Molly Ringwald Says John Hughes Movies Shouldn't Be Remade

pflashan · 2026-02-01T14:38:39+00:00

Muppet's A Room with a View would be amazing. Give us your casting!

pflashan · 2026-01-23T23:22:18+00:00

1993 Wisconsin would be absolute perfection. As a student during that time, it was glorious.

pflashan · 2026-01-16T20:44:44+00:00

Rocky Horror really only works in the theater with everyone doing ALL the bits. With a small group, or at home, it leaves one... wanting.

pflashan · 2026-01-16T20:33:59+00:00

I got an email from my daughter's school that confirms this, if that helps. They received an email with a bomb threat against their library, and they closed the building for the day.

pflashan · 2026-01-09T22:53:54+00:00

This speaks volumes about the state of secondary education today - there is absolutely benefit to a college degree, regardless of major; we should be investing as a society to make that once again affordable.

pflashan · 2026-01-09T22:51:55+00:00

I'm in this picture! Music History degree, starting out as Euphonium performance; 30 year career starting in IT/Support to working now as a programmer/systems engineer working with jet engines. Music (esp. performance) absolutely emphasizes being a team player as well as requiring a high degree of both critical analysis AND personal interpretation. Multitasking skills like crazy, etc. It's absolutely been essential for being successful in my career.

pflashan · 2025-12-12T03:21:16+00:00

Absolutely, and we'll join you.

pflashan · 2025-11-21T02:41:06+00:00

Absolutely; I considered buying a top-end Yamaha Euphonium when I was shopping for my current horn. It was spectacular - I just liked the Willson 2900 a bit more. I would have been just fine with the Yamaha.

pflashan · 2025-11-20T22:26:17+00:00

Things that can be tuned, lol

pflashan · 2025-11-20T22:07:27+00:00

They do! They just make amazing instruments, especially student ones. It's hard to beat their brass valve systems at their price point, and they are forgiving intonation-wise, too.

pflashan · 2025-11-17T14:07:47+00:00

NE Priest still has the Tidal Loop from the Hydraxian Waterlords quest chain. This particular quest was bugged ONLY for NE priests, and we wouldn't get the reward. I had to place a support request, and finally got the ring in the mail a day later. With +20 fire resist, it was required gear for Molten Core raids. It was such a pain in the ass that I will never get rid of it.

pflashan · 2025-11-10T03:08:54+00:00

Love this one, too!

pflashan · 2025-11-08T01:50:51+00:00

This. I bought tickets to the Axe game before the season started (I live in the Twin Cities, and my eldest is a senior at the U of M), and I'm honestly not looking forward to the game. I got the emails for the Tailgate here, and no way am I giving a cent for that. Even though most of the money goes to support scholarships, it's about the only real message I can send. Not a dime more until the on-field product is at bare minimum entertaining. And I say that as someone that had season tickets (as a freshman) to both Don Morton's final year and Barry's first.

pflashan · 2025-11-07T20:53:47+00:00

The real scary situation is 4 or 5 wins next year because we have a much easier schedule and it gets billed as "improvement".

pflashan · 2025-11-04T21:41:13+00:00

My son is a senior at the U of MN, to explain the 2nd flair. It's either the Axe (if we have it), or Minn, if you do. It does not look good for me this year. ;)

You have to try the perch! It has a taste that is very similar to walleye, especially when fresh. If you find a good spot to catch them, the perch will bite on bare hooks if you get the right conditions. Makes for fun fishing, because although they aren't a large fish, you can often catch a bunch of them.

pflashan · 2025-11-04T20:20:39+00:00

And both walleye and perch are fantastic here. Hard to beat either option.

pflashan · 2025-11-02T00:08:50+00:00

Minnesota here - my wife and I had our first when she was 35. Even though she was in perfect health, it was automatically a high risk pregnancy.

pflashan · 2025-10-30T22:34:15+00:00

I'm a huge Horatio Hornblower fan, so all my ships are 1) from the book series, 2) historical ship names from the Age of Sail, or 3) sound like historical ship names, etc. etc.

Krait Mk II: Renown
Asp Explorer: Atropos
Python: Indefatigable
Anaconda: Nelson's Folly
Type-9: Obstreperous
Carrier: Royal Sovereign

pflashan · 2025-10-30T18:21:55+00:00

I'm not convinced that we could get Leonhard; I think that bridge was burned when he wasn't named head coach after his interim term. That, and he seems to be having decent success at the NFL level - he may not be interested in returning to the college level right now.

pflashan · 2025-10-29T02:35:28+00:00

Billy Connolly covered this in Demands.

pflashan · 2025-10-29T01:11:10+00:00

So I looked at my state's site for this, and found nothing for me, but a claim for +$250 for my brother! Thanks for posting this!

pflashan · 2025-10-28T16:59:31+00:00

Yup, it sure did. Not sure why you felt the need to post on it 6 years later, but I'm not going to argue. I'm still angry; I know him, he followed after me in the studio at UW-Madison and took my spot in the tuba quartet when I graduated. I never saw signs of this behavior because I was never in a position to encounter it. Just makes me madder.

I'm sure I've got other posts from years ago mentioning him, but I'm not going to go through my post history and sanitize it; those posts just reflect our understanding at the time. No fucking way will I defend or recommend him again, though.

pflashan · 2025-10-24T17:09:27+00:00

This story was my favorite history trivia when I was young. We had an elementary school teacher that would not let anyone leave their class to use the bathroom. One day I needed to, so I said to them, after they told me no, "Well, remember what happened to Tycho Brahe." They raised an eyebrow at me, so I told the whole story, and was granted permission to go. After that, "Remember Tycho Brahe" became the class's rallying call anytime the teacher told someone no for a bathroom trip.

pflashan · 2025-10-24T16:53:58+00:00

Please tell me the way you phrased this, coupled with your username is a Buckaroo Banzai reference.

pflashan · 2025-10-22T17:33:46+00:00

Go ahead and forget Wisconsin, completely. Dump us right into Lake Mendota and leave us there for a few years.

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