This sounds just completely ridiculous.
“Minaj Is Coming To Call Of Duty, Barbs Stay Winning”
How about another little something to break your brain just a tad?
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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
Ok… out of all of that — well, at least I’ve heard of James Fenimore Cooper.
Ok, ok… heard of Barbie. Don’t give a flying squirrel’s ass about that movie though.
Never heard of Neopets, the Eisner winner, whatever the hell a Minaj is….
And is my webcomic (which is what I assume a “webtoon” is? Maybe webtoon is more animated? (Not that webcomics can’t be…)
Anyway, happy weekend Riven. Thanks for the mostly incomprehensible links…. sorry it just isn’t my cup of tea apparently.
Hmmm… did the squirrels eat everyone else? Am I in the weirdest post-apocalyptic movie ever? (Night of the Living Sciuridae?) Will I now channel Judge Nap in my ignorance? Is three really the number of licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop or is that owl just the asshole he seems?
Yes
Ok Kosh… you’re supposed to be beyond the Rim now.
I know we have a lot of writers and would-be writers hanging around here, so my expertise is lacking in that area. Still, I am moved to rant in praise of good writers…. and condemnation of bad writers.
I have been watching a couple of streaming series that have absolutely fabulous writers. The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. The Bear. Shameless.
These three series have amazing writing (and absolutely perfect casting). Particularly Shameless. I am getting on in years, so I have seen and read a lot. Coming up with a plot that surprises me while being consistent and true to the characters is rare. The twists and turns of shameless have caught me completely by surprise several times, all without being cheap (like Lost… Oh, look! A polar bear! Oh, look! A smoke monster!)
The writing of these shows is just fantastic. The characters are all grounded and real, no matter how ridiculous and over-the-top they are. There is truth in the writing.
Meanwhile…..
I just watched a Disney Marvel show. Don’t shame me… I was bored.
Like all Disney stuff of late, I should have liked it. Samuel L. Jackson. Emilia Clarke of Game of Thrones fame. Don Cheadle. Richard Dormer. Martin Freeman.
That is a pretty loaded cast for a TV show.
Plus, you have the whole MCU to draw upon.
Oooof. The writers. So bad.
I should have known better. I watched She-Hulk, after all. But again, I was bored.
The show sucks right along being below average and kinda dumb…. until the finale. They brought in Khalisi so they could season 8 game of thrones this bee-atch. In the finale, they go full Disney-Marvel. Fury has to be replaced by his betters….. 2 strong women who know how to lead and are better, stronger and more ….. everything… than the hero.
And god help me for being a nerd…. but at least watch the movies you are basing your show on so that you get continuity right. The baddies use Carol Danver’s DNA because they want her superpowers….. which don’t come from her DNA. They come from an infinity stone… which is destroyed.
Holy crap, this is dumb.
We need more writers…. but not more crappy writers. This show was almost bad enough to have been written by Kamala Harris’ speech writer.
Also, i have never been more impressed by casting in my life than I am by The Bear and Shameless. The casting is beyond perfect. Every actor creates a real character that you completely believe. They deliver moments that feel stolen from the worst moments of your life and make it look effortless. Even the child actors are wonderful.
So, today’s rant, in summary: Nothing can save bad writing, so you’d better get a good writer.
And when you have the right actor for the part, the character becomes paramount and the actor invisible. This makes the director’s job easy. So, listen up, hollywood….. spend your money on great writers and great casting directors. Everything after that is cake. And without that…. nothing can save it.
I watched the first five or six or seven years of Shameless and then lost interest for one reason or another. But Macy was fucking amazing in that show, and the rest of the cast was brilliant too.
There aren’t enough writers to support all the media that exists today. This is exacerbated by the drive to deliver The Message regardless of what story is trying to be told.
11 years on Showtime – I never heard of it. Yeah, there is a lot of media.
It started out as a truly brilliant show.
We’ve talked in the past at Glibs about shows creating compelling, but unlikeable protagonists. You don’t have to like someone to care about what happens to them or to get invested in them.
Shameless has half a dozen completely different, deeply flawed protagonists that are all totally compelling. And William Macy is spectacular.
It features a teenage daughter so flawed she jumps her mom’s drugged out boyfriend and posts the video of her riding him, just to humiliate her dad because he called her a slut. And yet, the writers manage to make us care about her.
Deeply flawed protagonists indeed.
It features a teenage daughter so flawed she jumps her mom’s drugged out boyfriend
Fair warning. This will seem tame after a couple more seasons.
Like I said, I made it to 5 or 6 or 7 seasons before they lost touch with keeping the characters “true to themselves” while trying to outdo previous seasons.
lost interest for one reason or another
its too real: real but broken people are exhausting; like the family you can’t waste energy on, you realize that the emotional toll of Shameless just isn’t worth it
Don is correct. I tried Shameless. Didn’t make it past the first episode because I don’t want to watch abject despair.
abject despair
NewWife watches The Bear, but despite the arguably earned accolades, I can’t get interested since so much of the drama is work-driven. Family loss is a real thing, but restauranting for a living is just a fucking beating, so don’t even get started down that road unless you love being miserable or are trying to top the Confederacy’s record for most hopelessly grinding retreat to the inevitable. I wouldn’t care less if the plot were based on a professional gambler or Etsy proprietor.
One of the theories I’ve heard is that writers today haven’t gone through anything difficult in their life they can draw from. They didn’t live through a depression or fight in a war. The worst thing that’s happened to them is being misgendered or something.
I mean I’m 36, and while I certainly can’t make a case that my life in particular, nor anyone’s life from my generation, has been especially bad from a historical point of view, we’ve had Gulf War I, Ruby Ridge, Waco, the first WTC bombing, the Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine, 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, The Great Recession, the lesser recessions, and a million tiddlywinks media-manufactured crises like the opioid epidemic. There’s material from which to draw, there’s just a dearth of writers who have ever existed outside their own little suburban lefty cocoon and two generations of people who’ve been inculcated with postmodernist pseudo-Marxist didacticism in liberal arts education.
I picked up Taco Bell at the drive through the other day, and they forgot my 7 layer burrito! Everyone else got to eat… but not me!
Shoulda listened to Leo Getz.
Shameless (the US version) eventually jumped the shark and kept relying on increasingly outlandish attempts to push boundaries as it went on until it got into Lesbian Nazi hookers abducted by UFOs and forced into weight loss programs territory. But… Emmy Rossum.
We are still in season 1… so it has yet to turn me away.
You’ve got five or six more years of good stuff before it went nuts.
In context of Shameless, “going nuts” is quite a statement.
I hadn’t heard anything about it other than it was great.
now I know. Shameless. Best name for a show ever.
Everyone is absolutely without shame. Everything is upside-down and backwards… yet… full of heart?
I’ve yet to watch it, but I’ve heard tell that the UK version is also very good, and because UK series don’t drag on as long as US series do, they usually don’t get a chance to implode on themselves (*cough*The Office*cough*)
It drug a little for a while, but I found it worth finishing out.
I’m of the opinion that most people can write a good story one time. But to do it over and over again and on schedule week after week, year after year is really difficult. The people that can do that are few and far between.
I’ve never written fiction (ok maybe a little in high school), but I have heard enough podcasts and watched enough Critical Drinker to understand the types of stories and how a story is structured. I find it really interesting. One of my favorites is The Queen’s Gambit. We watched it, and liked it so much when friends and family came over we watched it again. I think I’ve seen the series 4 times. The last episode is fantastic. But it can only work because of the second to the last episode. The main character isn’t a girl boss, she has flaws and demons that catch up with her and she hits rock bottom, and that makes the ending much more dramatic.
Yes! I loved that show.
Also an example of great casting to go with great writing.
Who wants to watch a flawless character who only needs to believe in how wonderful they are?
She is deeply flawed… and the flaws are all justified within the world that the story creates. All of which makes her an interesting protagonist.. she has demons to slay, internal and external.
Well worth the time.
To my eyes, Hollywood in general has always had a weird attitude towards writers. All too often, they’ll buy the rights to a book and chop the story into something unrecognizable (looking at you Hobbit. Or those godawful Bourne movies.)
As a book lover and movie lover, I’ve always thought good scripts were the exception rather than the rule.
This is true. Good writing is uncommon. Great writing?
Well, there is a reason we celebrate “the classics”, even though there are thousands of books written every year.
There are only a few Beethoven, Mozart and Lennon’s to go around. There are only a handful of basketball players in the Michael Jordan GOAT debate.
Sometimes I can understand why they do that.
I am currently reading The Expanse books. I am about halfway through, which is beyond the last season I have seen on TV.
TL;DR – there’s no way to film the books as they are written. Characters appear in book 1 and then disappear for three books. An entire book (“season”) on and above one planet. It simply wouldn’t work.
I haven’t read the books, but I get the feeling that the show runners like the material they are working with; care about getting the right representation of the material; and care about telling a compelling story.
So, one of my beta readers made an interesting observation once. She said, “You can tell how much you really love your heroines, and that’s rare in romance. However, I can also tell you don’t love this one.” (A heroine I haven’t published yet, and won’t.)
You can tell that the Expanse writers (TV show) really loved their characters (all of them, even Peaches). Of course, I love Crisjen the most. Man, I wanna be her when I grow up.
I should add that I think the TV show is fantastic and I have every intention of watching the rest of it. Hell, there are multiple compelling characters on the TV show who make no appearance in the books that I can see.
More power to you. I think I’m in the second (maybe third?) book and just gave up out of boredom. It isn’t doing anything for me….
FWIW the TV show is more “exciting”. The books do kind of plod.
What is happening with that show? Is it done? A victim of the cash crunch?
I believe they wanted to end it on a high note and get while the gettin’ was good. Alas for fans, it’s still the right decision.
Dang it… I liked that show. And not just because I had an irrational attraction to Frankie Adams.
Did it not end satisfactorily?
PS. Mo – I got Calibri with DeDRM plugins working.
Amazon has helpfully made this easier than I expected since you can now download the file directly. I remember having to futz around with a local Reader program and hunting for the right book file which was named by code or some shit.
Muchas gracias.
Yay!
First couple seasons of Maisel were great. Enjoy! Didn’t love the last one, felt like just treading water.
I keep telling my brother to go watch Justified if he’s looking for something new. Great source, material, and good writers on the show.
Justified is great. Bosch is also a good show.
Bosch was also solid – in both cases, a wealth of good source material.
The head writer(?) on Justified had “WWED?” rubber bracelets made for the all the writers – “What Would Elmore Do?” – to try to keep them on track.
EXCUUSE ME!?!?! CAPTAIN Danvers powers come from being a Strong Empowered Woman who won’t stay down, just because sexist men tell her to!
Snowmucher? Work safe on NSFW?
How are they classic?
I never heard of that stuff but Flash so that would explain it. I wouldn’t touch Flash after 1999 or so.
Was the later Wally stuff that bad? I tapped out around 2009 and Flash: Rebirth myself, but I didn’t get all of Wally’s run before that either.
I… don’t know?
Oh, and the results on Barbie are in. Remember, my 16 year old took his girlfriend and his little sister (13), and they met a bunch of friends.
The unanimous consensus was – it was terrible. Every one of them said it was the worst movie they have ever seen. 8 girls and 2 boys – a group so hyped up the boys dressed up in Pink Ken outfits (admittedly only so they could embarrass their girlfriends, but still). They hated it.
It was boring. It was stupid. And they all got the man-hating agenda, even the ones who don’t even think about such things a little. And they all found it off-putting.
yet our shill says ” it’s “a masterful exploration of femininity and the pressures of perfection. […] Ultimately, Barbie is a new, bold, and very pink entry into the cinematic coming-of-age canon.”
ooof.
Also, for those who were saying “I did’t see the politics”….. They all found the message about the patriarchy patronizing and stupid.
So, I guess the hilarious romp for all ages isn’t so all-ages friendly after all.
Still, it seems to be going strong at the box office. So I suppose the Oscar goes to – the marketing team.
The marketing was completely dishonest. Every commercial made it look like a campy comedy for kids. And then it turned out to be bitter and preachy. It’s going to be one of those movies where the critics give it 94% and everyone else gives it 4%. I also think it’s going to be a running joke about how bad it is.
Unfortunately, the kids are still pushing their moms to take them, and that’s driving the box office. The studios will get the wrong message and think that woke films aren’t the big loser they thought.
The marketing team pulled the old bait and switch ploy, I think.
Critical Drinkers review, if you haven’t seen it yet.
I am encouraged that some of the kids are alright.
It’s now 100.9 degrees at 82 degree dew point. That’s the highest temp I’ve recorded on my weather station in the last 3+ years since I installed it. I recorded 99.3 in June of 22. So, this is extreme territory for eastern Iowa.
You are being punished for your crimes against Gaia.
The shelties want to go out and run around. They go out for a minute for some relief and then come right back in.
Global boiling. We’re not too far from Global Vaporizing.
Boiling is so bland. I’d prefer global sous vide.
No way. Global pan sear for me.
Only three years of data?
I need another two hundred and ninety seven years of data.
High dew points tend to moderate high temps (generally reduce the swing between high and low temps). I’ve been in Iowa when we hit 100 degrees or higher before. I just don’t remember it crossing three digits with the dew point over 80 at the same time.
You don’t? I have a hard time remembering when high temperatures were not accompanied by high dew points. (New York is humid as hell)
Dry air gets hotter easier
A higher dewpoint means more water in the air and thus more stuff in the air that can absorb heat.
Also holds onto the heat once the sun goes down.
That is why desert air tends to get hotter than similar latitudes here in the midwest, and also has a wider daily temperature swings
I do understand all that.
I’m talking about my local weather where it’s rare to have a hot and dry day like today. It’s either hot and humid or cold and dry.
Getting 80F dewpoint near 100F is difficult anywhere because humidity holds the temperatures down.
Personally I consider dewpoints above 65 to be in the ‘humid’ category and we get them frequently as I’m sure you do as well
We are smack in the middle of the continent. The humidity has to come from somewhere else. Generally, this is from southerly airflow. I can only imagine what Missouri must be like right now.
Our “bad” weather in summer usually means dew points in the upper 70s that turn into pop up thunderstorms over night. That rain evaporates during the day and mingles with the humidity coming from the south. Rinse and repeat.
Today, we are two to three months into a drought. We’ve hade less than an inch of rain in the last month. The ground is hard as a rock.
All the water in the air to get the dew point to 82 degrees came from somewhere else.
I’ve read we also make our own humidity as the summer goes on from millions of acres of crops respirating.
Yes.
Rain falls, corn (in particular) and soy beans soak it up and respirate it back out.
102F, dewpoint 68.
I don’t do weather math, so I don’t know what that means. Says heat index is 109F. Also, I am in the AC with no reason to go outside at all, so I don’t care.
The non-math way to look at it is to treat dewpoint as a comfort index
<55 is awesome
56-60 is not bad
61-65 is meh – I don't like it but I can handle it well.
66-70 uncomfortable to work in but once you get used to it you can suck it up and get things done
71-75 you almost sweat the moment you walk outside and it sucks to do anything
76+ absolutely miserable. You sweat even when sitting in the shade with a fan blowing on you.
80+ is in the “fuck me” territory
Sorry, Kinnath, but I ain’t fucking you.
That’s just because he’s not 80+ yet.
Yeah, that fits my reckoning since I started paying attention to dew points.
NYC summer is routinely in the “uncomfortable” range. Over 70 is not unusual but I haven’t seen “fuck me” territory yet.
We’re in a “heat wave” but the humidity is not as bad as it often is. Only 91/71 dew point currently but still ugh 😓
Whoah, I just checked an apparently, it’s 91/66 here
Kinnath stole all our humidity 🤗
According to the NWS station at our town airport in south central iowa we hit 95 with 77 degree dewpoint at 2:30 PM
94 now
On the whole can’t really complain too much about this summer so far.
Prior to this heat spell we’d only had one 90F day and the dewpoints have largely remained below 65
Because God know how much havoc and how many lives can be ended by a pound of pot compared to 0,05 oz of heroin.
Singapore hangs first woman in 19 years after she was convicted of trafficking 31 grams of heroin
Note to self… cancel plans to get rich smuggling drugs into Singapore….
You don’t get rich personally smuggling anything.
You get rich running mules, or running the runners of mules.
Economies of scale and plausible deniability.
I don’t recall Singapore making the list of evil empires that still practice capital punishment, such lists generally pushed as a means to put down the U.S.
Good point. It definitely was not on the list the last time that push was made.
Playing as Snoop Dogg, Nicki Minaj, and 21 Savage will not be free, but it’s unclear how much their respective bundles will cost you.
If I play as Snoop Dogg, how much extra for blunt?
Someone gave me a bottle of Snoop wine [19 crimes] My god was it terrible.
I don’t think
anyoneany individual not associated with the government envisioned there being a decrease in the availability of products that are safe choices for sesame allergic consumers.An Update on Sesame Allergen Labeling on Food Packages
Drop the not.
Everyone outside FedGov could have predicted this.
Something something, foreseeable consequences, something something, unintended.
We need to talk about Cocaine Bear.
I avoided reading the discussion because I planned to watch it. Well, I just saw the first 20 minutes…. It was not what I expected. I didn’t know it was going to be high camp!
The first thing I noted was that the director is Elizabeth Banks. Yes, that Elizabeth Banks, the one who was so great in Hunger Games.
So I looked her up…. She also directed Pitch Perfect 2.
So, a pretty good comedy sequel (how often does that happen) and one of the weirdest campy horror comedies to come along in a long while. Done by a female director.
So…. why are we giving $300 million blockbusters to “feminist” female directors who hate the source material and intentionally subvert expectations in order to deliver “the message” when we have Elizabeth Banks who seems not only competent, but also might actually be sane?
Real Genius was directed by Martha Coolidge. It’s a brilliant film and also campy.
Real Genius came out in 1985. I have it on good authority that there were no female directors in Hollywood before the current era. So that must have been a man directing and using her name as a pseudonym.
Yeah I wonder how Amy Heckerling feels about all the FIRST WOMAN DIRECTOR EVERs out there
Real Genius was the peak of Val Kilmer’s career.
Tough to choose with “Top Secret!”.
I probably would give the nod to “Real Genius”.
Uh, hello? MacGruber?
come on guys…..
Grubes!
Awfully good in Tombstone, but for me, he was best in The Salton Sea.
Thunderheart or GTFO
Speaking of jumping the shark…
I think I’ve officially aged out of the FPS game market. Every game has to have some zoomer gimmick, not to mention what they’ve done to gameplay.
Back from Harbor Freight. Five buck voltometer now seven buck voltometer. I managed to abstain from buying anything else. How many 1/4″ ratchets does one man really need? I did look lustfully at a 90 degree die grinder. The one I have doesn’t have much torque. You can stall it pretty easily while grinding/cleaning.
HOW TO MAKE LMNT’S ELECTROLYTE DRINK MIX AT HOME
Don’t forget your electrolytes.
I saw your post Kinnath – that’s fucking crazy heat!
It’s a rare day when I would rather be in Phoenix at 115 than here in Iowa.
Interesting that they would publish their recipe. I might copy that.
I use it all the time. I also buy the products for when I’m hiking, traveling, etc. I’m sure it doesn’t hurt their business much.
It’s far and away the best product on the market.
I’ve been using Nuun if I’m going on a really long ride and need to carry tablets with me. Otherwise I just add some salt in my water bottles and bring a banana for potassium.
And for really long rides I carry a flask of pickle juice for emergencies like cramping.
Give it a shot. Not cheap but works like a champ.
Daily Beast:
Now do Dianne Feinstein…
This shit is funny. I can’t even imagine the mental gymnastics from left.
Now do Fetterman
I watched The Road to Bali last night. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour. Beats just about anything made in the last 25 years. A few nights ago it was They Got Me Covered; Bob Hope and Lamour, no Crosby. Same.
Hollywood: That’s NOT Entertainment.
I’m watching North By Northwest right now. Such a great movie. And TWO cameos from Hitch! 😉
Besides missing the bus, where’s the other?
I have the same question.
It’s somewhere between the UN and Mount Rushmore is what I’ll say. I had seen the movie maybe 5 times before I noticed it.
Danke.
I actually prefer Saboteur. I think the story works better having an everyman like Bob Cummings as the man on the run instead of the too-elegant for the part Cary Grant. That, and Eva Marie Saint is revealed too early to be working for the government and helping Cary.
I haven’t seen that one yet. It’s sitting on my shelf… oh shit, never mind – I packed all my DVDs.
It’s also a scene where none of the main characters is on camera. It’s a fairly long (as in time, not distance) shot that doesn’t have any meaning to the story.
I think Hitch wanted the shot to be long enough to where you got an inkling it may have been him just before the scene cuts. Of course, back then they didn’t have rewind.
How the left learned to love the banks
It’s infuriating.
The Left is everything… everything they purport to despise.
But their ruthless pursuit of power is okay by them because they’re the good guys.
Once upon a time I would attempt to argue with the mentally deficient who define Left = Good, Right = Bad and the corollaries of Bad = Right, Good = Left.
There’s no convincing someone like that. You resign yourself to the thought that if it comes to civil war, you will have to eliminate them or they will eliminate you.
The same goes for the inverse.
I picked a 13 lb cabbage today. At $1.49 a lb I saved about 20 bucks. Several more in the garden. We had 3 days of 90 plus temps, same as last year but dry,dry,dry. My garden looks great, with irrigation. Good time of the year for a vegetarian or even someone that likes veggies. I think I mistakenly planted pumpkins, thinking they were squash seeds or else I’m gonna have giant yellow squash. Watermelons are loving the weather.
I remember seeing the Hope/Crosby road movies, can’t remember much about them other then they were fun, even for a kid.
Seeing the first color in the tomatoes – other than green.
My Carolina Reaper pepper plants are budding. Don’t worry, I won’t even try to bring them to Minny Soda, land of the Extra Mild.
13 lbs??? May I assume that one’s destined to become sauerkraut or perhaps an Asian variation on that theme? I’d be shocked if you & Mrs. 4(20) could eat that much slaw while it’s fresh.
My money’s on kimchee.
Following up on something from my links yesterday afternoon (emphasis mine):
No, I wasn’t minimizing the actual victimhood of those people, only the rhetoric of the KC Tenants group who only seem concerned about the effect this has on their newly-minted “bank tenants” victim category; they spill a lot of ink to single out this group and make it clear that they are ONLY concerned about the effect these stealth assessments have on those people, not how it’s just plain wrong for everyone affected. Counties and cities quietly raise property assessments all the time, as opposed to openly increasing the property tax rates. That’s typical government shitbaggery and should be universally condemned.
Or, put another way, the shitbaggery itself is unfortunately so common as to not merit special attention. What struck me about this article was that it opened a new front in the rhetoric wars.
I don’t see “bank tenant” as a horrible phrase. It may be overblown, but if you’ve got a mortgage, to a certain degree the bank owns your home.
It’s an attempt to associate voluntary borrowing with the feudal system, which is overreaching.
Maybe it’s the legal technician in me, but I don’t think the bank owns your home in any sense. You own it, and you owe the bank money. When you pay off the mortgage, your ownership of the home is not affected or increased in any way.
When I buy something with my credit card, Visa doesn’t own what I bought in any sense, regardless of whether I’ve paid my bill. Now, unlike Visa, the bank has lien on your property, but a lien is not title. The lien gives the bank has none of the powers or rights associated with ownership.
“Bank tenant” strikes me as another bastardization of language, which has really been getting on my nerves.
I did a quick google search yesterday. I think “bank tenants” are anyone living in the house after the bank forecloses on it. The bank becomes the landlord and the former owners become tenants. As far as I can tell, it’s the same as any other landlord/tenant relationship.
We’re all government tenants. Jurisdictions froze rent payments during coronavirus; did any freeze property tax payments?
Same damn Zoom time, same damn Zoom link (hopefully? I think?)
Something to brighten up the day
I can’t even imagine the mental gymnastics from left.
Gymnastics would only be necessary if they were capable of self-reflection or self-awareness. They operate from an unassailable conviction in their own rightness and superiority.
Two questions:
I strained my big toe tendon (bent it backward forcefully when exiting the RV this morning). It’s not swole or anything. WOuld ice do anything?
You know those plastic c-clampy things that hold pool cues onto the wall? WTF are those called? I want to get some larger ones to use with my model airplanes (yes. I just wrote that)
Like these?
Or, if they need to hold something bigger, they make a similar thing for fishing rods.
Like those, but not the bottom part – just the clamp things that hold the narrow part of the cue against the wall
Buy it and don’t use the bottom part? They aren’t connected.
Perhaps a “broom holder”?
Your link gave me the idea to use the word “clips” in amazon and these may just be perfect
https://www.amazon.com/Sydien-Clamps-U-Shaped-Buckles-Support/dp/B08CRL3TBB/ref=sr_1_11?crid=3H0ZNXL8LWKR6
How big are your models? Maybe something in this search would work?
Alternating heat and ice, but always ends with ice.
You’ll feel it in the morning.
Such a great movie. And TWO cameos from Hitch!
I think a big part of Hitchcock’s success and greatness came from his willingness to let the audience do the work. Implied dangers, left to the audience’s imagination, can be more terrifying than those laid out in excruciating detail.
Val Lewton really did it. Watch the original Cat People, or The Seventh Victim.
Of course he does…
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1685045363533660160
More power to him
I’ve already got an X-Box 360 controller, so I can be the pilot.
I have two, for backups. Bring batteries.
LOL
https://twitter.com/_emergent_/status/1685048897540874240
This is true
Oh sweet Yeezys…
https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1685034717333065728
Schiff. The one on the right reminds me of Vindman? Dunno the one on the left.
You are correct and Vindman has a twin brother.
Process that for a second. I’ll wait.
There are two of that… person?! Jeebus. I did sense that.
Isn’t the evil one supposed to have a beard?
Plot twist. They’re both evil
And finally… no… fuck no… go fuck yourself…
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1684961438727901184
LOL!!
Who knows if that is real but well done.
A motivational song for the ages.
President Comacho returns, to uh, tell you the importance of checking yo ass.
Best public service announcement ever
I don’t particularly care for her work, but Megyn Kelly is one of those chicks that gets hotter as she ages.
Nice work, gene pool!
She’s not my type at all but I would agree. She has aged very well.
So far.
Amateur mistake, she got caught on video.
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1684849859696754688