Don’t forget Trump’s son in law; before he was the Trump advisor with the widest portfolio, Jared Kushner was literally a case study in a book about rich people buying entrance to elite colleges for their stupid children via large cash donations.

And during his nomination period didn’t actually know what the Department of Energy did (i.e. largely stuff with nuclear safety, which is why the previous holder of the office was a nuclear physicist) and thought he could use it as a platform for reviving the fossil fuel industry.

You had me until the 6th Doctor thing. I urge you to listen to some Big Finish 6th Doctor stories, which serve to demonstrate he was ill served by bad writing and costuming and the BBC hating Doctor Who.

For USians, it’s available streaming on Filmstruck if you have the Criterion package. I wish the AVClub would include Filmstruck in their streaming options in general.

Netflix’s non-original film streaming library is pretty bad in the US. I can’t imagine it’s any better in their smaller markets.

A pretty close English approximation would be “sholdberg”

As mentioned in another thread, there could be some in MN. In the 90s there was an emu farming fad.

I’d say neither is quite right. It’s /bæ lɛt ɪk/. Three syllables. The ‘a’ is like in ballet (although some turn it into a schwa, so ‘bə’ instead of ‘bæ’). The middle syllable is pronounced just like the common word ‘let’.

Sorry to have to tell you Amazon is losing the HBO content at the end of this year. HBO wants you to subscribe to HBO Now.

I went to Ohio State, and in the North Campus area there was a video store called (wait for it....) North Campus Video. For a long time their rental policy was 24 hours (from the minute you rented) at $1 for older movies and $2 for new releases. They had a huge selection of Criterion stuff (a lot of it on laser disk…

I love FilmStruck in general, but they too drive me nuts with some movies bouncing between being in the Criterion set and the main set and temporarily disappearing. I think a lot of that is licensing crap out of their control, but I wish they handled it better.

If you have the money upfront, the $99/yr option saves you quite a bit of money. If you watch one movie a week (what I aspire to but usually fail to do), that makes it less than $2/movie, which is a deal compared to most video stores, back when those existed.

FilmStruck just launched in the UK a couple weeks ago at £5.99/mo or £59.99/yr. I’m in the US, so I can’t tell you how the UK catalog compares, but maybe try the 14 day trial and see what you think.

If you live anywhere in the state of New York, you are eligible for a New York Public Library card (i.e. NYC’s library) and NYPL offers 10 Kanopy credits (movies) per month if you associate your card with them.

I’ve meant to check them out but a) I have far less time to watch movies than I’d like and b) I’ve been a…

Oof. I was going to defend The Federalist as not being that racist (albeit generally awful in every way), and it’s Breitbart that does the “black crime” vertical, but nope, you’re right. They did have a “black crime” tag. Yeesh.

Yup. He’s the baby Bowie is singing to in “Kooks”. It doesn’t help that to match them up that you have to know that David Bowie’s real name was David Jones (he switched to the stage name after the popularity of The Monkees’ Davy Jones, which broke while Bowie was fronting bands under the names Davy Jones or Davie…

I have an Epiphone SG (G400) from 2000. It’s a great guitar. I feel no need to upgrade to a Gibson. I also have a late 90s Casino (somewhat tweaked by a previous owner), which is marvelous. Again, no internet in upgrading to to an ES-330, and if I wanted a 335, I’d also go Epiphone. And I’d go Squier on the Fender…

I only gave it a try because part of this pizza place’s schtick is that all pizzas of a given size are the same price, so at least I wasn’t out the extra $1.50.

If “Dave Barry Does Japan” is to be believed, that’s standard for all pizzas in Japan. And he did seem to be sincerely baffled by that as a real thing.

I tried corn on pizza earlier this year at a pizza place (in the US) that offered it, just out of curiosity. My personal take after trying it is that it isn’t so much…

Kirk saying “let them die!” took place in ST:VI after his son was murdered by Klingons in ST:III. Even if those Klingons in general were less savage than Discovery’s, there was a very personal element to that hatred. He was supposed to be deeply damaged and wrong, and then to realize this and correct it as character…

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