Gotta be Phantom of the Paradise. It’s a rock opera and spiritual successor to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The story is a mix of Faust, the Picture of Dorian Grey, and Phantom of the Opera, set at a nightclub called the Paradise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uIHHx2GkFQ

chef’s kiss

God dammit Loch Ness monster, I ain’t gonna give you no tree fiddy.

Halley is the one who predicted its return mathematically. I’d say that’s more significant than seeing it twice in one lifetime and supposing that it’s the same comet.

Sorry, I lost the world’s smallest violin. This is the best I can do: 🖕

Homer, give him what he wants!

Makes sense that he’d use an antique.

No, it’s “re” like the subject of an email. “Re: diculous”

I could write a comment on this if you want.

The cars belong to commuters whose car use would be reflected in their home county instead of SF.

30 years ago my music teacher told me that in Chinese-language singing it’s the consonants that are sustained.

The modlog says for being a bot.

The problem is that you’re using Windows 95.

He’s got a board with a nail in it!

Nice try, Javert.

Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?

Ctrl-F “plato”

Required reading

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Unpopular opinion: Considering the fully automated luxury space communism Bashir has spent his whole life in, this is actually an incredibly tone-deaf thing for him to say. (Which is in character for early-seasons’ Bashir, TBH. c.f. his introduction to Kira in the pilot.)

The writers intended a moral objection to preventable human suffering, but actually wrote the 24th century equivalent of “let them eat cake”.

Oooh, the Germans are mad at me. I’m so scared! Oooh, the Germans!