I didn't get a whole lot about the dad's relationship with the family: we know the parents had some marital issues (all those books about how to spice up their marriage), but I don't recall a lot of stuff about his relationship with Sam or Katie.

But even with those there wasn't all that much reading, and it certainly took less time than listening to the voice-overs. (I didn't scour every inch of the house for every last piece of text, but I certainly found enough to be aware of the stories listed here… well, I don't think I ever found out, or noticed, that…

I must admit that reading their complaints makes me enjoy the show even more, just because I know when some stuff is going to upset them.

Skyler is out and out rude to Walter on several occasions in Breaking Bad, and She Fucked Ted. But as it turns out, there were reasons.

I had a very different reaction. With the Cole scene I couldn't stand the woman's mugging, and Lynch playing up an image as an old lecher tends to color his other artistic choices to a distracting extent. (E.g. whenever FBI special agent Tammy Preston is on screen, I ask myself whether he cast Chrysta Bell because he…

I'm convinced she is a bad actor, which may very well be exactly what Lynch was looking for in the role, for his own weird artistic reasons.

To me it seemed to be about his guilt about not having been a father figure to Richard, remembering the love he felt for the bike his father gave him, and reflecting on how Richard might have turned out different (and this tragedy been avoided) if Ben had done the same for him.

As @singo:disqus alludes to, you see the exterior quite a lot in Fire Walk With Me. But it's still quite extraordinary to see it again this many years later, still looking the same.

Yes, I suppose video (or in-space holograms or whatever you want to call it) is more intrusive in that respect. Probably depends on the degree to which you have to focus on the ghosts, and how active you get to be in following along with the flashbacks.

I'm pondering whether he really means a "high-minded" twist or is thinking of "high concept".

But 90% of the story in Gone Home was told through voice over (triggered when you come across relevant items) rather than in stuff you could read. This doesn't sound that different.

I suspected that, but attempts with hashtag, without hashtag, expanded into all four words, and even shortened to just the last two were all blocked (well, "held for moderation", but AFAIK no such moderation approval ever takes place). Parts 2 and 3 of the post are essentially verbatim reposts of one of the blocked…

3. Federal employees have to sign a pledge to vote in the election for this convention, at the risk of losing their job, and recipients of welfare programs are threatened that they'll lose their support (food stamps, Medicaid) if they don't vote. Alt-right militias directly supported by the government go around…

(Oh boy, still getting blocked. Try smaller parts?)

2. Trump and his now completely hand-picked SC then call for the dissolution of Congress and a new constitutional convention to create a "Great Again" constitution. Instead of election by district, most of the representatives will be chosen to represent key constituencies: working-class whites, fossil fuel executives,…

Disqus is being a real diq about this post, so let me try to break it up into several parts…

Sure, but bathing and combing their hair did not make them immune to disease. And lice, for example, were absolutely endemic at the time.

Norse people were scrupulously clean and would have never carried any diseases with them to wipe out the natives.

No, it was primarily disease, with perhaps around 90% of the original populations being wiped out by diseases. (The Americas were much more heavily populated when Europeans first made contact than was understood until quite recently.) The colonists certainly killed many of the ones that were left.

Having had to reload this page three times in order to get to my updates, any alternative to Disqus is A-OK with me.