Pre Heat

Hot take: lying to prevent spoilers is bad, and spoiler culture is dumb.

Goodness, when was the last time Jon Voight looked like he had any gas left in the tank?

Makes one of us

Cool story! 

i’ve had the trethewy’s (the plumbers from TOH) do a *lot* of work on my house over the years. i had no idea they were even from the show at first- it just turned out they’re 1/4 mile up the road from me. outside of the one brother on the show, its otherwise just a local plumbing company. i’ve had them do everything…

True but I think Covid nailed the coffins shut.  

I’ve watched these kinds of shows for years and I can honestly say I wouldn’t trust the vast majority of TV contractors to build a chicken coop, much less renovate my home. The whole “they’re moving in in six hours!” drama while they have another two weeks of work to do tells be the quality is going to be slipshod at…

Utah is grifter central: Mormons+MLMs. 

How the fuck is “Magnolia” a better, more intuitive & descriptive name for a home-reno network than “DIY”?

That probably helps explain why Disney and Pixar have been so comfortable turning the last two Pixar projects (Soul and Luca) over to the relative safety of Disney+

Another vote for Polygon, specifically the entertainment section:

Oh, no, I didn’t mean to ding you for being imprecise! I just know it’s not always clear from bylines and stuff what people’s jobs are, so I wanted to give some extra PROMO for any interested parties that Tasha actively shapes the film stuff at Polygon—a big part of why it’s solid, IMHO.

STANK

The good news for James Corden is that there’s no sense of taste that COVID could possibly kill.

ORATE is a really, really, really good choice not only because it has three vowels, but because it uses 5 of the most frequently used letters in English.
Frequency charts vary but more or less: E T A O N R I S H

Yeah games popularity is much more about the design, interface and a bunch of other factors than a unique underlying mechanism

I imagine it’s also a way to ice out the few remaining members of the original Onion Union. They probably can’t fire them for completely spurious reasons, and they don’t want to keep employees they have to treat even somewhat humanely.

Tobias et al tried that with The Dissolve, which I think was funded by Pitchfork. It ran a year or so and tanked. Ad supported didn’t generate the right clicks. Bummer, too because they were doing really good work.

Shit’s weird, man. I have a lot more to say but I shouldn’t.