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Post by brutalis on Nov 15, 2018 13:17:01 GMT -5
You all need to move here to Arizona. No Daylight savings time problems other than some television stations on the east coast time move forward an hour here in the fall (always check and mark my calendar ) and back in the spring so that can be a royal pain if you are DVR/DVD recording. Also don't have all the cold complaints but you do have to sweat to death for 3-4 months of the year in summer. But NO SNOW unless you drive up north to it is a major bonus. Right now nights are in the high 40's and days in the mid-high 70's. It is a splendid thing to talk with family in the east at Christmas and say: oh by the way I am wearing shorts while enjoying the holiday!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 15, 2018 13:45:46 GMT -5
You all need to move here to Arizona. No Daylight savings time problems other than some television stations on the east coast time move forward an hour here in the fall (always check and mark my calendar ) and back in the spring so that can be a royal pain if you are DVR/DVD recording. Also don't have all the cold complaints but you do have to sweat to death for 3-4 months of the year in summer. But NO SNOW unless you drive up north to it is a major bonus. Right now nights are in the high 40's and days in the mid-high 70's. It is a splendid thing to talk with family in the east at Christmas and say: oh by the way I am wearing shorts while enjoying the holiday! There's almost no amount of money that would get me to live in Arizona. I'd be perfectly happy if the temperature never got above 50 degrees fahrenheit. The only good thing about Arizona weather is that it isn't humid.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 15, 2018 14:39:14 GMT -5
You all need to move here to Arizona. No Daylight savings time problems other than some television stations on the east coast time move forward an hour here in the fall (always check and mark my calendar ) and back in the spring so that can be a royal pain if you are DVR/DVD recording. Also don't have all the cold complaints but you do have to sweat to death for 3-4 months of the year in summer. But NO SNOW unless you drive up north to it is a major bonus. Right now nights are in the high 40's and days in the mid-high 70's. It is a splendid thing to talk with family in the east at Christmas and say: oh by the way I am wearing shorts while enjoying the holiday! There's almost no amount of money that would get me to live in Arizona. I'd be perfectly happy if the temperature never got above 50 degrees fahrenheit. The only good thing about Arizona weather is that it isn't humid. Look at the positives: no hurricanes, no tornado's, no snow storms piling up, no earthquakes (other than feeling tremors from California), you have desert and mountains a plenty with pine tree's an hour drive away along with the largest hole in the ground ever in the Grand Canyon! Spending all my life here I am looking to retiring away from Phoenix and the climbing heat of summer. There are plenty of towns up north of Phoenix that are much more weather tolerable like Prescott, Payson, Flagstaff, Strawberry and the such.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 17, 2018 11:43:49 GMT -5
Our town puts out flags and crosses bearing the names of locals who gave their lives in war to commemorate Memorial and Veterans' Days, as I'm sure many towns across this great land do. This morning, I went into town and discovered all of the crosses laid on their sides like Wolverine's grave-marker at the end of Logan. I suspect the culprit may be @transcendentalmental or a similar X-23 fan mocking us un-evolved Homo Sapiens and our silly rituals. (Or I guess it could have been the wind. )
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Post by comicsandwho on Nov 17, 2018 15:54:27 GMT -5
Bill Maher, who has demonstrated why he needs to be throat-punched on several occasions, does so once again, with this blog entry, in which his smug ass tell us why he's so much better than adults who read comics,and who make such a big deal out of such an insignificant event as the death of some guy who made comics. www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/index/2018/11/16/adulting Go sit on Namor's trident, Bill. Putz.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2018 16:32:59 GMT -5
He needs a reality check ... Bill Maher knows nothing the values and an impact that Stan Lee had on our society in whole. He thinks Comics are stupid ... many kids learned to read English better when a comic book is handed to them.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2018 16:43:08 GMT -5
Why pay attention to him? He makes his living by insulting large groups of society. People like that think they are better than everyone else. I'm betting most people here have better and more fulfilling lives than someone like him. IMO he comes across as a bitter lonely miserable person. And someone whom I wouldn't care to spend any time with. In real life or watching on TV.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 17, 2018 18:52:00 GMT -5
What a sad piece that was. Maher is also the bozo who frequently spews anti-vaccine drivel, right?
Heaven preserve us from self-righteous dudes who believe that having a measure of wit is a license to make judgements on all things they clearly have no clue about.
I happen to agree on one point: we are indeed loathe to give up our youth, and the affluence of our society allows us to indulge that whim in many ways. In some ways it can be pushed so far as to become a problem, in other ways it allows us not to grow into old farts too early.
But whatever be the case, reading comics is definitely not the only symptom or our current social neoteny (and I’m not even pointing out that many comics nowadays are far removed from their kid-oriented origins). Buying sports cars, following basketball teams, going to rock concerts, trying to please 20ish ladies when we’re past 40, enjoying action movies or spy novels... those are all things that might be seen as adults refusing to let go of their youth. Is Maher going to condemn them too? I mean, why not? How is a typical Hollywood blockbuster not appealing to the same sense of wonder and excitement that made old issues of Thor or Fantastic Four such successes?
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 17, 2018 20:23:41 GMT -5
Hmm, well I read his little essay on Lee, comic book fans and Trump voters, but what really impresses me is the comments on that blog... they go on forever! Many kind of remind me of all the people writing to the Comics Journal (or Filmfax or Future Life or the L.A. Times etc.) to say "So who is Harlan Ellison anyway, he's not such a big deal, what's he ever really done". I never cared if Harlan (r.i.p.?) thought I was a slope-browed knuckle-dragging feep of the lowest lickspittle order for liking something he didn't (or for thinking as a reader that Ted White was a decent editor), so I care less if Bill Maher thinks I move my lips when I read a Hulk story. I think he probably hit a nerve with some though, but then got personal and went too far on top of that, that's all. I mean look at the Pavlovian feedback on that silly little piece. I don't for one moment think he's really tearing a strip off Stan Lee or his fans, but far more recent than Stan attempts to cross Dostoevsky with spandex adventure fiction has produced some bizarre moments for sure. And most people will never know of them. It's not even like The Punisher movies set even the youth culture alight, and they were only a stone's throw from Bronson and Rambo anyway. I wonder if Bill Maher missed all those pulp and paperback series of the '20s-'70s that really were the progenitors of that kind of serious super comic he seems to find backward, they were more the father of superheroes for adults than Stan Lee's comics.
In trying to show off his long pants he's come off looking rather short pants to me. Too bad it worked on so many, but then look at my own long winded reaction. Much ado about nothing; some things are just fun for some and not for others.
Oh yeah, I've never seen his show, just a clip or two recycled someplace else, but I did find his Religiosity 'special' entertaining, for one sitting anyway. Whoever he's a cultural gadfly to it doesn't seem to be me.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 17, 2018 20:51:55 GMT -5
Who the f**k is Bill Maher?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 17, 2018 21:02:29 GMT -5
Who the f**k is Bill Maher? American entertainer, known for liking to kick the hornest’s nest with a smug attitude. I appreciate how he generally has left-leaning opinions but isn’t willing to give the irrational left a free pass. He acts like he’s a rationalist, and never shies away from mocking religion and stuff, but also holds deeply unscientific views. He’s often witty, and is an advocate for free speech and the ability to hear contrary opinions without losing one’s s##t (and more power to him in that regard) but he can sometimes have ridiculous opinions. As far as I’m concerned, that is.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2018 21:07:58 GMT -5
And the "star" of the "classic" film Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death:
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Post by comicsandwho on Nov 17, 2018 21:35:19 GMT -5
He totally overlooked that Barack Obama is a huge Marvel fan.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 17, 2018 21:55:33 GMT -5
Maher is a self-important blowhard.
Neil Gaiman had a brilliant response. “Maher’s just trolling, and lots of people are rising to the troll. (Julie Burchill did it better 30 years ago with her “There aren’t any adult comics because adults don’t read comics” line. ) More people cared about Stan Lee’s death than care about Bill Maher alive.“
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 18, 2018 6:44:56 GMT -5
And the "star" of the "classic" film Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death: Okay, he gets credit for that...
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