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Y2/D230 - All Souls Day
Nov. 1st, 2021 08:32 pmFinally a beautiful day, clear blue sky, almost not clouds, in the low sixties. I took a walk around Greenwood Cemetery today to celebrate. Not a long walk. About two miles. Sat for a bit and read a contemporary romance novel rec'd by Cat Sebastian, took in the sunshine, and the birds, and the buzz of insects. Also the whistling of sirens that never seemed to end. A constant of pandemic city life...some days worse than others, although such sounds existed prior to the pandemic.
Also a constant I've discovered with fanboard moderators? They fail to appreciate my dead-pan wit. It goes over their heads. Doesn't matter the fandom. Twitter seems to be more appreciative, also dreamwidth.
And once again, someone suggested doing a gratitude journal. I tried the jar approach but I keep forgetting. And I've tried the gratitude journal but keep forgetting. I'm not good at remembering to do certain things. Basically anything that is the least bit ritualistic - I forget to do. I think my brain is hardwired to forget this sort of thing. What can I say? I'm bad cult material? Or religious material?
On Twitter someone asked if an Atheist could be religious? (They spelled Atheist wrong, but I ignored that - it's Twitter and a hard word to spell.) I resisted the urge to respond - "yes, of course. I know a lot of church-going Atheists. Actually some Atheists are better at the whole church thing than the Theists are. I'm a Theist who kind of swings towards Agnostic on occasion and back again, but I'm more spiritual than religious. I don't really do anything religiously - I'm not wired that way.
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I'm kind of re-watching David Lynch's 1984 Dune on HBO Max - and I'd forgotten who was in the original, or the incredibly cheesy special effects and set design. Not to mention the horrid acting, direction, and dear god, ugly costumes and creature effects. It's really dated and does not stand the test of time at all well (also its kind of gross in places, and with a lot of bad direction - hammy in some spots, I stopped watching after they got past where the 2021 film ended. Plot wise the two films are very similar up to a point. The current version just does Book 1 of Dune, or the first third of the book, while the 1984 version did the entire book in two hours and fifty three minutes.
( 1984 Adaptation of Dune...complete with cheesy 1980s special effects... )
I liked the 2021 film better. This is just awful. That said, the plot is admittedly easier to follow (it's not a dark film at all - if anything it is over lit.) There's more action, and the pacing is slightly better. And the escape of Lady Jessica and Paul is harder - they are also confronted by the Harkonnons and manhandled. Also part of the reason I had no problem figuring out what was happening in the current version is I saw this one in the 80s and remembered a lot of it. It's kind of funny in places. But, I'm feeling sorry for Jurgen Prochnow, Max Von Syndow, and Patrick Stewart (who apparently got early training on dealing with sci-fi craziness from this).
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My father is in the hospital again. ( Read more... )
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NYPD according to the news only had 34 cops go out sick, with the rest getting vaccines. And 81% of the City Workers got vaccinated in response to the vaccine mandates put in place by the Mayor. So the mandates are working.
Tomorrow is election day in the US, please remember to vote.
Random Photo of the Day...
Also a constant I've discovered with fanboard moderators? They fail to appreciate my dead-pan wit. It goes over their heads. Doesn't matter the fandom. Twitter seems to be more appreciative, also dreamwidth.
And once again, someone suggested doing a gratitude journal. I tried the jar approach but I keep forgetting. And I've tried the gratitude journal but keep forgetting. I'm not good at remembering to do certain things. Basically anything that is the least bit ritualistic - I forget to do. I think my brain is hardwired to forget this sort of thing. What can I say? I'm bad cult material? Or religious material?
On Twitter someone asked if an Atheist could be religious? (They spelled Atheist wrong, but I ignored that - it's Twitter and a hard word to spell.) I resisted the urge to respond - "yes, of course. I know a lot of church-going Atheists. Actually some Atheists are better at the whole church thing than the Theists are. I'm a Theist who kind of swings towards Agnostic on occasion and back again, but I'm more spiritual than religious. I don't really do anything religiously - I'm not wired that way.
***
I'm kind of re-watching David Lynch's 1984 Dune on HBO Max - and I'd forgotten who was in the original, or the incredibly cheesy special effects and set design. Not to mention the horrid acting, direction, and dear god, ugly costumes and creature effects. It's really dated and does not stand the test of time at all well (also its kind of gross in places, and with a lot of bad direction - hammy in some spots, I stopped watching after they got past where the 2021 film ended. Plot wise the two films are very similar up to a point. The current version just does Book 1 of Dune, or the first third of the book, while the 1984 version did the entire book in two hours and fifty three minutes.
( 1984 Adaptation of Dune...complete with cheesy 1980s special effects... )
I liked the 2021 film better. This is just awful. That said, the plot is admittedly easier to follow (it's not a dark film at all - if anything it is over lit.) There's more action, and the pacing is slightly better. And the escape of Lady Jessica and Paul is harder - they are also confronted by the Harkonnons and manhandled. Also part of the reason I had no problem figuring out what was happening in the current version is I saw this one in the 80s and remembered a lot of it. It's kind of funny in places. But, I'm feeling sorry for Jurgen Prochnow, Max Von Syndow, and Patrick Stewart (who apparently got early training on dealing with sci-fi craziness from this).
**
My father is in the hospital again. ( Read more... )
***
NYPD according to the news only had 34 cops go out sick, with the rest getting vaccines. And 81% of the City Workers got vaccinated in response to the vaccine mandates put in place by the Mayor. So the mandates are working.
Tomorrow is election day in the US, please remember to vote.
Random Photo of the Day...