I guess it was the German Jewish way to eat caviar? At least in the early 20th century? That’s what he grew up eating.

I believe he used to have it on a small slice of pumpernickel.

Indigenous Americans ate oysters for thousands of years. I guess they were okay with them because it’s not like coastal North America was devoid of other food sources.

My grandfather liked black caviar and had it sometimes (it’s cheaper than you would think, or was in the 80s). I remember it being mostly just salty. I did not care for it.

I can take or leave oysters, but I used to get fried clams at Long John Silver’s and they were the shit.

I’ll have you know that my calves are strong and muscular and the nicest feature on my body and everyone is welcome to pet them. You know you want to.

Me too. I grew up on Fred Astaire, Buster Keaton and Eddie Cantor.

I used to have a party trick back in the pre-IMDB days where I’d bring out Leonard Maltin’s movie guide, have someone flip to a random page, start reading titles, and I’d stop them before they could get to the end by describing the plot of whichever one I’d seen.

My earliest memory is my parents projecting 2001: A Space Odyssey on our living room wall using a 16mm projector with a Cinemascope lens for a bunch of grad students.

He also had a reel-to-reel recorder that came specifically with one type of Sony Trinitron TV that predated VHS. Of course, once VHS came out, he taped everything. We had all the movie channels.

But my brother was the Star Trek person. My dad was pretty so-so about it.

My friend Garrett Gilchrist has spent years restoring it, doing cut after cut, trying to get it as good as he can. He’s not being paid, it’s a labor of love.

I believe his most recent was Mark 5 from last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC4sYmilGF8

My daughter liked both of those a lot.

But then she also really loves Forbidden Zone and Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

She’s a weird kid. Like her mom and dad.

My dad was a film historian. My entire childhood was filled with movies none of my contemporaries had seen.

I used to tell people that John McAfee always exited a room by jumping through a window while yelling, “MCAFEE RULES!” Which he didn’t, but maybe he did? Anyway, I miss that crazy motherfucker. Sometimes nuts make the world more fun.

I’m sorry to hear it.

Definitely #3.

I’m a sucker for Tony Randall.

You are making a confusion between society (especially the government) doing whatever is reasonably possible to keep people alive as long as they can and being able to defy the second law of thermodynamics.

I think it would have helped (and hopefully people will read this now) to add that he specifically is talking about his heritage when it comes to defending the idea that being critical of Israel is not antisemitism.

Otherwise, I can absolutely see the “who cares who his ancestors were” argument being posted here.

I really do not understand what you think ‘right to life’ means, but in most civilized parts of the world it means that the government has a duty to make sure its citizens don’t die whenever possible. That is not something you have to earn as a citizen.

Why you think that’s such a ridiculous position to take, I have no idea.

And also why you think you have to earn being on this Earth when you didn’t ask to be put here in the first place is also beyond me. Who gets to judge who’s earned enough to be given the right to live? You?

I don’t?

You seem to think that ‘right to life’ means ‘right to defy entropy.’ It doesn’t.

I guess freedom speech isn’t a right because people in comas don’t have that ability?

Are you seriously asking why the UN is unable to defy biological and medical science?

It can definitely be tough in a smaller town because of smaller budgets. That said, if there is something media-wise they don’t have, they can probably get it for you from another library.

Again- Universal Declaration on Human Rights. It cannot be any clearer. I’ll even show you the relevant article. It’s very concise:

Maybe you are not in one of the 48 of 58 UN member states in existence at the time that voted in favor of it. Note that there were no votes against it.

If so, I’m sorry your country does not care about basic human rights.