tbf, the gross things in that Giger clip need shooting.

but the real question is: do you love the Blues?

Mel won the Oscar for writing Producers (and gave a lovely acceptance speech, where he gives very generous praise to Gene Wilder - it’s on YouTube) so that would have given him some credit. 

Lord Downton really improved with age, didn’t he?

Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski, and Audra McDonald where the highlight, but right behind them, and the nights MVP was Brian Stokes Mitchell. His performance of Flag Song was fantastic, it was well shot (not too close to the camera! great lighting and sound! a microphone!) and he’s just recovered from the virus!…

The Portokalos’ home certainly does exist - it’s in smelling distance of the Peek Freans factory.

entertainment based on a true story. Entertainment that ignored the actual people who where in the true story, and who where still alive when the movie was released. And man, where they pissed...

liked for the Pigs in Space line.

I’ve heard that, as a piece of craft, it’s excellent, but the fuss at the time about how they rewrote history really put me off.

once again, David Schwimmer makes my brain hurt by playing the most unlikeable Friend but also being a good dude. 

I use GoodReads to log books but I don’t love that it’s owned by Google. Anyone got a better recommendation? Apart from just a Excel doc?

actually, I didn’t mean that. One of my friends has been calling her Skeletor since the 80's. The cover of Blue could be a horror movie poster....

Fair, but Allison Williams (thats her name) was super-WASP-y. Just look at her dad - not the one who traps black guys, her real dad, the newsreader. 

wasn’t he the bf of the WASP-y girl in Girls?

i know - I’m not proud of that...

two weeks from dumb Twitter post to WP op-ed? Better call Olivia Pope next time, Steven - that’s pretty lazy crisis management.

Joni Mitchell says hi

I wish I could find the clip of John Noakes trying to say “Showaddywaddy” on an episode of Blue Peter. Fair play to the band, they thought it was funny too. 

yeah, summer of 78 was Grease in North America, but in the UK it was the summer that Punk really became popular. Grease was a giant hit over here, and “You’re the one that I want” was our number 1 for weeks (unusual in the UK, where songs topped the charts for 1 or 2 weeks only), but it was displaced by the Boomtown…

that section about the roots of 50's nostalgia is really fascinating, and i think you’ve found the seed for the 60's hippies becoming 80's yuppies - ShaNaNa performing at Woodstock, right before Jimi.