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This was such an assured moment (Magnum, P.I.)
I remember exactly when it hit me, that I understood the show's low-key greatness: a police detective and several cops approach Magnum and tell him he has to come downtown, and they pull out handcuffs, and Magnum in his lightweight Hawaiian gear says, "Guys, cuffs? Isn't this a bit much?" and this was such an assured moment, like Howard Hawks with ( Read more... ) -
Roger E. Mosley
Playing T.C. in Magnum, P.I., Roger E. Mosley and the writers pulled off something difficult and risky, especially for a black man: creating a character who's strong but with a tendency towards slightly buffoonish self-deprecation - "good humor" being the character's way of getting by while being taken advantage of but also potentially turning into ( Read more... ) -
Arguments against unmoored maus aren't interesting
Found a scrap of paper with this sentence fragment in not completely legible handwriting:
"arguments against unmoored maus aren't interesting 'cause there aren't"
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DJ DOC, Sorrow Of Superman
1994 is coming up in August in Tom's Twitter Polls and I'm researching Korea. DJ DOC's "Murphy's Law" (1995) is one of my favorites of early K-pop, fast-on-its-feet, so I'm exploring the group's first album from a year earlier ( Read more... ) -
Days Of Spanish Bonds (Hoisted From The Archives)
Me in 2013 (here):
Meanwhile, Spanish bonds are holding steady. Spanish government generic bonds, 10-year note, are the only ones I ever follow, 'cause at some point someone pointed me to the correct link for them. I don't know if this is the correct link to the equivalent Italian bonds; if so, they seem to have jumped nearly half a percent, but ( Read more... ) -
Crud Up A Future Eardrum
Still not done with 2021, which probably doesn't surprise you if you're aware that I haven't yet posted my final lists for 2018 or 2019 or 2020 either. Been knocking about a couple people's Uproxx ballots, Marko Orlic's and Patrick Lyons's, 'cause they both voted Playboi Carti's Whole Lotta Red and I'm looking for more low-rent or murky hip-hop. ( Read more... ) -
End-Of-Year 2021 ballots, etc., Pt. 2 (ILM's Tracks & Albums Poll)
Beneath these comments is my ballot for ILM's 2021 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll
We could vote 25 of each, though only for tracks and albums nominated by the voters; there were over 900 tracks, but I only nommed three - the first three on my ballot - since it seemed to miss the spirit and the adventure to nominate a whole bunch of tracks and then ( Read more... ) -
No Speak Americano dynasty welcomes new offspring (Austral-Romanian Empire part n+1)
Don't know if any of you-uns know WJSN Chocome, who are, like, a sub-unit of a subgroup of WJSN, but they're going all "Shanghai Romance"-"Bangkok City"-era Orange Caramel on their new single.*
And as David Frazer points out to me, their 2020 single, "Hmph!," is part of the Austral-Romanian Empire.** Definitely belong to the No Speak Americano ( Read more... ) -
End-Of-Year 2021 ballots, etc., Pt. 1 (Uproxx and Pazz & Jop Rip-Off)
Here are my Uproxx Music Critics Poll ballot and my Pazz & Jop Rip-Off poll ballot. These are exactly* as I sent them except since my Uproxx email was just for my write-in votes, I've now inserted my number 2 Uproxx album into it in brackets (I originally voted for that one via their dropdown menu; nothing else I voted for was on their menus). For ( Read more... )
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