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scans_dailyIn 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.
POTUS 45, twice the ego and half the IQ of regular Presidents, has dismissed Bob Woodwards book on his time in office (so far) and promised to write his own... I assume it'll come with a little box of crayons to colour in the pictures, though based on past experience, even that may be tricky.
Chaos reigned more than usual as an anonymous Senior Administration source within the White House wrote an Op-Ed piece for the New York Times about how they are subverting him and trying to prevent him doing too much damage. Whether this is a noble act of rebellion, or dangerous precedent of usurping elected authority is still being discussed, and I suspect will be for years to come.
The UK has had to deal with Boris Johnson being Boris Johnson, normally a fate I wouldn't wish on anyone, but I think he's earned it. His wife has kicked him out, his ill-considered, and tastelessly phrased (to say the least), diatribes have been vilified by even the Right Wing media, except The Sun, and his constituency may cease to exist in boundary changes are agreed (And no one will convince me that Theresa May didn't enjoy a brief, if wintery, snmile at the idea of that AND former Brexit Secretary David Davis's constituency suffering the same fate)
Controversy surrounds the actions and reactions of Serena Williams and an umpire at the US Open final
The Indian Supreme Court has struck down an old Colonial-era statute banning same sex relationships and banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.
A new teaser for Doctor who, confirming the launch date of Season 11 as October 7th has aired. Maybe a LITTLE heavy handed as far as metaphors go, but I'll give them one, and the "Whoops!" sells it in a very Doctor-y fashion. Also interesting to note that it's now been moved to a Sunday, which is the BBC's "Prestige Drama" evening, so they are serious about this. Also, this is likely to allow an earlier, more family oriented timeslot. TV landscapes having changed since 2005, Saturday night has been overtaken by the likes of Strictly Come Dacing, which is a couple of hours long, and meant that Doctor Who was pushed to a later and later timeslot, allowing more mature stories perhaps, but doing no favours to the family viewership that it had once had.
At long last, Carapace has debuted in Miraculous Ladybug, in the new Ananasi episode!
The next Kingdom Hearts game will include a big Hero 6 world
Finished Disenchantment and remain... somewhat unengaged. I appreciate the world building but this should not have been ten episodes long, given anything approaching an actual story arc didn't kick in until episode seven or so.
Also finshed "Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas" anime, and do understand why it being cancelled mid arc like that still rankles.
A teaser for Netflix' She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has aired. giving us a first look at the animation style in motion (same animation studio as Voltron I believe)
And speaking of Netflix, their new series; "The Dragon Prince", from the creators of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" debuts this Friday.
And "Happy New Year!" to those celebrating Rosh Hashanah.
POTUS 45, twice the ego and half the IQ of regular Presidents, has dismissed Bob Woodwards book on his time in office (so far) and promised to write his own... I assume it'll come with a little box of crayons to colour in the pictures, though based on past experience, even that may be tricky.
Chaos reigned more than usual as an anonymous Senior Administration source within the White House wrote an Op-Ed piece for the New York Times about how they are subverting him and trying to prevent him doing too much damage. Whether this is a noble act of rebellion, or dangerous precedent of usurping elected authority is still being discussed, and I suspect will be for years to come.
The UK has had to deal with Boris Johnson being Boris Johnson, normally a fate I wouldn't wish on anyone, but I think he's earned it. His wife has kicked him out, his ill-considered, and tastelessly phrased (to say the least), diatribes have been vilified by even the Right Wing media, except The Sun, and his constituency may cease to exist in boundary changes are agreed (And no one will convince me that Theresa May didn't enjoy a brief, if wintery, snmile at the idea of that AND former Brexit Secretary David Davis's constituency suffering the same fate)
Controversy surrounds the actions and reactions of Serena Williams and an umpire at the US Open final
The Indian Supreme Court has struck down an old Colonial-era statute banning same sex relationships and banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.
A new teaser for Doctor who, confirming the launch date of Season 11 as October 7th has aired. Maybe a LITTLE heavy handed as far as metaphors go, but I'll give them one, and the "Whoops!" sells it in a very Doctor-y fashion. Also interesting to note that it's now been moved to a Sunday, which is the BBC's "Prestige Drama" evening, so they are serious about this. Also, this is likely to allow an earlier, more family oriented timeslot. TV landscapes having changed since 2005, Saturday night has been overtaken by the likes of Strictly Come Dacing, which is a couple of hours long, and meant that Doctor Who was pushed to a later and later timeslot, allowing more mature stories perhaps, but doing no favours to the family viewership that it had once had.
At long last, Carapace has debuted in Miraculous Ladybug, in the new Ananasi episode!
The next Kingdom Hearts game will include a big Hero 6 world
Finished Disenchantment and remain... somewhat unengaged. I appreciate the world building but this should not have been ten episodes long, given anything approaching an actual story arc didn't kick in until episode seven or so.
Also finshed "Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas" anime, and do understand why it being cancelled mid arc like that still rankles.
A teaser for Netflix' She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has aired. giving us a first look at the animation style in motion (same animation studio as Voltron I believe)
And speaking of Netflix, their new series; "The Dragon Prince", from the creators of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" debuts this Friday.
And "Happy New Year!" to those celebrating Rosh Hashanah.
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Date: 2018-09-11 11:11 am (UTC)Last night, as a tribute to the late Burt Reynolds, a local theatre held a free showing of Smokey and the Bandit. I saw it with my mother & one of her friends, and there was a pretty good turnout for it.
I'm in three D&D meatspace games now! Two campaigns run by one guy on Sundays, and one run by me every other Thursday (I've not DMed in over a decade!), all held at a local cards/games/miniatures shoppe. They've been a lot of fun.
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Date: 2018-09-11 11:43 am (UTC)