Saw it in the theater with my wife last night. Absolute masterpiece. Expecting multiple Oscar nominations. Also worth seeing in the theater if one is able to.
Probably the most I've continued to ruminate on a film since after I saw The Holdovers.

I am confident that this was the product of LSD, mushrooms, peyote, or possibly cocaine. Nothing about it makes sense because he was likely high as ****.

IMO, Q provides the best possible mirror for Picard to examine his own ideals, morality, and prejudices. The camp was just affect which I think made him bounce off some people.
I agree that Whishaw is the best Bond Q. Ralph Fiennes however doesn't hold a candle to Bernard Lee or Judi Dench.

I love how your fandom intersects in a way that I was confused that you mentioned Ben Whishaw and not John de Lancie, who did not wear glasses. Both great Qs but in completely different contexts.

Not an Oxford comma, just a conjunction (and) or a semicolon. The comma is properly placed. "Frankenstein," and a... or "Frankenstein"; would both work.

World Leader Pretend, but the entire album is in my top 10.

There is the Ice Palace.

Weekend America was my introduction to you and MPR when I moved to the Cities years ago (lifelong NPR nerd but only a Minnesotan for 18).
Later realized you were the same guy who radicalized me to McSweeney's.

Great The Office reference. 10/10 no notes.

When they did this 10 years ago it was equally painful. We had several weeks' notice (WARN act) so we had to show up every day knowing a bunch of us were getting laid off. Then the day of we got called into American-idol style conference rooms (I did not move on to Hollywood).

Personal friend was Prince's private DJ at Paisley for a decade. He doesn't talk a lot about it but pretty sure it was exactly as cool as that sounds.

Point of all this -
1) If you're going to smack talk a team you hate, turn around and check they aren't standing behind you
2) Chauncey Billups was a super nice guy, and I'm really sad things turned out the way they did for him
5/5

I turn around, and standing behind me is the entire Pistons team giving me murder stares. I'm about to (metaphorically) crap my pants when Chauncey Billups wanders by randomly, cracks a joke, and sits down next to me.
So I got to spend a few minutes just hanging out with the Pistons 4/?

So postgame, I'm ranting about f'ing Bill Laimbeer (then doing color for the Pistons) and probably some other colorful stuff, and the bartender suddenly looks at me with a bemused expression and starts giving me the slash across the throat (shut your yap) motion.
3/?

During that time, Chauncey Billups was traded to the Pistons and for a while lived in the same hotel.
One night, at the hotel bar where I spent most evenings, I'm watching the Pistons play the Bucks. Now as a Bulls fan who lived in Chicago during the Jordan years, that hatred runs DEEP. 2/?