Good morning! I think everyone's fantasy on a Monday is that there are caffeinated beverages available.

Tattoo yells, "Da plane, boss, da plane."

in Ricardo Montalban's sumptuous accent

Ah, I see our guests have arrived. Smiles, everyone.

Welcome to Fantasy Cafe. Your fantasies shall be fulfilled by a pot of hot, strong Nicaraguan dark roast coffee.

Ah, your fantasy involves leaves, not beans? Here's some Assam and Irish Breakfast teas.

It's too hot for you? Well, there are iced tea and lemonade waiting, as well.

Your rooms are prepared. Are you ready to have your fantasies fulfilled?

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Does anyone remember the Love Boat and Fantasy Island? A different set of "stars" would be on each week.

Indeed, I do. Mom was into the former due to its parade of old movie and TV stars. I did watch with her a lot. I preferred Fantasy Island, though, with its darker, weirder tone.

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Loosely based on a Bradbury story I think. Great old movie.

Nope, that's The Beast From 20000 Fathoms, based on his short story The Foghorn (the original story is basically one short sequence in the film). That's one of the best pre-Godzilla kaiju films (1953) and is credited as an Inspiration for the first Godzilla film.

Good morning all. Coffee is brewed, teapots are full, fridge has fresh cold bevvies. Hope you're enjoying your weekend. It is lovely here.

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Could your kaiju be a fakey-looking B&W giant iguana from out of a 50s movie?

So back in my misspent youth, an independent station out of Buffalo that we received ran old s-f movies on Saturday afternoons. It's where I saw a lot of Showa-era Godzilla and Gamera movies (there were also after school movies on another Buffalo station that occasionally had "Monster Week" that also ran a lot of classic Big G). And I am pretty sure they had one about a giant gila monster (venomous lizard from the US Southwest and Mexico). But IIRC, they used a real gila monster rampaging through a miniature village.

One monster, admittedly rather similar to Godzilla in some respects, that I keep coming around to is Gorgo. Terrific British kaiju movie about a mother monster rampaging through London in search of her child.

Edentate - terrorize

Corn, though I generally like any kind of flat bread.

Look at the stars through a telescope or just drink in the sight with your own eyes?

Whatever was bugging my right ear (probably just a big ball of wax) seems to have cleared, at least a bit. My hearing is better and my tinnitus has lessened.

So I started on the kaiju story I mentioned yesterday and realized why I dropped it before. I don't know what the kaiju should look like. In the first version I wrote some time ago (like, years), I was just picturing my old buddy Godzilla but since we don't do fanfic here, I probably need to come up with something a bit more original (or at least so obscure that the mods won't notice 😉). Hmm. Giant bug of some kind might be fun, but a dinosaur-ish creature or something mammalian a la Kong could be justified as a "smart" kaiju moreso than a bug could be.

Anyhow, that's enough rambling. Coffee is brewing. There's English Breakfast and Lemon teas in the teapots. Hot water is on for other hot beverages. Iced tea (unsweet) and lemonade are refreshed and the sodas are stocked up.

Have a good one!!

Cart - Curt

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Please write this.

It might happen. I need to get something on the front burner because my back burner is kind of full.

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I remember those Airport movies. They were around the tine of all those disaster movies, right? Posieden Adventure? Towering Inferno?

Yep. The original Airport was earlier (1970) and I guess was part of the gestation of that whole genre but the sequels were pretty much part of the seventies wave of disaster movies.

Hm. I've never written a disaster story (well, I guess my latest on another site is kind of one). Something to consider as I try to break out of my slump. I've had an idea kicking around for a while about a couple trying to survive in a city that had the hell stomped out of it by a kaiju and that is now kind of the kaiju's turf but never got too far with it.

Hmmm. Toughie, really. Santana, I think. Great guitarist is an understatement with him.

Wired earbuds or Bluetooth?

Hmm. Quiet here these days.

Anyhow, the coffee is brewed and waiting. There's Red Rose and Earl Grey in the teapots. Iced tea and lemonade are in the fridge as usual.

Hope everyone is well. Later.

The Dark Side of the Moon (the cover band, not the album) dropped a new song ahead of their album release tomorrow. Guest singer Fabienne Erni joins lead vocalist Melissa Bonny in a terrific performance. I love this band and am eager to hear the full album tomorrow.

Dishwasher but some things have to be done by hand.

CD or vinyl?

Good morning folks. I recall seeing ads and trailers for the later Airport movies but not sure I ever watched any. Airplane, on the other hand...🤣

Coffee is brewed. There's Earl Grey and Assam in the teapots. Iced tea and lemonade are in the pitchers. Checked soda stocks, too.

Later.

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Have I mentioned the Mets suck?

Ah, the lovely spring call of the rare fanus Metus. 🤣

Thanks for setting up. I'll have a double decker bus and some Tasmanian Twist.

Back to flailing at writing now that my comp entry for another site is done. Ideas, I got 'em. But somehow writing them out takes more effort than I seem to be willing to expend. Or something like that.

Later.

Yeesh, forgot to come in and put the coffee on. Sorry (though it looks like I am first in).

Coffee pot is filled with a nice Jamaican Blue Mountain. Teas are Red Rose and Japanese Red Tea. Hot water is on for other beverages. Pitchers of unsweet iced tea and lemonade are in the fridge.

Hope you're all having a nice weekend!!

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I wanted to let everyone know we will soon be getting a cover story creator. This will make it easier to add text to the photo of your choice.

This sounds like fun, actually. I don't usually go to the effort of adding text to images, just make the adjustments I need to make it fit. With something like this, that might change.

Apes comes in, does a graceful leap followed by a pirouette, then stops and looks at the confused faces

Spring weather in these here parts this weekend. Warm, sunny today, rainy tomorrow.

Putting on some Ethiopian Yirgacheffe for the coffee crowd. Teas are English Breakfast and Earl Grey. Cold beverages are in their pitchers in the fridge.

Have a nice weekend, y'all!

Had to look up monkey puzzle tree but I think holly

Take out or eat in the restaurant?

Lymphangiogram - amidst

Mane - Cane

Devil's Cucumber sounds like something that belongs on another site, but whatever. 😈

Good morning to all those seeking inspiration in pots of coffee and tea. May you find it here, or at least find something to wake you up.

Nice weather here until Sunday it appears. We shall see, I guess.

So there's a dark roast Nicaraguan in the coffee pot. Teas are Assam and Sencha (japanese green). There's fresh pitchers of unsweet iced tea and lemonade in the fridge, along with a nice assortment of sodas.

(Actually, Joni Mitchell was the first, I guess, then Kate).

Well, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced 2023 inductees and, while I am bit cynical about things like this, the first name in the first list of them that I saw sure got my attention: Kate Bush. I discovered Kate early in her career via her being an early adopter of music video as a way to promote her music and have stuck with her since. She was probably the first of many female singer-songwriters to have attracted my attention, too.

Anagram - amorphous

Morning, y'all. The Texan I have been dealing with at work is rubbing off on me.

Coffee is Jamaican and hot and ready. Teas are Earl Grey and Red Rose. Iced tea and lemonade are refreshed.

Weather sucks again but is supposed to improve tomorrow.

I think I might need to sideline the sequels and try something else. They just aren't catching fire right now.

I shall join you in the iced tea (but only lemon in mine) and take a beach ball and a sun. Definitely not beach weather here so need the reminder that it is coming.

Sigh. Another one of the greats is gone. Gordon Lightfoot, the pride of Orillia, Ontario and one of the best songwriters of his generation, has died at 84. What a career. I have been listening to a compilation of his first four albums and there's deep cuts that I had forgotten about that are easily as good as the hits. Anyhow, this is one of his best, and best-known, songs.

And from the same concert, a personal favorite

Giving Dark Mode a whirl. Looks good, actually, and haven't seen any issues yet. I am generally not fond of dark modes so will probably switch back eventually, but looking good for a dark mode.