Josta. Pepsi’s first “energy drink” that they released in the mid 90’s, made with guarana AND caffeine.

This was back in the days when Pepsi could “sponser” a middle school by putting a branded soda machine in a common area. It’s how I ended up drinking grape Fuitopia every day at lunch, and every day I’d get a bottle of Josta for the walk home.

It wasn’t immediately palatable. Reminiscent of Moxie but without the waxy aftertaste. It was like drinking carbonated cough syrup. But just like the other energy drinks that would follow a few years later, I really came to appreciate the taste.

It recently popped up in the background of a scene of the first season of Loki which had me hopeful for a revival, but no such luck.

I might go so far as to claim it’s better than BB…

You would not be alone in that assessment. Lots of us agree. It is absolutely the better show.

Stargate Universe got a raw deal. It was a really great extension of the overall Stargate mythos. Between SG1 and Atlantis, they’d basically gone as far as they could. The teams had defeated gods, both figurative and literal. They had limitless technology at their disposal and each new season became a slog to another deus ex machina.

SGU essentially reset the entire premise back to zero while keeping the overall accumulated canon in place AND it presented a much better conflict/goal than the typical “we must defeat these new powerful aliens before they destroy humanity”.

But it didn’t fit with the tone of the previous shows so a lot of the fans were turned off. Too much “drama”, not enough zat guns. Plus that was the time when SciFi rebranded to “SyFy” and started showing shit like WWE.

I would LOVE to see them do another season picking up right where they left off. It would absolutely fit within the established timeline.

Severance is an amazing show on every level. Writing, casting, acting, design… every single facet is brilliantly executed. The season finale was insane. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.

I haven’t felt this excited for a second season premiere since the second season of Lost.

Not to mention Ricken. He may be one of my favorite fictional characters ever. He’s an endless well of brilliantly mindless quotes:

A society with festering workers can not flourish just as a man with rotting toes cannot skip.

If you’re as obsessed as I am, you should check out the Severed podcast by Allen Stare. Dude does a DEEP dive into each episode and it’s a great companion to the show.

Talking Heads: Born Under Punches.

Sick-ass bass riff, searing guitar intro… like Primus meets Tool… All combined with one of their best tracks.

They Might Be Giants - Flood

A Perfect Circle - 13th Step

Plastic Beach is better for the simple fact that it contains Sweepstakes. I’ve come to learn that a lot of people dislike that song a great deal, which blows my mind. Mos Def is aces and the production on that track is brilliant.

It’s like learning how to interact with Lemmy, and then deciding which app you want to use to interact with it.

Valley Heat - a podcast from a freelance insurance adjuster about the goings on in his neighborhood. The primary story focuses on his mission to find out who is using his recycling bin as a drug drop.

It sounds boring but it’s absolutely brilliant.

The less you know about it going in the better.

He also has a couple Patreon exclusives that go deeper into the hijinks.

Yall remember the slap-chop guy Vince Offer? Before he was telling everyone how much they’d love his nuts he was hawking his Underground Comedy Movie. It was absolutely terrible, but they sold the shit out of it on late night infomercials. Everyone who saw it is stupid. I can say this because I saw it… and it was so bad it felt like my frontal lobe died and became a black hole in my brain. I am literally dumber for having volunteered to watch it.

They knew what they were doing.

Joe’s Apartment?

I mean, you’re not wrong. Between not eating and having zero compulsion to drink, I saved a ton of money when I was a functional tweaker. Quitting meth turned me into a fat alcoholic.

Earth will be here long after we’ve all gone the way of the dodo.

Yeah, back in the days before smartphones the Guinness Book was a bathroom staple, along with several volumes of Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers.

As a fellow spreadsheet nerd, can you explain your plan of attack? Like, how many dishes and how varied are the cooking temps/times in order to make everything come out of the oven and off the stove in time? And do you account for variables like washing utensils for reuse and/or operator error? I’m so uncoordinated in the kitchen that I can turn a 45 minute recipe into a 90 minute recipe just because I’m scrambling to find the right spices or washing utensils between uses or I spend too much time measuring things with absolute precision.

If I could plot out the entirety of the process in a series of Excel tables, I might actually be able to cook a meal efficiently.

Triplets of Bellville was nominated for two Oscars. It lost Best Animated Feature to Finding Nemo.

Not me. I divorced humanity many years ago.

“Methodist lay speaker”?

Drew’s Script-O-Rama.

OG movie script/screenplay database.

Dudes been running this place since 95, which is doubly impressive that he never got popped for copyright shit. There was a pretty crazy stretch where he was releasing scripts before they were even produced. Like I got to read the actual screenplays for flicks like Intolerable Cruelty, Lost Highway (movie makes more sense as a screenplay, btw) and even Beavis and Butthead Do America before they even hit the theaters.

A subscription to Nintendo Power didn’t count.