I also imagine the kind of people who buy foie gras meals in NYC aren’t going to be terrified of a $2,000 fine.

Great, now we’re not getting the show *either*.

Imagine writing a biopic that requires Mark Zuckerberg to be *even lamer* than he actually is.

No, Rock Hudson was gay because his marriage was a sham and he slept with men, as we have learned. If you’re arguing Zuckerberg’s marriage is a joyless sham, I’m open to hearing evidence.

My major beef with The Social Network was that it portrayed Zuckerberg as a personal fundamentally unable to connect to people on a personal and especially romantic level, and thus driven to create the world’s biggest automated form of socialization. And the thing is...he isn’t. I mean, he’s not exactly socially *adept…

I felt similarly when Rent treated Mark working *in his field* as a cameraman as some sort of artistic betrayal.  FFS, he’s gotta eat, and heaven forfend he not live hand to mouth.

I imagine you feel similarly about Rent?

Right, but would you drive your truck through the gates of Hell on the off-chance of some business?

Eh, I feel like “nachos” is a much more known quantity.  I know there will be chips and cheese, almost certainly salsa, and possibly guac, chicken, and/or beef; I can’t think of anything that’s a 100% certainty in a pupu platter.

Yeah, seconding the lack of General Tso.  I realize it’s basically a spicy (or, usually, “spicy”) version of Sweet & Sour chicken, but I love that crap.

OK, so rather than host your annual meetup in a massive tourist hub, you’re going to host it in a city in the far southwest corner of the US?

What’s turning Marquette blue up in the UP? Reservation? A college?

I think the story is less about the U.S. being good at cheese awards, and more France suddenly being bad at them.

Shh, they’ll hear you!

Days that end in “y”, perchance?

Eagles would work too.

I think he’s referring to the Second Foundation and their weirdly obscured purpose.

“(A) great premise but so-so execution” pretty much describes Asimov’s entire output.  A brilliant story generator, but not much of an actual writer. 

I find Asimov to be a great test of whether folks like science fiction or just well-told stories.  His setups and ideas are amazing, his characters and dialogue are...not.

I agree with you - but I don’t think it would have saved this guy. If he couldn’t deal with the secular world and D1 competition, I don’t think bypassing it for the D-League would have helped.