Somehow I actually managed to catch this live back in the day. It’s just about the stupidest thing imaginable, but Walken makes it shine.
Also… I hadn’t noticed it before, but it looks like Nathan Phillips, along with his stolen valor issues, plagiarized the idea of sidling up to someone and banging a percussion instrument in their face.
Tonights episode, “Identity Part 2” had the sort of thing the “Star Trek” people would have loved to have had in the battle of Wolf 359 or even the battle of Sector 000, but did not have the tech or budget for. While CGI capabilities are far great while also far cheaper… dayum, Fox must’ve spent a *lot* on tonights episode.
I’m not, as previously mentioned, a beer drinker. I also don’t prepare much fish; not because I don’t like it, but because… ugh, effort. Consequently I’m uncertain if the “Chinese industrial synthetic fibroid fish-like semi-safe food product” is, in fact, actual fish, or if it’s something else; or if it’s fish with a difference. It doesn’t *seem* like how fish aughtta be.
The YouTube comments make some plausible suggestions:
1: It’s expired and freezer-burnt
2: It’s re-hydrated salted fish
Either of these is more likely than fish made out of rags, which is what this *sounds* like, but both would probably still be fraudulently illegal.
I would look *really* askance at food from China. “Chinese food” is fine. “Food shipped from Chinese sweatshops,” on the other hand, makes me think of pet food with plastic fillers.
The Air Force Research Lab has released a half-heartedly CGI animated video showing the X-60A hypersonic research vehicle designed by Generation Orbit. This is a small unmanned missile to be carried to release altitude underneath a modified Gulfstream III corporate jet, where it would fire its own throttleable liquid rocket engine and climb to cruise altitude (~130,000 ft). The vehicle is fitted with an unconventional set of wings and control surfaces; it’s not immediately clear just what it’s supposed to do other than go fast. One would imagine that high-Mach airbreathing propulsion systems would be of interest to the USAF these days, and scramjet technology is mentioned as part of the proposed payload, but how such equipment would be integrated into the vehicle is unclear.
But others do. Quite possibly some readers of this blog. And so…
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In case you haven’t already heard, we are releasing an IPA made with Marshmallows this Saturday. Designed to remind you of your childhood when you used to sort through bowls of your favorite breakfast cereal to separate the marshmallows from the cereal. Whether you ate them first or saved them for last, we’ve got you covered with our latest beer.
Saturday Morning is an 6.6% ABV IPA, brewed with in-house toasted marshmallows and bulk dehydrated-marshmallow-bits. It has been hopped and dry-hopped with Galaxy and Calypso hops. You may get some cereal notes from the grains, fruity notes from the hops and pillowy softness from the marshmallows, but don’t believe everything you read – it won’t taste like a bowl of cereal. Count on it being magically ridiculous!
This is a very LIMITED release beer. Draft and cans will be available on Saturday, March 2, beginning at 12pm-noon at the Norfolk tasting room ONLY.
Ah, capitalism. You never see stuff like this come out of *socialism,* do you. With that, all you get for your morning breakfast is cat-flavored-cat.
The book, that it, not the movie (and, thankfully, not the god-awful miniseries from a decade ago).
No details about the book other than the title (“The Andromeda Evolution”), the author (Daniel H. Wilson, of “Robopocalypse”) and the release date (November 12, 2019).
Could be good, could be bad. “Andromeda Strain,” from my recollection, did not directly set up a sequel, but the basic idea that a space probe brought back an alien epidemic is of course open-ended. One space probe does it, another can, or it could come in on a rock, or just filter down.
The lyrics translate in part: “On a nuclear-powered submarine, with a dozen bombs just under 100 megatons, I crossed the Atlantic and called up the gunner: ‘Point, Petrov, toward Washington, D.C.,’ I say.”
“Forgive us, America, good old America, but it was a shame you were discovered 500 years ago,” the choir continued.
Awesome.
Related:
Neat.
Work proceeds on the 1/700 scale Nova/Post-Saturn model collection. Here are some of them in various states of completion, not to scale.
Sometimes there’s a work slowdown. Like when Fingers decides that the best of all possible places to be is on my laptop.i
This little guy is in no real danger. But there is of course no way for him to know that. All he knows is that a GIANT is threatening him… and he reacts like a little warrior.
I’ve known cats that when confronted with strange, threatening humans, they seemingly trust *me* and accept the situation, and I’ve known cats that say “screw this, screw you, I’m out” and put up one *hell* of a fight. The former is easier. The latter is certainly more difficult. But the latter earns respect. “I will not go down without a fight,” is something that everyone can appreciate.
Movie studios have long done stunts of various kinds to generate interest in their new movies. A common practice, for movies like “Black Panther” and “Captain Marvel,” is to play up the identity politics angle and dole out free tickets to particualr groups. Another approach, exemplified by “Ghostbusters 2016” and “The Last Jedi,” is to actively insult fans of the franchise in hopes of generating buzz.
But then there’s “Alita: Battle Angel,” a sci-fi flick set hundreds of years in the future. Produced by James Cameron, it is about cyborgs… people who have had bits of them – up to and including everything except for the brain – replaced by machines. And so one of the PR stunts that has been done for the movie was to create bionic arms for a girl who lost her hands.
Unsurprisingly, “Alita” has been accused by the usual suspects of “whitewashing” by having a lot of non-Asian actors. Which is amusing since the original versions of “Alita” were set around Kansas City.