New Music From Yard Act: “Dream Job”

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We get down to the sound of a singular mind
and we like criminals when criminals are treating us kind,
for the subliminal freaks with their invisible style,
you’re on trial.

I place a bet on a game knowing no one will score,
and break a sweat watching the greats dragging their feet on the floor.
Is it ambitiously weak to be proficiently poor and still smile?
We’re on trial, but still

it’s ACE, TOP, MINT, BOSS, CLASS, SWEET, DEECE, not bad.

So lay waste to your superiors to lighten the mood,
or kowtow to your inferiors for fear you’ll look rude,
if you don’t are your interiors as perfectly screwed as mine are?
Maybe I’ll show you sometime.

Oh my GOD, its Ace just look at my face, TOP I’m on top of the world.
Mint? Of course, it is, Boss, why cant we travel in business class?
Pass the pop, because life is sweet, so neat it can’t be beat, it’s
Deece, that means decent, not bad, it’s alright yeah.

Welcome to the future, the paranoia suits ya.

step into my office. All night long,
it’s ACE, CLASS, SWEET
Welcome to the future, paranoia suits ya.
God knows what you’re talking about,
but your eyes never lie when you look at me like that.
Step into my office all night long
let me show you how we do things round here.
Welcome to your dream job,
I’m never gonna give it up.
step into my office. All night long

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283 comments
1
silverdolphin  Oct 28, 2023 • 4:09:29pm

Raw data: Construction over the past 50+ years

It is actually easy to build things except in places where everyone wants to build - NY and California. It is really easy to build in North Dakota or Alabama.

2
TarHellion  Oct 28, 2023 • 4:23:16pm

Got up to a balmy 85 degrees here in Western NC. So kind of wild to see Air Force and Colorado State playing in the snow in Fort Collins.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 28, 2023 • 4:24:49pm

re: #2 TarHellion

Similar in Philly. It went up to 80 and tomorrow it is supposed to rain.

4
Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 28, 2023 • 4:27:30pm

73 here in my part of Los Angeles today. Supposed to be in the 80s starting on Monday going thru next Saturday.

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Charmingly Persistent  Oct 28, 2023 • 4:45:20pm

That’s a really fun song!

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 28, 2023 • 4:46:17pm

Off to my 50th HS reunion to chat with a bunch of people who I knew half a lifetime ago. As Joe Walsh sang, “everybody’s so different. i haven’t changed “.

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DodgerFan1988  Oct 28, 2023 • 4:52:54pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 28, 2023 • 4:53:15pm

On my Mac’s Calendar app I discovered all the data/entries were lost. Figured it happened as I was playing around with iCloud.

Tried to restore old Calendar data using Time Machine but there are too many files sneaking around OSX to catch them all… frustrating.

So I restarted my Mac and that that worked fine. Calendar data is back to where it should be.

I always marvel at how well OSX can heal itself.

But it’s always good to reboot the system every week, even if you don’t think it is necessary.

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 28, 2023 • 4:54:29pm

re: #177 Unabogie

Random thought, but now that Tucker is off the air, is anyone still paying attention to Glem Greenwald?

Is anyone paying attention to Tucker Carlson?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 28, 2023 • 4:57:28pm

Speaking of MacOS, hoping Apple will unveil a fancy new iMac this coming Monday. Something shiny and exciting.

Or at least something I can afford.

The redesign with the colors is catchy, but the pastel colors on the front sort of put me off. Beautiful colors on the back of the machine, but the chin being the pastel version just feels wrong to me.

I get the white bezel and why one does not want a strong color on the front (because our color perception will be affected by that.)

Just give me a nice neutral shade on the front.

11
Charles Johnson  Oct 28, 2023 • 4:58:29pm

Yard Act reminds me of Cake, a little bit.

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austin_blue  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:02:56pm

re: #1 silverdolphin

Raw data: Construction over the past 50+ years

It is actually easy to build things except in places where everyone wants to build - NY and California. It is really easy to build in North Dakota or Alabama.

It’s cheap to build in Texas, depending on where you are.

If you go to the Rio Grande Valley, around Del Rio, you can get 5 acres of land for less than $10,000. In my neighborhood in South Austin, a 7,500 sq ft lot (a sixth of an acre) will cost you a minimum of 1.6 million bongo buckaroos.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:17:26pm

More touron* FAFO from Yellowstone:

* Touron, TOUrist morON. An invasive species that is not threatened with extinction but deserves to be.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:19:53pm

re: #13 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

It looks like the buffalo won.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:20:21pm

Speaking of personal computers, I am convinced that if IBM hadn’t been so afraid of working with ATT and licensed UNIX instead of contracting Microsoft (then known for its BASIC interpreter) for the disk operating system for the first IBM PC, that the world would be better off today.

UNIX required more than the 8088 chip, so the experts claim. Well fine, but it has always been lamented that IBM picked the 8088 too.

IBM is a good historical lesson: when a corporation is so concerned with protecting its near monopoly status in a business sector, that corporation will make choices that are akin to cutting off its own nose.

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austin_blue  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:22:09pm

re: #12 austin_blue

It’s cheap to build in Texas, depending on where you are.

If you go to the Rio Grande Valley, around Del Rio, you can get 5 acres of land for less than $10,000. In my neighborhood in South Austin, a 7,500 sq ft lot (a sixth of an acre) will cost you a minimum of 1.6 million bongo buckaroos.

For the realty challenged, that means you have $213 in sunk costs on a house before you have built a single square foot. And the land market is 20% cheaper than it was a year ago, when things were REALLY stupid.

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EstebanTornado1963  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:23:59pm

Wow if true. Haven’t verified yet

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austin_blue  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:24:40pm

re: #14 PhillyPretzel ✅

It looks like the buffalo won.

In such situations, the Bison *always* wins.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:25:13pm

Really digging hoopladigital.com. They have an amazing assortment of books by Joe R. Lansdale, all free to borrow for 28 days with nothing more than a library card.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:25:45pm

re: #17 EstebanTornado1963

::: shaking my head :::
I find it hard to believe.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:29:00pm

It’s ACE
TOP
MINT
BOSS
CLASS
SWEET
DEECE
not bad

I don’t know why but I smile every time I hear this chorus. Hit me with that endorphin stick.

22
teleskiguy  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:29:00pm

TMZ is kind of an authority when it comes to announcing celebrity deaths.

23
No Malarkey!  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:30:48pm

Bibi literally said he wanted to strengthen Hamas by funneling money to them.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:31:04pm

re: #17 EstebanTornado1963

Local TV station webpages now posting that he passed away. Such a shame. Only 54…

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austin_blue  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:33:12pm

Wiki page confirms his death. What a waste. He had great comic timing and was just a beautiful man.

26
The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:38:28pm

I wasn’t a Friends person but Matthew Perry was an absolute hoot as Benny in Fallout: New Vegas.

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William Lewis  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:40:11pm

re: #15 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Speaking of personal computers, I am convinced that if IBM hadn’t been so afraid of working with ATT and licensed UNIX instead of contracting Microsoft (then known for its BASIC interpreter) for the disk operating system for the first IBM PC, that the world would be better off today.

UNIX required more than the 8088 chip, so the experts claim. Well fine, but it has always been lamented that IBM picked the 8088 too.

IBM is a good historical lesson: when a corporation is so concerned with protecting its near monopoly status in a business sector, that corporation will make choices that are akin to cutting off its own nose.

The problem was that IBM thought the PC was a passing fad and would just sell a “few” machines. More than Apple but not enough to hurt their real business. It wasn’t until they had the tiger by the tail that they wanted to make it into a real computer and the limitations they’d baked into began to haunt them.

Now, a had IBM built a machine with a 68000, 1mb RAM, CGA graphics, a 20mb hard disk (a necessity) and UNIX derivative ATT licensed OS in 1981 as the IBM PC it would have been wonderful, been better than the SUN Workstation prototype at Sanford and cost over $5000 dollars THEN and the machine would have flopped. I doubt even the scientific community would have bought them, since at that point because they’d rather get a PDP and share terminals. SGI & other graphical machines were still years away. Even the Amiga was years away.

No, the crappy nature of the PC made it cheap enough that the masses could actually afford it. That lead to developers working around it’s limitations making virtues out of necessities.

Worse is Better. For awhile we did get the workstations. First the specialized ones like the Lisp Machines, then the generalized UNIX ones like Sun and SGI but eventually they too would fall to the same “Worse is Better” reality that killed the Lisp Machines.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:42:34pm

re: #12 austin_blue

It’s cheap to build in Texas, depending on where you are.

If you go to the Rio Grande Valley, around Del Rio, you can get 5 acres of land for less than $10,000. In my neighborhood in South Austin, a 7,500 sq ft lot (a sixth of an acre) will cost you a minimum of 1.6 million bongo buckaroos.

Too bad I can’t move the farm to Austin. It would be worth about 3 billion dollars.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:42:50pm

Speaking of Macs, I had not followed the role of Postscript in MacOS:

PostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma

As a computer language running in its own interpreter, apparently it was a security issue.

Also, I had not been aware:

John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe and driving force behind PostScript, died on 19 August this year. His page description language had brought success to the Mac for almost 39 years, but at least PDF lives on.

I may have read that in passing.

Always thought Postcript was amazing. More than a page mark up language, it was a full on interpreted language, and one could write programs in it to do so much.

It is also strongly Forth-flavored, for the old timers.

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austin_blue  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:44:13pm

re: #28 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Too bad I can’t move the farm to Austin. It would be worth about 3 billion dollars.

Inorite?

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:54:25pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

Yard Act reminds me of Cake, a little bit.

The Distance

32
IngisKahn  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:54:42pm

How concerned should we be with this turning into WW3? The US sentiment towards Israel is very strong, but I see it eroding quickly. Will the west continue to support them?

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austin_blue  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:56:44pm

re: #28 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Too bad I can’t move the farm to Austin. It would be worth about 3 billion dollars.

You’ve got two hundred acres outside of Weatherford?

I hope you’re running stock or have another ag exemption.

34
Dave In Austin  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:58:21pm

And the Diamondbacks are on the board.

35
Belafon  Oct 28, 2023 • 5:58:24pm
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Belafon  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:01:02pm

He was struggling with anorexia.

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:03:59pm

re: #26 The Ghost of a Flea

I wasn’t a Friends person but Matthew Perry was an absolute hoot as Benny in Fallout: New Vegas.

I liked this one:

imdb.com

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:05:08pm

re: #15 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

When I was, for a very short time, in university I took a course in computer programming. This was about the time Apple II and other PCs were being introduced. This was before IBM got into the business. I was taking a comp-sci course and I asked my prof about these new machines.

His answer? “Eh. They’re just toys. They’ll never amount to anything.”

I went and got my money back. Bought an Apple II with it. Still have the motherboard.

39
piratedan  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:06:41pm

re: #37 BeenHereAwhile

same, a great ensemble piece… great scenery chewing.

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Belafon  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:07:27pm

re: #15 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Speaking of personal computers, I am convinced that if IBM hadn’t been so afraid of working with ATT and licensed UNIX instead of contracting Microsoft (then known for its BASIC interpreter) for the disk operating system for the first IBM PC, that the world would be better off today.

UNIX required more than the 8088 chip, so the experts claim. Well fine, but it has always been lamented that IBM picked the 8088 too.

IBM is a good historical lesson: when a corporation is so concerned with protecting its near monopoly status in a business sector, that corporation will make choices that are akin to cutting off its own nose.

As someone who learned to program back in the early Windows days, one of the things Microsoft did was not only make it cheaper to buy a PC than any other computer, they made it cheaper to get into programming than it would have been on any other system. Had Microsoft not entered the fray, I’m pretty sure 8BM and Apple programming would have required the kinds of fees it takes to program the Playstation and Nintendo systems.

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:07:41pm

re: #23 No Malarkey!

Quelle surprise!

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:08:45pm

re: #33 austin_blue

You’ve got two hundred acres outside of Weatherford?

I hope you’re running stock or have another ag exemption.

Three hundred and twenty. Mostly pasture and brush. It’s a little way from there, but Weatherford is the nearest sizable town.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:18:26pm

re: #32 IngisKahn

How concerned should we be with this turning into WW3? The US sentiment towards Israel is very strong, but I see it eroding quickly. Will the west continue to support them?

Not at all. The U.S. will stand by Israel. Opponents of Israel in the U.S. have little political power.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:19:16pm

re: #36 Belafon

He was struggling with anorexia.

He was an alcoholic. Supposedly sober, though.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:19:45pm

I figure suburban sprawl will catch up with us here, and land values will skyrocket, in about 25 years. My daughters might make a killing in their old age.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:22:22pm

re: #44 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

He was an alcoholic.

Went out like Jim Morrison, but with a bigger tub.

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sagehen  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:24:28pm

re: #26 The Ghost of a Flea

I wasn’t a Friends person but Matthew Perry was an absolute hoot as Benny in Fallout: New Vegas.

I liked him as Oscar in the Odd Couple remake.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:27:27pm

Yes, Charlie, they are going to institute Shakira law and force us to dance to their evil Muslim tune. I know it’s true, the hips don’t lie.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:31:13pm

Top of the 6th Az 2. TR. 1

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:32:39pm

re: #48 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Yeah, why would people want to move where all the money is?

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Dave In Austin  Oct 28, 2023 • 6:59:45pm

Top of th7th
AZ 4
Texas 1

You love to see it!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Dangerman  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:01:26pm

re: #170 sagehen

can you tell them apart?

Yes
They are distinctive in color size, fin shape, tail etc.

Problem is we haven’t decided who gets which name

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teleskiguy  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:04:38pm

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Mattand  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:08:40pm

re: #29 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Speaking of Macs, I had not followed the role of Postscript in MacOS:

PostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma

As a computer language running in its own interpreter, apparently it was a security issue.

Also, I had not been aware:

I may have read that in passing.

Always thought Postcript was amazing. More than a page mark up language, it was a full on interpreted language, and one could write programs in it to do so much.

It is also strongly Forth-flavored, for the old timers.

Wow, I follow Apple/Mac and tech news pretty closely and somehow missed this. Thanks for the heads up.

Did know about Warnock.

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teleskiguy  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:08:46pm

re: #53 teleskiguy

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Dangerman  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:09:43pm

re: #48 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Yes, Charlie, they are going to institute Shakira law and force us to dance to their evil Muslim tune. I know it’s true, the hips don’t lie.

[Embedded content]

Started off with “if” and went downhill from there

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darthstar  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:11:00pm

Did not suck. I forgot how much more work rock crabs are than Dungeness. The big claw really is what most people eat…still, i picked all four cavities clean so we each had a small lump of picked meat on our plate (made a third plate for the neighbors to snack on while watching the WS).

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William Lewis  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:12:46pm

re: #53 teleskiguy

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:13:13pm

re: #32 IngisKahn

How concerned should we be with this turning into WW3? The US sentiment towards Israel is very strong, but I see it eroding quickly. Will the west continue to support them?

My gut feeling is that the most Americans will not support the spilling of US forces’ blood to protect Israel.

We’ll sell them all the armaments they can buy.

But boots on the ground? No.

Will we use our Navy to try and blockade ships coming from, say, the Syrian coast down to Israel: maybe.

But notice that the USN is not currently engaged in the Black Sea. It would be a militarily trivial thing for the USN to completely eliminate the Russian navy, but we don’t do it.

Remember that in the conflicts in the early days of Israel post WWII that it was the British and French who seemed more interested at the time to engage.

While the religious nuts who claim they “support” Israel seem all gung-ho, all they want is Armageddon.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:15:00pm

re: #57 darthstar

Did not suck. I forgot how much more work rock crabs are than Dungeness. The big claw really is what most people eat…still, i picked all four cavities clean so we each had a small lump of picked meat on our plate (made a third plate for the neighbors to snack on while watching the WS).

[Embedded content]

The dog clearly approved, and at the end of the day, isn’t that what’s most important?

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DodgerFan1988  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:19:18pm
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darthstar  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:24:40pm

re: #60 Nerdy Fish

The dog clearly approved, and at the end of the day, isn’t that what’s most important?

Turns out the dogs like crab meat as much as we do. Who knew?

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:25:22pm

re: #62 darthstar

Turns out the dogs like crab meat as much as we do. Who knew?

Dogs of good taste. I knew you were good people, you raised your puppers well. /half

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nines09  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:26:56pm

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:27:47pm
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No Malarkey!  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:29:16pm

re: #55 teleskiguy

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Dave In Austin  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:30:36pm

Dallas is collapsings

Az 6
TR 1

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Dave In Austin  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:31:06pm

7-1

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No Malarkey!  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:33:52pm

re: #65 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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The second version of Battlestar Galactica was damn near perfect, so good luck to them.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:37:48pm

re: #57 darthstar

Blue crabs are the best crabs. I know you west coasters like your dungeness crab, but it is not as tasty.

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wrenchwench  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:41:35pm

Mastodon

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No Malarkey!  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:43:16pm

I wonder if there will be any marches or protests in the US for the Kurds.

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retired cynic  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:44:35pm

re: #66 No Malarkey!

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:44:48pm

re: #32 IngisKahn

How concerned should we be with this turning into WW3? The US sentiment towards Israel is very strong, but I see it eroding quickly. Will the west continue to support them?

The West should support Israel’s fight against Hamas, which is clearly a terrorist group. I hope that doesn’t change.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:45:15pm
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silverdolphin  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:48:44pm

re: #12 austin_blue

It’s cheap to build in Texas, depending on where you are.

If you go to the Rio Grande Valley, around Del Rio, you can get 5 acres of land for less than $10,000. In my neighborhood in South Austin, a 7,500 sq ft lot (a sixth of an acre) will cost you a minimum of 1.6 million bongo buckaroos.

Texas is such an odd state. It is so big that we forget how diverse it really can be. It has 5 of the top 15 largest cities in the US (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Fort Worth, which are all blue now. (Even Fort Worth, which used to be very red is now slightly blue..)

Then parts of West Texas are have a lower population desnity than the Sahara (the area around Del Rio is an example). And redder than a Saharan sunburn.

So yep, the places where people want to live are like Blue states and the other places are cheap to build, like red states. and these blue places tend to have higher GDP per capita. The top 4 states by GDP per capita are NY, MA, CA and WA. Texas is 16th.

And, once Texas shifts into the IT-era models (ie realizing that the empty quarter West Texas has a huge potential for wind and solar, those ranchers will realze they can make more money than oil or cattle) , as California has been, it may likely have the largest GDP and any state.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:58:07pm

Az 9

TR 1

This young AZ team is impressive.

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darthstar  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:58:17pm

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teleskiguy  Oct 28, 2023 • 7:58:26pm

re: #58 William Lewis

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darthstar  Oct 28, 2023 • 8:07:03pm

Trump truthed a Loomer piece doxxing AG James. Doesn’t violate the gag order…technically…but I suspect the judge will still address it on Monday.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 28, 2023 • 8:07:11pm

Diamondbacks Win! 9-1
Some good baseball tonight.

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darthstar  Oct 28, 2023 • 8:09:19pm

re: #81 Dave In Austin

Diamondbacks Win! 9-1
Some good baseball tonight.

Their pitching definitely held up. Kelly’s tough. Fortunately Texas won’t have to face him again for at least three games.

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teleskiguy  Oct 28, 2023 • 8:16:52pm

re: #66 No Malarkey!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 28, 2023 • 8:20:53pm

No. No. No. They have gone too far this time!

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jaunte  Oct 28, 2023 • 8:21:40pm

re: #84 Joe Bacon ✅

Made with desert chickpumppeakins.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 28, 2023 • 8:44:56pm

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Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2023 • 8:53:32pm

re: #48 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Yes, Charlie, they are going to institute Shakira law and force us to dance to their evil Muslim tune. I know it’s true, the hips don’t lie.

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That’s the far-right mindset for you: The West is the greatest place to live in the world such that everybody is fighting to move here, but it’s also a crime-ridden economic disaster because of socialism which is why we have so many impoverished and homeless citizens to care for.

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retired cynic  Oct 28, 2023 • 8:55:37pm

re: #87 Targetpractice

bullseye

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piratedan  Oct 28, 2023 • 9:02:17pm

re: #81 Dave In Austin

that Walker play on the ball deflecting off the base into a barehanded grab should be on the highlight reel for sure.

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Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2023 • 9:11:38pm

re: #69 No Malarkey!

The second version of Battlestar Galactica was damn near perfect, so good luck to them.

It was…for the first few seasons. It really started to fall apart right around the New Caprica storyline, when they leaned in heavy on the religious elements on the show. And the finale…yeah, we could have really done without that.

The big overall issue with the series is that it suffered from Lost Syndrome: The writer’s room never had any idea where they were going with the story, and they couldn’t give it a satisfying finale so long as the studio kept ordering more seasons. So they burned through the few scripts they started the series with, then spent the rest of it tossing darts at a board and writing what they landed on.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 28, 2023 • 9:15:32pm

re: #89 piratedan

that Walker play on the ball deflecting off the base into a barehanded grab should be on the highlight reel for sure.

Wife and sat up with a “What the hell was that?!”…..

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silverdolphin  Oct 28, 2023 • 9:18:35pm

re: #90 Targetpractice

It was…for the first few seasons. It really started to fall apart right around the New Caprica storyline, when they leaned in heavy on the religious elements on the show. And the finale…yeah, we could have really done without that.

The big overall issue with the series is that it suffered from Lost Syndrome: The writer’s room never had any idea where they were going with the story, and they couldn’t give it a satisfying finale so long as the studio kept ordering more seasons. So they burned through the few scripts they started the series with, then spent the rest of it tossing darts at a board and writing what they landed on.

Everyone forgets how much of the first few seasons, which were great, had aspects of losing the narrative seen later. Remember in the pilot when you could see the cylon’s spine glow red during sex? That was dropped so they could have the whole subplot on coming up with technical ways to determione who was a cylon.

Or remember the virus that only targeted cylons? That mysteriously disappeared.

I think the time jump represented their jumping the shark and it was never as good. I knew they had lost the narrative when they killed Starbuck then had her come back as an angel. Then “All Along ther Watchtower”? Is Bob Dylan a cylon?

So much promise just dissipated into the ether.

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William Lewis  Oct 28, 2023 • 9:24:23pm

re: #90 Targetpractice

Honestly, I’d say you’re being overly generous to it. I’ve tried watching it and was underwhelmed. Mostly changes for the sake of changes and then the ending claptrap puts it low on the list of TV SF for me.

But then, I’m not a good one to ask - I didn’t like Firefly (Outlaw Josey Wales in SPAAAAACCCEEEE!!!!!!!) or Babylon 5 (fun dialog but way overrated plot arc) either. Blake’s 7 or Deep Space Nine please.

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Sherlock Hound  Oct 28, 2023 • 9:33:11pm

re: #93 William Lewis

Concur on DS9 but Blake’s Seven didn’t know how to end it, either.
An obscure Brit TV SF series I liked, by the same creator, Star Cops.

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Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2023 • 9:37:20pm

re: #92 silverdolphin

Everyone forgets how much of the first few seasons, which were great, had aspects of losing the narrative seen later. Remember in the pilot when you could see the cylon’s spine glow red during sex? That was dropped so they could have the whole subplot on coming up with technical ways to determione who was a cylon.

Or remember the virus that only targeted cylons? That mysteriously disappeared.

I think the time jump represented their jumping the shark and it was never as good. I knew they had lost the narrative when they killed Starbuck then had her come back as an angel. Then “All Along ther Watchtower”? Is Bob Dylan a cylon?

So much promise just dissipated into the ether.

It’s like I said, for a reboot it started off well and it looked like they had some ideas on where they wanted to go with it…and then they ran out of ideas and just started reaching up their own asses for new ones. Things seemed to sort of peak with the Pegasus arc, started a slow collapse when they moved into the Final Five arc, and just crumble with New Caprica. We end up spending several episodes flipping back and forth between Bush-era allegory on “War on Terror” policies and delving deeply into the series’ badly mapped out mythology, then have one big wipe where most of the story progress up to that Pegasus arc got wiped out for a return to status-quo. Couples that fans didn’t approve of got wiped out, ones they did got forced back together, and they just went wild with the half-assed religious aspects of the series while they barrelled towards a finale for which they’d done no real effort to set up.

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IngisKahn  Oct 28, 2023 • 9:38:41pm

re: #74 Patricia Kayden

The West should support Israel’s fight against Hamas, which is clearly a terrorist group. I hope that doesn’t change.

Well that’s the problem I think. I see the support withering away.

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Belafon  Oct 28, 2023 • 9:38:53pm

re: #93 William Lewis

I like Firefly, but I actually think the movie was better because the filler got removed.

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 28, 2023 • 9:41:52pm

re: #93 William Lewis

Honestly, I’d say you’re being overly generous to it. I’ve tried watching it and was underwhelmed. Mostly changes for the sake of changes and then the ending claptrap puts it low on the list of TV SF for me.

But then, I’m not a good one to ask - I didn’t like Firefly (Outlaw Josey Wales in SPAAAAACCCEEEE!!!!!!!) or Babylon 5 (fun dialog but way overrated plot arc) either. Blake’s 7 or Deep Space Nine please.

Have to admit don’t know anything about Blake’s 7.

But Deep Space Nine had the richest story lines and was the best developed of all the Star Trek series.

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William Lewis  Oct 28, 2023 • 9:52:44pm

re: #97 Belafon

I like Firefly, but I actually think the movie was better because the filler got removed.

The movie was considerably better for that reason.

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JC1  Oct 28, 2023 • 9:54:12pm

re: #40 Belafon

As someone who learned to program back in the early Windows days, one of the things Microsoft did was not only make it cheaper to buy a PC than any other computer, they made it cheaper to get into programming than it would have been on any other system. Had Microsoft not entered the fray, I’m pretty sure 8BM and Apple programming would have required the kinds of fees it takes to program the Playstation and Nintendo systems.

Commodore 64 came with free basic.

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Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2023 • 9:58:03pm

re: #93 William Lewis

Honestly, I’d say you’re being overly generous to it. I’ve tried watching it and was underwhelmed. Mostly changes for the sake of changes and then the ending claptrap puts it low on the list of TV SF for me.

But then, I’m not a good one to ask - I didn’t like Firefly (Outlaw Josey Wales in SPAAAAACCCEEEE!!!!!!!) or Babylon 5 (fun dialog but way overrated plot arc) either. Blake’s 7 or Deep Space Nine please.

I give it credit for trying to actually do an updated and “realistic” take on a classic series that otherwise could have been goofy AF by trying to revive that 70s era scifi feel. What really seemed to let it down was dedicating itself to a serialized storyline without any idea what story they really wanted to tell. I often cite B5 or DS9 as good examples of how to do a serialized storyline because it only really seems to work if you have an endpoint in mind. It helps the writers plan out the story and deal with massive changes, such as losing a season (B5) or having a storyline jammed in by the network (DS9), better than just a vague “find Earth” plot thread that keeps getting lost in all the political and religious navel-gazing.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 28, 2023 • 10:00:02pm

re: #94 Sherlock Hound

Concur on DS9 but Blake’s Seven didn’t know how to end it, either.
An obscure Brit TV SF series I liked, by the same creator, Star Cops.

I enjoyed Blake’s 7 until the nihilistic ending. Had no interest in ever seeing any of the episodes again.

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William Lewis  Oct 28, 2023 • 10:24:11pm

re: #102 Hecuba’s daughter

I enjoyed Blake’s 7 until the nihilistic ending. Had no interest in ever seeing any of the episodes again.

I wasn’t fond of the ending but the way that season had been going I was unsurprised by it. It also fit their Anti-Star Trek vibe in the end too.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 28, 2023 • 10:37:59pm

re: #93 William Lewis

But then, I’m not a good one to ask - I didn’t like Firefly (Outlaw Josey Wales in SPAAAAACCCEEEE!!!!!!!) or Babylon 5 (fun dialog but way overrated plot arc) either. Blake’s 7 or Deep Space Nine please.

I’ve always found B5 to have some excellent acting and some first rate dialogs and maybe some of the best monologues in TV, at least in the “sci-fi” genre.

It also had a proper ending (ignoring the attempts at spin-offs.)

Agree with you about the others. Firefly really is a western but it seems many youngsters on YouTube like it these days.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 28, 2023 • 10:51:31pm

re: #104 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’ve always found B5 to have some excellent acting and some first rate dialogs and maybe some of the best monologues in TV, at least in the “sci-fi” genre.

It also had a proper ending (ignoring the attempts at spin-offs.)

Agree with you about the others. Firefly really is a western but it seems many youngsters on YouTube like it these days.

I started binging B5 earlier this year (? or maybe last year?) (originally saw most of the episodes in the 1990’s) but then stopped because of other distractions. I went to find it again and it no longer appeared on HBO Max. I subscribe to enough services and have no interest in getting a new one to resume watching the series.

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Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2023 • 10:54:24pm

re: #104 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’ve always found B5 to have some excellent acting and some first rate dialogs and maybe some of the best monologues in TV, at least in the “sci-fi” genre.

It also had a proper ending (ignoring the attempts at spin-offs.)

Agree with you about the others. Firefly really is a western but it seems many youngsters on YouTube like it these days.

Firefly’s appeal is that it was a Joss Whedon work that didn’t stick around long enough for fans to get tired of it. Plus it was one of the few scifi series in that period in the 00s where it seemed every new series announced was yet another “reality TV” that either tried to be the next Survivor or Real World. About the only network that was really putting out new scifi regularly was the Scifi Channel before they also went big on “reality TV,” with annual miniseries and the annual season of SG1 or one of its spin-offs.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 28, 2023 • 11:17:07pm

re: #105 Hecuba’s daughter

B5 is on Tubi. And the version on Tubi has the missing section of S4E1 that is on Amazon Prime.

WBD is a disaster, and how they treated B5 is just one more example. HBO Max was mighty thin on sci-fi and B5 was still its most popular sci-fi series until they pulled.

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Targetpractice  Oct 28, 2023 • 11:27:24pm

If anything, Serenity showed that Whedon was keeping true to form by only having enough story to sustain a season’s worth of episodes if that. Excise the River Tam mystery and what you have left might have been enough for a miniseries at best. Nathan Fillion had to have had constant back pains from trying to carry just those few episodes made before Fox pulled the plug.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 28, 2023 • 11:46:39pm

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My Blue Heaven




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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 28, 2023 • 11:57:28pm

Par, again.
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Odie Hugh Manatee  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:02:56am

re: #100 JC1

I wrote my first program in C-64 BASIC. It was 38K overall and loaded in pieces as needed. It managed campground reservations, campsite billing and monthly spots/utilities. The math sections were a blast to write and it had lots of GOSUBs. LOTS.

It actually worked well and backed up to three 1541 fdd units to make sure the data made it to the next day…lol! It printed receipts and had a section that the IRS probably wouldn’t have liked but the owner insisted on it. All I can say I that I didn’t use it, he did and he’s long dead now.

Commodore was a fun system to play with and it led me to the pc world and happiness. ;)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:14:50am

re: #2 TarHellion

Got up to a balmy 85 degrees here in Western NC. So kind of wild to see Air Force and Colorado State playing in the snow in Fort Collins.

unseasonably balmy but rainy on the Rhine, temps pushing 60°

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:18:08am

re: #46 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Went out like Jim Morrison, but with a bigger tub.

and it took twice as long (27 x 2)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:22:01am

re: #48 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

If America was such a great place back then, why did we need to import millions of slaves to work there?

Granted, millions fled to America from Europe seeing a better life because much of Europe rightly sucked well into the 20th century.

And while we are great at creating societies worth living in, we are also great at creating and perpetuating societies in other parts of the world that people want to flee from.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:22:31am

re: #51 Dave In Austin

Top of th7th
AZ 4
Texas 1

Game scores or outrageous political events?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:23:45am

re: #59 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

While the religious nuts who claim they “support” Israel seem all gung-ho, all they want is Armageddon.

So they can watch with righteous satisfaction as the unbelievers (Jews included) are cast into the lake of fire

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:25:00am

re: #65 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Sam Esmail on the future of the ‘Battlestar Galactica’ reboot at Peacock

I even went to see that film when it came out in 1978, it was okay, but that is as much of BG as I will ever want to see again.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:26:25am

re: #71 wrenchwench

When sperm whales need a nap, they take a deep breath, dive down about 45 feet and arrange themselves into perfectly-level, vertical patterns.

makes sense, we spend our waking hours mostly vertical and sleep horizontally.

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IngisKahn  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:26:28am

I started with TRS-80 Level III BASIC. Still can’t believe my dad threw out that machine.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:27:42am

re: #87 Targetpractice

That’s the far-right mindset for you: The West is the greatest place to live in the world such that everybody is fighting to move here, but it’s also a crime-ridden economic disaster because of socialism which is why we have so many impoverished and homeless citizens to care for.

Schrödinger’s Immigrant: here to steal our jobs and mooch off our welfare system.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:31:27am

re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We’ll be hitting around 65 F today here in Ostrava. It’s about 60 F right now, which is unseasonably warm for late October.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:34:47am

re: #119 IngisKahn

I started with TRS-80 Level III BASIC. Still can’t believe my dad threw out that machine.

I lived the same. Went back home to collect it and other stuff and my parents had gone on a cleaning spree. But I found canceled checks dating back to 50s that they had saved after my dad died.

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Nojay UK  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:49:50am

Blake’s 7 started good, like a lot of series but it went off the rails eventually like a lot of series. What carried it in the later episodes were the scenes that pitted Avon vs. Servalan — imagine if in Star Wars, Han Solo had a thing for Emperor Palpatine and the feeling was reciprocated while at the same time they were fighting against each other. Helped a lot that they were the two smartest entities in the galaxy, and they both knew it.

Lots of clips on Youtube of the two of them trying to out-sardonic each other, if you’re interested. Ignore the budget props and terrifying costuming.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:58:27am

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William Lewis  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:04:00am

re: #123 Nojay UK

Blake’s 7 started good, like a lot of series but it went off the rails eventually like a lot of series. What carried it in the later episodes were the scenes that pitted Avon vs. Servalan — imagine if in Star Wars, Han Solo had a thing for Emperor Palpatine and the feeling was reciprocated while at the same time they were fighting against each other. Helped a lot that they were the two smartest entities in the galaxy, and they both knew it.

Lots of clips on Youtube of the two of them trying to out-sardonic each other, if you’re interested. Ignore the budget props and terrifying costuming.

Yup. And I loved that they were the Anti-Star Trek. Right down to calling the Bad Guys the Federation 🤣 The Liberator was cool though. I’d probably only watch series 1-3 anymore though.

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silverdolphin  Oct 29, 2023 • 4:26:30am

re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I even went to see that film when it came out in 1978, it was okay, but that is as much of BG as I will ever want to see again.

Now if they had the guts to really cross Battlestar Galactica with “Chariots of the Gods? “, they might have something. Throw in aspects of “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” (my favorite non-fiction book title of all time) and the supposed inability of humans to see the ‘blue’ before 2500 BCE and one could produce a work of art ;-)

Consciousness and being able to see the color blue would be hallmarks of those from Caprica. And Earth would be a former colony that had been cut off and had suffered a Founder Effect resulting in gene loss. Use it to explain the Neolithic Y-Chromosome bottleneck. This is a known loss of diversity only in the male lineage of humanity in Europe, Africa and Asia possibly from the removal and replacement of just men by another dominant group.

Damn it almost writes itself.

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2023 • 4:32:02am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 4:52:16am

you are the press. you can’t call out your child because then you will lose access and be out of a job

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 5:31:28am

and kill the thread

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 5:40:26am

re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I thought I was the thread killer.

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darthstar  Oct 29, 2023 • 5:42:12am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 5:49:30am

re: #130 PhillyPretzel ✅

I thought I was the thread killer.

Fear is the Thread Killer

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TarHellion  Oct 29, 2023 • 5:58:52am

It’s my Birbie and it flies if it wants to, flies if wants to…

Heading this afternoon to see Killers of the Flower Moon with a friend. At nearly nearly 3.5 hours, will probably need a bathroom break during the movie. Saw where some theaters had gotten in trouble with the studio by offering an intermission. Ridiculous.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:03:55am

re: #133 TarHellion

Saw where some theaters had gotten in trouble with the studio by offering an intermission. Ridiculous.

Wife was talking about that a few days ago. In the past, there used to be intermission…when and why did they end?

I thought it could have something to do with moar people throughput (intermission eats money making time?) never thought it would be the studio getting mad about one.

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:12:39am

In “The Expanse” Amos called it the churn, but it’s never a good thing when food rioting / looting starts, and any city in the world is only a handful of days away from this.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take flour and basic hygiene products, a U.N. agency said Sunday, in a mark of growing desperation and the breakdown of public order three weeks into the war between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers.

Tanks and infantry pushed into Gaza over the weekend as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a “second stage” in the war, which was ignited by Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 incursion into Israel. Israel also pounded the territory from air, land and sea.

apnews.com

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TarHellion  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:14:15am

re: #134 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Yes, intermissions eat into the number of times a movie can be shown during a day. Intermissions used to be built in for 3-hour movies (i.e. The Godfather 1 and 2, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, etc.). Hell, even HBO would do an intermission when it showed The Godfather back in the 80s.

But Titanic and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy ended the use of intermissions thanks to the studios and theater operators who wanted to maximize viewings. Compounding the problem now is you don’t know how much “pre-feature entertainment” there is before the showtime. My movie today lists a 2:50 start. Would be shocked if it begins by 3:15.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:14:58am

re: #133 TarHellion

It’s my Birbie and it flies if it wants to, flies if wants to…

Heading this afternoon to see Killers of the Flower Moon with a friend. At nearly nearly 3.5 hours, will probably need a bathroom break during the movie. Saw where some theaters had gotten in trouble with the studio by offering an intermission. Ridiculous.

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Revive the great promotional shtick of the 1950s. Theatres used to give out sick-sacks at horror flicks, wire the seats with vibrators for The Tingler. This one can install USAF service tubes. (Jacqueline Cochran designed one for the ladies.)

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TarHellion  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:19:35am

re: #137 Decatur Deb

The one recent exception was for the 70mm release of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. That movie had a defined break in the middle - and attendees were allowed 15 minutes to handle nature, mingle, and buy more concessions.

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Jay C  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:20:30am

re: #134 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Wife was talking about that a few days ago. In the past, there used to be intermission…when and why did they end?

I thought it could have something to do with moar people throughput (intermission eats money making time?) never thought it would be the studio getting mad about one.

IIRC*, back when movies were pretty much exclusively a shown-in-theaters thing, intermissions were inserted in mainly very long (by the standards of the time, i.e. over 2-1/2 hours) in order to give the audiences either a bathroom break, or a concession-stand opportunity (On Broadway, it’s often a bathroom-and/or bar break). For a very long flick, I can’t imagine a 15-minute interval is going to serious eat up much running time, so studio objections seem odd in this case. After all, for a 3-hour+ movie, the theater is only going to get - what? - three showings a day in per screen? And the moviegoers pay to get in: once they’re in there, the money is made: the studio shouldn’t care what they do after that (except walk out: THAT would be a problem….)

* always a dubious assumption

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:20:36am

Cincinnati chile vs Southwest chile: I’m making one or the other tomorrow, but I am seeking opinions on the Cincy style first — has anyone tried it?

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:22:11am

re: #139 Jay C

IIRC*, back when movies were pretty much exclusively a shown-in-theaters thing, intermissions were inserted in mainly very long (by the standards of the time, i.e. over 2-1/2 hours) in order to give the audiences either a bathroom break, or a concession-stand opportunity (On Broadway, it’s often a bathroom-and/or bar break). For a very long flick, I can’t imagine a 15-minute interval is going to serious eat up much running time, so studio objections seem odd in this case. After all, for a 3-hour+ movie, the theater is only going to get - what? - three showings a day in per screen? And the moviegoers pay to get in: once they’re in there, the money is made: the studio shouldn’t care what they do after that (except walk out: THAT would be a problem….)

* always a dubious assumption

With the new “dining/bar” style of theaters they are doing now, you would think they’d do it to sell more beer.

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jeffreyw  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:24:07am

Good morning!

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:24:11am

re: #139 Jay C

There is a box-office trope that the concession stand brings the operator more than shared ticket sales. (The first film w/ an intermission that I remember was The Ten Commandments, around 1956.)

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TarHellion  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:26:32am

re: #139 Jay C

In today’s world, theater operators are at the mercy of the studios. Besides, who really cares about ruptured bladders, UTIs, or kidney damage?

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:28:03am

re: #144 TarHellion

In today’s world, theater operators are at the mercy of the studios. Besides, who really cares about ruptured bladders, UTIs, or kidney damage?

Or the stress that creates on hearts and circulatory systems, rite?

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Oblongatis  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:29:43am

re: #95 Targetpractice

I was disappointed in the ending of BG. If you create far too many situations that do not make logical sense you get stuck with it’s a miracle as an explanation. I did like the recurring history of human/cylon creation and destruction. Wish they had followed that path rather than using angels talking to main characters as a plot driver.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:29:55am

There are very few films that absolutely need wide-screen. Wife and I have settled on doing most of our viewing at home, and are about to spring for an oversize smart TV. We can eat/whiz/take a call when we want.

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:30:17am

re: #142 jeffreyw

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Your granite counter tops look a lot like ours.

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TarHellion  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:30:18am

re: #143 Decatur Deb

The Ten Commandments runs 3 hours, 40 minutes. No wonder ABC starts the movie at 7 during Easter/Passover season.

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Jay C  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:32:16am

re: #143 Decatur Deb

There is a box-office trope that the concession stand brings in more than ticket sales. (The first film w/ an intermission that I remember was The Ten Commandments, around 1956.)

Consider what most theaters charge, I can understand that.
The main movies I associate intermissions with, though, are (mainly old) musicals: which I have always thought was a holdover from “Broadway” (i.e. live-theater) practices, where they always had a break in the middle (still do) to allow for A) set changes; B) concession-stand/bar/call-of-nature breaks; C) union regulations.
Nowadays, though, intermissions - on streaming casts - are sort of cinematic fossils: a relic of the long-lost era before “Pause” buttons…

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TarHellion  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:32:55am

re: #147 Decatur Deb

Would generally agree. One exception this year was seeing Oppenheimer on the big, big screen (with closed captions even).

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:34:13am

re: #149 TarHellion

The Ten Commandments runs 3 hours, 40 minutes. No wonder ABC starts the movie at 7 during Easter/Passover season.

I always hated Easter Sunday when I was small, the TV was stuck on Ten Commandments & Barabbas all day long.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:35:12am

re: #151 TarHellion

Would generally agree. One exception this year was seeing Oppenheimer on the big, big screen (with closed captions even).

Yeah, there are always some that demand the scope: Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago, 2001.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:39:18am

re: #136 TarHellion

Yes, intermissions eat into the number of times a movie can be shown during a day. Intermissions used to be built in for 3-hour movies (i.e. The Godfather 1 and 2, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, etc.). Hell, even HBO would do an intermission when it showed The Godfather back in the 80s.

But Titanic and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy ended the use of intermissions thanks to the studios and theater operators who wanted to maximize viewings. Compounding the problem now is you don’t know how much “pre-feature entertainment” there is before the showtime. My movie today lists a 2:50 start. Would be shocked if it begins by 3:15.

I went and saw Killers of the Flower Moon last weekend (great flick, btw) and the movie started right at 6 pm. No “pre-feature entertainment”.

Now the reason for this is that the cinema I went to is owned by the local city government as part of their culture department (along with a jazz club and a couple of other places) so that means none of the nonsense. Which is why that’s my preferred cinema.

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TarHellion  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:40:26am

re: #152 Thanos

“Moses, Moses, Moses!” - Remember seeing Ten Commandments for the first time when I was 7 or 8. The parting of the Red Sea blew me away. Still does - given 1950s technology.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:41:47am

re: #154 Dr Lizardo

…the cinema I went to is owned by the local city government as part of their culture department (along with a jazz club and a couple of other places) so that means none of the nonsense. …

Y’all don’t live around here, do ‘ya?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:41:55am

re: #151 TarHellion

Would generally agree. One exception this year was seeing Oppenheimer on the big, big screen (with closed captions even).

that was my big theater experience this year, along with going with my daughter to watch the latest Siderman release and the Dungeons & Dragons flick

Looking forward to seeing Napoleon when it comes out later this year

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:42:26am

re: #155 TarHellion

“Moses, Moses, Moses!” - Remember seeing Ten Commandments for the first time when I was 7 or 8. The parting of the Red Sea blew me away. Still does - given 1950s technology.

Or the scene later in the film of God carving out the Ten Commandments - and just imagine how you could make that look with modern photo-realistic CGI.

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jeffreyw  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:44:28am

re: #148 Thanos

Your granite counter tops look a lot like ours.

I remember looking at the samples while planning the remodel and just pointing to one as they all were so similar they needed study to discern the differences. They hide dirt so well that wiping down the counters is the only way to find it - by feel, mostly. They didn’t offer solid colors.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:46:00am

re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

that was my big theater experience this year, along with going with my daughter to watch the latest Siderman release and the Dungeons & Dragons flick

Looking forward to seeing Napoleon when it comes out later this year

There was a Napoleon in the 1920’s that was the biggest film up to its time—a widescreen effect was created by use of mirroring and a triple screen.
imdb.com

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TarHellion  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:46:52am

re: #154 Dr Lizardo

You are quite fortunate. I’ll be at the AMC that is 25 miles away from home. It is notorious for ads and interminable previews. Not to mention Nicole Kidman doing her bit about the “magic” of movies. We’ve already got our tickets and seat assignments, so we probably won’t get there until 15 to 20 minutes before the listed run time. The worst offender ever was when I saw Superman Returns. The movie started 45 minutes after the listed showtime.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:49:51am

re: #161 TarHellion

The worst offender ever was when I saw Superman Returns. The movie started 45 minutes after the listed showtime.

That’s nuts. I can see maybe an absolute max of ten minutes or so - trailers for a couple upcoming films, maybe an advertisement for some local business or a PSA and that’s it.

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TarHellion  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:53:42am

re: #162 Dr Lizardo

And at that time, there was no way to guarantee your seat - so I had arrived at the theater more than 45 minutes prior to the “start” time in order to get a prime spot. So it was 90 minutes of waiting for a 2.5-hour movie to start.

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:55:49am

re: #160 Decatur Deb

There was a Napoleon in the 1920’s that was the biggest film up to its time—a widescreen effect was created by use of mirroring and a triple screen.
imdb.com

I saw that in LA. Forgot until you mentioned it.

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:57:25am

re: #155 TarHellion

“Moses, Moses, Moses!” - Remember seeing Ten Commandments for the first time when I was 7 or 8. The parting of the Red Sea blew me away. Still does - given 1950s technology.

Possibly, one of the most scenery chewing movies by nearly every actor ever.

“Where”s your moses, now?” indeed!

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 6:58:35am

re: #159 jeffreyw

I remember looking at the samples while planning the remodel and just pointing to one as they all were so similar they needed study to discern the differences. They hide dirt so well that wiping down the counters is the only way to find it - by feel, mostly. They didn’t offer solid colors.

I suspect “they look clean” is the main attraction for most people who buy granite counter tops. I’m personally an OCD clean freak, so I mentally have a blow out when my wife puts a pot lid down on the counter with the handle side up. (What’s she trying to do!? Grow a bacteria culture under that petri lid over a semi porous surface AAAAIIIEEEE!)

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Jay C  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:02:50am

re: #160 Decatur Deb

There was a Napoleon in the 1920’s that was the biggest film up to its time—a widescreen effect was created by use of mirroring and a triple screen.
imdb.com

Yes: Abel Gance’s 1927 epic. I saw the restored version once at the Shrine Auditorium in L.A.: the reconstruction of the film (it’s over 5 hours long), was a major project, and its showing was a BFD for film buffs. Though I found it somewhat of a (minor) cheat: the “widescreen” bit with the triple screens was only for the final battle scene. It was impressive as hell, though: it showed that films of the 1920’s could be a cinematically advanced artform, given the right director (and budget).
Trivia: IMDB sez that Gance’s Napoleon, long as it is, was intended to be just the first installment of a six-part bio-epic. Unsurprisingly, though, he never got the financing for the other five films…

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:03:28am

re: #126 silverdolphin

“The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” (my favorite non-fiction book title of all time)

Read that in college, forgot until you mentioned it. Might have to read it again (along with all the other books I ever read.)

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TarHellion  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:03:34am

re: #165 sizzzzlerz

It was definitely a leader in the trend of “stick as many famous people as possible into the cast.” That continued into the 1970s - especially with disaster flicks such as The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, and Earthquake.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:04:22am

re: #165 sizzzzlerz

Going to see it was my favorite movie story ever. One of the grandest palaces in Pittsburgh arranged free admission for our reform boarding school. But they asked us to come in the rear entrance. That was cool, but their rear opened onto a sleazy backstreet directly across from a place that showed skin flicks and famous strippers. So after the busses unloaded, you had a couple hundred boys in uniform with their noses stuck to the stage-door wall while the nuns patrolled the line.

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:04:23am

Is the dance obscene if you Karen, flipping people off?

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:05:17am

re: #167 Jay C

I saw the restored version once at the Shrine Auditorium in L.A.: the reconstruction of the film (it’s over 5 hours long), was a major project, and its showing was a BFD for film buffs:

What year was that? I was a kid in one of the numerous balconies.

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Jay C  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:06:42am

re: #172 wrenchwench

What year was that? I was a kid in one of the numerous balconies.

1981 (?)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:06:47am

re: #169 TarHellion

It was definitely a leader in the trend of “stick as many famous people as possible into the cast.” That continued into the 1970s - especially with disaster flicks such as The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, and Earthquake.

Airport

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:08:00am

re: #173 Jay C

1981 (?)

Possible, but I was grown up by then. Maybe the movie made me feel like a little kid.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:10:05am

re: #175 wrenchwench

Possible, but I was grown up by then. Maybe the movie made me feel like a little kid.

seeing Napoleon made you feel taller…

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BeachDem  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:12:06am

re: #138 TarHellion

The one recent exception was for the 70mm release of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. That movie had a defined break in the middle - and attendees were allowed 15 minutes to handle nature, mingle, and buy more concessions.

Or leave the theater.

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TarHellion  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:14:18am

re: #170 Decatur Deb

Reminds me of when Mom would go into the downtown bank back in the 70s. The old theater across the street had gone to showing XXX movies. My brother and I would gawk at the marquee for titles such as Flesh Gordon and Behind the Green Door - while guys in trench coats and hats pulled down would amble in.

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darthstar  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:15:02am

re: #171 Thanos

Is the dance obscene if you Karen, flipping people off?

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I just read that story. Nice of the crowd to wait for the performers to be allowed to finish their act. Hopefully they were well tipped at the end.

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:15:39am

re: #173 Jay C

1981 (?)

This Wiki has a listing w/o venue in 1970, the others have non-Shrine venues listed. My mom was crazy, she may have taken a 12 yr. old to a 5 hour movie.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:16:14am

Memories of seeing 2001 in Cinerama…oh it had an intermission at the part where HAL read Bowman and Poole’s lips in the pod. That intermission had the creepiest music playing.

And when I was a kid there was just something about seeing The Three Stooges in a theater instead of on TV.

8 years old went to the theater for a Halloween show of Frankenstein and Dracula. On the big screen now that was scary!

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jeffreyw  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:17:23am

re: #166 Thanos

I suspect “they look clean” is the main attraction for most people who buy granite counter tops. I’m personally an OCD clean freak, so I mentally have a blow out when my wife puts a pot lid down on the counter with the handle side up. (What’s she trying to do!? Grow a bacteria culture under that petri lid over a semi porous surface AAAAIIIEEEE!)

I have a pot lid that will vacuum seal itself to the countertop if I set it down still hot.

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Jay C  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:18:17am

re: #166 Thanos

I suspect “they look clean” is the main attraction for most people who buy granite counter tops. I’m personally an OCD clean freak, so I mentally have a blow out when my wife puts a pot lid down on the counter with the handle side up. (What’s she trying to do!? Grow a bacteria culture under that petri lid over a semi porous surface AAAAIIIEEEE!)

Inorite?

We recently moved to a new apartment, and the kitchen is done in this dark stone: it’s “clean” enough; but the stone has a bunch of inclusions in it that look just like stains: I find myself reflexively dabbing the sponge over bits of the countertop before realizing that the “ice cream stain” and the “stray bit of paper towel” aren’t actually going to come out….

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:19:26am

re: #178 TarHellion

I’ve since researched the place—it’s a restored landmark now. It used to feature the greats of its genre—Candi Barr, Sally Rand, a young Jeff Goldblum did comic MC.
trustarts.org

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BeachDem  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:22:50am

re: #140 Thanos

Cincinnati chile vs Southwest chile: I’m making one or the other tomorrow, but I am seeking opinions on the Cincy style first — has anyone tried it?

I’m a Skyline (Cincinnati) superfan; three-way (over spaghetti with cheese—no beans or onions—4- and 5-way.) I don’t even think of it as chili.

Like both Cinci and Southwest, but see them as two entirely different dishes.

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:25:51am

re: #183 Jay C

Inorite?

We recently moved to a new apartment, and the kitchen is done in this dark stone: it’s “clean” enough; but the stone has a bunch of inclusions in it that look just like stains: I find myself reflexively dabbing the sponge over bits of the countertop before realizing that the “ice cream stain” and the “stray bit of paper towel” aren’t actually going to come out….

I still reflexively scrub that rough spot by the sink for about 20 seconds before I remember it’s just a rough spot in the polished plane and not something stuck to the counter.

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TarHellion  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:26:01am

re: #184 Decatur Deb

Cool. Seems as if they are getting into the season - showing some of the Christopher Lee Dracula movies from Hammer Films.

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:26:46am

re: #185 BeachDem

I’m a Skyline (Cincinnati) superfan; three-way (over spaghetti with cheese—no beans or onions—4- and 5-way.) I don’t even think of it as chili.

Like both Cinci and Southwest, but see them as two entirely different dishes.

So I should try making it then?

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:27:03am

re: #166 Thanos

…. I mentally have a blow out when my wife puts a pot lid down on the counter with the handle side up. (What’s she trying to do!? Grow a bacteria culture under that petri lid over a semi porous surface AAAAIIIEEEE!)

YESSSS!!
validation!
I feel like we just had a group therapy moment

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Jay C  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:27:20am

re: #180 wrenchwench

This Wiki has a listing w/o venue in 1970, the others have non-Shrine venues listed. My mom was crazy, she may have taken a 12 yr. old to a 5 hour movie.

Thanks for the memory prod: the version I saw at the Shrine WAS the Kevin Brownlow restoration (1979). I recall the Coppola connection, and the fact that Gance was still alive to have seen the “new” version - I also recall there was a live orchestra; so it must have been a “road show” airing of the then-new reconstruction.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:27:49am

re: #178 TarHellion

Reminds me of when Mom would go into the downtown bank back in the 70s. The old theater across the street had gone to showing XXX movies. My brother and I would gawk at the marquee for titles such as Flesh Gordon and Behind the Green Door - while guys in trench coats and hats pulled down would amble in.

Ah yes The Art Cinema. Memories of high school when kids would goof on it. And the controversy when then DA Duggan raided it for showing DEEP THROAT. all his raid did was make it a must see thing. Remember when I would be going home from Pitt in the 70s and the bus stop was a block away from it. The line of people going to see Deep Throat went down a couple blocks…

Oh and when I was an undergrad at Pitt The King’s Court Theater right by the Pitt dorms showed FLESH GORDON for over a year and a half. Yeah the lines were out the door again…

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:30:12am

re: #191 Joe Bacon ✅

Check the link in #184. Everything old is new again.

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BeachDem  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:31:37am

Trivia tidbit about Hateful Eight (on my list of 10 worst movies of all time—YMMV)

The scene where Kurt Russell smashes the guitar? Watch Jennifer Jason Leigh’s face. He was supposed to smash a replica, but somehow he destroyed the actual vintage guitar. The museum never let their instruments be used in movies again.

guitarworld.com

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:33:45am

For your Halloween viewing pleasure, today’s film is a British 1977 made-for-TV horror film, Spectre. Starring Robert Culp, John Hurt, Ann Bell and Gig Young. Screenplay by Gene Roddenberry and Samuel Peeples and directed by Clive Donner.

RARE 1977 Horror Movie SPECTRE - Gene Roddenberry, Robert Culp, Gig Young

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BeachDem  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:34:02am

re: #188 Thanos

So I should try making it then?

Somewhere I have a great recipe for it, but just a warning—IMO, it’s kind of more like a meat sauce than a chili.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:36:00am

re: #127 Dangerman

A Republican— a Trumpanzee

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:38:03am

re: #187 TarHellion

Cool. Seems as if they are getting into the season - showing some of the Christopher Lee Dracula movies from Hammer Films.

It’s Hammer time!!!

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TarHellion  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:38:05am

re: #191 Joe Bacon ✅

Proof again that if some official tries to ban something - especially a movie - people will flock to see what all the fuss is about

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:38:07am

re: #110 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Par, again.
Wordle 862 4/6

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Birbie here

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Group: 3,4,4,4

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:38:29am

I think I got some bent symmetry in my four. No yellows, though. Wordle 862 4/6*

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:39:26am

re: #200 wrenchwench

I think I got some bent symmetry in my four. No yellows, though. Wordle 862 4/6*

Man, I tried twice to hide that.

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:52:32am

re: #195 BeachDem

Somewhere I have a great recipe for it, but just a warning—IMO, it’s kind of more like a meat sauce than a chili.

We always do our chile over spaghetti, so that should work.

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:53:08am

New from Chet Faker

Chet Faker - Oh Me Oh My (Live Sessions)

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:55:02am

re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

you are the press. you can’t call out your child because then you will lose access and be out of a job

The press could call out politicians as long there were no alternative mainstream broadcast and media outlets.

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jeffreyw  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:58:30am

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darthstar  Oct 29, 2023 • 7:59:48am

re: #202 Thanos

We always do our chile over spaghetti, so that should work.

Cincinatti chile is basically a Mediterranean meat sauce…so of course you would put it over spaghetti.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:00:23am

re: #75 Dave In Austin

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Why can’t we get back to the time before vaccinations when no one ever died.

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:00:47am

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:07:49am

re: #133 TarHellion

It’s my Birbie and it flies if it wants to, flies if wants to…

Heading this afternoon to see Killers of the Flower Moon with a friend. At nearly nearly 3.5 hours, will probably need a bathroom break during the movie. Saw where some theaters had gotten in trouble with the studio by offering an intermission. Ridiculous.

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Friends of mine walked out after the first hour because she couldn’t handle the intensity. I’m not sure whether I can tolerate the brutality .

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:10:32am

Oregon is the only state with two different sides to its flag. That’s so the beaver can have a side.

Mastodon

Some say this is the back.
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jeffreyw  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:17:25am

re: #166 Thanos

I suspect “they look clean” is the main attraction for most people who buy granite counter tops. I’m personally an OCD clean freak, so I mentally have a blow out when my wife puts a pot lid down on the counter with the handle side up. (What’s she trying to do!? Grow a bacteria culture under that petri lid over a semi porous surface AAAAIIIEEEE!)

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JC1  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:22:25am

re: #65 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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Mr Robot is one of my top 3 all time favorite shows.
Hopefully Sam isn’t a one hit wonder and the BG reboot ends up solid.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:22:47am

re: #159 jeffreyw

I remember looking at the samples while planning the remodel and just pointing to one as they all were so similar they needed study to discern the differences. They hide dirt so well that wiping down the counters is the only way to find it - by feel, mostly. They didn’t offer solid colors.

Similar to mine too, except mine have more of the lighter color.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:24:09am

re: #206 darthstar

Cincinatti chile is basically a Mediterranean meat sauce…so of course you would put it over spaghetti.

coriander powder (not the leaves) belongs in there, too IIRC

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:25:42am

re: #110 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Par, again.
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:26:40am

re: #161 TarHellion

You are quite fortunate. I’ll be at the AMC that is 25 miles away from home. It is notorious for ads and interminable previews. Not to mention Nicole Kidman doing her bit about the “magic” of movies. We’ve already got our tickets and seat assignments, so we probably won’t get there until 15 to 20 minutes before the listed run time. The worst offender ever was when I saw Superman Returns. The movie started 45 minutes after the listed showtime.

Usually go to a theater some distance from here and closer to my friends. It’s standard for the movie to start 20 minutes+ after the official start time. But I always enjoy previews — but Nicole Kidman is totally unnecessary. She’s there just to try to remind the audience that a theater is better than seeing it on your TV — when all she really does is remind the audience that they can escape her if they watch at home.

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:29:46am

Columbia River Gorge.

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:34:08am

re: #217 wrenchwench

That is beautiful.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:41:03am
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:42:52am

re: #219 Backwoods Sleuth

Vote for Joe. That is a great idea. :)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:48:30am

re: #219 Backwoods Sleuth

There’s only one place where Lord Privy Steal Jared belongs—JAIL!!!!!!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:48:44am

Heh. SNL referred to TFG as “former President and current courtroom sketch model Donald Trump”

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sagehen  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:49:36am

re: #155 TarHellion

“Moses, Moses, Moses!” - Remember seeing Ten Commandments for the first time when I was 7 or 8. The parting of the Red Sea blew me away. Still does - given 1950s technology.

Now think about trying to do that with 1300 BC technology.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:53:15am

re: #152 Thanos

re: #155 TarHellion

I watch The Ten Commandments every year. Still love the plagues and crossing of the Red Sea. Magnificent spectacle of a film even if you’re not a believer. Definitely, the best Biblical movie, imho.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:53:49am
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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:57:15am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 8:59:56am

re: #226 Thanos

‘We couldn’t find him so we just gave up’ is a fireable offense in my book, shouldn’t some lose jobs over this negligence?
Police were alerted last month about a Maine shooter’s threats. ‘We couldn’t locate him.’

They couldn’t find him even after the massacre until he took his own life.

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darthstar  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:01:27am

re: #225 Backwoods Sleuth

He should be more like Mike Pence…no longer a candidate

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:01:42am

re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They couldn’t find him even after the massacre until he took his own life.

They didn’t quit looking that time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:03:07am

re: #229 wrenchwench

They didn’t quit looking that time.

Would they have found him if he were still alive?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:03:49am

re: #119 IngisKahn

I started with TRS-80 Level III BASIC. Still can’t believe my dad threw out that machine.

I have a silver COCO in my closet, but no model III, what I think most people think of as a TRS-80. We had model 1’s at my high school in a room connected to a room of Apple II’s.

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DodgerFan1988  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:05:31am
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:06:42am

re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Would they have found him if he were still alive?

I think so. I assumed he was dead because he hadn’t been found and hadn’t surfaced. Most people are not prepared to hide for days and we have cameras everywhere,

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:06:59am

re: #225 Backwoods Sleuth

Covid caused firearm deaths 😹. The man is unfit to be a toilet cleaner - at least that is a productive profession.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:08:48am

re: #234 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Covid caused firearm deaths 😹. The man is unfit to be a toilet cleaner - at least that is a productive profession.

Weren’t people shooting each other in store parking lots over toilet paper and disinfectant?

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:10:16am

re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Would they have found him if he were still alive?

The point is the giving up. Just because something is proving hard doesn’t mean you can just give it up, especially when it comes to terroristic threats.

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:10:55am

re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Weren’t people shooting each other in store parking lots over toilet paper and disinfectant?

No.

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darthstar  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:11:12am

re: #236 Thanos

Lesson learned?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:11:22am

re: #236 Thanos

The point is the giving up. Just because something is proving hard doesn’t mean you can just give it up, especially when it comes to terroristic threats.

Priorities. Tracking down potential shooters is not something they see any reason to spend resources on

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:11:35am

A Perfect Connections

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darthstar  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:11:58am

Okay - got about an hour or so before I need to leave to pick up MIL for brunch. Think I’ll throw together a batch of persimmon cookies.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:12:07am

re: #206 darthstar

Cincinatti chile is basically a Mediterranean meat sauce…so of course you would put it over spaghetti.

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Used to get this when I lived in Western PA. Loved eating a bowlful with diced onions and that thin shredded cheese on top. Forget the spaghetti it’s Skyline Heaven all by itself!

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JC1  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:12:51am

re: #233 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I think so. I assumed he was dead because he hadn’t been found and hadn’t surfaced. Most people are not prepared to hide for days and we have cameras everywhere,

He possibly could have been. There aren’t cameras everywhere in Maine. There’s a lot of forested land with which he was familiar. There are lots of hiking trails and cabins, etc.
A somewhat avid outdoorsman can live out there for months and not get spotted.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:12:56am

re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Priorities. Tracking down potential shooters is not something they see any reason to spend resources on

And even if they did, they only have so many resources at their disposal. Some people are simply not easy to locate.

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Thanos  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:16:00am

re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Priorities. Tracking down potential shooters is not something they see any reason to spend resources on

And I’m saying that if your local PD operates like the leadership HUMPs we saw in “The Wire” then you need to fix that.

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sagehen  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:16:36am

re: #224 Patricia Kayden

I watch The Ten Commandments every year. Still love the plagues and crossing of the Red Sea. Magnificent spectacle of a film even if you’re not a believer. Definitely, the best Biblical movie, imho.

nah, THIS is the best Biblical movie. Book of Exodus in 5.40, with music.

The Maccabeats - Les Misérables - Passover

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:24:34am

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:25:23am

re: #224 Patricia Kayden

I watch The Ten Commandments every year. Still love the plagues and crossing of the Red Sea. Magnificent spectacle of a film even if you’re not a believer. Definitely, the best Biblical movie, imho.

And that film led to 1998’s The Prince of Egypt, a film I consider one of the greatest animated films ever made. The crossing of the Red Sea, with Hans Zimmer’s score - yeah, chef’s kiss on that one.

The Parting of the Red Sea | The Prince of Egypt (HDR)

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LadyBehir  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:25:25am

re: #205 jeffreyw

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“Laid in the USA” was what a neighbor put on his eggs.

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JC1  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:25:46am

re: #246 sagehen

nah, THIS is the best Biblical movie. Book of Exodus in 5.40, with music.

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Life of Brian…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:26:48am

Forced Birther JD Vance to Gaza residents—Let Them Die.

But remember folks that Peter Thiel’s Puppet is “pro-life”!

‘It’s not aid to Hamas’: CBS host grills JD Vance for opposing funds for Gaza kids

CBS host Margaret Brennan grilled Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Sunday after he said he opposed aid to children in Gaza because he insisted it would go to the terror group Hamas.

While Vance agreed that there are “a lot of innocent people in Gaza,” he insisted that terrorists would intercept the aid packages.

“So if you deliver a large amount of humanitarian assistance, who’s it going to go to?” he asked. “The children in Gaza or to the Hamas fighters on the front line? I fear it’s going to go to Hamas.”

J.D. Vance opposes aid for Gaza children

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:27:58am

Living on the streets is a lot easier when you have a Tesla and free electricity.

A Tesla owner built a bed and make-shift kitchen for his Model X and lived in his electric car for a year, traveling to 49 states (Yahoo Finance)

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Unabogie  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:31:02am

re: #252 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Living on the streets is a lot easier when you have a Tesla and free electricity.

A Tesla owner built a bed and make-shift kitchen for his Model X and lived in his electric car for a year, traveling to 49 states (Yahoo Finance)

It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you start out with more money than most people see in a lifetime!

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:31:34am

re: #247 Backwoods Sleuth

Lot of clarity, there.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:31:53am

Speaker Jesusbot will go full steam to impeach Joe.

‘We’re the rule of law team’: Speaker Johnson hints at ‘official’ Biden impeachment

Sure you are you phony asshole!

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) suggested on Sunday that he would push his party to move forward with an “official” impeachment of President Joe Biden.

“Will an impeachment inquiry turn into an official impeachment?” Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Johnson on Sunday.

“We’ll see, Maria, you know, I worked on the committees of jurisdiction, a judiciary is one of those. I think our chairmen have done an exceptional job.”

Does that include covering for a child molester Speaker Jesusbot?

Johnson said he was “encouraging” the work of Chairmans James Comer (R-KY) and Jim Jordan (R-OH).

“I think we have a constitutional responsibility to follow this truth where it leads,” he continued. “We’re the rule of law team. We don’t use this for political partisan games like the Democrats have done and did against Donald Trump twice. We are going to follow the law and follow the Constitution.

“And I think we — you and I — have a suspicion of where that may lead, but we’re going to let the evidence speak for itself,” he added.

Bartiromo wondered if the president’s son, Hunter, should be subpoenaed.

“I’m looking at that, you know, I think that desperate times call for desperate measures and that perhaps is overdue,” Johnson remarked.

DO IT ASSHOLE!

WE DARE YOU!

Mike Johnson on impeachment

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jeffreyw  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:32:12am

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Dave In Austin  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:32:40am

re: #248 Dr Lizardo

And that film led to 1998’s The Prince of Egypt, a film I consider one of the greatest animated films ever made. The crossing of the Red Sea, with Hans Zimmer’s score - yeah, chef’s kiss on that one.

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And the reality is that it was just a exceptionally low tide that day.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:34:43am

re: #255 Joe Bacon ✅

Speaker Jesusbot will go full steam to impeach Joe.

‘We’re the rule of law team’: Speaker Johnson hints at ‘official’ Biden impeachment

Sure you are you phony asshole!

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) suggested on Sunday that he would push his party to move forward with an “official” impeachment of President Joe Biden.

“Will an impeachment inquiry turn into an official impeachment?” Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Johnson on Sunday.

“We’ll see, Maria, you know, I worked on the committees of jurisdiction, a judiciary is one of those. I think our chairmen have done an exceptional job.”

Does that include covering for a child molester Speaker Jesusbot?

Johnson said he was “encouraging” the work of Chairmans James Comer (R-KY) and Jim Jordan (R-OH).

“I think we have a constitutional responsibility to follow this truth where it leads,” he continued. “We’re the rule of law team. We don’t use this for political partisan games like the Democrats have done and did against Donald Trump twice. We are going to follow the law and follow the Constitution.

“And I think we — you and I — have a suspicion of where that may lead, but we’re going to let the evidence speak for itself,” he added.

Bartiromo wondered if the president’s son, Hunter, should be subpoenaed.

“I’m looking at that, you know, I think that desperate times call for desperate measures and that perhaps is overdue,” Johnson remarked.

DO IT ASSHOLE!

WE DARE YOU!

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And the “Rule of Law” party won’t dump Santos since they need the votes.

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Unabogie  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:35:32am

re: #255 Joe Bacon ✅

Bartiromo wondered if the president’s son, Hunter, should be subpoenaed.

“I’m looking at that, you know, I think that desperate times call for desperate measures and that perhaps is overdue,” Johnson remarked.

Let’s just harken back a few years in which is was considered completely out of bounds to go after Donnie’s corrupt kids.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:38:39am

re: #258 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

And the “Rule of Law” party won’t dump Santos since they need the votes.

Speaker Jesusbot defends Santos.

New House speaker signals opposition to expelling George Santos

washingtonblade.com

Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sat down Thursday with Fox News pundit Sean Hannity for his first one-on-one with a broadcast news outlet.

In a far ranging 40-minute plus interview, the speaker and Hannity broached a plethora of issues including the potential House vote to expel his fellow Republican, New York Congressman George Santos, next week.

Santos, who has been charged with a 23-count felony indictment by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, which alleges a bevy of financial crimes, was in federal court Friday and pled not guilty to additional charges in the indictment, including allegations of identity theft and transferring money to his personal bank account from a supporter’s credit card.

Johnson told Hannity that he had met with the authors of a House resolution to expel Santos. U.S. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.), backed by the entirety of the state’s freshman Republican House delegation, U.S. Reps. Nick LaLota, Mike Lawler, Marc Molinaro, Nick Langworthy and Brandon Williams, introduced the resolution, which will come to the House floor next Wednesday.

The resolution will require a two-thirds majority of the House to pass.

When queried by the Fox News personality regarding his stance on the Santos expulsion issue, the speaker signaled his opposition:

“Here’s the reality, Sean. We have a four-seat majority in the House. It is possible that that number may be reduced even more in the coming weeks and months, and so we will have what may be the most razor-thin majority in the history of the Congress. We have no margin for error. And so George Santos is due due process. We have to allow due process to play itself out. That’s what our system of justice is for. If we’re going to expel people from Congress just because they’re accused, that’s a problem.”

But when it comes to Bowman, Speaker Jesusbot sings another tune…

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darthstar  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:39:16am

re: #241 darthstar

Okay - got about an hour or so before I need to leave to pick up MIL for brunch. Think I’ll throw together a batch of persimmon cookies.

And we’re off…

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:41:21am

re: #240 Eventual Carrion

A Perfect Connections

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Not for me because ..

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Connections
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I was totally unfamiliar with the purple category

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:47:31am

re: #250 JC1

Life of Brian…

“…he’s a naught, naught boy.”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 9:51:54am

re: #254 Decatur Deb

Lot of clarity, there.

Perry did some good things outside of his acting career.

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darthstar  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:00:22am

Mountains on the moon.

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jaunte  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:03:02am

re: #265 darthstar

Cookies of the Flour Moon.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:05:11am

I am one of those weirdos who never watched an entire episode of Friends.
Or Cheers. I watched a Frasier once, and thought it was good but never watched another.
I watched one episode of Sex and the City out of curiosity and cultural masochism. It was about what I expected.
For that I watched most The Office and all of The Sopranos and Mad Men

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:06:10am

re: #265 darthstar

Mountains on the moon.

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I’m only OK about this because I’m eating right now. Screen-food is the least edible food.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:07:02am

re: #268 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I’m only OK about this because I’m eating right now. Screen-food is the least edible food.

Food pr0n is okay if it is amateur and home-made

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:11:17am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am one of those weirdos who never watched an entire episode of Friends.
Or Cheers. I watched a Frasier once, and thought it was good but never watched another.
I watched one episode of Sex and the City out of curiosity and cultural masochism. It was about what I expected.
For that I watched most The Office and all of The Sopranos and Mad Men

I did watch a few episodes of Cheers and Frasier and one episode of Seinfield, which I did not enjoy. Never watched any of the others you mentioned.

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:18:28am

re: #104 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Best example of of all the points you raised.

Babylon 5 4K “I’d like live just long enough…” -Vir Cotto Best of 2x16 In the Shadows of Z’ha’dum

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:19:16am

re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Food pr0n is okay if it is amateur and home-made

I’m not really complaining. If I hadn’t eaten, I’d walk about 25 feet and eat something.

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retired cynic  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:25:16am

At the origins of Ukraine
How a history begins can help us see how a war ends
snyder.substack.com

44 minute audio clip by Timothy Snyder

Really good! A little hard to hear. My ears aren’t working right currently (full of fluid), so it sounded a little funky, but I understood it.

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:26:27am

re: #133 TarHellion

That’s a movie I’m going to miss.

I still have gotten over The Mission. I can’t even hear the soundtrack without tearing up.

The Mission • On Earth as It Is in Heaven • Ennio Morricone

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:35:04am

re: #133 TarHellion

It’s my Birbie and it flies if it wants to, flies if wants to…

Heading this afternoon to see Killers of the Flower Moon with a friend. At nearly nearly 3.5 hours, will probably need a bathroom break during the movie. Saw where some theaters had gotten in trouble with the studio by offering an intermission. Ridiculous.

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I might need a couple of breaks for a movie that long.

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jeffreyw  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:36:17am

re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Food pr0n is okay if it is amateur and home-made

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:36:26am

re: #271 Romantic Heretic

Best example of of all the points you raised.

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And B5 did pay off on it as well. It helped that the creator had a general plot arch for the series worked out which let the series to have something to work towards. Which can be a weakness, but it also generally avoids all the series who seem to paint themselves into corners due to not having a course and then essentially give up or just go for something completely illogical or outlandish.

I recall watching Blake’s 7 on PBS back in the late 80s or so. I think I missed the early episodes, so what I mainly saw was Avon leading the group and the Liberator and a later ship. What caught me was the interactions between the crew and that this was less a group of idealists than a mixed bunch trying to survive who had their internal as well as external pressures affecting decisions. And the series ending is jarring since it’s a logical end to the series without making it happy in any way. (I had a sort of similar reaction to some of my early anime watching since here was animation series doing character development and serious situations which made the genre more than just childrens’ fare.)

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jaunte  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:40:38am

Trump not shamed, but forced his lawyers to go along with his ridiculous PR/legal tactic of lying to his fans that the government DESTROYED the records of the Jan 6 Committee.

Lawyers included a footnote in their filing for their own protection stating that they had not read all of the discovery production.

Jack Smith COMPLETELY SHAMES Trump for LYING in Filing

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jaunte  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:41:18am

ETTD

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gocart mozart  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:44:11am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:38:46am

re: #270 Hecuba’s daughter

I did watch a few episodes of Cheers and Frasier and one episode of Seinfield, which I did not enjoy. Never watched any of the others you mentioned.

I also never watched a whole episode of Seinfeld.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:43:25am

re: #280 gocart mozart

He was second in his class at West Point, a member of the army’s elite corp of engineers, West Point superintendent, and offered a significant command of the US army in 1861 was the commanding general. Hardly mediocre.

Not mediocre, but clearly on the Wrong Side of History. And it isn’t as if he didn’t have a choice. It is also fully fitting that his Arlington estate was turned into a cemetery for Civil War dead.

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silverdolphin  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:00:02pm

re: #255 Joe Bacon ✅

Speaker Jesusbot will go full steam to impeach Joe.

‘We’re the rule of law team’: Speaker Johnson hints at ‘official’ Biden impeachment

Sure you are you phony asshole!

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) suggested on Sunday that he would push his party to move forward with an “official” impeachment of President Joe Biden.

“Will an impeachment inquiry turn into an official impeachment?” Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Johnson on Sunday.

“We’ll see, Maria, you know, I worked on the committees of jurisdiction, a judiciary is one of those. I think our chairmen have done an exceptional job.”

Does that include covering for a child molester Speaker Jesusbot?

Johnson said he was “encouraging” the work of Chairmans James Comer (R-KY) and Jim Jordan (R-OH).

“I think we have a constitutional responsibility to follow this truth where it leads,” he continued. “We’re the rule of law team. We don’t use this for political partisan games like the Democrats have done and did against Donald Trump twice. We are going to follow the law and follow the Constitution.

“And I think we — you and I — have a suspicion of where that may lead, but we’re going to let the evidence speak for itself,” he added.

Bartiromo wondered if the president’s son, Hunter, should be subpoenaed.

“I’m looking at that, you know, I think that desperate times call for desperate measures and that perhaps is overdue,” Johnson remarked.

DO IT ASSHOLE!

WE DARE YOU!

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It will only increase Biden’s popularity. This along with shutting down the government and filling every appropriations bill with poison bills will also not help. Then passing bills outlawing the sale of various abortion drugs and contraceptives will be the toppers.

They will do some really stupid things in the next year.


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