Upgrade by Blake Crouch It’s a nice tight fast paced book. It suffers from the same problem all books about super intelligence have in that the main character just doesn’t feel all that smarter then everyone one else. But you can’t blame Crouch it’s really hard to write someone who’s mind is beyond our own. Martha Wells does a good job of it with Perihelion in Murderbot but their not the MC and we don’t spend time in their head.

“I’m really happy for you, I’mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!"

That is one Richard Scarry-Ass car!

I loved Elvira and the Party Monsters. I didn’t even know about the others thanks for sending down a rabbit hole.

I don’t know, Friends did the same for pre-9/11 20somethings and I don’t mind watching rewatching the early seasons of that. And look how many memes there are from friends. I think there’s more to it then just the cringe factor of looking back.
My working theory is that puzzle box shows like HIMYM and Lost don’t hold up on rewatching because you get invested in the mystery (who’s the mother - what’s going on with this island) and now you know so the shows kind of lost.

Yeah Friends is just a better show I’m sure. It definitely had a deeper bench on screen. Lisa Kudro is probably the best ‘dumb blonde’ of the last 30 years and that kind of part isn’t easy. Cortney Cox and Matthew Perry were really good comic actors and David Schwimmer is good actor if not a good comic actor. And Jenn Aniston and Matt LeBlanc sure were good looking.
Put that up against any other cast in any other sitcom and I think you’d have to go back to I Love Lucy to find a better one.

How I Met Your Mother is such a strange combination Aughts tropes. I mean its Friends but everyone pretty quickly becomes not good people like Seinfeld. It’s a sitcom but it’s also a puzzle box mystery like Lost. The lead, Josh Radnor, is an obvious Timu version of Zac Braff.
And yet it was huge at the time. Ran for nine seasons, completely reignited Neil Patrick Harris’s career, second staged Jason Segel in to not just that guy from Freaks and Geeks, but a legit movie star. Broke open Cobie Smulders in to another movie star. And yet it’s almost completely forgotten about. Until you mentioned it I think it’s more then one or two times on Lemmy, you never see gifs or memes from it. It’s like it was completely forgotten for our shared cultural landscape almost as soon as it was over. I think the only thing it was remembered for was how bad they fucked up the ending and Game of Thrones has taken that from them even.

Man not only is she awesome, she also has a kick-ass pinball game.

Gwen ross?

Thanks autocorrect must have decided that ‘youre lucky’ is the start of a Madonna lyric 😂

Really? Your lucky.

ummm isn’t this from “The Most Unlovable Man in New York City” is in fact saying it’s hard for a guy out there?

You bots keep reposting this thought every few weeks.

“You know not all women are in to people just because they have political power.”
No but the kind of women who’ll double up on a person like me are.

lol I guess that’s why I’m not a writer to be trusted

I just wrapped up Replay by Ken Grimewood. I read it back in ‘89-‘90 when it first came out in paperback and I was a young’un and it really stuck in my head. When I saw my local library had it for check out as downloaded audio, I figured I had to give it a go again almost 30 years later.
It’s a fantastic story of a 43 year old man who has a hart attack in 1988 and wakes up in his 18 year old body in early 1963. You’d think it would be a bog standard fantasy about getting it right this time or something but instead it turns out to be a lovely stirring story about loneliness and finding someone, anyone to share your time with. Really great book that hits harder now that I’m older.

Exactly, everyone has so much PTSD. Everyone you have ever known and cared about is already dead and your fighting for your life, is no way to go through a dungeon Carl.

I don’t know, in the same book “There sure were a lot of babies in there, Carl” which hits pretty hard on how much murder Carl is doing and on how Donut really isn’t a human being.

No no you have to understand if they don’t recognise celebrities it’s because they’re better then you not because they have face blindness.

No it’s pretty easy to send a notified cease and desist letter. And if you’ve got a couple of lawyers on retainer (like most celebrities do) someone in their firm will be happy to follow up with a lawsuit pretty quick.