful lasers explode.  

He is so fucking manic. Yes of course you can’t blame the behavior on the bipolar, it’s all yes men, obscene wealth, toxic culture, etc. But actually given that and the removal of any guard rails or accountability, he’s like a case study of totally uncontrolled manic behavior. This thing has occurred to me so Ima DO…

Seriously, my dentist Kanye Perkins is such a nice guy and this would have been really upsetting.

I assume this goes without saying, but what they should really do is duet on “Dude I Rule” by 90s Portland band Big Daddy Meat Straw.

Ill smacks Communication with its white glove and proclaims, “Pistols!  At dawn!”

Am I crazy if I think making a TV show out of therapy is unethical practice regardless of how well done the show is?  

This is like me checking out who’s performing at any given music festival.  If I know more than one act I’m like, “Hey, great line-up!”  

This is all a relatively convincing case for it being better to burn out than to fade away.  

Yeah, he had a real Howard Beale vibe that day. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean your society isn’t acutely susceptible to right wing demagoguery.

He was the keynote speaker for a work fundraiser I attended a while back. He was a train wreck. Ranting about civics semi-coherently, losing trains of thought. The general conclusion was that he was on some pretty serious meds. Sometimes when you’re in a general state of decline your brain gets stuck too. Doesn’t help…

I can’t say I remember enough about the narrative particulars of Brick to say if it’s good or not on that level, but its particular stylistic gimmick works so ridiculously well it doesn’t matter. You watch Brick for style just like you watch The Big Sleep for style. Johnson knows it, and plays on it, so you get the…

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Thoughts:

Kind of interesting how many “classic” shows got that reputation long after they originally aired. Why not reboot The Beverly Hillbillies? That shit lasted nine seasons and had better ratings in its first couple seasons.