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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 29, 2022 22:49:56 GMT -5
Great! we are going on Sunday. Flu shots later in the month. I was in the vaccination center's neighbourhood this morning and thought "what the hey". There were only four people in line, so I got the new omicron shot. I'm thankfully very healthy so it won't make any difference to me personally, but if I can be that less likely to silently carry the virus to a vulnerable person, then it's all for the best. Exactly. Thank you from those of us who are or who live with immuno-compromised loved ones. Would there more folks as caring as you, mon ami.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 30, 2022 5:56:03 GMT -5
Damn, that reminds me: I really need to get that fourth jab...
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Post by The Captain on Sept 30, 2022 12:29:55 GMT -5
My wife got her fourth COVID shot last night. I still need to schedule mine, but I’m waiting until this year’s flu shot is available at the local pharmacy and will do both at once.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2022 23:06:46 GMT -5
Welcome to October. It's now officially spooky and Pumpkin Spice season. I like the spooky, but the next time I have something Pumpkin Spice will be my first time; I just don't get the appeal. But if it's your thing, good on you, enjoy.
-M
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Post by Duragizer on Oct 1, 2022 22:42:17 GMT -5
Seems I can't drink anything stronger than wine straight anymore. Which means I've done a good job curtailing my alcohol consumption in the last several months.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 4, 2022 5:54:23 GMT -5
It was election night here yesterday. As ever, I am dismayed that the opposition parties, with roughly 15% of the vote each, will respectively get 22, 11, 3 and zero seats. It's all about certain ridings voting massively for this or that party.
Everyone clamours for reforms that would correct this imbalance, but as soon as a party gains power, they decide that everything must be fine after all, since they got elected!
On the plus side, the election is over. No more daily promises about having our cake and eating too, plus the hand of the baker's daughter, the favour of the baker's wife and the baker's blessing on top of it!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 4, 2022 6:08:39 GMT -5
(...) No more daily promises about having our cake and eating too, plus the hand of the baker's daughter, (...) Wait, what? They can't do that! That baker's daughter is my totally real, not-made-up Canadian girlfriend!
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 5, 2022 5:57:48 GMT -5
Seems I can't drink anything stronger than wine straight anymore. Which means I've done a good job curtailing my alcohol consumption in the last several months. Well done. I stopped drinking 64 days ago. I was mostly a weekend 1 or 2 day a week drinker but I'm 61 and I can't feed my body anymore poison. I also want to be at my best should anything arise.
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 5, 2022 10:06:56 GMT -5
Was watching some of the first Terminator movie last night and something stuck out to me: I feel like it would have been a better horror movie if they just cut out the scenes of T-101 and Kyle materializing from the future
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 5, 2022 11:53:21 GMT -5
Was watching some of the first Terminator movie last night and something stuck out to me: I feel like it would have been a better horror movie if they just cut out the scenes of T-101 and Kyle materializing from the future Yeah, but then it wouldn't have been a rip-off of Harlan Ellison's Outer Limits episodes. Well, not totally. Listening to Cameron try to defend that, on either the commentary track or a featurette is hilarious. He openly stated that he swiped it to a a journalist, during an interview for Cinefantastique, who promptly alerted Ellison, who called his lawyer. That's why you had to settle the case and put up the acknowledgement at the end, James. The interesting thing about the movie, aside from the swipes (Colossus, the Forbin Project would also like a word, James....), is that the original vision was Lance Henriksen playing the Terminator. I personally think it would have been more menacing.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 5, 2022 14:10:04 GMT -5
If Cameron had not mentioned that he had been influenced by Ellison's story, I think the latter wouldn't have had much of a case. The only common point between the two tales is that two time travellers from the future come to the present and shoot at each other.
By that standard, Harlan could have sued the director of the SF film Saturn 3, in which someone trapped in a tin can must defend his life against a malfunctioning machine. Good thing said director kept his mouth shut about any influence!
The similarity between Terminator and Soldier is as tenuous, as far as I'm concerned, as that between The Invisibles and The Matrix or that between Star Wars and Valérian. Yes, we can say "this aspect is present in both works", but we can also say that of the raincoats and whisky bottles found in every private eye's office Hollywood ever gave us!
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 5, 2022 16:45:53 GMT -5
Every account I ever read painted Ellison as an A hole.
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 5, 2022 18:31:30 GMT -5
Every account I ever read painted Ellison as an A hole. And to be fair, Cameron kind of comes off as one too...
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 6, 2022 13:08:16 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 6, 2022 20:50:00 GMT -5
I've seen the documentary that Isabella mentions (Dreams With Sharp Teeth), and it is great. I have also seen the masters of Comic Book Art that he hosted, featuring Eisner, Kurtzman, Kirby, Ditko (off-screen), Adams, Wrightson, Miller, Sim, and Moebius, where he champions the art form of comic, while wearing a Fantastic four t-shirt. I've seen other interviews and listened to people like Neil Gaiman, Joe Straczynski and Peter David sing his praises. I've read a bit of his work and seen some of his appearances on the Today Show and Tom Snyder's Tomorrow. Ellison was a passionate person and champion of the little man. He would fight injustice like a bull terrier. He championed the art of writing, the craft of it. One of his treasured items was a volume signed by Dorothy Parker to him, praising him as a writer. As he said, you are not a writer until another writer tells you. There are a lot of people who have been in workshops and signings who have been told they are a writer, by Ellison, and they valued it more than anything.
By the same token, he didn't suffer fools, con artists or bullies. If you talked to him with courtesy and respect, you got it back. If you engaged in a discussion with him, he would give you his all and ask the same of you. If you insulted him or his friends or just an innocent, he'd go for your jugular. He was a harsh critic, but he gave you a thoughtful rationale for the criticism. He'd also give praise where it was due. He'd go from zero to 500 in half a second. He punched out more than one person (including one where his punch resulted in the recipient's broken hip!). If you were in trouble or were with a cause that needed help, you couldn't have a better friend or champion. If you did harm to people or tried to take advantage of them, he'd be your worst enemy. He didn't give his professional services away for free, to those who could afford to pay him, such as Warner Bros, when they wanted him to participate in featurettes for Babylon 5, without payment, when his participation was going to be a marketing strategy. he championed the idea that the writer should be paid for their writing, not give it away for free "to gain experience."
He wasn't a saint and he wasn't necessarily an easy person to to get along with, depending on how you approached him, by all accounts I've read. Most of the things I have read that called him an a-hole were from people who deserved him acting like one, to them.
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