This continues my belief that the mission of some (most?) conservatives is to undo everything good and repeat every mistake of the last two centuries.

You may find this amusing. Literally made by the same people, in the same factories.

Don’t think that’s entirely fair. I know some people who work there, and several of them are so smart I don’t know how their heads don’t fall off. They also employ a lot of top chemical engineers who really do care about reducing pollution etc. Although it’s certainly fun to realise that all these products, with all…

Exactly. This is why after seeing your tweet I’m so glad you’ve written this.

Crazy people gonna crazy. It’s not ideal but there’ll always be somebody. Twitter can’t escape so easily. The fact that this person is still unbanned on Twitter - now, with this article up and Jason’s original tweet trending- is just absurd.

I suspect that’s true, though this interview was in one of the early seasons I think. I get the feeling it was a very niche proposition at the beginning. My dad said he discovered it completely by chance and then got obsessed with it.

This article is teetering on the edge of a very big question I have always had about online journalism...why exactly does it all have to be in NYC?

I think part of it is that most TV/movie writers are older than the people they write about. I mean, if you came to NYC in your twenties in the 80s you’ll be looking at things through a very different lens. I remember somebody (a writer?) saying about Mozart in the Jungle that they had this problem that none of the…

Fairly simple, if (I agree) particularly cliche for female characters - research and ability to easily dream up storylines. I mean, a 22-episode season gives you a lot of time to fill up. It’s not hard to think up some interesting storylines for a magazine writer, or some crazy fashion people a fashion writer might…

There’s an entire TVTropes article on it, called “Friends Rent Control”. Pretty much says it all.

Kelsey Grammar was actually asked about this very trope in the 1990s. I remember reading his reply - something like “Yes, it’s silly. He lives better than I do, and surely I make more money...I think he bought shares in Microsoft at the right moment.”