Tagline: For every decision, there’s a consequence
Have you every watched ‘Groundhog Day’ and wondered what it would be like as a weekly police procedural TV show? Apparently Paul Zbyszewski did. He’s the creator of the TV series ‘Day Break’, a show that ran for one season from 2006-2007 on ABC.
Today Detective Brett Hopper will be accused of shooting state attorney Alberto Garza. He will offer his rock solid alibi. He will realize he’s been framed. And he will run. Then he will wake up and start the day over again.
‘Day Break’ starred Taye Diggs as Brett Hopper, re-living the same day over and over again while trying to figure out who has framed him and why he’s stuck in this loop. Each episode mostly consisted of a single day, learning from each previous attempt through that day Hopper gains new information on why he’s stuck. This new information may be helpful or it may just lead farther down an existential rabbit hole.
Along the way Hopper sees how his decisions can change how the day plays out, for better or worse. Getting the chance to repeat encounters gives him greater insight into the people around him and some of them may turn out to not be who he thought they were. People like his ex-partner Chad (Adam Bladwin – Firefly – “I’ll be in my bunk.”) who has become spiteful and suspicious of Hopper; or Detective Spivak (Mitch Pileggi – The X-Files – Skinner) the detective trying to take him down for the assassination.
‘Day Break’ keeps the repeating day motif fresh for the entire run, working in new plot threads and never getting to the tedium that such a concept could produce. Unlike some 1 season shows, it does resolve the central plot, and in a satisfactory way, and manage to leave room for the story to continue had they chosen to do so. When this show first aired I don’t remember ever hearing of it. It was only a couple years later when it appeared on Netflix that I saw it, and I thoroughly enjoyed, enough that I bought the DVD and have watched the whole run again. I don’t believe it is streaming anywhere right now, but if this all sounds interesting to you, maybe pick up the DVD.
I’d do anything to First…but I won’t. Do. That.
The that is anal sex.
Your comment is a few days past being relevant.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2021/07/i-hated-meatloaf/ would have been quipy, this is just sad.
“Zbyszewski”
I’m trying to pronounce that, but nothing is happening.
spih-SHEV-skee
OK?
Throat Warbler Mangrove?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluffy-backed_tit-babbler
We record everything.
The Tour de France has been crazy this year. The coverage team is just off with Paul Sherwen’s passing. Paul Burmeister continues to have no business on the crew.
NewWife watches Alone pretty much alone. I can’t stand a reality show where the contestants are characterized as experts when they constantly make mistakes that I repented of before my nuts dropped; see also almost every home improvement and flipping show.
My guilty pleasure is Engine Masters on Motortrend. It’s just dyno pull after pull with the fun math I figured out 40 years ago and share here from time to time. They got 2.5HP/cubic inch out of 500 inch big block last week . . . before nitrous.
Formula 1 is more fun this year, but the only way Redbull got in the game is that the formula was tweaked to hurt Mercedes enough to bring everyone else up a notch. I hate hybrid racing and all the automation and would much prefer to see 20 guys racing identically prepped 1968 Chevelle SS: shift your own gears like a man. It’s hard to see old favorites hang on. In a hat tip to ethnocentrism, I pull for McLaren even though Bruce has been dead since before Watergate.
It sounds a lot like Boss Level. Which is movie that came out on Hulu this year.
Does he take off his top at any point?
/a gal-pal and I had this question when the show came out
You can see that he does in the trailer I posted.
“Tayyyee Diiiiggs” LOL that was a punchline between us for awhile. Maybe that announcer is where it came from.
This was a difficult show concept for show longevity. One season then done. It doesn’t lend itself for a series.
I will look for it and give it a try.
I think if there was another season it would have delved more into hows. I’m not sure they meant for another season at all, but they did leave an opening in case.
ABC isn’t Netflix or Amazon, but I imagine they could make a min-series or limited series.
I just don’t think they would. They want 5 years with re-runs.
I want to make a movie called Groundhog Training Day, where a naive, rookie groundhog has to spend the day with a cynical, violent, older groundhog.
There could be a whole series: The Longest Groundhog Day, Groundhog Day of the Dead, The Groundhog Day the Earth Stood Still, The Groundhog Day After Tomorrow, The Groundhog Day of the Jackal, the Groundhog Day of the Triffids…
Three Days of the Groundhog.
28 Groundhog Days
Strange Groundhog Days
Terminator 2: Judgement Groundhog Day
Ferris Bueller’s Groundhog Day Off
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Groundhog Days
Groundhog, Groundhog, Groundhog
Blazing Groundhog Days
West Groundhog Day Story
Birth of a Groundhog Day
Das Groundhog Tag
A Groundhog Called Wanda
A Groundhog Named Desire
101 Groundhogs
All Groundhogs Go to Heaven
Planet of the Groundhogs
The Groundhog and the Darkness
The Groundhog of the Baskervilles
Ordinary Groundhogs.
Plan Groundhog from Outer Space.
Planet of Groundhogs.
Uwe Boll inspired:
Alone with the Groundhog
House of the Groundhog
A Hard Groundhog Day’s Night
Poundhog Day: a pubescent woodchuck gets his thickwood watching Russian beaver on chaturbate all day
Several groundhogs have taken up residence under my neighbor’s sauna.
We have tried live traps (caught nothing but squirrels), country music all night long, and mothballs.
They laugh at us. They taunt us.
I think we’ll try the pellet gun next. Fuckers!
How to remove a groundhog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkMUwx47Qz4
try a turkey decoy
A dachshund. My FiL had a little fat one (so fat his dick drug on the ground), who would murder all rodents; groundhog, squirrel, rabbit.
He would then stand over his kills and eat them. NO ONE could take them from him.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9bec554e-9511-428b-b825-62fb07337286\
try a squirrel decoy
I remember a tv show about a cop who simultaneously lived in two different time lines. One his kid died in a car accident in the other his wife died and the kid lived.
He woke up each morning in a different reality with a different partner and case he was working.
So, you might say he was….time loose?
That was Awake, another series I may cover.
That it. It was canceled too soon.
Jason Isaacs and Dylan Minnette as his kid was really good. He has a band that I hear from the kid is fairly popular (though having a tv star in it doesn’t hurt, I’m sure).
Jason Isaacs and Dylan Minnette as his kid was really good. He has a band that I hear from the kid is fairly popular (though having a tv star in it doesn’t hurt, I’m sure).
I only remember doing it once. TIME TRAVEL SHENANIGANS
I only remember doing it once. TIME TRAVEL SHENANIGANS
?
Time traveling squirrels!
oh thank god, dumping the cache worked.
Doctor Who status confirmed.
Russian Doll was a TV show with the Groundhogs Day idea, except it wasn’t every day, it was her dying by freak accidents randomly. Natasha Lyonne. And it was pretty good, at least the first season.
I’m reminded of Run Lola Run (or more properly, Lola rennt). I love that movie.
That is a good movie.
I was just thinking about Run Lola Run on Sunday. Great film. Think I’ll rent it right now.
Speaking of looping movies Edge of Tomorrow was surprisingly entertaining. Basically it was Ground Hog Day with an aliens invasion and all the remaining countries respond with a humorous joint army of morons in tech suits.
Yeah I was skeptical because Tom Cruise but I really liked it.
I was going to post that. I am a reluctant fan of Tom Cruise. He’s an annoying asshole but, damn, he comes up with some good flicks.
His role in Tropic Thunder was epic
He was playing Harvey Weinstein, by all accounts.
Yes! He also seems to work hard in his moviemaking. Would have been easy for someone in his position to sit out many/most of the stunts in Mission Impossible.
I firmly believe that Tom Cruise only makes movies so he can do the stunts. He gets off on it. They sold him on doing that shitty Mummy movie with a plane stunt.
He is very competent. Despite that fact that I find him to be a weirdo, he does not detract from some movies I like like this one or Minority Report.
I was actually suprised at how well in did in “Valkyrie”. No real stunts though.
He can rock the Hugo Bass better than say… Neil Patrick Harris.
Tucker just said the Sec. of State is asking the UN to investigate the US for “racism”.
Every time I think there’s no new low this administration could stoop to….
But then it occurred to me that the UN has probably been doing it already for decades. On the rare occasions they can be bothered to draw their attention away from Israel.
I’m sure they’ll get right to investigating Iran and Saudi Arabia for anti-antisemitism.
“anti-antisemitism”
The fuck spellchecker? That should be “antisemitism”
OK, anti-anti-racist.
I loathe these assholes.
That has to be a joke. I get that the hard left would love it. But imagine ordinary, center-left types hearing the Biden administration did that. That’s a great way to lose swing seats and swing states.
You’d think it was a joke, but you’d be wrong.
JFC.
Yes
“(Adam Bladwin – Firefly – “I’ll be in my bunk.”)”
So what was the best TV show that lasted only one season?
“My Mother The Car”
LOL I had the misfortune of seeing some of that on one of the Boomer re-run channels recently. Just terrible.
Never seen it.
Rhywun had it right. This guy’s mother dies and is reincarnated into his antique auto of the same year of her birth. She “spoke” through the radio. Running plot was that some rich guy wanted to buy the car for his collection but the owner wouldn’t sell (“It’s Mom, dammit!”)
Yeah, as bad as you might think.
I just went down a Youtube rathole that ended with Michael Stipe and Natalie Merchant and friends playing live on MTV.
Wow, what a different age it was.
Their (10k Maniacs) Because the Night cover from Unplugged was a radio staple once upon a time.
They were yuge in my neck of the woods being from Jamestown. Saw them live a couple times. Her politics are tediously predictable but I like her voice and the band is solid. Stopped following them after she left.
But yeah, can you imagine a band like that commanding audiences on MTV these days?!
I can’t see MTV playing any music these days.
I seem to recall them getting a yuge boost when a very tween Chelsea Clinton named them as her favorite band in 1992 or so.
Dennis Miller (!) mentioned that in his MTV intro in one of the linked videos.
Manimal or Cop Rock?
Dennis Leary’s The Job.
“Never mess with a black man’s shrimp!”
Here is a clip, with bonus Keith David!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_93jIGX7nCc&ab_channel=steeltown98
I watched the clip and was instantly hooked. Then look it up to see how it got cancelled. I don’t know specifically, but it came out in March of 2000, then in Sept of that year, some people did some things and all of a sudden, a show that makes NYPD look like the gold brickers they are is no more.
Yeah, and after that we got some shlock about firefighters and their feelings.
Rescue Me was good though.
September 2000? Ohio State beat the crap out of Penn State 45-6. I don’t know how that reflects poorly on the NYPD, though.
Dammit, March 2001.
Manimal
RAWRRRRRR
“The Master”, Lee Van Cleef as a ninja master, what could possibly be better than that?
The first episode also stars Demi Moore. Fun Fact – Sho Kosugi played the antagonist, but was also Van Cleef’s stunt double in the fighting scenes. Clever editing was employed.
All the short-lived spin-offs of The Brady Bunch: The Brady Brides, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, The Bradys, and The Brady Kids (animated)?
“Biden to send child tax credits to 39million families starting TOMORROW with parents of children under the age of 17 getting up to $300 a month per kid”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9788107/Biden-send-child-tax-credits-39million-families-starting-TOMORROW.html
That’s a huge ass bribe to single mothers.
Sure, why not? I mean, we have all that cash lying around burning a hole in our pockets. Might as well throw it at somebody.
You can’t really put a price tag on the value of buying a vote for the Democrats.
5.9 T is a nice round number. A year from now all the money will be gone, no tangible changes, proving that it will take another round of infrastructure to accomplish these really big projects.
*makes huffing and puffing sound while pinching the corner of a gravid 100 dollar bill*
As I understand the payments, they’re an ADVANCE on the child tax credit the parents would normally claim in their tax return. So next Feb through April a bunch of parents are going to be disappointed when their tax refund is much lower than usual.
Or, even better, when they owe money because they were gonna have less than a $3k refund.
Exactly. Most people don’t plan ahead for their tax return, revising their withholding to attain a minimal refund/payment.
This could bite the Democrats/Biden in the ass if people are upset. The current articles aren’t really explaining the implications.
Still time to adopt some orphans that would qualify. I might do that, like buying a car with a very long finance time. What do I care, I’ll won’t have to worry too long, according to the actuarial tables.
Will give them something to think about at the polls in November. Of course, the Dems will blame it on the GOP, the media will pile on, and the Dems will up the ante to $1,000 per month per child.
From my understanding they increased the credit so it’s just an advance on the increase not the entire credit. But who knows, the tax code is so ridiculous.
If you all want a movie that is one part time travel an one part groundhog’s day I would recommend Primer.
Be prepared for a movie that is very confusing ( at first watch) with very low production value. It will take a few repeat viewings to get the convoluted plot. Time travel is messy.
It is worth the time if you have it, but if you get frustrated by the stuff I mentioned above avoid it.
FYI,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)
That’s been on my watch-list forever. I mean, come on.
One of the first major indie movie releases to be shot on pro-sumer digital cameras.
Time Travel movie no one Knows about? Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel. That one is streaming on HBO Max.
That was a fun movie.
Fuck. I think I left my earbuds in my hotel room.
What city is your hotel in? Yoy on vacay or business? One of my associates couldn’t rent a car in Seattle, and barely got a hotel in Clackamas for business Thursday night. It’s bonkers right now.
Medford & biz. I bounce between there and Bend and elsewhere. It’s always been high year round compared to other regions and bad in summer time (except last year) but it’s worse now. Rates are through the roof and still selling out, higher this week than 4th of July week. I was happy to land at a BW for $200/night Monday. If it was pleasure, I’d stay home.
I’ll call tomorrow morning and see if Housekeeping turned it in. The night clerk was not helpful.
Be safe out there.
BW?
Best Western.
Just got back from FLA. Wife left the kid’s Kindle fire on a plane and my wireless charging pad is missing. Oh, well they’re cheap enough.
Also well fuck.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_LaBar
The Grim Reaper is starting to take the fixtures of my youth. Well, the ones who didn’t OD with a stripper in a Red Roof Inn 30 years ago. Was never a Cinderella fan but hell.
That’s unfortunate. Cinderella is a guilty pleasure.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LUkqBRC1zUA
That was fun.
Lightning strike took out half a tree in the back yard.
Then, an hour and half of tornado warnings.
It’s a good thing that I have a finished basement.
I guess you shouldn’t have put a BLM mural on that tree.
Full of booze.
Over under on Trump asking the UN to investigate the US for crooked elextions after he wins in ’24?
I doubt he gets the nomination in 2024.
If he runs, nobody serious will go against him. They’ll wait until he’s not on the ticket. No one wants to start out a loser. Trump declares and it’s his.
In the latest instance of progjection, it’s claimed the head of the Joint Chiefs chairman Milley feared that Trump would stage a “Reichstag moment” to stay in power. He apparently had visions of the Million MAGA March turning into violent brown shirts overturning the government.
What’s sad is that this all sells to a large segment of the US population. From calling Trump supporters Nazis to him having a wide smile behind his mask. It’s pure propaganda spoon fed to the progressive base that can only rally itself around its hatred of Trump.
They have never been more scared of a man than they are of Trump.
Speaking of movies.
They are pulling the lease from one of the best drive-in theaters in the country.
They land lord is leasing the land to a solar energy company.
The drive in was featured in a documentary about how they saved it after not having the money to buy a new projector. They now have vintage film movies and festivals every weekend.
https://nepascene.com/2021/07/planned-solar-farm-threatens-demolish-historic-mahoning-drive-in-lehighton/
I rebuilt about twenty 70mm Norelco projectors for the Hateful Eight release. They are amazing machines. We also removed a bunch of them and replaced them with digital stuff. That was a fun gig. Got to go to an early screening at the Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Blvd, too. The projector had a jiggle that was driving me crazy. I badly wanted to go fix it before the movie started, but I just lived with it.
I don’t get why drive-ins are dying out. It’s a better experience than going into a crowded movie theater with a sticky floor and little bastards all around you.
They were a fixture in my youth. Cheap family entertainment, often double features. Bonus, we’d make our own popcorn at home and save the concession prices.
Also, see “Passion Pit”.
My brother and I hopped the fence to the drive in to see Apocalypse Now. We brought a transistor radio and a bunch of beer/pot. Just sat up on one of the berms and clipped the lead to our little radio. Had to hide a few times when the security car made it’s rounds. 5 points in Oxnard.
Drive-ins are made for horny teenagers. Like I said, I don’t get it. You park your car, you get your privacy.
BTW kudos for the clever logo, CP.
Sometimes life is worth living.
Oh, my Ruca:
https://youtu.be/uH0TUiewtSM
*shit-eating grin*
…Women are wonderful.
Yes. Yes we are. Thanks for noticing. 😉
You’re very welcome. Thank you all for existing.
I’m not sure what that was…but I like it.
Sublime, Quasi love song, Regga/Punk.
Obligatory musical follow up post:
https://youtu.be/peOizn-hbBU
I’m happy.
Behind on reading and posting – traveling for reserve stuff this week. Did see this article featuring laowhy86 (from Advchina) – https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/13/op-ed-american-corporations-must-stop-selling-out-to-chinas-brutal-regime-.html
Companies with integrity? Those don’t exist. It’s hypocritical woke-ism all the way down.
While that’s true, I also think it’s also a market opportunity. A movie company that did something crazy, like make a good movie that didn’t care who is upset, could make a bunch of money.
I don’t think Mel Brooks is making movies any more.
We’re all poorer for it.
There’s a market opportunity for someone who just doesn’t give a fuck, but Hollywood is such an insulated little world filled with nepotism that it’s hard for that niche to even get filled. Someone who just made movies for an American audience could probably make some hay off anti-Chinese sentiment alone.* But getting started, finding the talent to work with and all that? Not easy to do and probably not worth the risk.
*The Chinese could be the villains in all kinds of action movies or dramas. All kinds of stories you could tell. And plenty of people would consume it because the Chinese government aint even popular among leftists who exist outside the beltway and Northeast bubbles where they’ve cozied up to the commies.
I know. Anschultz has come at this from the right. See: https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.anschutz_film_group_llc.6ed6d5bb96991c4901aa6f842caf8e1b.html
Imagine if Thiel threw some pocket change at an independent studio simply because he wanted decent entertainment.
It’s been one of those days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0
NSFW for language.
What’s going on? I thought you landed a dream job and moved to Kansas?
How are there no riots complete with pitchfork wielding townspeople?
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/07/14/more-than-40-percent-of-baltimore-high-school-students-earned-a-grade-point-average-below-1-0/
I mean, it’s easy to blame the schools but the reality is that results that poor are a product of the community. There are no pitchfork wielding city folk because most of those parents are so disengaged from the lives of their children that they don’t know or care how they’re performing in school. It’s a completely broken culture in those inner cities.
The argument the article is making stands, but more in the sense that the few good kids deserve a chance to go to a school that is an actual school with other students who actually somewhat care. Or at least have enough structure in their lives that they are forced to care. Instead, the few who might actually try and or excel in the right environment are stuck being dragged down by the absolute piles of shit they are surrounded by.
I completely agree about the culture. I would think the parents who do care about their kids would be up in arms.
Those parents have probably moved their kids to private or homeschooling or moved to an area with less shitty public schools.
I hope she never taught math or science because she doesn’t understand either one.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/14/teachers-union-weingarten-desantis-millions-die/
Doesn’t the hyperbole wear thin after a whole?
Here we still are despite:
*Acid rain
*Killer “Africanized” Bees (problematic term in retrospect)
* Ice age
* climate change causing more hurricanes and tornadoes
*cell phone tumors
*net neutrality
*latchkey kids
*dungeons/dragons and other RPG
* COVID
*kids getting kidnapped from their yards
*violent video games
*plastic grocery bags
And so forth.
I’m actually banking on her being legitimately stupid here. She is the head of a teacher’s union. She is a petty little political creature too stupid to even coherently follow the narrative.
Don’t forget plastic straws!
I went to two dinners where someone at the table blurted out, “no straws!” on behalf of everyone without asking. Oddly enough, that seems to have vanished as quickly and uniformly as it appeared.
Call me crazy, but it’s almost like a huge number are essentially puppets of the New York Times and NPR.
Tony Blinken needs to swing from the gallows. There’s more than two witnesses to his overt act at this point.
Witnesses?
I just hope someone in the RNC is already crafting campaign ads.
I’m assuming Gustave is referring to the UN racism thing. I don’t know what else he could be talking about.
The career bureaucrats are back in charge of foreign policy and relations and they are doing just a bang-up job. They make Trump and his kids look like fucking savants.
That’s the funny part. I didn’t like Trump though I agree he got some things right. His administration was often amateurish. And you are right Bro, they look like consummate professionals compared to the Biden administration.
Biden went out of his way to deliberately choose the direct opposite of every Trump appointment and curiously enough that turned out to be the absolute worst person for each position.
Yes. What he did is flat out treason.
I sure the knuckleheads will screw up even ending the Cuban embargo. I hate siding with the commie apologists, but it should have ended years ago.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kWejq8_FxI0
Get off my dick. ?
“Day Break” – added to Amazon shopping list.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/video/5785619-new-jersey-operation-results-in-arrests-of-31-alleged-sexual-predators/
“Bag of candy and a puppy.”
Having someone give you a hand job after they were playing with a puppy is just unsanitary.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/bill-that-would-decriminalize-marijuana-introduced-on-the-federal-level/article_3ed7b3f6-e508-11eb-9a36-6f61a8bbe19b.html
I don’t see it happening in the near future.
Good morning, Sean! Forgive my limited understanding, but couldn’t the Executive branch reclassify MJ’s “schedule” status? I haven’t yet had enough coffee to do the necessary research.
Morning. I dunno. I’ve always heard it alleged that it could be moved to a different schedule easily.
It’s not decriminalization. It’s just creating an exception to prosecution as long as the MJ is produced, sold, transported and consumed under specific circumstances.
Morning, Glibs.
Today marks one week since I was discharged from the hospital. I don’t have to take ibuprophen anymore, just acetominophen. The pain’s pretty weak at this point anyway. I have not been formally cleared to return to work, because the surgeon is too busy to see me until next week. Since my notice of absense said ‘1-2 weeks’ I’ll accept the 2 weeks and fil the latter half under ‘recuperating mental health’.
Good morning, U! My admittedly limited understanding is that it wouldn’t be prudent for your employer to even allow you to return to work after such invasive medical treatment without written medical clearance to do so. And if the appropriate doctor can’t see you until next week, so be it! 😀
I’ll accept the 2 weeks
Good call, hope you feel well enough to enjoy some “me” time.
Good to hear you are getting better. Nothing wrong with a little extra time off, enjoy.
Good to hear you’re healing up well.
Thank you all.
One thing I miss are my bacon cheeseburgers. Checks a whole bunch of “don’t eat that right now” boxes. It was – bottom pretzel bun, bottom cheese, bottom bacon, burger patty (seasoned with salt and pepper before cooking), top cheese, fried egg (seasoned with pepper), top bacon, top pretzel bun. It didn’t need condiments. I guess you could add vegetables between the top bacon and top bun.
Missing: hot peppers.
Why do you want to cover up the flavor?
Though as I said, you could add vegetables between the top bacon and top bun.
suh’ fam ?
They really need to not give me d̶a̶y̶s̶ nights off work. I had a 30-pack and noticed Dr. Who is on HBO Max (the good ones).
Hell, I didnt even know we have HBO Max.
Good morning, homey! Which Doctor? Of course, I think we have all the revived seasons/series through Capaldi on DVD or Blu-Ray.
Our cable bill keeps going up. I’m ready to ask TT to investigate other options for our TV viewing. I’m inclined to keep cable for our high-speed internet, but jeeminy criminy! And we don’t even opt for any of the premium movie channels. 🙁
Capaldi is garbage, as is the new womyn-woke incarnation of the Doctor. Matt Smith is tolerable, just cause he has Karen Gillan as a companion (rawrr!).
Ive been over this previously but the best Doctors are, respectively: Tom Baker, David Tennant, and Christopher Ecclestone.
Id love to see Hugh Laurie as The Doctor, tho.
Also, Im not so quick to blame the actors- the writing turned to woke trash shortly after Tennant left.
I think the main reasons we bought the Capaldi seasons on Blu-Ray were to keep our collection complete AND to have the option of turning on the subtitles so we could figure out what the hell he’s saying. I AM happy we have them, if for no other reason than to complete the River Song story arc.
River Song
*le Sigh*
And I agree about Laurie as the Doctor! It might take someone of his caliber to resuscitate the franchise at this point.
He can’t save bad writing. If it’s woke, it stays broke.
Bring back whoever was “show runner” for Tennant! Russ Davies?
I would only want Laurie as the Doctor if Rowan Atkinson comes on as The Master.
That would be brilliant! 😀
Sigh… Tres, you couldn’t be more wrong. The proper order from best to not as best is – T. Baker – Capaldi – Pertwee – Davidson – Troughton – Hartnell – McCoy – C. Baker. The remainder of the the reboot doctors are meh, with the sole exception of Matt Smith; a man so thoroughly annoying I want to bully him until he cries.
I would reverse the order of Capaldi, Pertwee, and Davidson, and maybe toss in Eccleston somewhere, but otherwise that’s a solid list.
The thing that pisses me off most about Matt Smith is that he was actively banging Karen Gillan.
And I didnt get to.
Other than that, the best writing was in the Tennant/Ecclestone years.
Hell, I didnt even know we have HBO Max.
I did not know I had it until recently either. It’s free because of some other thing I pay for. Verizon?
Verizon gave discovery+
discover+ hasn’t finish buying Time Warner yet.
It must be AT&T intertoobs then.
Jugsy cant be left alone in a Wal-Mart. Primarily because she looks like she belongs (either as employee or customer), and her compulsive buying disorder takes over. I left her unsupervised in N. Kentucky and those vultures from Sp(rectum) got her. Last week we switched from AT&T to…that pile.
They still havent ported the house phone number.
I think we all know who the good ones refer too.
I don’t have HBO Max that I know of though.
Or “to”.
I’ve heard it both ways.
Good morning everyone. My attitude today – https://youtu.be/tAT-tigWCmc
On the other hand, this was a great read and now I can look forward to watching several, new to me, things like The Job Link to both seasons is in the Forum.
Nice pic. But since Ive been up all night and drinking- I need lunch.
Today will be Fry-Day for me. Clearing out the freezer of all the remaining ready-made fried products (calamari, Crab Rangoon, cheese curds, Tater-Tots, etc.) and also doing up some shrimps and chicken thighs.
Its Trash-ish day for me, and I cleared the fridge of all the leftovers that Jugsy wont touch when she gets home.
That’s a good feelin’ thing to do! I can’t because Vegan. 🙁
The Good – Judi and her bairns are resting safely at a camp before attempting the dangerous climbs. The Bad – Stupid bear came back and scattered my non-foodstuff garbage everywhere in the yard. The Ugly – We don’t have enough cat kibble and I need to go to a supermarket for the first time in two years… Things could be worse.
Put yer mask on!!!!
Fuck that shit!
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The Good – I ran through my big site in two hours. The Bad – I got home early enough to drink way too many beers. The Ugly – Me in the grocery store today.
Wait until you see how much cat food costs these days. At our store, the cans have almost tripled in price from last Summer.
Q: Whats invisible and smells like cat food ?
A: Old people farts.
Heh. Long time ago I worked on the purchase order system for a regional grocery distributor, and had access to the sales numbers for various products. For some reason cat food sales spiked first week of every month.
My cat’s breath?
Judi complains every time. I’ve been sheltered from the truth. I just know that the one brand that I need to buy won’t be available at my convenience and fucked if I’m driving crosstown to Walmart or Costco. That’s 15 miles. Kitteh gets what Festus doles out!
Is kitteh and indoor kitteh? Because if not, I’ll be wondering if kitteh is wandering to a neighbor with better food ?
My Kittehs are indoor Kittehs. I love them, why would I allow them to come to harm?
Idk. Most kitties here in the UK are outdoor kitties and many roam far and wide. My old girl was hit by a car, but noone could have kept her down. She was semi-wild I suppose and she would have been miserable trapped indoors.
But now I think about it, aside from road traffic, they don’t have any predators like wolves, coyotes, pumas, etc.
No raptors?
That corner of europe, the birds of prey don’t get that big.
Alternate answer – the velociraptors haven’t migrated out of central america yet.
You didn’t say you got arrested, so that’s very good.
If he makes bail he will get his cellphone back and can tell us about it. If.
Yet.
So we are burning here. Thus far only one small town taken by flame. The sky is pretty dark, dark enough that you can actually look at the red orb of the sun. It’s not yellow yet, that’s when you know things have turned really bad.
Only you can prevent forest fires ??
Seriously man, please survive.
BC is a huge place, nearly Texas sized. The smoke from remote fires tends to travel. Mind you, I do live in an interface area so it’s always a concern. We’re literally surrounded by forested hillsides.
The atmosphere turns yellow and everything becomes very echoey. Sound waves start acting like they’re travelling through water. Happened in 2015.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/whistleblower-leaks-email-revealing-biden-admin-using-us-military-secretly-move-illegal-aliens-around-country-video/
Wowzer.
Tucker didit!
It makes for a strange world when all the stupid conspiracy theories turn out to be true.
The annoying thing about Alex Jones is that he’s right more often than wrong.
I thought the annoying thing about Alex Jones was that he delivered it like a crazy person.
Jones was on Viva Frei with Robert Barnes last night and it was awesome. Yes, his delivery is intense; he has been addressing this on the last few podcasts I’ve seen.
https://youtu.be/bBdMnPq6BDQ
Tits.Not.Calm.
This should be an impeachable offense. At this point, we need a military coup.
A coup against the military?
Or are you advocating putting the woke brass in charge?
No, the rank an file will need to frag some woke brass first. Not happening, of course. I have no problem believing the troops will (even if reluctant) gun down civilian “extremists” when ordered. I’ve said this years ago: Until troops kill enough civilians that are loved ones of service members, there will be no peace.
You’re right. The kind of personality that joins up will fire first and question themselves later.
They are using the Military to sidestep the Constitution. Who the fuck is in charge, here?
Apparently he learned nothing from the rendition flights. You’re supposed to use shell companies and quasi-private contractors to do this stuff and try to build in plausible deniability.
They do not need plausible deniability. They have the bureaucracy, the media, academia, and 10’s of millions of useful idiots.
“Jussie Smollett: The first American to scam 2 Nigerians.”
lulz
OT: I saw last night that there was a discussion about feminist complaints that too many books are written by men. My take on it is that strong, intelligent women don’t sit there whining on the Internet about it – they write a fucking book. Many women have done exactly that and produced excellent work, and a bunch of them are on my bookshelf as we speak.
Also, I finished my “Understanding Literature” audiobook from “The Great Courses”. It had a lot of good information, and I do find myself noticing some new concepts as I read novels now… But the author really did have a heavy bias in favor of feminist/sexual and Marxist lenses. If that’s all there is to lit-crit, I’d have to conclude that the field is 90% useless and that the key concepts of literary analysis could be explained in under an hour. I didn’t find it enriching at all for him to point out that every single elongated or cylindrical object represents a big weiner (yes, sometimes a cigar IS just a cigar) or harp on about how every plot point in a female-written novel is “an attack on patriarchy”.
I was always puzzled by the stereotype of English literature majors as hard Lefties. I thought, after all, that devoting your entire academic career to the works of mostly European and American authors would require at least some affinity and respect for those cultures. But if most lit-crit courses are anything like that, I see why.
The barrier to entry on writing a book is effort.
The barrier to entry on getting published by a traditional house is batshit editorial staff chasing blockbusters and online plaudits.