Paul McCartney—“Hell to Pay”
Richard Hell & the Voidoids—“Betrayal Takes Two”
The Kinks—“Death of a Clown”
Devo—“Jocko Homo”
The Who—“Substitute”

This comment gave me the giggles.

Arundel’s rant reminded me of that strange article about how buttered rolls were now being found in places other than New York.

CSO is also legitimately the best orchestra in the country—it’s more in league with the likes of Berlin and Vienna ones than other American orchestras.

That’s what I thought this article was going to be about.

I have a real curiosity about A View to a Kill—I know it’s awful, but it seems awful in such a batshit way that it can’t help but be weirdly compelling, right?

I recently read the book and was surprised at the lack of glamor—everything’s in a state of decay from before the War or tainted by associations during or after it. That makes it very of its time—you couldn’t quite adapt it like that today—but the sort of high-class dinginess of gambling and the loneliness of both…

Another vote for Elite Squad over 300

I recently rewatched GoldenEye and it actually felt a bit like classic Archer to me, only without as many (or as good of) jokes.

I’m guessing the Taco Bell Bell given its impeccable sense of timing.

^^^ Best comment of the year ^^^

The hot clean-cut young men, though…

I like it quite a bit, though I’m in the minority of it—I think it really does a good job conveying the whole “world gone wrong, and it’s not too distant from here” thing. The bits of (now) retro-futurism make it seem stagnated, and there’s an affectlessness that suits a world without books or any other kind of deep…

If you had to spend months of your life working on Kangaroo Jack you’d always be angrily glaring at a hostile world, too.

TNG is weirdly underrated now—there’s really a lot of fine and subtle stuff in there that gets overlooked because it didn’t have the giant arcs or focus on character-building of DS9.

How is this missing The Enterprise-Perfect Strangers theme?

Someone made this for Sean, and I still keep up with Scott Tobias’s film reviews so…yes.

O’Neal, making jokes?

“Auric glow” for me

I’ve just given up about 40% into Ada Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning, which is disappointing to me as a fan of Ex Urbe from way back when the blogosphere was a thing and because the quick summary—utopian SF written in the style of eighteenth-century classics—seemed ideal to me (a few months back I think I recommended…