Well said. And they tend to randomly pick and choose, too. I have a cousin who maintains that people aren’t actually dying of Covid, these are just old and sick people that would have died anyway. In the meantime, there was a story yesterday about how many people are dying of illnesses as a consequence of their…

And the kicker, of course, is that he’s taking the monoclonal antibodies which had he just, ya know, taken the vaccine, he already would’ve had in his body.

Knocked on my ass is exactly how I described how I felt after my second dose of Moderna. Hoo boy. In the height of it, as I was burning up with fever and feeling like death, I was definitely thinking ... maybe getting covid itself ain’t so bad .... But then 18 hours later I was perfectly fine (and also not on a…

This is likely because you already had the J&J.  Your first dose of Pfizer was like everyone else’s second dose (or even second dose +, because J&J is one dose).  Friends I know who had Covid and then got vaxxed had the worst side effects after their first dose also.

I hoped there was a good album in here that could be trimmed out, but there just isn’t. I’m with you Nina: I think “Jonah” is my favorite track (with a killer chorus), followed by “Jesus Lord” (that Jay Electronica verse is fantastic) and “Jail” (although Jay Z’s verse is pretty blah).  Beyond that, I would include…

I hear you but I think you’re wrong on this.  I am an avid Jeopardy viewer.  I was rooting for the guy.  He stunk up the joint.  He just wasn’t good.  

He ticks all of the boxes except, ya know, actually being good at the job.

Where are all these haters coming from? I’m surprised. Hacks was so, so good. I genuinely loved the hell out of it.

You do you, I guess.  But I watched the entire season and loved every second of it and had no idea that she was a child of famous parents until well after the fact.  She’s awesome.

oh man that made me feel good.  awesome

That Good Girls track above isn’t giving you the same vibe? Sounds like the same big pop bullshit all over again. Chorus: “Good girls, don’t cry and good girls don’t lie and good girls justify and good girls satisfy and ... “

You and me, Kicking, same page.  Buzzy was the top for me.  Robin Roberts and David Faber immediately behind him.

Excellent piece, Caroline. Your comparison to the exaggerated aesthetic of the Beach movies is spot on. Those movies were of my parents’ generation, and I always thought they were supposed to be some earnest portrayal of the bubble-gummy 60s teen. I watched Beach Party recently, and MAN was I way off. It’s SO weirdly…

With you on the Heaven’s Gate doc. For an event that is endlessly fascinating and tragic, the doc is inexplicably dull.

I gave up after about 4 episodes because ... well, “occasionally plodding” really hits it on the head. Hoo boy.

it has to be a “masterwork” plus?

You’ve said it. This album’s kiss of death is that it is fucking BORING. It’s one thing to try something different and fail. At least we can say “well, this sounds like shit but hell she tried!” This is the worst kind of bad. So bland I can barely muster the effort to type these

ah, you know, I think you’re right - was Pimento and not Terry

I THINK that the Terry/ledges thing was also a callback, right?  Wasn’t there an episode where Boyle was out on a ledge and Jake went out the help him, only to become paralyzed with fear and in need of Terry’s help?  And didn’t that lead to a “Terry hates ledges” statement?  Maybe I’m wrong about the details but it…

“Cheddar’s no common bitch. He’d find his own way out.”