I think it's pretty hilarious that Rock Band (w/e) could have such unintended consequences.

Having never played the game nor not knowing much about it, I've seen people be horny for the spring fairy, the vaguely fantasy arabic race of buff ladies (?), basically anyone who seems like an adult (I guess). You'd gather that this was some R rated sexploitation game at this point....

I saw the phrase 'physics avoidance' for the first time today before coming on jstpst, what a coincidence!

My version of So What would be just the names of the Kind of Blue crew written in blocks below a straight line of blocks, with Mario having to do nothing but run right towards a blocky saxophone.

omg YES! Thank you for telling me.

Can't wait to see your takes on Giant Steps, Fly Me to the Moon and So What.

My take was somewhat more modest, it's an illustration how incredibly parochial English language media can be.

Yes that's very well put. My corollary would be that if it is there forever, you might still not find it.

*Blu-ray (I won't settle for less), though half of the thing is that the clips were pretty perfectly chosen and had sweet sweet gentle lo fi sadness pushing through.

If you want the essentials without reading the book, Ortved wrote a piece with the same thesis for Vanity Fair. I just forgot it while I was writing my review. You do miss out on a lot of gossip and bad blood that really help sell that Groening was more of a deistic creator who helped set the machine in motion but didn't interfere with it.

Another thing I forgot is that David Silverman really is a champ and basically helped to show not to explode during the production of the first season. He was like one of the three creative workers on Klasky-Csupo back when the company was hired by Gracie Films or Fox, can't remember which one.

Thing is some of his scripts are really stealthy. Like he wrote some pretty well done pro-environmentalism shows and yet the rumour is that he thinks that the Amazon jungle was doing just fine. He also has this reputation of being a straight joke man, not good at plotting or writing the more emotional episodes but actually wrote some of the best romantic comedy episodes.

One thing the book does say about John is that the content in Itchy & Scratchy segments were really his doing though I think the general concept was cooked up by Sam Simon. That really wasn't the impression that the fandom had of John's work, I don't think it was usual to tie him with slapstick or gore.

I can't believe this