Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

“woke” is the new caravan.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Let there be snark.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

American history and black history cannot be separated.

All hail the time of the bunny!

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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Medium Cool is a weekly series related to popular culture, mostly film, TV, and books, with some music and games thrown in.  We hope it’s a welcome break from the anger, hate, and idiocy we see almost daily from the other side in the political sphere.

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  2. 2.

    NotMax

    Weekend watch.

    What do you get when you mix the Flintstonss, sub-par animation and beer? A true oddity in the annals of corporate promotion.

  3. 3.

    Citizen Dave

    On a spur of the moment decision last night, I watched Death of a Unicorn on HBO Max.  An A24 movie.  Listed as a Action/Adventure/Mystery & Thriller/Comedy.  OK.  I’ll never get that hour and 44 minutes back.  How can a movie about unicorns be meh?  It was very meh.  Currently at 53% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is below the 65% where Happy Gilmore sits.

  4. 4.

    geg6

    Gonna spend some time on entertaining tv tonight.  Light and funny.  Somebody Feed Phil is out with a new season on Netflix.  If you haven’t watched it but liked Anthony Bourdain’s food/travel stuff, it’s a sort of comedic version with the guy who produced Everybody Loves Raymond.  I highly recommend it for some relaxing, fun watching.

  7. 7.

    Tony Jay

    @Baud:

    Ah, come on now. Truth be told there is no one culture. Never is. Never could be. There’s an American culture made up of a lot of regional cultures and the fictional versions of those cultures and, because of money and power and a temporarily unified coalition between the both of them there’s an artificial ‘culture’ being pressed onto the country’s face like clingfilm.

    So America either chokes to death or you all scream so loud the plastic rips open, at which point it’s sit up and get punchy time.

  8. 8.

    Citizen Dave

    I watched the whole Flintstones/Busch short–thanks!  Reminds me of Homer J Simpson’s toast: “To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”

  10. 10.

    BellaPea

    I swore I would stop posting on BJ because no one ever responds to me, but what the heck. I love MC posts. I am so totally disgusted with The Buccaneers on Apple TV. I thought it was going to be light, fun TV about young women from the US going to Europe to find husbands. Instead it has turned into a dark dreary mess about illicit affairs and murder. Sheesh. At least I have The Gilded Age tonight which is MARVELOUS!! Carrie Coon rocks it.

  13. 13.

    Miss Bianca

    Any Wolf Hall fans out there heard of this book I am currently reading, The Man on a Donkey? It’s written by one H.F.M. Prescott, and it was cried up to me as a superior work of historical fiction that most likely had a profound influence on Hilary Mantel.

    Anyhoo, it’s about the events leading up to Henry VIII’s sacking of the monasteries and priories and the Pilgrimage of Grace, a revolt movement against it. (I knew about the former, not so much about the latter.)

    It *is* a very good book, although I found it a bit of a slog to get into at first – it’s told chronologically, almost as a series of journal entries, and it follows a good-half dozen main characters and a slew of secondary characters. I’m 2/3 of the way through now, and even tho’ I have to rush to get it back to the library, it’s a good 600-pager and I find myself reading a little slower now that I’ve found out more about the fates of some of the main characters (spoiler alert: it ain’t pretty).

  14. 14.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Tony Jay: Growing up in East Incest, TX, there was -definitely- a distinct Texas culture.  I saw the difference when I went to Ithaca, NY for grad school in 1986.  But by the time I back to the US after postdocs in 1995, it seemed like that had changed.  I was interviewing for a job in Dallas in Jan 1995, and FFS, the waitress sounded like she’d walked off the set of Beverly Hills 90210.  I thought to myself: the corrosive power of American TV has (or will) put paid to Texas culture.  Good riddance!

    Fast-forward 30yr, and here we are: the opposite has happened.

  15. 15.

    Miss Bianca

    @BellaPea: Ooh, I tried Season 1 of The Gilded Age and just could not get into it. I’m not sure I even finished it, and I’m usually a mad sucker for costume dramas. Maybe it’s one of those series that gets better after the first season?

  18. 18.

    Josie

    @Chetan Murthy: ​ I wish you would quit portraying Texas as a monolith, with the entire state as terrible as the place you grew up in. I have spent my life, all 80 years of it, in south, central, and coastal parts of Texas, and they are nothing like what you describe. You are not the expert on Texas, just one small part of it.It’s true that we have terrible politicians because we are gerrymandered and voter suppressed and have been for many years. That doesn’t mean, however, that we are all dumb shit kickers.​
     ETA: I am currently really enjoying Brokenwood Mysteries. Love the characters and the accents.

  20. 20.

    Citizen Dave

    @BellaPea: Hey there!  I’ve had Apple for the first time for the last several months (got it to watch Severance).  Always interested in Apple recommendations.  We kind of pooped out on the Emily Dickenson series–we’re somewhere in the middle of Season 3.  Still haven’t even watched Ted Lasso or that Shrinking/Shrink show.  Thinking of pausing Apple anyway since I picked up HBO because my wife wanted to watch that Jayne Mansfield/Mariska Harditay documentary.  It was excellent.

     

    Then we had to watch my favorite, season 2 of The Rehearsal.  Only 6 episodes, though.  Probably do the new season of Hacks next.  It’s hard for me to get through a lot in the summer with it being light so late, which has been mitigated this summer by the imprisoning of the humidity in the midwest.  Like right now, writing on the interweb instead of outside.

    Current humidity is 87%, which makes for a dew point of 80.

  21. 21.

    BellaPea

    @Citizen Dave: Hey there also! A show we absolutely LOVED on Apple TV was Jon Hamm’s Your Friends and Neighbors. I actually laughed out loud of at a couple of episodes. Very funny and great acting by Hamm and others on the show.

  22. 22.

    trollhattan

    @Citizen Dave:

    Latest Hacks season has some strong echoes of the present day. Which means when they were writing it a couple years ago the writers room crystal ball was very prescient.

  23. 23.

    BellaPea

    @Miss Bianca: I think that season 1 is probably the weakest in the series because they are trying to establish all of the characters and relationships. Season 2 is better, and season 3 is absolutely off the charts. If you can go back to it, you’ll probably enjoy it more in seasons 2 and 3.

  26. 26.

    Another Scott

    @Citizen Dave: 80F Dew Point??  Yikes! You like your culture extra steamy!

    (The dew point is “only” 76F here in NoVA.)

    :-/

    NOAA.gov:

    The highest dew point ever recorded, 95°F (35°C), was recorded at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on July 8, 2003. With an air temperature of 108°F (42°C), the heat index was 178°F (81°C).

    WTF!!11??

    Something, something small favors??

    Hang in there, and keep cool.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  27. 27.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Citizen Dave: The Rehearsal is the most insane show on television.  Loved the first season and so far enjoying the second (four episodes in) but prefer the first.  I hear the finale is pretty crazy.  Nathan Fielder is a twisted dude but his shows are extremely funny and hard to put down.

  28. 28.

    geg6

    @Citizen Dave:

    I was just talking with my sister about how this summer’s weather is so awful that I feel like it’s mid-winter and below zero outside.  But no, it’s been 90+ degrees for multiple weeks with humidity at insane levels and almost no rain to cut it.  I usually spend a lot of time outside on the porch if I’m not running or cooking or cleaning.  Not this year.  I don’t even want to go swim at my sister’s because the water in the pool is too warm.

  29. 29.

    kalakal

    Finished watching Ludwig which I really enjoyed.

    Currently watching Kingdom – a Stephen Fry vehicle where he’s plays a small town lawyer with some family problems ( a shady brother who may or may not be dead, a loopy sister) and some rather odd clients. Nicely sly humour

    Both on Britbox

  31. 31.

    eclare

    For those with HBO Max, tv alert for tonight:  John Oliver’s first show ( he’s been on hiatus) since Colbert was cancelled.  I imagine he’ll have some opinions.

  33. 33.

    UncleEbeneezer

    We started Dept Q and loved the first episode.  It’s a Scott Frank project (Godless, Queen’s Gambit, Monsieur Spade) so we figured it would be solid.  We also started Washington Black on Hulu (because I loved the book) and so far, it’s great too.  Sort of an historical drama also with fantasy/magical-realism vibe.

  34. 34.

    zhena gogolia

    @Miss Bianca: I haven’t read that, but I read a mystery called Dissolution that seemed to also prefigure Mantel’s work. It was quite good. I’ve forgotten the author’s name.

    C. J. Sansom

  36. 36.

    zhena gogolia

    @BellaPea: I find it weird that even though the cast is made up of Broadway royalty (Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Audra McDonald, Kelli O’Hara, Debra Monk, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Donna Murphy, and on and on), the acting is very stilted. I even have a “gilded age” voice that I talk in sometimes. Nevertheless, I love it.

    ETA: I would exclude Coon and Spector and Harry Richardson from that — they manage to be natural.

  37. 37.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    We recently finished Shrinking on Apple tv.  It’s pretty entertaining.  A team of psychologists living their lives. Harrison Ford is in it with a bunch of other familiar faces.  The Four Seasons on Netflix is also well worth watching. Tina Fey, Steve Carell,Will Forte.  Life as a bunch of middle aged married people going through shite.

  38. 38.

    Deputinize America

    @trollhattan:

    I love it as a hate watch – I despise pretentious New York aristocrats, and their cupidity, greed and fuckups are a perfect reflection of everything that is wrong with the world.

    Honestly, if a meteor hit the Met Gala, it would do the world a giant favor.

  39. 39.

    Tony Jay

    @Chetan Murthy:

    ‘Zaktly. I mean, I’m assuming East Incest, Texas, was named by refugees from the notorious West Incest, Texas, which was in turn settled by families from the original Incest, Texas that was burnt down by Apaches in 1857 while the cavalry regiment based at the nearby Fort Consent was busy with, y’know, something else really important and distracting.

    There’s culture everywhere, big and small and vibrant and immersive. America has always had an amazing culture. Big and roiling and hungry and so specifically American it can include multitudes. Everyone can see something of themselves in it, because it has room for everyone.

    The ‘culture’ America is being force-fed right now, the one the current Administration pretends to represent and the US news media has spent billions of words eulogising… that’s an artificial construct and as palatable as a weeks worth of baby shit wrapped in a string vest.

    As ever with artificial constructs, they seem really durable until they dry out and flake away. I’m looking forward to that eventually happening in the UK as well.

  41. 41.

    Chris

    Well, since I just finished it for the Nth time:

    The Fifth Element is a goddamn masterpiece. It is to space opera what Clue is to Agatha Christie style murder mysteries: a parody, but an incredibly good one. And endlessly quotable, of course.

    That is all.

  42. 42.

    zhena gogolia

    I made this comment on the wrong thread, but we just watched Materialists, because I loved the director Celine Song’s first film, Past Lives. This one is Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans. It was marketed as a romcom but please, it is not a romcom. You can’t approach it that way. I didn’t like it as much as Past Lives because the actors weren’t as interesting, but it still had a very interesting take on things. Johnson’s clothes are fantastic.

    I was interested to see Pedro Pascal because everyone seems to love him but he’s never in anything I want to watch. He’s nice, but he didn’t have much to do in this movie. Chris Evans leaves me totally cold.

  44. 44.

    Jackie

    Did Cole’s post get disappeared? I was commenting and when I hit “send” I ended up in the twilight zone.

  45. 45.

    zhena gogolia

    @zhena gogolia: And Louisa Jacobson is also in Materialists. She has a much more successful scene in it than I’ve ever seen her have in Gilded Age.

  48. 48.

    Deputinize America

    @Kristine:

    I liked it. Have you tried Mobland? Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and Tom Hardy chew up video footage in an amazing way.

  50. 50.

    mr perfect

    @piratedan: Eddy is singing backup, Derv Gordon who sounds a lot like Eddy was lead singer and frontman for The Equals.  Eddy Grant is a musical idol of mine, first heard one of his songs cover by The Clash, “Police On My Back” from the Sandinista album so I knew who he was when Killer On The Rampage came out a few years later.  YouTube and BeatClub introduced me to The Equals, none of their music was ever played in Western Canada on the radio when I was a young’un growing up.  Here’s Eddy with his natural blonde hair, Derv and the boys ripping it up:

  53. 53.

    eclare

    There is a new documentary on Netflix about the Grenfell tragedy that I will watch soon.  I was up the night it happened due to insomnia, texting with a friend, and he said turn on CNN.  So I watched the fire destroy the building pretty much in real time.  It was heartbreaking.

    So far 100% on the tomatometer.

  55. 55.

    Melancholy Jaques

    @BellaPea:

    I love Carrie Coon; she’s the only reason I kept watching The Leftovers. Buccaneers & Gilded Age are from the same era. Are those times of particular interest to you?

  56. 56.

    Chris

    @Chetan Murthy:

    Feel like cultural uniformization’s gone both ways. The cities have gotten more uniform, in that a waitress in Dallas now sounds like she could have come out of Beverly Hills. At the same time, the rural areas have increasingly all turned into a theme park version of the South, with people speaking with the same drawls and waving the same Confederate flags even if they’re in Michigan, Massachusetts, Arizona, Idaho…

  57. 57.

    Scout211

    My cable just added Start TV to my lineup and I am now enjoying watching some of the detective and mystery shows I used to watch years ago.

    And this Grandma just learned I can connect to my dumb TV and stream from my iPad via Air Play to my Roku player.  It’s like magic.

  59. 59.

    Phylllis

    @kalakal: Since you enjoyed Ludwig, you might want to give Death Valley a try. Awkward DI solves crimes with the help of her irascible TV detective hero. Gwyneth Keyworth as the lead detective has a quirky charm, and Timothy Spall is terrific, as usual. I found the first episode a bit silly, but gave it a second chance and binged the remaining five. Now hoping for a season 2.

  60. 60.

    mr perfect

    Get Millie Black:  Has anyone mentioned this series before?  Extremely gritty series about a police officer’s return to Jamaica from Scotland Yard and having to deal with the passing of her abusive mother and her troubled trans sibling.  On HBO.

  61. 61.

    eclare

    @BellaPea:

    Carrie Coon was very good in season three of The White Lotus.  She has been nominated for an Emmy for the role.

    And zhena beat me to it.

  63. 63.

    Tony Jay

    @BellaPea:

    1) Never stop posting. 99% of the time the non-response is because you made the original point so well that other Jackals just read and nod and say “Uh Huh” to themselves. It’s even worse if you’re trying to be funny. How do you follow a funny comment? Be funnier? How do you do that? The pressure!?!

    Thats why Baud is always first. It’s the sacrifice he makes.

    2) I would watch programmes like The Buccaneers and The Gilded Age, except as someone here (who I didn’t respond to)  said about programmes like The Sopranos and Peaky Blinders, who am I supposed to be rooting for? The bad guys? Why would I do that?

    Obviously. YMMV. As it should.

  67. 67.

    Citizen Dave

    @Kristine: Thanks for those two reccs.  I read about them a lot here, definitely on the list.

     

    @BellaPea: I forgot about Your Friends and Neighbors with Jon Hamm.  We loved it as well.  Very entertaining/funny.

  68. 68.

    Jackie

    @Scout211: I was just surprised that there wasn’t the usual 404 error code or “this window doesn’t exist.”  It just kept asking me if I wanted to resend, rinse/repeat. I thought the blog went wonky again lol

    Ok, carry on, MC! Sorry for the distraction. It was either this thread or Adam’s…

  70. 70.

    eclare

    Ooh…I just realized Project Runway has started its new season.  It’s on Hulu and some other channels.  Heidi Klum is back as host/judge, and Christian Siriano has taken Tim Gunn’s spot as mentor.

  71. 71.

    kalakal

    @zhena gogolia:

    I love C. J. Sansom’s Matthew Shardlake books, sadly he died a year or so ago so the series ends with Tombland

    @Phylllis:

    Thanks for that, I shall give it a try, appreciate the heads up about the wonky start

  74. 74.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    @BellaPea: Hi Bella Pea! I am fond of The Gilded Age, although not quite Downton Abbey. No Dowager Maggie Smith, although Christine Barankski does her best, and as you noted Carrie Coons is wonderful as always. I am interested in the Gladys goes to Britain subplot, inspired as it was by the Vanderbilt daughter. I have to admit both this and DA were soap operas (sigh), but the costumes and “set decoration ” are top notch. Truth be told, season one of DA I spent ogling the beautiful lace-covered blouses. The dresses on GA are great. I am particularly taken with the hats.

  78. 78.

    trollhattan

    @Miss Bianca:

    How do they stay deadpan and remain still through the entire song? How?

    Guessing stage performers have a whole other toolkit to call upon, in addition to having kickass voices. Been familiarizing myself with Sara Bareilles and wondering where the hell I’ve been the last dozen years.

  79. 79.

    Tony Jay

    @kalakal:

    Have you tried Bookish? Mark Gatiss as a post-war bookshop owner called Book who did ‘something clever’ during the War that earned him a letter from Churchill informing all Police officers that he should be allowed to act as a Sherlockian consulting detective whenever he finds a case that intrigues him.

    But Book has secrets, and being pretty clearly a closeted gay man in late 1940’s Britain is far from the most dangerous one.

    Also staring the awesome Polly Walker from Rome as Mrs Book.

  80. 80.

    Suzanne

    I recently read a great thriller called The Doorman by Chris Pavone. I love mysteries, thrillers, spy stories, etc. Read most of the Tana French, also have been working my way through Louise Penny’s Gamache books. Anyone have any other recommendations? I’m trying to stick with mostly contemporary stuff this year.

    ETA: Also looking for recommendations for an adjustable barbell, Though that isn’t cultural. LOL.

  82. 82.

    eclare

    Oh shoot, I thought the new season of Project Runway started July 23.  Nope.  July 31.

  83. 83.

    Chris

    @Tony Jay:

    Oddly enough, I react to your point # 2 differently when it’s movies and when it’s TV. I have no trouble enjoying the Godfather trilogy or the Dollars trilogy, even though everyone in them is some kind of asshole. But that’s just a few movies. If you’re going to ask me to check into a fictional universe again and again every week for year after year, at some point I need more motivation than “will somebody finally shoot all these fucking pricks?”

    (Peaky Blinders, oddly enough, was the exception. I think the historical setting was enough to make me enjoy it despite how much the characters sucked).

  84. 84.

    Phylllis

    @Tony Jay: Coming to PBS this fall/winter. No, I’m not obsessively refreshing the Masterpiece Mystery site. Why do you ask?

  88. 88.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    @Chris: oh yeah, seconded. Gary Oldman is fabulous as always, and all the parts are well done.

  89. 89.

    eclare

    @Suzanne:

    I really like the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly.  I know it’s also a tv show, but I don’t get whatever channel it’s on.

    If you start to read the series, it’s better to read the books in chronological order.  Bonus:  Connelly is a prolific writer so there are a lot of books to devour!

  90. 90.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    @zhena gogolia: I didn’t even recognize her in The Materialists! I find, more and more, that casting in TV shows and movies matters to me ALOT on whether I am interested in it.

  93. 93.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Tony Jay: When we moved to Texas, we went to Mineral Wells West Incest, then after a year there, our parents moved us to Weatherford East Incest.  As horrific a nightmare as East Incest was, it paled in comparison to West Incest.  Just paled.

    East Incest is 30mi west of Fort Worth, in Tarrant County.  They say that as goes Tarrant County, so goes Texas.  My mom has lived in Tarrant County for >34yr.  There was a period a year-ish ago, when, every time she went for her daily walk, this cracker-ass redneck would come out and yell at her, tell her to go back to where she came from, etc.  That’s Texas.  As I said, they say “as goes Tarrant County, so goes Texas”.

    When I was in college, a friend had grown up in Kingwood, just north of Houston.  He came out to me during our first week in grad school in Ithaca NY.  First week.  First week.  Stayed closeted all those years in Houston.  All those years.  A classmate from my H.S. in East Incest eventually came out and moved to SF: he lives a mile-ish away.

  94. 94.

    Craig

    Just read Joe Abercrombie’s new The Devils. New world, not his First Law world. It’s like an Earth Middle Ages kind of place. Wacky group of an elf, a vampire, a man who can’t die, sent on a quest with an urchin while people plot to kill them. Good fun.

  95. 95.

    Suzanne

    @eclare: Never heard of it before, but thank you for the tip!

    I’ve been only doing fiction this year and it is really refreshing. I had been mostly doing nonfiction, and I needed a break. This reminds me of the joys of good plots and great characters.

  98. 98.

    Miss Bianca

    @trollhattan: I don’t know – how does Richard Thompson do the same kinda thing with this Britney Spears cover?  Give it a completely different spin and kind of take the piss while remaining dead serious in affect.

  100. 100.

    Sandia Blanca

    @BellaPea: I have also been watching The Buccaneers, and have found myself grinding my teeth at some of the plot developments. The latest episode really hit hard. Where will they take it from here? (I can’t stop watching it, though!)

  102. 102.

    geg6

    @Chris:

    I can never stand tv series or films where I cannot find a character I like, even if they might be awful people.  It’s why I HATE the Godfather movies, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos and Game of Thrones.  Tried them all and either got bored by so much awfulness or despised every single character so much it raised my blood pressure.  No thanks to that for me.  I’m out real quick.

  104. 104.

    RevRick

    @Miss Bianca: MrsRev and I are currently watching season two and thoroughly enjoying it. We loved the character Christine Baranski plays, Agnes Van Rhyn. The storyline is loosely based on the Vanderbilts .

  106. 106.

    Tehanu

    Mostly reading, and discovered some “cozy” fantasies set in the, um, “real” world that I really enjoyed: T. Kingfisher’s A Sorceress Comes to Call and Caitlin Rozakis’ Dreadful and The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association. If OTOH you want epic, Fonda Lee’s Jade City books are amazing.

  107. 107.

    pajaro

    Tom Lehrer passed away, at the age of 97.  To those of you who have never heard of him, he was a math teacher at Harvard who did song satires for yuks, found an audience, had a few very well received albums, and then went back to teaching undergrads math because he thought it more interesting than doing his songs.

    Some of his work, most of which was done in the early 60’s, holds up incredibly well, for better or worse.

  110. 110.

    Scout211

    @pajaro: No worries.  Not everyone reads all the front page posts (let alone all the comments) so it may be new news for some. And it fits the culture thread.

  112. 112.

    NotMax

    @Tehanu

    Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy. More fantasy adjacent than straight fantasy.

    Lawrence Watt-Evans has cranked out any number of more fantastical novels. The Misenchanted Sword may be his most well-known. Ultimately that one is only a step above mediocre, yet entertainingly told.

  114. 114.

    zhena gogolia

    Don’t know if WG is still here. We just finished the penultimate episode of Grantchester for this season. The plots are ridiculous but we still love it.

  118. 118.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Deputinize America: I have some priority locations for that meteor; please let me get in line before you. I have no opinion on the met, it’s just, I’ve been showing where, with a sharpie, for months. Meteor, hurricane, flood, i’m not picky.

    as to culture, I’ve happily watched Hamilton fi4 the first time. And it’s already expiring soon, off of Hulu . Want to watch a second time, what a delight.

  122. 122.

    Paul in KY

    @Chetan Murthy: My wifey came (sorta) from Tarrant County. She lived in Fort Worth while going to school at TCC. She lived with a relative in a giant house in a huge neighborhood of giant to less-than-giant houses. I’ve just been to the campus and downtown area around it. They have the damdest jail, I must say. I liked the fountain thing that goes down into the ground. Also the one that shoots up like 100 water streams.

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