When this old world
Starts getting me down
And people are just too much
For me to take
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I met a girl
who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
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Took my chances on a big jet plane
Never let ’em tell you that they’re all the same
To find a queen without a king
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings, “La la la la”
Looks nice, but takes up a lot of the living room floor. Wonder how much?
It’s rainy in the city, and again I can’t make it to NYCC this year. The Galactus cosplay guy from SDCC is here. I am checking out a few YT vids on it all. Vicarious…
It’s Day 3 already.
If you look back on the Relationship Thread, Al, this last discussion involved one of the members posting about how his girlfriend of six years just told him she wants to break up. Not exactly “fun”.
True, but I was thinking of the times that thread was fun. Still, Todd’s right: Not enough people here to make it worthwhile.
That ship has sailed.
Still could use a nice fun thread though.
There was a report last week about ICE invading a Chicago housing complex (helicopters landing on the roofs) very late at night and zip lining everyone.
I really hope you meant to say “zip-TYING everyone”.
Yes. Zip tying. Doesn’t make the news any better though. The country is more of a police state, if it’s not already.
ICE comes with no ID and give no due process. They just abduct without consequence. Now there have been reports of – since they give no ID – ICE impersonators doing robbery and other crimes.
Now six former surgeon generals and two prominent psychiatric organizations are urging for RFK Jr. removal as Health Secretary.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/hhs-hits-back-former-surgeons-general-wrote-op/story?id=126333161
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/06/nx-s1-5559217/rfk-jr-mental-health-substance-abuse-ssri
When and how is all this going to end?
Just as Kamala Harris said. He is sending armies into cities:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-national-guard-training-center-chicago-suburbs/story?id=126320753
There was a report last week about ICE invading a Chicago housing complex (helicopters landing on the roofs) very late at night and zip lining everyone.
NY Mets fan here. The Yankees are taking on Toronto hitting at their best. While it is some fun seeing them possibly get swept, it doesn’t help the Mets cause. My team has work to do to restructure the team.
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News on former Jets QB Mark Sanchez:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/mark-sanchez-felony-battery-indianapolis/story?id=126246595
Years ago, I always heard that we will all have 500 channels and now we are close. I got the Smart TV with all these free streaming apps like Plex, Pluto, Tubi, etc. But the channels all stream reruns of old TV shows like Bonanza, the Jeffersons, Charmed, McGuyver, The Fall Guy, etc. Ok… but having that many streaming channels isn’t all its cracked up to be.
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“to make Al feel inevitable and people should just accept it” … Thanks for the compliment🤣
My thing (main gripe) has been voter mindset. Now this: There was a Dr. Rania Masri, a Palestinian from the Carolina states who went to the swing state Michigan. She was dead set against the Dems and raising votes for Jill Stein and said anybody but Dem. But months later, when 47 was talking about “relocating” people from Gaza, then renovating it to be state of the art and move the people back in (?!?) She realized she made things so much worse and had this “apology” to post at the very end:
@phuckculture_ Now? #fyppppppppppppppppppppppp #trump #plan #masri #neverkamala #viraltiktok #92percenters #Republicans #jillstein #wherearetheynow #voters
Now Obama was heckled a few times on his speech tours and Harris was heckled last night. Obama has been out of office for nine years and Harris is a private citizen, and yet some are taking their frustrations out on them as if it’s all their fault instead of MAGA.
@therecount Kamala Harris has one message to people protesting her book tour in support of Palestine: Talk to Trump. #kamalaharris #gaza #palestine #israel #politics
Cult:
He’s back:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/jimmy-kimmel-return-air-tuesday/story?id=125828315
But… backlash involving Tim Russ (Tuvok) and overall media. Polarized responses:
https://cosmicbook.news/star-trek-tim-russ-mocks-charlie-kirk-death
Mother, mother
There’s too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There’s far too many of you dying
You know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some lovin’ here today, yeah
Father, father
We don’t need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some lovin’ here today
Picket lines and picket signs
Don’t punish me with brutality
Talk to me
So you can see
Oh, what’s going on (What’s going on)
What’s going on (What’s going on)
What’s going on (What’s going on)
What’s going on (What’s going on)
Right on, baby
Right on, baby
Right on
Mother, mother
Everybody thinks we’re wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply ’cause our hair is long
Oh, you know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Picket lines and picket signs
Don’t punish me with brutality
Come on talk to me
So you can see
What’s going on (What’s going on)
Yeah, what’s going on (What’s going on)
Tell me what’s going on (What’s going on)
I’ll tell you, what’s going on (What’s going on)
Right on, baby, right on
Right on, baby
Right on, baby, right on
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There’s something happening here. But what it is ain’t exactly clear
But will it be an Amish or Mormon theocracy?
It’s more about the evangelicals, the Moral Majority as they were called.
Interesting thing Zappa said when a government that prefers a moral code from one belief system and using it as a basis for legislation that leans on the religion, very conservative, very right wing… If you said that to a Midwestern evangelical, they would apply it to an Islamic country that imposes the Kohran, sharia law, etc.
They wouldn’t say that their imposing school prayers, 10 commandments posted in school, trying to remove evolution from k-12, eroding the separation of church and state, Roe v Wade, promoting a purity culture, engaging in the cultural war/debate in overall media, influencing state funded museums and institutions etc., has anything to do with it. The cognitive dissonance…
Interesting. Zappa said this 40 years ago about the direction of the country. Heading towards a fascist theocracy. They belittled him, but he said what he said:
I passed by Midtown Comics (Grand Central store) and saw these. Looked so nice. The detail:
If you don’t want to squint: Wolverine/Hulk is $958, WW is $480, Cap is $1,225, and Boba Fett is $725 🤣
Now a lot of media personalities are losing their spots and their shows. It was Stephen Colbert a few weeks ago, but now over comments about the shooting:
Spider-Man, Spider-Man
Does whatever a spider can!
Spins a web, any size
Catches thieves just like flies!
Look out!
Here comes the Spider-Man
Is he strong? Listen, bud:
He’s got radioactive blood
Can he swing from a thread?
Take a look, overhead!
Hey there
There goes the Spider-Man
In the chill of night
At the scene of a crime
Like a streak of light
He arrives, just in time!
Spider-Man, Spider-Man
Friendly neighborhood Spider-Man
Wealth and fame, he’s ignored
Action is his reward
To him, life is a great big bang-up
Wherever there’s a hang-up
You’ll find the Spider-Man!
NY and casino proposals: Way out in Flushing Queens, there is Citifield (home of the Mets) and the US Open courts as the main venues that attract outsiders to the area. The new Mets owner Steve Cohen, is working on developing the area with more attractions. He wants to build a casino/hotel complex but the area councils are rallying and opposing it. Now there is news of building a casino right in Times Square and that is getting opposition.
The thing is if the Times Square project gets the green light, who is going to drive way out to Flushing to any casino? Now the opposers are bringing out studies like what happened to Atlantic City after casinos where built there, if it brings in good jobs to the local economy, brings in addicts, more crime, etc. It’s a mess, but that’s NY.
Now I want to add WorkBalloon to my podcast list:
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/greg-rucka-on-dark-times-at-dc-comics-with-dan-didio-geoff-johns/
and:
When I think of the name Kirk, I am glad so far that what comes to mind first is the Enterprise.
They are all talking about the shooter who he is, and “How could it be?” (Even the Utah governor started out that he didn’t want to believe and announce it:”For the last 33 hours, I had been praying that this person was from another country. That he was not one of us. But it was one of us.” – Utah Governor Spencer Cox.)
But my gripe is all about voter mindset and behavior: the single issue voters, voting to oppress/spite other communities, voting because the candidate is “someone I can have a beer with”, racist voting, fickle voting, “price of eggs”, TV show personality, and on and on.
Well, at least Brazil got it right:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/americas/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-coup-trial-verdict-latam-intl
He is back to finish the story and publish the fanfic:
Yesterday was Miqque Loveland’s birthday… May he continue to rest in peace
US math and reading scores:
Reminds me of this:
Now, what are the odds that someone would at the very least include 61 and 62 together in their numbers? I read that 12345 is just as probable to win as any other sequence one might think of that “looks right”: one single digit, one in the teens, two in the twenties etc. It is that remote.
But… there were two winners, one in Missouri and the other in Texas. There were some 1M winners scattered across different states, but the big winners are not in NYC. Location, location, location. 🤣
Arjan… fellow… you don’t have to repost all the pics. And that game show question was relative to the US. Socialism is that word. I would also add the word “welfare” as a word where describing it sounds agreeable and reasonable until the word is said.
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He still thinks all this is his reality show where he can fire whoever he wants.
Well, isn’t it? I don’t see anybody stopping him.
That’s most likely because they are his enablers. They may not like him (There is video of Cruz, Vance, and other GOP really badmouthing him saying he is a narcissist, doesn’t know what he is doing etc.), but he has the ear of the GOP voters that they never had. They can’t go against him either. They are compromised. (Almost like Stepford wives.)
There is a video here (scroll back to a few days after the election) of a similar situation that happened in Poland where the conservative party controlled all the major government branches. It became a regime, and the US is in one now.
I hope the Dems are strategizing but I doubt it. Some complain about Dem leadership and my main thing is voter mentality. It’s not that it is a stupid country with ignorant/uneducated voters, but look at the sociology of it all, voter behavior and mentality. What if voters weren’t so wishy washy/fickle in 2016? Look at how different SCOTUS would have been. And I won’t rehash the voting out of tradition, voting for spite, to be vindictive. It is all painful and upsetting.
I want confirmation on this one 🤣:
Quite a long and interesting list:
He still thinks all this is his reality show where he can fire whoever he wants.
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I mentioned before about some complaining about Obama and Harris not being at any forefront resistance movement to the current situation. Thing is they aren’t going to put themselves in the MAGA crosshairs line of fire and “take one for the team”, neither are poc going to the marches now to be pushed to the front and used as human shields and buffers.
But now, there are more asking about the old guard too and not just Dems like the Clintons, Gore, etc. but old GOP leaders like Bush, Romney, Liz Cheney, etc. And why isn’t the Kennedy clan reigning in RFK Jr.? But what can they do? A snarky soundbites war on social media? It is painful to see it all collapse and bleed but if that is how people get the point, to let them see what they got themselves into when they voted for him. When/If this regime is over, it will take decades to “undo” the damage.
I posted a pic about fixing the education system so that we won’t have people so ignorant and vote someone like that again. The Daily Show had reporters interviewing at MAGA rallies and…. Then again, it’s more than ignorance. Some voted knowing that it would f people over, but they are upset that it all backfired on them. So it’s ignorance, voting to be vindictive, voting to spite other communities…
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Nicole Collier:
She is doing her part to prevent this redistricting plan.
Zelenskyy comes with backup:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates/?id=124734940
But there is no need for the US to worry. The majority voted for a former host of a reality TV show, his secretary of defense was the host of the weekend edition of “Fox and Friends” and even the former CEO of WWE as secretary of education. In good hands, eh?
If he is doing all these WH redecorations, sending armies to cities, wanting to take control of more and more, he is getting more invested into the position than just a four year 2nd term. And… he’s not leaving without a fight. Look at Jan 6th.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates/?id=124734940
Terrence Stamp:
So you are a general.
You are not the President. No one who leads so many could possibly kneel so quickly.
And on most nights, you’re so bored and filled with ennui, you cannot even summon the enthusiasm necessary to masturbate. Am I right Carl?
You’re a two-bit pirate and green mailer. Nothing more Gekko. Not only would you sell your mother to make a deal, you’d send her COD.
I remember this guy and his shot at halftime. He made it and the Bulls team all cheered around him.
Watching a few YT videos on AC Shadows before I immerse all my hours into it. These tips and tricks, what to look for, should do etc. is Ok. AC games have you climbing the highest structure in a given area and you look out and everything is mapped out for you. I had something like that with Spiderman 2 which I will get back to… someday.. 🤣
All these RPG games, adjust settings, learn controls, look at skill tree, farm/grind XP, build up skill tree (usually health and defense upgrades first) and so on…
Stronger than a whale he can swim anywhere.
He can breath underwater and go flying through the air.
The noble Sub-Mariner, Prince of the deep.
So beware you deadly demons.
Lord Namor of Atlantis is the Prince of the Deep.
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Tony Stark makes you feel
He′s a cool exec with a heart of steel.
As Iron Man, all jets ablaze,
He’s fighting and smiting with repulsor rays!
Amazing armor! That′s Iron Man!
A blazing power! That’s Iron Man!
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Across the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Where the booming heavens roar
You’ll behold in breathless wonder
The God of Thunder, Mighty Thor!
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Doc Bruce Banner
Belted by gamma rays
Turned into the Hulk
Ain’t he unglamo-rays!
Wreckin’ the town
With the power of a bull
Ain’t no monster clown
Who is as lovable
As ever-lovin’ Hulk! HULK! HULK!
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When Captain America throws his mighty shield
All those who chose to oppose his shield must yield
If he’s lead to a fight and a duel is due
Then the red and the white and the blue’ll come through
When Captain America throws his mighty shield
I’m at a point in my life where I’ll look at a lot stuff in stores and online, but I don’t feel the urge to buy it. I know it’ll just sit on a shelf and gather dust.
Agreed. I was at Midtown Comics once and there was this beautiful statue of 2 foot Galactus with a smaller Silver Surfer attached and it went for over $500. It’s nice, but as Todd says, I would buy it, put it somewhere in the room, and 6 months later, when the novelty of having it wears off…
Passed by Forbidden Planet and saw this glass display as you walk in:
Flash is about $320, Nebula is $290. Always wondered the buyers who would take it off their hands like that.
It always got to me how as much as Bruce trained in all the arts of combat that for all the prep time in some of the fights, the Joker actually got some hits in and almost killed him. Then I got into training that it doesn’t exactly prepare you for a street fighter where everything goes and there is no structure nor discipline. You can’t predict someone who has unorthodox, unpredictable moves. Like this:
So there is some “truth” to why Batman gets stabbed or decked by the Joker.
Interesting cosplay:
She had him dead to rights. If he didn’t win the election. Now he is using being POTUS to get even:
This is what the Texas redistricting would look like. And now Vance wants a similar plan for Indiana:
All for the midterms really.
@travelwithlynie POV: You thought Spider-Man 4 was filming in NYC…but Hollywood said, ‘close enough’ 😂🗽🎬 #spiderman #brandnewday #tomholland #nyc #newyork #fyp
♬ Spider-Man Theme – Epic Version (from “No Way Home Trailer”) – Samuel Kim
I wish I had a cameo and be signing release papers given I am not a SAG member.
Like the woman who walked on the Star Trek movie:
Jason Pargin has some interesting vid snippets on story logistics.
Here he is speculating on what the world would be like if a Kal El existed and manifested itself.
It’s been covered almost 40 years ago by Alan Moore and his Watchmen world with Dr. Manhattan:
@jasonkpargin
I found out today that the set I took pics of will be season 2 episode 7. Can’t get over the fake Spring Street Station. 🤣
80 years ago today:
