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shadowkatApril Question a Day Memage:
18. How often do you listen to the radio? If you do, what kind of things do you listen to (talk/pop/classical)?
I don't really listen to the radio? But if I do - it's usually music, and a mix. I have an Apple Music account - so I just download music, and its unlimited.
19. In 1934, Shirley Temple starred in her first film. Have you ever seen any of her films?
Yes. In law school during the 1990s, I had a friend who adored Shirley Temple films - so we binge watched a few of them. (I'm not a fan - Temple annoyed me. So, I suffered through them? Also saw a lot of them in the 1970s during the afternoon movie. I've suffered through Shirley Temple, Godzilla, Elvis, Frankie and Annette Beach Party, Sandra Dee, and Kurt Russell films in the 70s. The best were the Kurt Russell films. )
We didn't have cable or streaming back then - so the pickings were kind of slim?
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Started watching From on Prime, although it's an MGM + series. It's rather good. Surprisingly so. I don't find it scary so much as...suspenseful with an air of dread? Also kind of gory, but not overly violent. It's a common enough horror trope - made rather popular in the 1950s and 60s, actually (Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits loved this trope) - in which a group of people find themselves stuck in a town or specific local, there's no way out, and monsters hunt them at night. All they have to depend on is each other - which being human beings whose default is selfish entitled stupid asshole syndrome, isn't necessarily helpful? In these series, it's really the human beings that cause all the problems. Actually that's true in most horror tales. Let's face it - the worst monster is well, us.
The setup is written rather well - or the trap. I enjoyed the first episode, and the tension didn't let up and delivered. It has some nice jump scares. Stars Harold Perrineau of LOST, except with a much bigger role - he's the lead. (Note LOST is part of this particular horror trope - and among the better entries. Where folks are stuck somewhere and keep trying to escape, yet keep finding themselves back there.)
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Online kerfuffles
People will fight about anything online.
I joined a Gluten Free for Beginner's Site on FB, and they keep breaking out into fights on that site.
It's painful.
The latest was over a seemingly innocuous question - "why do some people with ceiliac gain weight while others lose it, and is this possible?"
The skinny ceiliacs are highly judgemental of the ceiliacs who can't lost weight. We have a lot of folks who have issues with weight - specifically other folks weight.
One idiot stated that ceiliacs gain weight because they are eating processed pasta, and processed foods and not eating clean whole foods like they should be eating. And well, that didn't end well.
You haven't seen a nasty fight until you've been on a nutrition board. People can be judgemental assholes.
People have different bodies. We aren't the same. What works for one person doesn't work for someone else. No one has the same experience of anything.
Sigh. Why don't people understand that? Life would be so much easier if they did. But alas, people think differently too.
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Also, there are still, STILL, idiotic judgemental holier than thou kerfuffles over Spike/Buffy and the attempted sexual assault in Seeing Red. That episode happened over 25 years ago? Seriously, people. Get a grip.
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And, sigh, political kerfuffles over literally everything you can think of.
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I've been battling a sinus headache verging on a migraine, with vertigo lurking in the background all day long. It's made me irritable. I blame it on the weather, allergies, and neck issues. It's also made it hard to do any exercises. I just want to sit very still and pray it goes away.
It appears to be dissipating now, along with the storm clouds.
18. How often do you listen to the radio? If you do, what kind of things do you listen to (talk/pop/classical)?
I don't really listen to the radio? But if I do - it's usually music, and a mix. I have an Apple Music account - so I just download music, and its unlimited.
19. In 1934, Shirley Temple starred in her first film. Have you ever seen any of her films?
Yes. In law school during the 1990s, I had a friend who adored Shirley Temple films - so we binge watched a few of them. (I'm not a fan - Temple annoyed me. So, I suffered through them? Also saw a lot of them in the 1970s during the afternoon movie. I've suffered through Shirley Temple, Godzilla, Elvis, Frankie and Annette Beach Party, Sandra Dee, and Kurt Russell films in the 70s. The best were the Kurt Russell films. )
We didn't have cable or streaming back then - so the pickings were kind of slim?
***
Started watching From on Prime, although it's an MGM + series. It's rather good. Surprisingly so. I don't find it scary so much as...suspenseful with an air of dread? Also kind of gory, but not overly violent. It's a common enough horror trope - made rather popular in the 1950s and 60s, actually (Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits loved this trope) - in which a group of people find themselves stuck in a town or specific local, there's no way out, and monsters hunt them at night. All they have to depend on is each other - which being human beings whose default is selfish entitled stupid asshole syndrome, isn't necessarily helpful? In these series, it's really the human beings that cause all the problems. Actually that's true in most horror tales. Let's face it - the worst monster is well, us.
The setup is written rather well - or the trap. I enjoyed the first episode, and the tension didn't let up and delivered. It has some nice jump scares. Stars Harold Perrineau of LOST, except with a much bigger role - he's the lead. (Note LOST is part of this particular horror trope - and among the better entries. Where folks are stuck somewhere and keep trying to escape, yet keep finding themselves back there.)
***
Online kerfuffles
People will fight about anything online.
I joined a Gluten Free for Beginner's Site on FB, and they keep breaking out into fights on that site.
It's painful.
The latest was over a seemingly innocuous question - "why do some people with ceiliac gain weight while others lose it, and is this possible?"
The skinny ceiliacs are highly judgemental of the ceiliacs who can't lost weight. We have a lot of folks who have issues with weight - specifically other folks weight.
One idiot stated that ceiliacs gain weight because they are eating processed pasta, and processed foods and not eating clean whole foods like they should be eating. And well, that didn't end well.
You haven't seen a nasty fight until you've been on a nutrition board. People can be judgemental assholes.
People have different bodies. We aren't the same. What works for one person doesn't work for someone else. No one has the same experience of anything.
Sigh. Why don't people understand that? Life would be so much easier if they did. But alas, people think differently too.
**
Also, there are still, STILL, idiotic judgemental holier than thou kerfuffles over Spike/Buffy and the attempted sexual assault in Seeing Red. That episode happened over 25 years ago? Seriously, people. Get a grip.
**
And, sigh, political kerfuffles over literally everything you can think of.
***
I've been battling a sinus headache verging on a migraine, with vertigo lurking in the background all day long. It's made me irritable. I blame it on the weather, allergies, and neck issues. It's also made it hard to do any exercises. I just want to sit very still and pray it goes away.
It appears to be dissipating now, along with the storm clouds.