Knowing that nearly every major British actor was tapped at some point to play somebody in the Harry Potter series, if Tim Roth had played Snape...then who would Rickman have played? (It wouldn’t have been “Snape or nothing...” would it?)

Rickman as Voldemort? as Lucius Malfoy? as Fenrir Greyback?

Imagine Rickman as…

Have you ever seen the Star Trek TNG episode “The Ensigns of Command”?

The Sheliak Corporate have contacted the Federation for the first time in 111 years since the signing of The Treaty of Armens (which ended the Federation-Sheliak Conflict.) The Treaty contained 500,000 words and took 372 Federation legal experts to…

Hosting a game show?

I’m with you, Shawn. I don’t trust that files will remain uncorrupted. I don’t trust that streaming services will stay in business or keep the things I’m interested in seeing available.

I like having the things I like...to enjoy them when I want.

(...just have to hope that somebody keeps making the machines to play…

Loved the article, Rich...and apologies for such a trivial/nitpicky comment but I guess one never stops being “record store guy” even when there are no more record stores...

“Minnie The Moocher” has a more current pop cultural reference touchstone than Betty Boop...Cab Calloway in the Blues Brothers movie.

I read all the names out loud to my wife.

Gandalf Hernandez is the only one that actually made her laugh out loud.

Slightly soggy lunchbox sandwiches are a feature, not a bug.

(This is why, if your kid forgets his lunch one day, you can’t expect to send him to school with it the next day—you missed “the window”.)

Seconded on the Bullseye...was not expecting to like that stuff but, when I can find it, it’s my store-bought sauce of choice.

I remember thinking it was weird that the written word “chaos” (which, in my mind, was pronounced “CHAH-ohs”) had pretty much the same contextual meaning as the word “KAY-ahz” that I’d only ever heard (and used) in conversation. The “A-ha!” moment in high school when I realized that they were the same word was…

I’m not sure civilization is going to survive troll culture... (...and it always pays to be skeptical about everything and everyone...)

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/16/florida-shooting-white-nationalists-415672

I think it was The Stranger who coined the term “Urban Archipelago” back in 2004 (and updated it a few times since) that define the conflict in the US politically and socially as the conflict between the values of those that live in Cities and those that don’t...

...and maps like this one show what that Seattle…

Yes. (And that’s Wonder Woman.)

Would it have been better had it been the Mike Flowers Pops?

And that Prince homage! It could have worked, if he had brought out Sheila E and/or other Prince collaborators to join him.

I’ve got the Spotify app to my phone and have had it at times on my laptop. I’ve fired it up a few times...and it’s been pleasant but not something that I’ve felt a strong pull to use on a regular basis.

There have been some streaming radio stations that I keep thinking I should listen to more often when I’m at…

I haven’t bought a CD from Best Buy in ages...the selection is awful and they stopped fighting (now long closed) mom & pop record stores with loss leader prices.

But I’m still buying plenty of CDs...both for myself and my 8 year-old son. (He’s got nearly 300 CDs...but that doesn’t hold a candle to his old man’s…

Frank Reich says “Uhhh...what?”

In the comments on the Vimeo, the Sleep Good guy says he took the isolated drums and vocals from the original...pitch shifted the vocals to the new melody...and then the rest of the music is newly recorded.

Ezell is no longer with Ezell’s—so, paradoxically, if you want Ezell’s chicken, you should avoid Ezell’s and go with Heaven Sent (as long as you’re ok with some proselytizing with your fried chicken.)

Archie McPhee’s is no longer in Ballard. It moved to Wallingford.

826 is no longer 826. It is now independent...and it…

Pike’s Place???
Capital Hill???

Did you just move here?