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May 12, 2022
Tweet of the Day, SWARM Activated edition.
Based on the video, you’d almost think these most excellent citizens had to do this every day.
INCREDIBLE MOMENT: Boynton Beach police sent this video out in the hopes to honor the people who got out of the car to help the woman who had a medical episode while driving. https://t.co/5XDUhTg570 pic.twitter.com/2o6G9d6MJP
— WPBF 25 News (@WPBF25News) May 11, 2022
Via @RandyEBartlett.
May 11, 2022
‘Going Back to Cali.’
I kinda feel that, when I’m working on this book series.
New episodes of MST3K. With Joel.
As Mystery Science Theater 3000 returns for its 13th season, the Mads – Kinga Forrester (Felicia Day), loyal henchman Max (Patton Oswalt), and grandmother Pearl Forrester (Mary Jo Pehl) – introduce the show’s biggest, maddest experiment yet!
For the first time, not one, but three humans will be subjected to the bittersweet agony of watching the world’s cheesiest movies, as returning test subject Jonah Heston (Jonah Ray) shares hosting duties with the newest kidnapped Gizmonic technician, Emily Connor (Emily Marsh) and original host Joel Robinson (show creator Joel Hodgson).
Although I’m still trying to decide if I want to spend the money I’d need to, just to watch this one thing.
TINSEL RAIN Update: Chapters 17 and 18 edited.
I actually have edits for all the way up to Chapter 21 (there are 24 chapters in all, and an Epilogue), but I’m going to do the other three tomorrow. We’re at the stage of the book where I need to do more than just confirm copy-editing changes*, and that slows down the process. Still, TINSEL RAIN is very close to being edited!
Which is awesome. And also about to give me a lot more work, of the not entirely fun variety. But mostly awesome.
Moe Lane
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*Mostly observations about how a particular section should be tightened up, or how a character’s motivation isn’t completely ringing true. But I am getting a flattering lack of This book is terrible, and should be launched into the Sun, so I am not finding the feedback oppressive.
Tweet of the Day, I Both Want And Do Not Want To Watch This edition.
For the reasons that Dan said.
Whoa if true. A dying Norm McDonald doing comedy alone in a room would undoubtedly be both hilarious and very, very dark. https://t.co/glss2XZWGj
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) May 11, 2022
Also: somebody on this planet will see ‘Norm Macdonald special,’ not really know the circumstances, and convince his date that they should go watch it together as part of a nice night in. …Honestly, I can’t think of anything that would please the comedian more.
05/11/22, HERO OF THE REVOLUTION.
Fight scene!
Patreon!I grabbed instead for a drainpipe, ripping it off the wall as I lurched forward. It was tough enough that my fingers only crushed it a little, and that was good. A lot of stuff in the old days would crumble or break the second you tried to hit somebody else with it. Not that I like hitting other entities with spears, but if I have to do it then I want to do it nice and hard.
My attacker didn’t react at all, instead doing something complicated with the long gun it was wielding. I was pretty sure it wasn’t human; I know that mortals are taller these days, but seven feet was pushing it. Plus, it was covered head to toe in a collection of coats, shirts, gloves, and a full head-mask over a floppy hat. That’s just not comfortable for humans. But I wasn’t smelling demon, either.
I decided I could figure it all out after the fight, and charged.
The sadly inevitable ZERO CONTACT trailer.
‘Sadly inevitable’ because eventually people would start trying to process the restrictions of the last few years on film. Or, more accurately, their own responses to those restrictions*. In this case, it looks like somebody made a picture about how much they hate Zoom calls (and fear the conditions that are making them use Zoom), then got Anthony Hopkins to have a part in it. It might do well, since everybody hates life via Zoom calls, got at least nervous about COVID, and likes Anthony Hopkins.
Which is to say: ZERO CONTACT will likely resonate fairly well in 2022, and hopefully not at all by 2032.
*I am, of course, utterly indifferent to ever creating any sort of artistic self-therapy along those lines. Nope. Not me. Nuh-uh.
May 10, 2022
The UNHUMAN Direct-To-Video trailer.
I’m confused. UNHUMAN doesn’t actually look horrible.
On the one hand: while the dig at D&D players seems unkind, the character in question is later seen not being the first one to die, so I suspect we’ve got trailer misdirection going on here. On the other hand, ‘direct-to-video’ is starting to mean what it used to mean. And on the gripping hand… okay, there are swords.
The UNCHARTED Honest Trailer.
Not gonna lie: I’ve waited on UNCHARTED until I saw what Honest Trailers had to say about it. It’s not so much that I agree with their takes as it is that their takes are consistent, which lets me apply a correction factor when using them as a benchmark. And I regret to say that… yeah, I’m probably not watching UNCHARTED anyway.
I know y’all are just ripped up about that. Inside, I mean. Tremble for the Republic! Tremble for Humankind!
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