…will probably be going on line, for good. Test drives do seem like the hardest part.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Laugh Tracks
A history. When they had audience laughter at things that weren’t actually funny, I always found it annoying.
And I didn’t know that Sharon Tate played Jethro’s first love.
[Update early afternoon]
Related: Church adds laugh track to pastor’s jokes.
Dune
There’s apparently a new remake coming out.
Unpopular opinion (which I’ve probably expressed here before): Dune is the most overrated book in SF. And the sequels were terrible.
On a sad note, I recently decided to finally pick up The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, which has been on the bookshelf for decades (paperback), and read it. I couldn’t get more than a few pages in. Heinlein really needed an editor in his later years.
Not Love In The Time Of Cholera
No, it’s porn in the time of the coronavirus.
Yes, this is my shocked face, too.
Social Impact
The virus is going to redefine home, work, education, and life.
Stirling Moss
We’ve lost a great of auto racing. That’s a name from my youth that I’d forgotten.
Cannonball Run
A new record, amidst the quarantine. I wonder what the average speed was? I hadn’t realized that it ended at the Portofino. That’s just two or three miles from our house.
Gun-Control Backfire
This is hilarious:
I was chatting with a friend of mine recently and the topic of gun sales came up. My friend’s father owns a gun range near me and she said he’s seen a huge amount of liberals coming in to purchase weapons in recent weeks.
How does he know they’re liberals?
“They’re shocked to discover they can’t just walk out of the store with a gun.”
We’ve all heard about gun sales skyrocketing recently, but I hadn’t considered some of the tangential effects of the phenomenon until I spoke to my friend. Not only are many liberals suddenly learning to love their Second Amendment rights, many of them are finding out that the gun control narrative in this country — as repeated loudly and often by Hollywood and the mainstream media — is a complete lie.
But they were told by all the smartest people how easy it was!
America: A Roaring Giant?
Or a crying baby?
We’ve been the latter for far too long. We raised a generation of them. I hope this changes that.