I dropped in to say something pretty much the same — keys get left in the visor when you’re specifically leaving a car for someone else, and you don’t want to leave the keys in the ignition to be easily seen, but also want the person picking it up to not have any trouble figuring out where they are (or to be able to…

As I tried to make clear, the theory’s not suggesting the Mirror, Mirror universe, it’s suggesting a parallel universe.

2. Why does everyone keeping typing “cannon” when they mean “canon?”

I’ve actually heard it rumored that the whole Discovery series might be taking place in a universe parallel to TOS (not the evil Mirror, Mirror universe, but a different one), and that Lorca is actually from the TOS universe and marooned in this one, trying to nudge it into what he perceives as the “right” direction.…

Certainly Charles Haid’s scenery-chewing performance as the maniacal redneck Canadian sheriff should have left no doubt.

I’m greatly impressed by your trance-channeling of an 11th century pop culture nerd.

Yeah, I mean, just look at the Bayeux Tapestry. Even the perspective is rudimentary at best, but it still tells a hell of a story.

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput

I actually didn’t care much for Clue when it first came out, but my daughter saw it in her tween years and enjoyed it so much it was on constant replay around the house. It really grew on me.

I’ll vouch for The Manitou, though it’s clearly of the “funhouse” rather than the “terrifying” school of horror films.

Goodman’s role in Barton Fink is borderline horror...

The only thing worthwhile about The Keep, aside from some first class scenery chewing by the A-list cast, is the cinematography. There are two particular shots — the view of Glenn driving his motorcycle away from the border checkpoint, and the long pullback from the German soldier crawling into the cavern — that I…

Good Lord! Gigantism!

I’ve been indifferent to baseball all my life, and I still consider it one of the all time best Simpsons episodes.

You achieved one other victory — Champs Honkstreet is a pretty excellent team owner name.

Fun Fact: Stringfellow Hawke was apparently named after Stringfellow Barr, co-founder of the “New Program” at Saint John’s College in Annapolis, MD, which one of series creator Donald Bellisario’s daughters attended.

She was born in California, so it appears only distantly, if at all.

That Corman never got to make a Blacula movie featuring Frankie and Annette and Vincent Price is something of a tragedy, but he was a busy guy, I guess.

Re the “camp” — The ‘70s SNL episode on which Carrie Fisher appeared had a Frankie and Annete beach movie parody (in which Ms. Fisher appeared fairly eye-poppingly in a bikini) that featured Dan Ackroyd doing a pretty spot-on and thoroughly fey impression of a Vincent Price cameo. I recall at the time thinking “Hey,…

Yarnell was something of a tween crush of mine, so I’m pleased to hear that she wasn’t a jerk... Not so pleased to just now find that she passed away from a stroke 7 years ago :(