I’ve only watched these episodes once so far, and I haven’t figured out who he shot. Yeah, that jarred me a lot and started the arc of his character acting out of character, as he’d been presented.

The Roci is the big conference room upstairs at work, the protomolecule scrap is the projector, and proto-Miller is the bizarre PowerPoint deck that doesn’t always make sense.

I thought it was marvelous that for this episode, we spent 98% of the time only seeing what it looked like to see Holden as this wack-a-doodle talking to and having obviously a conversation with someone that no one else can even see. Ashford, Drummer and Bobby Draper all alluded to this as an obvious sign that Holden…

No sugar, you got a tax cut this year. Next year, you’ll get less of a cut, and by year 3 or 4, your butt is going to be sore from taking it in the ass as all of President Cheeto’s friends line up to continue getting their tax cut.

I’ve had it with these mothafuckin’ meatballs, on this mothafuckin’ plane!

Oh Kate, the best damned meal I ever had on a plane was the sushi I brought with me from the now long closed neighborhood join. I didn’t go for a whole assembly line, I just quietly enjoyed my California roll, my smoked eel, and called it a day.

Nice! The cold open on Colbert tonight was great! He brought on Jimmy Fallon and Conan O’Brien both. Classic.

So who does Colbert have on this week?

Julie really hated their dad, while their dad had nothing but disdain for Clarissa and admired Julie which just chapped Clarissa’s shorts. Clarissa’s been looking for approval from dad her entire life, leading to her killing hundreds because she’s once again misread the world around her, not understanding what a…

You’ll thank them for saving Melba for later.

To put it in current parlance, it’s like they’re cops, and Holden is black.

Both of them are running next week. Two hour season finale!!

That’s the joy of getting nuanced actors on-board. Anna was a cool character, but having Elizabeth Mitchell portray her adds so much. I thought Ashford on paper was somewhat two dimensional, but having a great actor like David Strathairn inhabit him is making him so damned deep. When that tattooed asshole lipped off…

And after the stop in the Mariner Valley of Mars to pick up an Indian guy with a Texas drawl, they’ve got a beautiful woman from London playing a woman with a Japanese surname, and James Holden having seven dads, all two hundred years in the future. Look at the names of al of the characters (white looking ones too)-…

My favorite seasonal recipe?

Last year around this time, I made this green garlic butter from the always reliable Melissa Clark, and I made it again with this year’s farmers market haul.

My old man and I (ha! Now I’m the old man!) drove from the Boston area towards Montreal to go to the 1967-68 World’s Fair and for some reason, my dad didn’t stick with main roads. Being the guy that he was, we started out after work on a Friday, so he drove all night. We found ourselves in a maze of tiny roads in the…

My wife, who is not invested in this show (I wait for her to fall asleep before I watch them, and she buys each of the books for me as they become available in paperback) was dutifully impressed with Tilly’s tears being unable to fall. I’m fascinated that they’ve never explained what Melba is doing with her licking…

If I’m one of the other two guys in that commercial, I am so grateful every time I see Angelina Jolie that I didn’t make it big in Hollywood. Everytime I’d see her on the screen or in a magazine I’m reach for my crotch and be grateful again that I still have a set of balls.

At the age of six I fell on a large muddy wooden beam, and my back didn’t heal too well, so my mom was convinced to get me a dose of penicillin. I didn’t remember most of the next two days, because my throat rapidly swelled shut, and I was ventilated in a hospital room. My mother never talked about the events ever…