On In Spite Of Everything Life Somehow Still Manages To Delight On Occasion
Imagine the size of the EAR we could grow on the back of that thing
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On "Carnivàle" Broke My Heart
It was beautiful to look at, but the pacing was super glacial and unless I'm misremembering the two main plots never met except in dream sequences (maybe I didn't make it through season 2, though).
Also, Michael J. Anderson was kind of terrible. Unless the script actually read like:
SAMSON: (spitting) Temporary setback!
SAMSON: (spitting) Thing's are hucky-ducky!
SAMSON: (spitting) I have to talk to Management!
...then he needed to maybe mix it up a little.
There was one episode that was kind of a one-off, self-contained episode (at a time when the show had not earned the right to air a one-off, self-contained episode) called "Babylon" that was really great (I think Meat Loaf's daughter had a key role). I don't remember it advancing the plot at all, but it was so good that if each episode had been like that then I would have stuck with it.
Look, what I'm saying is I'm kind of irritated that you brought this up
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On The New Satanism: Ke$ha's Amazing Occult Ritual Sex-Magick Video
I didn't make it to the end. Does lonelygirl15 make it out ok?
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On Hack Hacky
This never would have happened if he had just thought to delete his old 'popfactor' account
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On Paywall Company CEO Trashes Newspaper Clients As His Business Folds
"Wherefore is the close button?" -Mr. B and dntsqzthchrmn
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On Paywall Company CEO Trashes Newspaper Clients As His Business Folds
The "Close" buttons on these are getting more and more non-obvious.
I guess the next step will be like the old WinZip shareware that would periodically switch the OK and cancel buttons to trick you into purchasing it.
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On New 'Baffler'!
Remember when Carl Steadman registered "baffler.com" to fuck with them?
It still felt like I had my whole life ahead of me when he did that.
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On 'The Secret History': I Know What You Did Last Reading Period
Little Friend has definitely aged well in my memory. There are some great moments, but there is definitely a sinking feeling that sets in when (spoiler, I guess) it becomes clear a central question is not going to be satisfyingly unraveled but isn't that how LIFE is, you guys? Like LIFE doesn't, like, wrap itself up in a neat package? Wait, guys, why are you kicking me out of the Classics program?
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On Tom Lehrer Is 85
My introduction to him was a summer when my "job" was transferring recordings of him from my Dad's reel-to-reel to cassette by holding my Panasonic tape recorder next to the speaker. It is sort of weird to hear this song without a vacuum cleaner in the background.