Filmstruck (with the Criterion package - worth every penny) and Kanopy (free, but requires your library to have a subscription) both have quite a few. Classic chanbara is too niche for the major streaming sites to bother licensing; they all mostly have originals and films released in the last 5 years.

It’s a reference to a comics cliche where a wife or girlfriend is raped and/or killed to give the hero some pain to motivate him. It specifically references a 1994 Green Lantern where he comes home and finds his girlfriend has been murdered by his nemesis and stuffed in his fridge.

That split kind of illustrates where they were by the late 70s. Page was strung out on heroin all the time. Bonzo was incapacitatedly drunk. Frequently, John Paul Jones was the only one turning up with songs to record (and Plant was game to do whatever), so you end up with lots of synths and string arrangements. But…

Wanna hear something uncool? Ohio State demolished the Big Ear in the 90s to expand their golf course.

I know Bronies have ruined it for everyone on the internet, but my 6yo daughter watches the shit out of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and it’s surprisingly decent. Complex mythology (for a kids show) that she enjoys knowing and talking about. John de Lancie essentially playing Q but as a weird dragon-y thing.…

I would say Magic School Bus is aimed at K-5, not pre-K. Like O’Neal said, his 3 year olds aren’t really getting anything out of it but “hooray, bus”. The science lessons are aimed a bit higher than that.

Puffin Rock is so calming that I enjoy it as an adult. Chris O’Dowd is very charming as the narrator, like the anti- Roy Trenneman.

I’ve not seen any Man Seeking Woman, but I’m going to guess this Mike O’Brien is doing an impression of Peter Coyote or some other Ken Burns documentary narrator. The man doesn’t narrate his films himself. He’s got kind of a nerdy voice and goes for narrators who drip a stentorian gravitas.

Given his name, “Merkin Muffly”, Kubrick was clearly intimating that he’s a pussy. He’s also very obviously (if you know 50s and 60s presidential politics) supposed to be modeled on Adlai Stevenson.

I would guess anything George C. Scott did was an accident. Kubrick kept telling him they were just rehearsing and encouraging him to go big and ignore any mistakes, while actually filming the takes to get the craziest performance. Scott was really mad at him when he saw the final product. In the end he only liked…

I don’t know any of the details, but he’s no longer a contributor to this site. My World of Flops (and any other new content from him) lives at https://www.nathanrabin.com

In fairness(?) to Trump, he’s a notorious germaphobe, who probably doesn’t want a pet out of fear of dirt and germs, at least as much as any animal hating sociopathy he also has.

I still have a Go-Bot (“Baron von Joy”). They definitely have some die cast parts, but there’s a lot of plastic too. I had an early Transformer (1st generation “Jazz”) that I believe also was a mix of die cast and plastic, but my parents got rid of all my Transformers. The Go-Bot survived because it managed to look…

There is a 2nd season coming. I follow some Star Trek fan sites (duh) and one of the new ones is going to be Star Trek toys. Looks like it’s going to be: LEGO, Star Trek, Transformers and Hello Kitty. So you get your wish.

I’d guess the one on “Boogie with Stu” is real. There’s a lot of real studio chatter and background noise on Physical Graffiti, e.g. the (fake?) cough at the end of “In My Time of Dying” followed by Bonzo shouting “That’s gonna be the one! Has to be!” and someone saying “Come and have a listen” and “Black Country…

On King Crimson’s Lizard, at the end of ‘Indoor Games’, singer/bassist Gordon Haskell bursts out laughing because he found Peter Sinfield’s lyrics so unbelievably awful and he felt like he his singing was bad on the take, but the rest of the band loved the laughing and they kept it in.

You’re still generally still out of action even after taking the meds though, at least with all the migraine sufferers I know. It’s just that you might no longer be praying for a swift death while you’re laying down in a dark room.

I can’t speak to how it was done at anyone else’s wedding, but everyone required to (couple, officiant, witnesses) had signed the marriage certificate, like, an hour before the ceremony, so legally speaking it was a done deal by then. I guess it hadn’t been mailed to the state yet, but still.

Before 1978 when Carter signed the bill that allowed homebrewing and microbreweries (which didn’t really take off for another decade) and back before all the beer companies merged repeatedly into AB-InBev over 30 years, I think it was common for beers to be somewhat regional and for bars/restaurants to only sell one…

He said he wasn’t taking a salary. He is though, because federal law says the president gets the salary. He then claimed he’s going to donate it to a charity. First he was going to do it with each month’s portion. Then when it was shown he didn’t he said he’d do it at the end of the year. I don’t remember if evidence…