Buddy Guy looks 25 years younger than he is, and he plays like he’s 25 years younger than he looks.

I’m not terribly familiar with Paul’s solo career, but Ringo’s “Early 1970" off of Ringo fits the bill. (Also, that album is killer.)

I don’t think “70s Paul Simon was peak Paul Simon.” Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, and Still Crazy After All These Years is a run that would be hard for anyone to match—but it’s a long way from there to “Graceland was crap.”

I love Gilbert Gottfried, but his is a strange case. Where the other guys seem to exist “out of time,” he is like a time traveler, or a comedy archaeologist. I’ve described him as Woody Guthrie with jokes instead of songs. A lot of Gottfried’s material is old. Not in the sense that he hasn’t changed his act, but…

Not technically this weekend, but I watched 2001 at the IMAX, and sweet Jesus. I’ve always wanted to see that movie in the theater, so this eas a dream come true.

Holy fucking shit, dude. I didn’t denigrate a goddamn thing except you because you’re a piece of shit who has clearly outlived whatever purpose you might once have had. I like America, but it’s not perfect, and some things are bigger than it.

Of fucking course, you fucking asshole. The early space program was pretty much entirely populated by former fighter and military test pilots. I didn’t say that Armstrong didn’t think he was doing something for America. I didn’t say he wasn’t a patriot. He did, and he was.

It’s hard to say. I think probably not, because if it had been intentional, I feel like he would have gone out of his way to call attention to it to show how clever he is, instead of just casually dropping it there. 

But if the movie is about Armstrong, the first man on the moon and the guy who wrote “one giant leap for mankind” (as opposed to the space race, and the institutions that sent him there), it’s not that big a stretch.

Good point, if I had been talking about the lunar missions exclusively, instead of astronauts generally, as I explicitly did. Almost every manned space flight has taken place in earth orbit, which takes roughly an hour and a half (depending on altitude).

Viewing one of the most remarkable human achievements as a human achievement is dumb, but nationalism is not. Got it.

The Tower of Babel story (from Genesis), and the idea that somehow the Antichrist will use the UN to take over the world (from a 1970s interpretation of the book of Revelations).

“And let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Damien Chazelle doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Let’s dispel with this fiction that Damien Chazelle doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing. This notion that Damien Chazelle doesn’t know what he’s doing is…

That article is great. I’m not sure what order I’d put them in, but if I were making a list of “funniest people alive,” Norm Macdonald would be on the list, along with Jack Handey and Emo Phillips. 

According to our good friends at Wikipedia, in one short Bugs Bunny stands in for the Road Runner, and Wile E. does not speak. (I do not remember this one.)

Definitely not.

If nothing else, it says you watch TV and movies that used all the tools at their disposal, including hiring a good music producer.

Here are Chuck Jones’s rules for Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons. I can’t imagine they’ll adhere to #4, but the creativity forced by those rules is what made the original shorts work.

I subscribed to Spotify thinking that it would help me start listening to new music again. Instead it helped me realize I’ve reached the age where, if I’m going to listen to something new, it’ll have to find me.

Apparently I’m the only subscriber who just uses Spotify to listen to music I seek out. My summer has been blissfully free of Drake and Cardi B.