Michael Ellis Day

Voter in Poughkeepsie, NY: "I'm a huge racist asshole but the part where a ten-year-old Zohran Mamdani shouts 'fly, my pretties, fly!' at the 747s headed for the Twin Towers seemed a bit over the top."

I try never to comment on anything Who related but I will just say: his proudly anti-intellectual refusal to research any scientific, natural, or historical fact and make everything "magical" and "whimsical" is a travesty.

If you have to be a Dick, be the right kind of Dick.

I read those were tame birds, raised in captivity and fed by hand so they would be calm in the presence of humans and not immediately fly away. All so that vile rich men could more easily pretend to be skilled hunters. Just a small detail that made the whole sick incident even more repellent.

I was not previously aware of this vehicle but I've looked it up just now. It's such a great idea, especially if Gotham has a subway system as extensive as NYC.

Yeah, that jumped out at me too.

The thing about Vickie is, not only is she a bigot, she's also incredibly stupid and greedy for attention. Using an antisemitic dogwhistle without realizing it is perfect for that trifecta.

"If you fight for something and fail, you'll have the stink of failure on you! It's much better to never fight for anything and have people think you always succeed but just don't care about them!" -- politician who just doesn't care about them

We'll never get term limits passed with these people in place to block it...and if they're voted out their replacements will suddenly acquire the same attitude. Maybe the way forward is to combine a carrot with the stick: offer something that makes retirement more enticing. No, I don't know what.

You're making fun of this, but be fair: they could write this on sticky notes all over the place and no intruder would think "this must be the password" -- they'd just think "the people who work here must constantly forget where they are" or "wow, even these guys can't remember how it's spelled!"

When I was young my family had a dog and a cat who never got along, but distantly put up with one another. For some reason this made me fixate on warm dog/cat friendships and I just cannot get enough of that interspecies bonding. A post like this makes me happy and verklempt.

I don't think any of those people are shocked. They chose to embrace the right as a cold mercenary calculation that it would be the most lucrative choice for them at that moment, knowing full well what their partners were. Now it's over and out comes the feigned surprise, but it's just an act.

"I've been wanting to leave this dump for ages but I've gotten too complacent. The arrival of Islamic Socialism will be just the thing to kick me in the pants and get me out of this rut!" -- them

"We'll punish the Democrats by making them synonymous with a popular, well liked, attractive, charismatic young man who just unseated the incumbent Mayor of our largest city! That'll teach them!" These fuckers got high on their own supply.

I saw a lot of people amazed she didn't know him from their own particular favorite thing of his so I also suspect it was more the latter. I didn't see anyone saying "What are they teaching in school, how can young people not recognize the author of Aunt Dan and Lemon?"

Funny story, her daughter and son-in-law own a 5,000 square foot apartment in midtown Manhattan off Madison Avenue that is literally one whole city block long. But Hillary herself isn't a helicopter parent and takes no interest in what happens in the city. That's so refreshing!

As I said over there: she'll get to see all those other movies and shows and read his incredible essays and plays and say "I know that guy in real life" which she earned by being out there today when the online naysayers were not.

Did Haldon Chase invent early 1980s New Wave hairstyles in 1944?

"First, all that rhetoric is fine for the campaign but you can't really do any of those things in office or you'll alienate the rich. You need to move to the center and plan for a cushy retirement hanging out with Richard Branson, like I did. Call me if you have any other questions."

A bit off topic but you've just reminded me that back in 1973 I took great umbrage at Edie divorcing Lou so she could find herself and be independent, then getting married again almost immediately and asking him to be accepting about it. I was a very strange child.

"Rapture" and "In The Air Tonight" and "Brass in Pocket" and "Once in a Lifetime" and "Hey Nineteen" are all going to be playing on the radio...plus a ton of John Lennon tracks since it wasn't that long after his death. I'm definitely listening to Remain in Light, which I played constantly.

Transmuting that hate and bigotry into something to smile and even laugh about is like alchemy. I was a New Yorker for forty years, my Jewish parents were New Yorkers, my Jewish grandparents were all New Yorkers, and they all would have loved him. I have tears of joy right now from this ad.

And those words were exactly why I made that reply. 🙂 At the time that scene hit me right in the gut. My reaction then was "I know that's true and I don't like that it's true" but ever since, my reaction has been "Wow, Troy Kennedy Martin saw those guys coming a mile away."

No spoilers, but: there's a speech in the final episode drawing a direct link between space colonization and corporate fascism that I've thought about every time Musk or Bezos or Branson or Paul Allen were in the news for their billionaire space stunts.

(I mean, The Andromeda Strain is a favorite of mine, but The Day the Earth Stood Still is dry and plodding and owes its reputation to the perception of "this isn't like science fiction, it's grave and portentous and solemn and meaningful" which I think Wise was going for again with ST:TMP.)

Written and directed by people who didn't watch or know or especially like Star Trek or any other science fiction, who viewed it all as some dross to turn into a movie. Then they were offended when Gene Roddenberry (not a level headed person) got possessive and angry about this.

On my first LSD trip I saw spectacular visuals, like six Ken Russell films worth of wild imagery. My girlfriend at the time said she looked at a fluorescent light and saw a slightly odd halo around it. She was completely baffled by my experience. And she was a working professional artist!

It's been fascinating to see your reactions. By contrast, I watched the animated series when it was new, it was my favorite show then, and it remains my favorite incarnation of Trek to this day. And somehow your opinions on the individual episodes match mine precisely.

I don't think there's been a definitive unpacking of how the U.S. has been subject to forty-plus years of Reaganism propaganda. I think most Americans do not realize we are still living under Reaganism. It's like the water we swim in - most people can't see it.

Extremely pedantic trivia ahead! This performance of "Anyone for Tennis" was recorded on 24 May and aired on 14 July 1968, as a segment on "The Summers Brothers Smothers Show" -- the summer fill-in series produced by Tom and Dick Smothers and hosted by Glen Campbell.

America's actual head Nazi strategist is an exact double for Buster Bluth in Arrested Development (no offense to the actor, Tony Hale) but Platner supporters still think "we need the guy who looks like the fascist recruitment poster, that's who disaffected MAGA voters will go for."