stephenhsegal.bsky.social
Earthling. Editor. Obituarist. Imagination and kindness drive the tomorrows worth living in.
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Apparently YouTube!
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I have never found another person who remembers it!
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Also: “Anna to the Infinite Power”
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It is indeed a science fiction comedy drama.
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Yes but with one asterisk: the cliffhanger S1 finale of Battlestar Galactica (2005) was on the same level.
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Yep. I’m also approaching 50. First logged onto Prodigy circa 1989 and have been living both IRL and online ever since.
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Right? Like… every single state is a swing state, if you can convince enough people that you deserve their vote.
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I’m so sorry, Jeff.
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It’s because handing everyone their own personal content distribution platform has led to everyone thinking that means they are now equivalent to Walter Cronkite. They do not understand it actually means they are now equivalent to the unpleasant fanatic on the street corner with a megaphone.
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Just gotta pop into Jerry’s apartment for a sec
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You are of course entirely correct — source: my same 20+ years — with the big asterisk that publishers and executives, not just the journalists, are also “the media,” and the traditional “wall between the news side & the business side” also helped contribute to the collapse of the business model.
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Since the best Batman hands down is Lego Batman, this tracks.
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In Philadelphia (and I guess now also New York) there is an excellent Chinese restaurant called Han Dynasty. You can find it online at handynasty.net
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Came here to post this!
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I will never forget the day I learned that VERB-uh-tim is not the word.
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If you asked me what was the single greatest performance of any song, I might have to say David Bowie singing “America” to the people of New York in the wake of Sept. 11. youtu.be/afifZfUkU8I?...
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I mean, what about Heinlein? Tell me Lazarus Long isn’t an example of an unrealistically hyper-competent hero who’s hilariously over-worshiped by his friends?
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Well, now I know what to ask for as a birthday present.
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Yep. The two most popular presidents in half a century were Reagan and Obama. In both cases, vibes were like 95 percent of the reason.
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Lawrence, this looks wonderful.
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Obviously not in terms of overall narrative realism but in terms of pure vibes.
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Chris Evans as Captain America.
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My brain does this with Benedick’s MUCH ADO monologue about never marrying and U2’s “Pride.” “One woman is fair, yet I am well…” becomes a very Shakespearean “One man come in the name of love…”
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“everything feels like a tarot card reading lately” — Bowie and Prince both dying in early 2016 was the harbinger
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Um, between India and the U.S., which one had a woman running the country as head of government almost sixty years ago, and which one hasn’t yet?
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The courtesans Tamara Sperling, and Magdalene aka Rebecca Sperling-Jones, from Robert Heinlein’s “Time Enough for Love.”
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When I worked at Pittsburgh Magazine circa 2004, I wrote a modest proposal that the city should offer Brad Pitt an honorary nobility.
Nobody listened to me.
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Yes, but also, “Time After Time” was a GREAT obscure movie!
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In 2018 we bought a GREAT dishwasher from a highly respected manufacturer. When we encountered the latest version of the “same model” five years later, the lowered standards in material/assembly quality was really striking to see.
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A dark sitcom in which the lead characters are the ghosts of Thomas and Martha Wayne, haunting Wayne Manor, invisibly helping Bruce not get himself killed every day, and kvetching to each other Frank-and-Estelle-Costanza-style about why the hell Alfred is enabling all this?
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This sounds like something I very much want to read!
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Definitely singing "On the Banks of the Wabash." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRJd...
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In addition to your script being funny, his Walt Simonson X-Factor style pastiche is spot-on!
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@amalelmohtar.com "Hey, I wonder if the late Hugo Award-winning science fiction author, Jewish American immigrant, and student of broad sweeping historical trends Isaac Asimov ever expressed any thoughts about what the establishment of Israel would inexorably lead to in the future?"
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"Arblus! Look! It's Unicron! The ships! Get to the ships! It's our only chance!" "It is the year 2005. The treacherous Decepticons have conquered the Autobots' home planet of Cybertron. But from secret staging grounds on two of Cybertron's moons, the valiant Autobots plan to retake their homeworld."
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Indeed: A few decades before TNG, it was Asimov's "Multivac," and a couple thousand years before that, it was the divine oracle of Apollo at Delphi. These folks want to ask questions to God and have God answer them directly and immediately. In other words: They want God to be their mechanical slave.
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Yeah. It is very frustrating to know how much care, thought, and energy my crew at Legacy puts into into doing obituaries with intention and respect, and then to see this wave of fly-by-night opportunists willing to blithely traumatize families for the sake of monetization.
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Sean is certainly problematic, but I always liked Michael