Not every episode but certainly enough to know about the show.
I had no idea that Benson was a spin-off of Soap. I used to watch Benson all the time as a kid.
I dunno about Benson but goddamn does Soap hold up.
I assume Benson does not hold up.
SAD!!!
B. Real.
B.Fresh
B. Careful.
B. Aware
Besmirched.
Morning Pan
I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today…
So I guess you are going to finish royalties today..
My Grandmother’s brother was one of hundreds of thousands of American solders killed in Europe in the effort to eliminate the Nazi’s. Given what that effort cost us in human lives and tax payer treasure, I simply do not understand why we now even “tolerate” their presence in this country. http://tinyurl.com/yc28wk4y
One of the “canceled events” was a Marching band competition that was basically the season ending Pinnacle competition for HS bands. We’re talking something that THOUSANDS of HS kids have spent thousands of hours in the heat, cold, rain – training for since last July. While their friends are off being kids, these bands have been standing in a field doing that drill “one more time”. We won’t even talk about the money spent on these shows. The kids are crushed. The Senior’s, for whom this would have been their last performance, are devastated.
There is a special place in hell for these Nazi MF’s.
Ok. I am better now.
Thanks for giving me a place to vent.
That is seriously fucked up. But as we’ve learned in the past year, the dying minority of frightened bigots don’t intend to go extinct quietly.
Expensive for the university as well. That was a major source of funding for their music programs. It will easily cost the 50k plus in revenue.
BTW – the other program that got canceled was a big science and technology fair for high school girls. They got two things they hate with that one … women AND science.
I find it a weird coincidence that Robert Guillaume and Fats Domino die within a day of each other and they were both 89.
Yes, that was a particularly odd coincidence. Now, if they actually had the same birthday, I’d have to break out the tinfoil.
TIL: Robert Guillaume was the voice of Rafiki in The Lion King. Which, while I never realized at the time, hearing that laugh of his in my head it’s so very obvious that it was him.
People also seem to forget that he was the Phantom of the Opera.
…and that their names can be rearranged to spell
MULTIBARREL MASTODON UFOGIE !
It’s 2017 and today I just discovered that an english rock band called TRAFFIC released an album with a traditional folk song on it.
John Barleycorn must die.
Steve Winwood was a teenager when he was with that band.
Morning Pan
I think I shall spend the morning curled up in front of the fireplace. The cat approves
Caption:
Little boy looking up at older sister, smiling:
Can we kill them all now?
Sister looking down, also smiling:
Yes, yes we can.
Judas Priest w/ Saxon announced. Need to find a way to go.
See the difference between a joke and 3 dicks is that Van can’t take a joke…
*COUGH*
Get outta here that was caption GOLD! Gold I tell ya.
Oh, I get it now!
Oh friend! This had nothing to do with your caption…
Thor: Ragnarok
A fun film, go and see it and yes that includes you Lo.
Why wouldn’t I? That’s what my cheap ass theater is for!
How long did it take you to see Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2?
Black-Eyed Peas are seriously one of the worst bands of the past 20 years. Inane, stupid, godawful lyrics and moronic hooks. . . . they encapsulate pretty much everything that’s wrong with Pop music.
Yet somehow, even with the stupid, stupid, stupid lyrics and stupid, stupid, stupid video, they really did something right with this song.
Speaking of things that should not exist … what a weird thing the “Chili Dog” is.
It’s meat, topped with meat.
… and so delicious.
Morning Pan
It was will surprise no one to hear I have another hubbiless evening.
Hubby is off to Edmonton for the day
The news just said, in Canada, Alberta is the highest in embracing Halloween costumes that are offence or insensitive. I love my redneck province
Maybe that can be Alberta’s tourism slogan:
“I love my redneck province”
or
“Alberta: where blackface is still funny!”
Oh and the film has two sequences when the film ‘ends’.
You have two sequences…
Today has been a fucking parade of first-world problems, so far. If I’d pitched this as a sitcom script, Hollywood would have rejected it as being “too unrealistic.”
I think I’ll do a play by play after lunch. Don’t know what it will be, but I’m sure it will be awesome
Stranger Things 2 came out today 🙂
How about a throwback, Halloween classic of some sort?
I meant for the PBP
Ok. It’s time
I will not do a pbp of stranger things as it’s too pop and I don’t want to get too spoiler on that
Thinking on J0e’s comment, I e come up with a compromise. I found a new Chucky movie that came out this year. So today,s movie is The Cult Of Chucky
The Netflix write up: Following a string of murders in the asylum where she’s confined, Nicaragua Pierce begins to wonder whether Chucky is real after all…
Da da dum!
Nica, not Nicaragua. Stupid autocorrect
Somehow, the autocorrected version has a better ring to it…
Oh, just so you’re warned, I had a lot of liquid this morning so there may be a few washroom breaks.
Pressing play now…
I think I’ll make it a challenge. Each PBP post will have no more than five words
Discussing the second amendment
He wants protection
She googled him
His babysitter was murdered
On a related note, I will also be doing a PBP, in rhyme, on Tuesday. Get your requests in before then
Back to Chucky
Rejected
Hidden safe
Shot up living Chucky head
Illegal in most states
Pot smoking Chucky
Torturing Chucky
Opening credits
Do they still do that?
She’s a pin cushion
Chuck’s a delusion
That is not real
No cameras in medium security
She was born that way
Baby!
Gum
The common room
Can you see me?
Being homeless is fucking bad
Ashley is an angel
Do you like red heads?
Fun king in a wheelchair
Really autocorrect?
She’s a mass murderer
Ghost lady is creepy
You think this is funny?
He has a Chucky doll
Chucky is her baby
Gross looking food
Her baby is dead
He’s multiple Malcom
Slut!
She looks like Jennifer Tilly
Chucky dolls everywhere
He’s a terrible therapist
Sit Chucky, sit
Now, don’t move
Damn it, I said…
Snow
Scalpel wielding Chucky
I see things
You’re next
Chucky sees red
As warned, time for a washroom break
Kitty demanded a tummy scrub, too
Chucky sewed her up
Buzz, buzz, buzz
Ghost lady is dead
Nica didn’t do it
It’s all in his head
Twins
Charles girlfriend
One. Now do the other
Melting Chucky
Walking her baby
Trashing her baby
Clair is freaking out
Burying Chucky?
Restraining Claire
Drugging Claire
Mass hysteria in action
Chucky is Malcolm
Braking glass
Eeewwww!
Now she’s a snow angel
Triplets?
She’s crazy
Hypnotize her with drugs?
Ha! A short blip!
Just long enough for me to complain
Anyway. Camera’s everywhere
How unprofessional
Time to join the club
It’s snowing again
What is wrong with you
Putting baby Chucky down
Breast feeding Chucky
One word. Disembowelled
Suffocating Chucky
Forgive me
She was a terrible mom
It’s a doll
Burying Chucky
She’s not buying it
Visiting hours are over
Committing himself
Night, night
Quads
Stupid doll shoe
Oop! Time for another washroom break
Ok, where was I?
Oh right.
No shoelaces
A mother’s love never dies
Will it hurt?
Sexy nurse is suspicious
She quits
Go to bed Malcolm
How did you do it?
A hell of a book
Re d shoes
No one’s going to listen
It’s all real
Voodoo fordummies.com
Drill, stab, slash
He sucked titty today
Cherry snow cone
She can walk
Hiya doc
Yuck!
He’s Charles
No, he’s a poser
Gross
Fighting Chucky
Shooting Chucky
Watermelon head
Laying a trap
Kissy face
Fuck that kid
Yup. It was a Chucky movie
Just went on IMDB. It turns out, Nica, the main girl in this movie is the actual daughter of the voice of Chucky
Chucky always reminded me of Sam Kinison.
Chucky reminds me of Grima Worm tongue
😀
Yah, Sam Kinison here as well.
Huzzah! I just watched “The Baby Sitter” (I think someone here recommended it. Bunny?) It was really quite good, especially for the genre.
Is that kid-friendly?
No, it isn’t, and I recommended it.
ditto YEA!
I just finished binge watching Stranger Things 2 on the trip back. Good stuff.
Mrs. TRA and I decided to re-watch season 1 of Stranger Things before tackling season 2. Then you add in the Talking Dead that we haven’t watched yet from the season premier of Walking Dead. We’re falling a bit behind. The good thing is, none of it’s going anywhere. We can watch as we need to.
So I’m onto Endymion in the Hyperion Cantos series.
I had forgotten the ickyness of Raul meeting the very young lass he will later sleep with due to the mechanations of time travel.
It’s almost as bad as Heinlein’s Door into Summer.
Was Summer the young lass?
Err no, RH wasn’t that clever.
😀
I don’t remember the icky.
I did like those 2 books too.
I didn’t either.
Basically she’s 12 with future visions about being sexually involved with the guy who rescues her.
Ick.
I’d forgotten that detail.
I do recall some brilliant moments later.
Hey Guys
I’ve been having a lot of problems with my current email provider so I’m slowly switching everything over to a Gmail account. If you want to update your records, it’s the same beginning (firstnamelastname) at gmail dot com
My old one is still active for now. I can receive replies to anything I send, but any new emails, should be sent to the new email address or there is no guarantee I will get it.
Noted!
I tried send a test email to r***d*****@gmail.com and it bounced with an error saying the account doesn’t exist.
I’ll send you an email via my gmail account. Shaw says they fixed the issue so, in theory, my old email should work now, I’m just not counting on it.
Feel free to use my email account to help test it out too.
This mead tastes like babycham.
CW: Stranger Things S2 E1
Fun day of nostalgia with old friends at the PIY Podcasting event. Chuck Tomasi was kind enough to call me up to the table for the Legends of Podcasting event. Good times.
I see what’s wrong with the gmail account. Will play with it after lunch.
So the problem with the gmail account was bunny is a doh-head and doesn’t even know how to spell her own last name.
In Theory, both the new and old account should work now.
Oh, and my email thing seems to have been sorted out so you can continue using the old one if you want.
The problem was the way Shaw deals with deleted emails. Normally, you delete an email it goes into your “deleted Items” folder (or trash, or whatever your system calls it). Then you delete the items in your deleted items folder (or clear your trash, or whatever) and it goes away forever. Apparently Shaw has an extra step. When you clear your deleted items folder, everything goes into another part and is not permanently gone. You have to actually go into this third folder and delete it again. I wasn’t aware of this extra step so I had years of double deleted items taking up space so I had reached my limit. Once I cleared this third folder all was good.
Of course, it would have been nice if Shaw actually told me I was reaching my limit so I could figure out why but no, they had to simply stop emails. I could get/send simple emails, but anything that had any kind of graphic of attachment would not go through.
It’s a little brisk out this morning
Highly recommend the movie Bandaid with Zoe Lister-Jones, Adam Pally and Fred Armisen. There was a lot of attention put on the female staff which is great, but the story is good as well. The music featured is highly folk/indie feel. http://m.imdb.com/title/tt5816374/?ref=m_nv_sr_1
off to the post office!
I’ve been sitting on the highway on ramp now for 25 minutes. Not even the highway. The on ramp. Yay.
Still on the on ramp. The guy in front of me has a GOT 9MM plate, and is now gesticulating angrily out of his window at the traffic.
wtf is going on?
Motorcycle fatality on the 101, closed traffic in both directions. Luckily for me, I took heed of the signs that warned of the accident and I got of the 101 at Scottsdale Rd. and was about 10 minutes late to work. Others were an hour late, and I understand that congestion is going to get worse before it gets better. Good luck Jack.
This is the worst traffic jam I’ve ever seen in AZ, although it’s par for the course in NJ and CA.
Oh well. As bad as it made my morning, the day was a lot worse for the motorcyclist.
This is what our conversation was like yesterday buying Halloween candy
Me- we only had about a half dozen kids last year so we shouldn’t get too much
Hubby reaches for a box of 100 mini chocolate bars
Me – that’s too many
Hubby – we’ll give each kid two
Me – still too many
Me, looking at the box – this box has caramilk bars, among others. You don’t like caramilk so won’t eat those that are left over
Hubby – you can eat them
Me – I don’t want to. I’d rather get less, then not have a bunch left over
Hubby, adding another box of 50 candy bars to the cart- it’ll be fine
Me – shakes head
Basically, hubby wanted a bunch of chocolate for himself and was using Halloween as an excuse to do so
During my trip last week, I also watched “The Girl With All The Gifts”. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t find it all that great. It was interesting to think of it as a prequel of sorts to “The Last Of Us”.
It reminded me more of I am Legend..the novel that is.
Julia’s Eyes was better than I remembered.
If you don’t mind subtitles it’s a nice creepy thriller.
Tickets acquired for Thor: Ragnorok this weekend!!
We introduced Tee to the wonders of the Cornish Pasty Co. tonight.
You guys should get a finders fee from those folks!
…and so the horrors begin.
He didn’t get the Royale with Cheese. . .
Morning Pan
Brunch with the boss today
Will be doing a PBP this afternoon. I wonder if Netflix has the original Halloween.
I have REALLY enjoyed the Orville this year but that last episode, “Majority Rules” was one of the worst hours of TV I’ve ever not enjoyed.
#myopinionMINEffffppppttt
I bet you enjoyed the Groundhog Day of episode 7 of DISCOVERY didn’t you?
That’s assuming that 1) you would pay or 2) you would find a “pirate” site. Not paying for CBS Access, so haven’t watched ANY Discovery.
Orville has impressed me so far. Exceeded my expectations.
You forgot ‘living outside of North America, it’s on Netfix in the UK.
Don’t watch Discovery
I couldn’t make it through episode 1. I may watch Episode 3 by itself, since everyone raved about it.
^^ Talking about The Orville. I have not experienced any episodes of STD yet.
Trick or Treat!
You can stick pumpkins where the sun don’t shine!
I’m buttoning down to ignore the little burgers tonight.
Mwahahahahahah !!!!!
How can pumpkins grow without sun? No pie for you mister
I hope eggs get thrown at your house
I shall make an omelette
Now it’s All Hallows Eve,
The moon is full.
Will she trick or treat?
I bet she will.
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So the radio station I was listening to this morning played this song. Strange.
I’m still trying to figure out how you broke the margin.
The power of Peter Steele knows no bounds
It’s boo bitchcraft.
Life has come up. There won’t be. pbp todY
Speaking of The Black Hole (on other social media)… cool new Maximilian figure from Hot Toys. I always loved his retro-future look
Well I live with snakes and lizards
And other things that go bump in the night
‘Cause to me everyday is Halloween
I have given up hiding and started to fight
I have started to fight
And that’s how you do it.
We finished Stranger Things 2 tonight. . . We never binge, but still managed to get through this in 2 sittings.
It’s spooky when I comment on deadpan.
I read through all the things and then say..
I loved the Sliders/TNG repurposed Orville episode.
I loved the Cause and Effects repurposed TNG episode of Discovery.
Long live sci-fi for Cj
I think the reason Orville is so well praised is not because it is a great show. It’s more along the lines of it feels more like Star Trek then the new show does.
The new Star Trek would be a fine show if it wasn’t under the Star Trek umbrella. If they made a few changes, such as changing some of the races (the klingons could look like they do now since they don’t really look like Klingons, just change their race name to something non Star Trek), and just called it Discovery, without being associated with Star Trek, I think I would like it better. I know it’s silly, but it’s because they call it “Star Trek Discover” that it doesn’t work for me.
Probably correct. Tho to be fair when you compare this first season to TNGs first season, Orville is far superior. I’m hopeful Orville grows as TNG did
Long live Cj !
Morning Pan
Sometime today the new website goes live. Let’s see how many issues there are.
We had about two dozen kids last night. More than last year but still not enough to justify the 150 mini chocolate bars hubby insisted we get.
We had about the same amount as usual. But we over-bought this year and some people gave us additional candy. So now I have a grocery store plastic bag mostly full of candy bars that I really like. I don’t see maintaining my current weight through this holiday season.
We had two sets of “Parents plus one kid” and then one large group of kids with two dad’s along. THEY were VERY enthusiastic about their experience in visiting our house and that made all the work worth while.
Only got one knock, my ‘fuck off’ firkd must have been working.
Field!
I went out since I didn’t have my own kids. It’s the first time I’ve avoided Halloween almost entirely.
Well, we’re live. Let’s see how many messages we get on broken things.
give us the link and we can check it out for you if you want.
My apologies I was just passive aggressive on the deadpan group on FB.
😀
And I’d even commented on your original post!
It’s fine I’ll go full on aggressive…
Oh you such a cutie when you do that.
Seconded
B! E! A G G! R E S S I V E!
So give it up
I’ve got to have
I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW
Oh were we not… doing.. that…
Nevermind.
Just don’t spit.
Its funny how dead on you are are dont even know it…
We’re four episodes in to Stranger Things 2. Enjoying it so far.
We wrapped up yesterday, good stuff.
Looks like I will be waiting till after the 21st to watch.
Someone gets home from college then and we’re going to wait and watch it together.
J0e, it’s tychebooks.com
The biggest problem we seem to be having is Google Calendar doesn’t want to show the events. Google says it with our website, our provider says it’s a Google issue. If I can’t get it working this morning, I may have to use a different calendar
Other than the calendar thing it all looks really good on this old Macbook Pro running OS 10.7.5 and using an out dated(48.0.2) Firefox browser.
At first glance, the calendar looks OK, but that’s about as far as I QA’ed it.
Morning Pan
Today we wrassle with the website calendar.
Huzzah! I got the calendar working!
Now! It’s time to clean the washrooms.
Time to go out into the snow and get some groceries.
Lucky me.
Bedecked.
Oh wait, we stopped doing that last week.
It is chilly out there. I think I’m a little jealous of my boo. She’s going to Disneyland on Saturday. Much warmer and less snow than here
Just think of the crowds and the paedophiles then feel glad you ain’t going.
wtf pedophiles?
They have a history of not checking out their employees.
I though this was an urban myth, but a quick Google search brought up a HuffingtonPost with a disturbing title, that I’m not going to click on my work computer. Yeesh.
My brother-in-law is a former Disneyland employee and still obsessive about the park. We’ll have to ask him what he knows.
My neice had a rather narrow escape at Eurodisney.
Well you know those lousy Euros….
In all sincerity, ew. Sorry that happened.
Dustin Hoffman
Definitely a pig. Definitely… definitely a gross jerk. Definitely…
This is a real product. I admit I was a little sad the Amazon comments were so normal. I really wanted to see comments about exercising with a ball gag
I hope the “People who bought this also bought” includes the Shake Weight.
Hubby’s coming home in the yuck. I expect his drive time to be extra long
Safe yuck driving.
Goodnight mzzzzzz
Morning Pan
Today it’s about housework. Woo hoo?
CP: The Friends of Mr. Cairo — Jon & Vangelis
Wow, that one takes me back.
Did you find your way home?
Lord he wasted and he can’t find his way home
I am boycotting housework until after Sunday.
Fun day off, doing our family moon in CA before the baby gets here.
Totally squeeeee
Just watched “Newsies” (Netflix).
Enjoyed it.
Makes me wish Ken Burns would give “Unions in America” his documentary treatment.
The 90s Disney musical with Christian Bale?
They did a “Broadway” staged version of it.
This was a recording of one of those live performances (although I don’t think it was being done at a Broadway venue).
” and breaks the “crazy cat lady” stereotype by photographing men in their homes”
Um … no.
I think the author fails to understand THAT particular “stereotype”.
These are great images tho. But yeah, I’m confused at the author’s agenda.
Some of the new advisers have controversial scientific views, including one who believes air quality is too clean for children, while the new members include multiple climate change skeptics.”
Between W. and this admin, the ecological damage will never be undone.
Seriously, the snow can stop any time now.
We finished Stranger Things 2. It was good.
Tomorrow we see Thor. I expect it to be good too.
So on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being perfect and 1 being Marvels Inhumans, how would you rate Marvels Inhumans?
ouch!
Man, for once I agree with you. Even Agents of SHIELDS S1 is better than this.
Daredevil S2 is better than this…
I was hopeful as I did not hate it after the first few episodes but jeez… and I can get past a LOT of stupid in my genre shows/films.
We couldn’t get more Agent Carter? I realize that show was super expensive and this one..erm… isnt… but you CAN’T tell me you couldn’t make a great Carter season with the budget of Inhumans. Because you could!
You only have to tolerate it for one or two more weeks.
Thor: Ragnarok was a blast!!!
I want to see it again in the theatre.
I remember Skurge from comics I’d read as a kid. Great to Karl Urban do him right in the new Thor. It’s a good one.
Interesting premise, and I agree with the agenda. You could argue that Anger Disorders should qualify as mental illness, though . . .
Yes. I am frustrated by what I see as an article that tries to address a problem(Yea!) the rest of society wants to not talk about … yet is contributing to the “miss-understanding” of the problem itself (Boo).
/essay
The author seems to want to define “mental illness” as only in the category of people who hear voices our have some other dramatically debilitating problem with reality.
What about depression? What about anxiety? What about a host of other things that slowly cause people to turn inward, becoming lost in their own ever darkening thoughts which can eventually result in violence to themselves or others? Is THAT not mental illness?
Let’s face it, to the general public the term “mental illness” is synonymous with either people who “ride the short bus” or wear a straight jacket. So there is a huge stigma associated with even talking about the first sign of any of the problems I mentioned above much less going to seek help. So an illness that could have been stopped or controlled at an early stage, is allowed to metastasizes into something completely debilitating to the individual if not outright dangerous to themselves and perhaps others.
So why not remove the stigma by calling these issues as something other than a mental illness?
Ah, now there’s the Catch 22. Treatment cost money. If insurance is willing to pay anything towards this at all it has to be diagnosed as an illness.
Now I circle all the way around to the mass shooting thing. The gun lobby wants to paint the mass shootings as a “mental health issue” not a gun issue. Fine then. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Time for the NRA and the whole RNC to step up and lobby for free or reduced counseling to everyone. Make getting at least a twice a year mental cleaning as common as a twice yearly dental cleaning. You go in, sit down and tell someone who ISN’T an anonymous Face Book Troll what is on your mind!
A cure all? Of course not but it is a start. Plus maybe it makes seeing a counselor more socially “normal”.
In any case, it sure seems better than the current solution which is “Wait for someone to lose it and start shooting into a crowd – then hope there are a bunch of untrained civilians with their own guns nearby who will start spraying bullets into the crowd as well, until the original shooter finally gets killed.”
That’s not a “fix”, that is the plot to a “grind house” movie. It is also what the Governor of Texas has suggested as a solution.
/essay
A couple of further thoughts:
-The Democrats also need to stop cowering before the NRA and the right-wing zealots and step up.
-I like that the article deflates the automatic “it’s not guns, it’s mental illness” lazy defense that gets trotted out after mass shootings.
-Let’s start addressing the anger problem in the US. All of the major evil forces of influence (trump, foxnews, alex jones) got powerful by stoking anger.
The Killing of the Sacred Deer is one fucked up film.
So don’t say you weren’t warned.
Seeing talk that Cold Stone Creamery is offering free ice cream to men with full beards today, but nothing from their official site. Could it be true?
That’s bigoted against beardless men, who can I sue?
Only in India. They confirmed
Outrage!
And now Louis CK is a fucking pig. God damn it
Disappointing. His antics are disgusting, and I’m not giving him a pass, but — according to the accounts, he always asked first, never forced himself, and never physically touched any of the women.
Some of the women say they felt uncomfortable saying no, because of his position of power and fame, which is fucked up. But IMHO, while this is creepy as fuck, he’s still far less of an evil predator than Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump, Roy Jones, Kevin Spacey, etc.
Please feel free to disagree with me, or call me out if I’m being too easy on Louis CK.
No Ill agree with the point that he’s a different kind of scumbag than the other names you’ve written. And a couple accounts say that, while he did ask, he was pretty much in the act of doing it when he asked. No all, a coupole. Still… threatening people’s careers (even if it is thru an agent) if they tell is the biggest dick move you can do.
True. And I will never give the “but it was his agent, not him” defense.
Oh! I forgot Bill Cosby.
Oh puddin…
If his participants did not openly agree to his antics, then he should’ve stopped. It’s kinda like Date Rape and how guys (usually it’s the guy) says “she didnt say no, so…”
I funno – thats my take
The other guy with the mustache on Magnum PI has died.
For years, I thought he was the voice of KITT too.
Wowza! You have knocked me out of my socks (and baby socks) with your adorably, awesome homemade goodies for Baby M!!! I love it all. Thank you for being thoughtful – our winter baby will be cozy, for sure.
Yes, thank you very much! The hooded blanket with the ears is a big hit. 🙂
You’re welcome. I tried to stick with colors close to what I’ve seen you wear.
Oh and I keep fighting myself wanting to explain the snuggle sack, but I think you’ll figure it out. Let me know if you have any questions.
Morning Pan
Another busy morning for this bunny
Today I’m working on a nonfiction book. I hate putting these together. Between drawings text boxes, and footnotes, it takes four times longer to put one together than our other books
All those lovely facts just waiting to squirrel themselves into your brain.
The roads going into the city were wuite the adventure
*sigh*
Wuite = quite
Sure autocorrect, change things that don’t need it but ignore obviously misspelled words
Home safe, stupid roads
Got some good news from work. One of our books has had the movie rights purchased. I know that doesn’t mean it will actually make it to film, but still pretty cool.
What it really means is extra work for me as they want sales stats
Excellent on both counts! I hope you get at least a strong supporting role in the film.
😆
The only thing we hope is it actually goes to film and the book sales get a boost as a result
That IS swell!
Make sure they let you do your own stunts! It builds acting cred.
Yknow I’m fucking done with men too.
RIP Chuck Mosley. You may not kno whim, but you know the band he helped create. Faith No More’s first two albums were seminal in my growing up…. and I still rock out hard to them today.
My first response is “oh this guy is lying. Takei has always been outspoken against this kind of stuff. Steven Segal OF COURSE did all his dirtbag stuff that he is accused of. But this is George Takei. He would never.”
But that’s a dangerous line of assumption isnt it?
A delineation here between this and other recently reported “assaults” is that, by the accusers own description, they were not meeting under any premise of a professional or business situation. This was a date where there was drinking before the incident occurred.
So you have two consenting adults, voluntarily agreeing to be alone together in an intimate setting … where there was reportedly enough drinking that one of them reports becoming woozy.
If all occured as the younger man says, perhaps Takei mistook the other’s intentions? According to the younger man, when he asserted to Takei that he did NOT want to be physical Takei said ‘OK, fine.’ He did not press him further nor did he make any threats.
On it’s own, this story has enough “grey area” to give Takei the benefit of doubt.
If similar stories arise about him I reserve the right to change that opinion.
“So you have two consenting adults, voluntarily agreeing to be alone together in an intimate setting … where there was reportedly enough drinking that one of them reports becoming woozy.”
Man I just can’t go there. Justy because you consent to drinking and being alone together doesn’t mean you consent to assault.
That being said there are other holes in his story that give me pause
Woa … didn’t mean to imply there was consent to assault.
I meant to imply that two people willingly entered an intimate situation … that could easily be interpreted as “let’s go back to my place for sex.” and one of them DID (according to this account) interpret it that way. When the other adult made it clear that it was not what they wanted the activity immediately stopped with no further demands or pressure.
What I am saying is, if Takei was intending to be nefarious he either would have continued the “assault” or he would have applied some sort of psychological pressure “Hey, this is good for your career” “Hey, you’ll never work in this town again.”
This just sounds like a two people who made completely different and incorrect assumptions about where a date was going and when that mistakes was spoken things stopped.
In this case “No” meant “No” and was respected as meaning such.
I (once) like(d) some of these guys who’ve been accused, like Cosby, Louis CK, Spacey, Whedon, Takei, etc., but if they’re proven guilty, then all of that is the past. We should shun/reject proven perpetrators of this kind of shit. Their victims need our full support, because they’ll never fully recover.
But as someone who’s been subjected to every kind of bullshit false accusation from a malicious psychopath with dishonest intentions, I know firsthand how important it is to validate claims. And the falsely accused need our support even more now than before.
I’ve seen commentary on FB from a few saying that regardless of anything, they believe the victims. This is fucking unacceptable. Treat alleged victims with sympathy and take them seriously – – but don’t automatically assume they’re being truthful. Don’t automatically hate someone based on unverified words.
/rant
No no. I just think in these cases you can’t simply blow off the accuser just like you shouldnt automatically assume guilt. Well unless literally 5-20 people all come out with similar stories about the same person. Then, yeah, you kinda take the victims at their word there. I’m looking at you, gross fuckface Brett Ratner
I’m up amd streaming NASA’s feed of the Antares rocket launch — where my nephew’s science experiment will make its way to ISS! So neat!
…..and they just scrubbed the launch for the day, due to an unauthorized aircraft in the area during the final 45 seconds of countdown.
So disappointing.
🙁
Hubby accidentally saw a space shuttle launch
He was in Florida for a conference. He and some coworkers were out on a restaurant patio for dinner when they hear and feel a deep rumbling. They liked around and saw the shuttle launching. I was a little bit jealous when he told me that evening
(Yes, I know it’s coincidence not accident, I just think it’s funnier to say he accidentally saw a shuttle launch)
I guess no stupid airplanes flew into the shuttle’s airspace…
Chilaquiles?
Empty theater for Murder on the Orient Express. Good or bad, not a good sign for literary adaptation movies.
I liked it!!! I thought the cinematography was stunning
Definitely. I’d read the book a few years ago, and I was pleased with this take on it.
Granted, I’ve never seen any other film adaptation.
Happy Birthday ditto!!!
Ditto for ditto!
Today’s launch was a success!
It was cool to watch the streaming of it. My sister and nephew were at the launch and said was an amazing sight and sound to see.
Neat.
Woot !!! for a successful launch.
Ditto! Have a super birthday!
Thanks! I wish I was feeling better though.
Ditto the ditto happy birthday wishes! And I hope that birthday wish comes true.
Happy Birthday, Ditto!
Yknow I’ve never actively been angry at a tv show. That is until I watched Marvels Dumbhumans. What an insipid, poorly written and executed, unevenly acted, waste of time and money this show was. I’m glad it’s done. I hope it’s dead. I weep for Jack Kirby’s corpse rolling around in it’s grave
Digging The Deuce on HBO, but damn, the whole show is skeezy. I feel like I need to take a shower after each episode.
It’s a David Simon joint, if that matters to anyone.
cold pizza for breakfast, it how I roll today.
Fratboy life
Read as: Fatboy Life.
And i thought — rude
The roofers who were supposed to show up at 7am … showed up at at 6:25am.
and so the fretting begins. Two days of waiting to see if they do more damage then they fix. Two days of having an army of strangers crawl all over my personal space.
uncomfortable
Are you going to wipe their memories after they have finished the job?
If only I could wipe mine.
Your what?!?!?!?!?!
Tiiiiiin roof. Rusted.
*slow clap*
hehe
Kudos to BIll Gates for truly putting his money where his mouth is.
Hubby has this week off. While I love him dearly, and am glad to see him, he certainly messes with my routine.
Finished the layout (draft 1) of the nonfiction book two days early. Now I can spend the rest of the week paying attention to hubby :happy:
Attention Deadpan!
It’s time to start organizing the annual Deadpan Secret Santa exchange! I’m reposting here for those who didn’t see the post in the Facebook group. All Deadpanites are invited to participate. The following people have already opted in:
The Energizer Bunny
Vanamonde
ditto
Jack
Tiffany (see note below)*
Rhettro
Jeremy from Seattle
David LoPan
Lone Guise Knight (I believe that’s The Roaming Asshat on this site?) said he was a Mmmmmaybe
*Tiffany, you said of FB that you and Baby M were both in – does that mean I should assign someone to buy a gift specifically for Baby M? Instead of, or in addition to a gift for you?
As a refresher, here’s how it works:
– Between now and next Saturday (Nov. 25), send me a Facebook PM or an email (amybowenwrites at gmail) to say you’re in and give me your shipping address, if I don’t already have it or it’s changed since last year.
– On Sunday morning, Nov. 26, I will randomize the list of participants and send you a message back with the name and address of your giftee.
– Please ship your giftee a gift of approximately $10-20 so that it arrives in time for Christmas. Nerdy gifts are generally appreciated. 🙂
– You will receive a similar gift from the person assigned to you.
Happy gifting!
Thanks for running this again, Santa Amy!
I’d recommend reposting this to the FB Deadpan page.
Lone Guise Knight is not The Roaming Asshat (formerly UsedHair), they’re separate people. Although now that you mention it, I’ve met them both in person, but never seen them together at the same time. . . )
What Jack said. Thank you Amy! :cheerful:
I have no idea who the Lone Guise Knight is. However that actually makes perfect sense for the “never seen them together at the same time” scenario. I hope that my alternate l life is more fascinating than this one. I just equally hope that it never leads to any “his name was Robert Paulson” scenarios.
Zomg! Not at all, Amy. I just include her in everything now 🙂
So a pedophile, a disgraced ex-judge and a grifter walk into a bar and the bartender says, “Hi Roy!”
Careful now, Roy is the only person that can make the nation right with God.
Let’s hope that this is the last time period in human history when a piece of shit like that is still celebrated by any segment of the population.
I am double-posting; simply because my nephew is AWESOME!
He and his team were interviewed today by a local TV Station (sorry it is FOX). Ian is my nephew and he is the big guy, who is rocking the purple shirt.
There’s 1 pic making the rounds. He’s pretending to grope her through a kevlar vest while she’s sleeping; it looks to me like a dipshit fratboy prank. She says she wasn’t in on the joke, which makes it 100000% unacceptable behavior.
The more serious thing is her allegation of him forcing kisses on her during a USO play rehearsal.
I haven’t heard anything.
As always though, I would say one must take a breath and look at the details.
Was this a “one-off” instance of being a stupid ass where he owes somebody a big apology for behaving inappropriately (and a public shaming to remind others that this sort of “joke” is neither a joke nor funny) or is this another in a long string of predatory incidences.
I think that we are beginning to see that with the real monsters, everyone knows about them but no one talks … until someone does.
K. And if he stuck his fingers in her vagina as a “one off instance being a stupid ass” would you even consider questioning it? Inappropriate is inappropriate no matter how many times.
Also, to be fair, him calling for an ethics investigation on himself is by far the best thing he could have done.
Aggressively kissing someone who’s made it clear that they don’t want to be kissed is a shitty move. It’s clearly less shitty than an adult pedophile perving after 14-year-olds (Roy Moore) or an adult pedophile perving after teenage beauty contestants (Trump) or groping women without consent (Trump) – – but still shitty. And those assholes’ misdeeds are not relevant to the allegations against Franken, whether he did it or not.
Hmmm.
I looked back through my post and couldn’t find anywhere, it said inserting any part of your body into someone else’s body (without their consent) was anything other than assault.
You must of been thinking of some other post.
“When your film makes the viewer long for the coherence and scope of 2015’s ill-fated “Fantastic Four,” it is a sure sign something has perilously gone wrong.”
owwwwww!
I shall be seeing it next week, but I was expecting trainwreck..
We’re going tonight with zero expectations.
And I didn’t even hate BvS in the way that everyone else did. (I’m fully aware that it’s a terrible movie)
Finally getting to see Ragnarok tonight. Yea!
Last night was “TV party” with the guys.
– While we ate dinner we watched an episode of Graham Norton show with the cast of “Murder on the Orient Express”. I think they were all drunk. It was amusing.
Also, musician “St. Vincent” (I think maybe I have seen her name mentioned here?) sang a number while sporting fetish wear. The outfit distracted from her song for a while but I actually quite liked her sound.
– Watched the final 2 episodes of this season’s Star Trek. I find some of the characters a bit annoying but all in all I really like it.
– Then we watched an episode of The Orville. I really want to like it. :/
It feels like there is an internal struggle within it’s creative staff as to whether it is going to be the further adventures of TNG or if it is just going to be a sit-com set in space. That being said … if they decide to go with sit-com they’ve got to find some other joke than “Look at us !!!! We run a space ship but act like 14 year olds!!” That has it’s moments but not an entire episodes worth.
Enjoy a holiday themed comic. I could do without the anti genetic modification preaching, but there is not so much of that and far more just trying to be funny and strange.
I thought I’d pick up the book Westworld by Michael Chriton. Turns out, you can’t get it. Either in print or in e. Given the success of the HBO show, this surprises me. It must be in some sort of dispute or something by his estate.
Wasn’t it only a screenplay?
Correct. It was never a novel but it was his first time writing a feature film
No, it was a book.maybe a novelization. I remember reading it a long time ago. Amazon has it but not new. Only through third parties
Right. That is the screenplay. It was never an original novel turned to film. They just took the screenplay and put it in book form
“EW calls Marvel’s Runaways “the OC with superpowers.” ”
Boy. I’m sold.
But it’s MCU so I have to watch it. I hate myself.
It feels good to remove a show from my potential backlog.
Thor:Ragnarok has been viewed.
Another Marvel Films achievement is unlocked.
Seriously fun movie.
That’ll def be a fam dollar theater viewing once it gets there. My Mjölnir aches to see it.
Cough
JusticeLeague is exactly what you’re expecting. I recognize its many flaws, but I recommend seeing it.
Before I saw it, I would’ve said to stay away. But, after seeing it – it was mostly fun and still very flawed.
Wonder woman — boooyaaaa girl power!
Batman — better than he was in BvS
Cyborg — grew on me as the movie went on.
The Flash — blah and too sparkly.
The Bad Guy —- typical CGI disaster and lame story.
Aquaman —- Mmmmmmmm, Jason Momoa
Stay for the end credits, too.
Glad it wasn’t atrocious but I’ll still pass. Being as we see maybe 4 or 5 movies a year total I’m not gonna waste it on something I’ll potentially hate. And I have a funny feeling I’ll hate it. Just because I’ve hate all before. Cept ww because still haven’t seen. #getoffmydclawn
Go and see Wonder Woman you dolt.
Like I said. If it was simply as easy as going to see a film at my whim I would have by now
That being said we got a free DVD copy so there’s really no excuse
http://smarturl.it/loma
Interesting new song from Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater’s new project.
There’s a new micro-brewery opening up about 10 minutes from our place. Unfortunately, I am working at another event that same weekend so I can’t go to the grand opening.
The dementia diagnosis was announced a few years ago. This is awful news, but I’m glad he’s free of that horror.
Back in Black is one of the albums that laid my musical foundation, and I loved all of the early Brian Johnson era cassettes. Malcolm is the epitome of a rock solid rhythm player. RIP
🙁
Sad news about Malcolm indeed tho unfortunately not surprising. He s been in and out health for years. I’m glad I got to see them in their 3rd heyday. In the immortal words of Scott Ian “Malcolm Young kicks ass”
For US audible accounts holders you still have time to pick up a copy of I Am Legend for free.
So………. Steve Martin’s 1970s King Tut routine is cultural appropriation?
Well its no Blazing Saddles.
Didn’t you say something about this is why Trump won?
Well. It’s oh God o’clock and I’m sitting at the airport waiting for my Boo’s flight to come in. Judging by the pics, it looks like she had fun in California
We occasionally play Pandemic, when we’re feeling masochistic. Haven’t played legacies
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
So Ghosted is a lot of goddamn fun and great for fam night. After a shaky pilot where everything you need to know about the characters and situation is forced into it, it really got rolling on ep 2 and beyond. We binged all 6 episodes last night. It’s X-Files monster of the week/overarching arc combined with lol moments and a divine chemistry between the two leads all wrapped up into tidy 22 minute episodes.
Let’s be honest here. With the exception of OitNB and a SMALL handful of other shows, the only reason we’ve bee really holding on to Netflix was the Marvel shows. Plus, if losing Disney combined with piping in 8 billion of new content is what it takes to make Netflix a better product, I’m in.
Van,
You just seem so much more crusty lately.
It makes me sad
Netflix is still my favorite of the viewing services, so this is unhappy news to me. Couldn’t Disney have just bought them? Isn’t that how they handle every situation?
I feel a disturbance in the force.
1st thought … “ANOTHER damn monthly charge? I don’t think so.”
2nd thought – This could go either way.
If it goes the way of PIXAR, where Disney just provides the money and distribution and stays the heck out of the original production team’s way … it might be okay.
IF, however, they decide that Marvel is all just more product to monetized, so they basically squeeze “content” out of the same tube as all there other in house product and just slap a Marvel label on it … oh, the horror.
Morning Pan
A lonely evening in store for this bunny.
We watched the first two episodes of The Punisher last night. We’re enjoying it so far.
Still haven’t watched the Defenders. I think that’s up next for us.
We did finish The Good Place – – which was 1000x better than I expected. Surprisingly deep, (mostly) pretty smart, and funny.
We watched Defenders and then went back and watched Iron Fist. We started watching the Punisher and have enjoyed it.
The Good Place – definitely got better as it went along.
Maybe, after lunch, it will be movie time
CP: A Sound That Only You Can Hear — K’s Choice
Today’s movie is After
The Netflix write up: Bad. Surviving a bus crash to become the only two inhabitants in a deserted town. Worse: you’re not actually alone
Just to make things interesting. The first word of my comments will start with a letter from the word bunny
Bus
Babe in a bus
Yes, it’s James Holden
Nice gesture
Nurse lady, meet Freddy
Naturally, the coincidence starts
Beginning her portrait
Understandably, she’s unimpressed
Not a nun
Nuts
Get away from Bastogne you fiend!
😆
Ugh, it was a nightmare
Not hairy under arms!
Night shift
Nobody’s there
Noises in the night shift
Not March 13th?
Barren landscapes
Booming music
Not alone
Moving on to the police station
Umm, yeah. This is harder than I thought
Nothing
Not working radio
No exit
Bruised hand
No exit again
Bulging darkness
Boundaries surround them
Bodies. Alive or not?
Being ignored
Na Na?
Necklace
Bygone age
Bringing back thoughts to the bus crash
But that’s not much time
Browsing the grocery store
No tv, only sound
Not alive?
Blacked out?
Upraised heartbeat
Understanding what’s happening
Bathroom break!
No really, back in a moment
Back!Now, where was I?
Battling the darkness
At the other side
Umpteen gazillion keys
Bound monster
Bolting
Being home
It he’s trying
Not it, But
Nothing but memories
Nothing like a good to be continued
Never told anyone
Basically her mom
Breath of life
Breaking up is a bad idea
Beyond the veil
Nothing makes sense
Nice carnival
Balloon
Bullies
Unhealthy aunt
Under pressure
Under the desk
Bloodcurdling monster
Nice shot
Barricading the door
Brilliant plan
Yuck, raw meat
You’ll die
Binoculars
Baiting the trap
Bad shot
Better shot
Broke the chain
Night of the hunter
You better run
No safety in the church
Not feeling well
Breakdown
Not going to let her die
Undone
Buffy?
Boys will be boys
Burning down the house
Butt ugly monster
Yuck
Backwards blood
Better together
Bloody right
No, not Freddy
No memory
Unless…
You’re great
Bittersweet
Yup, it’s over
My thoughts. I liked this movie. Although, I think I would have liked it better if it ended five minutes earlier. There’s nothing that says you must have a happy ending.
Still. Worth a watch
Fun theme to the PBP!
Instead of working late, hubby’s on his way home sick
🙁
It’s worth noting “Overdose” as is talked about has been my favorite AC/DC song for decades. Until now, that is, as it seem it is also Lars Ulrich’s as well….
Big sci-fi author has tastes of old fart and nobody is surprised:
I’d forgotten that was her in Harlem Knights. Actual sad news. RIP
It’s interesting when you realize that the guy who was THE poster child for mass murder and “evil” for most of my life … was only responsible for 9 deaths.
The other interesting thing I JUST read was that he somehow thought that with those murders he was going to bring about an apocalyptic race war. It didn’t work. Perhaps this failure should be made much more public, seeing as how some recent mass murders claimed that they thought that their actions could start a race war.
Just a thought.
I wonder if Roman Polanski would have still become an evil creep, if Manson and crazy followers had not murdered his pregnant wife.
Judging from the reports of him cheating on her when she was alive i’m Going to guess no.
AV Club are a bunch of snotty shitheads, but this does beg the question – are audiences getting over DC specifically or superhero films in general?
Watched the first three episodes of Marvel: Runaways, pisses all over Inhumans.
Van… most episodes of The Bachelor would piss all over Inhumans.
This is true.
USA Today calls Marvel’s Runaways a “teenage dream.”
I’m… I’m not against Runaways as I fucking loved the comic but these tag lines just aren’t buttering my bread
“It was not just Trump’s supporters who were in denial about what they were voting for, but Americans across the political spectrum, who, as had been the case with those who had backed Duke, searched desperately for any alternative explanation—outsourcing, anti-Washington anger, economic anxiety—to the one staring them in the face. The frequent postelection media expeditions to Trump country to see whether the fever has broken, or whether Trump’s most ardent supporters have changed their minds, are a direct outgrowth of this mistake. These supporters will not change their minds, because this is what they always wanted: a president who embodies the rage they feel toward those they hate and fear, while reassuring them that that rage is nothing to be ashamed of.”
And “fun” might not be the right word, but… it is very much worth watching.
I’m not sure if the wolf heads are nuts or if I want one.
Supper tonight is a burger and a glass of beer. Hubby will be jealous
Over two hours to get a Roku streaming stick to connect to my WiFi network.
All because the stick supports two ways of displaying a comma..arrrggh!
Oh you poor fool!
Well Panasonic have stopped updating the apps on my smart TV, this seemed a cheaper solution than buying a new TV.
No youre good I adore my Roku
Happy Thanksgiving to my US Panites!
🙁
One of my Australian Sheppards passed away very unexpectedly last night.
Left to spend the evening with friends, to celebrate a birthday, and he was his happy seemingly heathy self. Came home a few hours later and he was dead.
No signs of trauma. Just gone.
Everybody here is pretty devastated.
Oh J0e *hugs*
🙁
Condolences on your loss JJ
Sorry man
That is truly awful, heartbreaking news, J0e. I’m so sorry to hear it. 🙁 I hope the holiday can provide a little solace and distraction.
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together….
Author unknown…
Thanks everyone.
Pets, they’ll break your heart. Well, first they’ll chew up that thing you forgot and left out in the yard or (if a cat) throw up on your carpet … but THEN, yeh … they’ll break your heart.
Kitty spotted a bird outside. Her life just got a lot more interesting
Wow, the first jukebox went into operation on this date in 1889.
A few minutes later, some guy who thought he was being funny became the first person to all his pocket change in and made it play the same pop song over and over for the next 20 minutes.
I believe it was a John Philip Sousa tune.
I tried to think of a similar joke involving “More Than a Feeling,” but abandoned the effort. You complete me, J0e.
Clearly, I am your density.
My favorite juke box memory was a few xmases ago going to my fav watering hole, getting uber dranky, and putting on Josh Groban’s ‘Oh Holy Night’… 5 times in a row… and then walking out.
We went back a couple weeks later and were soundly, SOUNDLY chastised.
My friends and I used to hit a local dive bar every Monday. Super salt-of-the-earth kinda place, with Rolling Rock, Coors Light, and Bud on tap. Their jukebox had full albums, with Neil Young, Skynyrd, Eagles — all of the classic rock requisites. So my friend would always play “Within You, Without You,” from Sgt Peppers.
It was a delight to watch the puzzled expressions around the bar when all of those sitars and Indian percussion instruments would kick in. The bartender kept telling him she was going to take the CD out and break it.
Ha!
There was a little dive dinner where my gang would sometimes eat breakfast when we would go camping on the beach. One morning we noticed that the jukebox contained Frank Sinatra’s “New York New York”.
We pooled our change. It played over and over and over.
The next year, it had been removed from the juke box.
On my way to the Orient Express.
Perhaps there will be some intrigue?
I liked it quite a bit, though I’d previously only read the book, hadn’t seen any other film versions.
Curious muuuurder!
I liked it.
I admit it.
Runaways is great.
And in more Marvel YAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! news, Agents comes back Dec 1.
YAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Get ye behind me, Marvel’s Inhumans!
So have you watched Iron Fist yet, to comply with the Marvel completion policy?
Yah I think we’ve discussed that I truly didn’t hate it. I actually flew thru it pretty quickly. There was some definite dumb to it but overall I enjoyed. In no way did it deserve the vitriol it received.
That was my take too.
I liked the general story line and also thought that the production itself was up to the “above average” standards that they have been bringing to the table with the Marvel shows.
However, this is my least favorite of the collection due to the way the main character is played. He is just too whiny, pouty and frequently – downright dopey. I get that he is thrust into something bigger than him … but weren’t all those years of training supposed to fix that? If he was the best of the group, imagine what a bunch of babies the rest of them were!
Of course this works well for showing an arc of character growth … except he doesn’t seem to be doing any growing.
All of that being said, I guess it speaks to the strength of the show as a whole. The fact that it is still pretty good despite the portrayal of the lead character being sort of a mess.
To be fair that’s the way the show is supposed to portray him. He is a terrible Iron Fist and He s the only one that doesn’t seem to know it.
Pay no attention to those HEREISTITLE posts. I think we’ve been hacked.
Nice job getting back up Tony. Also that’s what she said.
In other fun music news, the daughter and I took in the Phoenix Symphony Gershwin show. Goddamn, their take on “Rhapsody in Blue” was inspired. Incredible to hear it performed live.
score A+++
For getting to hear a good show and ALSO for building your daughter’s musical background!
Indeed. Not many teenagers would willingly attend the Symphony. She’s pretty amazing.
There was another hack. I removed some old plugins and enabled a firewall on this site to see if it helps… though all 10 sites were hacked again, so… I’m not confident that this will fix it completely. Let me know if you see any wonkyness, but to be honest, the only people who might have caught it this time would have been someone with admin login access.
I will keep an eye on the Admin pages. Just lmk what I should be looking for.
I keep telling them the moose and squirrel aren’t here.
I really like the scrolling recently added comments feature. Not sure that was intentional but kind of cool.
Alas it doesn’t work on iPhones.
The new scrolling comments was to replace the “recent comments” plug-in that hadn’t been updated in like a billionteen years. I figured if I was going to take away the old one, then I could try to replace it with something that was moderately modern.
Face ID works rather well, you too can feel like a Man in Black when phoning your Mum.
Just not in bright sunshine…
Actually that’s not really fair, this was sunlight reflecting off a window that caused a hiccup.
Do you suppose it would work if you were a vampire?
It might make you sparkle.
Big thumbs up from me for The Defenders!
I have a few nitpicks, but overall, I’m pleased with it. There’s lot to like.
I was OK with Iron Fist, but this series took a lot of strides to correct that one’s mistteps.
I must confess, I have just not been able to dig any of the Marvel shows on Netflix. Tried them all, including the Defenders. I can’t really figure out what it is.
Haven’t watched The Punisher yet, but I’ve enjoyed all of the other series, to varying degrees. Even Iron Fist. My biggest disappointment was the second half of Luke Cage.
Jessica Jones was especially impressive. . . I found it more disturbing than most horror movies.
Ed, my vote for your problem with them is that they are all very uneven. The exception to that being Jessica Jones. It almost seems like they require half of the storylines for the male-led series to be excellent, while the other half are meh. But it’s most noticeable because the first half are always the good part and then they just sort of meh-out for the last half of the series.
So true that only Jessica Jones remained consistent from start to end. Every other season has started stronger than it finished, including DD S1.
Morning Pan
The Christmas fair was a bust. We didn’t even make table costs. We won’t be doing it again next year
Unfair!
On the upside, because I worked on the weekend, I have today off :cheerful:
I think I shLl sneak out for a bit. I need a few groceries, then I think i’ll Put gas in my car and wash it
Comixology has a sale on Peter David’s run of X-Factor. 😀
CP: Dispatch From Mar-A-Lago — L7
😀
I hope everyone (that celebrated it) had a good Thanksgiving. 😀
Same to you and T-Cat! It was nice to get a break.
Waiting in line at the car wash. It doesn’t get any more exciting than this
You won’t ever get rich,
But it sure beats diggin’ a ditch.
Walmart had a terrible selection of Christmas stockings. I might have to go into the city to find something
– “had a” + “is,” – “selection of Christmas stockings.”
I see that only 4 resonates with me. The push for an expanded universe is hurting creativity. I would add.
Create villains worth routing for.
Does every climax of a team up moving have the heroes fighting a poorly lite, overly complex, animated trash heep shot with a shaky cam?
Clarity is key, clarity of purpose, clarity of motives.
I prefer my team ups with another kind of… uh… climax
INDEED INDEED INDEED MEEEEEEEEEERRY Ching Dai Day!
Be good little children! Lest you get Black Blood of the Earth in your stockings!
But, what if I want some Black Blood of the Earth(tm)?
You mean oil?
Go ask Egg Shen
INDEED!
Stumped!
No one is falling for your vagueposts
LoPanta Claus is harsh. I’m not sitting on his knee this year.
Vampus can handle it…
Inspiration struck in a bowl of porridge.
Tiffany has finally seen a Godfather movie. We watched the first one tonight.
Now I want cannolis. But leave the car.
Why did the young wife in Italy have to die?!!!!!
*spoiler*
I never saw any of the Godfather movies either.
They are the high bar for film-making. Even Godfather III, which gets a bad rap.
So many wonderful scenes. I’d forgotten how much I liked the part where Michael and Enzo the baker are guarding the hospital.
They are great films and immensely quotable. Right up there with Casablanca. Godfather III’s biggest fault is that it came after Godfather and Godfather II, it is a good movie, but doesn’t stand in their same class.
Morning Pan
Brunch with the boss and one of our authors is on tap for today.
I’m waffling between two things for my DPSS gift. I’m going to have to make a decision soon, I guess.
Fascinating. Kevin Feige is from Westfield, NJ, a town where I worked in my early 20s, and where I later lived.
When you are in a photo with Stan Lee and Robert Downey Jr and YOU are the center of attention. That.
Back from brunch. I also got Mickey and Minnie stockings to hang over the fireplace
Finally finished the final book n the Hyperion Cantos series.
For me it’s the lesser of the novels, too much info dumping and some sections just feel like padding.
The fourth?
The Rise of Endymion
I approve this review. In general, I thought the Endymion books were weaker than the Hyperion ones…or maybe my expectations were just too high for them.
It’s been almost 20 years. . . . I recall enjoying them a lot, just not as much as the first 2.
And I guess you have to mix things up to keep ongoing stories fresh, but I liked the Shrike better as mystical, enigmatic, ultimate badass, as depicted in the first books.
Blood Bowl (back in the day) was always more fun in concept than in practice. I am intrigued by the Ogre games. . . . and I like the low-time-commitment games, so Samurai Gardener is definitely intriguing.
I don’t recall ever seeing Colditz here in the States.
Headline from the AV Club’s review of their new album:
“U2 gives too many fucks on the insufferable Songs Of Experience”
Shocked – – shocked I tell you! – – that the AVClub disparaged a release from a major, widely loved and respected band.
Although “You’re The Best Thing About Me” may be the worst song U2 has ever recorded.
You gotta read it. It’s so impressive on so many hate filled levels.
“lead single “You’re The Best Thing About Me”—the Jimmy Fallon of U2 songs‘
I still never trust their reviews.
“Then there is “The Blackout,” a bit of Paul Simon-esque rhyming around natural disasters: “Earthquakes always happen when you’re in bed, Fred / The house shakes, maybe was it something I said, Ned.” Later he rhymes “Jack” with “Zach.” “
Morning Pan
The Airdrie Santa Claus Parade is this weekend. Hubby wants to go, I still haven’t decided.
There. October sales have been entered. Now to enter October’s everything else
What % of October’s sales involved pumpkin spice?
Good God, none
*knock on wood* There hasn’t been a noticeable hack in two, going on three days now. I went to some pretty extreme measures (actually did work) to try and cut the head off this beast, so hopefully things will run smoothly for a bit.
FYI, that gif didn’t load on my first attempt. I had to edit the width and height to be 100%, instead of pixel-size values.
Oops, I should have also said that if you click “Responsive” – Yes, then it’ll work better. I must be too tired from chasing away the French (which seemed be the ones hitting the site the most).
Pictures hackers in berets with baguettes and wine intensely concentrated on the site.
CP: Clampdown — The Clash
Let’s not sit at the lab for 3+ hours again, k?
(pictures the boys from Breaking Bad, sitting in their lawn chairs in front of the camper, parked somewhere in a desert.
CW: Murder on the Orient Express (1974 version)
The music seems far to cheery at times for a murder mystery.
Hubby wants to put the tree up this weekend. I told him it’s way too early. We normally wouldn’t put it up for another couple of weeks. He says they have two up in his school already.
I think this is one discussion I’m going to lose
I put my shirt on backwards this morning, twice. Obviously clothing technology is beyond me this morning.
Fun article and im not sure if we are “in” for this movie- possibly
I’ve come to really love this AVClub column, which is nearing its end. It’s basically a year-by-year profile of what he considers to be the most important action movie of the year, with honorable mentions at the end. For some years, he gets into semi-obscure overseas films that I’ve never seen or heard of, but overall, I enjoy reading his take on classic films like Terminator, Aliens, Die Hard, John Wick, etc. This week is Mad Max: Fury Road.
I’d recommend starting with the first column for Bullitt, and going from there.
Enjoyed the 1981 trifecta. Damn fine year that was
He made the right choice with Raiders, but I’m glad he made a big deal about Road Warrior and EFNY.
I’m not sure why this is all in reply to Tiffany’s Disaster Artist post.
New Deadpan game….
Post a reply to a post that should be under another post and have that person find where that post should go.
I enjoyed Battle of the Sexes, good performances Emma Stone and Steve Carell.
+from
It made for a memorable episode of The Odd Couple.
Hooray for recycled jokes!
I should be working but… meh
I started watching Lizzie Borden Chronicles on Netflix. I can’t decide if I like it or not
Bespoiled
Bewitched
Bespoked.
..and it’s goodnight to Benson:
http://rol.st/2zNa5Y6
You ever watch Soap?
Not every episode but certainly enough to know about the show.
I had no idea that Benson was a spin-off of Soap. I used to watch Benson all the time as a kid.
I dunno about Benson but goddamn does Soap hold up.
I assume Benson does not hold up.
SAD!!!
B. Real.
B.Fresh
B. Careful.
B. Aware
Besmirched.
Morning Pan
I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today. I will finish royalties today…
So I guess you are going to finish royalties today..
My Grandmother’s brother was one of hundreds of thousands of American solders killed in Europe in the effort to eliminate the Nazi’s. Given what that effort cost us in human lives and tax payer treasure, I simply do not understand why we now even “tolerate” their presence in this country.
http://tinyurl.com/yc28wk4y
One of the “canceled events” was a Marching band competition that was basically the season ending Pinnacle competition for HS bands. We’re talking something that THOUSANDS of HS kids have spent thousands of hours in the heat, cold, rain – training for since last July. While their friends are off being kids, these bands have been standing in a field doing that drill “one more time”. We won’t even talk about the money spent on these shows. The kids are crushed. The Senior’s, for whom this would have been their last performance, are devastated.
There is a special place in hell for these Nazi MF’s.
Ok. I am better now.
Thanks for giving me a place to vent.
That is seriously fucked up. But as we’ve learned in the past year, the dying minority of frightened bigots don’t intend to go extinct quietly.
Expensive for the university as well. That was a major source of funding for their music programs. It will easily cost the 50k plus in revenue.
BTW – the other program that got canceled was a big science and technology fair for high school girls. They got two things they hate with that one … women AND science.
I thought he was older:
Rock and roll legend Fats Domino dies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41753839
Honestly – I didn’t know he was still alive.
How important was this guy to music as we know it?? RIP
Guess what. I finished royalties. The authors can res easy as, once again, they will be getting paid. :cheerful:
The lynch mob of almost unpaid authors goes home for another quarter..
Well no I’m not :
https://www.eater.com/2017/10/25/16461394/hawaii-best-food-restaurants
We had some pretty goddamn amazing food on Oahu and on the Big Island.
Nice:
http://www.unboundworlds.com/2017/10/long-time-ago-julie-e-czerneda-feeling/
Sorry Amazon but I’m Going to have to say no:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/25/16538834/amazon-key-in-home-delivery-unlock-door-prime-cloud-cam-smart-lock?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
I find it a weird coincidence that Robert Guillaume and Fats Domino die within a day of each other and they were both 89.
Yes, that was a particularly odd coincidence. Now, if they actually had the same birthday, I’d have to break out the tinfoil.
TIL: Robert Guillaume was the voice of Rafiki in The Lion King. Which, while I never realized at the time, hearing that laugh of his in my head it’s so very obvious that it was him.
People also seem to forget that he was the Phantom of the Opera.
…and that their names can be rearranged to spell
MULTIBARREL MASTODON UFOGIE !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8RvJ8N_MS8
(One of the best songs released this decade, btw)
It’s 2017 and today I just discovered that an english rock band called TRAFFIC released an album with a traditional folk song on it.
John Barleycorn must die.
Steve Winwood was a teenager when he was with that band.
Morning Pan
I think I shall spend the morning curled up in front of the fireplace. The cat approves
Caption:
Little boy looking up at older sister, smiling:
Can we kill them all now?
Sister looking down, also smiling:
Yes, yes we can.
Judas Priest w/ Saxon announced. Need to find a way to go.
See the difference between a joke and 3 dicks is that Van can’t take a joke…
*COUGH*
Get outta here that was caption GOLD! Gold I tell ya.
Oh, I get it now!
Oh friend! This had nothing to do with your caption…
Thor: Ragnarok
A fun film, go and see it and yes that includes you Lo.
Why wouldn’t I? That’s what my cheap ass theater is for!
How long did it take you to see Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2?
Black-Eyed Peas are seriously one of the worst bands of the past 20 years. Inane, stupid, godawful lyrics and moronic hooks. . . . they encapsulate pretty much everything that’s wrong with Pop music.
Yet somehow, even with the stupid, stupid, stupid lyrics and stupid, stupid, stupid video, they really did something right with this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Bda6_usuc
Well i’m Not sure but it did lead to this:
https://youtu.be/cHLbaOLWjpc
High marks for this!!!
I saw them at the 2008 DNC in Denver. That’s really all I have to say about them.
Unexplained wonders of the Universe.
Well then.
http://www.newsweek.com/universe-should-not-exist-cern-scientists-discover-692500
Speaking of things that should not exist … what a weird thing the “Chili Dog” is.
It’s meat, topped with meat.
… and so delicious.
Morning Pan
It was will surprise no one to hear I have another hubbiless evening.
Hubby is off to Edmonton for the day
The news just said, in Canada, Alberta is the highest in embracing Halloween costumes that are offence or insensitive. I love my redneck province
Maybe that can be Alberta’s tourism slogan:
“I love my redneck province”
or
“Alberta: where blackface is still funny!”
Oh and the film has two sequences when the film ‘ends’.
You have two sequences…
Today has been a fucking parade of first-world problems, so far. If I’d pitched this as a sitcom script, Hollywood would have rejected it as being “too unrealistic.”
I think I’ll do a play by play after lunch. Don’t know what it will be, but I’m sure it will be awesome
Stranger Things 2 came out today 🙂
How about a throwback, Halloween classic of some sort?
I meant for the PBP
Ok. It’s time
I will not do a pbp of stranger things as it’s too pop and I don’t want to get too spoiler on that
Thinking on J0e’s comment, I e come up with a compromise. I found a new Chucky movie that came out this year. So today,s movie is The Cult Of Chucky
The Netflix write up: Following a string of murders in the asylum where she’s confined, Nicaragua Pierce begins to wonder whether Chucky is real after all…
Da da dum!
Nica, not Nicaragua. Stupid autocorrect
Somehow, the autocorrected version has a better ring to it…
Oh, just so you’re warned, I had a lot of liquid this morning so there may be a few washroom breaks.
Pressing play now…
I think I’ll make it a challenge. Each PBP post will have no more than five words
Discussing the second amendment
He wants protection
She googled him
His babysitter was murdered
On a related note, I will also be doing a PBP, in rhyme, on Tuesday. Get your requests in before then
Back to Chucky
Rejected
Hidden safe
Shot up living Chucky head
Illegal in most states
Pot smoking Chucky
Torturing Chucky
Opening credits
Do they still do that?
She’s a pin cushion
Chuck’s a delusion
That is not real
No cameras in medium security
She was born that way
Baby!
Gum
The common room
Can you see me?
Being homeless is fucking bad
Ashley is an angel
Do you like red heads?
Fun king in a wheelchair
Really autocorrect?
She’s a mass murderer
Ghost lady is creepy
You think this is funny?
He has a Chucky doll
Chucky is her baby
Gross looking food
Her baby is dead
He’s multiple Malcom
Slut!
She looks like Jennifer Tilly
Chucky dolls everywhere
He’s a terrible therapist
Sit Chucky, sit
Now, don’t move
Damn it, I said…
Snow
Scalpel wielding Chucky
I see things
You’re next
Chucky sees red
As warned, time for a washroom break
Kitty demanded a tummy scrub, too
Chucky sewed her up
Buzz, buzz, buzz
Ghost lady is dead
Nica didn’t do it
It’s all in his head
Twins
Charles girlfriend
One. Now do the other
Melting Chucky
Walking her baby
Trashing her baby
Clair is freaking out
Burying Chucky?
Restraining Claire
Drugging Claire
Mass hysteria in action
Chucky is Malcolm
Braking glass
Eeewwww!
Now she’s a snow angel
Triplets?
She’s crazy
Hypnotize her with drugs?
Ha! A short blip!
Just long enough for me to complain
Anyway. Camera’s everywhere
How unprofessional
Time to join the club
It’s snowing again
What is wrong with you
Putting baby Chucky down
Breast feeding Chucky
One word. Disembowelled
Suffocating Chucky
Forgive me
She was a terrible mom
It’s a doll
Burying Chucky
She’s not buying it
Visiting hours are over
Committing himself
Night, night
Quads
Stupid doll shoe
Oop! Time for another washroom break
Ok, where was I?
Oh right.
No shoelaces
A mother’s love never dies
Will it hurt?
Sexy nurse is suspicious
She quits
Go to bed Malcolm
How did you do it?
A hell of a book
Re d shoes
No one’s going to listen
It’s all real
Voodoo fordummies.com
Drill, stab, slash
He sucked titty today
Cherry snow cone
She can walk
Hiya doc
Yuck!
He’s Charles
No, he’s a poser
Gross
Fighting Chucky
Shooting Chucky
Watermelon head
Laying a trap
Kissy face
Fuck that kid
Yup. It was a Chucky movie
Just went on IMDB. It turns out, Nica, the main girl in this movie is the actual daughter of the voice of Chucky
Chucky always reminded me of Sam Kinison.
Chucky reminds me of Grima Worm tongue
😀
Yah, Sam Kinison here as well.
Huzzah! I just watched “The Baby Sitter” (I think someone here recommended it. Bunny?) It was really quite good, especially for the genre.
Is that kid-friendly?
No, it isn’t, and I recommended it.
ditto YEA!
I just finished binge watching Stranger Things 2 on the trip back. Good stuff.
Mrs. TRA and I decided to re-watch season 1 of Stranger Things before tackling season 2. Then you add in the Talking Dead that we haven’t watched yet from the season premier of Walking Dead. We’re falling a bit behind. The good thing is, none of it’s going anywhere. We can watch as we need to.
So I’m onto Endymion in the Hyperion Cantos series.
I had forgotten the ickyness of Raul meeting the very young lass he will later sleep with due to the mechanations of time travel.
It’s almost as bad as Heinlein’s Door into Summer.
Was Summer the young lass?
Err no, RH wasn’t that clever.
😀
I don’t remember the icky.
I did like those 2 books too.
I didn’t either.
Basically she’s 12 with future visions about being sexually involved with the guy who rescues her.
Ick.
I’d forgotten that detail.
I do recall some brilliant moments later.
Hey Guys
I’ve been having a lot of problems with my current email provider so I’m slowly switching everything over to a Gmail account. If you want to update your records, it’s the same beginning (firstnamelastname) at gmail dot com
My old one is still active for now. I can receive replies to anything I send, but any new emails, should be sent to the new email address or there is no guarantee I will get it.
Noted!
I tried send a test email to r***d*****@gmail.com and it bounced with an error saying the account doesn’t exist.
I’ll send you an email via my gmail account. Shaw says they fixed the issue so, in theory, my old email should work now, I’m just not counting on it.
Feel free to use my email account to help test it out too.
This mead tastes like babycham.
CW: Stranger Things S2 E1
Fun day of nostalgia with old friends at the PIY Podcasting event. Chuck Tomasi was kind enough to call me up to the table for the Legends of Podcasting event. Good times.
It’s always spookier when played on a theremin:
https://youtu.be/TIfQ8loFOu4
It’s apparently harder than it looks to play.
Email and I hate eachother.
I see what’s wrong with the gmail account. Will play with it after lunch.
So the problem with the gmail account was bunny is a doh-head and doesn’t even know how to spell her own last name.
In Theory, both the new and old account should work now.
Doh head meaning, DOH! Head, ala Homer?
yup.
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2017/10/29/video-trumps-downfall-went-viral-just-beautifully-done/
If only.
Yeesh, that Ivanka smile tho….
Morning Pan
Today we turn a manuscript into a book.
Oh, and my email thing seems to have been sorted out so you can continue using the old one if you want.
The problem was the way Shaw deals with deleted emails. Normally, you delete an email it goes into your “deleted Items” folder (or trash, or whatever your system calls it). Then you delete the items in your deleted items folder (or clear your trash, or whatever) and it goes away forever. Apparently Shaw has an extra step. When you clear your deleted items folder, everything goes into another part and is not permanently gone. You have to actually go into this third folder and delete it again. I wasn’t aware of this extra step so I had years of double deleted items taking up space so I had reached my limit. Once I cleared this third folder all was good.
Of course, it would have been nice if Shaw actually told me I was reaching my limit so I could figure out why but no, they had to simply stop emails. I could get/send simple emails, but anything that had any kind of graphic of attachment would not go through.
It’s a little brisk out this morning
Highly recommend the movie Bandaid with Zoe Lister-Jones, Adam Pally and Fred Armisen. There was a lot of attention put on the female staff which is great, but the story is good as well. The music featured is highly folk/indie feel. http://m.imdb.com/title/tt5816374/?ref=m_nv_sr_1
off to the post office!
I’ve been sitting on the highway on ramp now for 25 minutes. Not even the highway. The on ramp. Yay.
Still on the on ramp. The guy in front of me has a GOT 9MM plate, and is now gesticulating angrily out of his window at the traffic.
wtf is going on?
Motorcycle fatality on the 101, closed traffic in both directions. Luckily for me, I took heed of the signs that warned of the accident and I got of the 101 at Scottsdale Rd. and was about 10 minutes late to work. Others were an hour late, and I understand that congestion is going to get worse before it gets better. Good luck Jack.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/scottsdale-traffic/2017/10/30/loop-101-closed-both-directions-scottsdale-crashes/812886001/
Yeah that seems to happen a lot down there…
Yep, too often.
I made it to the office!
This is the worst traffic jam I’ve ever seen in AZ, although it’s par for the course in NJ and CA.
Oh well. As bad as it made my morning, the day was a lot worse for the motorcyclist.
This is what our conversation was like yesterday buying Halloween candy
Me- we only had about a half dozen kids last year so we shouldn’t get too much
Hubby reaches for a box of 100 mini chocolate bars
Me – that’s too many
Hubby – we’ll give each kid two
Me – still too many
Me, looking at the box – this box has caramilk bars, among others. You don’t like caramilk so won’t eat those that are left over
Hubby – you can eat them
Me – I don’t want to. I’d rather get less, then not have a bunch left over
Hubby, adding another box of 50 candy bars to the cart- it’ll be fine
Me – shakes head
Basically, hubby wanted a bunch of chocolate for himself and was using Halloween as an excuse to do so
https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/326503-chelyabinsk-8-wheel-aatv
Those kooky Soviets.
Want.
During my trip last week, I also watched “The Girl With All The Gifts”. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t find it all that great. It was interesting to think of it as a prequel of sorts to “The Last Of Us”.
It reminded me more of I am Legend..the novel that is.
Julia’s Eyes was better than I remembered.
If you don’t mind subtitles it’s a nice creepy thriller.
Tickets acquired for Thor: Ragnorok this weekend!!
We introduced Tee to the wonders of the Cornish Pasty Co. tonight.
You guys should get a finders fee from those folks!
…and so the horrors begin.
He didn’t get the Royale with Cheese. . .
Morning Pan
Brunch with the boss today
Will be doing a PBP this afternoon. I wonder if Netflix has the original Halloween.
I have REALLY enjoyed the Orville this year but that last episode, “Majority Rules” was one of the worst hours of TV I’ve ever not enjoyed.
#myopinionMINEffffppppttt
I bet you enjoyed the Groundhog Day of episode 7 of DISCOVERY didn’t you?
That’s assuming that 1) you would pay or 2) you would find a “pirate” site. Not paying for CBS Access, so haven’t watched ANY Discovery.
Orville has impressed me so far. Exceeded my expectations.
You forgot ‘living outside of North America, it’s on Netfix in the UK.
Don’t watch Discovery
I couldn’t make it through episode 1. I may watch Episode 3 by itself, since everyone raved about it.
^^ Talking about The Orville. I have not experienced any episodes of STD yet.
Trick or Treat!
You can stick pumpkins where the sun don’t shine!
I’m buttoning down to ignore the little burgers tonight.
Mwahahahahahah !!!!!
How can pumpkins grow without sun? No pie for you mister
I hope eggs get thrown at your house
I shall make an omelette
Now it’s All Hallows Eve,
The moon is full.
Will she trick or treat?
I bet she will.
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So the radio station I was listening to this morning played this song. Strange.
I’m still trying to figure out how you broke the margin.
The power of Peter Steele knows no bounds
It’s boo bitchcraft.
Life has come up. There won’t be. pbp todY
Speaking of The Black Hole (on other social media)… cool new Maximilian figure from Hot Toys. I always loved his retro-future look
http://www.mwctoys.com/images1/review_ssig88_large.jpg
You ain’t fooling anybody old man with that Tom foolery.
Plus Legend is a seriously ducked up film.
We need a film where Tim Curry’s devil-guy from Legend hires IG-88 to perform some Bounty Hunter task.
I’d watch that
CP: Tunnel Of Love — Dire Straits
Well that is weird:
https://peoplematchingartworks.tumblr.com
To me, most of those were a stretch
Well I live with snakes and lizards
And other things that go bump in the night
‘Cause to me everyday is Halloween
I have given up hiding and started to fight
I have started to fight
And that’s how you do it.
We finished Stranger Things 2 tonight. . . We never binge, but still managed to get through this in 2 sittings.
It’s spooky when I comment on deadpan.
I read through all the things and then say..
I loved the Sliders/TNG repurposed Orville episode.
I loved the Cause and Effects repurposed TNG episode of Discovery.
Long live sci-fi for Cj
I think the reason Orville is so well praised is not because it is a great show. It’s more along the lines of it feels more like Star Trek then the new show does.
The new Star Trek would be a fine show if it wasn’t under the Star Trek umbrella. If they made a few changes, such as changing some of the races (the klingons could look like they do now since they don’t really look like Klingons, just change their race name to something non Star Trek), and just called it Discovery, without being associated with Star Trek, I think I would like it better. I know it’s silly, but it’s because they call it “Star Trek Discover” that it doesn’t work for me.
Probably correct. Tho to be fair when you compare this first season to TNGs first season, Orville is far superior. I’m hopeful Orville grows as TNG did
Long live Cj !
Morning Pan
Sometime today the new website goes live. Let’s see how many issues there are.
We had about two dozen kids last night. More than last year but still not enough to justify the 150 mini chocolate bars hubby insisted we get.
We had about the same amount as usual. But we over-bought this year and some people gave us additional candy. So now I have a grocery store plastic bag mostly full of candy bars that I really like. I don’t see maintaining my current weight through this holiday season.
We had two sets of “Parents plus one kid” and then one large group of kids with two dad’s along. THEY were VERY enthusiastic about their experience in visiting our house and that made all the work worth while.
Only got one knock, my ‘fuck off’ firkd must have been working.
Field!
I went out since I didn’t have my own kids. It’s the first time I’ve avoided Halloween almost entirely.
Well, we’re live. Let’s see how many messages we get on broken things.
give us the link and we can check it out for you if you want.
My apologies I was just passive aggressive on the deadpan group on FB.
😀
And I’d even commented on your original post!
It’s fine I’ll go full on aggressive…
Oh you such a cutie when you do that.
Seconded
B! E! A G G! R E S S I V E!
So give it up
I’ve got to have
I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW, I SWALLOW
Oh were we not… doing.. that…
Nevermind.
Just don’t spit.
Its funny how dead on you are are dont even know it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvbctTRpD0A
Any humour is always accidental.
Trying to help with point-slope form homework. Holy crap….. that part of my brain’s attic is full of cobwebs and dust.
My brain hurts.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/just-to-be-clear-the-witch-king-of-angmar-was-an-insignificant-volunteer-in-the-great-army-of-the-dark-lord-sauron
“The real scandal is the Fellowship’s collusion with Saruman the White, which the left-wing media still refuses to report on.
Brilliance.
One more for you! Funny, I remember thinking the same exact thing at this scene.
https://www.avclub.com/come-on-stranger-things-no-one-ever-got-that-far-in-d-1819983547
(Unimportant spoilers for Episode 1 of ST2.)
We’re four episodes in to Stranger Things 2. Enjoying it so far.
We wrapped up yesterday, good stuff.
Looks like I will be waiting till after the 21st to watch.
Someone gets home from college then and we’re going to wait and watch it together.
J0e, it’s tychebooks.com
The biggest problem we seem to be having is Google Calendar doesn’t want to show the events. Google says it with our website, our provider says it’s a Google issue. If I can’t get it working this morning, I may have to use a different calendar
Other than the calendar thing it all looks really good on this old Macbook Pro running OS 10.7.5 and using an out dated(48.0.2) Firefox browser.
At first glance, the calendar looks OK, but that’s about as far as I QA’ed it.
Morning Pan
Today we wrassle with the website calendar.
Huzzah! I got the calendar working!
Now! It’s time to clean the washrooms.
Time to go out into the snow and get some groceries.
Lucky me.
Bedecked.
Oh wait, we stopped doing that last week.
It is chilly out there. I think I’m a little jealous of my boo. She’s going to Disneyland on Saturday. Much warmer and less snow than here
Just think of the crowds and the paedophiles then feel glad you ain’t going.
wtf pedophiles?
They have a history of not checking out their employees.
I though this was an urban myth, but a quick Google search brought up a HuffingtonPost with a disturbing title, that I’m not going to click on my work computer. Yeesh.
My brother-in-law is a former Disneyland employee and still obsessive about the park. We’ll have to ask him what he knows.
My neice had a rather narrow escape at Eurodisney.
Well you know those lousy Euros….
In all sincerity, ew. Sorry that happened.
Dustin Hoffman
Definitely a pig. Definitely… definitely a gross jerk. Definitely…
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/dustin-hoffman-sexually-harassed-me-i-was-17-guest-column-1053466
I’m in the mood for a Doug Mclure film, I wonder if Amazon or Netflix have one for streaming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6jSKetRBU0
Yes, but no films for streaming.
Wayne Brady + PMJ = win!
https://nerdist.com/wayne-brady-sings-thriller-like-a-1930s-jazz-song/
The quarterback for the Patriots?
CP: Howl — Jake Houlsby
This is a real product. I admit I was a little sad the Amazon comments were so normal. I really wanted to see comments about exercising with a ball gag
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-WbFxaWhTwU
I hope the “People who bought this also bought” includes the Shake Weight.
Hubby’s coming home in the yuck. I expect his drive time to be extra long
Safe yuck driving.
Goodnight mzzzzzz
Morning Pan
Today it’s about housework. Woo hoo?
CP: The Friends of Mr. Cairo — Jon & Vangelis
Wow, that one takes me back.
Did you find your way home?
Lord he wasted and he can’t find his way home
I am boycotting housework until after Sunday.
Fun day off, doing our family moon in CA before the baby gets here.
Totally squeeeee
Just watched “Newsies” (Netflix).
Enjoyed it.
Makes me wish Ken Burns would give “Unions in America” his documentary treatment.
The 90s Disney musical with Christian Bale?
They did a “Broadway” staged version of it.
This was a recording of one of those live performances (although I don’t think it was being done at a Broadway venue).
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-1202606519/
Interesting. I’d prefer stories from the Silmarrillion or a faithful Hobbit, though. The LOTR story has been done for this generation.
It does seem a bit early to try a reboot on this story, even if it is into a TV series format.
I think it says more about where Bezos wants to take Amazon, though.
God no.. please… why… please…why….weren’t we all done WE WERE ALL DONE!
So The Orville got renewed for S2, yah!
Really good news. It has been an uneven season to be sure but the potential for true greatness is there
So:
https://blog.artfido.com/breaking-the-crazy-cat-lady-stereotype-by-photographing-grown-men-with-their-adorable-cats-2/
” and breaks the “crazy cat lady” stereotype by photographing men in their homes”
Um … no.
I think the author fails to understand THAT particular “stereotype”.
These are great images tho. But yeah, I’m confused at the author’s agenda.
sigh
I’m sorry, rest of the world.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/358640-epa-names-industry-state-officials-to-advisory-boards
“Among the dozens of new members to the Science Advisory Board, Clean Air Safety Advisory Committee and Board of Scientific Counselors are representatives of Phillips 66 Co., Southern Co. and the North Dakota Petroleum Council.
Some of the new advisers have controversial scientific views, including one who believes air quality is too clean for children, while the new members include multiple climate change skeptics.”
Between W. and this admin, the ecological damage will never be undone.
Seriously, the snow can stop any time now.
We finished Stranger Things 2. It was good.
Tomorrow we see Thor. I expect it to be good too.
So on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being perfect and 1 being Marvels Inhumans, how would you rate Marvels Inhumans?
ouch!
Man, for once I agree with you. Even Agents of SHIELDS S1 is better than this.
Daredevil S2 is better than this…
I was hopeful as I did not hate it after the first few episodes but jeez… and I can get past a LOT of stupid in my genre shows/films.
We couldn’t get more Agent Carter? I realize that show was super expensive and this one..erm… isnt… but you CAN’T tell me you couldn’t make a great Carter season with the budget of Inhumans. Because you could!
You only have to tolerate it for one or two more weeks.
Thor: Ragnarok was a blast!!!
I want to see it again in the theatre.
I remember Skurge from comics I’d read as a kid. Great to Karl Urban do him right in the new Thor. It’s a good one.
Two end-credits scenes.
Hmmm:
https://ops.fyi/2ze9YaH
Hmmmm.
Murder on the Orient Express
Well acted, enjoyable enough, brings nothing new to the table (how could it?).
If you haven’t see the 1973 film or read the book then yes go for it, otherwise save your pennies.
Hope you have a awe inspiring, super, duper birthday, Pixie!
Thanks Bunny! It is off to a great (yet early) start. ❤️
I’ve wished Tiffany a happy birthday on Facebook, and now here!
Happy birthday, my love.
Thanks, Hunney Bunny! It was an unforgettable and memorable family weekend. I love youuuuuuuu
Happy post Birthday Wishes!!! Maybe the good times will keep rolling for a while. 🙂
Thanks, j0e!
Once this baby comes, we will be making memories and good times every day!!!
Saw Thor yesterday. It was fun
Back at my desk on Monday morning. Yes!
Mondays. . . Boooooooo
I’ve been tasked to do a mash-up using primarily Harry Potter theme music. This should be interesting.
Jack you should think about this if you can make it… https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1526336
https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/06/fox-held-talks-about-selling-most-assets-to-disney/
Scary?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/health-science/monkeypox/?utm_term=.0b6f7b09beda
Scary???
Not scary. Rad. This would have brought Deadpool and the X-Men over into the Marvel film universe. That alone would have been worth it.
Yeah THIS was in response to Disney/Fox. Not monkey pox…
Ha! I hope there’s a villain in an upcoming movie called Monkey Pox.
They can cover it on Pox News.
JAck I know youre an accomplished guitar player… baut can you pull THIS off??
https://www.facebook.com/ThalesAlmeidaFit/videos/1962438420649002/?hc_ref=ARRiyJqAS29GR7ET-5IpIer9pVun-PabF1lcimnxwl5Rd-r8d5i2TS1zID-u3iuFF7I
Pretty impressive electric sounds from a nylon stringed classical guitar.
In Soviet Russia electric nylon plays you.
For the Geo fans in the house:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2HrIudXzh0&feature=youtu.be
The moon to the left is a part of my thoughts, and a part of me is me.
In the night, I am real.
Well then, who is the Walrus?
Koo koo ka choob
Hmmm:
https://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2017/11/essen-2017-best-board-games-from-the-biggest-board-game-convention-2/
CW: Shameless (US) S7E12
Just as S8 starts I was reminded that I hadn’t watched the finale of S7
Morning Pan
Kitty and I are curled up in front of the fireplace
Eye for eye tooth for tooth
You all know what I mean
What’s the use of crying for help
When no one hears you scream?
Shake hands with beef.
No voices in the sky…
…shaking hands with beef.
With the Iron Fistful of Cheese.
I think I shall bake cookies
Hi peeps! If you love Yankee Candles, or know anyone who does — our sweet Sophie is fundraising for her Ice skating troupe.
Reach out to me or Jack for details. The sale ends Nov 15.
TIA!
https://shirtbattle.com/collections/sport-mashups
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/04/anger_causes_violence_treat_it_rather_than_mental_illness_to_stop_mass_murder.html
Interesting premise, and I agree with the agenda. You could argue that Anger Disorders should qualify as mental illness, though . . .
Yes. I am frustrated by what I see as an article that tries to address a problem(Yea!) the rest of society wants to not talk about … yet is contributing to the “miss-understanding” of the problem itself (Boo).
/essay
The author seems to want to define “mental illness” as only in the category of people who hear voices our have some other dramatically debilitating problem with reality.
What about depression? What about anxiety? What about a host of other things that slowly cause people to turn inward, becoming lost in their own ever darkening thoughts which can eventually result in violence to themselves or others? Is THAT not mental illness?
Let’s face it, to the general public the term “mental illness” is synonymous with either people who “ride the short bus” or wear a straight jacket. So there is a huge stigma associated with even talking about the first sign of any of the problems I mentioned above much less going to seek help. So an illness that could have been stopped or controlled at an early stage, is allowed to metastasizes into something completely debilitating to the individual if not outright dangerous to themselves and perhaps others.
So why not remove the stigma by calling these issues as something other than a mental illness?
Ah, now there’s the Catch 22. Treatment cost money. If insurance is willing to pay anything towards this at all it has to be diagnosed as an illness.
Now I circle all the way around to the mass shooting thing. The gun lobby wants to paint the mass shootings as a “mental health issue” not a gun issue. Fine then. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Time for the NRA and the whole RNC to step up and lobby for free or reduced counseling to everyone. Make getting at least a twice a year mental cleaning as common as a twice yearly dental cleaning. You go in, sit down and tell someone who ISN’T an anonymous Face Book Troll what is on your mind!
A cure all? Of course not but it is a start. Plus maybe it makes seeing a counselor more socially “normal”.
In any case, it sure seems better than the current solution which is “Wait for someone to lose it and start shooting into a crowd – then hope there are a bunch of untrained civilians with their own guns nearby who will start spraying bullets into the crowd as well, until the original shooter finally gets killed.”
That’s not a “fix”, that is the plot to a “grind house” movie. It is also what the Governor of Texas has suggested as a solution.
/essay
A couple of further thoughts:
-The Democrats also need to stop cowering before the NRA and the right-wing zealots and step up.
-I like that the article deflates the automatic “it’s not guns, it’s mental illness” lazy defense that gets trotted out after mass shootings.
-Let’s start addressing the anger problem in the US. All of the major evil forces of influence (trump, foxnews, alex jones) got powerful by stoking anger.
(Nobody told me it was Tumbleweed Tuesday)
Another bites the dust:
https://t.co/BslSAdznDX
I finally finished watching Orphan Black. It was a good run.
It went wacky on a bunch of occasions, but we enjoyed it too.
multiple “thumbs up” here as well
True, but it managed to bring everything together in a satisfying conclusion. Not bad for a 5-year run on a TV show.
The Deuce S1 Ep1 is under our belts.
Hooray for male full frontal and not being shy about it. Equality for once!
Thumbs up! cough
Morning Pan
Last week we had book three of a trilogy come out. Today it’s all about making them into a box set.
Box set assembled and awaiting a cover
Garbage gathered and ready to go out in the morning
All in all, a productive morning
Whose trilogy?
The Helix books by Pat Flewwelling
Pretty petty Priti Patel…
http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-11-19/the-10-worst-power-ballads-ever-written
All Internet List rules apply.
Still applies
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/the-10-best-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world.html?utm_source=PMNL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=171108
Actually a pretty good list!
Oh maybe I got the rules confused
A bit of Xmas joy…
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/e6absolutetreasure/a-very-electric-sixmas-and-chill-out?
Speaking of Christmas, should one of us contact Amy about this year’s secret Santa?
Who’s in charge of the Amy bat-symbol?
Tomorrow is Carl Sagan day. I’m sure he won’t mind if you celebrate tonight.
Just don’t put billions and billions of candles on the cake.
I had to admit my first thought was who?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4875795/karin-dor-dead-bond-girl-you-only-live-twice-sean-connery/?utm_source=FBPAGE&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SprnklrSUNOrganic&UTMX=Editorial:TheSun:FBLink:Statement:News
From today’s Metal Asylum post I see Rachel Bolan is still “rocking” that nose to ear chain.
Is it ironic that I didn’t remember him?
Dave “Snake” Sabo says, “no”
Motörhead Monday Morning!!!!!
On a… Thursday…
\m/
ditto’s ignoring me:sad:
*sigh* Let’s try that again
🙁
Or yknow, he is sick as hell and busy as shit. I mean either or….
pfffft :tongue:
https://www.avclub.com/jimmy-kimmel-admits-he-was-wrong-urges-everyone-to-sig-1820280869
Master-level play.
Serious brilliance
The Killing of the Sacred Deer is one fucked up film.
So don’t say you weren’t warned.
Seeing talk that Cold Stone Creamery is offering free ice cream to men with full beards today, but nothing from their official site. Could it be true?
That’s bigoted against beardless men, who can I sue?
Only in India. They confirmed
Outrage!
And now Louis CK is a fucking pig. God damn it
Disappointing. His antics are disgusting, and I’m not giving him a pass, but — according to the accounts, he always asked first, never forced himself, and never physically touched any of the women.
Some of the women say they felt uncomfortable saying no, because of his position of power and fame, which is fucked up. But IMHO, while this is creepy as fuck, he’s still far less of an evil predator than Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump, Roy Jones, Kevin Spacey, etc.
Please feel free to disagree with me, or call me out if I’m being too easy on Louis CK.
No Ill agree with the point that he’s a different kind of scumbag than the other names you’ve written. And a couple accounts say that, while he did ask, he was pretty much in the act of doing it when he asked. No all, a coupole. Still… threatening people’s careers (even if it is thru an agent) if they tell is the biggest dick move you can do.
True. And I will never give the “but it was his agent, not him” defense.
Oh! I forgot Bill Cosby.
Oh puddin…
If his participants did not openly agree to his antics, then he should’ve stopped. It’s kinda like Date Rape and how guys (usually it’s the guy) says “she didnt say no, so…”
I funno – thats my take
The other guy with the mustache on Magnum PI has died.
For years, I thought he was the voice of KITT too.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-hillerman-dead-magnum-pi-actor-was-84-1056800
CYNFUL!!!!!
Wowza! You have knocked me out of my socks (and baby socks) with your adorably, awesome homemade goodies for Baby M!!! I love it all. Thank you for being thoughtful – our winter baby will be cozy, for sure.
Yes, thank you very much! The hooded blanket with the ears is a big hit. 🙂
You’re welcome. I tried to stick with colors close to what I’ve seen you wear.
Oh and I keep fighting myself wanting to explain the snuggle sack, but I think you’ll figure it out. Let me know if you have any questions.
Morning Pan
Another busy morning for this bunny
Today I’m working on a nonfiction book. I hate putting these together. Between drawings text boxes, and footnotes, it takes four times longer to put one together than our other books
All those lovely facts just waiting to squirrel themselves into your brain.
The roads going into the city were wuite the adventure
*sigh*
Wuite = quite
Sure autocorrect, change things that don’t need it but ignore obviously misspelled words
Home safe, stupid roads
Got some good news from work. One of our books has had the movie rights purchased. I know that doesn’t mean it will actually make it to film, but still pretty cool.
What it really means is extra work for me as they want sales stats
Excellent on both counts! I hope you get at least a strong supporting role in the film.
😆
The only thing we hope is it actually goes to film and the book sales get a boost as a result
That IS swell!
Make sure they let you do your own stunts! It builds acting cred.
Yknow I’m fucking done with men too.
RIP Chuck Mosley. You may not kno whim, but you know the band he helped create. Faith No More’s first two albums were seminal in my growing up…. and I still rock out hard to them today.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/10/chuck-mosley-former-lead-singer-of-faith-no-more-dies-at-57
Fuck addiction.
So we all say. 🙁
Thx JJ. I know some folks on here don’t feel addiction is a disease… but it’s truly one of the worst
He occupied a small but important place in music history. RIP, Chuck. We *do* care a lot.
I… I just… I can’t….
https://www.avclub.com/george-takei-has-now-been-accused-of-sexually-assaultin-1820353394?
Burn it all down, BURN IT!
My first response is “oh this guy is lying. Takei has always been outspoken against this kind of stuff. Steven Segal OF COURSE did all his dirtbag stuff that he is accused of. But this is George Takei. He would never.”
But that’s a dangerous line of assumption isnt it?
A delineation here between this and other recently reported “assaults” is that, by the accusers own description, they were not meeting under any premise of a professional or business situation. This was a date where there was drinking before the incident occurred.
So you have two consenting adults, voluntarily agreeing to be alone together in an intimate setting … where there was reportedly enough drinking that one of them reports becoming woozy.
If all occured as the younger man says, perhaps Takei mistook the other’s intentions? According to the younger man, when he asserted to Takei that he did NOT want to be physical Takei said ‘OK, fine.’ He did not press him further nor did he make any threats.
On it’s own, this story has enough “grey area” to give Takei the benefit of doubt.
If similar stories arise about him I reserve the right to change that opinion.
“So you have two consenting adults, voluntarily agreeing to be alone together in an intimate setting … where there was reportedly enough drinking that one of them reports becoming woozy.”
Man I just can’t go there. Justy because you consent to drinking and being alone together doesn’t mean you consent to assault.
That being said there are other holes in his story that give me pause
Woa … didn’t mean to imply there was consent to assault.
I meant to imply that two people willingly entered an intimate situation … that could easily be interpreted as “let’s go back to my place for sex.” and one of them DID (according to this account) interpret it that way. When the other adult made it clear that it was not what they wanted the activity immediately stopped with no further demands or pressure.
What I am saying is, if Takei was intending to be nefarious he either would have continued the “assault” or he would have applied some sort of psychological pressure “Hey, this is good for your career” “Hey, you’ll never work in this town again.”
This just sounds like a two people who made completely different and incorrect assumptions about where a date was going and when that mistakes was spoken things stopped.
In this case “No” meant “No” and was respected as meaning such.
I (once) like(d) some of these guys who’ve been accused, like Cosby, Louis CK, Spacey, Whedon, Takei, etc., but if they’re proven guilty, then all of that is the past. We should shun/reject proven perpetrators of this kind of shit. Their victims need our full support, because they’ll never fully recover.
But as someone who’s been subjected to every kind of bullshit false accusation from a malicious psychopath with dishonest intentions, I know firsthand how important it is to validate claims. And the falsely accused need our support even more now than before.
I’ve seen commentary on FB from a few saying that regardless of anything, they believe the victims. This is fucking unacceptable. Treat alleged victims with sympathy and take them seriously – – but don’t automatically assume they’re being truthful. Don’t automatically hate someone based on unverified words.
/rant
No no. I just think in these cases you can’t simply blow off the accuser just like you shouldnt automatically assume guilt. Well unless literally 5-20 people all come out with similar stories about the same person. Then, yeah, you kinda take the victims at their word there. I’m looking at you, gross fuckface Brett Ratner
I’m up amd streaming NASA’s feed of the Antares rocket launch — where my nephew’s science experiment will make its way to ISS! So neat!
…..and they just scrubbed the launch for the day, due to an unauthorized aircraft in the area during the final 45 seconds of countdown.
So disappointing.
🙁
Hubby accidentally saw a space shuttle launch
He was in Florida for a conference. He and some coworkers were out on a restaurant patio for dinner when they hear and feel a deep rumbling. They liked around and saw the shuttle launching. I was a little bit jealous when he told me that evening
(Yes, I know it’s coincidence not accident, I just think it’s funnier to say he accidentally saw a shuttle launch)
I guess no stupid airplanes flew into the shuttle’s airspace…
Chilaquiles?
Empty theater for Murder on the Orient Express. Good or bad, not a good sign for literary adaptation movies.
I liked it!!! I thought the cinematography was stunning
Definitely. I’d read the book a few years ago, and I was pleased with this take on it.
Granted, I’ve never seen any other film adaptation.
Happy Birthday ditto!!!
Ditto for ditto!
Today’s launch was a success!
It was cool to watch the streaming of it. My sister and nephew were at the launch and said was an amazing sight and sound to see.
Neat.
Woot !!! for a successful launch.
Ditto! Have a super birthday!
Thanks! I wish I was feeling better though.
Ditto the ditto happy birthday wishes! And I hope that birthday wish comes true.
Happy Birthday, Ditto!
Yknow I’ve never actively been angry at a tv show. That is until I watched Marvels Dumbhumans. What an insipid, poorly written and executed, unevenly acted, waste of time and money this show was. I’m glad it’s done. I hope it’s dead. I weep for Jack Kirby’s corpse rolling around in it’s grave
Digging The Deuce on HBO, but damn, the whole show is skeezy. I feel like I need to take a shower after each episode.
It’s a David Simon joint, if that matters to anyone.
cold pizza for breakfast, it how I roll today.
Fratboy life
Read as: Fatboy Life.
And i thought — rude
The roofers who were supposed to show up at 7am … showed up at at 6:25am.
and so the fretting begins. Two days of waiting to see if they do more damage then they fix. Two days of having an army of strangers crawl all over my personal space.
uncomfortable
Are you going to wipe their memories after they have finished the job?
If only I could wipe mine.
Your what?!?!?!?!?!
Tiiiiiin roof. Rusted.
*slow clap*
hehe
Kudos to BIll Gates for truly putting his money where his mouth is.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-dementia-gates/bill-gates-makes-100-million-personal-investment-to-fight-alzheimers-idUSKBN1DD0S3
Many kudos. Fuck Alzheimers.
Ah work. A good way to spoil an otherwise lovely day.
Definitely interrupted my nap today.
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2014/01/nation-wonders-if-guy-who-loves-winter-also-likes-getting-fucking-choked-to-death/
The Canadian Onion.
I know a lot of people who like The Beaverton but I could never get into it.
Double entendre intended??
No one likes winter in Beaverton.
This sounds like a scene from The Deuce
Haven’t watched yet.
Here is a link about the Antares rocket launch from Sun morning, includinf a few pics and video of launch and a detailed explanation of the payload.
http://www.space.com/38751-orbital-atk-cygnus-space-station-cargo-launch-crs8.html
w00t
I second the :w00t:
Google hole-puncher doodle is a cute one.
Morning Pan
Later this morning kitty goes in for her annual shots.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/25/how_to_make_your_last_name_plural_on_holiday_cards_and_avoid_apostrophe.html
Merry Xmas from the Manganses.
Basic electrical theory, apparently taught by Dr. Strangelove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a21zh-obKWg
This looks fun!
Cool:
https://youtu.be/bAkEd8r7Nnw
“That’s how you get ants.”
I know. Right?
Morning Pan
Hubby has this week off. While I love him dearly, and am glad to see him, he certainly messes with my routine.
Finished the layout (draft 1) of the nonfiction book two days early. Now I can spend the rest of the week paying attention to hubby :happy:
Attention Deadpan!
It’s time to start organizing the annual Deadpan Secret Santa exchange! I’m reposting here for those who didn’t see the post in the Facebook group. All Deadpanites are invited to participate. The following people have already opted in:
The Energizer Bunny
Vanamonde
ditto
Jack
Tiffany (see note below)*
Rhettro
Jeremy from Seattle
David LoPan
Lone Guise Knight (I believe that’s The Roaming Asshat on this site?) said he was a Mmmmmaybe
*Tiffany, you said of FB that you and Baby M were both in – does that mean I should assign someone to buy a gift specifically for Baby M? Instead of, or in addition to a gift for you?
As a refresher, here’s how it works:
– Between now and next Saturday (Nov. 25), send me a Facebook PM or an email (amybowenwrites at gmail) to say you’re in and give me your shipping address, if I don’t already have it or it’s changed since last year.
– On Sunday morning, Nov. 26, I will randomize the list of participants and send you a message back with the name and address of your giftee.
– Please ship your giftee a gift of approximately $10-20 so that it arrives in time for Christmas. Nerdy gifts are generally appreciated. 🙂
– You will receive a similar gift from the person assigned to you.
Happy gifting!
Thanks for running this again, Santa Amy!
I’d recommend reposting this to the FB Deadpan page.
Lone Guise Knight is not The Roaming Asshat (formerly UsedHair), they’re separate people. Although now that you mention it, I’ve met them both in person, but never seen them together at the same time. . . )
What Jack said. Thank you Amy! :cheerful:
I have no idea who the Lone Guise Knight is. However that actually makes perfect sense for the “never seen them together at the same time” scenario. I hope that my alternate l life is more fascinating than this one. I just equally hope that it never leads to any “his name was Robert Paulson” scenarios.
Zomg! Not at all, Amy. I just include her in everything now 🙂
So a pedophile, a disgraced ex-judge and a grifter walk into a bar and the bartender says, “Hi Roy!”
Careful now, Roy is the only person that can make the nation right with God.
Let’s hope that this is the last time period in human history when a piece of shit like that is still celebrated by any segment of the population.
I am double-posting; simply because my nephew is AWESOME!
He and his team were interviewed today by a local TV Station (sorry it is FOX). Ian is my nephew and he is the big guy, who is rocking the purple shirt.
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/valley-high-school-students-experiment-launched-into-space#
That’s cool, Pixie.
Last night was only the second time I’ve went to a gig knowing I had to stay the night in a hotel and go back home the next day.
How was that guy?
Good as usual.
Morning Deadpan
Kitty is being particularly bratty this morning.
Today’s spam mail: Hello Dear. I want you to know you are the brightest man in my life…
Woah, are they in for a surprise.
You don’t want to store their $40,000,000.00 USD?
Fun thing spotted on the Facebooks this morning:
“Which one is Sessions again?”
“Racist Dobby.”
“Oh right.”
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-leonid-meteor-shower
And now Al Franken
And there are pics supposedly.
There’s 1 pic making the rounds. He’s pretending to grope her through a kevlar vest while she’s sleeping; it looks to me like a dipshit fratboy prank. She says she wasn’t in on the joke, which makes it 100000% unacceptable behavior.
The more serious thing is her allegation of him forcing kisses on her during a USO play rehearsal.
I haven’t heard anything.
As always though, I would say one must take a breath and look at the details.
Was this a “one-off” instance of being a stupid ass where he owes somebody a big apology for behaving inappropriately (and a public shaming to remind others that this sort of “joke” is neither a joke nor funny) or is this another in a long string of predatory incidences.
I think that we are beginning to see that with the real monsters, everyone knows about them but no one talks … until someone does.
K. And if he stuck his fingers in her vagina as a “one off instance being a stupid ass” would you even consider questioning it? Inappropriate is inappropriate no matter how many times.
Also, to be fair, him calling for an ethics investigation on himself is by far the best thing he could have done.
Aggressively kissing someone who’s made it clear that they don’t want to be kissed is a shitty move. It’s clearly less shitty than an adult pedophile perving after 14-year-olds (Roy Moore) or an adult pedophile perving after teenage beauty contestants (Trump) or groping women without consent (Trump) – – but still shitty. And those assholes’ misdeeds are not relevant to the allegations against Franken, whether he did it or not.
Hmmm.
I looked back through my post and couldn’t find anywhere, it said inserting any part of your body into someone else’s body (without their consent) was anything other than assault.
You must of been thinking of some other post.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/watch-a-30-foot-wolf-pounce-on-a-helicopter-in-rampages-1820521579
… sigh … I haven’t watched yet. Y’know, out of reverence for the original video game.
I’ll skip it … because it is totally NOT Airwolfe!
Drump lifted the ban on elephant trophies in the U. S.
How does that make America great again?
Is he grasping a “power” straws and throwing whatever he can at the wall and sees what sticks for his presidency?
This guy continues to make me sick.
Let the “not as bad as Batman v Superman or Suicide Squad but still drek” revies begin.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/justice_league_2017/
To be fair this is BY FAR the most positive reviews for DC universe film that is not WW
I’m glad I don’t have to bother.
That is a large number of green splats.
I mean it’s no THIS
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/marvel_s_the_inhumans/s01
“When your film makes the viewer long for the coherence and scope of 2015’s ill-fated “Fantastic Four,” it is a sure sign something has perilously gone wrong.”
owwwwww!
I shall be seeing it next week, but I was expecting trainwreck..
We’re going tonight with zero expectations.
And I didn’t even hate BvS in the way that everyone else did. (I’m fully aware that it’s a terrible movie)
Finally getting to see Ragnarok tonight. Yea!
Last night was “TV party” with the guys.
– While we ate dinner we watched an episode of Graham Norton show with the cast of “Murder on the Orient Express”. I think they were all drunk. It was amusing.
Also, musician “St. Vincent” (I think maybe I have seen her name mentioned here?) sang a number while sporting fetish wear. The outfit distracted from her song for a while but I actually quite liked her sound.
– watched 2 Tracy Ullman skits where she was being Dame Judi Dench as a delinquint. Hilarious! I thought she had the manor-isms and voice, spot-on.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=spigot-chr-ffmac&p=tracy+ullman+dame+judi+dench#id=1&vid=4158b3d6f408ed41d253400579fcacc9&action=click
– Watched the final 2 episodes of this season’s Star Trek. I find some of the characters a bit annoying but all in all I really like it.
– Then we watched an episode of The Orville. I really want to like it. :/
It feels like there is an internal struggle within it’s creative staff as to whether it is going to be the further adventures of TNG or if it is just going to be a sit-com set in space. That being said … if they decide to go with sit-com they’ve got to find some other joke than “Look at us !!!! We run a space ship but act like 14 year olds!!” That has it’s moments but not an entire episodes worth.
– Watched an episode of a BBC show called “Bounty Hunters”.
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt7350790/?ref_=m_nm_knf_act_i5
It wasn’t bad.
By then we were tired and sleepy and the fire was dying. Time to go.
Huzzah for TV party night.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=spigot-chr-ffmac&p=TV+party+tonight#id=1&vid=3ccc493925c3f7c872fa2c691791cc63&action=click
We’ve got nothin’ better to do.
Enjoy a holiday themed comic. I could do without the anti genetic modification preaching, but there is not so much of that and far more just trying to be funny and strange.
http://electricsheepcomix.com/turkey/
Sounds delicious!
disturbing
Hmmm:
https://t.co/K58cK2yfU8
Hoo boy.
This is why Trump won.
Yup.
I thought I’d pick up the book Westworld by Michael Chriton. Turns out, you can’t get it. Either in print or in e. Given the success of the HBO show, this surprises me. It must be in some sort of dispute or something by his estate.
Wasn’t it only a screenplay?
Correct. It was never a novel but it was his first time writing a feature film
No, it was a book.maybe a novelization. I remember reading it a long time ago. Amazon has it but not new. Only through third parties
https://www.amazon.ca/Westworld-Michael-Crichton/dp/0553084410/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511007559&sr=1-1&keywords=Westworld
Right. That is the screenplay. It was never an original novel turned to film. They just took the screenplay and put it in book form
“EW calls Marvel’s Runaways “the OC with superpowers.” ”
Boy. I’m sold.
But it’s MCU so I have to watch it. I hate myself.
It feels good to remove a show from my potential backlog.
Thor:Ragnarok has been viewed.
Another Marvel Films achievement is unlocked.
Seriously fun movie.
That’ll def be a fam dollar theater viewing once it gets there. My Mjölnir aches to see it.
Cough
JusticeLeague is exactly what you’re expecting. I recognize its many flaws, but I recommend seeing it.
Before I saw it, I would’ve said to stay away. But, after seeing it – it was mostly fun and still very flawed.
Wonder woman — boooyaaaa girl power!
Batman — better than he was in BvS
Cyborg — grew on me as the movie went on.
The Flash — blah and too sparkly.
The Bad Guy —- typical CGI disaster and lame story.
Aquaman —- Mmmmmmmm, Jason Momoa
Stay for the end credits, too.
Glad it wasn’t atrocious but I’ll still pass. Being as we see maybe 4 or 5 movies a year total I’m not gonna waste it on something I’ll potentially hate. And I have a funny feeling I’ll hate it. Just because I’ve hate all before. Cept ww because still haven’t seen. #getoffmydclawn
Go and see Wonder Woman you dolt.
Like I said. If it was simply as easy as going to see a film at my whim I would have by now
That being said we got a free DVD copy so there’s really no excuse
http://smarturl.it/loma
Interesting new song from Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater’s new project.
There’s a new micro-brewery opening up about 10 minutes from our place. Unfortunately, I am working at another event that same weekend so I can’t go to the grand opening.
https://www.fitzsimmonsbrewing.com/
well, this news will hit some of you. 🙁
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/malcolm-young-acdc-guitarist-and-co-founder-dead-at-64/
The dementia diagnosis was announced a few years ago. This is awful news, but I’m glad he’s free of that horror.
Back in Black is one of the albums that laid my musical foundation, and I loved all of the early Brian Johnson era cassettes. Malcolm is the epitome of a rock solid rhythm player. RIP
🙁
Sad news about Malcolm indeed tho unfortunately not surprising. He s been in and out health for years. I’m glad I got to see them in their 3rd heyday. In the immortal words of Scott Ian “Malcolm Young kicks ass”
For US audible accounts holders you still have time to pick up a copy of I Am Legend for free.
So………. Steve Martin’s 1970s King Tut routine is cultural appropriation?
Well its no Blazing Saddles.
Didn’t you say something about this is why Trump won?
Well. It’s oh God o’clock and I’m sitting at the airport waiting for my Boo’s flight to come in. Judging by the pics, it looks like she had fun in California
Hmmm:
https://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2017/11/pandemic-legacy-season-2-the-worlds-best-board-game-gets-better/
We occasionally play Pandemic, when we’re feeling masochistic. Haven’t played legacies
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
So Ghosted is a lot of goddamn fun and great for fam night. After a shaky pilot where everything you need to know about the characters and situation is forced into it, it really got rolling on ep 2 and beyond. We binged all 6 episodes last night. It’s X-Files monster of the week/overarching arc combined with lol moments and a divine chemistry between the two leads all wrapped up into tidy 22 minute episodes.
Yeah, we’ve been enjoying Ghosted as well.
Well:
https://t.co/akYpbep9do
Fuck you Disney and the mouse you ride in on.
Let’s be honest here. With the exception of OitNB and a SMALL handful of other shows, the only reason we’ve bee really holding on to Netflix was the Marvel shows. Plus, if losing Disney combined with piping in 8 billion of new content is what it takes to make Netflix a better product, I’m in.
Van,
You just seem so much more crusty lately.
It makes me sad
Netflix is still my favorite of the viewing services, so this is unhappy news to me. Couldn’t Disney have just bought them? Isn’t that how they handle every situation?
I feel a disturbance in the force.
1st thought … “ANOTHER damn monthly charge? I don’t think so.”
2nd thought – This could go either way.
If it goes the way of PIXAR, where Disney just provides the money and distribution and stays the heck out of the original production team’s way … it might be okay.
IF, however, they decide that Marvel is all just more product to monetized, so they basically squeeze “content” out of the same tube as all there other in house product and just slap a Marvel label on it … oh, the horror.
bye bye BIOS:
https://liliputing.com/2017/11/intel-plans-end-legacy-bios-support-2020.html
It’s the 70s calling:
https://danfinnen.com/review/polaroid-originals-onestep-2-instant-film-camera-review/
Morning Pan
A lonely evening in store for this bunny.
We watched the first two episodes of The Punisher last night. We’re enjoying it so far.
Still haven’t watched the Defenders. I think that’s up next for us.
We did finish The Good Place – – which was 1000x better than I expected. Surprisingly deep, (mostly) pretty smart, and funny.
We watched Defenders and then went back and watched Iron Fist. We started watching the Punisher and have enjoyed it.
The Good Place – definitely got better as it went along.
Maybe, after lunch, it will be movie time
CP: A Sound That Only You Can Hear — K’s Choice
Today’s movie is After
The Netflix write up: Bad. Surviving a bus crash to become the only two inhabitants in a deserted town. Worse: you’re not actually alone
Just to make things interesting. The first word of my comments will start with a letter from the word bunny
Bus
Babe in a bus
Yes, it’s James Holden
Nice gesture
Nurse lady, meet Freddy
Naturally, the coincidence starts
Beginning her portrait
Understandably, she’s unimpressed
Not a nun
Nuts
Get away from Bastogne you fiend!
😆
Ugh, it was a nightmare
Not hairy under arms!
Night shift
Nobody’s there
Noises in the night shift
Not March 13th?
Barren landscapes
Booming music
Not alone
Moving on to the police station
Umm, yeah. This is harder than I thought
Nothing
Not working radio
No exit
Bruised hand
No exit again
Bulging darkness
Boundaries surround them
Bodies. Alive or not?
Being ignored
Na Na?
Necklace
Bygone age
Bringing back thoughts to the bus crash
But that’s not much time
Browsing the grocery store
No tv, only sound
Not alive?
Blacked out?
Upraised heartbeat
Understanding what’s happening
Bathroom break!
No really, back in a moment
Back!Now, where was I?
Battling the darkness
At the other side
Umpteen gazillion keys
Bound monster
Bolting
Being home
It he’s trying
Not it, But
Nothing but memories
Nothing like a good to be continued
Never told anyone
Basically her mom
Breath of life
Breaking up is a bad idea
Beyond the veil
Nothing makes sense
Nice carnival
Balloon
Bullies
Unhealthy aunt
Under pressure
Under the desk
Bloodcurdling monster
Nice shot
Barricading the door
Brilliant plan
Yuck, raw meat
You’ll die
Binoculars
Baiting the trap
Bad shot
Better shot
Broke the chain
Night of the hunter
You better run
No safety in the church
Not feeling well
Breakdown
Not going to let her die
Undone
Buffy?
Boys will be boys
Burning down the house
Butt ugly monster
Yuck
Backwards blood
Better together
Bloody right
No, not Freddy
No memory
Unless…
You’re great
Bittersweet
Yup, it’s over
My thoughts. I liked this movie. Although, I think I would have liked it better if it ended five minutes earlier. There’s nothing that says you must have a happy ending.
Still. Worth a watch
Fun theme to the PBP!
Instead of working late, hubby’s on his way home sick
🙁
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/farewell-to-malcolm-young-the-mastermind-of-acdc?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
It’s worth noting “Overdose” as is talked about has been my favorite AC/DC song for decades. Until now, that is, as it seem it is also Lars Ulrich’s as well….
Big sci-fi author has tastes of old fart and nobody is surprised:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/books/review/andy-weir-by-the-book.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks&action=click&contentCollection=books®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&referer=https://www.nytimes.com/section/books
You’d know best
“tastes of old fart”
Gross.
Like I said….he’d know best
*fartcough*
I fear it is you who knows best a I’ve slept in your house.
Luckily the kids all masked the scent!!!!!
So that is why you had them you fiend!
Manson finally died.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-manson-cult-leader-and-serial-killer-who-terrified-nation-dies-at-83/2017/11/20/152b1630-ca75-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html?tid=pm_pop&utm_term=.cf3a2ffcf368
Some morons on twitter are saying RIP.
Oblivionwas his only hope.
I had to admire the dichotomy of announced deaths today. On the other side of that coin: https://www.bet.com/celebrities/news/2017/11/20/della-reese.html
I’d forgotten that was her in Harlem Knights. Actual sad news. RIP
It’s interesting when you realize that the guy who was THE poster child for mass murder and “evil” for most of my life … was only responsible for 9 deaths.
The other interesting thing I JUST read was that he somehow thought that with those murders he was going to bring about an apocalyptic race war. It didn’t work. Perhaps this failure should be made much more public, seeing as how some recent mass murders claimed that they thought that their actions could start a race war.
Just a thought.
I wonder if Roman Polanski would have still become an evil creep, if Manson and crazy followers had not murdered his pregnant wife.
Judging from the reports of him cheating on her when she was alive i’m Going to guess no.
AV Club are a bunch of snotty shitheads, but this does beg the question – are audiences getting over DC specifically or superhero films in general?
https://www.avclub.com/weekend-box-office-lex-luthor-wouldnt-kneel-to-pick-up-1820617954?
The Tick. Watch it.
And read the new comic series!!!!!!!
Tick 1, Tick 2, or Tick 3? Who publishes the new comic?
New England! The one and only always publisher of The Tick
And I’m speaking of the Amazon series
The gravelly voice English guy did good.
I love the original comic. I’ll have to check out the new run.
They are only on issue two, but Cullen Bunn is writing so I’m already sold. It’s been very olde tymey Tick so far.
Justice League was ok.
Was it “Matinee price” OK
or was it “Wait for Netflix” OK ?
Matinee Price.
https://www.parrot.com/us/minidrones/parrot-mambo-code#are-you-a-teacher-discover-our-education-offer
I figured some of yous might be interested in this, especially at the 50%+ discount.
I spent the last hour getting poked in the eye.
But enough about your sex life…
Heyoooooo!
But enough about your sex life…
*cough*
Well it beats getting poked in the eye with a sharp stick..wait.
Or a burst of air out of the eye doc’s torture machine.
Which, I suppose, could add a weird kind of kink in the bedroom. . .
Does reading the eye chart count as foreplay ?
How kind of my PC to warn me that it’s going restart in 15 minutes, whether I want it to or not.
11 minutes now. . .
FFS:
https://t.co/g9GmyU7jub
Watched the first three episodes of Marvel: Runaways, pisses all over Inhumans.
Van… most episodes of The Bachelor would piss all over Inhumans.
This is true.
USA Today calls Marvel’s Runaways a “teenage dream.”
I’m… I’m not against Runaways as I fucking loved the comic but these tag lines just aren’t buttering my bread
“It was not just Trump’s supporters who were in denial about what they were voting for, but Americans across the political spectrum, who, as had been the case with those who had backed Duke, searched desperately for any alternative explanation—outsourcing, anti-Washington anger, economic anxiety—to the one staring them in the face. The frequent postelection media expeditions to Trump country to see whether the fever has broken, or whether Trump’s most ardent supporters have changed their minds, are a direct outgrowth of this mistake. These supporters will not change their minds, because this is what they always wanted: a president who embodies the rage they feel toward those they hate and fear, while reassuring them that that rage is nothing to be ashamed of.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-nationalists-delusion/546356/
Four Episodes into Defenders and very pleased (nO SpoiLers!). A great improvement over Iron Fist and Luke Cage.
Morning Pan
Hubby’s back to work today. He’s also got a late night again so we’ll see how that works out
TEB will be pleased by this piece of trivia: The Tragically Hip got their name from a Mike Nesmith skit.
Today it’s the FCC fucking our future? Got it. Who will it be tomorrow, I wonder?
:cheerful:
Lunch with my Boo
Instead of another cranky political post, I’ll link you to the ThinkGeek sale:
https://deals.kinja.com/thinkgeeks-up-to-75-off-black-friday-sale-is-here-1820678959
Would this be Black Wednesday then?
Wondering about these “missteps” Lassiter is taking a sabatical over.
If only it was just about Cars 2.
My computer is now having some kind of weird lagissuesso , characters end up jumbled and out of place if I typetofast o . Weird.
oYur comupte ris probbaly upadat ing
😉
Microsoft says the problem is with the Filter Keys, but thatdostm en’seem to be it.
Why dont you complain about your Windows product as much as your Apple product?
It is just as frustrating; if not more.
Black Friday is something we really didn’t need to cross over from America. I plan to curl up and ignore the world that day
nooffenset o Ed, I will never understand the Blackfrdaytthng i i.
Dammit. I’m not fixing it.
That was an impressive display there, Mr. Mangan.
haTnk ouy
The theme song to one of the more fun anime from this season: Inuyashiki.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6-QVxIXTs
And “fun” might not be the right word, but… it is very much worth watching.
I’m not sure if the wolf heads are nuts or if I want one.
Supper tonight is a burger and a glass of beer. Hubby will be jealous
Over two hours to get a Roku streaming stick to connect to my WiFi network.
All because the stick supports two ways of displaying a comma..arrrggh!
Oh you poor fool!
Well Panasonic have stopped updating the apps on my smart TV, this seemed a cheaper solution than buying a new TV.
No youre good I adore my Roku
Happy Thanksgiving to my US Panites!
🙁
One of my Australian Sheppards passed away very unexpectedly last night.
Left to spend the evening with friends, to celebrate a birthday, and he was his happy seemingly heathy self. Came home a few hours later and he was dead.
No signs of trauma. Just gone.
Everybody here is pretty devastated.
Oh J0e *hugs*
🙁
Condolences on your loss JJ
Sorry man
That is truly awful, heartbreaking news, J0e. I’m so sorry to hear it. 🙁 I hope the holiday can provide a little solace and distraction.
Sorry JOe.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2001993109827399&set=a.2001993573160686.1073741826.100000501886076&type=3&theater
Hugs x2000.
Joe & Family. Im so sorry for your loss.
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together….
Author unknown…
Thanks everyone.
Pets, they’ll break your heart. Well, first they’ll chew up that thing you forgot and left out in the yard or (if a cat) throw up on your carpet … but THEN, yeh … they’ll break your heart.
Kitty spotted a bird outside. Her life just got a lot more interesting
Wow, the first jukebox went into operation on this date in 1889.
A few minutes later, some guy who thought he was being funny became the first person to all his pocket change in and made it play the same pop song over and over for the next 20 minutes.
I believe it was a John Philip Sousa tune.
I tried to think of a similar joke involving “More Than a Feeling,” but abandoned the effort. You complete me, J0e.
Clearly, I am your density.
My favorite juke box memory was a few xmases ago going to my fav watering hole, getting uber dranky, and putting on Josh Groban’s ‘Oh Holy Night’… 5 times in a row… and then walking out.
We went back a couple weeks later and were soundly, SOUNDLY chastised.
I’ve not gone back since.
http://www.shoutfactorytvlive.com/sf_event/turkey-day-2017/
Such a treasured tradition.
For Canadians:
https://t.co/nThW6RxO9L
I’ve gotten Timmy’s at Coyotes games. It’s no Dunkins, but it’s aight.
Winchell’s or gtfo
I’ve not had Voodoo’s but I hear that’s the one to beat right now.
I swear the next time I buy something at the Apple store they will want drops of blood as proof of identity..
Morning Pan
Working at a Christmas Fair this weeken. Fun times
http://shopping.airdrieecho.com/airdrie-ab/view/herons-crossing/annual-christmas-fair/26301424
Did you get the glitter tattoos ?
It doesn’t start until later today. But I might
My house is now clean
I thought they had long gone:
https://t.co/fSuHuX0U0R
My friends and I used to hit a local dive bar every Monday. Super salt-of-the-earth kinda place, with Rolling Rock, Coors Light, and Bud on tap. Their jukebox had full albums, with Neil Young, Skynyrd, Eagles — all of the classic rock requisites. So my friend would always play “Within You, Without You,” from Sgt Peppers.
It was a delight to watch the puzzled expressions around the bar when all of those sitars and Indian percussion instruments would kick in. The bartender kept telling him she was going to take the CD out and break it.
Ha!
There was a little dive dinner where my gang would sometimes eat breakfast when we would go camping on the beach. One morning we noticed that the jukebox contained Frank Sinatra’s “New York New York”.
We pooled our change. It played over and over and over.
The next year, it had been removed from the juke box.
Downforce looks cool:
https://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2017/11/the-best-board-games-we-played-at-pax-unplugged/
On my way to the Orient Express.
Perhaps there will be some intrigue?
I liked it quite a bit, though I’d previously only read the book, hadn’t seen any other film versions.
Curious muuuurder!
I liked it.
I admit it.
Runaways is great.
And in more Marvel YAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! news, Agents comes back Dec 1.
YAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Get ye behind me, Marvel’s Inhumans!
So have you watched Iron Fist yet, to comply with the Marvel completion policy?
Yah I think we’ve discussed that I truly didn’t hate it. I actually flew thru it pretty quickly. There was some definite dumb to it but overall I enjoyed. In no way did it deserve the vitriol it received.
That was my take too.
I liked the general story line and also thought that the production itself was up to the “above average” standards that they have been bringing to the table with the Marvel shows.
However, this is my least favorite of the collection due to the way the main character is played. He is just too whiny, pouty and frequently – downright dopey. I get that he is thrust into something bigger than him … but weren’t all those years of training supposed to fix that? If he was the best of the group, imagine what a bunch of babies the rest of them were!
Of course this works well for showing an arc of character growth … except he doesn’t seem to be doing any growing.
All of that being said, I guess it speaks to the strength of the show as a whole. The fact that it is still pretty good despite the portrayal of the lead character being sort of a mess.
To be fair that’s the way the show is supposed to portray him. He is a terrible Iron Fist and He s the only one that doesn’t seem to know it.
Pay no attention to those HEREISTITLE posts. I think we’ve been hacked.
Nice job getting back up Tony. Also that’s what she said.
http://www.doctornerdlove.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/han-solo.jpg
HEREISTITLE DERPA DERPA
Looking good, Valentine!
Good job, title man! 😉
Hamilton fever has struck in my home.
Ha!
In other fun music news, the daughter and I took in the Phoenix Symphony Gershwin show. Goddamn, their take on “Rhapsody in Blue” was inspired. Incredible to hear it performed live.
score A+++
For getting to hear a good show and ALSO for building your daughter’s musical background!
Indeed. Not many teenagers would willingly attend the Symphony. She’s pretty amazing.
There was another hack. I removed some old plugins and enabled a firewall on this site to see if it helps… though all 10 sites were hacked again, so… I’m not confident that this will fix it completely. Let me know if you see any wonkyness, but to be honest, the only people who might have caught it this time would have been someone with admin login access.
I will keep an eye on the Admin pages. Just lmk what I should be looking for.
Something like this
http://tinyurl.com/ycf23nfy
I keep telling them the moose and squirrel aren’t here.
I really like the scrolling recently added comments feature. Not sure that was intentional but kind of cool.
Alas it doesn’t work on iPhones.
The new scrolling comments was to replace the “recent comments” plug-in that hadn’t been updated in like a billionteen years. I figured if I was going to take away the old one, then I could try to replace it with something that was moderately modern.
Face ID works rather well, you too can feel like a Man in Black when phoning your Mum.
Just not in bright sunshine…
Actually that’s not really fair, this was sunlight reflecting off a window that caused a hiccup.
Do you suppose it would work if you were a vampire?
It might make you sparkle.
Big thumbs up from me for The Defenders!
I have a few nitpicks, but overall, I’m pleased with it. There’s lot to like.
I was OK with Iron Fist, but this series took a lot of strides to correct that one’s mistteps.
I must confess, I have just not been able to dig any of the Marvel shows on Netflix. Tried them all, including the Defenders. I can’t really figure out what it is.
Haven’t watched The Punisher yet, but I’ve enjoyed all of the other series, to varying degrees. Even Iron Fist. My biggest disappointment was the second half of Luke Cage.
Jessica Jones was especially impressive. . . I found it more disturbing than most horror movies.
Ed, my vote for your problem with them is that they are all very uneven. The exception to that being Jessica Jones. It almost seems like they require half of the storylines for the male-led series to be excellent, while the other half are meh. But it’s most noticeable because the first half are always the good part and then they just sort of meh-out for the last half of the series.
So true that only Jessica Jones remained consistent from start to end. Every other season has started stronger than it finished, including DD S1.
Morning Pan
The Christmas fair was a bust. We didn’t even make table costs. We won’t be doing it again next year
Unfair!
On the upside, because I worked on the weekend, I have today off :cheerful:
I think I shLl sneak out for a bit. I need a few groceries, then I think i’ll Put gas in my car and wash it
Comixology has a sale on Peter David’s run of X-Factor. 😀
CP: Dispatch From Mar-A-Lago — L7
😀
I hope everyone (that celebrated it) had a good Thanksgiving. 😀
Same to you and T-Cat! It was nice to get a break.
Waiting in line at the car wash. It doesn’t get any more exciting than this
You won’t ever get rich,
But it sure beats diggin’ a ditch.
Walmart had a terrible selection of Christmas stockings. I might have to go into the city to find something
– “had a” + “is,” – “selection of Christmas stockings.”
I closed the window so the cat is mad at me
CP: Swords & Tequila- The Riot
CP: At Ch. Degaulle, Etc. — Better Than Ezra
CP: Ace of Spades – Motorhead
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/11/27/as-justice-league-nears-500m-7-ways-to-fix-dc-films/
Interesting.
I see that only 4 resonates with me. The push for an expanded universe is hurting creativity. I would add.
Create villains worth routing for.
Does every climax of a team up moving have the heroes fighting a poorly lite, overly complex, animated trash heep shot with a shaky cam?
Clarity is key, clarity of purpose, clarity of motives.
I prefer my team ups with another kind of… uh… climax
INDEED INDEED INDEED MEEEEEEEEEERRY Ching Dai Day!
Be good little children! Lest you get Black Blood of the Earth in your stockings!
But, what if I want some Black Blood of the Earth(tm)?
You mean oil?
Go ask Egg Shen
INDEED!
Stumped!
No one is falling for your vagueposts
LoPanta Claus is harsh. I’m not sitting on his knee this year.
Vampus can handle it…
Inspiration struck in a bowl of porridge.
Tiffany has finally seen a Godfather movie. We watched the first one tonight.
Now I want cannolis. But leave the car.
Why did the young wife in Italy have to die?!!!!!
*spoiler*
I never saw any of the Godfather movies either.
They are the high bar for film-making. Even Godfather III, which gets a bad rap.
So many wonderful scenes. I’d forgotten how much I liked the part where Michael and Enzo the baker are guarding the hospital.
They are great films and immensely quotable. Right up there with Casablanca. Godfather III’s biggest fault is that it came after Godfather and Godfather II, it is a good movie, but doesn’t stand in their same class.
Morning Pan
Brunch with the boss and one of our authors is on tap for today.
I’m waffling between two things for my DPSS gift. I’m going to have to make a decision soon, I guess.
My new favourite song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlmmvkV5olE
Fun! A little bit of an 80s vibe.
CP: Soft Mistake — Lamb
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/marvel-cover-story
Fascinating. Kevin Feige is from Westfield, NJ, a town where I worked in my early 20s, and where I later lived.
When you are in a photo with Stan Lee and Robert Downey Jr and YOU are the center of attention. That.
Back from brunch. I also got Mickey and Minnie stockings to hang over the fireplace
Finally finished the final book n the Hyperion Cantos series.
For me it’s the lesser of the novels, too much info dumping and some sections just feel like padding.
The fourth?
The Rise of Endymion
I approve this review. In general, I thought the Endymion books were weaker than the Hyperion ones…or maybe my expectations were just too high for them.
It’s been almost 20 years. . . . I recall enjoying them a lot, just not as much as the first 2.
And I guess you have to mix things up to keep ongoing stories fresh, but I liked the Shrike better as mystical, enigmatic, ultimate badass, as depicted in the first books.
Now on to Solaris.
Eradication of Earth’s population loves Polaris
No wait…
It doesn’t scare us.
Cormac McCarthy is a dark motherfucker.
CP: Body Chamber — Versing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUjJKIDqdhY
Well my DPSS recipient should get my gift in the next few days, fingers crossed and all that.
Well, here’s something I didn’t know I needed until now:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/lego-enters-the-gride-with-this-fantastic-tron-lightcyc-1820801319
Nice.
Had me at “Tron”.
Lost me at “Legacy”
It’s actually extremely easy to recreate the original light cycle video gamer graphics using only basic Lego blocks.
Morning Pan
For a change, I have all the reports I need to do some actual work.
“Thermal Mass”
… I just feel like there is a joke there somewhere.
The hot, happening place to live in Massachusets?
A Church sermon about the fires of hell?
That’s the sequel to Geostorm
My DPSS gift has been purchased.
Muahahahahahahhaha
Extremely cautiously optimistic
http://comicbook.com/marvel/2017/11/29/agent-cater-hulu/
COUNT ME IN!
http://www.eonline.com/news/896746/avengers-infinity-war-trailer-unites-captain-america-doctor-strange-iron-man-and-the-guardians-of-the-galaxy
Looks good!
Just take my money!
CP: Best I Can — Queensryche
While in high school, I did a routine to this song with my colorguard squad. The change in tempo was quite the challenge.
Jack is a lucky lad.
just say’n
He knows it!
Colditz!!
https://t.co/uM3tKKtjQ0
Blood Bowl (back in the day) was always more fun in concept than in practice. I am intrigued by the Ogre games. . . . and I like the low-time-commitment games, so Samurai Gardener is definitely intriguing.
I don’t recall ever seeing Colditz here in the States.
Headline from the AV Club’s review of their new album:
“U2 gives too many fucks on the insufferable Songs Of Experience”
Shocked – – shocked I tell you! – – that the AVClub disparaged a release from a major, widely loved and respected band.
Although “You’re The Best Thing About Me” may be the worst song U2 has ever recorded.
You gotta read it. It’s so impressive on so many hate filled levels.
He calls Bono “Bono Iver”…
Look a link!
https://www.avclub.com/u2-gives-too-many-fucks-on-the-insufferable-songs-of-ex-1820789568
Full marks for this line:
“lead single “You’re The Best Thing About Me”—the Jimmy Fallon of U2 songs‘
I still never trust their reviews.
“Then there is “The Blackout,” a bit of Paul Simon-esque rhyming around natural disasters: “Earthquakes always happen when you’re in bed, Fred / The house shakes, maybe was it something I said, Ned.” Later he rhymes “Jack” with “Zach.” “
Morning Pan
The Airdrie Santa Claus Parade is this weekend. Hubby wants to go, I still haven’t decided.
There. October sales have been entered. Now to enter October’s everything else
What % of October’s sales involved pumpkin spice?
Good God, none
*knock on wood* There hasn’t been a noticeable hack in two, going on three days now. I went to some pretty extreme measures (actually did work) to try and cut the head off this beast, so hopefully things will run smoothly for a bit.
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Most impressive, Tony. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for fixing that.
And do share instructions for making a .gif work here!
Look at the comments feed Jack, and you’ll see what he did. The dreaded iframe! 😉
Giphy.com has an Embed link on the page of their .gifs. I just pasted the code from that.
I imagine, though, that when the comments get in the hundreds, with a bunch of .gifs, there could be some load time issues… but that’s just a guess.
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We’ll show restraint 🙂
FYI, that gif didn’t load on my first attempt. I had to edit the width and height to be 100%, instead of pixel-size values.
Oops, I should have also said that if you click “Responsive” – Yes, then it’ll work better. I must be too tired from chasing away the French (which seemed be the ones hitting the site the most).
Pictures hackers in berets with baguettes and wine intensely concentrated on the site.
CP: Clampdown — The Clash
Let’s not sit at the lab for 3+ hours again, k?
(pictures the boys from Breaking Bad, sitting in their lawn chairs in front of the camper, parked somewhere in a desert.
CW: Murder on the Orient Express (1974 version)
The music seems far to cheery at times for a murder mystery.
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Hmmmmmmmmmm
It works.
Your powers are weak, old man….
GO TO BED OLD MAN!!!
Morning Pan
Hubby wants to put the tree up this weekend. I told him it’s way too early. We normally wouldn’t put it up for another couple of weeks. He says they have two up in his school already.
I think this is one discussion I’m going to lose
I put my shirt on backwards this morning, twice. Obviously clothing technology is beyond me this morning.
Fun article and im not sure if we are “in” for this movie- possibly
http://www.eonline.com/news/892287/james-franco-dave-franco-the-disaster-artist
https://www.avclub.com/c/a-history-of-violence
I’ve come to really love this AVClub column, which is nearing its end. It’s basically a year-by-year profile of what he considers to be the most important action movie of the year, with honorable mentions at the end. For some years, he gets into semi-obscure overseas films that I’ve never seen or heard of, but overall, I enjoy reading his take on classic films like Terminator, Aliens, Die Hard, John Wick, etc. This week is Mad Max: Fury Road.
I’d recommend starting with the first column for Bullitt, and going from there.
Enjoyed the 1981 trifecta. Damn fine year that was
He made the right choice with Raiders, but I’m glad he made a big deal about Road Warrior and EFNY.
I’m not sure why this is all in reply to Tiffany’s Disaster Artist post.
New Deadpan game….
Post a reply to a post that should be under another post and have that person find where that post should go.
I enjoyed Battle of the Sexes, good performances Emma Stone and Steve Carell.
+from
It made for a memorable episode of The Odd Couple.
Hooray for recycled jokes!
I should be working but… meh
I started watching Lizzie Borden Chronicles on Netflix. I can’t decide if I like it or not
They had a few good songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUV2PGy2YIQ
Ha!
HA!
I mean they’re no Lillian Axe…
cough
The end of this post is nigh. . . . Keep your eyeballs peeled for a new one coming soon. (Name suggestions, anyone?)
Hack Us If You Can, Frenchies!
Too soon?
Oh No! not again..
Rock and Scroll Aint Noise Pollution
Rick-scrolled
I vote for this and I vote it MUST be nothing but comments about Rick Ashley and Rick Ashley memes
Saving for later:
https://yourlastrites.com/2017/12/01/we-have-the-power-the-top-ten-power-metal-and-related-albums-of-2017/
Only know of 2 and 6. I feel less of a metalhead
That’s will do dog, that will do:
https://t.co/Pf8zANDNZi
This is underappreciated, rad news
This is pretty spectacular.
Is this an instance where we can say “They just don’t build ’em like THAT anymore.”
999 luftbaloons
1000
My Secret Santa Gift is ordered and away. Amazon says my recipient should get it by Friday.
New thread! You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.