I’ve been running these live streams on my TV while I work from home all week. Moon jellies in particular are incredibly soothing. Highly recommended.

The cast is really stacked with great actors. I suspect most of them would be excited about doing wordless reactions in lieu of dialogue sometimes.

To quote Welcome to Night Vale: Death is only the end if you think the story is about you.

I don’t know of any compelling argument that says the universe would be worse off without us in it. From a selfish standpoint, I’d like to see us continue, but I’m sure the dinosaurs felt the same way.

Becky Chambers’ Record of a Spaceborn Few is a fascinating story about life in a generation ship once it achieves its goal and finds new places to live. Do the people abandon their culture aboard the ship and decamp to (it turns out, inhabited) worlds? Do they stay on the ship that’s shaped and defined them for…

This is the comic book nostalgia I’m here for.

Yeah, I use an Xbox controller with games on my Apple TV, and the controllers also pair with the iPad (or iPhone, I guess, if I wanted to be wacky) just fine.

The Pinkertons were evil fucks. Sorry, are evil fucks. So if this does turn out to be The Cloverfield Effect II, it’ll serve them right.

The novels also had literary ambition — “what if J.K. Rowling wrote novellas about ennui for the New Yorker” — so having a dickhead POV character fits.

It’s a harder fit in a show that wanted to be a more traditional heroic fantasy, even as it liked to wink at the tropes.

Election Day has melted my brain.

Also, it was a super boring take on what’s a really great mystery on the page. Much cheaper and less lavish takes on it in the past were much better.

The irony is that these magicians spend most of their time fucking.

The irony is that the show made him vastly more likable than the novels, where he’s the most punchable character there. (Although Penny, who was a giant asshole/creep in the novels, is a close second.)

The heyday of Agatha Christie adaptations is decades behind us. (The unbelievably lame Death on the Orient Express definitely didn’t help there.) I think a lot of the audience doesn’t have any real familiarity with the structure.

Eh. I read his Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, which has plenty of difficult concepts in its, and the book was extremely clear and easy to understand. Maybe it was all ghost-written, but given how many books he has to his name, I doubt it.

Did you know there have been five Ice Age movies? Five. So you have to guess the first movie about a group of animals surviving during the titular time period is fairly good.

Did you know there have been five Ice Age movies? Five. So you have to guess the first movie about a group of animals surviving during the titular time period is fairly good.

Billy Zane must wake up every morning, stare into the mirror and say “what the fuck happened, man?”

It was an action movie using old dialogs.

On the other hand, I had to Google “Pontoise,” which is apparently a word we’re all supposed to know now.

(It’s a commune in Paris.)

If you are not familiar with the details of this case, be warned: It’s extremely disturbing. It’s far worse than merely the “beating” of an 8 year old boy, as the headline in that Netflix still characterizes it.

While this is an important story to have out there, especially if it gets government agencies to take…

Also, he’s a pretty boy made out of clay. I’m not sure why anyone is expecting much out of him.