Anybody else taking the opportunity to watch any of these, while they’re free?
I quite liked Chris Carter’s THE AFTER, and would be interested in seeing how its karass (granfallon?) of eight survives the apocalypse. (Also, since LEVERAGE isn’t coming back, Aldis Hodge/Hardison needs another steady job!)
Next up on my list, BOSCH…
Thymezone
That list looks like something from The Onion. How about a show about a woman who performs a transplant on herself, replacing her diseased liver with one from a javelina she discovered digging up her prized vegetable garden?
JoyfulA
Bosch could be good if it’s along the lines of the older books. The series kind of slid into Serial Killers!!! and I haven’t read one in a while.
Tell me how you like it once you’ve seen it.
Mustang Bobby
“The After” sounds like my office. (Just kidding, folks! You’re the greatest! Haha!)
Mustang Bobby
Since this is an open thread, I see that Mitch McConnell is currently up the creek in the Senate race in Kentucky. He’s got lower approval ratings than Obama there. http://barkbarkwoofwoof.com/2014/02/mitch-in-the-ditch/
To paraphrase the immortal Jimi Hendrix, ‘scuse me while I schadenfreude.
Monty
Bosch?! There can be only one.
Monty
I have only recently discovered Breaking Bad. Still on the first season, but so far it looks good.
Moral ambiguity. It’s my thing.
Ramalama
I’m kinda liking Alpha House and Betas so will have to go over and check out The After. Amazon’s interface is terrrrrrible so I appreciate anyone who can point me in a good direction of what to watch.
raven
tap tap
Baud
@raven:
Nobody’s home.
Betty Cracker
@Thymezone: Now see, I’d watch that!
raven
@Baud: I’d like to see if the logs reveal the longest period of time that there has been no action on the BJ.
Baud
@raven:
Probably some time in the middle of the night. But it’s been rather slow lately.
raven
@Baud: The disease/choice conversations are wearing people out. I think I won’t have a drink to that!
Baud
I missed this news when it happened:
Baud
@raven:
I tended to avoid those conversations. Not my area of expertise.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: What are y’all talking about? Disease / choice? I’m confused…
Betty Cracker
@Baud: April 16, huh?
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I think it has to do with the nature of addiction.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Betty Cracker:
Addiction, in the Philip Seymour Hoffman threads.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Is that date significant?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker: That’s the day after April 15th.
Betty Cracker
Ah, okay, thanks. I’ve mostly skipped those threads because I find the topic (Mr. Hoffman’s death) profoundly depressing. I didn’t realize a controversy was playing out within, but of course it is.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: It seems like that week (not day, necessarily) is a favorite of nutjobs.
Marc
Here’s a fun one: the Nation wants to reform how we elect presidents.
Great, right? Except in two paragraphs they go from “We understand that keeping the presidency out of right-wing Republican hands has value” to this:
So now we know that the Nation has an institutional memory of <14 years.
Ash Can
@Baud: It’s instances like these when government-administered groups of people with the ability and know-how to quietly track down domestic terrorists can come in awfully handy.
OzarkHillbilly
While another week is slipping by me and I still haven’t found God, it gives me great pleasure to announce that somebody has found the Bhudda….. ‘s remains.
raven
@Betty Cracker: Yea, they were going at it pretty hard.
Ash Can
@Marc: I can see something like that succeeding if the Democratic Party were to actually break apart, in the same manner as the GOP appears to be headed for. It would take a cataclysmic event like that to open the door for non-major-party groups.
Baud
@Marc:
Nader’s a caricature these days, but he did some positive things once.
@Betty Cracker:
Spring — when a young man’s fancy turns to mayhem.
Marc
@Baud: Not as a presidential candidate. What did his campaigns accomplish that’s worth emulating?
Baud
@Marc:
Agreed. I was thinking on the ideas he had back in the 70s.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Holy sh!t… somebody’s serious.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Little things… like seat belts. (don’t recall if he was responsible for that, but that was his shtick back then)
NotMax
@Baud
Convenient that they skip over Ross Perot, John Anderson, George Wallace, Gene McCarthy, Strom Thurmond and W.E.B. DuBois, to name just a few.
Baud
@NotMax:
And Tom Tancredo!
@OzarkHillbilly:
Nader’s thing was auto safety, IIRC. He did some good work there back in the day.
NotMax
@<a href="https://balloon-juice.com/2014/02/07/late-night-open-thread-amazons-new-pilots/#comment-4857435"Baud
Lyndon LaRouche, Teddy Roosevelt, Bob Barr, Lenora Fulani, Ron Paul, Dick Gregory; the list goes on. And on.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Unsafe At Any Speed in the 60s was where he made his name (and killed the Corvair).
By the 70s, he had generalized into consumer safety and early environmentalist causes.
NotMax
Okay, obviously too logy to format properly. Morpheus beckons.
Elizabelle
@Baud:
Hadn’t seen. Thanks for informing. Oddest detail is FBI’s asserting this is not terrorism.