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icon_ukIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like. Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat amongst yourselves.
The National Museum in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil has suffered terrible damage in a fire at the weekend, with 90% of the cultural, historical and scientific collections being estimated to have been destroyed. The most likely casues are estimated to be an electrical fault, or possibly a home made hot air balloon landing on the roof.
The British National Health Service is launching a site which contains a test to tell you the effective age of your heart, based on a series of lifestyle questions and gives you an idea of how at risk you might be to heart disease or stroke. (I'm happy to report my heart is the same age as the rest of me... a bit younger might have been nicer, but such is life).
Boris Johnson, whose careers in journalism and politics are depriving a village somewhere of a perfectly good Idiot, has started flapping his gob about how awful Theresa May's Brexit plans are, without, of course, offering anything as an alternative because that would require him to take responsibility for something. He's right about the Brexit plans being disastrous mind you, but in a position like his it would be incumbent to actually put forward an idea or two of his own.
As the post Labor Day run up to the November elections kicks into gear, Trump as been.. welll... Trumpish as all get out. And his Supreme Court nomination has a week of confirmation hearings this week.
Colin Kaepernick is to be the face of a major ad campaign for Nike, with the tagline "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."
Nepal is launching an investigation into a creative, if ethically bankrupt and potentially lethally dangerous scam involving unscrupluous travel organisers who arrange for those wanting to climb in the Himalayas to ascend far too fast to trigger altitude sickness so they need to be ferried back down by helicopter/
The "Avatar: The Last Airbender" universe is expanding into a series of novels featuring Kyoshi, an Avatar of the past, one who would likely have identified as bisexual and who lived to be over 230... so there's a lot of room to tell stories about her.
In what I can only describe as one of the most perfectly, gloriously diva-ish things I've ever heard, when the late Aretha Franklin had three days of public viewing prior to her funeral, and per her own wishes on the matter, she was dressed in a different outfit each day and was buried in a fourth. Now THAT is how you do it!
Sci-Fi fans mourn the loss of Jacqueline Pearce at 74, best known as Servalan on "Blakes Seven" where she protrayed a villain defined by ruthlessness, cunning, brilliance, political awareness and being as stylish as hell, in a variety of exquisitely over-the-top outfits, whilst at the same time seeming slightly fragile and damaged underneath it all (and her ongoing, complicated relationship with equally damaged, amoral freedom fighter Avon was a series highlight).
The tributes have spoken volumes about how she was regarded, with Russell T Davies, who worked with her on his first ever TV show "Dark Season" describing her as "glorious, vivid, passionate, filthy and the most wonderful company. And underneath the style and the laughter, a truly fine actor.”
I caught up on some movies over the weekend;
Pacific Rim: Uprising... didn't impress me nearly as much as the first. John Boyega was his usual magnetic self, props to Cailey Spaeny for holding her own in her first movie and the rest of the cast were.. there, mostly. My biggest problem (a couple of plot points to one side) was that they made the Jaegers too speedy. They're how Transformers or EVA's should move perhaps, but Jaeger's were big heavy, realtively clumsy things and that was the appeal to me. I can see why fans of at least two of the original cast were disappointed at how they were treated in the sequel.
Ready Player One - Big, loud, glossy, packed with pop culture easter eggs of course, and about as formulaic as it was possible for a movie to be.
Love, Simon - Also formulaic, but a lot more charming and fun. I'm old enough to still be pleasantly suprised to see a gay coming of age movie where the very fact of being gay is almost mundane, and does not require self-loathing or oodles of unresolved angst.
And in closing, a Kuwaiti fismongers has had to close after it was discovered staff were sticking goggly-eyes on the fish they was selling so they'd look fresher.
The National Museum in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil has suffered terrible damage in a fire at the weekend, with 90% of the cultural, historical and scientific collections being estimated to have been destroyed. The most likely casues are estimated to be an electrical fault, or possibly a home made hot air balloon landing on the roof.
The British National Health Service is launching a site which contains a test to tell you the effective age of your heart, based on a series of lifestyle questions and gives you an idea of how at risk you might be to heart disease or stroke. (I'm happy to report my heart is the same age as the rest of me... a bit younger might have been nicer, but such is life).
Boris Johnson, whose careers in journalism and politics are depriving a village somewhere of a perfectly good Idiot, has started flapping his gob about how awful Theresa May's Brexit plans are, without, of course, offering anything as an alternative because that would require him to take responsibility for something. He's right about the Brexit plans being disastrous mind you, but in a position like his it would be incumbent to actually put forward an idea or two of his own.
As the post Labor Day run up to the November elections kicks into gear, Trump as been.. welll... Trumpish as all get out. And his Supreme Court nomination has a week of confirmation hearings this week.
Colin Kaepernick is to be the face of a major ad campaign for Nike, with the tagline "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."
Nepal is launching an investigation into a creative, if ethically bankrupt and potentially lethally dangerous scam involving unscrupluous travel organisers who arrange for those wanting to climb in the Himalayas to ascend far too fast to trigger altitude sickness so they need to be ferried back down by helicopter/
The "Avatar: The Last Airbender" universe is expanding into a series of novels featuring Kyoshi, an Avatar of the past, one who would likely have identified as bisexual and who lived to be over 230... so there's a lot of room to tell stories about her.
In what I can only describe as one of the most perfectly, gloriously diva-ish things I've ever heard, when the late Aretha Franklin had three days of public viewing prior to her funeral, and per her own wishes on the matter, she was dressed in a different outfit each day and was buried in a fourth. Now THAT is how you do it!
Sci-Fi fans mourn the loss of Jacqueline Pearce at 74, best known as Servalan on "Blakes Seven" where she protrayed a villain defined by ruthlessness, cunning, brilliance, political awareness and being as stylish as hell, in a variety of exquisitely over-the-top outfits, whilst at the same time seeming slightly fragile and damaged underneath it all (and her ongoing, complicated relationship with equally damaged, amoral freedom fighter Avon was a series highlight).
The tributes have spoken volumes about how she was regarded, with Russell T Davies, who worked with her on his first ever TV show "Dark Season" describing her as "glorious, vivid, passionate, filthy and the most wonderful company. And underneath the style and the laughter, a truly fine actor.”
I caught up on some movies over the weekend;
Pacific Rim: Uprising... didn't impress me nearly as much as the first. John Boyega was his usual magnetic self, props to Cailey Spaeny for holding her own in her first movie and the rest of the cast were.. there, mostly. My biggest problem (a couple of plot points to one side) was that they made the Jaegers too speedy. They're how Transformers or EVA's should move perhaps, but Jaeger's were big heavy, realtively clumsy things and that was the appeal to me. I can see why fans of at least two of the original cast were disappointed at how they were treated in the sequel.
Ready Player One - Big, loud, glossy, packed with pop culture easter eggs of course, and about as formulaic as it was possible for a movie to be.
Love, Simon - Also formulaic, but a lot more charming and fun. I'm old enough to still be pleasantly suprised to see a gay coming of age movie where the very fact of being gay is almost mundane, and does not require self-loathing or oodles of unresolved angst.
And in closing, a Kuwaiti fismongers has had to close after it was discovered staff were sticking goggly-eyes on the fish they was selling so they'd look fresher.
