The crucial design fault in the Death Star was a beer fridge.
When the original Star Wars trilogy first aired on Chilean TV there were no ad breaks. But there were ads. Beer ads. In the movies.
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Eggs n mayo.
It sounds so much less posh than oeffs mayonnaise, but that’s what it is, and it’s having a moment, at least in New York.
Fallout!
I’m so looking forward to this show because I tried to play the game and failed. I can’t remember why now. There was just something about it that didn’t stick for me. And yet I love the design language and imagined world of that game.
So I’m hoping the TV adaptation turns out to be as good as the trailer is promising.
Schrodinger's Formula One piece.
One of my fave newsletters, Jonathon V Last’s The Triad, pointed me at this very unexpected piece of neo-gonzo reportage at Road and Track magazine’s website. They commissioned an honest-to-goddamn commie, Kate Wagner, to give them her honest-to-goddamned take on an F1 meet. Unsurprisingly, it didn’t last long. Just a few hours after publication it was gone. A pity. I’d pay to read it, just because of the way it makes your head go boing. It reminds me of Hunter S.
I watched Napoleon.
With Jane away for the first half of the week, I found myself with a couple of hours free and Napoleon freshly set free on Apple TV. I was a bit worried that the period costume drama stuff would fry my brain, but I had read that the battle scenes were all marvellously done. So I gave it a spin.
Locate the galactic centre with your phone.
I so need this stupid little app. It’s free, it’s called Galactic Compass, and it’s available on the App Store.
Hot date.
Jane and I had cocktails in the city on the weekend. She chanced upon a bar called Dr Gimlette which looked pretty cool, so we decided to suss it out. It was good.
The old backpack strap around the chair trick.
I look forward to Mike Elgan’s newsletter each Friday. I normally read it after sending my own out. (It reminds me of something Thatcher said once about “We can’t all make a living taking in each others’ laundry.” But perhaps we can by' reading each other’s newsletters.)
ASIO vs the A-Team.
There are so many things wrong with this story. Mostly the use of the word ‘A-Team’. This is embarrassing, and ASIO should stop it immediately.