glimpses of hope in trying times
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yamamanama69 days until the vernal equinox
I don’t think we have any new animals. We have some new interns, though, Elizabeth, who does not go by Liz or Beth because she believes Elizabeth is too long for its own good and has a terrier and was at the wildlife center before it moved to its current location, Julia, who wears glasses and has two black cats and a gray tabby, Dominique, who was eating ramen noodles, and someone whose name I can not quite remember now, but I'm pretty sure it started with an E but maybe I'm just mixing her up with Elizabeth.
Christabel told us of the time we got a kitten as a wildlife admit and we couldn't take it because it's not a stinking wild animal and she said she wanted to take it home. Elizabeth told us of the time a cat got loose and we told the owner to see a stinking cat vet after we got it back in its carrier.
Meanwhile, they're giving old Christmas trees to meerkats and apes to climb on and to hoard things underneath.
I have a Simpsons comic in which the Presidential campaign comes to Springfield along with the media and Lisa compares it to a circus that brings its own audience with them and one of the candidates is convinced to be pro-crime because crime means jobs.
My takeaway that real life is just as absurd as The Simpsons, it's just absurd in different ways.
In real life, we'd just enforce our more arcane laws... which happens in a Season 16 episode in which Springfield builds a Frank Gehry concert hall but doesn't appreciate arts and culture and Mr. Burns converts it to a private prison and has Homer arrested for a ridiculous law.
We don't talk about that episode.
So, I watched a movie called Final Encounter AKA For The Cause, the latter of which is the more fitting title and I do not recommend it. It's not quite good enough to be good, but it's not inept enough to be enjoyable. It was made by two special effects people and the special effects are actually pretty decent for 1998 standards, aside from one scene when they're fighting and an enemy soldier throws a grenade and she throws . The soundtrack also impressed me because it's fully orchestrated with a freaking SATB choir and not the synths or piano or public domain music you'd expcet from a low budget affair. It's the guy's only credit on IMDB and I don't know if he expected exposure or he was friends with the people who made it or what.
Star Wars didn't have a choir, but the rest of them do.
Titanic didn't have a choir. I found out that they had to use a synth choir because they went overbudget.
As for the plot, well, it's a good idea. Something happened to Earth and the settlement in Bulgaria split into two factions and they've been fighting a war for a century and now a generation is growing up fighting without knowing why, and there are some "witches" who fight a CGI scorpion in a room somewhere and meanwhile in post-communist Bulgaria, their actions help out the soldiers somewhere. That's never explained. Maybe if they had more budget, they could hire a scriptwriter.
You'd only know the backstory from looking at the box or going to IMDB, because the setting is mostly just Bulgaria. Yes, Star Wars made California and Norway and Tunisia look like alien worlds. I’d say something about Madagascar but there aren’t any Star Wars movies filmed there and Madagascar already looks like an alien world. In fact, I had this idea to film a Star Wars in Madagascar but just now I had the idea to convince the government of Madagascar that there’s going to be a Star Wars filmed there but unfortunately it’s in development hell but we’ll let them know as soon as its ready for filming and you can go back to wrecking the place when we're fucking done, okay. Jesus, Mary, and Josef Stalin, you're worse than Brazil.) look like alien worlds but they had a budget higher than 2.5 million dollars. They didn’t get the special effects work or the score done for free, either, so it balances out.
It's not the worst movie Dean Cain was in, I'll say that.
burning question: why does a show about giant transforming robots beating each other up have one of the better fandoms and a show about happy friendly ponies who are nice to each other have one of the more toxic fandoms?
I don’t think we have any new animals. We have some new interns, though, Elizabeth, who does not go by Liz or Beth because she believes Elizabeth is too long for its own good and has a terrier and was at the wildlife center before it moved to its current location, Julia, who wears glasses and has two black cats and a gray tabby, Dominique, who was eating ramen noodles, and someone whose name I can not quite remember now, but I'm pretty sure it started with an E but maybe I'm just mixing her up with Elizabeth.
Christabel told us of the time we got a kitten as a wildlife admit and we couldn't take it because it's not a stinking wild animal and she said she wanted to take it home. Elizabeth told us of the time a cat got loose and we told the owner to see a stinking cat vet after we got it back in its carrier.
Meanwhile, they're giving old Christmas trees to meerkats and apes to climb on and to hoard things underneath.
I have a Simpsons comic in which the Presidential campaign comes to Springfield along with the media and Lisa compares it to a circus that brings its own audience with them and one of the candidates is convinced to be pro-crime because crime means jobs.
My takeaway that real life is just as absurd as The Simpsons, it's just absurd in different ways.
In real life, we'd just enforce our more arcane laws... which happens in a Season 16 episode in which Springfield builds a Frank Gehry concert hall but doesn't appreciate arts and culture and Mr. Burns converts it to a private prison and has Homer arrested for a ridiculous law.
We don't talk about that episode.
So, I watched a movie called Final Encounter AKA For The Cause, the latter of which is the more fitting title and I do not recommend it. It's not quite good enough to be good, but it's not inept enough to be enjoyable. It was made by two special effects people and the special effects are actually pretty decent for 1998 standards, aside from one scene when they're fighting and an enemy soldier throws a grenade and she throws . The soundtrack also impressed me because it's fully orchestrated with a freaking SATB choir and not the synths or piano or public domain music you'd expcet from a low budget affair. It's the guy's only credit on IMDB and I don't know if he expected exposure or he was friends with the people who made it or what.
Star Wars didn't have a choir, but the rest of them do.
Titanic didn't have a choir. I found out that they had to use a synth choir because they went overbudget.
As for the plot, well, it's a good idea. Something happened to Earth and the settlement in Bulgaria split into two factions and they've been fighting a war for a century and now a generation is growing up fighting without knowing why, and there are some "witches" who fight a CGI scorpion in a room somewhere and meanwhile in post-communist Bulgaria, their actions help out the soldiers somewhere. That's never explained. Maybe if they had more budget, they could hire a scriptwriter.
You'd only know the backstory from looking at the box or going to IMDB, because the setting is mostly just Bulgaria. Yes, Star Wars made California and Norway and Tunisia look like alien worlds. I’d say something about Madagascar but there aren’t any Star Wars movies filmed there and Madagascar already looks like an alien world. In fact, I had this idea to film a Star Wars in Madagascar but just now I had the idea to convince the government of Madagascar that there’s going to be a Star Wars filmed there but unfortunately it’s in development hell but we’ll let them know as soon as its ready for filming and you can go back to wrecking the place when we're fucking done, okay. Jesus, Mary, and Josef Stalin, you're worse than Brazil.) look like alien worlds but they had a budget higher than 2.5 million dollars. They didn’t get the special effects work or the score done for free, either, so it balances out.
It's not the worst movie Dean Cain was in, I'll say that.
burning question: why does a show about giant transforming robots beating each other up have one of the better fandoms and a show about happy friendly ponies who are nice to each other have one of the more toxic fandoms?
