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Jan. 5th, 2019 11:38 am1. Now, I'm curious about Bird Box... Netflix is warning people not to hurt themselves by participating in the Bird Box Challenge. Netflix states ..."Please do not harm yourself doing the Bird Box challenge. We have no idea how this happened or got started." Yeah, sure you don't.
Various families blindfolded their family members and themselves and wandered about their homes and neighborhoods with someone video-tapping their antics.
Newscommentator: I just have one question? Who blind-folds their toddler?
People are stupid. But hey, Darwin Awards!!!
2. Dreary, dank, dark and rainy January day. Everything looks dead. And the sky is discolored gray, neither white, nor gray, nor black...just a a gloomy color of dirty white socks in desperate need of laundering. But along my walk, I stumbled across a house fully lit in Christmas lights...hanging icicle lights, pretty rosettes of pointsettas and candy canes, and small evergreen trees. Tasteful, yet pretty. I paused and thanked it for making me smile. A beacon on a gloom filled afternoon.
Me: I had cabin fever, so took a walk. And it rained.
Mother: How can you have cabin fever -- you've been commuting to and from work all week.
Me: eh.
Mother: I've got to get back to scrubbing my bathroom floor.
Me: No, wait -- you shouldn't be scrubbing your bathroom floor -- you have a cleaning lady to do that.
Mother: But it looks horrible -- your father keeps peeing all over it. And due to his medication it is colored blue and green.
Me: Can't you wait for the cleaning lady to come next week -- I'm worried about your back Momma.
Mother: Yes, I worry about it too. But your father won't stop peeing on the floor. And I need to finish since I already started and don't want him to slip and fall.
Gah. I can't do anything. Dammit.
3. Finished the first half of S1 Manifest -- and...ugh. It's not horrible. But it falls down the slippery slope of boring government conspiracy thrillers. The series is at it's best when it focuses on the the difficulties of the passengers re-acclimating to their lives after being dead for five years. And how the various people who mourned them are dealing with their return. It's a lot easier to mourn someone than it is to welcome someone back after five years of being gone from it.
My difficulty with it -- is several of the characters who mourned the passengers and are tasked with welcoming them back are falling down on the job. Not only that, but they are a tad on the whiny self-absorbed side of the fence.
"Oh, how dare you pop up alive and well and disrupt the ordinary and somewhat dull course of my existence!!"
Me: Seriously, get over thy precious self, stop whining, and take charge of your life. Also show a little empathy for the person who lost five years of their life. What they are going through is a heck of a lot worse than just mourning someone who, whoops, isn't dead after-all.
4. Finished X-men: Exterminated by Ed Brisson and Pepe Larraz (who's art is stellar). It was better than expected and managed to successfully resolve the time-displaced X-men story-arc, while at the same time not entirely negating the character development. Jean memory locks the group until the time loop circles in on itself or complete's itself, and their adult counterparts inherit their memories -- ensuring the defeat of the villains. Also a result -- of the conclusion of the arc is the resurrection/return of a long-dead character -- the adult version of Cyclops.
In short via this series the writers have managed to reboot the X-men, after regulating them to a dark and irritating existence to give center stage to the Inhumans. I'm so happy the Inhumans limited series tanked.
Various families blindfolded their family members and themselves and wandered about their homes and neighborhoods with someone video-tapping their antics.
Newscommentator: I just have one question? Who blind-folds their toddler?
People are stupid. But hey, Darwin Awards!!!
2. Dreary, dank, dark and rainy January day. Everything looks dead. And the sky is discolored gray, neither white, nor gray, nor black...just a a gloomy color of dirty white socks in desperate need of laundering. But along my walk, I stumbled across a house fully lit in Christmas lights...hanging icicle lights, pretty rosettes of pointsettas and candy canes, and small evergreen trees. Tasteful, yet pretty. I paused and thanked it for making me smile. A beacon on a gloom filled afternoon.
Me: I had cabin fever, so took a walk. And it rained.
Mother: How can you have cabin fever -- you've been commuting to and from work all week.
Me: eh.
Mother: I've got to get back to scrubbing my bathroom floor.
Me: No, wait -- you shouldn't be scrubbing your bathroom floor -- you have a cleaning lady to do that.
Mother: But it looks horrible -- your father keeps peeing all over it. And due to his medication it is colored blue and green.
Me: Can't you wait for the cleaning lady to come next week -- I'm worried about your back Momma.
Mother: Yes, I worry about it too. But your father won't stop peeing on the floor. And I need to finish since I already started and don't want him to slip and fall.
Gah. I can't do anything. Dammit.
3. Finished the first half of S1 Manifest -- and...ugh. It's not horrible. But it falls down the slippery slope of boring government conspiracy thrillers. The series is at it's best when it focuses on the the difficulties of the passengers re-acclimating to their lives after being dead for five years. And how the various people who mourned them are dealing with their return. It's a lot easier to mourn someone than it is to welcome someone back after five years of being gone from it.
My difficulty with it -- is several of the characters who mourned the passengers and are tasked with welcoming them back are falling down on the job. Not only that, but they are a tad on the whiny self-absorbed side of the fence.
"Oh, how dare you pop up alive and well and disrupt the ordinary and somewhat dull course of my existence!!"
Me: Seriously, get over thy precious self, stop whining, and take charge of your life. Also show a little empathy for the person who lost five years of their life. What they are going through is a heck of a lot worse than just mourning someone who, whoops, isn't dead after-all.
4. Finished X-men: Exterminated by Ed Brisson and Pepe Larraz (who's art is stellar). It was better than expected and managed to successfully resolve the time-displaced X-men story-arc, while at the same time not entirely negating the character development. Jean memory locks the group until the time loop circles in on itself or complete's itself, and their adult counterparts inherit their memories -- ensuring the defeat of the villains. Also a result -- of the conclusion of the arc is the resurrection/return of a long-dead character -- the adult version of Cyclops.
In short via this series the writers have managed to reboot the X-men, after regulating them to a dark and irritating existence to give center stage to the Inhumans. I'm so happy the Inhumans limited series tanked.