Michael Walsh has a too-plausible nightmare scenario.
[Update a while later]
Link fixed now, sorry.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
How To Get The Economy Back In Gear
No, it’s not going to be easy. Some things will be changed permanently.
[Update at noon]
Six things we’ve learned so far. The sixth is probably the most important. People are going to try to take advantage of this to do what they’ve always wanted to do.
Land’O’Lakes Butter
The woke crowd has taken another scalp.
Has anyone else ever cut up a box and folded that picture so her knees look like her bared bosom?
After The Plague
Car Shopping
…will probably be going on line, for good. Test drives do seem like the hardest part.
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.