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Watching The Fall, and on our next to last episode. Gillian Anderson vs. a serial killer. She's perfect in this.
I loved her in the X-Files but have never got around to The Fall.
Hopefully watching a livestream concert on Saturday. My favourite singer is at one of the biggest metal festivals in Europe, if not the world, and her set is going to be on their livestream. She's done this festival at least three times as a band member but never solo.
I love it when two bands I love get together and produce something that is more than the sum of the parts. Lord of the Lost are a German dark rock/metal band who I came across when they represented Germany in Eurovision. Within Temptation are from The Netherlands and are one of the OGs of symphonic metal. This song brings them together to spectacular effect.
OMG, they've gone to the War of the Worlds well again. And they've added some weird new element about the aliens feeding on data???? The war machines look great, though.
I mean the novel is public domain and is the root of the whole alien invasion subgenre but it still seems a bit overdone and most recent versions have pulled in elements from other alien invasion movies to the point of losing H. G. Wells' original story and point. IOW, they might as well call them something else and just cite Wells as an influence. Oh well, so goes Hollywood. I suppose this means we'll get half a dozen more "adaptations" as happened when the Spielberg-Cruise version came out (which, to its credit, was actually a decent modernization of the original).
Welp, the title might raise some eyebrows but Ping is in the comp. Bracing for impact. Hopefully will have time to read it today. Any more? There's still time.
https://www.storiesspace.com/stories/romance/dcks-tts-swastkas
And good morning. Fresh pots of tea and coffee are on. And there's cookies.
Dualities can confuse, compromise, complicate, and even compliment, if one’s mind remains open…
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The Mets are playing well and had a great chance to make the playoffs. With Judge out, the Mets are the best team in NYC.
After all these years of listening to Verbs moan about the Mets, I now feel like I have stepped into some weird alternate reality.🤔😁
This one looks like fun. Soldiers in Vietnam apparently end up in the Cretaceous or something. Dinosaurs galore and the effects look pretty good, at least in the trailer. And some of the dinos have feathers!! A known, demonstrated fact about dinosaurs that the Jurassic Park/World movies haven't really touched yet. It's low budget, so may not be exactly Jurassic Park level but give me some well done dinos (WITH FEATHERS!!!!), and I'll be in.
And, yes, I think the "This ain't no walk in the park" line is a dig at those Jurassic movies.
Welcome back. Sounds like a fun trip. Fossil redwoods sounds cool.
You've got lots of reading to do. 15 entries in the comp and 5 days left. And, of course, an entry from you is always welcome but I know you're just back so we'll excuse you this time if you don't.
And Happy Birthday!! Steak and cake sounds pretty good for a celebration (and rhymes nicely).
Submersible. I'd be terrified but being "inside" would be less terrifying than standing out in the open on a mountain like that. And I'm fascinated by marine life so I would hopefully be too glued to the window/monitor to notice how much water I am under. 😋
Explore an uncharted part of Earth or head to Mars (I'm sure Elon could arrange it)?
Pretty hot here, too. Still waiting for my new concrete driveway. Too hot to pour again (for the workers, not the concrete). Crossing fingers we get it this week.
Fresh Haliburton Highlands coffee is brewed. There's some Assam Organic and Scottish Breakfast for teas. Pitchers are fill to the tippy top with lemonade and iced tea. Soda stock looks good. Put some popsicles of assorted flavours in the freezer given the weather some of us are experiencing. There's ice cream, too.
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It was very different from the original Fantastic Four mythology, but they covered it at the start of the movie by noting it was Earth-282. This is not the universe of the original FF.
The Marvel Universe has been changed, spun off, merged, etc. so many times that the MCU has become a real mashup of different iterations. Fury as Black, for instance, is apparently from the old Ultimates universe which eventually got merged back into the main universe. When I was a kid, he was a white WWII veteran and they even had a series of war comics chronicling his war service. Of course, the MCU has its own multiversal shenanigans happening, too.
As to upcoming movies, it's only just announced so probably a way's off yet, but Toho Studios, owners of the Godzilla IP, are finally doing a sequel to the wonderful 2016 Godzilla reboot Shin Godzilla. Looking forward to see if lightning can strike twice because Shin Godzilla is my favourite since the 1954 original (though I haven't seen Godzilla Minus One yet and it has also been highly praised).
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I was asking because circumstances like having spotty wifi, or having wifi cut off, because of not being able to pay a bill may prevent one from answering quickly and I wonder if circumstances like that are taken into consideration at all.
I imagine Molly would leave it out there and just go ahead with the announcement but I'm not sure. I suspect she would give it some time in hopes they were just away and would eventually respond. Hopefully she sees this and chimes (once again, we need tagging).
It's likely they would eventually get connected somehow. Libraries and similar institutions often have free wi-fi and encourage people in those situations to avail themselves of it (at least around here). Even the malls around here have it.
