Yeah, there wasn’t a huge difference, but — especially if you were listening to headphones — a metal tape would sound slightly muddy on the “normal” CrO2 setting. I always thought it was a bit of a gimmick for audiophiles, but have to admit I could sometimes notice it.

The “metal” setting on the cassette deck was for the type of material the tape was made out of. This was known as “Type IV,” introduced in ‘79 by 3M, and it used pure metal particles instead of oxide formations. For my money, the “Type II” chromium dioxide sounded better and were more versatile.

Now let Gosling review Burneko’s shitty recipes.

Wow thanks for this incisive look into the minds of the readers of Rolling Stone magazine 10 years ago, for some reason? “Beyonce”? I will have to check this out!

Exactly. HamNo’s inability to understand this, and The Left’s same inability writ large, is a key component in Why We Lost.

This is genius, especially considering Palpatine rose to power by manufacturing a war on one side of which was a subservient droid army. Which, further, he had destroyed/deactivated after he cemented his Galactic Empire. Is not too far-fetched at all to think at least some Imperial tech is built with this in mind. If…

Counterpoint: the ending introduced plot holes into a 40 year old movie and looked like a video game cut scene.

*Tysons Corner

Is this headline a Jane’s reference?

When I’m extremely lazy but still want something tasty, I pick up a sixer of Sierra at the bodega directly below me for about $12, after tax. Right in the heart of Hell Square on the bucolic Lower East Side.

Philly should be on that list. Tied with or ahead of DC. There are restaurant bars in South Jersey that still display stained-glass shrines to Dave Schultz. Trust.