There is no ones I would rather ask than my fellow and distaff Carrier Pigeons:
but … this is an orgy hammock – right?
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Finally saw Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker.
I want my money back.
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And then after the trailers they could have formally introduced the film with “Now you see Now You 3 Me”.
Didn’t see it.
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Actual real important news:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52512211#1 user thanked author for this post.
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Any readers here of Robert A. Heinlein? I know he has written
a lot of Sci fi worlds and wonder if they can make it to the screen.I believe @miqque is well versed in Heinlein.
Al, there’s a huge long story of Heinlein’s battles-to-the-death with Hollywood. It’s a goodly part of his posthumous autobiography Grumbles from the Grave. It started with George Pal and Destination: Moon, quickly got worse. Heinlein in the middle of this ran for political office in Los Angeles as one of the first Libertarians. Earlier, I think, he used an alias to write the Tom Corbett: Space Cadet series of juveniles and TV show. He had numerous battles with editors. To boil it down, he was a hardass old Navy dude who had been mustered out with bad lungs and resented it, which did not fit into the mold of Hollywood Screenwriter at the time. Films like The Puppet Masters with Donald Sutherland were tried, as was Starship Troopers. Heinlein would have rolled in the grave. What was cut was most of the military philosophy which was the reason for the book, and he would have been incensed.
Now, the funny part is I’m friends with Mike Moorcock, and he is the polar opposite of and completely despises Heinlein. I find this *highly* amusing. (Long article, but here: https://libcom.org/library/starship-stormtroopers-michael-moorcock )
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Courtesy Drew Edwards.
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A name even I know.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/apr/12/stirling-moss-dies-aged-90-formula-one-racing
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Good! He’s full of antibodies!
Let’s drain him.
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Album-by-album who sang what, then a full chronology of Doobie Brothers line-ups! I’ve read whole books without this much clear information!
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I’m all fed up with people bandying numbers around like they know what they mean. I scolded my local news team yesterday, and I’m all done with bad science / medicine reporting. Pet peeve today is newsies comparing the number of virus deaths in NYC to the 9/11 attacks. One of these things is NOT like the other, and I would be pleased if newsblabbers kept thier misunderstandings and delusions to themselves.
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And that is precisely why everybody everybody everybody is “dude”.
Ah, the simple life.
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Two from yesterday. Been spending much time watching music from peoples homes, and reaction videos. So a whole movie is a treat. One called simply Zombie . Pretty much the plot of Night of the Living Dead but starts looking like a disappearance / murder mystery. Sort of a view of the world from another POV. Cheaply made, but has some good sequences.
The other was a newly released HBO After Truth: The Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News. Bunch of stuff new to me, even though this Orwellian time has increased my knowledge. First half hour and some stuff in the last ten minutes concern shenanigans in Bastrop County, Texas. For years, my fiend Mike has lived in the city of Bastrop, and he’s a fairly canny observer. There seems to have always been a right-wing faction that is fairly to very nuts (one group strongly suspected of lighting a huge fire a couple of years ago). All of it covered up in Texas charm and drawling. Well-told documentary! Worth a watch.1 user thanked author for this post.
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https://www.darkhorizons.com/jaws-actress-lee-fierro-has-died/
I hate it when this thread gets busy.
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Oops. We lose more starships that way.
https://spacenews.com/third-starship-prototype-destroyed-in-tanking-test/
Awesome video.
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Metal Hurlant artist Juan Giménez. Memorial by Bill.
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Editorial Cartoon Time!
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Looking into my crystal ball, I see “fires of suspicious origin” needing investigating at Hobby Lobby’s former locations.
They stepped right in it this time. Bloody bunch of heretics, anyhow; claiming to be “Christian”. Anal-retentive capitalist pigs lying behind a corporate mask. May they die in misery/
(I’m getting towards a mood. Gonna eat pasta and have a bowl. Oh Happy FryYay!)
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Kid who played the young Barry on The Flash – at all of 16.
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Couple minutes ago our Colorado Governor requested all Coloradans wear masks (non-medical, cloth or bandanas) when going out. He had barely gotten the words out when the right-wingers barraged him with “We’re not following your orders!”
Welcome to the Planet of the Capes.
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I saw that just before I shut it down last night, Hank. I am having a terrible time processing it. Hitting a ship with a train is simply such a bizarre idea. I worked with many floridly psychotic people for many years, and to a person they would read that and say “That’s nuts!” (They were temporarily crazy, not a bit stupid.)
I may just have to nose into this one. With any luck this particular lunatic is in a facility I might still have a tendril. I’m really interested in how this person came up with this particular idea. And IQ. I’d live to see the Stanford-Binet (Adult).
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One place we used to go when I was a wee kid was Knott’s Berry Farm. Back then, it was pretty much a farm with a live steam train,(from the Durango & Southern, still running!) which was incredibly cool. (I like trains, steam locomotives particularly.) Knott’s is huge now, a competitor to nearby Disneyland (where we went often, as well). But it was small then, dirt parking lots, eucalyptus trees. (No koalas.) Across the street was the California Alligator Farm, which, of course, had to be visited. I can recall the stench of the gator areas, the smaller ones in pens with chicken wire. They also had two monsters, 13′ gator and 14′ croc, in this big divided pit where they could not so much as turn around. My own reptile brain of course went into full panic / run away mode, but even as a kid I felt sorrow for the poor conditions.
Yep. That place left a mark.
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Meanwhile …
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I’m an expert at removing magnets from noses.
For a small fee.
Okay, maybe not that small a fee.
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Even late into a Sunday night, the weirdness continues.
What you are seeing is a baked bacon-wrapped alligator with a chicken in its mouth.
Some folks may be socially isolating a bit too much.
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I needed this. Please share with anyone who still needs this!
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Matt and Ben and Ridley Scoot oh my.
https://www.darkhorizons.com/ridley-scott-talks-last-duel-covid-19/
This here pandemic won’t help Ben’s recovery much. Isolation. Distance. Liquor stores “essential” and open. If there are any Anonymous meetings, they’re usually virtual. No services. Deliveries. Liquor stores deliver. (So do pizza places, thank God, as I justone, and the rations have been short.) Extra hard to stay sober in these times. Reminds me of 30 Days of Night.
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I haven’t even watched this yet – know I am posting this solely, completely and 100% just because of the title.
I haven’t gotten past the title yet. My sides hurt.
While watching, requires flamethrower. No prob.
[edit in] The description and video are epic, especially the dialogue. This one I crave the most scatologial folk we’ve ever had at MillarWorld to live-comment this one, especially flaming gay guys! I just about died laughing. Do watch this! Do comment!
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One bottle of generic Tylenol. Thanks for the emergency TP, Big Lots!
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Exclusive: ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’ at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries
Washington, D.C.On the fourth floor of the Museum of the Bible, a sweeping permanent exhibit tells the story of how the ancient scripture became the world’s most popular book. A warmly lit sanctum at the exhibit’s heart reveals some of the museum’s most prized possessions: fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient texts that include the oldest known surviving copies of the Hebrew Bible.
But now, the Washington, D.C. museum has confirmed a bitter truth about the fragments’ authenticity. On Friday, independent researchers funded by the Museum of the Bible announced that all 16 of the museum’s Dead Sea Scroll fragments are modern forgeries that duped outside collectors, the museum’s founder, and some of the world’s leading biblical scholars. Officials unveiled the findings at an academic conference hosted by the museum.
“The Museum of the Bible is trying to be as transparent as possible,” says CEO Harry Hargrave. “We’re victims—we’re victims of misrepresentation, we’re victims of fraud.”
In a report spanning more than 200 pages, a team of researchers led by art fraud investigator Colette Loll found that while the pieces are probably made of ancient leather, they were inked in modern times and modified to resemble real Dead Sea Scrolls. “These fragments were manipulated with the intent to deceive,” Loll says.
If I remember correctly, many of the Dead Sea Scrolls (the original ones with the provenance that followed them from discovery) are at the Huntington Library at Pasadena, California. I have no doubt there are all sorts of fakes running about. Apparently, the originals are under guard.
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Okey-dokey. Colorado is closed as of 6am tomorrow.
Ski Utah!
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From just yesterday! (I want to live at John’s house.)
“Long As I Can See the Light” is maybe my favorite Fogerty tune, and I haven’t seen John play keyboard in decades.(“Seen” Just clips in studios and such. He plays everything on a couple of albums, like the first Blue Ridge Rangers.
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Denver and Boulder are closed. Four counties under stay-in restrictions. People continue to act like compleat idiots.
I have take to bleaching doorknobs.
Howard Hughes was right.
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A reminder of the Hierarchy of needs.
Let’s also break down “physiological”, shall we?
Air. Getting better, actually. Less cars, less smog?
Water. Pretty steady, but in case have an ample supply of potable water stored, and plan on not flushing.
Warmth/shelter. Other than being terrified for the homeless folks everywhere (a situation that needs to end) most of us are okay. Do not stress rents nor mortgages at this point, finance is part of this mess.
Rest. Most critical. Most of us need to feel safe to sleep decently. Right now, most of us do not. Very important time to explore self-care. What are your particular needs? What is emerging with all the new stresses? Very good time for insight work, journaling, writing, playing music, acting, dancing, singing – we are flooded by input at the moment. It is important to have output – or we stress out.
Best to everybody! Onwards to a finer world!
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I’ve been real busy in e-hangouts (and slow reading, which is annoying – focus problem that diminishes speed, and I’m all about reading fast) reassuring, commenting, fact-checking but mostly repeating over and over and bloody over
Keep you focking HANDS BELOW THE ELBOWS when washing!
I have solded doctors, nurses, flamingoes and visitors from alien species on this, but I keep seeing new videos. (Some of these are promptly yanked after I bitch about it, which is my current pet peeve.) Every danged one, they either raise their hands, clap their wet hands (oh joy! Don’t even fucking bother to sneeze!), or promptly touch their face with their freshly-washed hands, grab that bathroom doorknob, give it a hefty twist, make sure to touch their danged face again and proceed on their merry way, all fresh and clean.
They got me cussin’ like Lorcan on a testy day.
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