A local animal shelter will sell you an adult cat for five whole dollars. A lot of these critters are *really* hard to pass up. But I already have four, and that’s enough.
The feller below had a bit of an issue, with the result you can see if you look closely enough.
And this last one: I tried several times to get a good photo of it but it was pretty mobile. It looked a *lot* like Raedthinn reborn.
Here’s how it’s done…
In 1985, Rockwell International contemplated the idea of the Space Station turning a profit for the company. At this point the Space Station seemed a reasonably certain program, though it would take another decade, the fall of the USSR and several complete revamps before assembly would really begin .
Next: advanced manned military spacecraft.
It’s a ridiculously tired trope now, trotted out by those shilling for badly-written movies like “Terminator: Dark Fate” and “Ghostbusters 2016” and “Charlies Angels” and Disney Star Wars, that those who don’t like those movies are man-babies who simply can’t stand Strong Women or Strong Female Characters. And yet, you don’t see too many of the people who dislike Mary Rey Sue dumping on the women of The Expanse, do ya…
Of course, the Expanse does not skimp on good characters and good acting. The most recent season ended with one of the most GLORIOUSLY PSYCHOTIC looks of utter bloodthirsty glee ever the grace the TV.
From the feller what brung us “I am that guy.”
“Underwater” is a relatively small-budget sci-fi/horror movie currently making very little money at the box office. Which is a little sad, because it’s actually *reasonably* good. It’s not a really innovative story… there’s a drilling rig on the bottom of the ocean (in this case in the Mariana Trench, seven miles down), things start going wrong, sea monsters cause a ruckus, plucky survivors need to make their way to escape capsules, etc. It has been summarized as “Alien under the ocean,” and that’s kinda fair.
The main character is played by Kristin Stewart, who turns in a performance typical of her usual charisma-free persona. Also starring is T.J. Miller as comic relief, a casting choice I found remarkable since he has been “cancelled” by Hollywood for Me Too violations and a subsequent Smollett-level bit of bomb threat nuttiness. But it turns out that this movie has had a rather lengthy production, and it was shot before his career imploded.
It’s a serviceable monster movie, like a bajillion before it. That said, there’s one thing that the director threw in that wasn’t in the script that makes this movie a bigger deal for folks like me than it otherwise woulda been. It’s rather a big spoiler, so it’s after the break and in white text (if’n ya gotta read the spoiler, just highlight the blank area). But even sans spoiler, it was a good time at the theater and I recommend it if you like this sort of thing.
YouTube threw a few random things at me that are… ummmm…
Devin Townsend Project’s “March of the Poozers.” So this is what happens when sci-fi meets metal:
“Guns Akimbo,” the most Aussie movie about Harry Potter with gun-hands you’ll see all week:
… the dumbest movie review you’ll read all day.
I watched “1917” today. It was a fine war movie… perhaps even a great one. Technically it is an amazing achievement… the whole two hour run is made to look like one (well, two) continuous shot. Every frame is filled with beauty and/or horror. The acting and visuals are impeccable. The plot is simple and straightforward and, in its way, tells a small story: two soldiers have to go from A to B to deliver a message.
But that’s not enough for the scold who wrote the “review” for Salon linked above, who demands that every movie tell not just a story, but an ideological one. And, of course, that better ideology had damn well better be the *right* ideology. Woe betide the film that skimps on cramming Present Day into stories set a century ago.
I’m sure there are people who will defend “1917” by saying that it’s the story of individual soldiers in a greater conflict, not a political manifesto. There are three problems with that argument. First, as mentioned earlier, it is immoral to tell a story about a war without analyzing the reasons behind that war.
Cripes, it’s like saying that every Batman movie *has* to include a scene of Thomas and Martha Wayne getting plugged by a low-rent Single Source Socialist. Every movie about spaceflight has to include a discussion of whether Tsiolkovsky, Goddard or Oberth is the true founder of modern rocketry. Every Terminator movie has to have a discussion about the politics of yellowcake uranium trafficking.
So, do yourself a favor *and* cheese off some single-minded SJW fanatics and go see “1917.” It’s a good movie well told… and, to be honest, it could *easily* be re-written to make the nationalities whatever you like.
It will be released in theaters on January 24, and then on home media only a month later. I’m guessing it won’t get a *wide* release here in nine days…
… it’s that they’re working to bring one about. Behold some recent news stories:
Sure, this isn’t Bernie himself calling for violence and extolling the virtues of gulags; it’s just a low-level campaign worker. But then… an EVEN LOWER-LEVEL Bernie supporter took it upon himself to try to kill as many elected Republicans as he could, so it’s hardly unlikely that even more people who support Bernie’s democidal policies will decide that active measures are just what’s needed.
Where the far-left online rag Vox extolls the virtues of a plan that would chop up Washington D.C. into more than a hundred little divisions… each of which would be admitted to the Union as a State, each with one representative and two Senators. By chopping up D.C. into 150 new states – some little bigger than a housing development – then D.C. *alone* could determine all future American policies. The rest of the states, even if they banded together and voted as a unified bloc, would not have enough votes to over-ride what the Democrats of D.C. want to do in the Senate.
Why is West Virginia inviting counties from Virginia to join West Virginia? Because those Virginia counties are “Second Amendment Sanctuary” counties, a response to the new Democrat majority’s scheme to strip Virginians of the Constitutional rights to keep and bear arms.
So… we’ve got supporters of one of the main Democratic candidates openingly advocating for democide. We’ve got professional left-wing agitprop organizations calling for an obscene “packing” of the House and Senate. We’ve got Democrats in Virginia passing laws so egregiously anti-American that neighboring states are willing to takes in whole counties.
Gah.
Look, I’ve said it before: anyone who thinks that a new civil war would be *any* kind of a good thing is either an idiot or a maniac. yes, the sane civilians in the US are the ones who largely have the firearms… but it’s not just civilians who are armed. A very large number of government employees are armed to the teeth and many of them, like Representative Swalwell, would be more than happy to pull the trigger on their fellow citizens. A new civil war would not be some glorious adventure; it would be a blood-soaked descent into the end of civilization, quite possibly on a planetary scale. So anyone who is actually advocating policies that drive people towards war like this should be viewed with *extreme* distrust.
Junior anti-human rights fascist David Hogg is continung to try to stay relevant by updating his “look,” as if anyone but the most shallow and venal celebritards actually give a damn about such things. So he posts a photo to Twitter, and the reactions… well, they’re not especially kind.
And so:
looking good. you're growing up to be such a stunning woman.
— Jim Bentley (@JimBentley22) January 10, 2020
I’m so proud of you for transitioning
— will finchman (@FinchmanWill) January 11, 2020
.Another Image?! 🤔🙄👇 pic.twitter.com/pZgtOK6tKY
— Gil Coleman 🇧🇷🇺🇸 (@Gilcoleman) January 11, 2020
You’re going to get a lot of people killed in your lifetime
And they’ll love you for it
— Fedorable The Horrible (@FedorableH) January 11, 2020