I don’t know if the Ranch is part of the Studio Zone or not...

Agreed...

Yes, In Utero was that record that I felt like I should like more than I actually did. See also: Vitalogy — “Bugs”, etc.

I’m not one for “what if” games, but the whole “if Kurt lived” / Grohl / Foo Fighters is a good head-scratcher. I’m guessing a Beatles - George Harrison situation where Dave has all of these songs and ideas, and finally has enough and says I’m outta here.

Hot Take: Smashing Pumpkins’ Gish kicks ass. And Jimmy Chamberlin is the GOAT drummer of the 90s. Otherwise Billy’s just an overblown whiner (instead of being a whiner with great hooks and a killer band).

You know the meme about the rock and roll band who wants to play the songs from their new record, but the crowd only wants the hits?

This.  Yay local volunteers, but I would have assumed that one of the regular traveling crew handled it.

It just dawned on this very, very casual soccer fan that this means we’ll have three MLS teams in Texas, whereas we only have two each NFL and MLB teams. Hmmm.  Can we support three?  I have no clue.

I never understood this: trailers are advertisements? Why would you *not* want to advertise something to as many people as possible?

In August 2017, Yolanda Gonzales was hired as a cashier at a Walmart in Grand Prairie, TX. At the time, Gonzales was visibly pregnant and informed Walmart her baby was due in a few months. Issues began almost immediately.

48 and when I get the “Mr. Bookend” I still think, “No, Mr Bookend is my father. I’m just Rusty.”

I always though that was a very good album cover / photo of Pat Benatar.  B&W rules sometimes.

Some points:

It jumped up a notch

Thanks for mentioning that Variety article.

It’s funny — I probably watched it 8 - 10 times this past month. (Some of those viewings were while I was home getting a new A/C installed.)

Excellent points. Go to any large-scale industrial / commercial project — say a high-rise building — and ask if they’ll shut down for three months while you “borrow” one of their foremen.

He seems dumber than a bag of rocks, the obvious signs of substance abuse notwithstanding. I know he founded the company and all, but it’s amazing he lasted as CEO as long as he did.

That’s a lot of Star Wars movies. That may include: Episode IX, Rian Johnson’s trilogy, Benioff and Weiss’s movies, and then a couple new side story films.

Spot on.