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Aug. 22nd, 2018 08:50 pmI'm firmly of the opinion that Batman and Robin is a more enjoyable movie than Batman Forever, not despite its many many flaws, but because of them.
Batman and Robin is the Turkish Star Wars of Batman movies.
However, the opening bank heist sequence in Batman Forever has "Oh no! It's boiling acid!"
I'm not a bank architect but I'm pretty sure the vault is meant to be impregnable and does not detach from the building. Also, I don't believe there are tow cables with the tensile strength required to pull up a bank vault or helicopters capable of lifting them.
Batman Forever could have been good. If they had Jim Carrey play the Riddler and not just Jim Carrey and did something with Harvey Dent knowing that Bruce Wayne and Batman are the same person and maybe having some internal conflicts about that or maybe have Batman struggling with “do not kill” and his need to protect his secret identity at all costs.
The best part of the video game, Michael says, is the versus mode, where you can have Two Face fight Anglophile or a bunch of clowns or whatever. Just make that a video game. But don’t hack Batman Forever, no, that would mean you’re still getting the terrible broken gameplay, no, make it Mega Man. And when he defeats a boss, he gets half a face and the powers of that face.
I found out there’s a band called Oh No Boiling Acid. They remind me of that song Lousy Smarch Weather, in which the band name is far far more hilarious than the band. You were expecting something wacky about mustard sandwiches and pineapples and ninjas and bad family vacations.
I'll have to tell Michael about Cool Cat and how I've seen better acting in insurance commercials.
Michael suggests showing up to a Free Speech rally, joining it, and espousing left-wing positions, ranging from the well known (Workers of the World, Unite! Smrt Faśizmu, Sloboda Narodu) to obscure ( ສັນຕິພາບ ເອກະລາດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ເອກະພາບ ວັດທະນາຖາວອນ (santiphab ekalad pasathipatai ekaphab vadthanathauaon) which is Lao for Peace, independence, democracy, unity and prosperity)
He described free speech as similar to Stalin’s USSR, that is to say, you have the freedom to say whatever you want, as long as the people in power, or in their case, the center-rightists who have declared themselves arbiters of social norms, agree with what you say.
It's funny that they're getting up in arms about how Facebook should allow them a platform but if you break from their radical constitutionalist/paleoconservative/fascist viewpoints, they won't let you post.
There’s an outbreak amongst the cormorant population and possibly amongst gulls and shearwaters that nosh on their corpses. There is no pattern to this. There are cormorants in Orleans with it, there are cormorants in Manchester By The Sea with it. We’ve had eleven cormorants starting in June and they’ve all dropped dead after a few days. Some times they don’t even come in too ragged looking and they still drop dead.
It’s mildly contagious to humans and potentially lethal for birds. A decade ago, they had to cull 3 million domestic chickens. We’re taking special precautions because we also look at domestic birds. Otherwise, our policy is “don’t take cormorants. Talk them out of bringing cormorants. This is what a cormorant looks like. If for some reason, they don’t get the memo, euthanize the cormorant. If they still bring cormorants after getting the memo, we will do something bad and we don’t know what that something is but it will be bad. It won’t be as bad as getting Tulsi Gabbard elected president but it won’t be a benevolent thing like dropping a harvestman in your hair either. Because when Gabbard is president, we all suffer. 20 million voters can’t all relocate to Mauritius.” And we’re going to have to triple-bag them and then incinerate them, until this plague blows over, which it will. This isn’t an emerald ash borer, it’s something that happens regularly, it’s just more virulent this time.
Note: I don’t actually think Gabbard would run against Trump. Maybe if Trump was removed from office somehow or somehow escapes justice but decides not to run again in 2020.
On the Aegean island of Syros, which is not to be confused with Syria, a place I wouldn’t visit if they made me Caliph, you can work in a cat colony if you’re preferably older than 45 and have cat psychology, cat wrangling, and cat whispering skills. Abby is bewildered, after all, cats are always neurotic and antisocial. Maybe we could send Ashley there.
Sam isn't sure if raccoons like tomatoes but they’re more interested in the feel of the ice melting.
Christina worked with someone who called her Chrissie and she said she went by Chrissie for a while because it wasn’t worth correcting her.
There were rats boarding named Mouse and Squirrel. I’m like “you’re not a mouse, you’re a rat,” to it. Caitlin agrees with me. Hers is one of the few names I can remember and put a face to, maybe because she didn't arrive with the rest.
Someone brought a rather large male sugar glider to be castrated. I can't remember which one she brought but one of them is Fury and one of them is Defender. They name their cats after gods, Sîn and Bastet and Atlas, gods that people believed in and not fictional gods, not Bhunivelze or Nyarlathotep.
Lion Man II: The Witch Queen is on Youtube. But for some reason, they call it a Telugu movie.
Delvina's zodiac sign is Exodus.
I heard Stars of the Lid in a bookstore, although I didn't find anything I wanted.
burning question: How did they get Vivica A. Fox to take a role in Cool Cat The Kids Superhero?
Batman and Robin is the Turkish Star Wars of Batman movies.
However, the opening bank heist sequence in Batman Forever has "Oh no! It's boiling acid!"
I'm not a bank architect but I'm pretty sure the vault is meant to be impregnable and does not detach from the building. Also, I don't believe there are tow cables with the tensile strength required to pull up a bank vault or helicopters capable of lifting them.
Batman Forever could have been good. If they had Jim Carrey play the Riddler and not just Jim Carrey and did something with Harvey Dent knowing that Bruce Wayne and Batman are the same person and maybe having some internal conflicts about that or maybe have Batman struggling with “do not kill” and his need to protect his secret identity at all costs.
The best part of the video game, Michael says, is the versus mode, where you can have Two Face fight Anglophile or a bunch of clowns or whatever. Just make that a video game. But don’t hack Batman Forever, no, that would mean you’re still getting the terrible broken gameplay, no, make it Mega Man. And when he defeats a boss, he gets half a face and the powers of that face.
I found out there’s a band called Oh No Boiling Acid. They remind me of that song Lousy Smarch Weather, in which the band name is far far more hilarious than the band. You were expecting something wacky about mustard sandwiches and pineapples and ninjas and bad family vacations.
I'll have to tell Michael about Cool Cat and how I've seen better acting in insurance commercials.
Michael suggests showing up to a Free Speech rally, joining it, and espousing left-wing positions, ranging from the well known (Workers of the World, Unite! Smrt Faśizmu, Sloboda Narodu) to obscure ( ສັນຕິພາບ ເອກະລາດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ເອກະພາບ ວັດທະນາຖາວອນ (santiphab ekalad pasathipatai ekaphab vadthanathauaon) which is Lao for Peace, independence, democracy, unity and prosperity)
He described free speech as similar to Stalin’s USSR, that is to say, you have the freedom to say whatever you want, as long as the people in power, or in their case, the center-rightists who have declared themselves arbiters of social norms, agree with what you say.
It's funny that they're getting up in arms about how Facebook should allow them a platform but if you break from their radical constitutionalist/paleoconservative/fascist viewpoints, they won't let you post.
There’s an outbreak amongst the cormorant population and possibly amongst gulls and shearwaters that nosh on their corpses. There is no pattern to this. There are cormorants in Orleans with it, there are cormorants in Manchester By The Sea with it. We’ve had eleven cormorants starting in June and they’ve all dropped dead after a few days. Some times they don’t even come in too ragged looking and they still drop dead.
It’s mildly contagious to humans and potentially lethal for birds. A decade ago, they had to cull 3 million domestic chickens. We’re taking special precautions because we also look at domestic birds. Otherwise, our policy is “don’t take cormorants. Talk them out of bringing cormorants. This is what a cormorant looks like. If for some reason, they don’t get the memo, euthanize the cormorant. If they still bring cormorants after getting the memo, we will do something bad and we don’t know what that something is but it will be bad. It won’t be as bad as getting Tulsi Gabbard elected president but it won’t be a benevolent thing like dropping a harvestman in your hair either. Because when Gabbard is president, we all suffer. 20 million voters can’t all relocate to Mauritius.” And we’re going to have to triple-bag them and then incinerate them, until this plague blows over, which it will. This isn’t an emerald ash borer, it’s something that happens regularly, it’s just more virulent this time.
Note: I don’t actually think Gabbard would run against Trump. Maybe if Trump was removed from office somehow or somehow escapes justice but decides not to run again in 2020.
On the Aegean island of Syros, which is not to be confused with Syria, a place I wouldn’t visit if they made me Caliph, you can work in a cat colony if you’re preferably older than 45 and have cat psychology, cat wrangling, and cat whispering skills. Abby is bewildered, after all, cats are always neurotic and antisocial. Maybe we could send Ashley there.
Sam isn't sure if raccoons like tomatoes but they’re more interested in the feel of the ice melting.
Christina worked with someone who called her Chrissie and she said she went by Chrissie for a while because it wasn’t worth correcting her.
There were rats boarding named Mouse and Squirrel. I’m like “you’re not a mouse, you’re a rat,” to it. Caitlin agrees with me. Hers is one of the few names I can remember and put a face to, maybe because she didn't arrive with the rest.
Someone brought a rather large male sugar glider to be castrated. I can't remember which one she brought but one of them is Fury and one of them is Defender. They name their cats after gods, Sîn and Bastet and Atlas, gods that people believed in and not fictional gods, not Bhunivelze or Nyarlathotep.
Lion Man II: The Witch Queen is on Youtube. But for some reason, they call it a Telugu movie.
Delvina's zodiac sign is Exodus.
I heard Stars of the Lid in a bookstore, although I didn't find anything I wanted.
burning question: How did they get Vivica A. Fox to take a role in Cool Cat The Kids Superhero?
