4 dinosaur movies. We have had over 8 AI movies since 1927 and yet here we are:






I wished Tyson did this to him last year. But…Tyson did get 23M which helped him a lot. And the other bouts on the ticket were good. A lot of boxers got exposure from these Jake Paul events. But Antony Joshua gets a HUGE shout out for what he did.
I like this man and his videos.
And of course our classy leader responds to this tragedy with his usual flai
I follow Gail Simone on Facebook and she is furious and there is Jack White:

PBall had no winners for a while and it draws tonight at 1.1B. Again… I won’t forget you all. 🤣
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MacKenzie Scott (Jeff Bezos 1st) got a 37B divorce from Jeff (not that it hurt him. Amazon made 40B the following 6 months because of the pandemic back then. The river goes into the ocean.) And she gave a lot of it away:
Maybe she could be so kind and toss a few my way but I digress…
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I passed by the local book store and checked out the graphic novel trade section. I didn’t notice it before, but DC got these smaller trade formats.
Absolute line is doing good. Less doom and gloom than Marvel’s Ultimate line.
Really? The whole point of both is that they’re new universes created by villains who designed them to be as hopeless and hostile to heroes as possible. They seem pretty similar to me.
I admit I have some catching up to the Absolute, but from the Ultimate line, the Maker really screwed over that Marvel Universe. He crippled so much of it.
Absolute was more about some energy spark from the dying Darkseid. Anyway… fans love the Absolute Batman and the line for Snyder yesterday was so long it went around the store into an alley
Powerball at 1B now.
Next drawing on Saturday.
Don’t worry… I won’t forget you all. I will remember you all fondly. 🤣
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Scott Snyder is in town.
He was at the Midtown Comics store by the South Street Seaport signing for Absolute Batman title.
Absolute line is doing good.
Less doom and gloom than Marvel’s Ultimate line.
This has got to be one of the worst stretches for the Mets…
Yesterday a star pitcher signed with another team and now a major hitter left.
The roster is so void now.
Powerball fever is here again. Almost 900M. The last drawing had 2 consecutive numbers and threw everybody off.
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Now I am seeing some John Byrne and Jim Lee X men covers processed through AI software for this “life like” rendering.
Sofa king creepy. Like that Homer Simpson pic.
Paramount gatecrashes Warner Bros-Netflix deal with $108bn bid
A hostile bid. Interesting.
Here is the abcnews one:
The plot thickens…
But which corporation or entity etc. would be able to do the DC movies and shows real justice?
Power Force – the intrigue among Chicago drug dealers to be the sole distributor for a Mexican cartel. Exciting eh?
Hold up…
Now that Netflix is in charge, might we get to see the already made Batgirl movie that was shelved as a tax write off? Might be nice.
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So Netflix got all this, Paramount got Star Trek, Disney got Star Wars and Marvel, Sony got Spider-Man, Amazon got James Bond and LoTR. Who got the weakest selection? 🤣
Tom Brady:
and Bill Belichick isn’t doing any better either:
🤣
This has been debated regarding wedding gifts, but:
Give an envelope of cash as an Xmas gift? Y/N
How about a gift certificate?
When HBO Watchmen had this in the first episode, the massacre came to everyone’s attention.
The oldest living survivor passed away:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/us/tulsa-massacre-viola-ford-fletcher-survivor
Glitch in the news feed
Terrence Stamp:
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/terence-stamp-dead-superman-1236491435/
I wish something like this happened to me:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/original-superman-comic-found-attic-breaks-world-record/story?id=127857485
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These AI stuff is getting sofa king creepy. Seeing a still picture or image that’s been known for decades (ie. the Mona Lisa) moving and talking.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced she is resigning from her seat January 6, 2026.
I did not have that on my bingo card.

As for Montreal Expos: That year in 1994 when the strike came in the Summer and cancelled the rest of the season, they were the best team the majors. Had it not been for the strike, they would have went all the way. But they were never the same, had to trade away players and it went downhill
As for Canada, this former Olympian:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-olympic-snowboarder-ryan-wedding-killing-witness/story?id=127673197
Eh, I think that crowd is pretty good at switching realities when they need to.
You know.. cults are usually associated with fringe religious groups with a head person like a David Koresh, Jim Jones, Sung Myung Moon, that Heavens Gate guy, but it can also be applied outside of that like extreme devotion to a company, and politics right here. The MAGA are clearly twisting evidence and making excuses to fit their views.
What’s the difference between Richard Pryor and Michael Jackson? One was burned by Coke, the other one was burned by Pepsi
What did one shepherd say to the other one? Let’s get the flock out of here.
I was born through Caesarean section. Not that you can really tell, but every time I leave my house I go out through the window
What’s the difference between a gf/bf and a wife/husband? 37 lbs…
In the NFL and college, some coaches are really just overpaid gym teachers who act like they are generals in the army
Every year NYC shuts down half the city for a bunch of hobby joggers who think that running 26.2 miles now makes them philosophers
Was she told when she was young
That pain would lead to pleasure?
Did she understand it when they said
That a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure?
Will she still believe it when he’s dead?
My mistake was going straight from Fallen Order to Survivor. Halfway through Survivor I was burned out from the Star Wars setting and I took a break and went to the Spider man games and some Assassins Creed.
Now I have returned to Survivor and parts of it remind me of Tomb Raider. I worked through a maze and level and took this elevator and find out that it opened up to another level I was at before but I couldn’t open the door. Now I went full circle.
Some of these wall runs with no bottom and this leaping from one balloon to the next one sofa king high above the clouds…
Best part is sitting on the meditation circles and fast traveling to another circle way across the whole map.
This early morning:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/new-york-jets-player-kris-boyd-critical-condition/story?id=127574697
That brief video segment is online where Kelly defends 47 as only going after the older teens (15-17) and not the 13-14 range. It was her attempt to differentiate him from Epstein but she came across as saying after they were too old for one they went to the other and she was making it normal to perv at that age range. <Sigh>
And as for releasing the files… Let’s also get Putin to post the pics 🤣
And Bill Clinton to address the media possibly?
And now Marjorie Taylor Greene is said to be under attack over the files.(He shot down her Georgia Senator run a few months ago.) They are turning on each other.
I didn’t even know he had a store in the village:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/10k-pokmon-baseball-cards-stolen-tom-bradys-card/story?id=127519074
Last year had that red and blue lines chart of the breakdown of voters. But how accurate is it to say for example that 92% of AA voted blue?
The best way I ever heard it put was think of an actual huge pot of soup or stew. Now you can’t take the whole thing, but if it is stirred thoroughly, you can take a spoonful of it, taste it, and that will tell you how it is. So with statistics and all the stat and math ways to take a sample size, check for bias, test and measure for accuracy etc. that sample size will give you the whole picture.
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But it is hard to believe that 47 got rid of the Labor Statistics commissioner because the numbers are what they are. He wanted to replace him with someone who can inflate the numbers to his favor. But what about the Wall Street investors,financial analysts, sociologists, economists etc. who depend on accurate labor reports for their studies, analysis, decisions, and strategies? Ridiculous.
Regarding ACA(“Obamacare”) this doctor gave a nice explanation. You can tell why the GOP really didn’t like it and why they wanted to shoot it down. We in the States just can’t have nice things
Then Stacy Abrams brings up the autocrat playbook:
@drjessicaknurick For the last 15 years, the Republican healthcare plan has just been to repeal the Affordable Care Act. And in their effort to do that, they’re now trying to frame the ACA subsidies as some kind of giveaway to health insurance companies, which is wildly disingenuous. These are the same lawmakers who spent years voting to repeal profit caps on insurers, expand high-deductible plans that shift costs to patients, and block any form of public option that would’ve actually competed with private insurance. Suddenly, they’re deeply concerned about insurance company profits? The ACA subsidies were designed to make coverage affordable for working- and middle-class Americans and to keep people insured in a system Republicans insisted remain private. But if Republicans are finally ready to talk about reducing insurance company profits, amazing. The logical next step is a universal healthcare system, like every other high income country in the entire world — and I genuinely welcome them to that fight.
@rfkhumanrights We were honored to have Stacey Abrams join us for our John Lewis Young Leaders retreat, where she walked us through the 10 steps to autocracy. Democracy can’t defend itself. It’s on us to show up, speak up, and keep fighting.
JC… you guys beat me to it.

He deliberately rigged his pitches. He even threw one in the dirt against my Mets:
This John Fetterman guy (1 of the 8) who caved in:

He is a senator. But there is something about voters not seeing the larger picture, not reading the room, not seeing how things intersect, and this ignoring and not seeing other people’s experiences, seeing themselves as “the exception” and not “next”:

In truth, like this pic here, some actually ended up voting for their own deportation. But what were they thinking? They saw all this in the news: the border situation, kids in cages, how Puerto Rico was treated. They were blinded to thinking they were the exception instead of next.
Then the Midwest farmers who voted MAGA to “put the Dems and libs in their place”: It turned out that the subsidies and contracts they depended on were by Biden and the Dems and got discontinued. They all ended up voting for their own foreclosures and they now have insult added to injury: The trade war with China has China going to South America for agriculture produce like soybeans etc. hurting US farm exports and now the farmers see the US admin with a 20B bailout to their competitor Argentina. wow…
Now on social there are all these out-of-towners who never set foot in the city making snide remarks about Mamdani and NYC next year ie, all the rich move out, wishful thinking that everything will be free, city will be so screwed over. Like they are all highly educated political analysts. Sigh…
And yet… when it comes to them getting a subsidy they call it “basic service”… During the shutdown, there were a few MAGA on social with their “pick me” explanations about being on SNAP, going out of their way to “differentiate” their use of it from “the rest”. They don’t mind the “basic service”, but when other demographics get it just the same, all of a sudden it’s communism and socialism, waste of taxpayer money. They don’t mind it for themselves, they just don’t want the others to have equal access.
It’s all another answer to: “What’s trashy if you’re poor, but classy if you’re rich?” – a government subsidy.
Also: Speaking a second language, California, Florida, NYC, getting money from the government
Few things:
These “What if?” or “Elseworlds” stories about alternate events of a given known story usually never end well. It might be on purpose to just say that the original written story was the best one and we got it right the first time. And it’s not just comics. The Star Trek “Strange New Worlds” had an alternate reality episode where Pike remained captain and how he handled the Romulan ship in “The Balance of Terror”. Stephen King’s story about time travel and preventing the JFK assassination ended up with some US conservative movement and George Wallace got in the White House and started WW3. (I’d like to think that if Oswald didn’t do anything, the Vietnam situation would never have escalated, the Beatles would have played the WH, the 60s would have been different etc. but not WW3)
It seems there is no “What if?” story where in the alternate reality things turned out better.
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DC and Marvel have put out a few crossover stories – I Always wondered about these Marvel v DC character but then it turns out it’s really one character fighting their analogue counterpart. I always wanted a Superman vs. Gladiator but it was John Byrne who developed Gladiator’s powers and feats as more telekinetic etc. instead of just brute strength. Then years later when he went to DC and was given the Superman reboot, Superman’s powers and his picking up huge oversized structures were the same. The match up would just be a battle of analogues. Supreme is just a thinly veiled you know who…
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Seeing the old X Factor of the original 5 X-men compared to them from 1963 just shows how altered characters get to remain relevant. Beast, Angel to Archangel, Marvel Girl to Phoenix, Iceman no longer looking like a snowman. Then in the X titles how Psylocke originally was in her pink outfit and butterfly aura, the Siege Perilous (or Plot Device) and how she was redone in this sexy Asian body with a psychic knife and an Elektra outfit but in blue. It made her more noticeable though. So many other examples not just Marvel.
End of ramble… 🤣
Guess who was the first “hot blonde actress”? 🤣
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Now it turns out that because of the Dem cave in, there is no leverage against the BBB which next year will result in tripling premiums, huge cuts across the board in services and so on.


Years ago when Sarah Palin was on the ticket as VP and that close to being POTUS, it was Bill Maher who said it was a stupid country. (Years before Dan Quayle was VP). But it is ignorance, not thinking, failure of the education system, and also racism to be against anything that everyone takes it to mean black or Hispanic etc. (DEI, Critical race theory, the term “woke”)
Now we have the “difference” between ACA and Obamacare:
@reamichellew How could people not know that the Affordable Care Act and Obamacare are the same thing. #healthcare#kamala#wewintogether
It makes me wonder… if you asked on the street: “Should heterosexuals be allowed in office?” (And their vote counts just as much as some Ivy League poli sci grad student or so)
47 and higher education:
So he’s extorted $60 MILLION from them? JFC!
It’s not just universities, but he is grifting a lot of industries:

You don’t even want to know how much the family is getting. Not just that jet plane.
Getting back into Jedi Survivor: These game has this sequences of running along walls, and these jumps that will drive you crazy but wanting to do it right just once is the pull. A pull that will have you doing trial and error for an hour or two. You come close, f up the last move and have to start over again and you don’t come that close again for a while. YouTube makes it look easy. But.. I found out that the feat only gets me these priorite shard things to trade in for styles like a beard and a mullet. I passed on that for now 🤣
Tom Brady – this is creepy:
https://people.com/tom-brady-cloned-his-dog-lua-11842661
Baseball pitchers charged with fixing games:
47 and higher education:
NYC may be “blue” mostly, but In one of the boroughs (Staten Island) there are huge communities that are MAGA. There were some remarks made about Mamdani promising free bus routes and rent freeze as being “socialist” and the retort is that none of them complain about the Staten Island Ferry to Manhattan being free. 🤣
As for “free” things, Mamdani would have to work something out with Transit, the governor, and as for some rent freeze for seniors, he has to deal with landlord coalitions and orgs. Good luck with all that.
Al, it’s worth noting that the Irish president has no real power, the position is roughly analogous to the British Queen.
Ok then. But… When someone in the US sees how other countries have things like a real healthcare program, how they respond to a mass shooting with stricter gun control laws, more progressive programs, and the 2 countries above and below (namely Mexico and Canada) elect Phds to office, while the US has all this… nonsense, it is telling.
And I’m watching those 60’s cartoons
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So the Dodgers won. Game 7 was intense though. Unlikely players like Miguel Rojas saved the day. And Yamamoto.
LA has class. But MLB allows them to structure annuity contracts like this one with Ohtani:

It’s a very backloaded contract, that helps avoid paying huge US taxes and doesn’t weigh down the team payroll budget so they can add more players. The guy is in his early 30s, makes 2M until he retires and heads back to Japan in his early 40s and then the balloon payments of 68M all those years. And LA already made back the 700M from all the marketing they did. All the best Asian players prefer the West Coast teams as they are a much closer plane ride than say NY and Philadelphia. I guess people will start calling them the Tokyo Dodgers soon. 🤣
How can the Mets compete? Who knows? Maybe tap into the Latin America talent more and have that as a talent pipeline.
These huge Marvel X stories/events where you have to buy all 6 titles/week to follow along are to me, a nice time to take a clean break from it all.
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I grew up with Byrne art and as talented as he was, he was a dick at times. When Kirby wanted his art back and reclaim some payment from the company, Byrne was saying how happy he was to be a “cog in the Marvel machine”. Maybe his deal was different as he dealt with Shooter or some office politics/bovine excrement was going on. Anyway, Kirby got wind of it and drew a few panels of a character named “Cog Burn”:

So Yamamoto went 6 giving up 1 run and the pen and defense kept it that way and Game 7 is tonight
I didn’t think it would all go the distance. A better Series than I thought it would be
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I watch MMA sometimes and MacKenzie Dern won a belt last week. I know her because she is Brazilian but been in Arizona all her life.
She won but I have my reservations about her having her young daughter with her afterwards on the mat, on interviews with that huge eye bruise, having her wear the belt.
some people get comfort from interacting with AI.
Well, I used to say that the ladies do that about me but I digress.🤣
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The government shutdown has SNAP benefits discontinued for the time being which will mean 42M households will have to put food on their tables somehow without that subsidy. This month will be… interesting. Happy Thanksgiving.
I give the Blue Jays credit. They lost the long game, but bounced back and won the last two.
Looks like the Dodgers ended up more fatigued than Toronto.
I thought that LA would sweep and close it out at home but now they have to trek back to Toronto
Who knows? Maybe Yamamoto goes 8 innings tonight and pushes it to Game 7 OR… the Toronto crowd
excites Vlad, Bichette, and the rest to have a big game and they celebrate tonight on their home field.
We will see.
Can’t stand the police anywhere:
As a chess fan, I followed the big names, tournaments, and videos on YT, but the death of Naroditsky is taking its toll on the chess world right now. A lot is going on about online witch hunts, false accusations, and overall cyber bullying. It’s more than just about having a thick skin. It’s a tragedy and it will take time for the chess world to recover.
I always liked stories like these:
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/real-life/man-who-bought-superman-comics-10574946
Laeticia James was after him and now he is vindictive:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/new-york-ag-letitia-james-set-arraigned-mortgage/story?id=126813113
https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/nba/nba-gambling-scandal-chauncey-billups-terry-rozier-rcna239490
ICE was at Canal Street:
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/manhattan/ice-agents-detain-several-canal-street-nyc/6407870/
Tearing down and renovating the White House:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy40lw22dyvo
Kind of fun. Maybe a little too much free time on the hands 🤣:
We are a long way off from calling Ohtani a modern day Babe Ruth. Let’s come back in ten years to discuss if he is or not.
I think it’s fair to compare Ohtani to Babe Ruth in the sense that he is a home-run hitter who is also a pitcher. Not too many of those in modern baseball.
He is. In that last game, he struck out 10 in 6 innings and hit 3 HRs in the deep areas of the stadium.
He is the genuine article. He started his MLB career in 2018 with the Angels. He is both an ace pitcher and a power hitter.
There is a reason why the Dodgers paid 700M to get him (A structured contract of 2M/yr until 2034, then 68M/yr the next 10 years)
He is the real deal.
This hits me hard because I am a chess enthusiast and followed him. Not even 30:
Now… For the past few years, former World Champion Kramnik has been very vocal and online with accusations, put downs, and overall cyber bullying various players accusing them of cheating, using engines during tournaments etc, and many of the accused have been so stressed out. Naroditsky always admired and looked up to him (there are pics of him as a kid next to Kramnik) and now there is this statement by the FIDE president:

I would add NBC putting him on “The Apprentice”:






This No Kings is in so many other countries.
It just gets to me about voter mentality ie. the single issue voters, voting against your own interests just to spite others, voters ignorant of how connected things are, voters who ignore facts and fair warnings of what would happen, and it led to 45 being reelected again. What a mess!
Dodgers sweep 4 from Milwaukee and go back to the World Series.
Shohei Ohtani pitched 6 innings and hits 3 HR last night.
He is the modern day Babe Ruth…
Another No kings protest:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nationwide-kings-rallies-set-protest-trump/story?id=126611770
How much?
Looking at the NFL standings, it might an off year for everybody
Baltimore and Miami are 1-5, Chiefs are at .500
No one looks that strong. The Eagles don’t look dominant.
Maybe some team will regroup and play strong the rest of the way. We’ll see
Christian… fellow… I have worker’s rights. And I don’t work em, work em and work em… 🤣 I don’t take jobs away.
Use a capital L next time….please
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