Oh yes! Definitely!

She's goddess of more than that though. Anansi runs through it all—rebirth, creation, all female power. I can make an argument for choosing a woman of color as commanding all female power as elevating, but can also make an argument for the eroticization of black characters as being a racist trope.

And her receptionist/secretary asking if she worked all night again right before she departs late for the oil meeting.

It still works though because she wouldn't remember falling asleep.

They've been laying the groundwork for how overworked she is for a few eps now. Remember the 5 minute catnap before her Mesa Verde meeting? And the receptionist asked her if she worked all night again right before she left for the oil meeting. I knew she was going to fall asleep at the wheel from that. Glad she's not…

In the show, Sweeney thinks he's found a way to resurrect her and get his coin back though, which is why they're going to Kentucky.

There are a few things happening with this season's pacing that hopefully won't affect subsequent seasons.

That's also my impression, since this season was ordered as 10 eps and production issues eventually condensed it into 8.

You're missing the point. They're still media.

And this mistaken belief is why newspapers, books and magazines are dying.

I did read it when I heard Fuller would be involved with the show and unlike most people, didn't love it. None of the Laura's perspective passages are jumping out in my mind. But again, I found the book to be quite a slog and only finished it because I knew the show was coming.

I think you have to keep in mind though that the book only shows Laura from Shadow's idealized viewpoint, not how she really is. Her betrayal seems even harsher in the book because he's spent 3 years building her into something she never actually was—close to perfect—in his mind.

I'd never thought of it that way before, but yeah, I can see a parallel to some CSNY stuff! I tend to think of it hearkening back to their own 60s stuff, but the comparison to some of the big CSNY songs works as well.

We're in agreement that they absolutely dominated the mid-70s! And did not have the same impact in their prior or later years.

Infighting, break-up at their first peak and substance issues?

My mom was the right age to have heard their very early stuff on the radio and she was fairly appalled by the SNF album.

I think that's the first song of theirs that had any falsetto on it, though it was only back-up sort of accent lines here and there.

By '97 he was in a great deal of pain (arthritis in his hands, wrists and especially left shoulder, peristent back pain) and a few years later had back surgery. It's hard to sing falsetto with major back pain. Takes a lot of breath control, which comes from the core. Every one of those high notes was painful to him…

Aw, that's a sweet story. ;)

Islands In The Stream was the first song at your wedding?!