The Wedding Present is right up my alley and would probably be a favorite if I'd heard it years ago. Still, Indigo Girls is kind of a masterpiece of MOR. If I had the time today to listen to both in full I'd probably vote Bizarro but I will have to abstain.

Personally I was negatively polarized by Joe Carducci, he doesn't get enough credit/blame for excessive rockism. But I still don't find Beyonce interesting and I don't really feel like poptimism has raised the boats of the kind of pop I do like.

People who weren't planning to write about it?

I'm in the process of moving and I failed to do this in advance, with the result being that 75% of my stuff left by truck on Tuesday and I'm still here trying to sort/clean/pack the rest. When I do finish I have dozens of boxes of stuff I don't actually need to cull after I've paid to move it.

MAGA is objectively disastrous for America and the rational choice for anyone who isn't bribing Trump, conservative or not, is to vote Dem in every race for the foreseeable future. The people here who expect Democratic politicians to be trying to convince them otherwise are going to be disappointed.

I hope you're not disrespecting Kupel's

There's plenty of room in the overhead when you take the bus.

It could be the Hogan's Heroes to the Flintstones' Honeymooners.

Instead of debates we should have a design competition.

Actually it's $9.30, thanks Trump

I think Brennan & Carr is still like $5.50

Have younger people read American Flagg?

I think that might have been the point where there was the least money to be made, pirated content was ubiquitous and there weren't the alternate streams yet, outside of personal websites.

That was true 25 years ago too, performers would tour strip clubs and make dates that accounted for a lot of their income.

His line of Buzz Rickson stuff is cool, high-quality WWII replicas, but in black for Gibson, also just about the only stuff they make in American sizes.

I've been unblocking the many many people I hair-trigger blocked for poor jokes or old gifs and when I see that some of them blocked me back I feel a little bad that they noticed, but I support their decision.

I need them to summarize their objections to John Roemer before I listen to anything else they have to say.

Speaking of the Portuguese, I remember visiting a friend who'd moved to Fall River in 8th grade and hearing "Portagee" for the first time. MA has forms of racism I hadn't even dreamed of.

I have a friend from central MA, his family bathed in the creek 3 seasons a year because their hot water came from the wood stove, and they thought Ware was a shithole. It's still like 96% white but I guess they have some public housing.

Also into the 80s Boston had basically white ghettos, which you don't see in a lot of other cities. So maybe the poorer white folks got pushed out beyond the inner and outer suburbs to where Jeremy's at.

There was a lot of progress in less-obvious CG. I was really impressed by John Adams, the harbor scene suggested new possibilities for impossible-to-build locations, which I think we saw done well in Game of Thrones. Even before that Deadwood used it pretty seamlessly.

I agree with the general assessment without really agreeing with any of the individual sentences. I like James Brown loops but all the stuff over them sounds like background music from a low-budget 60s movie. The singer's very pretty, is that what people like?

Ultimately they both amount to conceding power to warlords. Anarchy is beautiful in art but I don't think we're perfecting the human soul any time soon.

This was my practice, not just with Will, but any bad post that got piled on I'd just go through and block the dumbest usernames without even reading the replies. It is ironic though that you're replying to "‪tocharian spongebart eatpants‬" because he'd for sure go down if I didn't know who he was.

I like her, I also disagree with her a normal amount. Mostly she's snarky and condescending on stuff I agree with.

Come on, this whole thing only played out the way it did because ABL's initial post substituted snark and condescension for an actual argument. If she had a point she should have made it, I believe she's capable of good-faith argument but in 15+ years I've rarely seen her bother.

I only looked at the picture and thought it was the vampire episode of Starsky & Hutch, had to double back after reading your whole post.

I agree on both points. The forces Trump represents were a threat to everyone already but we opened the portal here so the rest of the world is entitled to be as mad as they want.