Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Everybody saw this coming.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

All hail the time of the bunny!

Accountability, motherfuckers.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Republicans in disarray!

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

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  6. 6.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    “Everything Everywhere All At Once” looks cool. Someday I will have time to see it, I hope.

  7. 7.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Baud: Welcome back!

    Entertainment Note: If you like cricket, watch 83.

    It is about the improbable World Cup victory of the Indian team under its 24 year old captain Kapil Dev against the reigning World Champions, West Indies.

    They were such an underdog team that their return tickets were purchased before the semi-finals were over.

    Especially fun if you followed along India’s trajectory in real time.

  9. 9.

    JPL

    Oh my, I assumed that Entertainment notes meant another post about Steve Schmidt.  ?

  10. 10.

    Old Man Shadow

    Has there been much whining and gnashing of racist teeth since the Dr. Who announcement?

  13. 13.

    MattF

    Speaking of entertainment, I just finished watching season one of the new Apple streaming show Severance. Nine episodes. Descriptions tend to go ‘It’s a cross between genre A and genre B’ but I can definitely say it’s not either one. Starts out spectacularly weird and slow. And… oh, I don’t know. Watch it and decide for yourself.

  14. 14.

    Betty Cracker

    Another entertainment note: season two of  HBO’s “Hacks” (Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder) drops May 12.

  15. 15.

    germy

    Hey everybody, I wrote a kickass novel called THE SURVIVALISTS about a lawyer who starts dating one of a pack of Brooklyn doomsday preppers who aren’t quite operating on the right side of the law, & it’s available for preorder here: https://t.co/0eQmeVGHhZ pic.twitter.com/vXDinBDjoR

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    Thanks everybody who discovered my book today. I’m just a humble girl, out here trying to sell more books than Meghan McCain.

    — Kashana (@kashanacauley) May 8, 2022

  18. 18.

    TheOtherHank

    I blame my grandmother for making me say that horrifying prayer out loud: “Now I lay me down to sleep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the lord my soul to take.” In addition to scaring the shit out of 5 year old me, it made me forever confused about lay/lie

  19. 19.

    Brachiator

    Martin Scorsese and the Film Foundation are launching a free virtual screening room for restored films. They’re beginning with “I Know Where I’m Going!,” the 1945 romance that has meant a great deal to Scorsese and his longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker.

    This is a wonderful film and features some great cinematography. Well worth your time.

  23. 23.

    Steeplejack

    @germy:

    Wouldn’t the first item on a Brooklyn doomsday prepper’s to-do list be to get the hell out of Brooklyn?! ?

  24. 24.

    karen marie

    @Brachiator:   I’ve signed up.  I’ve never seen this movie, not sure I’ve seen any by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.  I very much appreciate the heads up

    Reading the description of the film, I realized it sounded familiar – I had recently added it to my “to watch” list on Amazon.

  25. 25.

    divF

    I want to put in a plug for I Know Where I’m Going. Madame divF and I discovered this move decades ago, as part of discovering the early Wendy Hiller (along with Pygmalion and Major Barbara). The linked AP article gives a description of its charms that I can’t match, but even that doesn’t do it justice. A great blend of acting and setting – going to visit the Isle of Mull is on my bucket list.

    Fun fact: Jessica Mitford’s family owned an estate on a small island off of the Isle of Mull, a place she described in her autobiography Hons and Rebels.

  26. 26.

    TheOtherHank

    @zhena gogolia: ​
      I know. But it took me years to get it and I still have to think about it when I’m talking or writing. “I think I will <pause…> lie down for a nap.”​

  27. 27.

    Brachiator

    The recent 50th anniversary celebration of The Godfather got me thinking about another, equally artificial, but perhaps interesting upcoming milestone.

    If you were a student in 1950 and wanted to research a composer from 1850, you could read reviews or the musical score, but you would not be able to actually hear a contemporary performance of the composer’s work. Currently we are able to go back in time and hear audio recordings that were made in the early 1900s, but soon we’ll be able to do something more. A student in 2028 will be able to go back a full century and see and hear movies from 1928, the first full year where we had talkies. And soon a student in the year 2039 will be able to go back a century and watch and review black and white and color movies from a period described by some film historians as one of the greatest years for movies, at least for American films. From here on out, unless we destroy ourselves, people around the world will be part of an unparalleled continuity of human culture.

    There is also some interesting discontinuities. Recently I watched a YouTube video of people in their 20s reacting to the 1973 film “American Grafitti.” Some were puzzled at the vernacular dialog, didn’t get the musical references of the songs playing on the radio and had absolutely no idea who the disc jockey Wolfman Jack was. That teenagers might drive around aimlessly at night and jump into the cars of people they barely knew seemed wasteful and irresponsible to some viewers.

  32. 32.

    gwangung

    Jackals absolutely HAVE to see Everything Everywhere All At Once. Not only is it a showcase for Michelle Yeoh (who’s been RIGHT THERE for Hollywood for three decades), but it’s a comeback to Ky Huy Quan (Short Round in the 2nd Indiana Jones movie) and a great intro for Stephanie Hsu (who I met in an off Broadway play I was scouting) and should be starring in all things if there were any justice in the world.

  33. 33.

    Ken

    @Old Man Shadow: I’m not plugged into the fan community and tend to get my gnashing news second- or third-hand. For example I think it was cracked.com where I heard about the protests at the casting of a non-binary actor as Desire for the Sandman series.

    (For those not up on their Sandman, Desire is described in several places as being neither male nor female; so the protests had some “completely missing the point” amusement value.)

  36. 36.

    trollhattan

    “Ozark” wrapped, “Killing Eve” wrapped, “Better Call Saul” well into the final season. Teevee void ahead.

  37. 37.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Baud:

    Maybe he means people are having sex under his piano. 

    And that would mean possible pantslessness.

    Now, if it were an upright piano, you’d have to lie on top of it, and pantsless is the only way to go there.

  38. 38.

    cain

     
    @schrodingers_cat: ​
     
    I really love that movie – it had a lot of heart in it. It also annoyed me that our govt had such a poor attitude about our sports team. Which I feel still continues today – remembering the champion woman golfer who had her mother be her caddy.

  39. 39.

    divF

    @Brachiator: Another example of this is the running gag in Play It Again, Sam, in which Tony Roberts’ character keeps calling his answering service to leave the phone numbers where he can be reached. Utterly incomprehensible in the age of cell phones.

    “If you need me, I’ll be at Frozen Tundra 6-9290”

  42. 42.

    Captain C

    I’ve been under that dude’s piano in Washington Square.  The experience is way cool.

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    Ted Cruz, making friends.

    May 9, 2022 at 5:53 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    The father of Trevor Reed, a Texas marine recently released from detention in Russia, told the Dallas Morning News that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “didn’t do anything” to help negotiate the release.

    Said Joey Reed: “He’s an embarrassment to the state of Texas. I don’t care what or who runs against him, I will work for their campaign to defeat that son of a bitch.”

  45. 45.

    gene108

    @Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.):

    Proper grammar is overrated. If people understand what point you are trying to get across that’s good enough.

    Word usage has changed through the centuries in every language, with Latin and Sanskrit maybe being exceptions.

    These changes never came about by orders of the grammar police. They evolved as people stood up to the grammar police, and became the change they secretly wanted in their language.

  49. 49.

    Brachiator

    @zhena gogolia:

    Pamela Brown, who plays Catriona Potts in this scene, was a wonderful actress whose stage and screen career was affected by a crippling arthritic condition which restricted her mobility and caused her considerable pain. Later in life she lived with Michael Powell, the director here. They remained together until her death from pancreatic cancer in 1975.

  50. 50.

    Erin in Flagstaff

    @zhena gogolia: I was surprised how much I loved it when I saw it years ago. I’ve been wanting to see it again, but won’t be able to watch it tonight.

  51. 51.

    NotMax

    Just goes to show how far we’ve come from the days of the most sniffy Victorians’ assertions that piano legs were too suggestively libidinous, ergo must be covered or disguised.

    ;)

  54. 54.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Captain C:

    I’ve been under that dude’s piano in Washington Square. The experience is way cool. 

    If you know what I mean… ?

  55. 55.

    mrmoshpotato

    @lollipopguild:

    Just think of all the movies and TV shows where a character has to find a pay phone. 

    The Fugitive (movie version) and Die Hard With A Vengeance totally wouldn’t work to name a couple.

  56. 56.

    Betty Cracker

    @eclare: Did you see the season 2 trailer? There’s a nanosecond shot of Marcus holding an adorable Boston terrier puppy — maybe as a peace offering for the water cop? (I disapprove of people using animals as peace offerings, but awwww!)

    @trollhattan: Hahaha!

  57. 57.

    eclare

    @Betty Cracker:   No I didn’t see that, I’ll have to go look!  Do you know if HBO is releasing the whole season of Hacks? Or are they dribbling the new shows out one per week, like they are with Barry?

  59. 59.

    dmsilev

    @MattF: I’ve had a bunch of people recommend Severance to me, so I’ve started watching. Only a couple of episodes in so far, but yeah it’s pretty weird. In a good way.

    (streaming on Apple TV+, which I’ve found to be surprisingly good in terms of how many shows range from watchable to very very good)

  60. 60.

    eclare

    @Betty Cracker:   Just watched the trailer, it truly must have been a nanosecond, because I didn’t see it.

    Laurie Garrett is in this season, love her!

  62. 62.

    Betty Cracker

    @eclare: I love her too! I think they’re going to release two episodes at a time a week apart for four weeks.

  65. 65.

    NotMax

    @trollhattan

    Teevee void ahead.

    Say what now? Unless one is tethered strictly to Netflix, there’s a veritable cornucopia of choices*, including from services not costing a penny.

    (Admittedly, for me, Netflix has been mostly a desert for some time now. If I currently find a single new title of interest there in any given month I consider that a win, finding more than one is a jubilee.)

    *Sturgeon’s Law still applies.

  66. 66.

    sab

    @Betty Cracker: I bought a Patron t-shirt. Balloon Juice’s fault. I don’t even like tiny terriers. I fear them as ankle biters. I adopted my step-daughter’s american pitbull ( i so much love that dog)  but the chihuahuas and the tiny terriers were more than I could cope with. They might eat our cats!

  70. 70.

    eclare

    @NotMax:   I gave up Netflix and moved to Hulu a few months ago, no regrets.  I don’t like super violent shows, like Squid Game, and I tried to watch Bridgerton, but couldn’t get in to it.

    HBOMax has the most shows that appeal to me.

    On Hulu, Only Murders in the Building and Dopesick were both brilliant.

  72. 72.

    Betty Cracker

    @sab: Badger and Pete are the first micro dogs we ever had. We always had boxers before. Ours are nice, but I’ve known plenty of terrierists.

    ETA: In nice mode!

  73. 73.

    sab

    I have discovered the Mentalist and I love it. So does spouse.

    Too bad Simon Baker is so “old” in his fifties, because he would have been a perfect Francis Crawford ( Lymond) if he could have done a mild Scottish accent. Right size, right shape,  right coloring, right  athleticism, right charm with annoyinness.

  75. 75.

    Roger Moore

    @lollipopguild: ​
     

    Just think of all the movies and TV shows where a character has to find a pay phone.

    It’s interesting to see what kinds of plots are either invalidated or at least made much more difficult by the existence of mobile phones. They have to come up with all kinds of excuses for why someone is incommunicado.

  77. 77.

    PaulB

    I just got back from 10 days on the Olympic Peninsula, including several locations in Olympic National Park. Now facing the dilemma of how to pare down 500 photos into a manageable list for an On the Road submission.

    After the first paring down, I still have over 100 photos remaining. Now tearing out what little hair I have left.

  79. 79.

    sab

    @Betty Cracker: Badger and Pete are excellent dogs. I love to see them. Not all tiny dogs want to eat cats. Same as not all pitbulls want to eat burglers. Depends on the dog.

    I thought my German Shepherd was fearless until she met my step-son’s cop’s son friend. Just back from Iraq he terrified her. Not enough to stop her from protecting me. But her fur stood on end every time she met him.

    Our police force took months to accept him ( failed his psych exams)  and two years later he was gone.

  80. 80.

    PaulB

    Not looking forward to jury duty, which begins on Wednesday. A less-than-well-ventilated room filled with people, 98% of whom will not be masked, 30% of whom will not be vaccinated. Joy….

  82. 82.

    Viva BrisVegas

    Rather like Preston Sturges, Powell and Pressburger had an astonishing 1940s that sadly petered out.

    The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

    49th Parallel (1941)

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

    A Canterbury Tale (1944)

    I Know Where I’m Going (1945)

    Stairway to Heaven (1946)

    Black Narcissus (1947)

    The Red Shoes (1948)

    All classics, well worth your time.

  83. 83.

    persistentillusion

    @TheOtherHank: My great-grandmother embroidered that on fabric, which she then framed and gave to my mother to hang in my bedroom.  Existential thinking in the under 8-set is probably a bad thing.

  84. 84.

    eclare

    @PaulB:   Must be something in the air, I start jury duty on Monday.  I have the same concerns that you do.  I will not be kind to anyone who gives me grief over wearing a mask.

  85. 85.

    sab

    @eclare: “Nearest mountains…” Spent my childhood in Florida so have to laugh. Moved to Ohio because we have high hills.

  86. 86.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Roger Moore:

    They have to come up with all kinds of excuses for why someone is incommunicado.

    The writers for “Star Trek” must have had practice–they had to come up with these plot excuses way back in the Sixties.

  88. 88.

    Matt McIrvin

    @lollipopguild: The best but most ephemeral gag in the 1978 Superman is the one where Clark Kent goes to find a phone booth to change in and just finds an open pay-phone kiosk instead. Those were relatively new at the time.

  89. 89.

    PaulB

    I just started watching the new Heartstopper series on Netflix. I read the graphic novel series and was pleasantly surprised at just how good they are (gay coming of age series that also includes frank depiction of anxiety and eating disorder). So far, the Netflix version is pretty good. I’m just one episode in, though.
    There’s real heart, sensitivity, and compassion in the graphic novels, with characters you really root for and care about.

  91. 91.

    persistentillusion

    @sab: 6053 ft above sea level here, pretty safe from ocean rise.  Still at risk for burning down.

  92. 92.

    sab

    Forgot to ask my culturally Chinese sister about the new Michelle Yeoh movie. I loved “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.” I saw it with subtitles. My sister, who is fluent in Mandarin, hated it. “All the actors had the wrong accent for their part.”

    Kind of like how I felt about Game of Thrones year 1.

  93. 93.

    PaulB

    One of the great things about Olympic National Park is the diversity of its climes, which include snow-capped peaks, as well as sandy beaches, tide pools, rain forests, lakes and rivers, all spread over a wide area.

    The view of the mountains from Hurricane Ridge is breathtaking but so, too, is the ethereal beauty of the rain forest, which resembles a true otherworldly fairyland in spots. Add in colorful sea anemones in a tide pool, lonely rocky beaches where the sky, clouds, and horizon seem to merge off in infinity, and the amazing color of a sunset over the water … words fail me, and even the pictures don’t do it justice.

    (I can check off one item on my bucket list from this trip: I finally got to see a bear in the wild.)

  95. 95.

    Brachiator

    @Viva BrisVegas:

    Rather like Preston Sturges, Powell and Pressburger had an astonishing 1940s that sadly petered out.

    The 1951 Tales of Hoffmann is worth watching. The 1969 film Age of Consent was a huge hit in Australia, but was heavily censored because of its mature themes and nude scenes and was largely a failure elsewhere.

    And of course, the 1960 psychological thriller Peeping Tom was so controversial and poorly received that it damaged Powell’s reputation and practically killed his career.

  96. 96.

    Anne Laurie

    @zhena gogolia: The AKC officially refers to Scottish Deerhounds and Irish Wolfhounds!

    (Russian wolfhounds are Borzois.  All three breeds are derived from Greyhound crosses, of course, but Borzois are genetically closer to Afghan Hounds than the Celtic breeds.)

  97. 97.

    eclare

    @sab:   I’ve had trouble walking out west in national parks at 8,000 feet.  I’m used to breathing air you can scoop with your hand.

  98. 98.

    sab

    @Anne Laurie: I have an American Pitbull who is recognized in the UK ( whatever their kennel club calls itself) but not in the USA (whatever our kennel club calls itself) although we live here. Fine with us. She is just a dog. I am just her mom/owner.

  100. 100.

    sab

    @eclare: At 8000 feet I would just die without walking anywhere. (Suboptimal heart since birth, aka cardiac birth defect.)

  102. 102.

    trollhattan

    @PaulB:

    Never shoot sports. I just sent off the set from a track meet that I shot back in March. 3,300 shots to parse. Good thing I don’t work for a paper. (“What’s that?”)

  103. 103.

    sab

    @eclare: Not a problem. I keep myself at lower altitudes. Husband complains when I turn seriously pink doing minor yard work.

  104. 104.

    Anne Laurie

    @eclare: Yeah, I visited Albuquerque / Taos (back in 2000) and I loved what I saw, but I arrived with a heavy cold and spent the week gasping for breath!

    My friend & I took the Sandia Peak Tramway one day, and had planned to eat lunch at the summit.  But my lips & nails were turning purple, so we ended up taking the next tram back down, sadly…

  105. 105.

    Roger Moore

    @PaulB: ​
     

    After the first paring down, I still have over 100 photos remaining. Now tearing out what little hair I have left.

    Try to tell a story with the pictures. Write a narrative of your trip, then pick one representative picture for each important point in the narrative. If the narrative is too long for a single post, maybe it will have to be split into a few. It’s been done before.

  106. 106.

    Roger Moore

    @Matt McIrvin: ​
     

    The writers for “Star Trek” must have had practice–they had to come up with these plot excuses way back in the Sixties.

    Yes and no. Yes, they had to come up with excuses for why the heroes were incommunicado. No, because they had a lot more latitude for their excuses. Science fiction is like that. Of course you have to walk a balance, because if you aren’t careful it will look like Starfleet technology is crap that never works when you need it most. The best thing is probably to avoid using that kind of plot too often.

  108. 108.

    frosty

    @Roger Moore: That’s good advice. Sounds like you can’t cover Olympic NP in eight pictures. Maybe four or eight posts? I’d love to see them. Washington National Parks are probably going to be next year’s road trip.

    PS I find that deleting the blurry ones, poor exposures, and thumb on the lens greatly reduce the ones I have to parse LOL.

  111. 111.

    Roger Moore

    @frosty: ​
     
    I have a lot of experience editing down my pictures into keepers. Nothing like starting with 1000 shots and trying to get it down to 20 or so.

  112. 112.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Anne Laurie: Once, in my early twenties, I tried to climb Longs Peak in Colorado, a 14,000-foot mountain that is a non-technical hike most of the time. I got up to about 13,500 and started feeling distinctly drunk, which is not how you want to feel when you’re walking along the edge of a thousand-foot drop. I had to just stop and sit down, told my friends to go on… then one of them started throwing up a little way further up the slope. And then a park ranger told them that a storm was coming and we’d better start down the mountain NOW.

    We made it down with plenty of time to spare. But the interesting thing was how rapidly I felt better with every hundred feet of descent. It’s like there was this really sharp threshold somewhere above 13,000 where my tolerance started to drop off.

    My days of attempting to climb fourteeners are past me but just a few years ago, we rode the Pikes Peak Cog Railway up to about the same height, and sure enough, I felt exactly the same mild drunkenness up there as before. My wife got a headache, my daughter was completely unaffected. On the way down, one of the lenses fell out of my glasses and I didn’t notice until we were almost down to the bottom–I thought the blurred vision was just some strange effect of the altitude.

  114. 114.

    eclare

    @pluky:   I have read that before.  The dog is reacting to your innate distrust of someone, that you are having but don’t realize.

  115. 115.

    RaflW

    @Matt McIrvin: I believe private pilots are required to use supplemental oxygen above 12,500 feet (unpressurized plane) and are encouraged to use it even below that. Because flying an airplane requires good executive function, and for most of us, the brain gets fuzzy even below 12.5K (the standard is somewhat arbitrary, there’s definitely advocates for lowering it). And yes, descending even 500 ft can help!

  116. 116.

    Anne Laurie

    @sab: It’s… complicated.  The American-based UKC (United Kennel Club), which was formed as an alternative to the AKC (American Kennel Club) *does* recognize American Pit Bull Terriers.  Thirty years ago, when my Michigan friends first got me interested in dogs & dog sports, the UKC was very popular because it allowed non-‘purebred’ dogs to compete in agility / obedience / flyball trials.  I met my first pit bulls at those events, and of course they were all well-behaved, perfectly lovely dogs. By the time we moved to New England, the AKC was relenting on the non-purebred issue (first with the ‘Purebred Alternative Listing’ for rescues, and eventually accepting ‘Canine Partners‘). The UKC didn’t have much of a presence around Boston, and it’s been a solid 15 years since we had a dog who was suitable for any of the dogsports, so I haven’t had to pay attention to what could sometimes turn into low-level feuding between the two groups.

    The United Kingdom’s Kennel Club is ‘correctly’ referred to as *The* Kennel Club — KC.  This is important only to people who want to work with the AKC and/or the KC, because mostly the UKC people are defiantly Not Exclusivist and do not care.

  118. 118.

    MaryRC

    @divF: The telephone booth by the waterfall is still there! You can even call its number.

    I Know Where I’m Going has one of my favorite endings of any movie and I never get tired of watching it.

  119. 119.

    Tenar Arha

    Restoration Screening Room, definitely worth registering to see it.

    I saw I Know Where I’m Going for the first time in the old print only about  2-ish years ago, during a local over-zoom-because-pandemic series, & that restoration tonight made my jaw drop.

    You could still tell it was a good movie back then but you really had to work to hear and see that through the old & scratchy print. The sound was so much better, and the black and white cinematography was just gorgeous. Also, if you have some to spare it’s worth taking the time to watch the included interviews.

  120. 120.

    eddie blake

    that’s ok, as long as revolving doors and elevator shafts still exist, clark kent will be fine.

    otoh, i can’t remember a single plot for three’s company that would survive the cast having smartphones.

  121. 121.

    scribbler

    @MaryRC:   Just a wonderful, wonderful movie.  One of my absolute favorites.  Do yourself a favor, and watch it!  Has Petula Clark in a small role as a skeptical child.

  122. 122.

    Emma

    @gwangung: Have you listened to the They Call Us Bruce episode where they interview Daniel Kwan and Stephanie Hsu? The backstory of how Jobu Topaki got her name is so amazingly WTF in an explosion of other WTFs, I love it! Plus, I saw someone ask on Twitter how Evelyn and JT could be rocks in another universe, and Daniel Kwan replied with a link to the Wikipedia article on ontological objectivity. LOVE how much thought and care went into every single aspect of the film, in addition to the fact Evelyn and Joy’s relationship mirrors my own relationship with my mom. Could gush on and on about this film. RACCACOONIE!!!

  123. 123.

    Matt McIrvin

    @RaflW: I know that before astronomers are allowed to do any extended in-person work at the Mauna Kea Observatory, which is at 13,796 feet, they have to make a test trip to see how they do up there. I probably would not be cleared for it.

  124. 124.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Roger Moore:

    Yes and no. Yes, they had to come up with excuses for why the heroes were incommunicado. No, because they had a lot more latitude for their excuses.

    “Chained in a dungeon with Captain Kirk’s shirt gone” seemed to come up a lot.

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