It feels like “Damn kids today with their fancy ______! Back in my day, we didn’t have ________! All we had was _______, and we turned out just fine!” – – But it’s from Psychology Today, so I expect there’s a higher editorial standard than some random person’s Facebook/blog rant.
You’d be surprised…
Well Psychology today is kind of like the trash tabloids of the psychological research journals. We were warned away from the magazine in school
Agreed. As a cognitive psychologist, I wouldn’t be caught dead reading Psychology Today. More BS in that magazine (it is NOT a research journal)than The Weekly World News.
A bit like the difference between New Scientist and Nature.
I will speak up in layman defense of Amy JL Baker, who writes for Psychology Today and is one of the leading experts in Parental Alienation. I have found great value in her work.
So Portal 2 was going cheap on the Steam store.
So I’m looking for a couple of books for a friend’s birthday/Xmas gift and for the first time from a big book seller I was informed the book would be printed on demand by my order.
The future is here..ish.
Amazon does that for CDs and DVDs as well. This future is now!
Sure, but can they do it for 8 tracks? Well, that would really be something!
Only for Freedom Rock.
2 words – “Jet Pack”.
I remember listening to music on my parents’ 8-track player. I loved how I could jump from side to side to side to side at the click of a button. I most prevalently used it to skip a song I didn’t like on Jesus Christ Superstar on one side by switching to the next side and then cycling back when the song I didn’t like was over. I’m surprised that a google search didn’t bring up some virtual 8-track players.
I was curious just how fast IMDB reacts to things like this. As of 7:48 EST if you search for David Hoff, nothing pops up in the auto results. If you search for David Hasselhoff, he comes up right away. But, when you click on him, the listing is for David Hoff. A few of his listings have David Hasselhoff listed under the title of what he was in. But, as of yet, they haven’t replaced all of the listings with “as David Hasselhoff” yet.
As a counter maneuver, William Shatner has had his named changed to “William Shat.”
So S4 of ‘The Americans’ has been shifted to 2016.
/grinds teeth
I am also unamused by this news…but, at least it’s coming back.
I have been watching this season’s “American Horror Story”.
I don’t know why.
My review – Light on “horror”. Heavy on “splatter”.
I was about to give up on American Horror Story this season, but they kept me around with the elementary school incident. We’ll see if I make it through the whole season. This one is moving painfully slow.
Morning Pan
Hubby had this week of. We were trying to sleep in a bit each morning but found it impossible with our new fur covered alarm clock.
😀
What is Teagan doing to you guys? Singing, perhaps?
She’s a head butt type of cat. If you’re not paying attention to her, she’s going to butt you with her head.
Beck is a head-butter. Gandalf was a nose-butter. :'(
You could of course just shut the door so the cat can’t get in.
#doesn’townacat
They’re persistent little things. I had a cat that would stick her paw under the door and bat and pull until I finally gave up and opened the door.
Our bedroom door has a cat door in it.
This is why you get waken up early.
So many links I didn’t share last night! (Well, 3. . .)
The author is much younger than most of us (12 when TPM came out). I disagree with a bunch of her conclusions, but I think she states her positions well and has some good insights, large and small scale. She’s done Episodes I and II so far. Worth a look.
So many innocent people suffering right now, so many innocent people murdered.
It was apparently an Eagles of Death Metal concert.
And a soccer match
There are still good humans out there.
And a number of restaurants….
But you’re right. We always need to recognize and appreciate the good ones. Thank you for bringing the voice of reason, Cynful.
Seriously! No sarcasm!
For work I’ve been reading up on crisis communications. One of the things that gets stressed here and there is that most people (including government officials) seem to thing that in the face of events like this people will immediately shift into panic mode and that people will turn on each other. However, all of the case studies looked at from natural disaster and terrorist attacks continually show that nearly all people involved keep their heads and immediately shift into help-each-other-as-much-as-possible mode. So, yes, there a some humans that are fuck. However, the core of humanity is good. When out instincts take over we are, at heart, social creatures that feel the need to help more than harm. At least, thinking that is how I get myself through most days.
More to keep in mind …
the percentages.
Yes, even just ONE sociopath with a gun can cause a grievous amount of carnage but we must keep in mind … at that very moment, MILLIONS of other human beings chose not to do so.
ISIS has put out a call to the sociopaths of the planet to come and rape, pillage and kill with them … and while they have had thousands respond… the planet holds billions.
I don’t know what solace that can bring but we must remember that these are the misfits. While they are here amount us and cause sadness, they no more represent “us” then does the Ebola virus.
Well friend having the brain op phoned today, op went fine and he’s recovered some sight (still early days).
He’s hoping to get out today.
fingers crossed
thinking good thoughts
What J0e said.
Well he’s getting out today, he estimates vision about 90% of what it was originally, so encouraging news.
Morning Pan
Hubby is vacuuming. Tegan is stalking the vacuum cleaner.
I went to see a comedian last night and laughed a lot (which was needed given the day’s events). One of the jokes to kick things off: “I’m very confused. Kansas City is apparently in Missouri. It’s almost as if Kansas looked at Missouri and asked ‘Can I just put the tip in?'”
Try to have a good laugh today 🙂
We saw Mr. Hardwick Saturday night. Good show!
April was good as well 🙂 Glad you enjoyed
Yes she was. Glad you enjoyed as well.
I said it before, I really like Post Modern Jukebox.
Cha-na-na-na-na-na-na. I like that they’re not just doing retro revisions of shit current pop songs.
Now that is how you make a cover! 😀
JF: A Bridge Too Farby Cornelius Ryan
After all these years I finally got round to reading this, failures do make interesting reading.
Richard Attenborough did a damn good job making a film from this book, some of the events I had though were movie land fiction turned out to be true.
We are taking a trip.
First. We start at Honcho hefe, the go around to Roundabout, then stop off at Sintax, folowed by Mother Earth Dubbel, then swing by for a Night Shift Nitro and end up at Imaginationland.
I’m not into code breaking
More of a flight.
So far so good. Avs 3-0 on the east coast road trip including a super impressive 6-1 win against the 13-3 Canadians. Perhaps there’s life yet
Enjoyed the Steve Jobs flick with Michael Fassbinder.
He was good, Kate Winslet policy accent was all over the place.
Is it wrong to say I couldn’t possibly care less about any of the Steve Jobs films?
I don’t mean to disparage your review or choice to see it, Van. I appreciate the cultural impact of his company, I just don’t get why he’s this generation’s Elvis.
Because this generation has no idea who Elvis is..
I agree with you tho.
Polish not policy.
He was just this guy you know.
Polish your own policy!
Hey, no Polish jokes.
So Kiwi and Tarrago walk into a bar….
So I’ve wrecked my roster just to withstand the Alvie storm. Let’s see if it was worth it.
Goddammit I did the same trying to catch up to you! Have at ye bastard! heh
Oh no…. you now have the curse of Dan Girardi!
OK great!
Oh god youre channeling Van.
I will say this… our current hockey league is EXTREMELY goalie centered. The worst goalie can still double the best skater in points on any given day. Something to think about
The other day I told someone I worked in the publishing field. The reply, “Oh, you must know…” Really? I once got that when I mentioned I was an accountant, got it a few times for being Canadian, now I’m getting it for working for a small press.
I’ve decided, no matter what you do or where you live, someone is going to ask you if you know a specific person who works/lives in the area.
*sigh*
Toad the Wet Sprocket have a new song. Not bad.
JW: latest episode of ‘The Leftovers’
Wow.
I’ve decided the word turgid is not used enough in every day conversation. I think turgid is a very versatile word. You can use it to sound dirty “her nipples were turgid” or it can be used to sound dangerous, “the river was turgid so we decided not to cross it”
And it can be used to describe the mundane as in, “this post is turgid” :silly:
Hey UH!
I wanted to thank you for the MPQ stuff. I’m not being evil by not reciprocating. I only play MPQ on my mobile device and you can’t give gifts on mobile. I tend not to play anything on FaceBook. I like to pretend I do work on my computer and having any FB games would send me down a rabbit hole I’d rather not go.
Interesting. To be honest, when I get certain rewards it pops up a screen to share the love, so to speak, but it doesn’t give me a choice of who to give it to. It throws 3 people up and I can either choose some or all of them, but not decide if other friends should or shouldn’t be on the list. I think I have at least 8 FB friends that play. For some reason it just always thinks you and two other people are the ones that should get all the love. I’m happy that you are one of the people and I’ll continue to throw stuff your way when the app tells me I can.
I disagree with some (if not all) of the comparisons. Colwyn is nothing like Luke Skywalker when you get down to it. Colwyn was raised as a prince (not a farmer), knows his real backgroud, is highly trained as a warrior and leader, etc. Lyssa is practically an anti-Leia as she really does little in the movie other than waiting for Colwyn to come and rescue her. I love Krull more than Star Wars and have seen it many times. Just taking the standard cliches that make up most movies (such as having a character that acts as a comic relief) to justify claiming that Ergo The Magnificent is just like C-3PO is somewhat lazy. Yes, Krull is a mix of fantasy and sci-fi. That doesn’t make it the bastard love child of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.
And, so long as I’m apparently in a pissy mood today, I think it’s time to bring everyone else along for the ride.
I’ve done some deep reflection on this, and I think I’m going to have to agree with TRA’s “Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
I think my feelings of disgust this film have been stated more times on the boards than Lindsay Lohan has had multiple cocks in her mouth. I know the film has its fans tho, which is why I posted it here – for those 10 people.
Also, if they remake Memento Im buying the original and setting up a watch station outside my local theater so no one has to pay money for a third rate remake of a classic
Um, surely there must be at least 11 of us…
Oh, Ed. . . .
10 1/2 it is!!!!!
I liked Krull. It was wonderfully cheesey
11!!!!
It’s better than ‘The Last Man on Earth’
Cough
Oh. It’s the devil-loving, concert goers’ fault.
Asshole “Christians.”
So……. I can count on one hand the number of Deadpan comments I’ve edited over the past 10 years. . . . I edited this one to remove the link to the batshit extremist website that blamed the concert-goers for being slaughtered by extremist nutjobs of a different religion.
I feel the same disgust as Pixie at this blogpost and this statement, but I don’t want any links or clicks from this website to their insanity and hate-mongering.
Ugh. I thought this was a parody site ala Christwire.
Im so sick of trying to do the right thing and be normal.
Hugs DP.
Add my hugs to Van’s *hugs*
Again, a small number of extremists with irrational agendas fuck everything up for the people who just want to live positive lives in peace.
Hugs from me as well. I would point out, despite all the dipshits using tragedy and heartache to promote or interject their own brand of stupid, there are a lot of people out there trying to make things right. They don’t seem to get as much press.
I would actually like to start seeing headlines like that – “Breaking News: Over 1.2 million people in the greater Metro Area did NOT attack or harm any other human beings today! Reports indicate that some may have actually been pleasant to others.”
*hugz*
Been quite stressed at work lately. We’ve lost some good people and haven’t replaced them very fast. The responsibility and time demands have ramped up to the point were I’m basically performing the job two levels above me, without the promotion. *shakes fist* On the other hand, being hourly, the pressure for me to work overtime is a lot less.
Crap joke for the day:
fter being away on business, Tim thought it would be nice to bring his wife a little gift. “How about some perfume?” he asked the cosmetics clerk. She showed him a $50.00 bottle.
“That’s a bit much,” said Tim, so she returned with a smaller bottle for $30.00. “That’s still quite a bit,” Tim complained.Growing annoyed, the clerk brought out a tiny $15.00 bottle. “What I mean,” said Tim, “is I’d like to see something really cheap.”
The clerk handed him a mirror.
Mirrorcoat
Oh. It seems Charlie Sheen is HIV positive…
There goes one of your revenue sources.
YOU ARE!
While I would not wish this on anybody, given his chosen lifestyle, I’m not overly surprised.
Bunny has crystallized my thoughts on this eloquently.
I do feel sorry for him, although, the sympathy is significantly less than I feel for, say, a baby born HIV positive.
Same.
CP: Something Good — Dead Sara
Nice
My level of procrastination is absolutely EPIC today!
Yea! Way not to go, ME!!!!
I always put the “pro” in procrastination.
Bloody Hell S2 of The Walking Dead is just one shit storm after another.
The game that is.
Clementine is just a bloody jinx.
DOOM! DOOM, I SAY! 😀
Jack or Rhett- heard the new Baroness album yet?
I have now!
What say you?
I’ll have to check it out. 😉 Of course I’ve downloaded “Gloryhammer” and haven’t yet found a chance to listen.
Oh you and your busy life!!!
We’ll, busy for me. I’m sure there are some super humans out there who would look at my schedule and laugh.
I only learned of its existence when reading your post. I’ll investigate.
“downloaded”
Just listened to Peter Gabrielle’s “Security” album for the first time in years.
I had forgotten how good that is. A wonderful tapestry of sounds with Lyrics that you can just take at face value or really dig into the imagery if you feel so inclined. Music for adults.
I love all of Gabrielle’s stuff. There was a period in the late 90’s I had a playlist of PG and Kate Bush songs on infinite repeat. I need to grab his latest.
Unlike my usual fare, this movie is generally considered pretty good. It even made it to the top ten list of horrors from the Space channel (Canada’s version of SyFy).
/faints
Crap joke for the day:
An old timer was sitting in his rocking chair on his front portch when a kid comes walking by with something in his hands.The old timer asks the kid, “Hey son. Whatcha got there?”The kid replies, “I got me some chicken wire. I’m gonna catch me some chickens.”The old timer responds, “Oh son, you can’t catch no chickens with chicken wire.”A short time later the old timer sees the kid come back with a bunch of flapping chickens all caught up in the chicken wire.”Well, I’ll be…'” says the old timer scratching his head.The next day the kid comes walking past the old timer. This time he has something round and gray in his hands.The old timer shouts out to the kid, “Hey kid, whatcha got in your hands this time?”The kid responds, “I got me some duct tape. I’m gonna catch me some ducks.”The old timer laughs, “Son, you can’t catch no ducks using duct tape.”A short time later the kid comes back with a bunch of ducks caught-up and quacking in the duct tape.”The old man cannot believe his eyes.The next day the kid comes walking past the old timer, again with something in hs hands.The old timer shouts out to the kid, “Hey kid, whatcha got in your hands today?”The kid shouts back to the old timer, “I got me some pussy willow.”The old timer shouts out, “Hold on son…while I get my hat!”
The PVR writeup: a troubled wido discovers that her son is telling the truth about a monster that entered their home through the pages of a children’s book
Pressing play now…
Violence Nd language only. No nudity
Scenes from a car accident
Aw. It’s a cute puppy
Story time
Alarm clocks exist for a reason you know
It’s magic
She works with the elderly
The child bring a crossbow to school
Your not invited
That kid needs to go on a time out
Seriously, I have no sympathy for this kid at all
Mom is questioning the book, book, book
1-900-646-easy
I think mom needs to see a dentist
Ah yes, the self gratification
I’ve heard that’s what the kids are calling it these days.
In this case, the kid ran into the room, thus stopping it
I really hate this kid
Foot steps
Samuel, behave. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Bingo!
Go home. I’ll cover for you
I really hope the Babadook gets this kid
The Babadook is messy
There’s glass in her soup
I can’t figure out why this movie was highly rated. However, if we could ditch the kid, then the movie would be ok
Bad book, bad!
The birthday party
A mime. The horror!
I can’t stand being around her son either
Yes! Sedate the sucker
You are weird, kid
No sleep for her
Knock one
Knock two
The book, book, book
A good old fashion book burning
There’s no one there
The police don’t believe her
I’d react the same way
A hole in the wall
Social workers visit
Kangaroos are cute
Thank Christ, the kid is asleep
Dook, dook, dook
Those are some crazy ass drugs she’s on
Mom has reached her breaking point
From one bad kid to many
Hit and run
Everybody should bathe fully dressed
A violin?
She’s having a smoke filled dream
That’s what you call a cord cutter
Locking the doors and windows
Mom is going insane
The dog is afraid of her
Bribery
The unsafe basement
I am dead
Bring me the boy
Here he comes
Awww. She killed the puppy
Ewww. That was gross
Cool. I didn’t know you could do that
I am your mother
Don’t trust her
Don’t trust him
It’s bondage, is it?
This calls for an exorcism
You can’t get rid of the Babadook
Keep breathing
You are nothing
Really? You’re going to touch it?
Party time!
Time to feed the babadook
It’s magic!
The movie is over.
I really wanted to like this movie. It has a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. But I couldn’t get around the kid. If he were a little more sympathetic, I’m sure I would have liked the movie more
98% is actually unusually high enough to make me suspicious.
Ive heard nothing but good things about this film. Wont read the PBP because spoilers.
Hmmm. No Calgary games today. What am I going to watch until hubby comes home later tonight?
Vancouver and Winnipeg is playing, I guess I will watch that
Hey, everybody!
Been a crazy month between NaNoWriMo, local anime convention, school, and getting my house ready for the annual visit from my parents. However, I haven’t forgotten that Thanksgiving season also means it’s time for:
The Annual Deadpan Secret Santa Gift Exchange!
This Secret Santa has been going on every year since 2006. Sarah from Charleston coordinated it that first year, then I volunteered to take over and have been the coordinator ever since. I always have a blast doing it!
If you participate in this discussion board and/or are in the “Fans of Jack Mangan’s Deadpan” Facebook group, you’re welcome to participate. I know we have a couple of new people this year, so here’s how this works:
– The exchange is run on an opt-in basis, every time. To opt in, please send an email to bowen1138 at yahoo dot com OR amybowenwrites at gmail (I’ve been using the former forever, but there’s a lot less noise for emails to get lost in at the latter address). Your email needs to say “I’m in!” and include your current shipping address (if I don’t already have it). (We do have recipients in Canada and the UK – if international shipping is out of your budget, please let me know and I’ll make sure you don’t get assigned to them.)
– I will assign Secret Santas on Friday night, November 27, so please get your emails to me by then. You will receive an email from me saying who your assignee is, and what their address is.
– When you get your assignee, please send them a gift. We typically send between $10-$20 USD gifts. You will receive a gift from your Secret Santa in return.
– (Optional) You may choose to reveal and thank your Secret Santa on the discussion board, if you wish.
Deadpan is the merry-making way!
Amy Bowen!!!
I’m glad that it’s all good stuff keeping you busy. I’ll follow instructions and send an email, but I’ll also declare publicly: “I’m in!”
Thank you for doing this every year. Good luck with NaNoWriMo!
I’m in.
I’m always in. 🙂
Whore.
Ho Ho ho!
Yo yo yo!
Add me to the list too, Amy.
Email sent.
My email was sent as well. I’m in.
Morning Pan
Damn cat is on my head again.
Well being cute didn’t last long.
She is cute. Just hard to work with.
Count me in, Amy
I will do Santa as well please and thanks.
Peeks in Van’s closet for the Santa costume
That cupboard is bare.
BARE!!!!!!
No cool whip.
I’m also in.
So any reccomendations for disk based games on the PS4?
A relative want to buy me a game for Xmas.
#notFallout4
Witcher 3
The Last of Us
Uncharted collection
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Thanks,
Uncharted collection looks good.
Last of Us I played to death on the PS3
Back in the late 90’s I had a bunch of CD’s stolen from my office and for reasons unknown to me I never replaced them. Well, until earlier this week. Picked up a bunch for cheep off of Ebay.
I already gushed about the Peter Gabrielle CD but there were 2 others as well –
“The Best of Elvis Costello and the Attractions” – I realize “To each his own” but this is just a slice of brilliance. A range of style, stuff that makes you want to dance, lots of stuff you just can’t help but sing along to, lyrics that tell stories. Brillance.
The other one I got is kind of a guilty pleasure, The Sugar Cubes “The Great Crossover Potential”. It is a fun CD that seems to fall between pop/punk/garage band. I dig Bjork’s quirky voice (and getting to say “Bjork”) and the lyrics, which seem like they were translated for the group by someone who did not actually grasp the English language, give it both a fun innocence AND slightly creepy feel.
Listening to these CD’s again is like having old friends back. I anxiously await the arrival of the 4th one I ordered, Kate Bush “The Whole Story”. I know I’m not alone in living that one (looks at Rhettro)!
Remembering others … seems I had a Los Lobos album in that bunch and one by Morphine. I should re-add those to the list.
Now wait just a minute! Sugarcubes are NEVER a guilty pleasure. They were an amazing fun band. Catchy hooks, great musicians.
Its funny. I got my car broken into last year and the only thing they DIDNT take were the CDs.
Eli’s Costello and the attractions were great,
Elvis not Eli’s
Whats so funny bout Me, Van, and understanding?
Did they leave a ‘no thanks ye olde bastard’ nite with the CDs?
I’ll be the voice of descent as I don’t really care for Elvis Costello. I don’t question his artistry, but his voice has a Randy Newman quality that I can’t get into. I should check out some Bjork as she follows into the same quirky chick vain as Kate Bush.
I like Sugarcubes more than her solo works.
Yes, Van, and then shat on my lawn.
I learnt today that ‘it’s so quiet’ was originally done by Betty Hutton.
Hush hush…
Bjork’s eyebrows would have been the guilty pleasure. Her “Post” album should be owned.
As for Morphine, “Like Swimming” is also required.
Of course, the youngsters nowadays don’t own any physical albums, if they own music at all. They’ll usually just stream.
The defense would be comical, except it’s not funny.
“It was the Sunchips… Jack”
Watching the first episode now, my first encounter with the Jessica Jones character.
Morning Pan
Kitty needs to learn alarm clocks were invented for a reason. We’re trying very hard to kick her of the habit of waking us a 4am.
Is it not part of the nervous bladder problem she has?
Nah. I have no idea what that was about. She hasn’t had a single accident since we got her. Hubby and I assume there were changes at her previous home to cause that as, according to her records, it was only going on for a month or so before she was turned in.
Oy . . . what a week.
I agree.
This song is the best part of the movie. I’ve probably said that before. 😉
Fourthed. I didn’t say I didn’t like the movie, but I did think it was only ok. That song, though, is awesome, imo. 🙂
Quelfed.
You shouldn’t play with razor blades.
It’s that time of year again for quelf on a shelf.
I was actually pretty damn unimpressed with Oblivion (surprise). In fact, it took me a minute to even remember that the movie you guys were talking about was that forgettable Tom Cruise Sci-Fi thing from a few years ago. Not the good one, the meh one.
So I enjoyed the first episode of Jessica Jones.
ditto. I’m extremely excited for this series.
I was a bit unimpressed with episode 3 of ‘The Man in the High Castle’ , mainly because of that British actor from Torchwood who cannot do a decent US accent to save his life.
I dont know if this had been posted before or if I have just seen it already and forgot but thanks for the ptsd!!!!!!
Seriously wtaf?
Goldie Hawn is 70??????????????????
Yeah right. Next you’ll tell me Susan Sarandon is in her 70s.
Also digging Jessica Jones
I’m gonna go ahead and agree with the rest of the Deadpan reviews on Spectre. Not bad, not great. Overall, worth watching at some point.
Just saw Spectre tonight. I agree with others.
For my taste it may have been the best Danial Craig Bond … but then I didn’t like them nearly as much as the Brosnan Bonds.
Music was forgettable. Didn’t care for how they played with the timeline of the Bond canon. Still … cool cars, action stunts and a smattering of gadgets.
I heart you but (with the exception of Goldeneye) the Brosnan films, IMO, are some of the worst Bonds put to film. I love the Craig films – granted I count Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace as one large film. Solace doesnt really hold up by itself
QoS is the only Craig 007 film I haven’t seen.
I’ve actually managed to avoid all of the Brosnan 007s, as much as I like him and think he should have been Moore’s successor. Are they worse than License to Kill??
Goldeneye is great. And I love License to Kill as much as I know its probably the worst Bond film. Honestly the last 3 Bronsan films are fairly interchangeable 90’s action fluffs. Bronsnan really is a good Bond tho.
“action fluffs” – That IS the Bond “Genre” !
Of course there is a wide selection of quality in the Bond “action fluff”, some much better than others but the Bond films have always been “FUN action adventure”. I too enjoy a good, cerebral, moody, action thriller but that has never been the Bond “film”.
Based on my experience of having just watched EVERY Bond Film ever made, in chronological order … I’d say that compared to other films made in the “Bond Film – action fluff genre” “Golden Eye” is terrific, up until the final scenes when it kind of runs out of steam. “Tomorrow Never Dies” is really pretty good. Michelle Yeoh, yo.
Now … when compared outside it’s genre to “dramatic, action adventure” films such as the Borne Identity franchise or Tom Clancy’s “Jack Ryan” movies … the Craig Films are much more competitive.
You incorporate Timmy Dalton into this conversation and you incorporate him NOW!!!
You should check out the James Bonding podcast. Youd dig it.
Notices a distinct lack of female view on this particular subject thread 😉
Wasn’t impressed with the first episode of Jessica Jones. I’ll give it a second to see if it improves. So far, the first episode was somewhat cookie cutter detective with hints of superhero and a few doses of artificial “edginess” to make it hip and trendy for the yoots.
Of course, I could just be sour that I gave it a shot because David Tennant is in it…except he doesn’t actually appear in the first episode, despite the hints and voices.
If the comic (Alias) wasnt way ahead of its time I MAY agree with you. I found nothing artificial about it. Remember this is an episodic show and not a Marvel one off film. Nothing is just thrown in there for no reason. Remember that this is a story nearly 20 years old… again it was WAY ahead of its time in 2001. If it comes off cookie cutter now then that’s a product of the time this story is being told. I guess it would be like listening to modern hip-hop and then going back and listening to those songs they sampled from and saying “hey, Ive already head this stuff”.
As far as Tennant not showing up, did you watch Daredevil? Again because this is a show you dont have to throw the bad guy in right away, which would have saved a few of the Marvel films. I wonder if it was a male lead if you would think they were throwing in edginess just for edginess sake? You could have said the same for True Detective…
Mind you Ive only seen the first two so I guess they could still fuck it up mightily.
Can I put my soapbox under your desk for now?
You know, I found myself equally underwhelmed by Daredevil, so I don’t think it was just that it was a female lead. True Detective I found interesting in the beginning, but I thought it flamed out pretty badly in the last episode and I never bothered with season 2.
As for age – that’s an issue for the producers to deal with. Whatever the age of the original source, it’s airing now in 2015 and needs to appeal and engage folks like myself who don’t know the source material. Writing for fanboys/girls only isn’t enough to make a successful show. John Carter was nearly a century old story when it came to the big screen and, while I mostly enjoyed it, I think it struggled some to overcome the imagination of the early 20th century – though they did quite a bit to update Deja Thoris compared to how she was originally written.
I’m going to give the second episode a shot and see how it goes. I don’t plan to bother with the second episode of Daredevil.
Is it less of a “splatter-fest” than Daredevil?
I didnt find Daredevil splattery. But no…not really.
I dunno. I found Daredevil to be probably the best show of the year so there you go. I suppose its just taste.
BTW – I really liked DD, just thought that at times they took a high quality show and aimed for the lowest common denominator with extended, on screen gore. Did we really need the extreme close-up of a spike going through the head? I think most of us could have “gotten it” with the wide shot and the sound effect. In the earlier episodes they tended to throw stuff like that in.
Still, I’m looking forward to the next season.
At what point in time does one not need the extreme close-up of a spike going through the head? I’m always up for that kind of shenanigans.
We just finished watching JJ. I found it to be okay, with a hint of evil-mind-controller-ish. My brain can’t handle mind control right now. I don’t know if I’m ready to move forward with more episodes at this time- maybe when the Apocalypse that is 2015 ends, I will be ready to tackle JJ and her Killgrave.
Mostly what Pixie said. . .
I was actually intrigued by the first JJ episode, in spite of some crap moments.
I’m just a bit leery of a story about an evil mind-controller who manipulates people into doing horrible things to fuck up their lives just to satisfy her – – his – – twisted desires.
In issue 12 of the Escape From New York comic – Native American prisoners on Liberty Island build Snake a flying car out of a glider and a rocket stunt car in order for Snake to combat oncoming U.S military fighter jets.
Yeah its that good.
You’dn ever think it, but the Dick Cavett Show retrospectives on Netflix have been fascinating slices of 70s history. We watched the Watergate one and part of the Vietnam one.
It’s also interesting to see how stiff the mainstream everyone used to be. That’s how I remember grown-ups of my youth.
So today I finished ‘Made to Kill by Adam Christopher’, a Hard boiled mystery set in an alternative world where the last robot in existence is a PI/Assassin in 60’s LA.
I thought it was rather fun.
Miss Scarlett Johansson is 31 today. I’m sure some of you would like to offer her some cake
If they follow through on this I would be so happy. I still remember the golden era of Farscape and the Lexx when I could focus on a very few TV channels. I would love to see them get back to Science fiction and away from ghosts and wrestling.
Ok but what if they did a show about Ghost Wrastlers?
Depends on how good looking the ghost wrestlers were.
#shallowasapuddle
I love you
If it was intentional fiction I’d be all over it. Ghost hunting “reality” shows just plain suck.
You’ve never met any of the people from these shows, have you?
Who have you met, Cynful? were they credible? Or kooks?
They were just ordinary people with an unusual interest. I recently met a group including Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and Karl Pfeiffer from the Ghost Hunters groups. But even they will say that their hobby is a whole lot of sitting around and Pilgrim (the production company) was trying to get them to act like it was more exciting. Like WWF was when we were younger, script it up. The participants don’t lie about it though. They don’t claim that it’s 100% pure reality.
I recently heard an interview saying that they believe that the OJ Simpson case was the birth of reality television as we know it. So if you’re going to blame anyone…. 🙂
I haven’t met any of the people from the show. I’m sure they are regular people as far as people go outside of the show. That doesn’t make the show good and it absolutely doesn’t make anything they have to say (on the show or off) right. I’m squarely putting on my asshat here and living up to my title. But, hiding behind what the production company asks them to do is nothing more than an excuse. If they truly believe in ghosts, so be it. They are free to have any opinion they want and they are free to follow whatever hobby makes them happy with no ill will whatsoever on my part. But, if they are deliberately doing things to “make the show more exciting” whether or not the production company tells them to, they are part of the problem and part of what makes shitty television on Syfy. Put the reality TV show blame on OJ Simpson, or Survivor, or Candid Camera, or Seven Up!. Wherever the blame lies, the ghost hunters are taking full advantage of it. They are welcome to take full advantage of it, they are welcome to participate to their heart’s content, and they are welcome to profit from it as much as they want. But, at some point in their lives, they have to take responsibility for what they are doing and not hide behind what the producers tell them to do.
All told, I didn’t really mean for this to be a witch hunt of the ghost hunters. I was merely using them as an example of the shitty TV that has become so common on SyFy. I just got all bent out of shape at the notion that the ghost hunters, like everyone else in our society, are merely victims.
Yes I forgot. It’s okay to blame the network executives but not the producers.
There’s an interesting point to ponder here. . . Per Cynful’s account: These guys are making a living at doing their hobby/passion, just with a few compromises. Would you do the same? I might write jokes for Dane Cook or compose songs for One Direction, if offered.
I am a big time ghost doubter, but if they’re having harmless fun and not promoting ignorance and not feeling like they’ve undermined the integrity of the thing they love, then more power to ’em.
Any of these guys who do spread superstition/pseudoscience and/or prey on mourners’ pain with trickery (John Edwards) deserves to be haunted by Beetlejuice forever.
Excellent point on blaming the producers and not the network executives. Then again, blaming the network executives was exactly what I was doing in my original post in the first place. My whole original intent was to say that SyFy used to have great programming before they focused on shows that had little to do with SciFi.
Plain and simple: this is a business. Back in the late 90s, the SF market was shrinking. Syfy had to get viewers back. The execs believed the way to do that was attract a wider audience. This is the same reason why many movies and shows that targeted niche audiences failed.
So, the execs aimed for a different formula for success. And, for the most part, it worked. I don’t blame them for that. This isn’t some con job they perpetuated. The producers made shows that sold. They aimed for market conditions and did their jobs. The people in the shows also, to a varying extent, did their jobs.
I hate reality shows. I hate wresting, slap-stick, most comedies, mysticism… pretty much everything that has been on Syfy for a number of years. And yes, that includes shows like “Ghost Hunters”. I don’t care if the people are nice. Many of these people are. It is completely irrelevant to the argument. All of these people are just doing their jobs. I have no blame for that so long as these people aren’t committing fraud.
Syfy isn’t an educational channel and there’s no obligation for them to only show hard SF. There’s a wide range of SF stories there, and Syfy has done plenty of fantasy as well.
Syfy isn’t some utopia of artistic purity either. And it shouldn never be. Syfy was successful with “terrible” shows. But they were terrible to me. Other people loved them. You might think they have no taste. They probably feel the same about you.
Everything on every channel is an entertainment choice. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. You can even wish for the show’s and network’s failure. But I’ll argue against automatically calling this stuff crap.
Things are changing, which I think is good. And now there will be more room for shows I like. But I fully expect people will always complain about Syfy content. That’s just the way people are.
Is this a confession of your secret love for the Mansquito franchise?
I suppose the grand majority of the blame should fall on the people that watch those kind of shows. Reality TV wouldn’t be prevalent if people weren’t watching it. American public, I blame you more than anyone else.
As for the SciFi channel changing, they have always been changing. I was actually at their opening ceremonies at the Hayden Planetarium and at that time they were astoundingly different than what they became when they were producing really good shows. I suppose I can live with them getting through rough times by playing wrestling and ghost hunters if it allows them to get back to producing good shows. Just the same way that playing constant cheap reruns when they first aired gave them the money to produce some of the great shows they have had.
My favorite show of 2015, hands-down is Lip Synce Battle segments on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
..and Sense8.
Sense8 was such a slow burn that I wouldn’t call it great, but will watch S2 if that ever happens.
Still didnt make it past episode 1
Morning Pan
Taking hubby to work today. Then I will be hubbiless until late tomorrow. 🙁
I’m so happy that Tegan will give you plenty of snuggle time in John’s absence.
I kinda can’t believe we’re going to have new MST3K episodes. Felicia Day is just a bonus. It would be amazing if she could have TV’s Frank as her bumbling sidekick, though.
More happy wootness!
Um.. this may be more important to Rhett. *cough*
*grin*
whore
Well, that escalated quickly.
??
I honestly thought “Cracked” was just a magazine for “funs and giggles”.
When did they become more informative then the “real” media?
Apparently there is a snow storm on the way to Edmonton. Hopefully hubby will be ok
Hubby just texted. Apparently traffic is at a standstill where they are, about half way to Edonton
This is the second year he has attended this conference and the second year he’s been stuck in a snow storm. I think, next year, I’m not going to let him go unless they move the date to September
Should have let him drive the Zamboni. :} Hope he makes it ok.
Luckily, he’s not driving. He’s taking the Red Arrow (think luxury bus). It’s still nerve wracking, at least on my part. In theory, he should have been in Edmonton, checked into his hotel, and called me by now. He figures he’s got at least another hour before he gets to Edmonton, let alone his hotel.
Since it looks like I’m going to stay up later than usual, I’m hoping my furry alarm clock doesn’t go off too early tomorrow
My apologies for (almost) always being behind the times with my posts and comments.
Pity the poor artiste, shaking their fist at the tastes of the fans.
What Van said. You’re really going to insult the people who lavish money on you and appreciate your work?
Hubby made it safe and sound. A normally three hour trip took close to six hours. He’s tired and hungry. Apparently on of our MLAs died today driving to Edmonton in this weather.
Tomorrow he gets to come home in more of the same.
Oh well. It’s past my bed time so now it’s time for sleep
Night Pan
Holy Pocklington. Well — I’m glad he’s safe, and that you can sleep without worry. :happy:
Are you saying a human died on the road?
Yes. An MLA represents a riding. I guess the equivalent would be whoever represents a distric in the US
Oy. I guess I missed the part about someone dying. 🙁
So at the flicks waiting for the last hunger games film to start,
…and that’s a wrap, may actually finish the third book now.
Morning Pan
Kitty let me sleep in until 6:30 which was nice of her.
Under normal circumstances, hubby should be home around 8pm tonight. Since weather and road conditions are similar to yesterday, I expect it to be a late night.
Now I feel better about the inevitable homeless guy vomit on those seats.
Morning Pan
Hubby got home only an hour later than he should have. Not too bad, all things considered.
Crap joke for the day:
Two women who had just met at a health spa were talking about their lifestyles and how they hope to stay healthy. One asked the other to detail her daily routine.“I eat moderately,” she replied, “I exercise moderately, I drink moderately, and I live moderately.”….“Is there anything else you do?” her new friend asked….“Yes,” she said, “I lie extensively.”
The Civil War trailer looks great. I like the idea of using Bucky as the casus belli.
Did you read the comics? I did not, but I recall my old roommate freaking out about the series conclusion.
I read quite a bit of Civil War. I liked it overall, though it wasn’t long after when I stopped reading Marvel; and DC for that matter.
Tegan goes for her first vet appointment today. Let’s see how that goes.
Well learnt some interesting facts about Japanese Bullet trains at the museum.
-t +ed
Wow. Postage to Canada is $1.20 now.
CP: Roads — Portishead
So Frank Miller’s really digging up the Dark Knight series for a part III?
I’ve refused to read any of these sequels. They don’t exist.
DK2 was pretty awful. Frank Miller has issues. Literally.
Tegan survived her first vet appointment. Although…
When we took her home from the SPCA, she was a little noisy but mostly calm and quiet. This time, when I put her in her carrier and took her to the car, she was scared. She was howling, asking for attention, and generally not a happy camper. I honestly believe she was worried I was taking her back to the SPCA. Poor thing.
What was she like when you got her home from the vets?
She went in to each room of the house. I’m assuming to make sure everything was as it should be. Now she’s fast asleep on her post. All is good again in her mind.
Cool 🙂
So she does have favorite spots staked out around the house now?
Yup. She has a cat post in both the living room and my office that she will sleep in depending upon which room I’m in. Those are her favourites.
We have a full house this year at the Manglocks and I am thankful for that. It may never be this full again.
I am also thankful I am not on call tomorrow!
+100,000 for the win!
I’m in North Carolina for my yearly mmmmmeetup with the extended family. There are well over 20 of us in 2 giant beach houses for about a week. I love my family and look forward to this all year long. Yet somehow, I’m at the point where I’m glad that I have about an hour between when all the people in my house fall asleep and when I will eventually crash so that I can have some quiet time to just sit and fart around on my computer. I could be at the noisy house playing board games with the late night crowd… but I just wanted some me time tonight. Tomorrow I’ll join the late night crowd.
So as an outsider, do they still tar and feather you if you decide to have pork or beef for thanksgiving dinner?
Cough
Hubby’s aunt (by marriage) is from Austria. We went over for Christmas dinner once and there was no turkey or ham to be found. He was rather meh on the experience. I loved it.
I was just thinking yesterday how I’d love to have a Thanksgiving meal of italian dishes!
Won’t happen.
I know plenty of Latino and Italian families that don’t have Turkey, or at least have a nominal representation of turkey and then fill the table with non-turkey meats. The extended family I’m hanging with does Turkey. My plan is to buy a bunch of frozen turkey at super ridiculous prices (I managed 49 cents a pound this year)and keep them for other times in the year. I have a few “Thanksgiving” dinners every year just because I like turkey and things I can make from leftover turkey.
Morning Pan
Waiting for the sun to come up.
Pesky sun, soon predictable like that…
-n
Oh yeah, Happy Thanksgiving to the US Panites!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. 🙂
Yes!
I am Thankful for you guys!
Currently listening to Stan Frebreg’s “The United States of America – The Early Years”
Seems somehow appropriate.
Hail, Panites – hopefully, wherever you were, you did your sacred duty and over ate at least as much as I did. While I’m not a turkey fan, I can tolerate it once a year as there are plenty of good side dishes to offset it with.
“Dreams,” by The Cranberries just played on our classic rock radio station.
hmph
It’s over 20 years old, so I’m not surprised.
“When did Motley Crue become classic rock….”
CP: Black Friday – Faith No More
Happy Thanksgiving, all! I had another wonderful meal with my parents, my godparents, and their friends. Good times.
Rounding up the Secret Santa list now. Emails incoming in the next 30 minutes or so.
“…Planned Parenthood Shooter…”
You forgot the word, terrorist…
Jesus, people. Stop being ignorant and selfish assholes.
Considering the poor excuses the police have come up with when killing coloured perps the fact this guy was taking alive is also causing trouble.
So, I watched the first two episodes of the Amazon Prime version of The Man in The High Castle. Not sure I like like where they are going with Joe (whatever his name is in this version to get around the fact that he’s Italian) Frank Frink (and the lack of anything he did in the novel) and the fact that Julianna Frink needed a male character to save her from a bad guy when she is a (rare for that era) extremely strong female character that should be a self defense instructor. All this in complete independence of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy being “smuggled” into the neutral countries where it is essentially legal to begin with. I think there was some discussion of it here. Is it worth continuing with the series?
It’s sometimes a relief to go into a show or movie with no knowledge of the source material.
So far, so good for us on the first3 esp of TMitHC.
I’m enjoying it, differences aside (inevitable since it’s a 10 part tv series), it’s still more faithful to the book that Bladerunnet was to it’s source material.
#neverforgets
Although the portrayal of Julie is problematic, in the book it’s not till she slices her BF arterie with a razor blade that she turns badass.
I got my secret santa receiver. I guess it’s time to go shopping :happy:
I may have to ask advice on my recipient.
Just give me booze n love! Oh…. wait
As always, it’s only coal for you lad.
Hey Amy
Solier wanted to make sure you got his request to join the Secret Santa.
I got my SS recipient too!
I think we all did except Ryan. He did PM Amy but she may have not recognized his name.
Got mine! I’ll ping Amy re: “The New Guy” too.
We finally got out to see the Peanuts movie. As a lifelong Peanuts fan, I had to go.
It definitely goes places that Charles Schulz would not approve. But still . . . I can forgive them. It’s made with love and lots of nice little nods to the classic stuff. I’d honestly have preferred some deeper references for the devotees, but whatever.
So … one life long fan to another, would you recommend seeing this or should I just let it be?
I do recommend it, if you can enjoy the good and overlook the un-Schulz moments.
My cable provider finally started providing “Ash vs. the Evil Dead” on VOD.
I found the first episode to be a completely way over the top, gross-out fest, hilarious fun with moments of creepy tension.
If you liked any of the original “Evil Dead” you shouldn’t miss it.
If you like comic action twith a “B movie” feel, that doesn’t take itself seriously and has blood, lots and LOTS of blood, gallons of the stuff… oh, and never misses a chance to show close ups of exploding heads – then THIS is the show for you.
I’m not usually into that stuff and admit to having to avert my gaze at least twice but it just fit the “camp” feel of this thing.
Last night I watched Episode 2 and 3. They are only about 25 minutes long. I still enjoyed them (he said hesitantly) … but the “joke” might be starting to wear a bit thin.
We still need to watch the follow-up episodes. The first was like dumbed-down versions of the movies. Definitely some good laughs.
A DEA officer stopped at a ranch in Texas, and talked with an old rancher. He told the rancher, “I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs.” The rancher said, “Okay , but don’t go in that field over there…..”, as he pointed o
ut the location.
The DEA officer verbally exploded saying, ” Mister, I have the authority of the Federal Government with me!” Reaching into his rear pants pocket, the arrogant officer removed his badge and proudly displayed it to the rancher. “See this fucking badge?! This badge means I am allowed to go wherever I wish…. On any land !! No questions asked or answers given!! Have I made myself clear?…. do you understand?!!”
The rancher nodded politely, apologized, and went about his chores. A short time later, the old rancher heard loud screams, looked up, and saw the DEA officer running for his life, being chased by the rancher’s big Santa Gertrudis bull…… With every step the bull was gaining ground on the officer, and it seemed likely that he’d sure enough get gored before he reached safety. The officer was clearly terrified. The rancher threw down his tools, ran to the fence and yelled at the top of his lungs…..
We watch John Oliver regularly. He takes on a subject every week. He’s wonderful.
Hmm, judging from my Facebook feed this morning, looks like the Colorado contingent had an exciting evening…
so fun!!
Morning Pan
It’s Monday again
Am I supposed to be buying stuff on-line today?
I took a look but didn’t find anything on sale that I wanted. I think Cyber Monday is over ratted.
over-rated too.
I did buy a couple of audio books from audible that were on sale.
I think you were right the first time.
Is Target selling “Out of the Cellar” at a discount online?
Makes sense… because a target is round. And round.
Damn you both!
JF: The Golem and the Jinni – Helene Wecker
Loved this book, not a great fan of fantasy but this was just wonderful.
Quite the movement Around The Pan League today!
Hey Jack
Have you heard from Amy? She hasn’t replied to my email yet.
Nope. Though to be fair, I only reached out to her this morning.
That’s ok. She got back to me today.
got a case of the mondays
I was discussing Monday’s vs. Fridays with my massage therapist. I actually prefer Mondays. I’m usually rested, had a good weekend (Saturday was full of games), so I’m ready to go. By Friday I’m dragged out from the week and am usually pretty grumpy to deal with.
i should be playing in my studio, but I took a second job developing a university course, so now I am spending most weekends on free time putting together course modules….
Is the course called Intro to Becoming Rad? Cause it should be
Becoming Rad 201: Soulier Than Thou.
Module 1: A history of Rad – an analysis of Lo Pan and Jack Mangan
Picked up my SS gift this morning. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to drop it in the mail until Thursday.
I’m going to try to do a play by play on Wednesday
Will it be “Seasonal” ?
Honestly…. better and better! Oh Jack, this is gonna be swell
This is actually pretty damn cool! I posted before I watched.
Oh, and completely unrelated, my DSS gift is purchased.
If its 4 minutesthen that means it has 3 1/2 minutes of endings, right?
The Peter Jackson edit of this video is 72 minutes long.
We’re taking the hobbits to Eisenguard!
Oh and DSS gift pinpointed and soon to be aquired
Well, since 2015 has been the gift that keeps on giving; I can finally post a small tidbit of a possible glimmer of hope-
The short of the long is: after 2 months of the unknown, my Mom has been diagnosed with cancer. Not just caner but a big F-U- type cancer. Stage IV lung with bone mets.
The possibly good news here is that once the mets were discovered and my mom felt she had the freedom to express the physical pain she has been suffering with, her team of docs pounced on her with a treatment plan and she is set to begin treatment tomorrow (8 days from discovery to start of treatment), on the painful bone mets in her pelvis, hip, and leg. 70-80% chance for achieving significant pain relief.
Here’s hoping for some fucking relief of this god foresaken fucking year for the Manglocks and our family.
That about sums it up. Tiff’s mom is a pretty great lady.
Fuck you, 2015.
Hugs.
Oh Pixie *hugs* :heart:
*Hugs*
Hoping for more than the best
Oh, man. Major *hugs* and support to Pixie.
*hugz*
We’ll be keeping you and your mom in our thoughts.
Morning Pan
That’s exactly what it is… at least, on this side of the pond.
J0e, in answer to your question above, no. I do have a couple of seasonal movies set to record but they don’t come out until next week or so. What I do have on my PVR is:
The Congress
The Lazarus Effect
Mortdecai
The Possession of Michael King
Mortdecai has been almost universally panned, so would be nice to see your take on it.
I made the mistake of putting one of those cat toy apps on my iPad, now I think she’s on the thing more than I am.
The mere fact that there is such a thing as cat toy apps is proof that civilisation is on it’s way out..,
An empty cardboard box is still the ultimate cat app.
The problem with this working at home stuff is, I sit at my desk and lose track of time. It’n not until several hours later that I realize I haven’t eaten at all today.
I’m hungry.
Did I mention that I finished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell?1 Did I mention that I really dug it?2 I can’t imagine how this was translated to a BBC mini-series.
1Aside from the footnotes, which I had to skip when I was listening to the robotext while driving. I’m going back now and reading the ones I missed. Very neat idea for a novel. . . It’s a clever way to add depth.
2As much as I liked it, I do have a few major questions about the actions of some of the characters and how the magic system works, which could constitute plot holes.
Rather well if the author is to be believed.
I haven’t read the book but did enjoy the series.
i loved how they described magic in that book
Well DPSS GIFT ordered.
Same here.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed the recipent likes green.
Why do some replies on here show in a smaller font size?
#curiositykilledthecat
They have smaller shoe sizes.
Another reason we’re glad Shaq doesn’t hang around here.
secret santa shopping complete. mwahahaha
Tegan and Sara have finished thei new album!
MAMAMA YAS!!!!!
SS gift – “ITS AWAY!”
As is mine!
I’m such a slacker this year. Still trying to catch up from the Thanksgiving travel. I will get my SS gift and have it out soon. Crazy, crazy days.
100% of the Secret Santa assignments have been sent out, including Ryan’s (Soulier’s). To everyone who reached out to me, thank you so much for keeping me on the straight and narrow. Sorry for the confusion and delay.
I went shopping for my DPSS gift today, too. I will try to get it shipped out tomorrow.
Reminds me a lot of Hole; when they were good, of course. 😀
Why did WP eat my post? What’s wrong with getting cat food and a mix master?
That reminds me, I need a new teapot.
I checked the spam filter. Did you type it up is as nonsensical rambling under the user name: “yoga pants”?
No, but that would have been awesome
Ok Pan, it’s that time.
By a single request, today’s movie is Mortdecai
The PVR write up: Armed with only his good looks and special charm, an art dealer travels the world to find a stolen painting that is rumoured to contain the code to a bank account filled with Nazi gold.
Because this is a more well-known I will try to keep my comments as vague as possible
Wait, there’s nudity in this?
I’ve never seen JOhnny Depp so well… Groomed
Black glove
No! Not a finger!
Bar fight!
The horse picture too
It’s going to get bigger
Boy is he whipped
The twice over
A dead hag
Hey! It’s Obi Wan
The special cheese
Blah, blah,blah
A Welsh barmaid
How could you tell?
He said so
Well that’s no fun.
Bondage
The American?
Was Johnny Depp looking in the mirror?
Nope. Just a word mentioned in conversation
Sink the Bismark
You are making me want to watch this film now.
I can’t put my finger on why, but I can see why this didn’t do well. I want to like it, but it’s not holding my attention
So let’s fuck over the poor and disabled and use that money to make the rubble bounce twice.
Finally. DPSS gift away!
DPSS is away!
Speking of DPSS, does anyone who is in the US have experience with getting a Canadian mailing address into Amazon? Asking for an anonymous Secret Santa
Why does it have to be anonymous? I have my return address on my Secret Santa so it’s pretty obvious who it came from. I just assumed it’s secret until you receive the item. How else will you know how to thank?
Mines going to know from the invoice.
Um I think she meant she doesn’t want to say who she’s asking for so it won’t be spoiled.
Amy, to answer your question, I have switched to the UK or Canadian versions of Amazon to address international shipping in the past as that worked best for me. It has been several years though since I did so, so they may have corrected the issue since.
I too, switch between Canada and the US Amazon, depending upon who I’m sending to. They both have the same info and the login is the same no matter which one you use. Just say it’s a gift and the won’t put a price on the shipping label. However, it will say who the gift is from.
Morning Pan
I’m more than just a little tired.
A little behind everybody. My SS gift won’t be in the mail until later this morning.
I’m not big on historical fiction (unless it’s alternative world) but this tale of friendship between two women (one a SOE operative the other a air transport pilot) In WW2 was great.
Hostage situation at VA hospital on Colorado Springs…
Make that denver
Because wtf wouldnt there be?
Ended pretty quickly. Its sad that this is considered a minor situation compared to whats happened of late
Had me worried there. My son is a vet that lives in Colorado Springs.
In my head the scene plays out with Mark getting increasingly frustrated at hearing “You’re a little short for a Stormtrooper, aren’t you?” all the way down the blvd.
“Hey, isn’t that the guy from The Guyver?”
Oh bless you for breaking this out…
Looking forward to The Wiz, though my wife (!!) is on a business trip so we will have to Hulu it on Saturday.
Bridge of Spies for me tomorrow at the flicks.
Which I enjoyed, even though some I suspected some of the stuff about Gary Powers was wrong.
So it’s called ground beef in the US, looks like mince to me.
I’d also heard it called “chop meat” while I was growing up, but I don’t know if that was just a Jersey thing, or my weird family.
Speaking of old fiction confectionaries… I’ve always wondered just WTF treacle tarts taste like that the boy in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flips out over them (see 1:23 below)
Apparently they are a form of pie made primarily with syrup.
According to the wiki ‘it’s branded King in the USA.
Thanks for the shipping help, all. Bunny and Lo Pan are correct: It is secret until you receive the item, which is why I didn’t want to say who I was asking for.
My gift is still sitting on my side table. I was going to ship it yesterday. Most of my plans for the day got derailed when I went and got my car rear-ended. :frown: Still dealing with insurance, so I won’t go into too much detail, but I wasn’t visibly hurt, and my car is still driveable. My rear bumper is dented pretty badly but still attached, and is going to get fixed in the relatively near future. My DPSS gift will get shipped on Monday, most likely.
Stupid rear-ender! I’m glad you’re OK, Amy, even if your car got some cosmetic damage.
Anyway, fuck 2015.
FUCK CANCER
Yep.
Goddamn it, Scott Weiland. Too much trippin’, now your soul’s worn thin.
Rest in peace.
Morning Pan
I forgot we were having company over for dinner tonight until I saw an email asking what time they should come over. I guess I’m going to the store when they open to get food stuff.
I think everybody needs a group hug for 2015 *hug*
Received my DPSS gift today. Fantastic and perfect for me. It’s a calendar called Quotable Asshole. The only way it could be better was if it was Quotable Asshat. I’ll be sure to share some choice ones here. Thanks.
I’m glad you like it! I promise, this wasn’t some kind of passive aggressive dig. I just thought you’d really like it, and that it synced nicely with your name :).
Absolutely. Also, who is “John Mangan” in Scottsdale?
It’s his evil twin.
That would have been someone else, if you were offended.
WTF!
“In a scene that can only be described as insane, multiple news sources have entered the San Bernardino terrorist suspects’ house and are rifling through whatever papers and pictures they find there. Reporters from MSNBC, CNN, CBS and unknown others have been showing the social security numbers, drivers licenses, photo albums and other presumed evidence on camera.
According to reporters, they were let in by the landlord, who used a crowbar to remove the temporary plywood door left after police destroyed the original. Nobody seems to be able to explain why this apparent destruction of evidence is being allowed, on-camera.”
Twitter is having a melt down over this and deservedly so.
It’s just so surreal.
First I’ve heard of it. . . . They’re tampering with items that could be evidence?
Mob justice actions shouldn’t be allowed under our legal system, even against the scum of the earth.
I feel zero pity for these murderers or their privacy, but I do worry about the cultural system failure you guys are talking about.
Paid a landlord to break the police tape and enter the property.
Saw that today when I got home. Why aren’t all these people in jail yet?
If you live further than 50 miles from Canada, you are closer to outer space.
Planet Earh is blue and there’s nothing I can do…
The papers want to know whose shirts you wear.
+t
Well, this is one of the worst weeks I’ve had in a very long time. I’m angry, exhaused, overwhelmed, and in pain. Not a good combination.
Sorry Man. When I’ve had similar weeks, I always console myself that there were always better times that followed. Is it beer thirty yet?
Wine and chocolate.
Hugs ditto.
Big Hug, Ditto
Thanks everyone.
Hugs bro
Always nice to see a singer/songwriter who doesn’t hate his fans.
Hubby has a work Christmas party tonight. I’m not invited yet somehow, hubby talked me in to making cookies for him to take. *sigh*
Well, on the bright side – – you can eat cookies and you don’t have to go a work Christmas party. Some ELSE’s work Christmas party.
All that boring teacher talk, you’ve had a lucky escape….
Well, the past two days have been an adventure. We are with my Mom during the first (likely not last) hospital stay due to complications of effing cancer. Today is surgery for a pathologic bone break. Yay.
You think one is prepared to deal with effing cancer; but that’s a foolish thought. No one can really prepare for the war that plays out between a person’s entire family and the global effects of this awful disease.
I’m disgusted by the mass-shooting commentary in my Facebook feed right now.
I get that sarcasm can be a component of debate, but it really feels harsh, in the wake of murders. I bristle every time I see “LOL” in posts/comments mocking someone else’s emotional reaction to such horror.
Wow. The venue for MUSE tonight appears to be half empty. :-/
The Muse concert was pretty amazing spectacle. There were 8 giant drones flying around for half the show, plus some innovative use of screens. Whatever you think of their music, these guys put on a great show.
Most importantly: the kids had a great, great time.
These remind me of the style of jokes my 10th grade English teacher used to tell. A man looks at a sign in a luggage store window that says “This size for $10”. The man says “so would I”.
That one really seems to rely on being spoken as it revolves around the homonym size/sighs. That’s OK. The first time he told it in class, no one got it anyway.
The tumble weeds are rolling, rolling, rolling today.
So we’ve had a lot of rain recently, which led to this happening:
I’m looking for some advice from the Deadpan community. I’m looking to start a blog on my beer bottle collecting exploits. One of the first steps is to come up with a cool name for the blog. A labeorphile or labeorphilist is the technical name for someone that collects beer bottles (yup, there is a word specifically for collectors of beer bottles as opposed to other bottles) and I was looking for a way to use that word in the title. My first thought was “labeor philistine” but the actual meaning of philistine doesn’t really work well in this situation. “Labeorphile” is pronounced /lay bee or file/ (took me forever to track that down) so I’m thinking “Labeor of Love”. My fear here is that a) it will be too obscure for anyone to understand and/or b)it will lead to all sorts of search engine confusions involving rule 34 of the internet.
Any opinions/suggestions? I going to keep thinking on it.
Yeah, the mind immediately goes there.
About how many do you have in your collection? Replace the numbers in my suggestions with that number.
“You and Me and the Bottles Makes 3,472 Tonight.”
“8,296 Bottles of Beer on the Wall, 8,296 Bottles of Beer…”
“Unpeeled Labels”
“Filled With Empties”
“Empty Bottles: A Labeor of Love”
“UsedHair’s Used Bottles”
Le Bottle Me?
My choice: “Bottled Up”
I like “Empty Bottles: A Labeor of Love” as it incorporates my earlier idea. However, “Usedhair’s Used Bottles” is clever as shit. I shall have to think about it.
Oh, and I currently have 1282 in my collection. I think a prominent item on the blog should be a counter that indicates the current count.
CW: The Man in the High Castle 08
Bloody hell, the scene where the SS guy is told he has to euthanise his son is bloody chilling.
Have I mentioned how much I love this series HAVE I?
The way they fit the plot of the book into a larger narrative is just wonderfully done.
Every scene cribbed from the book is like a easter egg for fans of the novel.
I watched the first two episodes on Thanksgiving vacation with the family. I will definitely keep going with it based on your input.
I stopped reading this post after “Bloody hell, the scene where the SS”
The directors cut of the coloring book makes much more sense.
Crap joke for the day:
Paddy McCoy, an elderly Irish farmer, received a letter from the Department for Work & Pensions stating that they suspected he was not paying his employees the statutory minimum wage and they would send an inspector to interview them.
On the appointed day, the inspector turned up.
“Tell me about your staff,” he asked Paddy.
“Well,” said Paddy, “there’s the farm hand, I pay him £240 a week, and he has a free cottage.
Then there’s the housekeeper. She gets £190 a week, along with free board and lodging.
There’s also the half-wit. He works a 16 hour day, does 90% of the work, earns about £25 a week along with a bottle of whisky and, as a special treat, occasionally gets to sleep with my wife.”
“That’s disgraceful” said the inspector, “I need to interview the half-wit.”
“That’ll be me then,” said Paddy.
JW: The Leftovers season 2 finale
Wow, great ending, if there is no S3 I don’t mind it ended that well.
There won’t be a season three unless you sing a song.
We are using up vacation time today and off to see Mockingjay 2
We may go this weekend. Tiff’s niece did the previous 2 Hunger Games premieres with her, but bailed on the last one. (Teenagers!)
I guess I need to actually watch part 1 of part 3, before seeing part 2 of part 3.
So when riding the rollercoaster called, Battling Effing Cancer, when does
It end? Only at death? Or could it end with a literal light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel?
I say this reluctantly, but it doesn’t end. There are some times that you have hope, even relief. Even when you get the statement of “cancer free” there are still tests and precautions for quite some time. I’m sorry you are going through this with your mom and it is never easy for anyone going through it or their families.
Thanks, Cynful…
Thanks also to all of Deadpanland. Jack and I greatly appreciate the love, hugs, and support.
Sorry to be such a crank lately.
You’re allowed.
As Van would say, “Quite”
Finally got my Deadpan Secret Santa gift shipped today.
I had friends that pushed me to make it to the R40 show. I Can’t express how glad I am that they did. Rush was always my favorite band (at least their works before Roll the Bones) and I will miss them. But I definitely understand where they are coming from.
Also, Neil has retired before. We’ll see how permanent this one is.
Crap joke for the day:
The teacher asked the class to use the word “fascinate” in a sentence.
Molly put up her hand and said, “My family went to my granddad’s farm, and we all saw his pet sheep. It was fascinating.”
The teacher said, “That was good, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate,’ not ‘fascinating’.”
Sally raised her hand. She said, “My family went to see Rock City and I was fascinated.”
The teacher said, “Well, that was good Sally, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate’.”
Little Johnny raised his hand, but the teacher hesitated because she had been burned by Little Johnny before. She finally decided there was no way he could damage the word “fascinate,” so she called on him.
Johnny said, “My aunt Carolyn has a sweater with ten buttons, but her tits are so big she can only fasten eight!”
The teacher sat down and cried.
Morning Pan
I get to go to the dentist later today. Woo Hoo?
Well I had good news yesterday from the dentist.
She won the Irish Sweepstakes?
That would have been good news for the dentist not me.
I’m sorry you can’t share in the joy of her good fortune. Tell her congratulations for me.
I don’t think he’ll appreciate being called a she.
It’s a new era.
Oh bugger, looks like whoever got me for DPSS has not paid the correct postage or marked it as a gift, the delivery company is going to charge me import duty.
I had thought it was a gift for my mother, but that one arrived later.
Since I cannot think of anybody else who would send me international mail.
Seriously? That was supposed to be handled by the shipping company. Let me know what you had to pay and I’ll reimburse you. 🙂
Yeah, I’ll let you know tomorrow when hopefully I can ask the delivery person.
Cool beans.
If you like, buy me a drink next time I’m in town.
Such a great and poignant read from the ex-wife and mother of Scott Weiland’s children.
Such is the path of drug abuse. I feel sorry for him and his family. Once someone goes down this path, depending on the drug abused, they change their very own brain structure. As a result it may be that he was physically unable to correct his path, all do to a poor decision made in the distant past. As glib as Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign was, she wasn’t wrong.
Mixed feelings reading that. She’s clearly got her own ax to grind, and deeply personal hurt from her failed relationship with this (by all accounts) difficult man.
She’s right that he should have been present and shown some effort for his children (assuming she’s not lying – – and her statements appear to be backed up by his legacy).
She’s right that people should put money and time into their kids, but as fans, they’ve also lost someone who, despite his failings, impacted their lives. People are entitled to mourn as fans. Lots of our heroes had dark sides – – those shouldn’t be swept under the rug, but they also don’t need to be the only thing we recall about them.
She’s right that we as a society should not applaud or wink at self-destructive artists the way we do, when they start to circle the drain.
I feel deep sympathy for her. It is a nightmarish, thankless job trying to make something work with a self-destructive, deeply damaged person.
You feel she shouldnt have put it out there? I didnt get from this article that this is all we should remember about them. I felt it more a reminder of addiction as illness in general than a bash on Scott. IMO
I generally think we should always take the criticisms of an ex with many grains of salt. Even in this case, where I’m sure he was a terrible partner.
I do wonder if her motives were entirely pure, or if there was some lingering resentment from her bad experience with him.
Do you, of all peeps, have to ask and if so would you blame her?
She’s entitled to every bit of that resentment. She earned it.
Time to take you home. Your dizzy head is conscience laden.
Just read a Facebook post from a former HS classmate agreeing with Trump’s statement to ban all Muslims from traveling to the US. “It’s just common sense!” *smacks head*
I don’t have the energy today.
Ugh.
Our mayor, one of the best we hadve had in years, is Muslem. If Trunp gets his wish, there will be no talks between the US and Calgary….
Although, if Trunb gets his way, not talking to the US would probably not be a bad thing
Rather than post a scathing report on why I think Trump is wrong, I post a link from CNN that touches on the high points.
Getting Trump to operate based on “fact” or “reason” is not going to happen but if you find yourself confronted by one of his supporters, ask them “Why stop there?”
Why are we not starting a database of radicalized CHristians? Remember just the week before when one of them launched a murderous terrorist attack in Colorado? Clearly, if identifying and tracking a radicalized group is a good idea … it’s a good idea for ALL the religious factions whose intentions “we just can’t know”.
While we’re at it, since the VAST bulk of extremist attacks and murders in the US last year were carried out by white supremacist groups and their sympathizers, why do we not round ALL of them up and put them in “camps”. Again, if it’s a good idea for one group why not apply it across the board?
Do you of you have any experience with setting up and/or participating in a meal train for a family
Member/neighbor/parishener, etc..
I’ve had some of my participants be recipients of them. Unfortunately it’s been awhile so I can only speak generally and not give you the website they referred to.
There will now follow a a line of expletives about custom charges:
£9)?!,(.),”!’bjhkovhgftgtcdxxszjbnfcgtxfdads
(Censored)
I clearly see a booby
You see boobies everywhere!
That’s a lucky man that Lo Pan.
6th sense
It’s raining. It’s December, and it’s raining.
How, odd.
Same here but not so odd.
Sigh.
?
Feeling Caddish.
As in like feeling like a Cad and not in the fly and wanting to lay eggs in Lo kind of way.
I’m designing a course about winter cities. Curious, is there a winter-related event in your city? In Calgary, we have zoo lights. Artistic light displays at the zoo.
I wouldn’t go as far as calling it an event, but local councils do put up Lights for Christmas near shopping centres.
We have Lumi at the Desert Botanical Gardens.
The entire park is lit by luminarias and christmas lights, strung about the park. Holiday music from all genres and by various musicians occur each night. Food, wine, and hot drinks are served.
Its so gorgeous and a lovely way to spend the holidays in Phoenix. It’s by far my favorite thing about The Valley during the holidays.
Soulier, the Phoenix Zoo also has Zoo Lights.
Plus, Glendale has Glendale Glitters and a drive-thru Xmas lights exhibit.
There’s a great Train Park Xmas Lights ride in Scottsdale too.
Same with zoo and botanical garden lights. There’s also the annual lighting of the city and county building and we have one of the larger light parades as well.
Then there’s drinking winter beers…. which the entire state abides by I’m pretty sure
I have yet to actually participate and it looks like I’m not going to make it this year either, but we have this:
Though, depending on when the fronts comes through Saturday evening, appropriate dress will either be shorts and a tee shirt, or rain poncho and thermal underwear…
There are a few things that are historical and seasonal here and then there are some new things. So holiday related, we have the lighting of the Plaza lights and various light displays. There is also the Snow Princess which has recently been revived. They open the skating rinks around early November and they open the manmade snow hills usually in December. The zoo does a “Santa Dives with the Penguins”.
Fall tends to be our biggest festival season though. It’s not as boring as it sounds
“Santa Dives with the Penguins”
Is that like “sleeping with the fishes” ?
“All right you Elves, hand over the goods or Santa Dives with the Penguins.”
Mom: what does John want for his birthday
Me: give him a gift card from Amazon.ca, then he can get whatever he wants
Mom: ok, I’ll get him a PayPal credit
Me: no, get him an Amazon.ca certificate. They don’t use PayPal
Mom: you want Amazon.ca right? Not .com
Me: yes. We are in Canada .
Mom: did you hear about this site? You can get lots of free books
This one I didn’t actually answer, but internally I’m thinking, “you know I work for a publishing company, right?”
Oh, my mom. She can be so blond sometimes
So off to see ‘Carol’ this morning at the flicks and later a pub crawl around Newcastle with some work colleagues.
I opened the closet under the stairs to pull out our Christmas stuff. The cat was really excited to discover we had this whole other room she knew nothing about. And even better, it was full of small spaces for her to get in to and explore!
And will you be leaving around some empty Xmas boxes for her to jump into?
I think that’s a given
So tell me Deadpan. Why does it take longer to ship to/from the US from Canada, then to/from the UK?
(this is really a rhetorical question)
Don’t get me stArted on customs!!
Yeah, I get the same thing. It’s pretty much impossible to order from Think Geek. There’s usually 20% tacked on for border fees.
I’m going to put it down as a learning experience.
CD: Dutch beer – Ramses Bier Formiga Sauva. The description on the bottle reads:
vlak voor het bottelen zijn extra sauva mieren toegevoegd
Sent through google translate that comes out as:
just before bottling added extra sauva ants
That is not a mis-translation. This beer is brewed with ants. It doesn’t taste any different than the other dutch beers I’ve had so far. But it will definitely be on the blog to be. I promise to get it rolling right after this trip.
Gross
No, no. They’re “extra Sauva” so it’s all fine. No gross about it.
Seriously, they must either filter the ants back out or Sauva them up into a puree as there are no chunky bits.
Moves on to Thai Thai which is a standard Dutch beer brewed with Thai spices.
popcorn seasoning on a can of tuna is not cooking.
True, but it is trying… Your patience, I’m sure
Work white elephant party starts in a few. I have a huge love of these
I’ve always wondered who was behind these. 😉
Well tonight’s pub crawl did lead to a new discovery that Spiced run and ginger beer is a tasty combination.
Try it with the extra ants. I’ve read that’s a thing.
Watched a movie called The Congress. It was very… Surreal
Agreed. The Congress was good, although difficult to follow most of the time.
There’s going to be a S3 of The Leftovers.
Wahoooo!
Still hope for a “Last Man on Earth” crossover.
Over my aging body!
Kristen Schaal is going to show up at your door step and stare at you while blowing smoke in your face. Day after day.
As long as she keeps her trap shut.
Youre a real cunt
In your dreams laddie.
Honey Dew beer still tasted of beer.
One day I will not be disappointed.
If you’re looking for beer which doesn’t taste like beer, might I suggest giving up and drinking whiskey?
Listen to this man. This man is a smart man.
Indeed. I’ve still yet to find a beer I can drink. I have had some luck with hard ciders, though.
Have you tried the ant beer?
It may be time to cry “Uncle”.
I would just like a beer to tasted a bit like what they claim.
So Honey Dew did not taste of honey and chocolate orange stout did not taste of chocolate orange.
How do you all refer to Amy Bowen and her being the DP Ambassador?
Is she referred to as: The Ambassador of Deadpan? Or the Deadpan Ambassador?
Something else?
The Deadpan Ambassador.
Santa thought I needed some balls. 😀
Thank you DP not so secret Santa
Public Service Broadcasting are playing the the Science museum in London on the 22nd January and I can’t go.
/shakes fist at work schedule.
GO!
I missed them at a super tiny venue here this year. Do not make my same mistake
You two are so cute together.
Just not possible, I’m working the next day.
cough cough I feel you have a cold coming on
Sold out!
Greetings Deadpan!
I hope all is well.
I have received my secret Santa gift.
I haven’t opened it yet. I’m waiting to get approval from my wife.
Whatever it turns out to be, I’m sure it’ll be great.
Thanks, Amy Bowen!
CW: Last Man On Earth
Someone has too.
Fuckface!
Its so good! That last ep was SO GOOD!!!
Bleurgh!
The more hate the more I realize what a good show it really is
oh good, I don’t see it changing it’s current trend of banality.
I think you meant “breath of fresh air in a shitty shitty network show world”
If I was sniffer what you were sniffing you would probably be right.
Today, Christmas comes to Bunny Town. My Boo and her boofriend are coning over. We are going to trim the tree, deck the halls, and make gingerbread cookies :cheerful:
I always imagine flooting sheets with eyes cut out when you talk of boo.
I always imagine floating sheets with eyes cut out when you talk of boo.
No, I think you were right the first time.
In this case, Boo is Minsc’s companion from Baulder’s gate. He is a miniature giant space hamster. I call her this because, at five foot even, she’s a miniature giant, when she was young, she was a very hairy baby, and, like all kids, she’s possibly from outer space (I don’t care if she’s in her 20’s, she still a kid). Or, a miniature giant space hamster – Boo!
A guy is telling one of his colleagues at work: “You know, I never realized just how much my wife loved me until I was off sick last week. When the milkman and postman walked down the drive, she ran out and shouted excitedly: ‘My husband’s home!'”
I thought it was your milkshake that brought all the boys to the yard?
Dammit, didn’t refresh and inadvertently stole Van’s joke.
Either way… damn right its better than yours…
I rarely listen to “we’re so edgy” morning radio (and never listen to morning zoo bullshit), but I caught Emo Phillips this morning on the local “we’re so edgy” show.
The guy is still the same, and still oddly hilarious, 30 years later. I needed that.
He really is one of a kind. He’ll make me laugh anytime anywhere
The no signs is certainly one of my peeves about the place. And, strangely enough, at least around here, the people at Sams are generally much friendly than Costco.
That was me when I tried it. I keep hearing good things tho.
I never found it worth keeping. I bribe friends and family if there is one thing I need. Like their yummy strawberry jam.
I’m the minority, but I feel like I’m spending $50 a year for the privilege of saving $40 overall over regular supermarket prices on awkwardly-sized items.
I’d say for a family, it is mostly worth it. The hard part is coming up with $100+ every time you shop there.
I think you just have to savvy and know what practical items are a savings vs buying them from grocery store. Not everything is a good deal. But many items are.
Also, their home and car insurance is fantastic.
Member since 1997. Boo-Yaaa.
Does Seattle count as canada?
More than Toronto!
Can’t argue with that.
It rains a lot, at least it does in the episodes of Frasier I’ve watched.
“tossed salad”
What a night for the youngest Mangan!!
Squeee
WOOT!!!
MST3K live telethon just hit $6million.
Joel is currently interviewing Felicia Day
mst3k.com
Is it a kickstarter?
They had a kickstarter.
Tonight it was ending so they had a live streaming telethon.
Looks like we are going to get a new season of MST3k !
I don’t have a very good sci fi/bending time/ring theory/altered universe brain.
(Not sure how JM loves me since I’m a sci-fi failure)
Well one theory is the Heisenberg device is a time machine or viewer into alternative universes that allowed Hitler to see where he maid mistakes and correct them and he is the man in the high castle.
As for the trade Minster swapping universes…wibble!
Did you enjoy the journey though?
I think he is the man in the high castle- been saying so since early on.
We both are loving the series!!!!
I just didnt see that final scene coming.
I’ve reached a time in my life when I”m tempted by slotless racing again:
Hubby collects super car hot wheels. I bought him a track for his birthday next week
I was really disappointed with the TCR system. #oldfart
I was reading up on TCR, with the benefit of hindsight it was a deeply flawed system. The early sets being under powered and the outside car being faster than the inner lane car by default, really nuked any chance of it taking over from It’s rivals.
This is like “the perfect cup of coffee”. No such thing as everybody’s tastes vary.
CW: Madmen S7 E8
So I’ve finally got around to starting the last seven episodes of Madmen.
I initially thought they had jumped into the future with this episode with that guys KFC moustache and the answering machine straight out of 2001…
Morning Pan
Last week of work before two weeks of holidays.
Hey Jack!
Have you figured out what’s wrong with your site yet? Every time I post it takes me to a blank page and I have to reload from Jackmangan.com (as opposed to just refreshing the page).
Same here, although I Just go back in the browser and refresh the page.
I’m looking into it too. Nothing seems to have changed in the files, so I’m wondering if there is some sort of database issue. I’ll dig into it more when I can.
Tony and I have chatted about it. We’re seeing the same thing. . .
Sorry, everyone. I’ll now click “Post Comment” and get the blank page.
I assumed it was a Zen thing. You were just giving us a moment to reflect on what we had posted.
Wadsworth: Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur.
Professor Plum: Yes, but now I work for the United Nations.
Wadsworth: So your work has not changed.
Don’t feel bad Van. Other than the holidays themselves I have to work too.
yeah mama! Im taking a well neeeded full 2 weeks
Plus game night Saturday!
BOOM POW!!!!!!!
Thank you, work doesn’t seem so bad now.
It’s getting pretty dark out
Pretty unimpressed with the new Star Trek trailer. (i’ll link it later)
I caught it last night as well. Simon Pegg promised it would be better, but if a trailer is supposed to cut the best bits together to get me excited…my hopes are not high.
Seems to me like the poor Star Trek trailer is mostly due to a bad choice in music. Between using “modern era” music and the over-emphasis on humor, it looks very much like they are trying to make the next movie into Guardians of the Galaxy. If they had stuck to music more suited to Start Trek and cut a joke or two, I don’t think this would have looked any different that any other Trek Trailer.
The first film I feel was a real flash in the pan.
I am, however, very happy for the new ID4
Sequel to the dumbest blockbuster EVAR, I’m not holding out high hopes.
And the problem is? Although I sure am ‘shocked’ that you feel this way
I just can’t forgive the writers for the virus plot line.
Its just aliens and lasers and Jeff Goldblum. Who needs science or fact or plausibility!
Well sometimes I do need that.
But sometimes just lasers and aliems and Goldblum and kabooms and eye candy!
Granted that approach didnt really work for Cowboys Vs Aliens
I prefer Mr Goldblum in ‘Into the Night’.
I prefer Mr. Goldblum in “Earth Girls are Easy”.
It’s the tongue isn’t it?
I forgot my damn lines today. And I’m playing Ryah. She’s gonna make me pay for that.
I forgot too!
I fell into the damn internet. Goodnight, :blank white page:
So, despite having a good sized pipe to the internet, I’ve often found myself unable to stream Youtube worth a crap. Stumbled upon this thread:
It will bypass some buffering servers and give a direct feed from Youtube. Took me a bit to figure out how to set it up on my particular router, but once I did, I could stream the new Star Trek trailer is all its 1080p crappiness.
Now if you can figure out for me why Netflix refuses to play on my Sony blu-ray while its just fine everywhere is. I swear Sony and Netflix have some underhanded deal going on
Oh that’s simple, Sony hates you.
Not as much as I hate you.
Your hate keeps me warm at night.
It comes in a warming glaze
Toasty.
Hmm, now that’s weird – my Sony Blu-Ray players do exceptionally well with Netflix.
Morning Pan!
I’m working one-handed again.
Why? Did I miss a post.
No. The cat likes to on me, being held in one arm, much like a baby. Makes it rather hard to work.
“I have a good sized pipe”
heh
heh
“bypass some buffering”
I do have “A Christmas Horror Story” on my PVR but I am going to hold off doing a PBP until the side is behaving better.
Winter wonderland! You and yours safe Lo Pan?
Yeah. Tried to get to work and failed miserably. Went back home
No snowstorms! If you get them, then it won’t be long before they show up here.
Well, then youre fucked! Pardon my snowy french.
Uh oh. Be careful out there Pannites
L.A. School District now??
I hate society in today’s world. Crazy people suck the life out of everything.
So… seems my DPSS recipient is experiencing some delay. Just checked Etsy to see if their item shipped and saw this message from 6 days ago (give me a break, I was traveling).
“My brother has been in a coma and just passed away two days ago. I have just got back to the computer and will be issuing refunds. The money does not concern me, I would even consider sending you double your money back, if there wasn’t so many returns right now on my ebay from being at the hospital. This has been a horrible month but I am ready to get back to work. I must remain busy so I can stop crying. Please forgive my delay as I have always been a professional until my brother got into the car accident. Thank you for understanding; your items will be in the mail by the beginning of next week. Feel free to call me if you would like.”
That’s a bit of a downer. I sent them a very understanding reply to see what I should do from here. If they want to still send it, they can. If not, I’ll go back to the drawing board.
Van be damned. The fall finale of Last Man on Earth was a brilliance of 30 minute show crafting. This is why I watch this show.
Still not laughing.
..and they couldn’t use a Soyuz, motherfuckers.
This doenst even make sense.
Yes it bloody well does.
Its an alternate reality so they really dont have to adhere to anything ‘real’. Sorry.
Indeed, they also don’t have to be funny and by gawd they are good at that.
Youre still treating it as a classic sit-com and that’s where you fail. But yeah, youre in the minority there. There’s at least one literal lol in every episode. Your problem is that you cant take embarrassment humor – and that’s fine. But don’t call a show terrible just cause its not your cup of grumpy tea.
Now get me a jammy
It will rot your teeth.
I disagree with everything you just wrote.
Every time you talk all I hear is the sound of Pac Man dying
Well that explains why you missed the TCR post.
Jean Claude Van-be-Dammed.
So touching
Shhh. If Van catches you liking it he’ll break out the desperate, make no sense arguments… like ‘Soyuz”.
The escape pod from the international space station.
Shhhhhh. The adults are talking
Impossible, you are still yapping.
You daft cunt I cant possible catch every post on here. Even tho I DID reply to it, sorta *cough*
That isn’t the name of the band. . .
Relax, he just can’t spell Daft Punk.
You guys are getting way too emotional over differences of opinion on TV shows. This is starting to resemble the great A-Team vs. Knight Rider debates of the 80s.
We’re only emotional cause we really don’t’ care what each other thinks…
Eggsactly.
Meanwhile the uK press are trying to remove Helen Sharman from history because she was privately funded.
It appears Tim Peake is the first proper UK astronaut..WTF!
BTW… still working* on it.
* – in this context, the word ‘Working’ is defined as the act of repeatedly slamming one’s head in an alternating sequence between one’s keyboard and the whole of the internet.
For those playing along at home, I’ve successfully determined that it is NOT an issue with the theme or with a plugin. So, it’s either a problem with WP itself (unlikely, but checkable by upgrading the install. (Which I will try later, I guess)) or caused by a server configuration change… which is what I’m betting since other sites of mine are having issues too, but not the same issues.
You are the man, Tony Mast. Let’s discuss applying the WP updates. . .
I tried the update route on a different website that is having a slight different, but just as annoying set of issues. No luck.
I’m preparing for the nuclear option.
Nuclear Option:
Back Up the site.
Save the config file.
Save the content folder. (Themes and plugins)
Delete the current set of WordPress files. (Database of all show and comment content is stored elsewhere and won’t be changed at all.
Clean install WP.
Replace config file.
Replace content folder.
I’m going to test this on the Sausagefest site, which is also having issues, but is currently in a really low traffic period, so there will be no impact. I want to see it work there before I try it on this site.
“plugin”
There’s a new Tom Petty biography out today that I cannot wait to read
The waiting is the hardest part
Jammy doughnuts are overrated.
Far too claggy.
Speaking of trying to trouble shoot a web site …
I spent the morning at the Dentist getting drilled and filled.
It would have been more pleasant if that was a euphemism.
His early stuff is always good for watching literary snobs squirm.
There was a time when legends of Krail ran true.
As did Airwolf.
Some days suck much more than others.
My mouth feels like I have been chewing on barbed wire.
I am attempting to fix it with eggnog. Rum soaked eggnog.
Well, go light on the eggnog…
Thanks Ryah and John for el xmas cardo!!
Sleep is overrated.
Keep telling yourself that.
Looks like we had bunches of snow over night. The weather girl didn’t predict that yesterday
“Don’t need a weather girl to know which way the snow blows.” – Bob Chillen’
Watched the pilot of iZombie last night.
eh
It wasn’t bad … but felt kind of clumsy and “thin”. It’s like “Castle” with brain eating.
If nothing else was on and I wanted to watch some mindless TV I would watch another episode. Not sure how they could keep this going for a whole season though.
… aaaand I don’t know why this review ended up in this thread.
I enjoyed the first season and currently enjoying the second season.
But it’s as deep as puddle.
CP: I Don’t Want To See You Like This — The Joy Formidable
Half way into the second episode and I’m not feeling the lurve.
-a
Cool that means Ill really enjoy it!
I don’t know Punk, does it?
Youre no Dirty Harry
I blame the soap.
Now Debbie Harry on the other hand…
Careful, don’t break his Heart of Glass
Don’t make me go Atomic on ya.
He’s not that kind of girl.
For the most part we’re enjoying it. Although I thought Jim Holden was too young and good looking, and Amos Burton too small. At least, compared to what my mind saw while I was reading the books
Most annoying is the actress who plays the quickly deceased navigator..her face is familiar but I can remember what else I’ve seen her in.
I don’t even know her name.
Can’t not can.
Aha! She was the girlfriend of the werewolf in the US version of Being Human.
So my eyes crossed and Van’s aha read as Anal and I was wondering why Van was talking about that. I need a drink
I’m sure there’s a pulp novel out there called “The Werewolf’s Anal Girlfriend.”
Well in the TV series she did get rear ended by the werewolf.
If in doubt, always use a car accident as a metaphor for sex…
-metaphor +euphemism
I hate these word crimes…
Morning Pan
Two more days of work the two weeks off! Woo Hoo!
I have to work up to Christmas Eve and then I’ll get some time off. 🙂
“then I’ll get some”
11 days off after this shift finishes.
Today is our office holiday party, which is doubling for a retirement party for our beloved president. Evil Inc. has a new evil boss…
Be careful.
These “ascension” type events usually involve a blood sacrifice.
Call Buffy!
You need a less evil jerb
Is jerb Essbee’s pet name for you?
the girl on the news has been telling bad Star Wars jokes all morning. For example:
What is Jabba the Hutt’s middle name?
The
How do Jedi open computer files?
With Adobe wan Kenobi
Speaking of crimes… did you hear the one about the saudi millionaire who was acquitted in a UK court of rape charges because he successfully used the “i tripped and fell into her” defense? No. Im not fucking kidding.
“Judge Martin Griffiths had allowed Mr Abdulaziz to give evidence in private.”
Is that the new term for bribery now?
That is fucked up.
Ha! What a slam on Abdulaziz! A REAL saudi millionaire would have had an underling just phone the judge and tell him to make it go away but they made Abdulaziz actually take a few minutes out of his day to have a private meeting with the judge and come up with this incredibly bad story to explain why it wasn’t rape.
Oooooo what a burn on Abdulaziz! They surely showed him!
Oh you drip with wit!
Who serves you at The Dark Side Restaurant?
dearth Waiter
I wasn’t getting any work done so I shut off the news. I’m sure you can Google bad Star Wars jokes if you want more.
At some point over the next few days, I will sit in a coffee shop and laugh at the Xmas shoppers
It’s not going to be a fun day, I can tell that.
Same here. 🙁
*Hiring clowns to send to ditto and Rhett’s workplaces.*
Oh, they’re already here…
And that guarantees the un-fun-ness of the day. 🙂
Is anyone else having issues with the site? I get a blank page after posting, the comments RSS feed seems to be broken, and a few other things have been happening since the past couple of days.
I get the same problems using either Firefox or Chrome.
Yeah, look up the page, Tony Mast is trying to fix it.
I’ve been really busy, so I wasn’t going to read all the comments. But, thanks for pointing that out.
You go back right now and read every comment, young man!
Sure. I’ll write a program to do that for me. 😉
Is anyone paying attention to Ticketmaster’s “credit card only entry” paperless ticket?
They are using this option today for Adele’s US concerts.
Oy!
I think I would rather go to ticketmaster outlet at Tower Records, stand in line and wait for a wristband, then come back an hour later and find out which random ticket number they are starting with and take my chances of getting tickets *that* way vs. hoping I get theough online today at 10:00AM.
Some people on FB were saying some of the ticket prices for Adele were insane (thousands of dollars).
Ive never have had a problem using credit card only for any concert or Avs game.
Ok I have to admit, after a couple of boring episodes, the Expanse really got going with episodes 3 and 4.
Just so you guys know, I’m testing the Nuclear Option in…
3…
2…
1…
(Not that you’ll see this if things go poorly.)
*FLEX*
Ha!
Way to make the Internets kneel before you. 🙂
Test
I think you’ve got it.
I don’t tend to be an anxious or angry person. These sorts of problems that were happening here and on quite a few other sites that I host were giving me both the anxiousness and the angers. Mellow T has returned. Even though I need to now do this for the other sites.
You’re not in this alone, Tony. Please don’t hesitate to pull me in under the hood.
The weirdest part is that the Deadpan was the only site that was experiencing THESE problems. My other sites were giving me an error when you navigate to the login screen, but wouldn’t let me login past that message.
I’m updating ALL of them to the new version of WP now, just to, hopefully, curb any problems before they arise.
Thanks Tony! 🙂
What the man said.
Add my kudos too!
Oo, look what Tony Mast did!
Cujos!
Thank you Tony
Does her happy happy joy joy dance.
CW: The Magicians E1
Adult Harry Potter..hmmmm.
Wouldn’t that also be Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell?
Well there was I school in the TV series of that book.
-I +no
Maybe Pan-da-Mōn-E-Ummm is behind the DP website breakdown this week so they could get an edge in Fantasy Hockey. . .
I’ve been an absentee coach/GM this week. 🙁
And Ryah kicks you while youre down!
Yeah. Your point?
As you should!
This will just make my comeback win this weekend that much more dramatic. 😉
Nice job Mast!
Ok Pan
Here it is.
A Christmas Horror Story
The PVR write up: Not even Santa is safe from the evil that descends on Bailey Downs, a small town that is suddenly plagued with malevolent spirits, zombie elves and Krampus – the anti-Santa Claus
Ah, Mr. Mast, you corrected one DP issue, now I’m going to mention a new one. When I post on my mobile device, it brings me back to the top of the page so I have to scroll down for each and every post. It didn’t use to do that. I only had to scroll is I refreshed the page, not when I posted.
Not a big deal, just thought, while you are in caretaker mode… 😉
Hmm… I think I might actually know what caused this. I was tweaking some code in the theme, hoping that it might make a difference for the comments page. It didn’t help, but I never pulled that code back out.
I’ll see if doing so makes a difference.
Christmas Eve at santa’s castle
Santa looks a little worse for wear
12 hours earlier? I hate it when shows use that trope
Hey! William Shatner is in this movie
Norman. Is that anything to say?
The writing is on the wall… In blood
Horror in the hallways
A Christmas surprise
I want to show you something in private
Paul Bunyon and Dracula Gayed it up and decorated this place
The Krampus statue broke
Shiny doesn’t feel too good
Mrs. Claus is hot
Shiny is dead
William (not Shatner) is missing
This is where the evil happened
The Mary statue is bleeding
Yes, seriously
The keys no longer work
I don’t think he’s having fun
Shin y’all body is missing
Even I’m not sure what that says
Woah. Santa is bad ass
That nativity is creepy
Pizza with champagne
Molly is having seizures
Shower curtain nudity
There’s something not quite right with that boy
No Christmas nookie for him
Ghost sex
Ok, that was creepy
Drunk hillbilly rapists
Now Duncan has gone missing
Poor Sparkles. Turned in to a zombie before his time
Throw another eggnog on the fire
That’s not your son
Molly wants to sex him up
That’s right, grab the baseball bat
Finding safety in the church
She’s a kleptomaniac. Really.
Duncan is a serial killer in the making
And the body count continues to rise
Time to sex up someone else
Molly, you dirty, dirty girl
Every kid wants a severed hand for a toy
That kid can sure take a beating
Meanwhile, back in santa’s workshop…
Now she did it
And she is rewarded for killing the evil oppressor
We must keep scrolling
The scroll is lacking, but soon will grow!
Happy birthday Brody N ditto!!!
I dont know why I replied to your post with this! But fuck it!
Happy birthday, Brody!
Happy birthday D & B!
Happy Birthday ditto and Brody. Have a super super day!
Morning Pan
Had a nice day off yesterday. Now it’s back to work.
Van’s my Farmer Hoggett…
Van’s my Farmer Maggot.
Van’s my Pandy Fankler
I’m leaving now, ALONE!
Happy birthday, Mr. ditto swoon!
Happy birthday, young Brody!
This really needs an orchestral accompaniment.
The Imperial March?
That’ll do.
…pig
You are!
Wait….
At least he didn’t call you Babe.
Not in public anyway…
Happy Birthday, Brody-Pan!
Happy Birthday, Ditto-Pan!
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mental-wealth/201508/screentime-is-making-kids-moody-crazy-and-lazy
It feels like “Damn kids today with their fancy ______! Back in my day, we didn’t have ________! All we had was _______, and we turned out just fine!” – – But it’s from Psychology Today, so I expect there’s a higher editorial standard than some random person’s Facebook/blog rant.
You’d be surprised…
Well Psychology today is kind of like the trash tabloids of the psychological research journals. We were warned away from the magazine in school
Agreed. As a cognitive psychologist, I wouldn’t be caught dead reading Psychology Today. More BS in that magazine (it is NOT a research journal)than The Weekly World News.
A bit like the difference between New Scientist and Nature.
I will speak up in layman defense of Amy JL Baker, who writes for Psychology Today and is one of the leading experts in Parental Alienation. I have found great value in her work.
So Portal 2 was going cheap on the Steam store.
So I’m looking for a couple of books for a friend’s birthday/Xmas gift and for the first time from a big book seller I was informed the book would be printed on demand by my order.
The future is here..ish.
Amazon does that for CDs and DVDs as well. This future is now!
Sure, but can they do it for 8 tracks? Well, that would really be something!
Only for Freedom Rock.
2 words – “Jet Pack”.
I remember listening to music on my parents’ 8-track player. I loved how I could jump from side to side to side to side at the click of a button. I most prevalently used it to skip a song I didn’t like on Jesus Christ Superstar on one side by switching to the next side and then cycling back when the song I didn’t like was over. I’m surprised that a google search didn’t bring up some virtual 8-track players.
Say whaaaaa!!
No More Hassle! David Hasselhoff Has Legally Changed His Name (but Unfortunately, Not to “The Hoff”)
http://www.eonline.com/news/715490/no-more-hassle-david-hasselhoff-has-legally-changed-his-name-but-unfortunately-not-to-the-hoff
I was curious just how fast IMDB reacts to things like this. As of 7:48 EST if you search for David Hoff, nothing pops up in the auto results. If you search for David Hasselhoff, he comes up right away. But, when you click on him, the listing is for David Hoff. A few of his listings have David Hasselhoff listed under the title of what he was in. But, as of yet, they haven’t replaced all of the listings with “as David Hasselhoff” yet.
As a counter maneuver, William Shatner has had his named changed to “William Shat.”
So S4 of ‘The Americans’ has been shifted to 2016.
/grinds teeth
I am also unamused by this news…but, at least it’s coming back.
I have been watching this season’s “American Horror Story”.
I don’t know why.
My review – Light on “horror”. Heavy on “splatter”.
I was about to give up on American Horror Story this season, but they kept me around with the elementary school incident. We’ll see if I make it through the whole season. This one is moving painfully slow.
Morning Pan
Hubby had this week of. We were trying to sleep in a bit each morning but found it impossible with our new fur covered alarm clock.
😀
What is Teagan doing to you guys? Singing, perhaps?
She’s a head butt type of cat. If you’re not paying attention to her, she’s going to butt you with her head.
Beck is a head-butter. Gandalf was a nose-butter. :'(
You could of course just shut the door so the cat can’t get in.
#doesn’townacat
They’re persistent little things. I had a cat that would stick her paw under the door and bat and pull until I finally gave up and opened the door.
Our bedroom door has a cat door in it.
This is why you get waken up early.
So many links I didn’t share last night! (Well, 3. . .)
I’ll space them out:
http://www.theonion.com/article/cia-admits-role-in-1985-coup-to-oust-david-lee-rot-37570
*Insert ANY Roth vocal shout from ANY VH song here*
Ok Paninites, one of the best novels about AI taking over the world (albeit dated) is free on the kindle store in both North America and UK.
Colossus by DF Jones
It’s free, so go and give it a go.
ok, got it. Hubby picked it up too.
The teletypes ages it just a tad.
Acquired here too. Thanks, Van!
…and if you didn’t know, the film ‘The Forbin Project’ was based on this book.
Next link!
This was a good read…
http://www.tor.com/2015/11/10/star-wars-attack-of-the-clones-was-supposed-to-be-a-love-story/
The author is much younger than most of us (12 when TPM came out). I disagree with a bunch of her conclusions, but I think she states her positions well and has some good insights, large and small scale. She’s done Episodes I and II so far. Worth a look.
Two drums and a cymbal fall off of a cliff.
Dum Dum Chhh.
CW: latest Gotham
Zzzzzzz
This doesn’t look good:
http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2015/11/ars-benchmarks-show-significant-performance-hit-for-steamos-gaming/
Paris attacks: Shootings kill 18, hostage-taking at Bataclan arts centre
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34814203
Oh its much much worse. Humans are fucks.
Yeah, this species sucks.
So many innocent people suffering right now, so many innocent people murdered.
It was apparently an Eagles of Death Metal concert.
And a soccer match
There are still good humans out there.
And a number of restaurants….
But you’re right. We always need to recognize and appreciate the good ones. Thank you for bringing the voice of reason, Cynful.
Seriously! No sarcasm!
For work I’ve been reading up on crisis communications. One of the things that gets stressed here and there is that most people (including government officials) seem to thing that in the face of events like this people will immediately shift into panic mode and that people will turn on each other. However, all of the case studies looked at from natural disaster and terrorist attacks continually show that nearly all people involved keep their heads and immediately shift into help-each-other-as-much-as-possible mode. So, yes, there a some humans that are fuck. However, the core of humanity is good. When out instincts take over we are, at heart, social creatures that feel the need to help more than harm. At least, thinking that is how I get myself through most days.
More to keep in mind …
the percentages.
Yes, even just ONE sociopath with a gun can cause a grievous amount of carnage but we must keep in mind … at that very moment, MILLIONS of other human beings chose not to do so.
ISIS has put out a call to the sociopaths of the planet to come and rape, pillage and kill with them … and while they have had thousands respond… the planet holds billions.
I don’t know what solace that can bring but we must remember that these are the misfits. While they are here amount us and cause sadness, they no more represent “us” then does the Ebola virus.
Talking of Paris:
http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/11/failed-windows-3-1-system-blamed-for-taking-out-paris-airport/
Well friend having the brain op phoned today, op went fine and he’s recovered some sight (still early days).
He’s hoping to get out today.
fingers crossed
thinking good thoughts
What J0e said.
Well he’s getting out today, he estimates vision about 90% of what it was originally, so encouraging news.
Morning Pan
Hubby is vacuuming. Tegan is stalking the vacuum cleaner.
I went to see a comedian last night and laughed a lot (which was needed given the day’s events). One of the jokes to kick things off: “I’m very confused. Kansas City is apparently in Missouri. It’s almost as if Kansas looked at Missouri and asked ‘Can I just put the tip in?'”
Try to have a good laugh today 🙂
We saw Mr. Hardwick Saturday night. Good show!
April was good as well 🙂 Glad you enjoyed
Yes she was. Glad you enjoyed as well.
I said it before, I really like Post Modern Jukebox.
http://mashable.com/2015/11/13/welcome-to-the-jungle-like-youve-never-heard-it-before/#H1CZc3U0gqqw
Cha-na-na-na-na-na-na. I like that they’re not just doing retro revisions of shit current pop songs.
Now that is how you make a cover! 😀
JF: A Bridge Too Farby Cornelius Ryan
After all these years I finally got round to reading this, failures do make interesting reading.
Richard Attenborough did a damn good job making a film from this book, some of the events I had though were movie land fiction turned out to be true.
We are taking a trip.
First. We start at Honcho hefe, the go around to Roundabout, then stop off at Sintax, folowed by Mother Earth Dubbel, then swing by for a Night Shift Nitro and end up at Imaginationland.
I’m not into code breaking
More of a flight.
So far so good. Avs 3-0 on the east coast road trip including a super impressive 6-1 win against the 13-3 Canadians. Perhaps there’s life yet
RR loses her unbeaten record:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/live-blog-ufc-193-ronda-rousey-v-holly-holm-from-etihad-stadium-melbourne/news-story/624764c8e048ed7222faf3d583e04224
Enjoyed the Steve Jobs flick with Michael Fassbinder.
He was good, Kate Winslet policy accent was all over the place.
Is it wrong to say I couldn’t possibly care less about any of the Steve Jobs films?
I don’t mean to disparage your review or choice to see it, Van. I appreciate the cultural impact of his company, I just don’t get why he’s this generation’s Elvis.
Because this generation has no idea who Elvis is..
I agree with you tho.
Polish not policy.
He was just this guy you know.
Polish your own policy!
Hey, no Polish jokes.
So Kiwi and Tarrago walk into a bar….
So I’ve wrecked my roster just to withstand the Alvie storm. Let’s see if it was worth it.
Goddammit I did the same trying to catch up to you! Have at ye bastard! heh
Oh no…. you now have the curse of Dan Girardi!
OK great!
Oh god youre channeling Van.
I will say this… our current hockey league is EXTREMELY goalie centered. The worst goalie can still double the best skater in points on any given day. Something to think about
Cool press for George Hrab.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/11/14/george_hrab_tedx_talk_about_skepticism.html
Morning Pan
That’s all I got.
The other day I told someone I worked in the publishing field. The reply, “Oh, you must know…” Really? I once got that when I mentioned I was an accountant, got it a few times for being Canadian, now I’m getting it for working for a small press.
I’ve decided, no matter what you do or where you live, someone is going to ask you if you know a specific person who works/lives in the area.
*sigh*
Toad the Wet Sprocket have a new song. Not bad.
JW: latest episode of ‘The Leftovers’
Wow.
I’ve decided the word turgid is not used enough in every day conversation. I think turgid is a very versatile word. You can use it to sound dirty “her nipples were turgid” or it can be used to sound dangerous, “the river was turgid so we decided not to cross it”
And it can be used to describe the mundane as in, “this post is turgid” :silly:
Hey UH!
I wanted to thank you for the MPQ stuff. I’m not being evil by not reciprocating. I only play MPQ on my mobile device and you can’t give gifts on mobile. I tend not to play anything on FaceBook. I like to pretend I do work on my computer and having any FB games would send me down a rabbit hole I’d rather not go.
Interesting. To be honest, when I get certain rewards it pops up a screen to share the love, so to speak, but it doesn’t give me a choice of who to give it to. It throws 3 people up and I can either choose some or all of them, but not decide if other friends should or shouldn’t be on the list. I think I have at least 8 FB friends that play. For some reason it just always thinks you and two other people are the ones that should get all the love. I’m happy that you are one of the people and I’ll continue to throw stuff your way when the app tells me I can.
For you…Krull…lovers.
*cough*
http://www.avclub.com/article/krull-equal-parts-george-lucas-and-jrr-tolkien-227494
I disagree with some (if not all) of the comparisons. Colwyn is nothing like Luke Skywalker when you get down to it. Colwyn was raised as a prince (not a farmer), knows his real backgroud, is highly trained as a warrior and leader, etc. Lyssa is practically an anti-Leia as she really does little in the movie other than waiting for Colwyn to come and rescue her. I love Krull more than Star Wars and have seen it many times. Just taking the standard cliches that make up most movies (such as having a character that acts as a comic relief) to justify claiming that Ergo The Magnificent is just like C-3PO is somewhat lazy. Yes, Krull is a mix of fantasy and sci-fi. That doesn’t make it the bastard love child of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.
And, so long as I’m apparently in a pissy mood today, I think it’s time to bring everyone else along for the ride.
http://geektyrant.com/news/a-remake-of-christopher-nolans-memento-is-coming-soon
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I’ve done some deep reflection on this, and I think I’m going to have to agree with TRA’s “Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
I think my feelings of disgust this film have been stated more times on the boards than Lindsay Lohan has had multiple cocks in her mouth. I know the film has its fans tho, which is why I posted it here – for those 10 people.
Also, if they remake Memento Im buying the original and setting up a watch station outside my local theater so no one has to pay money for a third rate remake of a classic
Um, surely there must be at least 11 of us…
Oh, Ed. . . .
10 1/2 it is!!!!!
I liked Krull. It was wonderfully cheesey
11!!!!
It’s better than ‘The Last Man on Earth’
Cough
Oh. It’s the devil-loving, concert goers’ fault.
Asshole “Christians.”
So……. I can count on one hand the number of Deadpan comments I’ve edited over the past 10 years. . . . I edited this one to remove the link to the batshit extremist website that blamed the concert-goers for being slaughtered by extremist nutjobs of a different religion.
I feel the same disgust as Pixie at this blogpost and this statement, but I don’t want any links or clicks from this website to their insanity and hate-mongering.
Ugh. I thought this was a parody site ala Christwire.
I approve. Don’t amplify their noise!
Speaking of movie dread….
http://www.eonline.com/news/716344/ryan-gosling-just-confirmed-his-next-big-movie-role-blade-runner-2
/grinds teeth
So this happened:
http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2015/11/mashup_of_uptown_funk_and_hollywood_golden_era_movie_dancing_video.html
That song needs to be killed with fire
I quite liked this. :happy:
Heh…. “Lady in the Van”
I knew you would!
Cynthia too!
I blame outside influence 😛
Saw this film today:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_in_the_Van
I enjoyed it.
I agree with much of this and I also think the points apply to TV shows, books, and any other form of entertainment you might think of.
http://www.avclub.com/article/what-i-learned-watching-first-10-minutes-500-movie-228064
Fuck everything.
Im so sick of trying to do the right thing and be normal.
Hugs DP.
Add my hugs to Van’s *hugs*
Again, a small number of extremists with irrational agendas fuck everything up for the people who just want to live positive lives in peace.
Hugs from me as well. I would point out, despite all the dipshits using tragedy and heartache to promote or interject their own brand of stupid, there are a lot of people out there trying to make things right. They don’t seem to get as much press.
I would actually like to start seeing headlines like that – “Breaking News: Over 1.2 million people in the greater Metro Area did NOT attack or harm any other human beings today! Reports indicate that some may have actually been pleasant to others.”
*hugz*
Been quite stressed at work lately. We’ve lost some good people and haven’t replaced them very fast. The responsibility and time demands have ramped up to the point were I’m basically performing the job two levels above me, without the promotion. *shakes fist* On the other hand, being hourly, the pressure for me to work overtime is a lot less.
Crap joke for the day:
fter being away on business, Tim thought it would be nice to bring his wife a little gift. “How about some perfume?” he asked the cosmetics clerk. She showed him a $50.00 bottle.
“That’s a bit much,” said Tim, so she returned with a smaller bottle for $30.00. “That’s still quite a bit,” Tim complained.Growing annoyed, the clerk brought out a tiny $15.00 bottle. “What I mean,” said Tim, “is I’d like to see something really cheap.”
The clerk handed him a mirror.
Mirrorcoat
Oh. It seems Charlie Sheen is HIV positive…
There goes one of your revenue sources.
YOU ARE!
While I would not wish this on anybody, given his chosen lifestyle, I’m not overly surprised.
Bunny has crystallized my thoughts on this eloquently.
I do feel sorry for him, although, the sympathy is significantly less than I feel for, say, a baby born HIV positive.
Same.
CP: Something Good — Dead Sara
Nice
My level of procrastination is absolutely EPIC today!
Yea! Way not to go, ME!!!!
I always put the “pro” in procrastination.
Bloody Hell S2 of The Walking Dead is just one shit storm after another.
The game that is.
Clementine is just a bloody jinx.
DOOM! DOOM, I SAY! 😀
Jack or Rhett- heard the new Baroness album yet?
I have now!
What say you?
I’ll have to check it out. 😉 Of course I’ve downloaded “Gloryhammer” and haven’t yet found a chance to listen.
Oh you and your busy life!!!
We’ll, busy for me. I’m sure there are some super humans out there who would look at my schedule and laugh.
I only learned of its existence when reading your post. I’ll investigate.
“downloaded”
Just listened to Peter Gabrielle’s “Security” album for the first time in years.
I had forgotten how good that is. A wonderful tapestry of sounds with Lyrics that you can just take at face value or really dig into the imagery if you feel so inclined. Music for adults.
I love all of Gabrielle’s stuff. There was a period in the late 90’s I had a playlist of PG and Kate Bush songs on infinite repeat. I need to grab his latest.
You were running up that road to shock the monkey
I never knew she was called Peter:
http://youtu.be/G5QPirQITZI
The road was on Solsbury Hill.
Your friends would think you were a nut.
Who’s seen Spectre and has a review?
Not me.
Not yet.
Plan to though.
Me!
Some nice action sequences, but villain feels underused and was left feeling less than satisfied with the film.
Alas, not me. I’ve got quite the Netflix/Redbox queue to tackle next year with all the movies I haven’t seen.
We’ll get there.
This is beautiful.
http://www.avclub.com/video/iron-wine-covers-gwar-228439
Goodnight :Oderus:
Will we ever get Adele to cover “Smashhammerface”?
I would pay money for this. We would also have accepted a Natalie Merchant cover of “Death Pod”
I’d vote for Sarah McLachlan performing “The Salamanizer.”
This is a fun wish list!!!!!
Natalie Imbruglia – Jack the World
I’m torn between wanting to hear Rebecca Black do “Slaughterama” and Lionel Richie doing “The Sexecutioner.”
It really is
Morning Pan
After lunch I expect to have time for a movie. I plan to watch this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2321549/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Unlike my usual fare, this movie is generally considered pretty good. It even made it to the top ten list of horrors from the Space channel (Canada’s version of SyFy).
/faints
Crap joke for the day:
An old timer was sitting in his rocking chair on his front portch when a kid comes walking by with something in his hands.The old timer asks the kid, “Hey son. Whatcha got there?”The kid replies, “I got me some chicken wire. I’m gonna catch me some chickens.”The old timer responds, “Oh son, you can’t catch no chickens with chicken wire.”A short time later the old timer sees the kid come back with a bunch of flapping chickens all caught up in the chicken wire.”Well, I’ll be…'” says the old timer scratching his head.The next day the kid comes walking past the old timer. This time he has something round and gray in his hands.The old timer shouts out to the kid, “Hey kid, whatcha got in your hands this time?”The kid responds, “I got me some duct tape. I’m gonna catch me some ducks.”The old timer laughs, “Son, you can’t catch no ducks using duct tape.”A short time later the kid comes back with a bunch of ducks caught-up and quacking in the duct tape.”The old man cannot believe his eyes.The next day the kid comes walking past the old timer, again with something in hs hands.The old timer shouts out to the kid, “Hey kid, whatcha got in your hands today?”The kid shouts back to the old timer, “I got me some pussy willow.”The old timer shouts out, “Hold on son…while I get my hat!”
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/mens-duck-down-coat
Looks like we got some snow last night.
The cat just farted. Seriously, how can something so cute be so stinky?
Dunno… ask Van.
My memory of you only goes as far back as that Denver visit.
Oh, snap
Gods I adore you
Quite:
http://www.panarabiaenquirer.com/wordpress/syria-only-weeks-away-from-bono-charity-single-warns-un/
Ok peeps! It’s movie time!
Today’s movie is, The Babasook
The PVR writeup: a troubled wido discovers that her son is telling the truth about a monster that entered their home through the pages of a children’s book
Pressing play now…
Violence Nd language only. No nudity
Scenes from a car accident
Aw. It’s a cute puppy
Story time
Alarm clocks exist for a reason you know
It’s magic
She works with the elderly
The child bring a crossbow to school
Your not invited
That kid needs to go on a time out
Seriously, I have no sympathy for this kid at all
Mom is questioning the book, book, book
1-900-646-easy
I think mom needs to see a dentist
Ah yes, the self gratification
I’ve heard that’s what the kids are calling it these days.
In this case, the kid ran into the room, thus stopping it
I really hate this kid
Foot steps
Samuel, behave. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Bingo!
Go home. I’ll cover for you
I really hope the Babadook gets this kid
The Babadook is messy
There’s glass in her soup
I can’t figure out why this movie was highly rated. However, if we could ditch the kid, then the movie would be ok
Bad book, bad!
The birthday party
A mime. The horror!
I can’t stand being around her son either
Yes! Sedate the sucker
You are weird, kid
No sleep for her
Knock one
Knock two
The book, book, book
A good old fashion book burning
There’s no one there
The police don’t believe her
I’d react the same way
A hole in the wall
Social workers visit
Kangaroos are cute
Thank Christ, the kid is asleep
Dook, dook, dook
Those are some crazy ass drugs she’s on
Mom has reached her breaking point
From one bad kid to many
Hit and run
Everybody should bathe fully dressed
A violin?
She’s having a smoke filled dream
That’s what you call a cord cutter
Locking the doors and windows
Mom is going insane
The dog is afraid of her
Bribery
The unsafe basement
I am dead
Bring me the boy
Here he comes
Awww. She killed the puppy
Ewww. That was gross
Cool. I didn’t know you could do that
I am your mother
Don’t trust her
Don’t trust him
It’s bondage, is it?
This calls for an exorcism
You can’t get rid of the Babadook
Keep breathing
You are nothing
Really? You’re going to touch it?
Party time!
Time to feed the babadook
It’s magic!
The movie is over.
I really wanted to like this movie. It has a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. But I couldn’t get around the kid. If he were a little more sympathetic, I’m sure I would have liked the movie more
98% is actually unusually high enough to make me suspicious.
Ive heard nothing but good things about this film. Wont read the PBP because spoilers.
Hmmm. No Calgary games today. What am I going to watch until hubby comes home later tonight?
Vancouver and Winnipeg is playing, I guess I will watch that
Hey, everybody!
Been a crazy month between NaNoWriMo, local anime convention, school, and getting my house ready for the annual visit from my parents. However, I haven’t forgotten that Thanksgiving season also means it’s time for:
The Annual Deadpan Secret Santa Gift Exchange!
This Secret Santa has been going on every year since 2006. Sarah from Charleston coordinated it that first year, then I volunteered to take over and have been the coordinator ever since. I always have a blast doing it!
If you participate in this discussion board and/or are in the “Fans of Jack Mangan’s Deadpan” Facebook group, you’re welcome to participate. I know we have a couple of new people this year, so here’s how this works:
– The exchange is run on an opt-in basis, every time. To opt in, please send an email to bowen1138 at yahoo dot com OR amybowenwrites at gmail (I’ve been using the former forever, but there’s a lot less noise for emails to get lost in at the latter address). Your email needs to say “I’m in!” and include your current shipping address (if I don’t already have it). (We do have recipients in Canada and the UK – if international shipping is out of your budget, please let me know and I’ll make sure you don’t get assigned to them.)
– I will assign Secret Santas on Friday night, November 27, so please get your emails to me by then. You will receive an email from me saying who your assignee is, and what their address is.
– When you get your assignee, please send them a gift. We typically send between $10-$20 USD gifts. You will receive a gift from your Secret Santa in return.
– (Optional) You may choose to reveal and thank your Secret Santa on the discussion board, if you wish.
Deadpan is the merry-making way!
Amy Bowen!!!
I’m glad that it’s all good stuff keeping you busy. I’ll follow instructions and send an email, but I’ll also declare publicly: “I’m in!”
Thank you for doing this every year. Good luck with NaNoWriMo!
I’m in.
I’m always in. 🙂
Whore.
Ho Ho ho!
Yo yo yo!
Add me to the list too, Amy.
Email sent.
My email was sent as well. I’m in.
Morning Pan
Damn cat is on my head again.
Well being cute didn’t last long.
She is cute. Just hard to work with.
Count me in, Amy
I will do Santa as well please and thanks.
Peeks in Van’s closet for the Santa costume
That cupboard is bare.
BARE!!!!!!
No cool whip.
I’m also in.
So any reccomendations for disk based games on the PS4?
A relative want to buy me a game for Xmas.
#notFallout4
Witcher 3
The Last of Us
Uncharted collection
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Thanks,
Uncharted collection looks good.
Last of Us I played to death on the PS3
Back in the late 90’s I had a bunch of CD’s stolen from my office and for reasons unknown to me I never replaced them. Well, until earlier this week. Picked up a bunch for cheep off of Ebay.
I already gushed about the Peter Gabrielle CD but there were 2 others as well –
“The Best of Elvis Costello and the Attractions” – I realize “To each his own” but this is just a slice of brilliance. A range of style, stuff that makes you want to dance, lots of stuff you just can’t help but sing along to, lyrics that tell stories. Brillance.
The other one I got is kind of a guilty pleasure, The Sugar Cubes “The Great Crossover Potential”. It is a fun CD that seems to fall between pop/punk/garage band. I dig Bjork’s quirky voice (and getting to say “Bjork”) and the lyrics, which seem like they were translated for the group by someone who did not actually grasp the English language, give it both a fun innocence AND slightly creepy feel.
Listening to these CD’s again is like having old friends back. I anxiously await the arrival of the 4th one I ordered, Kate Bush “The Whole Story”. I know I’m not alone in living that one (looks at Rhettro)!
Remembering others … seems I had a Los Lobos album in that bunch and one by Morphine. I should re-add those to the list.
Now wait just a minute! Sugarcubes are NEVER a guilty pleasure. They were an amazing fun band. Catchy hooks, great musicians.
Its funny. I got my car broken into last year and the only thing they DIDNT take were the CDs.
Eli’s Costello and the attractions were great,
Elvis not Eli’s
Whats so funny bout Me, Van, and understanding?
Did they leave a ‘no thanks ye olde bastard’ nite with the CDs?
I’ll be the voice of descent as I don’t really care for Elvis Costello. I don’t question his artistry, but his voice has a Randy Newman quality that I can’t get into. I should check out some Bjork as she follows into the same quirky chick vain as Kate Bush.
I like Sugarcubes more than her solo works.
Yes, Van, and then shat on my lawn.
I learnt today that ‘it’s so quiet’ was originally done by Betty Hutton.
Hush hush…
Bjork’s eyebrows would have been the guilty pleasure. Her “Post” album should be owned.
As for Morphine, “Like Swimming” is also required.
Of course, the youngsters nowadays don’t own any physical albums, if they own music at all. They’ll usually just stream.
I still love physical.
Erm…
Ummm:
https://news.yahoo.com/texas-dont-academics-fact-check-textbooks-135530956.html
Another win for freedom! Now to get back to that essay about Daniel Boone riding velociraptors to the Alamo.
YOU WRITE THAT AND YOU WRITE THAT NOW!
That is brilliant, Rhett – – as long as the velociraptor is wearing a Davey Crockett hat.
Note not nite
Kids these days.
Finished Portal 2 on the PC, still a cool game.
CP: Argyria — Esben and the Witch
Lo doesn’t remember Supra Corporation.
Now I feel old.
He didn’t offer you suggestions where to import the usb… that’s at least one thing
Did they make the Toyota Supra?
This is very funny. Also, not for anyone under 14 or 16, IMO
Katniss Fights Hermione in Princess Rap Battle
http://www.eonline.com/news/717381/katniss-fights-hermione-in-princess-rap-battle
Monsters made of eye crust?
Sadly, it’s one of the higher notes this season. Pretty much every thing save the Maisie Williams episodes have been pretty weak this season.
I actually thought the season started ok. But I must agree, the last few were all pretty meh.
Will Sonic Sunglasses be this generation’s “jump the shark?”
No sir … didn’t like it.
I liked the one where he implies he was Beethoven.
Jessica Jones will be available as of 12:01 AM your local time. (November 20th)
Here you go:
http://www.avclub.com/article/jared-fogle-sentenced-15-years-says-its-all-subway-228656
The defense would be comical, except it’s not funny.
“It was the Sunchips… Jack”
Watching the first episode now, my first encounter with the Jessica Jones character.
Morning Pan
Kitty needs to learn alarm clocks were invented for a reason. We’re trying very hard to kick her of the habit of waking us a 4am.
Is it not part of the nervous bladder problem she has?
Nah. I have no idea what that was about. She hasn’t had a single accident since we got her. Hubby and I assume there were changes at her previous home to cause that as, according to her records, it was only going on for a month or so before she was turned in.
Oy . . . what a week.
I agree.
This song is the best part of the movie. I’ve probably said that before. 😉
CP: Oblivion (feat. Susanne Sundfør) — M83
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mkUp1V3ys0
I was ok with Oblivion.
Thirded.
Seconded.
Fourthed. I didn’t say I didn’t like the movie, but I did think it was only ok. That song, though, is awesome, imo. 🙂
Quelfed.
You shouldn’t play with razor blades.
It’s that time of year again for quelf on a shelf.
I was actually pretty damn unimpressed with Oblivion (surprise). In fact, it took me a minute to even remember that the movie you guys were talking about was that forgettable Tom Cruise Sci-Fi thing from a few years ago. Not the good one, the meh one.
So I enjoyed the first episode of Jessica Jones.
ditto. I’m extremely excited for this series.
I was a bit unimpressed with episode 3 of ‘The Man in the High Castle’ , mainly because of that British actor from Torchwood who cannot do a decent US accent to save his life.
So another slice of history:
http://www.historyanswers.co.uk/history-of-war/how-coca-cola-won-a-place-in-adolf-hitlers-heart/
The bunny in our yard is almost all white now.
Why does that sound like military code ?
The pearl is in the liver.
The tuna is on the grill
The ham is in your mom.
If I was George Hrab I would call this interesting fauna:
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/absurd-creature-of-the-week-silly-caterpillar-you-shouldnt-be-devouring-snails-alive/
Gross.
I only made it through 34 seconds, but feel free to delve further.
http://www.incrediblethings.com/video/chinese-music-video-every-kind-wtf/
I dont know if this had been posted before or if I have just seen it already and forgot but thanks for the ptsd!!!!!!
Seriously wtaf?
Goldie Hawn is 70??????????????????
Yeah right. Next you’ll tell me Susan Sarandon is in her 70s.
Also digging Jessica Jones
I’m gonna go ahead and agree with the rest of the Deadpan reviews on Spectre. Not bad, not great. Overall, worth watching at some point.
Just saw Spectre tonight. I agree with others.
For my taste it may have been the best Danial Craig Bond … but then I didn’t like them nearly as much as the Brosnan Bonds.
Music was forgettable. Didn’t care for how they played with the timeline of the Bond canon. Still … cool cars, action stunts and a smattering of gadgets.
I heart you but (with the exception of Goldeneye) the Brosnan films, IMO, are some of the worst Bonds put to film. I love the Craig films – granted I count Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace as one large film. Solace doesnt really hold up by itself
QoS is the only Craig 007 film I haven’t seen.
I’ve actually managed to avoid all of the Brosnan 007s, as much as I like him and think he should have been Moore’s successor. Are they worse than License to Kill??
Goldeneye is great. And I love License to Kill as much as I know its probably the worst Bond film. Honestly the last 3 Bronsan films are fairly interchangeable 90’s action fluffs. Bronsnan really is a good Bond tho.
“action fluffs” – That IS the Bond “Genre” !
Of course there is a wide selection of quality in the Bond “action fluff”, some much better than others but the Bond films have always been “FUN action adventure”. I too enjoy a good, cerebral, moody, action thriller but that has never been the Bond “film”.
Based on my experience of having just watched EVERY Bond Film ever made, in chronological order … I’d say that compared to other films made in the “Bond Film – action fluff genre” “Golden Eye” is terrific, up until the final scenes when it kind of runs out of steam. “Tomorrow Never Dies” is really pretty good. Michelle Yeoh, yo.
Now … when compared outside it’s genre to “dramatic, action adventure” films such as the Borne Identity franchise or Tom Clancy’s “Jack Ryan” movies … the Craig Films are much more competitive.
You incorporate Timmy Dalton into this conversation and you incorporate him NOW!!!
You should check out the James Bonding podcast. Youd dig it.
Notices a distinct lack of female view on this particular subject thread 😉
Wasn’t impressed with the first episode of Jessica Jones. I’ll give it a second to see if it improves. So far, the first episode was somewhat cookie cutter detective with hints of superhero and a few doses of artificial “edginess” to make it hip and trendy for the yoots.
Of course, I could just be sour that I gave it a shot because David Tennant is in it…except he doesn’t actually appear in the first episode, despite the hints and voices.
If the comic (Alias) wasnt way ahead of its time I MAY agree with you. I found nothing artificial about it. Remember this is an episodic show and not a Marvel one off film. Nothing is just thrown in there for no reason. Remember that this is a story nearly 20 years old… again it was WAY ahead of its time in 2001. If it comes off cookie cutter now then that’s a product of the time this story is being told. I guess it would be like listening to modern hip-hop and then going back and listening to those songs they sampled from and saying “hey, Ive already head this stuff”.
As far as Tennant not showing up, did you watch Daredevil? Again because this is a show you dont have to throw the bad guy in right away, which would have saved a few of the Marvel films. I wonder if it was a male lead if you would think they were throwing in edginess just for edginess sake? You could have said the same for True Detective…
Mind you Ive only seen the first two so I guess they could still fuck it up mightily.
Can I put my soapbox under your desk for now?
You know, I found myself equally underwhelmed by Daredevil, so I don’t think it was just that it was a female lead. True Detective I found interesting in the beginning, but I thought it flamed out pretty badly in the last episode and I never bothered with season 2.
As for age – that’s an issue for the producers to deal with. Whatever the age of the original source, it’s airing now in 2015 and needs to appeal and engage folks like myself who don’t know the source material. Writing for fanboys/girls only isn’t enough to make a successful show. John Carter was nearly a century old story when it came to the big screen and, while I mostly enjoyed it, I think it struggled some to overcome the imagination of the early 20th century – though they did quite a bit to update Deja Thoris compared to how she was originally written.
I’m going to give the second episode a shot and see how it goes. I don’t plan to bother with the second episode of Daredevil.
Is it less of a “splatter-fest” than Daredevil?
I didnt find Daredevil splattery. But no…not really.
I dunno. I found Daredevil to be probably the best show of the year so there you go. I suppose its just taste.
BTW – I really liked DD, just thought that at times they took a high quality show and aimed for the lowest common denominator with extended, on screen gore. Did we really need the extreme close-up of a spike going through the head? I think most of us could have “gotten it” with the wide shot and the sound effect. In the earlier episodes they tended to throw stuff like that in.
Still, I’m looking forward to the next season.
At what point in time does one not need the extreme close-up of a spike going through the head? I’m always up for that kind of shenanigans.
We just finished watching JJ. I found it to be okay, with a hint of evil-mind-controller-ish. My brain can’t handle mind control right now. I don’t know if I’m ready to move forward with more episodes at this time- maybe when the Apocalypse that is 2015 ends, I will be ready to tackle JJ and her Killgrave.
Mostly what Pixie said. . .
I was actually intrigued by the first JJ episode, in spite of some crap moments.
I’m just a bit leery of a story about an evil mind-controller who manipulates people into doing horrible things to fuck up their lives just to satisfy her – – his – – twisted desires.
In issue 12 of the Escape From New York comic – Native American prisoners on Liberty Island build Snake a flying car out of a glider and a rocket stunt car in order for Snake to combat oncoming U.S military fighter jets.
Yeah its that good.
You’dn ever think it, but the Dick Cavett Show retrospectives on Netflix have been fascinating slices of 70s history. We watched the Watergate one and part of the Vietnam one.
It’s also interesting to see how stiff the mainstream everyone used to be. That’s how I remember grown-ups of my youth.
And Groucho Marx was still alive then?!?!?
Read it and weep:
http://jamesjchoi.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/why-third-pounder-hamburger-failed.html?m=1
math is hard
Better than ordering the 0.149685 kg burger.
5 out of 4 people don’t understand fractions.
So today I finished ‘Made to Kill by Adam Christopher’, a Hard boiled mystery set in an alternative world where the last robot in existence is a PI/Assassin in 60’s LA.
I thought it was rather fun.
Miss Scarlett Johansson is 31 today. I’m sure some of you would like to offer her some cake
Exactly the amount of times Ive…er… to her…
#selfgrattmi
Haven’t read yet – – but it seems interesting. I think folks here will dig it.
https://www.inverse.com/article/8354-syfy-is-releasing-a-film-de-rebranding-and-becoming-super-interesting
Woot.
If true, this is woot!
Dammit I dont wanna get cable again!
So many good shows this year, so little time.
If they follow through on this I would be so happy. I still remember the golden era of Farscape and the Lexx when I could focus on a very few TV channels. I would love to see them get back to Science fiction and away from ghosts and wrestling.
Ok but what if they did a show about Ghost Wrastlers?
Depends on how good looking the ghost wrestlers were.
#shallowasapuddle
I love you
If it was intentional fiction I’d be all over it. Ghost hunting “reality” shows just plain suck.
You’ve never met any of the people from these shows, have you?
Who have you met, Cynful? were they credible? Or kooks?
They were just ordinary people with an unusual interest. I recently met a group including Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and Karl Pfeiffer from the Ghost Hunters groups. But even they will say that their hobby is a whole lot of sitting around and Pilgrim (the production company) was trying to get them to act like it was more exciting. Like WWF was when we were younger, script it up. The participants don’t lie about it though. They don’t claim that it’s 100% pure reality.
I recently heard an interview saying that they believe that the OJ Simpson case was the birth of reality television as we know it. So if you’re going to blame anyone…. 🙂
I haven’t met any of the people from the show. I’m sure they are regular people as far as people go outside of the show. That doesn’t make the show good and it absolutely doesn’t make anything they have to say (on the show or off) right. I’m squarely putting on my asshat here and living up to my title. But, hiding behind what the production company asks them to do is nothing more than an excuse. If they truly believe in ghosts, so be it. They are free to have any opinion they want and they are free to follow whatever hobby makes them happy with no ill will whatsoever on my part. But, if they are deliberately doing things to “make the show more exciting” whether or not the production company tells them to, they are part of the problem and part of what makes shitty television on Syfy. Put the reality TV show blame on OJ Simpson, or Survivor, or Candid Camera, or Seven Up!. Wherever the blame lies, the ghost hunters are taking full advantage of it. They are welcome to take full advantage of it, they are welcome to participate to their heart’s content, and they are welcome to profit from it as much as they want. But, at some point in their lives, they have to take responsibility for what they are doing and not hide behind what the producers tell them to do.
All told, I didn’t really mean for this to be a witch hunt of the ghost hunters. I was merely using them as an example of the shitty TV that has become so common on SyFy. I just got all bent out of shape at the notion that the ghost hunters, like everyone else in our society, are merely victims.
Yes I forgot. It’s okay to blame the network executives but not the producers.
There’s an interesting point to ponder here. . . Per Cynful’s account: These guys are making a living at doing their hobby/passion, just with a few compromises. Would you do the same? I might write jokes for Dane Cook or compose songs for One Direction, if offered.
I am a big time ghost doubter, but if they’re having harmless fun and not promoting ignorance and not feeling like they’ve undermined the integrity of the thing they love, then more power to ’em.
Any of these guys who do spread superstition/pseudoscience and/or prey on mourners’ pain with trickery (John Edwards) deserves to be haunted by Beetlejuice forever.
Excellent point on blaming the producers and not the network executives. Then again, blaming the network executives was exactly what I was doing in my original post in the first place. My whole original intent was to say that SyFy used to have great programming before they focused on shows that had little to do with SciFi.
Plain and simple: this is a business. Back in the late 90s, the SF market was shrinking. Syfy had to get viewers back. The execs believed the way to do that was attract a wider audience. This is the same reason why many movies and shows that targeted niche audiences failed.
So, the execs aimed for a different formula for success. And, for the most part, it worked. I don’t blame them for that. This isn’t some con job they perpetuated. The producers made shows that sold. They aimed for market conditions and did their jobs. The people in the shows also, to a varying extent, did their jobs.
I hate reality shows. I hate wresting, slap-stick, most comedies, mysticism… pretty much everything that has been on Syfy for a number of years. And yes, that includes shows like “Ghost Hunters”. I don’t care if the people are nice. Many of these people are. It is completely irrelevant to the argument. All of these people are just doing their jobs. I have no blame for that so long as these people aren’t committing fraud.
Syfy isn’t an educational channel and there’s no obligation for them to only show hard SF. There’s a wide range of SF stories there, and Syfy has done plenty of fantasy as well.
Syfy isn’t some utopia of artistic purity either. And it shouldn never be. Syfy was successful with “terrible” shows. But they were terrible to me. Other people loved them. You might think they have no taste. They probably feel the same about you.
Everything on every channel is an entertainment choice. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. You can even wish for the show’s and network’s failure. But I’ll argue against automatically calling this stuff crap.
Things are changing, which I think is good. And now there will be more room for shows I like. But I fully expect people will always complain about Syfy content. That’s just the way people are.
Is this a confession of your secret love for the Mansquito franchise?
I suppose the grand majority of the blame should fall on the people that watch those kind of shows. Reality TV wouldn’t be prevalent if people weren’t watching it. American public, I blame you more than anyone else.
As for the SciFi channel changing, they have always been changing. I was actually at their opening ceremonies at the Hayden Planetarium and at that time they were astoundingly different than what they became when they were producing really good shows. I suppose I can live with them getting through rough times by playing wrestling and ghost hunters if it allows them to get back to producing good shows. Just the same way that playing constant cheap reruns when they first aired gave them the money to produce some of the great shows they have had.
My favorite show of 2015, hands-down is Lip Synce Battle segments on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
..and Sense8.
Sense8 was such a slow burn that I wouldn’t call it great, but will watch S2 if that ever happens.
Still didnt make it past episode 1
Morning Pan
Taking hubby to work today. Then I will be hubbiless until late tomorrow. 🙁
I’m so happy that Tegan will give you plenty of snuggle time in John’s absence.
For all the hair band fans in DP
http://bravewords.com/news/tesla-keel-lillian-axe-anthrax-stryper-quiet-riot-hair-i-go-again-documentary-film-set-to-premiere-worldwide-on-march-10th-video-trailer
Rad.
Dope.
No wait…. rad.
I’m digging out my lacy fishnet gloves right now.*
*disclaimer: I never owned these.
I owned lace fingerless and fingered gloves in both black and white. Because I was that kind of kid …. *thud*
My phone had zoomed in on the DP feed and all I sae for a brief moment was, “fingered.”
As a single word description of the feed, I can’t really argue with its accuracy.
Which finger?
Just one?
So kinky
I’m convinced that listening to “Gloryhammer” has the power to restore one’s virginity.
YES RHETT YES!!!!!!! You’ve summed this album up in one delightful sentence
I’m trying to figure out if that’s supposed to be a complement…
It’s the best music to listen to while fighting interdimensional orcs mounted on unicorn fire elementals.
But I’m a mighty warrior of Kraill!
So glorious, riding high up in the sky!
I had to go and order http://www.amazon.com/Powerplant-Gamma-Ray/dp/B000QQXHW6/ref=ntt_mus_dp_dpt_5
Expect an email (for the sake of comparison)
Jack,
Best news of the day
For you
http://geekandsundry.com/felicia-day-becomes-the-next-mad-for-mst3k/
I kinda can’t believe we’re going to have new MST3K episodes. Felicia Day is just a bonus. It would be amazing if she could have TV’s Frank as her bumbling sidekick, though.
More happy wootness!
Um.. this may be more important to Rhett. *cough*
*grin*
whore
Well, that escalated quickly.
??
I honestly thought “Cracked” was just a magazine for “funs and giggles”.
When did they become more informative then the “real” media?
http://www.cracked.com/blog/isis-wants-us-to-invade-7-facts-revealed-by-their-magazine/
Crazy right? Some of what the produce should be required reading.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-easy-ways-to-spot-b.s.-news-story-internet
That was one of the most interesting reads I’ve come across in a while.
Very true
Are you talking about the Cracked article? Or this comment from above?
http://jackmangan.com/the-super-scroll/#comment-187653
Apparently there is a snow storm on the way to Edmonton. Hopefully hubby will be ok
Hubby just texted. Apparently traffic is at a standstill where they are, about half way to Edonton
This is the second year he has attended this conference and the second year he’s been stuck in a snow storm. I think, next year, I’m not going to let him go unless they move the date to September
Should have let him drive the Zamboni. :} Hope he makes it ok.
Luckily, he’s not driving. He’s taking the Red Arrow (think luxury bus). It’s still nerve wracking, at least on my part. In theory, he should have been in Edmonton, checked into his hotel, and called me by now. He figures he’s got at least another hour before he gets to Edmonton, let alone his hotel.
Since it looks like I’m going to stay up later than usual, I’m hoping my furry alarm clock doesn’t go off too early tomorrow
My apologies for (almost) always being behind the times with my posts and comments.
http://m.mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=51906
Pity the poor artiste, shaking their fist at the tastes of the fans.
What Van said. You’re really going to insult the people who lavish money on you and appreciate your work?
Hubby made it safe and sound. A normally three hour trip took close to six hours. He’s tired and hungry. Apparently on of our MLAs died today driving to Edmonton in this weather.
Tomorrow he gets to come home in more of the same.
Oh well. It’s past my bed time so now it’s time for sleep
Night Pan
Holy Pocklington. Well — I’m glad he’s safe, and that you can sleep without worry. :happy:
Are you saying a human died on the road?
Yes. An MLA represents a riding. I guess the equivalent would be whoever represents a distric in the US
Oy. I guess I missed the part about someone dying. 🙁
So at the flicks waiting for the last hunger games film to start,
…and that’s a wrap, may actually finish the third book now.
Morning Pan
Kitty let me sleep in until 6:30 which was nice of her.
FOUND IT!
http://hifi247.com/testament-ugly-xmas-sweater.html
I’m glad I don’t wear sweaters.
At least the Christmas Carols would be improved.
What are Carols specifically represented at Christmas? I think other people need to be talked about too.
Christmas Petunias doesn’t have the same ring to it.
I ordered hubby a Doctor Who comforter for his birthday. It’ doesn’t beat what he got last year but still…
I, like many Calgarians, love my mayor
http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/interview-naheed-nenshi-on-syrian-refugees-and-anti-muslim-attacks/
For the oldies out there:
https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet
Woot!
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/11/23/fargo-renewed-for-season-3
Under normal circumstances, hubby should be home around 8pm tonight. Since weather and road conditions are similar to yesterday, I expect it to be a late night.
Snoop Dogg is so gangsta
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh4K7H8zyHMuQg8rbX
And these guys are so not gangsta
http://geyserofawesome.com/post/133882705232/the-latest-trend-in-fancy-facial-fur-is-the
So after watching the first episode of ‘The Expanse’ I’m left with the feeling of confusion and disappointment..still early days.
It doesn’t come out here until December
I haven’t read the books and in the first episode there was so much going on that it got confusing for me.
Just got some redeeming news for 2015!!
My mom’s coming to my and J’s place for Turkey Day!
Woot
Hopefully a visit to York to see the Railway museum Wilde possible tomorrow.
Rogue has gond artisinal (or however you spell that). They new brown ale is tasty.
Because, of course they did…
http://mashable.com/2015/11/23/amazon-nazi-bus-ads/#t0Uk2UTQQqqG
Now I feel better about the inevitable homeless guy vomit on those seats.
Morning Pan
Hubby got home only an hour later than he should have. Not too bad, all things considered.
Crap joke for the day:
Two women who had just met at a health spa were talking about their lifestyles and how they hope to stay healthy. One asked the other to detail her daily routine.“I eat moderately,” she replied, “I exercise moderately, I drink moderately, and I live moderately.”….“Is there anything else you do?” her new friend asked….“Yes,” she said, “I lie extensively.”
The Civil War trailer looks great. I like the idea of using Bucky as the casus belli.
I guess I should post the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVdV-lxRPFo
I’m going to have to give you a C for that :-p
I C what you did there. 😉
Did you read the comics? I did not, but I recall my old roommate freaking out about the series conclusion.
I read quite a bit of Civil War. I liked it overall, though it wasn’t long after when I stopped reading Marvel; and DC for that matter.
Tegan goes for her first vet appointment today. Let’s see how that goes.
Well learnt some interesting facts about Japanese Bullet trains at the museum.
-t +ed
Wow. Postage to Canada is $1.20 now.
CP: Roads — Portishead
So Frank Miller’s really digging up the Dark Knight series for a part III?
I’ve refused to read any of these sequels. They don’t exist.
DK2 was pretty awful. Frank Miller has issues. Literally.
Tegan survived her first vet appointment. Although…
When we took her home from the SPCA, she was a little noisy but mostly calm and quiet. This time, when I put her in her carrier and took her to the car, she was scared. She was howling, asking for attention, and generally not a happy camper. I honestly believe she was worried I was taking her back to the SPCA. Poor thing.
What was she like when you got her home from the vets?
She went in to each room of the house. I’m assuming to make sure everything was as it should be. Now she’s fast asleep on her post. All is good again in her mind.
Cool 🙂
So she does have favorite spots staked out around the house now?
Yup. She has a cat post in both the living room and my office that she will sleep in depending upon which room I’m in. Those are her favourites.
Interesting –
http://bgr.com/2015/11/18/anonymous-vs-isis-hacking-guide/
Will the town’s folk suddenly join forces to protect themselves and turn on their attackers?
I guess we will see.
Let the egg nog begin!
have one for me please!
cough
I couldn’t do this now let alone at 10:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/alexs-nixie-clock/
Happy early Thanksgiving to my US Pannites!
We have a full house this year at the Manglocks and I am thankful for that. It may never be this full again.
I am also thankful I am not on call tomorrow!
+100,000 for the win!
I’m in North Carolina for my yearly mmmmmeetup with the extended family. There are well over 20 of us in 2 giant beach houses for about a week. I love my family and look forward to this all year long. Yet somehow, I’m at the point where I’m glad that I have about an hour between when all the people in my house fall asleep and when I will eventually crash so that I can have some quiet time to just sit and fart around on my computer. I could be at the noisy house playing board games with the late night crowd… but I just wanted some me time tonight. Tomorrow I’ll join the late night crowd.
I know the feeling.
Goodnight, :Jive Turkeys:
Next stop, free in breakfast cereal:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/
So as an outsider, do they still tar and feather you if you decide to have pork or beef for thanksgiving dinner?
Cough
Hubby’s aunt (by marriage) is from Austria. We went over for Christmas dinner once and there was no turkey or ham to be found. He was rather meh on the experience. I loved it.
I was just thinking yesterday how I’d love to have a Thanksgiving meal of italian dishes!
Won’t happen.
Did anyone here ever see “The Big Night”?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115678/
Yeh … that’s what I had in mind 🙂
I know plenty of Latino and Italian families that don’t have Turkey, or at least have a nominal representation of turkey and then fill the table with non-turkey meats. The extended family I’m hanging with does Turkey. My plan is to buy a bunch of frozen turkey at super ridiculous prices (I managed 49 cents a pound this year)and keep them for other times in the year. I have a few “Thanksgiving” dinners every year just because I like turkey and things I can make from leftover turkey.
Morning Pan
Waiting for the sun to come up.
Pesky sun, soon predictable like that…
-n
Oh yeah, Happy Thanksgiving to the US Panites!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. 🙂
Yes!
I am Thankful for you guys!
Currently listening to Stan Frebreg’s “The United States of America – The Early Years”
Seems somehow appropriate.
Happy US Thanksgiving friends!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNJlTehNxp0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSLcYQHqFQ
Happy American Thanksgiving day! Gluttony complete here. Wow, hosting is a lot more work.
Gremlins 3 is official. I…I just dont know
I could watch this for a while:
http://38.media.tumblr.com/bd6fe2a09f21e76dca969559f3eba8c8/tumblr_nxqrndKbfK1ukldkho1_400.gif
Until the bed breaks
Yeah…I would break it straight away.
Hail, Panites – hopefully, wherever you were, you did your sacred duty and over ate at least as much as I did. While I’m not a turkey fan, I can tolerate it once a year as there are plenty of good side dishes to offset it with.
“Dreams,” by The Cranberries just played on our classic rock radio station.
hmph
It’s over 20 years old, so I’m not surprised.
“When did Motley Crue become classic rock….”
CP: Black Friday – Faith No More
Happy Thanksgiving, all! I had another wonderful meal with my parents, my godparents, and their friends. Good times.
Rounding up the Secret Santa list now. Emails incoming in the next 30 minutes or so.
“…Planned Parenthood Shooter…”
You forgot the word, terrorist…
Jesus, people. Stop being ignorant and selfish assholes.
Considering the poor excuses the police have come up with when killing coloured perps the fact this guy was taking alive is also causing trouble.
So, I watched the first two episodes of the Amazon Prime version of The Man in The High Castle. Not sure I like like where they are going with Joe (whatever his name is in this version to get around the fact that he’s Italian) Frank Frink (and the lack of anything he did in the novel) and the fact that Julianna Frink needed a male character to save her from a bad guy when she is a (rare for that era) extremely strong female character that should be a self defense instructor. All this in complete independence of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy being “smuggled” into the neutral countries where it is essentially legal to begin with. I think there was some discussion of it here. Is it worth continuing with the series?
It’s sometimes a relief to go into a show or movie with no knowledge of the source material.
So far, so good for us on the first3 esp of TMitHC.
I’m enjoying it, differences aside (inevitable since it’s a 10 part tv series), it’s still more faithful to the book that Bladerunnet was to it’s source material.
#neverforgets
Although the portrayal of Julie is problematic, in the book it’s not till she slices her BF arterie with a razor blade that she turns badass.
Good to hear positive things. I’ll keep watching.
Sabre rattling:
http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/11/wargames-for-real-how-one-1983-exercise-nearly-triggered-wwiii/
Turn your key, sir.
Fresh.
Morning Pan
I got my secret santa receiver. I guess it’s time to go shopping :happy:
I may have to ask advice on my recipient.
Just give me booze n love! Oh…. wait
As always, it’s only coal for you lad.
Hey Amy
Solier wanted to make sure you got his request to join the Secret Santa.
I got my SS recipient too!
I think we all did except Ryan. He did PM Amy but she may have not recognized his name.
Got mine! I’ll ping Amy re: “The New Guy” too.
We finally got out to see the Peanuts movie. As a lifelong Peanuts fan, I had to go.
It definitely goes places that Charles Schulz would not approve. But still . . . I can forgive them. It’s made with love and lots of nice little nods to the classic stuff. I’d honestly have preferred some deeper references for the devotees, but whatever.
So … one life long fan to another, would you recommend seeing this or should I just let it be?
I do recommend it, if you can enjoy the good and overlook the un-Schulz moments.
It’s no worse than “Flashbeagle.”
Still this did happen in the 70’s:
http://youtu.be/Oxzg_iM-T4E
My cable provider finally started providing “Ash vs. the Evil Dead” on VOD.
I found the first episode to be a completely way over the top, gross-out fest, hilarious fun with moments of creepy tension.
If you liked any of the original “Evil Dead” you shouldn’t miss it.
If you like comic action twith a “B movie” feel, that doesn’t take itself seriously and has blood, lots and LOTS of blood, gallons of the stuff… oh, and never misses a chance to show close ups of exploding heads – then THIS is the show for you.
I’m not usually into that stuff and admit to having to avert my gaze at least twice but it just fit the “camp” feel of this thing.
Last night I watched Episode 2 and 3. They are only about 25 minutes long. I still enjoyed them (he said hesitantly) … but the “joke” might be starting to wear a bit thin.
We still need to watch the follow-up episodes. The first was like dumbed-down versions of the movies. Definitely some good laughs.
A PSA to get into
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4m6CrBUvWw
I’m going to be 50 next year and this is the first time I’ve seen the group that performed this song:
http://youtu.be/izQB2-Kmiic
My dad told me that radio stations in the 60s wouldn’t play that song because it was too dark.
Youre gonna be WHATTTT!?!?!?!??!?!!??!!?!
Don’t feel too bad, Van. Hubby’s going to be 50 in about three weeks.
The bald head fools ya!
http://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2011/11/11/the-star-wars-saga-suggested-viewing-order/
In short, he suggests: IV, V, II, III, VI
But he also gets 20,000 points for using the word, “neckbeardiest.”
Archer and Bond:
http://m.imgur.com/gallery/ufa48
CW: into the badlands E1
Wooden acting and some nice fight choreography.
Your crap joke for the day:
A DEA officer stopped at a ranch in Texas, and talked with an old rancher. He told the rancher, “I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs.” The rancher said, “Okay , but don’t go in that field over there…..”, as he pointed o
ut the location.
The DEA officer verbally exploded saying, ” Mister, I have the authority of the Federal Government with me!” Reaching into his rear pants pocket, the arrogant officer removed his badge and proudly displayed it to the rancher. “See this fucking badge?! This badge means I am allowed to go wherever I wish…. On any land !! No questions asked or answers given!! Have I made myself clear?…. do you understand?!!”
The rancher nodded politely, apologized, and went about his chores. A short time later, the old rancher heard loud screams, looked up, and saw the DEA officer running for his life, being chased by the rancher’s big Santa Gertrudis bull…… With every step the bull was gaining ground on the officer, and it seemed likely that he’d sure enough get gored before he reached safety. The officer was clearly terrified. The rancher threw down his tools, ran to the fence and yelled at the top of his lungs…..
“Your badge, show him your fucking BADGE!!”
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/330748612172-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
http://imgur.com/gallery/K54D4 John Oliver on the refugee sitch.
We watch John Oliver regularly. He takes on a subject every week. He’s wonderful.
Hmm, judging from my Facebook feed this morning, looks like the Colorado contingent had an exciting evening…
so fun!!
Morning Pan
It’s Monday again
Am I supposed to be buying stuff on-line today?
I took a look but didn’t find anything on sale that I wanted. I think Cyber Monday is over ratted.
over-rated too.
I did buy a couple of audio books from audible that were on sale.
I think you were right the first time.
Is Target selling “Out of the Cellar” at a discount online?
Makes sense… because a target is round. And round.
Damn you both!
JF: The Golem and the Jinni – Helene Wecker
Loved this book, not a great fan of fantasy but this was just wonderful.
Quite the movement Around The Pan League today!
Hey Jack
Have you heard from Amy? She hasn’t replied to my email yet.
Nope. Though to be fair, I only reached out to her this morning.
That’s ok. She got back to me today.
got a case of the mondays
I was discussing Monday’s vs. Fridays with my massage therapist. I actually prefer Mondays. I’m usually rested, had a good weekend (Saturday was full of games), so I’m ready to go. By Friday I’m dragged out from the week and am usually pretty grumpy to deal with.
i should be playing in my studio, but I took a second job developing a university course, so now I am spending most weekends on free time putting together course modules….
Is the course called Intro to Becoming Rad? Cause it should be
Becoming Rad 201: Soulier Than Thou.
Module 1: A history of Rad – an analysis of Lo Pan and Jack Mangan
Picked up my SS gift this morning. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to drop it in the mail until Thursday.
I’m going to try to do a play by play on Wednesday
Will it be “Seasonal” ?
Honestly…. better and better! Oh Jack, this is gonna be swell
http://www.avclub.com/article/patton-oswalt-tvs-son-tvs-frank-new-mystery-scienc-229058
He’s an inspired choice.
And I clicked through to see that there will be a new host? Will Joel have an onscreen role?
This is kind of swell.
“The Lost Lunar Crash Site From The Apollo 16 Mission Has Been Found”
http://www.iflscience.com/space/lost-lunar-crash-site-apollo-16-mission-has-been-found
I just played Lunar Lander to celebrate, I landed hard.
So after watching the first episode of ‘South of Hell’ I’m going to delete the other 6 episodes as it was utter shite.
Has Mena Suvari done anything dececent since the teenage dirtbag video?
CW: The Man in the High Castle E6
Oh gawd I love this series, love it!
I’m going to add Rupert Evans to the list of actors I didn’t know were English.
If I had of known he was called Rupert..
“I landed hard”
It’s in the game!!
“It’s in”
Pfft!
E. A. Sports. Lunar Lander. It’s in the game.
Get your season pass now – includes exclusive 30 day advance access to the dark side!
http://nerdist.com/all-lotr-mythology-explained-in-four-minutes/
This is actually pretty damn cool! I posted before I watched.
Oh, and completely unrelated, my DSS gift is purchased.
If its 4 minutesthen that means it has 3 1/2 minutes of endings, right?
The Peter Jackson edit of this video is 72 minutes long.
We’re taking the hobbits to Eisenguard!
Oh and DSS gift pinpointed and soon to be aquired
Well, since 2015 has been the gift that keeps on giving; I can finally post a small tidbit of a possible glimmer of hope-
The short of the long is: after 2 months of the unknown, my Mom has been diagnosed with cancer. Not just caner but a big F-U- type cancer. Stage IV lung with bone mets.
The possibly good news here is that once the mets were discovered and my mom felt she had the freedom to express the physical pain she has been suffering with, her team of docs pounced on her with a treatment plan and she is set to begin treatment tomorrow (8 days from discovery to start of treatment), on the painful bone mets in her pelvis, hip, and leg. 70-80% chance for achieving significant pain relief.
Here’s hoping for some fucking relief of this god foresaken fucking year for the Manglocks and our family.
That about sums it up. Tiff’s mom is a pretty great lady.
Fuck you, 2015.
Hugs.
Oh Pixie *hugs* :heart:
*Hugs*
Hoping for more than the best
Oh, man. Major *hugs* and support to Pixie.
*hugz*
We’ll be keeping you and your mom in our thoughts.
Morning Pan
That’s exactly what it is… at least, on this side of the pond.
J0e, in answer to your question above, no. I do have a couple of seasonal movies set to record but they don’t come out until next week or so. What I do have on my PVR is:
The Congress
The Lazarus Effect
Mortdecai
The Possession of Michael King
Mortdecai has been almost universally panned, so would be nice to see your take on it.
I made the mistake of putting one of those cat toy apps on my iPad, now I think she’s on the thing more than I am.
The mere fact that there is such a thing as cat toy apps is proof that civilisation is on it’s way out..,
An empty cardboard box is still the ultimate cat app.
The problem with this working at home stuff is, I sit at my desk and lose track of time. It’n not until several hours later that I realize I haven’t eaten at all today.
I’m hungry.
Did I mention that I finished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell?1 Did I mention that I really dug it?2 I can’t imagine how this was translated to a BBC mini-series.
1Aside from the footnotes, which I had to skip when I was listening to the robotext while driving. I’m going back now and reading the ones I missed. Very neat idea for a novel. . . It’s a clever way to add depth.
2As much as I liked it, I do have a few major questions about the actions of some of the characters and how the magic system works, which could constitute plot holes.
Rather well if the author is to be believed.
I haven’t read the book but did enjoy the series.
i loved how they described magic in that book
Well DPSS GIFT ordered.
Same here.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed the recipent likes green.
Why do some replies on here show in a smaller font size?
#curiositykilledthecat
They have smaller shoe sizes.
Another reason we’re glad Shaq doesn’t hang around here.
secret santa shopping complete. mwahahaha
Tegan and Sara have finished thei new album!
MAMAMA YAS!!!!!
SS gift – “ITS AWAY!”
As is mine!
I’m such a slacker this year. Still trying to catch up from the Thanksgiving travel. I will get my SS gift and have it out soon. Crazy, crazy days.
100% of the Secret Santa assignments have been sent out, including Ryan’s (Soulier’s). To everyone who reached out to me, thank you so much for keeping me on the straight and narrow. Sorry for the confusion and delay.
I went shopping for my DPSS gift today, too. I will try to get it shipped out tomorrow.
You’ve changed, Dee.
http://www.theonion.com/article/members-of-twisted-sister-now-willing-to-take-it-6374
They did an interview with one of them recently. Apparently he has some sort off Christmas show going on.
http://www.rocknrollxmas.com/
I’ll sleep better at night, knowing these have been preserved:
https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers
Monument Valley goes free:
http://toucharcade.com/2015/12/02/freebie-alert-monument-valley-is-free/
A beautiful looking puzzler, well worth picking up.
Morning Pan
The cat decided 3:30am was the perfect time to insist everybody wake up. We were not amused.
I laughed:
http://bzfd.it/1NHgatL
me too
another hubbiless evening in store for this bunny. 🙁
my modular synthesizer is almost complete. thanks ebay.
Remember to us the right time when contacting the greys.
-i +u
noted
Still trying to recover from messing up my back this weekend, but I have too much to do.
What did you do? Was it the self-flagellation?
Ooof!
No, it was trying to shoulder lots of useless bullshit. 😉
CP: The Touch — Dilly Dally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H97lKyX9ODs
Reminds me a lot of Hole; when they were good, of course. 😀
Why did WP eat my post? What’s wrong with getting cat food and a mix master?
That reminds me, I need a new teapot.
I checked the spam filter. Did you type it up is as nonsensical rambling under the user name: “yoga pants”?
No, but that would have been awesome
Ok Pan, it’s that time.
By a single request, today’s movie is Mortdecai
The PVR write up: Armed with only his good looks and special charm, an art dealer travels the world to find a stolen painting that is rumoured to contain the code to a bank account filled with Nazi gold.
Because this is a more well-known I will try to keep my comments as vague as possible
Wait, there’s nudity in this?
I’ve never seen JOhnny Depp so well… Groomed
Black glove
No! Not a finger!
Bar fight!
The horse picture too
It’s going to get bigger
Boy is he whipped
The twice over
A dead hag
Hey! It’s Obi Wan
The special cheese
Blah, blah,blah
A Welsh barmaid
How could you tell?
He said so
Well that’s no fun.
Bondage
The American?
Was Johnny Depp looking in the mirror?
Nope. Just a word mentioned in conversation
Sink the Bismark
You are making me want to watch this film now.
I can’t put my finger on why, but I can see why this didn’t do well. I want to like it, but it’s not holding my attention
They are getting rather cozy
Selling the rolls
Jacques shooting
Time to go to Oxford
She spawned a child
To the library!
Watching h.im pee
An exquisite invitation
Where’s the Goya
Show me your balls
No balls
They are shooting at him
He’s not an alcaholic, he’s a drunkard
Hmmmm:
http://www.viralthread.com/theres-been-a-secret-card-hidden-in-the-cards-against-humanity-box-this-whole-time/
To the Americas!
He doesn’t need help with his bags, he has a manservant
He wants a nympho daughter
Lucky saddle
She’s been through half the staff
Party time
He is so married
He met a beast
You will never know what it’s like to make love to a man with principals
Principles even
Yuck
He should secure the perimeter
Fire!
Bunny has it
He’s dead
He watched it burn
Hole in his balls
No time to dally
The fine art of fencing
That made him mad
Where is Mortdicai
Well done, sir
2,000 pounds
It might have been
Open your balls
He loves her
This was a hard movie to pin down. It had the right parts but just didn’t click.
Another one:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34987697
Apparently multiple shooters with “long rifles,” possibly AK-47s.
CP: Chelsea Dagger — The Fratellis
Meanwhile:
Syria air strikes: MPs authorise UK action against Islamic State
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34989302
So let’s fuck over the poor and disabled and use that money to make the rubble bounce twice.
Finally. DPSS gift away!
DPSS is away!
Speking of DPSS, does anyone who is in the US have experience with getting a Canadian mailing address into Amazon? Asking for an anonymous Secret Santa
Why does it have to be anonymous? I have my return address on my Secret Santa so it’s pretty obvious who it came from. I just assumed it’s secret until you receive the item. How else will you know how to thank?
Mines going to know from the invoice.
Um I think she meant she doesn’t want to say who she’s asking for so it won’t be spoiled.
Amy, to answer your question, I have switched to the UK or Canadian versions of Amazon to address international shipping in the past as that worked best for me. It has been several years though since I did so, so they may have corrected the issue since.
I too, switch between Canada and the US Amazon, depending upon who I’m sending to. They both have the same info and the login is the same no matter which one you use. Just say it’s a gift and the won’t put a price on the shipping label. However, it will say who the gift is from.
Morning Pan
I’m more than just a little tired.
A little behind everybody. My SS gift won’t be in the mail until later this morning.
The TV ads of my youth. A bunch of these really took me back, especially the Carvel, Mount Airy Lodge, and Food Emporium:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/danmeth/nyc-area-tv-in-the-1980s#.ut5pV9X9y
I never saw a Food Emporium store in my life, but dammit, if they didn’t have a catchy jingle.
Speaking of jingles…
http://www.kerrang.com/38424/baroness-stream-new-track-morningstar/
“God isnt fixing this”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gop-candidates-call-prayers-calf-massacre-article-1.2453261?
Yes its the New York Daily News… but poignant headline nonetheless
The writers of Father Ted rather nailed this many moons ago:
http://youtu.be/WquBc_vAN4c
Legitimate outrage or publicity knieveling?
Probably
JF: Codename Verity – Elizabeth Wein
I’m not big on historical fiction (unless it’s alternative world) but this tale of friendship between two women (one a SOE operative the other a air transport pilot) In WW2 was great.
Hostage situation at VA hospital on Colorado Springs…
Make that denver
Because wtf wouldnt there be?
Ended pretty quickly. Its sad that this is considered a minor situation compared to whats happened of late
Had me worried there. My son is a vet that lives in Colorado Springs.
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2015/12/03/mark-hamill-goes-undercover-as-a-stormtrooper-on-hollywood-blvd/
In my head the scene plays out with Mark getting increasingly frustrated at hearing “You’re a little short for a Stormtrooper, aren’t you?” all the way down the blvd.
“Hey, isn’t that the guy from The Guyver?”
Oh bless you for breaking this out…
Looking forward to The Wiz, though my wife (!!) is on a business trip so we will have to Hulu it on Saturday.
Bridge of Spies for me tomorrow at the flicks.
Which I enjoyed, even though some I suspected some of the stuff about Gary Powers was wrong.
So it’s called ground beef in the US, looks like mince to me.
I’d also heard it called “chop meat” while I was growing up, but I don’t know if that was just a Jersey thing, or my weird family.
They aint the same!!!!!!! NOOOO NONONO
Sounds the same:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincing
Im still in the “indecisive” phase of my SS gift shopping. I still have 22 days til Christmas!!!
Turkish Delight, like I not:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cs-lewis-greatest-fiction-convincing-american-kids-that-they-would-like-turkish-delight
I don’t think I’ve ever had a Turkish Delight.
Read as: Turducken Delight
Speaking of old fiction confectionaries… I’ve always wondered just WTF treacle tarts taste like that the boy in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flips out over them (see 1:23 below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUnhfvGdmmw
Apparently they are a form of pie made primarily with syrup.
According to the wiki ‘it’s branded King in the USA.
Thanks for the shipping help, all. Bunny and Lo Pan are correct: It is secret until you receive the item, which is why I didn’t want to say who I was asking for.
My gift is still sitting on my side table. I was going to ship it yesterday. Most of my plans for the day got derailed when I went and got my car rear-ended. :frown: Still dealing with insurance, so I won’t go into too much detail, but I wasn’t visibly hurt, and my car is still driveable. My rear bumper is dented pretty badly but still attached, and is going to get fixed in the relatively near future. My DPSS gift will get shipped on Monday, most likely.
Stupid rear-ender! I’m glad you’re OK, Amy, even if your car got some cosmetic damage.
Anyway, fuck 2015.
FUCK CANCER
Yep.
Goddamn it, Scott Weiland. Too much trippin’, now your soul’s worn thin.
Rest in peace.
Morning Pan
I forgot we were having company over for dinner tonight until I saw an email asking what time they should come over. I guess I’m going to the store when they open to get food stuff.
I think everybody needs a group hug for 2015 *hug*
The fall and rise of the Hovercraft:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34658386
I think it would be cool to ride in one.
Me too, sadly they were defunct when I crossed the channel.
This looks like a fascinating article.
It’s weird to see “The Technology of the Future!” evolve into obsolete novelties of the past.
Hold that thought.
I decided to do something nice and put an ice cube in the cat’s water. She’s pretty freaked out about it.
Maybe some body at the home got nervous mixed up with neurotic.
I think I see why she’s nervous.
https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/130668917/icecubesmokepics5b15d.jpg
HA!
Received my DPSS gift today. Fantastic and perfect for me. It’s a calendar called Quotable Asshole. The only way it could be better was if it was Quotable Asshat. I’ll be sure to share some choice ones here. Thanks.
I’m glad you like it! I promise, this wasn’t some kind of passive aggressive dig. I just thought you’d really like it, and that it synced nicely with your name :).
Absolutely. Also, who is “John Mangan” in Scottsdale?
It’s his evil twin.
That would have been someone else, if you were offended.
WTF!
“In a scene that can only be described as insane, multiple news sources have entered the San Bernardino terrorist suspects’ house and are rifling through whatever papers and pictures they find there. Reporters from MSNBC, CNN, CBS and unknown others have been showing the social security numbers, drivers licenses, photo albums and other presumed evidence on camera.
According to reporters, they were let in by the landlord, who used a crowbar to remove the temporary plywood door left after police destroyed the original. Nobody seems to be able to explain why this apparent destruction of evidence is being allowed, on-camera.”
Twitter is having a melt down over this and deservedly so.
It’s just so surreal.
First I’ve heard of it. . . . They’re tampering with items that could be evidence?
Mob justice actions shouldn’t be allowed under our legal system, even against the scum of the earth.
I feel zero pity for these murderers or their privacy, but I do worry about the cultural system failure you guys are talking about.
Paid a landlord to break the police tape and enter the property.
Saw that today when I got home. Why aren’t all these people in jail yet?
If you live further than 50 miles from Canada, you are closer to outer space.
Planet Earh is blue and there’s nothing I can do…
The papers want to know whose shirts you wear.
+t
Well, this is one of the worst weeks I’ve had in a very long time. I’m angry, exhaused, overwhelmed, and in pain. Not a good combination.
Sorry Man. When I’ve had similar weeks, I always console myself that there were always better times that followed. Is it beer thirty yet?
Wine and chocolate.
Hugs ditto.
Big Hug, Ditto
Thanks everyone.
Hugs bro
Always nice to see a singer/songwriter who doesn’t hate his fans.
…and it’s farewell to Robert Loggia:
http://apne.ws/1NxAcRb
Bloody hell:
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/7-year-old-girl-killed-at-mi-soccer-practice-after-paranoid-man-with-concealed-carry-license-opens-fire/#.VmIkozc_9Ak.twitter
Two hypotheses:
-My son is really good at the X-Wing tabletop game.
-I am terrible at the X-Wing tabletop game.
They are not mutually exclusive.
So, you won then?
The closure of a bridge leads to a fun meme:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/12034033/Forth-Bridge-Closure-They-may-take-our-bridge-but-theyll-never-take-our-memes.html
Hubby has a work Christmas party tonight. I’m not invited yet somehow, hubby talked me in to making cookies for him to take. *sigh*
Well, on the bright side – – you can eat cookies and you don’t have to go a work Christmas party. Some ELSE’s work Christmas party.
All that boring teacher talk, you’ve had a lucky escape….
Well, the past two days have been an adventure. We are with my Mom during the first (likely not last) hospital stay due to complications of effing cancer. Today is surgery for a pathologic bone break. Yay.
You think one is prepared to deal with effing cancer; but that’s a foolish thought. No one can really prepare for the war that plays out between a person’s entire family and the global effects of this awful disease.
*hugz* Cancer sucks.
What ditto said *hugs*
This is a Star Wars/Carrie Fisher gem
http://www.hitfix.com/news/carrie-fisher-just-scorched-good-morning-america-and-youre-not-worthy
She’s a big snark.
I’m disgusted by the mass-shooting commentary in my Facebook feed right now.
I get that sarcasm can be a component of debate, but it really feels harsh, in the wake of murders. I bristle every time I see “LOL” in posts/comments mocking someone else’s emotional reaction to such horror.
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-returns-first-of-the-best-images-of-pluto
My favorite image is the one that shows the scale of Pluto and Cheron compared to Earth. NEAT!!
Hmmm:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/04/casio-and-the-sleng-teng-riddim/
Wow. The venue for MUSE tonight appears to be half empty. :-/
The Muse concert was pretty amazing spectacle. There were 8 giant drones flying around for half the show, plus some innovative use of screens. Whatever you think of their music, these guys put on a great show.
Most importantly: the kids had a great, great time.
http://www.tickld.com/x/jaw/21-best-one-liner-jokes-15-is-just-evil
So many coats needed.
Here’a coat, from your favorite Okie
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c1zJzr-kWsI
These remind me of the style of jokes my 10th grade English teacher used to tell. A man looks at a sign in a luggage store window that says “This size for $10”. The man says “so would I”.
That one really seems to rely on being spoken as it revolves around the homonym size/sighs. That’s OK. The first time he told it in class, no one got it anyway.
The tumble weeds are rolling, rolling, rolling today.
So we’ve had a lot of rain recently, which led to this happening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-gdS-nc9lA
It may be unprecedented, but it’s also beautiful.
I’m looking for some advice from the Deadpan community. I’m looking to start a blog on my beer bottle collecting exploits. One of the first steps is to come up with a cool name for the blog. A labeorphile or labeorphilist is the technical name for someone that collects beer bottles (yup, there is a word specifically for collectors of beer bottles as opposed to other bottles) and I was looking for a way to use that word in the title. My first thought was “labeor philistine” but the actual meaning of philistine doesn’t really work well in this situation. “Labeorphile” is pronounced /lay bee or file/ (took me forever to track that down) so I’m thinking “Labeor of Love”. My fear here is that a) it will be too obscure for anyone to understand and/or b)it will lead to all sorts of search engine confusions involving rule 34 of the internet.
Any opinions/suggestions? I going to keep thinking on it.
Yeah, the mind immediately goes there.
About how many do you have in your collection? Replace the numbers in my suggestions with that number.
“You and Me and the Bottles Makes 3,472 Tonight.”
“8,296 Bottles of Beer on the Wall, 8,296 Bottles of Beer…”
“Unpeeled Labels”
“Filled With Empties”
“Empty Bottles: A Labeor of Love”
“UsedHair’s Used Bottles”
Le Bottle Me?
My choice: “Bottled Up”
I like “Empty Bottles: A Labeor of Love” as it incorporates my earlier idea. However, “Usedhair’s Used Bottles” is clever as shit. I shall have to think about it.
Oh, and I currently have 1282 in my collection. I think a prominent item on the blog should be a counter that indicates the current count.
CW: The Man in the High Castle 08
Bloody hell, the scene where the SS guy is told he has to euthanise his son is bloody chilling.
Have I mentioned how much I love this series HAVE I?
The way they fit the plot of the book into a larger narrative is just wonderfully done.
Every scene cribbed from the book is like a easter egg for fans of the novel.
I watched the first two episodes on Thanksgiving vacation with the family. I will definitely keep going with it based on your input.
I stopped reading this post after “Bloody hell, the scene where the SS”
Just a small scene humanising a monster.
CD: Southern Barrel Brewing – Saison N’on N’on
Nom Nom Nom
For Ed, since he’s rereading the books right now:
http://kitchenoverlord.com/2015/12/05/vintage-dune-coloring-pages-for-nihilistic-children/
This appears to have been an actual thing.
Ah, the 80’s
The directors cut of the coloring book makes much more sense.
Crap joke for the day:
Paddy McCoy, an elderly Irish farmer, received a letter from the Department for Work & Pensions stating that they suspected he was not paying his employees the statutory minimum wage and they would send an inspector to interview them.
On the appointed day, the inspector turned up.
“Tell me about your staff,” he asked Paddy.
“Well,” said Paddy, “there’s the farm hand, I pay him £240 a week, and he has a free cottage.
Then there’s the housekeeper. She gets £190 a week, along with free board and lodging.
There’s also the half-wit. He works a 16 hour day, does 90% of the work, earns about £25 a week along with a bottle of whisky and, as a special treat, occasionally gets to sleep with my wife.”
“That’s disgraceful” said the inspector, “I need to interview the half-wit.”
“That’ll be me then,” said Paddy.
JW: The Leftovers season 2 finale
Wow, great ending, if there is no S3 I don’t mind it ended that well.
There won’t be a season three unless you sing a song.
..and there’s me who cannot sing..damn!
Santa never brings me a banjo:
http://youtu.be/2KNGhf6aMs4
That was cute
Morning Pan
Had a quiet weekend. Now it’s time to put together another box set.
This is both funny and sadly true
http://www.theonion.com/graphic/planned-parenthood-myth-vs-fact-51982
The sun is finally trying to rise. Another two weeks before it thinks about waking up a little earlier in the day.
I forgot to mention that a band called Phantogram is opening for Muse on this tour. Pretty good shoegazer.
ditto and I are big fans.
Shoegazer?
Female eye candy?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shoegazing
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/jan/23/shoegaze-beginners-guide
Speaking of which, I can’t wait for the new Lush album. 😀
*swoon*
Thanks baby.
It’s also okay if you think Sarah from Phantogram is easy on the eyes.
It’s okay if you think so too.
Sarah Barthel isn’t bad to look at either. 😉
I have no idea who you are all talking about.
http://www.stateofmindmusic.com/photos/720/ARS-Phantogram-1.jpg
wOAh!
Ok Dave.
She didn’t look quite like that at our show, but her black Cenobyte half-shirt was flattering.
Van has turned into HAL 9000.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woah_Dave!
We are using up vacation time today and off to see Mockingjay 2
We may go this weekend. Tiff’s niece did the previous 2 Hunger Games premieres with her, but bailed on the last one. (Teenagers!)
I guess I need to actually watch part 1 of part 3, before seeing part 2 of part 3.
So when riding the rollercoaster called, Battling Effing Cancer, when does
It end? Only at death? Or could it end with a literal light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel?
I say this reluctantly, but it doesn’t end. There are some times that you have hope, even relief. Even when you get the statement of “cancer free” there are still tests and precautions for quite some time. I’m sorry you are going through this with your mom and it is never easy for anyone going through it or their families.
Thanks, Cynful…
Thanks also to all of Deadpanland. Jack and I greatly appreciate the love, hugs, and support.
Sorry to be such a crank lately.
You’re allowed.
As Van would say, “Quite”
Finally got my Deadpan Secret Santa gift shipped today.
wOOt!
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/12/rushs-neil-peart-says-hes-retired-from-music/
I had friends that pushed me to make it to the R40 show. I Can’t express how glad I am that they did. Rush was always my favorite band (at least their works before Roll the Bones) and I will miss them. But I definitely understand where they are coming from.
Also, Neil has retired before. We’ll see how permanent this one is.
Crap joke for the day:
The teacher asked the class to use the word “fascinate” in a sentence.
Molly put up her hand and said, “My family went to my granddad’s farm, and we all saw his pet sheep. It was fascinating.”
The teacher said, “That was good, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate,’ not ‘fascinating’.”
Sally raised her hand. She said, “My family went to see Rock City and I was fascinated.”
The teacher said, “Well, that was good Sally, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate’.”
Little Johnny raised his hand, but the teacher hesitated because she had been burned by Little Johnny before. She finally decided there was no way he could damage the word “fascinate,” so she called on him.
Johnny said, “My aunt Carolyn has a sweater with ten buttons, but her tits are so big she can only fasten eight!”
The teacher sat down and cried.
Morning Pan
I get to go to the dentist later today. Woo Hoo?
Well I had good news yesterday from the dentist.
She won the Irish Sweepstakes?
That would have been good news for the dentist not me.
I’m sorry you can’t share in the joy of her good fortune. Tell her congratulations for me.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t think he’ll appreciate being called a she.
It’s a new era.
Oh bugger, looks like whoever got me for DPSS has not paid the correct postage or marked it as a gift, the delivery company is going to charge me import duty.
I had thought it was a gift for my mother, but that one arrived later.
Since I cannot think of anybody else who would send me international mail.
Seriously? That was supposed to be handled by the shipping company. Let me know what you had to pay and I’ll reimburse you. 🙂
Yeah, I’ll let you know tomorrow when hopefully I can ask the delivery person.
Cool beans.
If you like, buy me a drink next time I’m in town.
Such a great and poignant read from the ex-wife and mother of Scott Weiland’s children.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/scott-weiland-s-family-dont-glorify-this-tragedy-20151207?page=2
Such is the path of drug abuse. I feel sorry for him and his family. Once someone goes down this path, depending on the drug abused, they change their very own brain structure. As a result it may be that he was physically unable to correct his path, all do to a poor decision made in the distant past. As glib as Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign was, she wasn’t wrong.
Mixed feelings reading that. She’s clearly got her own ax to grind, and deeply personal hurt from her failed relationship with this (by all accounts) difficult man.
She’s right that he should have been present and shown some effort for his children (assuming she’s not lying – – and her statements appear to be backed up by his legacy).
She’s right that people should put money and time into their kids, but as fans, they’ve also lost someone who, despite his failings, impacted their lives. People are entitled to mourn as fans. Lots of our heroes had dark sides – – those shouldn’t be swept under the rug, but they also don’t need to be the only thing we recall about them.
She’s right that we as a society should not applaud or wink at self-destructive artists the way we do, when they start to circle the drain.
I feel deep sympathy for her. It is a nightmarish, thankless job trying to make something work with a self-destructive, deeply damaged person.
You feel she shouldnt have put it out there? I didnt get from this article that this is all we should remember about them. I felt it more a reminder of addiction as illness in general than a bash on Scott. IMO
I generally think we should always take the criticisms of an ex with many grains of salt. Even in this case, where I’m sure he was a terrible partner.
I do wonder if her motives were entirely pure, or if there was some lingering resentment from her bad experience with him.
Do you, of all peeps, have to ask and if so would you blame her?
She’s entitled to every bit of that resentment. She earned it.
Time to take you home. Your dizzy head is conscience laden.
You shouldn’t have a-worn that dress.
I just read that too. So painful.
I’ve only read 5 of the books on the list:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/dec/08/best-british-novel-of-all-time-international-critics-top-100-middlemarch?CMP=fb_gu
Ha! Six! I win.
11.
5 for me too.
Just read a Facebook post from a former HS classmate agreeing with Trump’s statement to ban all Muslims from traveling to the US. “It’s just common sense!” *smacks head*
I don’t have the energy today.
Ugh.
Our mayor, one of the best we hadve had in years, is Muslem. If Trunp gets his wish, there will be no talks between the US and Calgary….
Although, if Trunb gets his way, not talking to the US would probably not be a bad thing
Rather than post a scathing report on why I think Trump is wrong, I post a link from CNN that touches on the high points.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/08/us/muslims-in-america-shattering-misperception/index.html
WHy isn’t THAT getting passed around Facebook?
Getting Trump to operate based on “fact” or “reason” is not going to happen but if you find yourself confronted by one of his supporters, ask them “Why stop there?”
Why are we not starting a database of radicalized CHristians? Remember just the week before when one of them launched a murderous terrorist attack in Colorado? Clearly, if identifying and tracking a radicalized group is a good idea … it’s a good idea for ALL the religious factions whose intentions “we just can’t know”.
While we’re at it, since the VAST bulk of extremist attacks and murders in the US last year were carried out by white supremacist groups and their sympathizers, why do we not round ALL of them up and put them in “camps”. Again, if it’s a good idea for one group why not apply it across the board?
FWIW –
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/donald-trumps-muslim-bashing-aids-cause-terror-networks-say-experts-n476221
Rational people often forget that most of the world are uninterested in and incapable of logical, rational thought.
Sitting at the dentist, waiting to sign our insurance forms. Had a good check up. It’s been five years and counting now since my last cavity
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
So do it half-assed. Then you fill both categories 😉
I received my DPSS gift today!!!! Pic on Facebookland. Thanks so much, you awesome secret santa, you!
HolyfuckingshitIjustinterviewedDevinTownsend.
I basically just gushed the whole time. I’m almost embarrassed to listen. You’d think I’d never interviewed anyone before.
Audio? 🙂
It was an audio interview :). The link will be posted at Metal Asylum, when it’s ready.
Cool, did you get an autographed Ziltoid shirt?
So awesome for you!!!
Are you serious….. I CANNOT WAIT
Who?
One of these guys:
https://www.google.com/search?q=devin+townsend&client=ms-android-att-us&hl=en-US&prmd=nvi&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigsaHIk87JAhUG5WMKHR2dCqUQ_AUICSgD#hl=en-US&tbm=isch&q=devin+townsend+project&imgrc=xjFf9NsBUXsSvM%3A
Pete Townsend’s little brother.
Doh!
getting a kick out of the secret santa reaction on facebook. so funny
naP gninroM
Luckily I had a mirror on standby.
Nap? Sounds good to me.
It’s really dark and gloomy out this morning.
That’s my soul up there.
Sleepy
http://www.avclub.com/article/15-best-albums-2015-228932?%3Futm_source=FB&utm_medium=Boost&utm_campaign=Opt
Ess.. youll like a few of these 😉
Do you of you have any experience with setting up and/or participating in a meal train for a family
Member/neighbor/parishener, etc..
I’ve had some of my participants be recipients of them. Unfortunately it’s been awhile so I can only speak generally and not give you the website they referred to.
There will now follow a a line of expletives about custom charges:
£9)?!,(.),”!’bjhkovhgftgtcdxxszjbnfcgtxfdads
(Censored)
I clearly see a booby
You see boobies everywhere!
That’s a lucky man that Lo Pan.
6th sense
It’s raining. It’s December, and it’s raining.
How, odd.
Same here but not so odd.
Sigh.
?
Feeling Caddish.
As in like feeling like a Cad and not in the fly and wanting to lay eggs in Lo kind of way.
Flirt
Feel Cavendish instead.
http://onlineathens.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full/061912-Cavendish.jpg
My goodness that is intimidating.
I’m designing a course about winter cities. Curious, is there a winter-related event in your city? In Calgary, we have zoo lights. Artistic light displays at the zoo.
I wouldn’t go as far as calling it an event, but local councils do put up Lights for Christmas near shopping centres.
We have Lumi at the Desert Botanical Gardens.
The entire park is lit by luminarias and christmas lights, strung about the park. Holiday music from all genres and by various musicians occur each night. Food, wine, and hot drinks are served.
Its so gorgeous and a lovely way to spend the holidays in Phoenix. It’s by far my favorite thing about The Valley during the holidays.
http://Www.dbg.org
We need to book our tix!
Soulier, the Phoenix Zoo also has Zoo Lights.
Plus, Glendale has Glendale Glitters and a drive-thru Xmas lights exhibit.
There’s a great Train Park Xmas Lights ride in Scottsdale too.
Same with zoo and botanical garden lights. There’s also the annual lighting of the city and county building and we have one of the larger light parades as well.
Then there’s drinking winter beers…. which the entire state abides by I’m pretty sure
I have yet to actually participate and it looks like I’m not going to make it this year either, but we have this:
http://keeppearlandbeautiful.org/event/tour-de-lites/
Though, depending on when the fronts comes through Saturday evening, appropriate dress will either be shorts and a tee shirt, or rain poncho and thermal underwear…
There are a few things that are historical and seasonal here and then there are some new things. So holiday related, we have the lighting of the Plaza lights and various light displays. There is also the Snow Princess which has recently been revived. They open the skating rinks around early November and they open the manmade snow hills usually in December. The zoo does a “Santa Dives with the Penguins”.
Fall tends to be our biggest festival season though. It’s not as boring as it sounds
“Santa Dives with the Penguins”
Is that like “sleeping with the fishes” ?
“All right you Elves, hand over the goods or Santa Dives with the Penguins.”
http://youtu.be/r4GYGlsUc6w
I’m having an email conversation with my mom
Mom: what does John want for his birthday
Me: give him a gift card from Amazon.ca, then he can get whatever he wants
Mom: ok, I’ll get him a PayPal credit
Me: no, get him an Amazon.ca certificate. They don’t use PayPal
Mom: you want Amazon.ca right? Not .com
Me: yes. We are in Canada .
Mom: did you hear about this site? You can get lots of free books
This one I didn’t actually answer, but internally I’m thinking, “you know I work for a publishing company, right?”
Oh, my mom. She can be so blond sometimes
So off to see ‘Carol’ this morning at the flicks and later a pub crawl around Newcastle with some work colleagues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_(film)
So, you’re going caroling ?
No.
Enjoyed the film, but can see no pint in ever watching it again.
+o
So:
http://www.slapkirk.com
8 slaps per second!!!!!!!!!!!!
Try harder!
Cmere!
This is why the internet was created.
SLAPSLAPSLAPSLAPSLAPSLAPSLAPSLAPSLAPSLAPSLAPSLAPSLAPSLAPSLAPSLAP
Lo seems to be a little slap happy
I opened the closet under the stairs to pull out our Christmas stuff. The cat was really excited to discover we had this whole other room she knew nothing about. And even better, it was full of small spaces for her to get in to and explore!
And will you be leaving around some empty Xmas boxes for her to jump into?
I think that’s a given
So tell me Deadpan. Why does it take longer to ship to/from the US from Canada, then to/from the UK?
(this is really a rhetorical question)
Don’t get me stArted on customs!!
Yeah, I get the same thing. It’s pretty much impossible to order from Think Geek. There’s usually 20% tacked on for border fees.
I’m going to put it down as a learning experience.
On Trump: http://www.salon.com/2015/12/08/the_south_won_the_civil_war_white_men_racial_resentment_and_how_the_bitter_minority_came_to_rule_us_all/
CD: Dutch beer – Ramses Bier Formiga Sauva. The description on the bottle reads:
vlak voor het bottelen zijn extra sauva mieren toegevoegd
Sent through google translate that comes out as:
just before bottling added extra sauva ants
That is not a mis-translation. This beer is brewed with ants. It doesn’t taste any different than the other dutch beers I’ve had so far. But it will definitely be on the blog to be. I promise to get it rolling right after this trip.
Gross
No, no. They’re “extra Sauva” so it’s all fine. No gross about it.
Seriously, they must either filter the ants back out or Sauva them up into a puree as there are no chunky bits.
Moves on to Thai Thai which is a standard Dutch beer brewed with Thai spices.
popcorn seasoning on a can of tuna is not cooking.
True, but it is trying… Your patience, I’m sure
Work white elephant party starts in a few. I have a huge love of these
I’ve always wondered who was behind these. 😉
Well tonight’s pub crawl did lead to a new discovery that Spiced run and ginger beer is a tasty combination.
Try it with the extra ants. I’ve read that’s a thing.
Watched a movie called The Congress. It was very… Surreal
Agreed. The Congress was good, although difficult to follow most of the time.
There’s going to be a S3 of The Leftovers.
Wahoooo!
Still hope for a “Last Man on Earth” crossover.
Over my aging body!
Kristen Schaal is going to show up at your door step and stare at you while blowing smoke in your face. Day after day.
As long as she keeps her trap shut.
Youre a real cunt
In your dreams laddie.
Honey Dew beer still tasted of beer.
One day I will not be disappointed.
If you’re looking for beer which doesn’t taste like beer, might I suggest giving up and drinking whiskey?
Listen to this man. This man is a smart man.
Indeed. I’ve still yet to find a beer I can drink. I have had some luck with hard ciders, though.
Have you tried the ant beer?
It may be time to cry “Uncle”.
I would just like a beer to tasted a bit like what they claim.
So Honey Dew did not taste of honey and chocolate orange stout did not taste of chocolate orange.
How do you all refer to Amy Bowen and her being the DP Ambassador?
Is she referred to as: The Ambassador of Deadpan? Or the Deadpan Ambassador?
Something else?
The Deadpan Ambassador.
Santa thought I needed some balls. 😀
Thank you DP not so secret Santa
Public Service Broadcasting are playing the the Science museum in London on the 22nd January and I can’t go.
/shakes fist at work schedule.
GO!
I missed them at a super tiny venue here this year. Do not make my same mistake
You two are so cute together.
Just not possible, I’m working the next day.
cough cough I feel you have a cold coming on
Sold out!
Greetings Deadpan!
I hope all is well.
I have received my secret Santa gift.
I haven’t opened it yet. I’m waiting to get approval from my wife.
Whatever it turns out to be, I’m sure it’ll be great.
Thanks, Amy Bowen!
CW: Last Man On Earth
Someone has too.
Fuckface!
Its so good! That last ep was SO GOOD!!!
Bleurgh!
The more hate the more I realize what a good show it really is
oh good, I don’t see it changing it’s current trend of banality.
I think you meant “breath of fresh air in a shitty shitty network show world”
If I was sniffer what you were sniffing you would probably be right.
Mark Hamill! Seinfeld!
!!!
http://www.avclub.com/article/jerry-seinfeld-mark-hamill-and-joel-mchale-request-229635
GET
OUT!!
Stop pushin!!!
http://www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/2012/09/17/One-of-earliest-Starzl-kidney-transplant-patients-still-active/stories/201209170156
Today, Christmas comes to Bunny Town. My Boo and her boofriend are coning over. We are going to trim the tree, deck the halls, and make gingerbread cookies :cheerful:
I always imagine flooting sheets with eyes cut out when you talk of boo.
I always imagine floating sheets with eyes cut out when you talk of boo.
No, I think you were right the first time.
In this case, Boo is Minsc’s companion from Baulder’s gate. He is a miniature giant space hamster. I call her this because, at five foot even, she’s a miniature giant, when she was young, she was a very hairy baby, and, like all kids, she’s possibly from outer space (I don’t care if she’s in her 20’s, she still a kid). Or, a miniature giant space hamster – Boo!
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Boo
Crap joke for the day:
A guy is telling one of his colleagues at work: “You know, I never realized just how much my wife loved me until I was off sick last week. When the milkman and postman walked down the drive, she ran out and shouted excitedly: ‘My husband’s home!'”
http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_pictures/compdiff/roomofmi.jpg
Are there still milkmen?
Still get milk delivered over here.
They don’t dress like that anymore.
Yeah I get milk delivered too.
Huh. Go figure
That Lo Pan is a lucky man.
Shhhh! Dont tell the wife!
It’s your milkshake of course.
I thought it was your milkshake that brought all the boys to the yard?
Dammit, didn’t refresh and inadvertently stole Van’s joke.
Either way… damn right its better than yours…
I rarely listen to “we’re so edgy” morning radio (and never listen to morning zoo bullshit), but I caught Emo Phillips this morning on the local “we’re so edgy” show.
The guy is still the same, and still oddly hilarious, 30 years later. I needed that.
He really is one of a kind. He’ll make me laugh anytime anywhere
I thought you said that about the Thai hooker?
He was Nepalese and he was no hooker, sir!
Ah yes, a man of the night.
Ha!!
CP: “Saturn and Skies” – Ghost Ship Octavius
Hmmmm:
http://xerox.bz/1Qbvhc2
Designed her own jumpsuit…what a woman:
http://www.tor.com/2015/12/11/holy-rewatch-batman-the-purr-fect-crime-better-luck-next-time/
WTF:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL1K_2u71AILJf0Trba9HZgchij2YDKIsu¶ms=OAFIAVgD&v=-M7sMIJRQgg&mode=NORMAL
Hi Friends.
Hey good lookin..
JmfS!
!!!
Anyone here a Costco member? Is is worth it? Ryah are there Costco’s up there?
We are. Do it!
Yeah, there are Costco’s up here. I don’t have a membership as it’s not very close and buying in bulk is impractical for just the two of us.
Tried it for a year. Really wanted to like it, but just didn’t. And, the guy who runs it really didn’t want me shopping there anyway.
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/30/444790866/the-secret-to-club-stores-success-breaking-the-rules-of-retail
The no signs is certainly one of my peeves about the place. And, strangely enough, at least around here, the people at Sams are generally much friendly than Costco.
That was me when I tried it. I keep hearing good things tho.
I never found it worth keeping. I bribe friends and family if there is one thing I need. Like their yummy strawberry jam.
I’m the minority, but I feel like I’m spending $50 a year for the privilege of saving $40 overall over regular supermarket prices on awkwardly-sized items.
I’d say for a family, it is mostly worth it. The hard part is coming up with $100+ every time you shop there.
I think you just have to savvy and know what practical items are a savings vs buying them from grocery store. Not everything is a good deal. But many items are.
Also, their home and car insurance is fantastic.
Member since 1997. Boo-Yaaa.
Does Seattle count as canada?
More than Toronto!
Can’t argue with that.
It rains a lot, at least it does in the episodes of Frasier I’ve watched.
“tossed salad”
What a night for the youngest Mangan!!
Squeee
WOOT!!!
MST3K live telethon just hit $6million.
Joel is currently interviewing Felicia Day
mst3k.com
Is it a kickstarter?
They had a kickstarter.
Tonight it was ending so they had a live streaming telethon.
Looks like we are going to get a new season of MST3k !
http://www.foxsports.com/arizona/video?vid=584734275876
My amazing KidKaster in action 🙂 .
Great job!
super super rad
…and it’s goodbye to Harry Morgan:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/arts/television/harry-morgan-mash-and-dragnet-actor-dies-at-96.html?_r=0
For M.A.S.H get M.A.S.H.
Never in a million years would have guessed he was still alive.
I was a huge fan of Colonel Potter as a kid. Rest in peace.
agree
I had someone else point this out to me. Did you notice this article is from 2011?
I hadn’t, just checked on Wikipedia and you are correct.
Rusting tanks
http://m.imgur.com/gallery/qMLYF
This is such a great collection of images. And so, so Van.
So so?
So, so, so, so much you, Van.
Tanks for the memories.
Currently Watching Eurotrip. What a totally f’ed up and awesome ride this movie is.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356150/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt
‘your train of thought has stalled at the station’
Classic put down
Crap mini joke of the day:
Surely, when you cross a teledildonics machine with a cashpoint you get someone coming into money?’.
http://www.zazzle.ca/vintage_rotary_telephone_coat_racks-256116196651293919
JW: The Man in The High Castle E10
That’s it, all watched, bloody great.
We have got to get Amazon prime
Just finished episodes 4 and 5 tonight. Feeling a bit slow after the first couple, but I expect it to pick up.
So ticket bought to see the new Star Wars flick this week.
never heard of it
Take that episode 1 out of your ears.
Gonna do some site maint. Here goes nothing.
OK, so the site is acting a bit weird. I’m trying to figure it out. Hang tight. Keep scrolling.
Too many comments?
Are being shot in the dark?
grasping at straws.
HA!
Wisdom from Twitter:
@Ahlephia When I see lovers’ names carved in a tree, I don’t think it’s cute. I just think it’s crazy how many people bring knives on a date.
I’mbetting Lo knew all of them:
http://io9.com/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-star-wars-ret-1383276948?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
We finished MITHC last night.
Van, what just happened???!!!????
I don’t have a very good sci fi/bending time/ring theory/altered universe brain.
(Not sure how JM loves me since I’m a sci-fi failure)
Well one theory is the Heisenberg device is a time machine or viewer into alternative universes that allowed Hitler to see where he maid mistakes and correct them and he is the man in the high castle.
As for the trade Minster swapping universes…wibble!
Did you enjoy the journey though?
I think he is the man in the high castle- been saying so since early on.
We both are loving the series!!!!
I just didnt see that final scene coming.
I’ve reached a time in my life when I”m tempted by slotless racing again:
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/features/car-culture/real-fx-slotless-racing-2015-review-its-scalextric-unchained/
The last time was the TCR system.
Hubby collects super car hot wheels. I bought him a track for his birthday next week
I was really disappointed with the TCR system. #oldfart
I was reading up on TCR, with the benefit of hindsight it was a deeply flawed system. The early sets being under powered and the outside car being faster than the inner lane car by default, really nuked any chance of it taking over from It’s rivals.
http://www.tycotcrracing.com
You MUST peruse this!
Fun MUST be had!
I might adopt “Fun MUST be had!” as my new personal motto.
That, or “Fuck it all and fucking no regrets” from Damage, Inc.
“tempted by slotless”
you are a dirty, dirty, boy.
Its why you keep coming back
I have a new bar of soap just for you.
Just don’t drop it in the shower.
No toothbrush?
He can chew wood
“wood”
What date is
Your star wars
Ticket
For, Van?
He’s taking a date?
This Friday, a lot of showings on Thursday were sold out.
Haiku
By Desert
Pixie
http://dockingbay416.com/new-co-op-x-wing-campaign/
Speaking of Star Wars. Rhett, you definitely need to check this out.
Neato! We need to plan a whole day to try these out. 🙂
YES!!!
I’m skeptical :
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/norlan/the-norlan-whisky-glass/description
This is like “the perfect cup of coffee”. No such thing as everybody’s tastes vary.
CW: Madmen S7 E8
So I’ve finally got around to starting the last seven episodes of Madmen.
I initially thought they had jumped into the future with this episode with that guys KFC moustache and the answering machine straight out of 2001…
Morning Pan
Last week of work before two weeks of holidays.
Hey Jack!
Have you figured out what’s wrong with your site yet? Every time I post it takes me to a blank page and I have to reload from Jackmangan.com (as opposed to just refreshing the page).
Same here, although I Just go back in the browser and refresh the page.
I’m looking into it too. Nothing seems to have changed in the files, so I’m wondering if there is some sort of database issue. I’ll dig into it more when I can.
Tony and I have chatted about it. We’re seeing the same thing. . .
Sorry, everyone. I’ll now click “Post Comment” and get the blank page.
I assumed it was a Zen thing. You were just giving us a moment to reflect on what we had posted.
Wadsworth: Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur.
Professor Plum: Yes, but now I work for the United Nations.
Wadsworth: So your work has not changed.
http://www.avclub.com/article/icluei-47543
I’ve only seen the end of that film.
Which one?
Clue
I meant which ending. This movie is notorious for having several
Oh all of them
Remedy that. Its a brilliant film well ahead of its time
I get it mixed up with ‘Murder by Death’ sometimes.
I’m long overdue for a rewatch of this. Cult Calssics keeps teasing that they’re going to run a theater showing, which would be even more fun.
Yes!
Hmmm:
http://slaveryfootprint.org/
31!
96! And yet, life still stresses me out.
35
TEB, your Xmas card arriveded today, thank you.
I like polar bears…well at least from a safe distance.
Four days of work left until 1.5 weeks off!
I hate guy all, I only get 10 days off.
Cough
-guy +you
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/2/28/Guy-smiley.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100901222254
Don’t feel bad Van. Other than the holidays themselves I have to work too.
yeah mama! Im taking a well neeeded full 2 weeks
Plus game night Saturday!
BOOM POW!!!!!!!
Thank you, work doesn’t seem so bad now.
It’s getting pretty dark out
Pretty unimpressed with the new Star Trek trailer. (i’ll link it later)
I caught it last night as well. Simon Pegg promised it would be better, but if a trailer is supposed to cut the best bits together to get me excited…my hopes are not high.
Seems to me like the poor Star Trek trailer is mostly due to a bad choice in music. Between using “modern era” music and the over-emphasis on humor, it looks very much like they are trying to make the next movie into Guardians of the Galaxy. If they had stuck to music more suited to Start Trek and cut a joke or two, I don’t think this would have looked any different that any other Trek Trailer.
The first film I feel was a real flash in the pan.
I am, however, very happy for the new ID4
Sequel to the dumbest blockbuster EVAR, I’m not holding out high hopes.
And the problem is? Although I sure am ‘shocked’ that you feel this way
I just can’t forgive the writers for the virus plot line.
Its just aliens and lasers and Jeff Goldblum. Who needs science or fact or plausibility!
Well sometimes I do need that.
But sometimes just lasers and aliems and Goldblum and kabooms and eye candy!
Granted that approach didnt really work for Cowboys Vs Aliens
I prefer Mr Goldblum in ‘Into the Night’.
I prefer Mr. Goldblum in “Earth Girls are Easy”.
It’s the tongue isn’t it?
I forgot my damn lines today. And I’m playing Ryah. She’s gonna make me pay for that.
I forgot too!
I fell into the damn internet. Goodnight, :blank white page:
So, despite having a good sized pipe to the internet, I’ve often found myself unable to stream Youtube worth a crap. Stumbled upon this thread:
https://dd.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/196239/block_time_warner_cable_stream_throttling/
If you setup your firewall to block these ranges of IP addresses
173.194.55.0 – 179.195.55.255
206.111.0.0 – 206.111.255.255
It will bypass some buffering servers and give a direct feed from Youtube. Took me a bit to figure out how to set it up on my particular router, but once I did, I could stream the new Star Trek trailer is all its 1080p crappiness.
Now if you can figure out for me why Netflix refuses to play on my Sony blu-ray while its just fine everywhere is. I swear Sony and Netflix have some underhanded deal going on
Oh that’s simple, Sony hates you.
Not as much as I hate you.
Your hate keeps me warm at night.
It comes in a warming glaze
Toasty.
Hmm, now that’s weird – my Sony Blu-Ray players do exceptionally well with Netflix.
Morning Pan!
I’m working one-handed again.
Why? Did I miss a post.
No. The cat likes to on me, being held in one arm, much like a baby. Makes it rather hard to work.
“I have a good sized pipe”
heh
heh
“bypass some buffering”
I do have “A Christmas Horror Story” on my PVR but I am going to hold off doing a PBP until the side is behaving better.
Winter wonderland! You and yours safe Lo Pan?
Yeah. Tried to get to work and failed miserably. Went back home
No snowstorms! If you get them, then it won’t be long before they show up here.
Well, then youre fucked! Pardon my snowy french.
Uh oh. Be careful out there Pannites
L.A. School District now??
I hate society in today’s world. Crazy people suck the life out of everything.
So… seems my DPSS recipient is experiencing some delay. Just checked Etsy to see if their item shipped and saw this message from 6 days ago (give me a break, I was traveling).
“My brother has been in a coma and just passed away two days ago. I have just got back to the computer and will be issuing refunds. The money does not concern me, I would even consider sending you double your money back, if there wasn’t so many returns right now on my ebay from being at the hospital. This has been a horrible month but I am ready to get back to work. I must remain busy so I can stop crying. Please forgive my delay as I have always been a professional until my brother got into the car accident. Thank you for understanding; your items will be in the mail by the beginning of next week. Feel free to call me if you would like.”
That’s a bit of a downer. I sent them a very understanding reply to see what I should do from here. If they want to still send it, they can. If not, I’ll go back to the drawing board.
Van be damned. The fall finale of Last Man on Earth was a brilliance of 30 minute show crafting. This is why I watch this show.
Still not laughing.
..and they couldn’t use a Soyuz, motherfuckers.
This doenst even make sense.
Yes it bloody well does.
Its an alternate reality so they really dont have to adhere to anything ‘real’. Sorry.
Indeed, they also don’t have to be funny and by gawd they are good at that.
Youre still treating it as a classic sit-com and that’s where you fail. But yeah, youre in the minority there. There’s at least one literal lol in every episode. Your problem is that you cant take embarrassment humor – and that’s fine. But don’t call a show terrible just cause its not your cup of grumpy tea.
Now get me a jammy
It will rot your teeth.
I disagree with everything you just wrote.
Every time you talk all I hear is the sound of Pac Man dying
Well that explains why you missed the TCR post.
Jean Claude Van-be-Dammed.
So touching
Shhh. If Van catches you liking it he’ll break out the desperate, make no sense arguments… like ‘Soyuz”.
The escape pod from the international space station.
Shhhhhh. The adults are talking
Impossible, you are still yapping.
You daft cunt I cant possible catch every post on here. Even tho I DID reply to it, sorta *cough*
That isn’t the name of the band. . .
Relax, he just can’t spell Daft Punk.
You guys are getting way too emotional over differences of opinion on TV shows. This is starting to resemble the great A-Team vs. Knight Rider debates of the 80s.
We’re only emotional cause we really don’t’ care what each other thinks…
Eggsactly.
Meanwhile the uK press are trying to remove Helen Sharman from history because she was privately funded.
It appears Tim Peake is the first proper UK astronaut..WTF!
BTW… still working* on it.
* – in this context, the word ‘Working’ is defined as the act of repeatedly slamming one’s head in an alternating sequence between one’s keyboard and the whole of the internet.
For those playing along at home, I’ve successfully determined that it is NOT an issue with the theme or with a plugin. So, it’s either a problem with WP itself (unlikely, but checkable by upgrading the install. (Which I will try later, I guess)) or caused by a server configuration change… which is what I’m betting since other sites of mine are having issues too, but not the same issues.
You are the man, Tony Mast. Let’s discuss applying the WP updates. . .
I tried the update route on a different website that is having a slight different, but just as annoying set of issues. No luck.
I’m preparing for the nuclear option.
Nuclear Option:
Back Up the site.
Save the config file.
Save the content folder. (Themes and plugins)
Delete the current set of WordPress files. (Database of all show and comment content is stored elsewhere and won’t be changed at all.
Clean install WP.
Replace config file.
Replace content folder.
I’m going to test this on the Sausagefest site, which is also having issues, but is currently in a really low traffic period, so there will be no impact. I want to see it work there before I try it on this site.
“plugin”
There’s a new Tom Petty biography out today that I cannot wait to read
The waiting is the hardest part
Jammy doughnuts are overrated.
Far too claggy.
Speaking of trying to trouble shoot a web site …
I spent the morning at the Dentist getting drilled and filled.
It would have been more pleasant if that was a euphemism.
He had his hands all up in your cavity?
Ok, slotless racing is Go!
I’llreport back after Xmas as to how it went.
Where?
I would explain but I can’t be arsed.
Look up for TCR.
Or you could just look here:
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/features/car-culture/real-fx-slotless-racing-2015-review-its-scalextric-unchained/
How long before you’re racing against a car controlled by your raspberry pi ?
It’s a thought.
Simpsons did it (used as a general term in which that idea you had for something in the future was already done).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm9hiWw8ijg
Ha! Amazing.
Hmmm:
http://www.openculture.com/2015/12/hear-6-classic-philip-k-dick-stories-adapted-as-vintage-radio-plays.html
Nice rabbit hole. This should be fun.
His early stuff is always good for watching literary snobs squirm.
There was a time when legends of Krail ran true.
As did Airwolf.
Some days suck much more than others.
My mouth feels like I have been chewing on barbed wire.
I am attempting to fix it with eggnog. Rum soaked eggnog.
Well, go light on the eggnog…
Thanks Ryah and John for el xmas cardo!!
Sleep is overrated.
Keep telling yourself that.
Looks like we had bunches of snow over night. The weather girl didn’t predict that yesterday
“Don’t need a weather girl to know which way the snow blows.” – Bob Chillen’
Watched the pilot of iZombie last night.
eh
It wasn’t bad … but felt kind of clumsy and “thin”. It’s like “Castle” with brain eating.
If nothing else was on and I wanted to watch some mindless TV I would watch another episode. Not sure how they could keep this going for a whole season though.
… aaaand I don’t know why this review ended up in this thread.
I enjoyed the first season and currently enjoying the second season.
But it’s as deep as puddle.
CP: I Don’t Want To See You Like This — The Joy Formidable
Phooey.
He’s quicker than the human eye.
So I’m artist of the week http://latinoworldradio.com/musica/meet-artist-of-the-week-soulier/
I should have tried to type Spanish
¡Felicidades!
Bueno Bueno!
Scorching!
CW: The Expaanse E2
Half way into the second episode and I’m not feeling the lurve.
-a
Cool that means Ill really enjoy it!
I don’t know Punk, does it?
Youre no Dirty Harry
I blame the soap.
Now Debbie Harry on the other hand…
Careful, don’t break his Heart of Glass
Don’t make me go Atomic on ya.
He’s not that kind of girl.
For the most part we’re enjoying it. Although I thought Jim Holden was too young and good looking, and Amos Burton too small. At least, compared to what my mind saw while I was reading the books
Most annoying is the actress who plays the quickly deceased navigator..her face is familiar but I can remember what else I’ve seen her in.
I don’t even know her name.
Can’t not can.
Aha! She was the girlfriend of the werewolf in the US version of Being Human.
Well Wired liked it:
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/star-wars-force-awakens-movie-review/
🙂
refreshing
Thanks Cynful! Photos to follow.
Yay! Welcome
Jimmy Fallon and Star Wars cast.
Fun video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTLAx3VDX7g&sns=em
I don’t want to watch ‘Love Actually’, it’s shite.
..and that is from someone who has a crush on Laura Linney.
I tried that movie once, but bailed at about the 20 minute mark. I know it’s beloved by many, but I just didn’t get it.
If you want some inspiration for a dating profile:
http://www.laurenhallden.com/datingipsum/
We love IZombie
It’s still free:
http://toucharcade.com/2015/12/15/attack-the-light-steven-universe-is-free/
So my eyes crossed and Van’s aha read as Anal and I was wondering why Van was talking about that. I need a drink
I’m sure there’s a pulp novel out there called “The Werewolf’s Anal Girlfriend.”
Well in the TV series she did get rear ended by the werewolf.
If in doubt, always use a car accident as a metaphor for sex…
-metaphor +euphemism
I hate these word crimes…
Morning Pan
Two more days of work the two weeks off! Woo Hoo!
I have to work up to Christmas Eve and then I’ll get some time off. 🙂
“then I’ll get some”
11 days off after this shift finishes.
Today is our office holiday party, which is doubling for a retirement party for our beloved president. Evil Inc. has a new evil boss…
Be careful.
These “ascension” type events usually involve a blood sacrifice.
Call Buffy!
You need a less evil jerb
Is jerb Essbee’s pet name for you?
the girl on the news has been telling bad Star Wars jokes all morning. For example:
What is Jabba the Hutt’s middle name?
The
How do Jedi open computer files?
With Adobe wan Kenobi
Speaking of crimes… did you hear the one about the saudi millionaire who was acquitted in a UK court of rape charges because he successfully used the “i tripped and fell into her” defense? No. Im not fucking kidding.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/millionaire-ehsan-abdulaziz-who-said-he-accidentally-tripped-and-penetrated-teen-is-cleared-of-rape-a6774946.html
“Judge Martin Griffiths had allowed Mr Abdulaziz to give evidence in private.”
Is that the new term for bribery now?
That is fucked up.
Ha! What a slam on Abdulaziz! A REAL saudi millionaire would have had an underling just phone the judge and tell him to make it go away but they made Abdulaziz actually take a few minutes out of his day to have a private meeting with the judge and come up with this incredibly bad story to explain why it wasn’t rape.
Oooooo what a burn on Abdulaziz! They surely showed him!
Oh you drip with wit!
Who serves you at The Dark Side Restaurant?
dearth Waiter
I wasn’t getting any work done so I shut off the news. I’m sure you can Google bad Star Wars jokes if you want more.
At some point over the next few days, I will sit in a coffee shop and laugh at the Xmas shoppers
It’s not going to be a fun day, I can tell that.
Same here. 🙁
*Hiring clowns to send to ditto and Rhett’s workplaces.*
Oh, they’re already here…
And that guarantees the un-fun-ness of the day. 🙂
Is anyone else having issues with the site? I get a blank page after posting, the comments RSS feed seems to be broken, and a few other things have been happening since the past couple of days.
I get the same problems using either Firefox or Chrome.
Yeah, look up the page, Tony Mast is trying to fix it.
I’ve been really busy, so I wasn’t going to read all the comments. But, thanks for pointing that out.
You go back right now and read every comment, young man!
Sure. I’ll write a program to do that for me. 😉
Is anyone paying attention to Ticketmaster’s “credit card only entry” paperless ticket?
They are using this option today for Adele’s US concerts.
Oy!
I think I would rather go to ticketmaster outlet at Tower Records, stand in line and wait for a wristband, then come back an hour later and find out which random ticket number they are starting with and take my chances of getting tickets *that* way vs. hoping I get theough online today at 10:00AM.
Some people on FB were saying some of the ticket prices for Adele were insane (thousands of dollars).
Ive never have had a problem using credit card only for any concert or Avs game.
Ok I have to admit, after a couple of boring episodes, the Expanse really got going with episodes 3 and 4.
Just so you guys know, I’m testing the Nuclear Option in…
3…
2…
1…
(Not that you’ll see this if things go poorly.)
*FLEX*
Ha!
Way to make the Internets kneel before you. 🙂
Test
I think you’ve got it.
I don’t tend to be an anxious or angry person. These sorts of problems that were happening here and on quite a few other sites that I host were giving me both the anxiousness and the angers. Mellow T has returned. Even though I need to now do this for the other sites.
You’re not in this alone, Tony. Please don’t hesitate to pull me in under the hood.
The weirdest part is that the Deadpan was the only site that was experiencing THESE problems. My other sites were giving me an error when you navigate to the login screen, but wouldn’t let me login past that message.
I’m updating ALL of them to the new version of WP now, just to, hopefully, curb any problems before they arise.
Thanks Tony! 🙂
What the man said.
Add my kudos too!
Oo, look what Tony Mast did!
Cujos!
Thank you Tony
Does her happy happy joy joy dance.
CW: The Magicians E1
Adult Harry Potter..hmmmm.
Wouldn’t that also be Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell?
Well there was I school in the TV series of that book.
-I +no
Maybe Pan-da-Mōn-E-Ummm is behind the DP website breakdown this week so they could get an edge in Fantasy Hockey. . .
I’ve been an absentee coach/GM this week. 🙁
And Ryah kicks you while youre down!
Yeah. Your point?
As you should!
This will just make my comeback win this weekend that much more dramatic. 😉
Nice job Mast!
Ok Pan
Here it is.
A Christmas Horror Story
The PVR write up: Not even Santa is safe from the evil that descends on Bailey Downs, a small town that is suddenly plagued with malevolent spirits, zombie elves and Krampus – the anti-Santa Claus
Ah, Mr. Mast, you corrected one DP issue, now I’m going to mention a new one. When I post on my mobile device, it brings me back to the top of the page so I have to scroll down for each and every post. It didn’t use to do that. I only had to scroll is I refreshed the page, not when I posted.
Not a big deal, just thought, while you are in caretaker mode… 😉
Hmm… I think I might actually know what caused this. I was tweaking some code in the theme, hoping that it might make a difference for the comments page. It didn’t help, but I never pulled that code back out.
I’ll see if doing so makes a difference.
Christmas Eve at santa’s castle
Santa looks a little worse for wear
12 hours earlier? I hate it when shows use that trope
Hey! William Shatner is in this movie
Norman. Is that anything to say?
The writing is on the wall… In blood
Horror in the hallways
A Christmas surprise
I want to show you something in private
Paul Bunyon and Dracula Gayed it up and decorated this place
The Krampus statue broke
Shiny doesn’t feel too good
Mrs. Claus is hot
Shiny is dead
William (not Shatner) is missing
This is where the evil happened
The Mary statue is bleeding
Yes, seriously
The keys no longer work
I don’t think he’s having fun
Shin y’all body is missing
Even I’m not sure what that says
Woah. Santa is bad ass
That nativity is creepy
Pizza with champagne
Molly is having seizures
Shower curtain nudity
There’s something not quite right with that boy
No Christmas nookie for him
Ghost sex
Ok, that was creepy
Drunk hillbilly rapists
Now Duncan has gone missing
Poor Sparkles. Turned in to a zombie before his time
Throw another eggnog on the fire
That’s not your son
Molly wants to sex him up
That’s right, grab the baseball bat
Finding safety in the church
She’s a kleptomaniac. Really.
Duncan is a serial killer in the making
And the body count continues to rise
Time to sex up someone else
Molly, you dirty, dirty girl
Every kid wants a severed hand for a toy
That kid can sure take a beating
Meanwhile, back in santa’s workshop…
Now she did it
And she is rewarded for killing the evil oppressor
Soon you will discover that was a bad move
That didn’t work. Try something else
Trust me, it’s not Martha
Krampus, the vile enemy of Christmas
Go, Santa!
You know, I rather enjoyed that movie