I feel like this was made for the book readers. I’ve never read Dune and I thought this was really long and nothing much happened, but I feel like Part 2, should they get the green light, will be pretty interesting. It felt like a prequel that could have maybe been replaced with a 10-page pamphlet just as easily to…

It felt very 80s to me. It would have made a good double feature with Pumpkinhead. If they were going for cheesy horror-schlock, it was ok. If they were going for more serious, modern horror, it was very bad. I just thought it was pretty dumb.

My father would be so mad because my father raised me to be a horrible person and my father would think it’s terrible that just because, my father, I’m a horrible person, my father, they treat me horribly, my father. And my only qualification is my father. My father-father-father-f-f-f-f-father. It’s so unfair. My…

Fortunately he stepped in when Ringo didn’t deliver his theme song in time.

I’ve never listened to the entire album. Got into Metallica around MoP and Garage Days, but my favorite is RtL. I saw them at the Monsters of Rock at the Metrodome and they played some AJFA songs pre-release but the sound was so muddy I couldn’t tell what they were playing. AJFA was... pretty OK, the mix was awful but…

I guess I wonder how many people will find this useful or fun? And for those that do, how many times can they throw their phone before they get bored with the idea? I just don’t get it.

But ALSO the district attorneys who prosecute the things being investigated!

And Sam Waterston was DA, too.

As an owner of every season of original L&O on DVD (but the final episode of season 2 won’t play, curses!), this is the best TV news I’ve heard in 10 years. There have been shows I’ve loved in the meantime, but this is the first time the mere announcement of the show has excited me. Don’t care that it’s copaganda,…

Deep cut.

How many ballots did they find with bamboo fibers in them, though?!?!?!?

Lady Gaga's dog walker is Dandyana Jones?

Yeah, that we live in an era when active shooter drills are standard FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN and yet even the most modest gun control measures are completely impossible is another thing that just utterly boggles my mind. I never thought about being shot in general, but least of all in school.

I’ve loved Steve Martin for as long as I can remember, and Martin Short very nearly as long, but when they’ve worked together they’ve had a tendency to be very broad and... loud. Throw in Nathan Lane and it gets even bigger and broader. I went into this show wanting to like it but with some trepidation. Happily, I’ve…

Just a guess. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/science/covid-sniffing-dogs.html

Any time I think about criticizing kids these days I remember I grew up in the oasis between fears of an actual nuclear war behind me (granted War Games and The Morning After came out when I was young, but we weren’t doing duck and cover drills in school) and before the fears of global warming, an eternal war on…

Because you need to hook up a phone with an Android Auto APP on it for the Android Auto features to work on the stereo.

This headline gave me a scare, I just paid a decent amount of cash for an android auto compatible stereo in my car and thought I just threw that money away. Bad headline, unless it's just clickbait, in which case, evil headline.

I’m a bit jaded about YA so I haven’t read it, but I’ve loved all of Charlie Jane’s other books and have followed her since olden io9 days. And in case anyone doesn’t know, she has a podcast with the other former founder Annalee Newitz called Our Opinions Are Correct that I highly recommend checking out!

It’s from Philly musician Pat Finnerty and, yes, it’s about Weezer, and specifically Beverly Hills, but it’s also about getting older, nostalgia and perspective. It's really kind of a masterpiece.