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Post by The Captain on Sept 10, 2020 10:22:51 GMT -5
Never saw any episodes of The Avengers and never been a big Bond fan, so I have limited exposure to Diana Rigg's work, but she was fantastic as the scheming and frankly quite scary Olenna Tyrell on GoT.
RIP Queen of Thorns.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 6, 2020 5:42:41 GMT -5
Yesterday may have been the best weather day in Pittsburgh this year, if not years. 78 for a high, virtually no humidity, bright sunshine all day long, 60 for an overnight low. I spent 6 hours outside staining my deck, and I barely sweated at all.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 4, 2020 18:15:18 GMT -5
I like both White Zombie and his after stuff; great driving music. However, I'd be more likely to play Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Motley Crue, AC/DC or Judas Priest. When I used to have a gym membership, I had Superbeast, the Dragula remix from The Matrix, Red Red Kroovy, and a couple of other Rob Zombie songs on my workout playlist. Great stuff to listen to on the elliptical, as they are fast-paced and have driving beats.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 3, 2020 18:36:23 GMT -5
I greatly thank @mrp for telling me about Bookery Fantasy a number of years ago. I have family in the general area and whenever I am out in the region, I always try to slip in a visit to the store. They usually have a selection of reasonably-priced Silver Age and early Bronze Age books on sale, of which I have availed myself numerous times.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 1, 2020 17:37:17 GMT -5
While some of my fellows here in the thread faced their lowest totals of the year, I myself was quite the opposite, reading 153 individual issues in August. A lot of that was helped by plowing through some early-2000s Iron Man runs as well as multiple Hellblazer TPBs, both of which tended to "read fast". Best Thing I Read In AugustReally been enjoying the Hellblazer stories I've picked up. This is a series that I am "collecting" only through used TPBs, so I'm reading them one story arc at a time in a haphazard manner. Also enjoyed some of the early Amazing Spider-Man I've been reading, although there are some things about it that I'm not a huge fan of. Worst Thing I Read In AugustYes, there is one book or story that is TECHNICALLY the worst thing, because there has to be something at the bottom of the list, but truth be told, there were no real stinkers this past month. Some of the Iron Man issues were a bit tedious, and I didn't like the Batman/Green Arrow graphic novel as much I had hoped to, but they weren't bad, just not great. September Look-AheadI plan to get through the current ASM Epic collection I'm reading, then I think I am finally going to go back and tackle Tomb of Dracula, which I had started a few years back and stopped after about the first 10 issues or so. That was at a time where I was in a position much like Slam_Bradley is in now, where I was trying anything I could to kickstart my interest in reading comics but nothing was sticking. Probably be a much lighter month in terms of books read, as Silver Age Spidey and TOD are much denser reads than 15-year old Iron Man.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 1, 2020 10:22:39 GMT -5
What a knob. I started writing something else about how this is his way of getting praise and glory for his actions, not God, but it really doesn't need to be expanded on. This is his "look at what a good Christian I am" moment, all about him and his works, his overwhelming self-righteousness captured on video for posterity. My thoughts as well. He might try a little of that humility that the Bible keeps talking about. Matthew 6:1-6 and Matthew 6:16-18 came to my mind immediately when I watched this.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 31, 2020 15:41:05 GMT -5
This might be one of the easiest ones of these ever posted for me, as it has to be the past.
I don't care about the future, because I won't be here to live in it. What happens after I am gone, particularly hundreds of years in the future, is immaterial to me, as no one I know will be alive then. Some people would argue about seeing my descendants, but really, those individuals would mean nothing to me since I wouldn't have a relationship with them.
The past? The possibilities are simply mind-boggling. Seeing dinosaurs, or, even more so, mammals such as dire wolves, giant sloths, and the like would be the thrill of a lifetime. Going to the prehistoric or even Roman period British Isles, being in Jerusalem from 25-35 AD, traveling with Vikings, seeing the Salem witch trials or watching Sherman march across the South, killing baby Hitler in his crib, buying Apple stock for pennies to leave for my kids. There are things that I would simply HAVE to see and do, rather than going forward to a time that has zero impact on the life I was living or would live.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 31, 2020 15:01:15 GMT -5
I always have said that I plan for my collection to be burned when I die. This guy did it while alive. Dude is just screaming for attention. What a knob. I started writing something else about how this is his way of getting praise and glory for his actions, not God, but it really doesn't need to be expanded on. This is his "look at what a good Christian I am" moment, all about him and his works, his overwhelming self-righteousness captured on video for posterity.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 29, 2020 7:12:44 GMT -5
It's 2020, which has been one long soul-sucking festival of misery and pain, so of course this is the news I wake up to this morning.
Gut-wrenching that in a year marked by so much racial division, the actor who portrayed Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall and Black Panther, a man who was an inspiration to Black children that they too could someday grow up to be superheroes, would be taken from this world by that insidious bastard known as cancer.
RIP Chadwick Boseman. Gone way too soon, and who will be forever missed.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 27, 2020 19:20:02 GMT -5
My newest haul video is up - not just romance this time, but all sorts of things including pre-code horror: Started great with a Tottenham shirt, but then the Pats??? ugh... Spurs? Bah!
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Post by The Captain on Aug 24, 2020 12:27:23 GMT -5
I'll see it with my daughters since they both liked the first one, but there is absolutely nothing "80s" about this. If you're going to set a movie or show in a particular time period, make it look like that time period.
Stranger Things gets it right. The clothes look like 80s clothes, the hairstyles look like 80s hairstyles, the advertising and stores and packaging on the items in their world look like they came from the 80s. You can't just play a New Order song, make a parachute pants joke, and say "we're set in the 1980s".
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Post by The Captain on Aug 20, 2020 18:36:47 GMT -5
Singin' in the Rain is my favorite movie, so it's safe to assume I like musicals. I'm picky, though. You couldn't pay me to sit through Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Sound of Music, or Paint Your Wagon again. But if it has Fred Astaire (with or without Ginger Rogers) or Gene Kelly, I'm in. Of more recent vintage, I liked Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Dreamgirls, Little Shop of Horrors, and several of the Disney cartoons. Cei-U! I summon the soundtrack! That's my wife's favorite movie too! She loves Gene Kelly's work (except for Brigadoon and Xanadu), and that is at the top of her list. My favorite movie musical is Rocky Horror Picture Show. Of the really classic musicals, I can watch most of the Gene Kelly ones, and I do like Wizard of Oz, Music Man, and Meet Me in St. Louis, but things like Oklahoma, South Pacific, and Sound of Music leave me flat. Among the newer musicals, I like a lot of the Disney ones since I've watched them with my girls so many times and I'm a big fan of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but other than those, I'm just not into modern musicals, especially things like Hamilton or every movie that has been turned into a musical (Beetlejuice, Legally Blonde, etc.).
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Post by The Captain on Aug 20, 2020 18:28:21 GMT -5
My Top 10, in ascending ranked order:
10. Ken Griffey, Jr. 9. Michael Phelps 8. Randy Johnson 7. Peyton Manning (mostly Tennessee Volunteers era, just a little NFL era) 6. Nolan Ryan 5. Jaromir Jagr 4. Barry Bonds (Pittsburgh Pirates-era, not big-head-steroids-era) 3. Sidney Crosby 2. Mario Lemieux 1. My older daughter
Since he wanted in, I'm letting @taxidriver1980 give his list next.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 19, 2020 21:04:14 GMT -5
Confessor , it's funny you wrote what you did, as my faith is at low ebb right now. There is a lot going on at my small "c" church as well as with the large "C" Church universal that is challenging me, but as most of it is related to politics, I'll refrain from diving deeper here. My wife and I talked this afternoon, and I described it like a reservoir: while it's supposed to be full, there is something keeping it blocked up so that there is barely anything in it, so it might be possible for it to refill again but that day is not today. impulse & Icctrombone , thanks to both of you, my friends. Always know you guys will lift me up. @needs , sorry to hear about your dad's situation, and really glad he's made improvement since then. My dad has his hip replaced this afternoon, and while I haven't talked to him yet, my sister did and she said that he was in fairly good spirits considering the outcome. Calidore , you didn't overstep your boundaries at all and thanks for your suggestion. My dad and I do not have a good relationship, but he has been making an effort over the past few months to repair some of the damage he's done (My sister and I had very abusive childhoods, not physical but emotional and psychological). I'm glad that he is taking steps to clean himself up, for his sake, but part of me is angry at him that it took my mom leaving, a lot of which was driven by his drinking and abuse, before he started down this path. If it was so damn easy for him to quit cold turkey after she left, why couldn't he do it at any point over the previous 40+ years and save all of us a lot of pain?
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Post by The Captain on Aug 19, 2020 16:28:22 GMT -5
I'll get to it in the next 24 hours, but there won't be any pictures. I'm working on my list mentally now.
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