Jerry Goldsmith’s impact on Star Trek cannot be overstated. You cannot do an open fifth in a Star Trek score without evoking Klingons.

Sitting in a train that hasn’t moved for an hour, thinking about how a well-run country would not make passenger trains share rails with freight.

Not feeling vindicated per se because it is a really low bar, but I am pleased that no one I have ever voted for is in the Epstein files

protect this man vigilantly, a very strange and upsetting trend has emerged in recent weeks

Every member of both chambers of congress

not the most important thing going on right now, but ‘american express’ should be a train and ‘amtrak’ should be a credit card

I think maybe a lot of bad things could be avoided if the worlds most obvious crooks faced some sort of punishment other than “accumulating great sums of money and power”

Whenever Meta or Amazon or Telsa/X/GrokNCP lays off 1,000 people, it’s worth remembering that the CEOs of those company could buy each of those now-jobless workers a house without any notable change to their net worth.

The DS9 writers room presumably had a big dry erase board for story ideas but someone accidentally wrote “Torture Chief O’Brien?” in permanent marker

Was just thinking about how solid blue California voted not to abolish slavery in 2024

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Oh no, Odo is trapped in the turbo lift and needs to get back to his bucket! Such high stakes for the guy who goo’d his way into a closed airlock, like, two episodes ago! (I could no longer stand to be on blusky and not be conversant in DS9)

From a tv production standpoint, all the talk of decisions being made by senior management on Saturday and Sunday has been so weird. That episode was delivered by 5pm EST Friday.

Remember when I said Weiss was stupid and incompetent? Stuff like this. An actual television producer would understand this stuff - if not the exact schedule and procedures for how the episode was distributed, at least who they could ask who would know.

I’m convinced that Disney has a Phantom of the Opera-esque character stalking their studio; except instead of demanding that they stage his operas on pain of death, he insists that they keep making Tron stuff

Relatively few people get to give such an on-the-nose answer

I got laid off and someone else was hiring for the same hyper-specific job for more money

When you are the only one from your side of the family who is willing to visit grandpa in the home

please convince your friends and loved ones to stop saying “it cannot be understated” when they mean “it cannot be overstated;” we can still nip the next “I could care less” in the bud if we work together.

Homeless people are not more likely to be drug addicts, it just used to be possible to afford both a home and a drug addiction.

Pretty crazy that I am about to interact with slaves* in the year 2025 (*go through airport security)

Stopping to sniff other dogs’ piss is their version of social media

Spitting in the face of the rich White American tradition of completely ignoring your neighbors. The best neighbors I ever had spoke limited English, and frequently brought us, unprompted, some delicious Mexican or Vietnamese food. There’d be a knock at the door, and boom!, dinner.

I love that we’ve normalized using hazard lights to mean “I am breaking the law but I’ll stop breaking the law soon-ish”

A great night for those of us who miss five-hour ballgames! #worldseries

We might get to see Kiké Hernandez pitch in a World Series!

Trying to trick my brain into thinking that House of Dynamite is less terrifyingly relevant because the shots of the White House don’t look like the one in the real world

An annoying quirk I’ve noticed in a lot of recent video essays is people saying that something important “can/could not be understated;” now I know how it felt to live through the early days of “I could care less.”

Revise tagging VO

Diane Keaton was not the “dies at 79” any of us were hoping for today.

Circling back: why do people act like you are crazy if you suggest that the guy who famously tried to cheat in 2020, and who is very obviously trying to rig the 2026 election over a year out, miiight have cheated in 2020, with the help of the richest and most powerful media moguls who’ve ever lived?

It’s weird that every president to cone out of California is more damaging than the last: Nixon, Reagan, Miller…

I can’t be the first person to notice that there was another functioning escalator right next to the one that the president got stuck at the bottom of

It’s hard to claim that anyone is the “most high-profile” person among any minority group in the US; except, I think, for trans people. The most widely-known trans public figure in the country is — famously, bewilderingly — a conservative Republican. Despite the hysteria, she is free to Rohm.

You’d think there’d be at least one billionaire media baron whose ego would compel him to think, “I can be the one that beats him,” but nope: sniveling cowards, to a one

Finally, something Americans from both sides of the political divide can agree on: being deeply saddened by the recent death of a public figure in Utah

I wish we had real journalists, the kind that would shout “Mr. President, how does it feel to know you’ll be dead of natural causes soon!”

Is it “political violence” to suggest that someone who keeps confessing to having people killed without due process should face some repercussions?

rry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

The phrase “worst awards show ever” gets thrown around a lot, but…

We lost Quincy Jones, Mark Snow, Alf Clausen, Lalo Schifrin and Ozzy Osbourne this year, and the In Memoriam was bog standard weepy country music. How clueless are these producers that they highlighted NONE of their music? (And I looked away for a second — was Schifrin even in the montage?)

There are gun-toting internet-poisoned conservatives everywhere for those with eyes to see

If Kirk’s alleged killer is indeed trans, expect to see even more downplaying of the fact that they did more to identify him than all local and federal law enforcement agencies combined

Has anyone checked in on Gavin Newsom’s son? Asking for a very anxious Nick Fuentes

Why does everyone jump to the assumption it was “political violence?” American men shoot each other on a daily basis over any number of grievances, seems to me it’s far more likely that he looked at someone the wrong way

I just walked past a Straight Pride event in Hollywood (a line around the block to buy Oasis tour merch)

I don’t wanna have to be the one to do it, but I feel like my first-term congressperson — Laura Friedman (CA 30) — should be primaried for getting owned by high schoolers on her support for Israel (and for doing nothing of note for her constituents) youtu.be/SNNb2GpF15Y?...

I hope it’s announced during Cyndi Lauper’s farewell concert at the Hollywood Bowl so that we get to have hundreds of videos of her telling the audience and then they do the fireworks as scheduled

I don’t like having long hair and I was born with a penis, these are the only connections I have to my alleged gender.

I wonder if revolution is possible in the age of camera phones; we can document all these atrocities, with the hope that it spurs *someone else* to action.