My folks went hardcore into Julia worship. They did dinner parties with the neighbors where they cooked what had been on her show, they had the books, and while I was pretty young at the time, I enjoyed the heck out of all of it. Nobody since has really garnered the same sort of devotion.

Frugal Gourmet came close for…

Albini has been on a tear recently. His most recent “look guys I was an immature edgelord” own-up was a really good start; it wasn’t perfect, but considering most of his contemporaries have taken to doubling down on being shitty, it’s a big move. And now this stuff; he’s stepping up for stuff you wouldn’t expect…

BOBF was clearly less “a story about Boba Fett” and more “extended table setting for Mandalorian Season 3.”

This is true. But the vast scale of this and the enormous number of small-time artists sucked into this (like me!) was...noteworthy.

It’s all very weird. It came out of nowhere, with a few million in VC, had a big launch party with Busta Rhymes, and puttered quietly selling nothing until this blew up.

Which was apparently their plan all along. Felton has a few decades in the music industry, so it’s not like he’s a clueless tech bro thinking “i can…

One of the top “auctions” on their was the “Tokyo Disney Theme” and the other was “Music from Star Wars: Rebels.” And you KNOW how Disney gets about commercially using their IP for stuff without proper attribution or license.

I keep having this feeling that the “final episode” isn’t really going to be a final episode, but merely a leadin to either a season 2 or the next season fo the Mandalorian. Like maybe this is really just Mandalorian season 2.5 to fill in gaps as to what Boba’s been doing for a while and how he got to this point,…

It’s way, way more than dozens. They basically trawled spotify for any artist with more than a few hundred listeners. I know dozens of *local bands* that got slurped up.

This whole thing is weird. Like as far as I can tell they were hoping to skirt by on the “we’re selling NFTs, not the music itself” loophole, since…

I mean, maybe if every interviewer ever would stop asking Marr about Morrissey, he wouldn’t say anything, but that’s about as likely as journalists stopping from asking Paul about the Beatles. I’m not sure what Moz expects. Johnny NOT saying anything about Morrissey in an interview would probably be even MORE…

If they’re gonna do it US-style, they NEED Alton Brown. I can’t think of anyone else on television who can handle the Hattori function of “food science and cooking wonk” while still being camera-friendly.

Saward to me is far worse on balance than Chibnall ever would be. Hell, most of JNT’s run irked me a lot more than Chibnall, and I actually loved Peter Davison’s doctor.

Ahh, the days when the rule for companions was “the sillier the name, the better.”

To me it felt like this season spent too much time setting up other things and not enough time focusing on the actual Letterkenny crew.

I barely could tolerate Shorsey when he was antagonzing Reilly and Jonsey. To spend basically a whole epsiode setting up a spinoff? That was too much.

The whole “VidVok” thing reminded…

I survived first run John Nathan-Turner. I mean, they’re all better than Paradise Towers or...um, most of Colin Baker’s run.

But still, every season has its share of clunkers and every showrunner has their weaknesses.

Flux ended flat but it gave us the stellar Village of the Angels, and on balance that’s juuuuust enough…

I mean, I’m all for more MST3K, since I do love the show and the cast and all, but honestly Rifftrax has been just cranking these things out for a couple years now without the fanfare. And the stuff riffed by Mary Jo and Bridget is often hysterical (the “Farm Family” series is just beautiful).

Honestly, for all we lionize all the other actors and their runs, every single one of them has been plagued by a showrunner at some point whose shworunning flaws started to outperform the actual stories. Whether that was Davies’ turns for goofiness (how many times did Tennant have to say “Raxicofallipatorious” with a…

I was really, REALLY hoping the moon would turn out to be Yonada.

He was, however, named Cleon in the books too. Not a genetic dynasty, a normal-hereditary one, but there were a bunch of emperors named Cleon.  Named after the Athenian general.

Michael Franti and The Disposible Heroes of Hiphophracy did a whole album with Burroughs, which also included a pretty bangin version of “Words of Advice For Young People.” There was a Sheep On Drugs remix too.

(the Laswell/Material version is pretty great tho)

I mean, it’s tricky as hell to adapt Foundation - the first “book” is basically Seldon bloviating about how great math is for a while and some political intrigue, before anything really interesting starts to happen. The show managed to condense most of that into the first episode. The subsequent books take place at…

Agreeeeeeeed.

The Weeping Angels made a great one-off because they seemed less like “villains” and more like “predatory pack animals.” They didn’t have an agenda except to feed.

Every time since they’ve been portrayed more as some sort of organized force with some sort of cosmic plan and it really just dilutes what’s…