FADE IN:
INT. DR LOBO’S LAB-NIGHT
DR. LOBO is working on a sciecney device, his new ‘Death Ray’, as his new cartoon animal sidekick NEGRA the super-smart crow watches on.
DR. LOBO
It is almost complete! Then they will be forced to realize The Science cannot be stopped! They feared me when my mud monster attacked! They revered me when, I, The Science showed them that the earth was burning! But that blasted Gravity Man had to go and foul it all up!
NEGRA
Caw!
DR. LOBO
I’m sorry my Negra, I didn’t mean it that way.
NEGRA
Caw!
DR. LOBO
But now, with this new death ray they will know the consequences of not believing The Science!
LIGHTNING AND THENDER CRASH
NEGRA
Caw! Caw! Caw!
INT. METRO CITY METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER-NIGHT
PEERLESS is sitting at his desk trying to type, but his fingers stay stuck on the same keys on the typewriter. ORBIT BOY is trying to play darts with a makeshift target on the cork board on the wall behind the desk, but due to his constant motion and the power of gravity around him, the darts keep veering off unexpectedly. One curves all the way around and lands in woman’s hat, revealed to be that of MARGO METTLESOME. She plucks it out and hands it back to Orbit Boy.
MARGO
Gee, maybe if you weren’t always squinting you’d hit the target sometimes cousin Buddy.
ORBIT BOY glares at her.
MARGO (TO PEERLESS)
Have you heard Dr. Lobo’s newest threat on the wireless?
PEERLESS
Why, no, I guess I was glued to my work.
PEERLESS shakes the typewriter from his hands.
MARGO
Well, get an earfull of this.
Margo turns on the old timey radio.
DR. LOBO (OVER THE RADIO)
I repeat. This is Dr. Leo Lobo, The Science, all citizens of Metro City are here-by ordered to stay home. Do not leave your home under any circumstances!
NEGRA (OVER THE RADIO)
Caw!
DR. LOBO (OVER THE RADIO)
No, of course you don’t have to stay home Negra! I need you out on the streets causing mayhem.
NEGRA (OVER THE RADIO)
Caw!
DR. LOBO (OVER THE RADIO)
Anyone who leaves their home will die. Believe me, I am the science!
PEERLESS
You can’t believe this Margo!? This is clearly chicanery!
MARGO
I don’t know Peerless, he IS the science.
DR. LOBO (OVER THE RADIO)
Ah, I see someone has not heeded my scientific advice. There, citizens of Metro City, on the Silver Gate Bridge. One lone citizen disobeying my orders! See the consequences!
MARGO runs to a window to watch while PEERLESS slogs over due being stuck to the floor, when he arrives he watches in horror at the scene before him. ORBIT BOY is repeatedly slammed against the window because it is in his orbit path.
EXT. SILVER GATE BRIDGE-NIGHT
A lone car drives across the long suspension bridge while the driver has an old style convertible car filled with gardening supplies and sapling trees. As the car nears the middle of the bridge he is struck by the death ray and is burned alive. The car is left intact, but veers off the edge of the bridge without a driver.
DR. LOBO (ECHOED THROUGH MANY RADIOS ACCROSS THE CITYSCAPE)
I tried to warn you. But you just wouldn’t listen.
A loud feedback echoes across the empty city streets as Dr. Lobo shuts off his microphone. Then, an eerie silence.
INT. METRO CITY METROPOLITAN-NIGHT
PEERLESS and MARGO stand at the window stunned. ORBIT BOY is still hitting the window. Margo begins to weep.
MARGO
Oh, Peerless, it’s all our fault! Our hubris! We denied Dr. Lobo was a threat! We denied The Science!
MARGO CRIES into PEERLESS’ chest. Her tears falling upwards. ORBIT BOY is still smacking into the window.
PEERLESS
There, there. You’re still pretty, no matter what the other gals say.
Peerless gives Margo a patting hug. Margo looks up at him.
MARGO
Peerless you’re right! I’m a strong empowered woman! Why, I’m almost half as good any man! I’m going to go up there and give this Dr. Lobo a piece of my weak feminine mind!
MARGO straps on an old timey flying cap, now for some reason wearing a bomber jacket with a white scarf fluttering in a sudden wind coming from nowhere and heads off to a stairwell marked ‘ROOFTOP EMERGENCY NEWS PLANE’.
PEERLESS looks at ORBIT BOY
PEERLESS
Is that what you heard me say?
ORBIT BOY shrugs, as he keeps being smashed against the window.
EXT. DR LOBO’S LAB-NIGHT
MARGO lands the EMERGENCY NEWS PLANE next to Dr. Lobo’s lab, which is an observatory on a mountain outside the city, if the copying from the Fleischer Superman shorts wasn’t clear enough at this point. Margo gets out of the plane and immediately falls down.
MARGO
Oh, I broke a heal! Where is a good strong man when you need him!
DR LOBO appears above her menacingly.
INT. DR LOBO’S LAB-NIGHT
MARGO is tied to a chair with a gag in her mouth.
DR LOBO
I have done it! Science rules the world!
MARGO
HMHMHMHMH!
DR LOBO
How idealistic. Of course, no one, not even Gravity Man can stop me now!
DR LOBO and NEGRA LAUGH in unison.
MARGO
HMHMHMHPH!
DR LOBO
No, you have it all wrong Ms Mettlesome. I, the science, and my pet here, Negra, are saving the world, after all, I am the science.
NEGRA
Caw!
DR LOBO
No! This can’t be! Gravity Man is climbing the sheer cliff!
EXT. LOBO’S LAB CLIFF-NIGHT
GRAVITY MAN and ORBIT BOY are walking UP the sheer rock-face of the cliff no problem, with the power of GRAVITY it’s-self!
INT. DR LOBOS’s LAB-NIGHT
Dr Lobo moves toward some switches and pulls them
DR LOBO
My Death Ray will deal with this troublesome tyrant!
EXT. DR LOBOS’S LAB-NIGHT
The death ray re-postions and aims at GRAVITY MAN, who is still clodding up the shear cliff face. The beam energizes, then powers on. A beam of “LAZER” energy soars towards GRAVITY MAN (and ORBIT BOY), but the beam bends around them due to gravitational lensing and burns down an animal shelter at the bottom of the mountain. GRAVITY MAN and ORBIT BOY reach DR. LOBO’s lab and break a hole through the wall.
INT. DR LOBO’S LAB-NIGHT
Gravity Man and Orbit Boy burst through the wall.
MARGO
HMHMHHMH!
DR LOBO
Negra, attack!
NEGRA flies towards Gravity Man, but hits Orbit Boy and is flung back.
DR LOBO
Negra, I said attack! I am The Science! I am your master! Negra attack!
Negra tries to attack again, but Orbit Boy catches him in mid-flight and propels him back at Dr Lobo. The two collide and get ‘conked’ out cartoon style with birds flying around their heads.
GRAVITY MAN
Hahahah! Concussions! Always a peaceful resolution!
ORBIT BOY unties MARGO, who walks over and slaps Gravity Man, her hand sticks to his cheek.
MARGO
Always like you men! Never listening to the science and punching down on the poor Negras!
MARGO, GRAVITY MAN and ORBIT BOY pause for dramatic effect, then start laughing.
FADE TO BLACK
I hate thenderstorms.
They/Themderstorms are all the rage now
Negra, please!
What’s Dr. Lobo’s sidekick’s name again?
A dog named Boo?
I was thinking Sheriff Lobo.
RIP Claude Akins.
Then they will be forced to realize The Science cannot be stopped!
Fauci?
I’m sorry my Negra
Heh.
I LOLed
Sounds like that Lenny Bruce schtick about Lyndon Johnson. “He just can’t say the word! He gets close, ‘Nigra, Nagra, Noggle…’”
Sorry for OT.
RIP William Friedkin.
Made some great flicks.
Also, while I’m glad Blade II got called out in the Vampire flicks list – missing Cronos (also directed by Del Toro) is missing a good bit of Mexican horror cinema.
No mention of this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dusk_till_Dawn
American-made horror set in Mexico… =/= Mexican horror.
Yeah, but Salma Hayek.
^^^ This guy gets it ^^^
Bye -bye Negra
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858528425/
OT LOL – IT change scheduled for 9pm that I was supposed to sit around and test when they got done.
“Cancelled due to no change request approved. Maybe next week.”
Sometimes I feel like I’m working with the JV league.
https://9gag.com/gag/a2KLnVZ
Harsh
LOL. I had enough of that earlier in my career. No thanks!
Lobo has a doctorate in pain.
Sigh.
https://mcdn.wallpapersafari.com/medium/49/46/N7Yate.jpg
“I broke a heal!”
Are we too poor to afford an editor?
“sciecney”
I thought we had some standards around here…
😛😛
Thanks CPRM!
WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ STANDARDS!
We have standards and they can’t get much lower but they are our standards.
You done good, CPRM,
Thanks for the earlier concerns. I am on Oahu and the fires did a number on northern Maui. The old part of Lahaina is gone. Labor Day weekends we would spend a day there for the skippers meeting and the annual Maui Moby Dicks v. Oahu Thundercocks softball game. (Sailors from the two islands played every year for over 30 years for a trophy, free beer, and bragging rights.) Lahaina was a whaling town and there were (are?) some reminders of that. The main street (Front Street) was a tourist trap but even one or two blocks away the town retained an older Hawaii feel. There was a very above average pizza place, Prison Pizza, that was next to the kingdom era prison. Old town was old wooden structures with common walls and from the videos I have seen they combusted spectacularly. I’m sure whatever replaces those old buildings will be charmless crap.
It appears the commercial whale watching/ diving vessels may have been wiped out. The big commercial catamarans moored outside of the harbor so they should have survived. A family I know lost their waterfront house south of town and I haven’t heard about the other family home I know of. The leeward sides of the Hawaiian islands are desert like and with a powerful wind and dry summer conditions this was a big risk. But a known risk.
Thank you for the update.
Hopes and prayers for those impacted.
There was a cool old ghost town nearby that was from the 1850’s and still had a few inhabitants. It was wiped out in 2010 from a forest fire. I feel for Lahainia.
We had a spectacular sail/snorkling trip on one of those cats from Lahaina to Lanai a few years back. Hoping they made it through.
Do It.
While anecdotal, my observation over the years with my dealings with the folks from the pueblo is that the people tend to be overweight and football jerseys are popular attire. By far the most represented team was the Washington Redskins.
Just the other day I was reading about some dude who basically single-handedly (and controversially) has been running the Cayuga tribe, one of the Iroquois tribes, for decades, and was supposedly instrumental in the anti-Redskins camp. His main goal in life seems to be enriching himself with upstate NY casinos.
Just seems to me that the politics behind this stuff are way skewed. Guilty white leftists are running the show but don’t seem representative of, well, anything.
Guilty White Leftists should be a Simon and Garfunkel cover band. On that note, I must go off to bed. Night all.
The other night I watched Anatomy of a Murder, with Jimmy Stewart, Lea Remick, Ben Gazarra, and a small role with George C. Scott. Excellent film. An interesting courtroom drama, with langauge and characterizations that were definately pushing it for ’59. Lea Remick is a flirty woman who was raped, her husband, played by Ben Gazarra, is an army Leut. who kills the suspected rapist. And Jimmy Steward is the lawyer trying to get him off on a temporary insanity plea. Lots of good twists in the case, all presented well and logically.
Highly recomend. A solid A-.
Solid Soundtrack as well, if you like jazz that is.
My tpyos got more conversation than my Strong Female Character. Sad.
I miss our LoBot, hope he’s happy in glib’s Gulch.
Good morning everybody!
😃🍳
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RlNXd5oja3k
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean, Bob Bob (or whatever time it is where you are,) Roat, Stinky, DEG, & Shirley!
My boss told me yesterday they’ve scheduled a meeting to talk to a potential new payroll processor. I’m trying to figure out if there isn’t some way for me to retire years ahead of schedule. 😕
Mornin ‘, GT.
When it’s time for me to retire, all I need to do is misgender some Snowflake’s pronouns and I’ll be escorted off the premises. Not sure that would work for you, though.
The rough equivalent for me would be to start referring to my boss by his despised first name instead of his preferred and primarily-used middle name. Trouble is, he’s a martial artist – used to run a dojo with his best buddy – so an “escort” out might be rather more…expedient and swift than I’d find comfortable.
“Lighten up, Francis”
Dammit. Worked with a guy named Lawrence (redacted), who was really sensitive about his name and universally known as “Don’t call me Larry”.
“Can I call you Betty?”
You can call me Al!
Do I look like a Betty? No.
Does your boss dress like this?
Thank goodness, no.
With my new locale Tim zone does not jive with glib happenings sadly.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/travel/latronico-italy-cheap-house-escape-us/index.html
“The family decided they wanted to leave the US in 2020, following the murder of George Floyd.
“[It] showed the world how we as Black people in America have been treated for centuries,” says Nadine.
“All the racism, all the divisiveness, all the hate that the last administration brought to the forefront” has caused an “exodus” from America of Black people who have the means to do so, she says.”
Victimized to the point that they are affluent enough to pick up and move to rural Italy. This is what true oppression looks like. Much martyr. Such hero’s.
Ah yes, Tim and his stupid zone
“Nadine”
You can’t fool me. That’s a man!
All the racism, all the divisiveness, all the hate that the last administration brought to the forefront
Obama got the ball rolling but they really dropped their masks when Trump was elected.
We’re just lucky that CNN is standing by to showcase preening morons as first-rate victims.
Huh, seems like they would’ve gotten a place in Africa if they were so concerned about racism. Why oh why didn’t they I wonder…
I hear Liberia is lovely this time of year…..
Niger please
The belly laugh I needed this morning.
😁
Happy to provide
Also, I was late to the party yesterday where you expressed your substantial disinterest in fantasy. I’m both a space opera and fantasy fan, so had to respond with this:
For fantasy fans and skeptics:
Patricia McKillip
Riddle Master of Hed, Heir to Sea and Fire, Harpist in the Wind, aka The Riddle Master trilogy. Arguably my very favorite fantasy
Od Magic
Notable for having no actual ‘bad guys’ or villains. Just… people
The Bards of Bone Plain
Notable for me, at least, in having steam powered autos and Not. One. Trace. Of. SteamPunk. (Which I loathe)
Kingfisher
Alphabet of Thorn
And a vast host of others, but the first 3 (counting the trilogy as 1) are must reads.
It seems they are blissfully unaware that Europeans are casually racist in ways that Americans would find shocking.
I considered snarking on that yesterday.
If there’s one thing Europe is known for, it’s racial harmony. 🙄
No cheap fixer-uppers available in Belfast?
CNN. Story sounds too contrived and fits the lefts narrative too perfectly.
I will take ‘things that never happened’ for 500…
Morning all
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/pork-roll-ice-cream-in-new-jersey-the-wohoo-beach-haven/
Weirdos.
yuck
Meat ice cream? No thanks.
No.
Serial huffer who caused school bus accident gets jail time in Stafford
In response to the discussion yesterday.
“He is still facing a felony charge in Stafford for an incident in May in which he was found locked in a Walmart bathroom with empty aerosol cans he had allegedly stolen from the store.‘
I wanna party with that dude.
Well damn, Robbie Robertson kicked the bucket yesterday:
https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2023-08-09/robbie-robertson-lead-guitarist-and-songwriter-of-the-band-dies-at-80
RIP, not too many of the legends left anymore.
At least we still have Lou Reed.
Off to the gym.
Mornin’ all!
Morning.
Good morning, U!
How are things in your neck of the woods?
They got kinda wet last night, but are drying out a bit now, and I got kinda wet at water aerobics, then undid all the good exercise indulging in a Swiss Miss platter at the local Big Boy franchise. Soooo worth it. How about you?
I’ve managed to stick to my diet since monday. Haven’t yet wasted any good food.
I ran the numbers from the new contract and the numbers don’t agree with my intuition. I keep wanting to rant about it to someone, but am unsure of who would be appropriate since it is about money.
I keep suspecting I forgot something with regards to work projects, but everything I have on my notes has been addressed.
Plus, it’s interview season, so I’ve had to deal with some less than bright people who won’t get job offers.
I’ve had to deal with some less than bright people who won’t get job offers.
You monster! The differently abled are entitled to equal opportunity!
They had their opportunity at the interview.
👍🏼👍🏼 Keep on eating the perishable “good stuff” before it gets iffy, and move it from Point A to Point B veeeeeeery carefully! 😉
No more floor chicken! No more steak on the tile*!
*vinyl tile is still tile…
Mornin’, reprobates!
Fun times at Casa Patzer.
Annoying beeping upstairs yesterday. Checked smoke alarm. Oops, no 9v batteries. Run to store, get batteries, come home, replace battery. BEEP! BEEP!
WTF? Oh,wait… CO alarm plugged into wall, that’s it. Replace battery and… BEEP! BEEP!
??? *reads fine print on CO alarm* “If unit is chirping twice every 25-30 seconds it must be replaced”.
Life expectancy if CO alarm = 10 years. Date of purchase: March 10, 2013.
Slow drain in basement sink since Monday. No big deal. Until we did a load of laundry before dinner last night…
Ruh-roh. Sink overflowed, water everywhere. Took me an hour to clean up that mess, fortunately no damage, except for these old bones. Plumber coming later this morning.
I suggested to Mrs. Patzer that she should have married a blue-collar dude.
Good morning, ‘patzie!
Look at it this way – that CO alarm gave you an extra five whole months! 😃
Mornin all! Let’s have a good one
Good morning to each and everyone, individually and collectively
Just waking up is a good morning for me. Looks like the summer heat is over and climate change takes over, same as last year and the year before…
…and maybe the drought is finally over, more serious rains predicted.
Good morning, 4(20)! 🐝🐝🐝
Two weeks of ~ 105ish and zero rain expected. I am worn out on manually watering my yard plants.
Send some of that our way…
Mornin’.
Just waking up is a good morning for me.
Same here. Morning is the best part of the day now that I don’t have to deal with hangovers. Covfefe, pipe, birdsong, snarking glibs. Doesn’t get any better than this.
That reminds me…more coffee needed here
To keep the parallelism, Negra needs to have little Mad Scientists orbiting her dome.
A Va. woman’s burp was louder than some motorcycles. It set a record.
Putting Spotsylvania on the map.
Wonderful.
Speaking of eruptions, have an explosive day!
https://twitter.com/EPLBibIe/status/1602199092943257601