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Totally fair.  It's cool that JA gave the idea of Nightly blogs a chance, at least.  They had a good run.

("good" = "meh")

 

'sokay, I copied all my favorite Nightly blog entries to my hard drive long ago because I knew the day would eventually come when all that would be vaporized, just like that one time when the thousands of words and dozens of hours I poured into the Nightly.net News site were flushed down the drain.  I was just surprised to see it happen so brusquely, is all.

chronologically:

Indiana

Ohio

Kentucky

Missouri

Tennessee

Michigan

DC

Maryland

Pennsylvania

New York

Niagara Falls on the Canadian side

Arkansas

Texas

Oklahoma

Wisconsin

Minnesota

West Virginia

Virginia

Georgia

Florida

South Dakota

Wyoming

Nebraska

Iowa

Kansas

Colorado

Connecticut

Massachusetts

North Dakota

Alabama

Mississippi

Louisiana

...I think that's it so far?

On 9/1/2020 at 10:03 AM, Darth Krawlie said:

hard pass on blogs

...

On 8/31/2020 at 9:13 PM, Darth Krawlie said:

There's a FB group that we used during some board downtime a handful of years ago, but that died as soon as the board came back. Other than that, I think there was a twitter account that no one used?

The Twitter account still exists, but the last tweet was in March 2014. No idea who has the keys to it.  JA, I assume?

Meanwhile, I still have Admin powers on the Nightly FB page...

Least inaccurate comparison in recent years: Adam Savage. I blame the receding hairline.

Most inaccurate: an older coworker swears I remind her of Eric Clapton. I don't get it.

Also, why am I seeing several authoritative posts in this thread and others credited to "Guest" with a totally blank profile and no profile link to click?

Was Nightly upgraded by a...g-g-g-g-ghost?

That long two seconds after the text and starfield load, but before the boxes load around each post, are soooo disorienting, like I'm floating in space and in danger of being sucked into another dimension but then reality solidifies and I'm yanked out of the portal at the last second and reappear standing next to everyone all staring at me like "What."

Coooool.

Thank you for upping this. I'e been slowly playing through the PS3 version for the past few months and now this thread is on my reading list along with every Skyrim discussion I can find on Quora. This game is dangerously immersively fascinating even on my older console.

Well, heres a sad one. Theres a contemporary art museum in my area thats always had a theater for showing independent cinema. Other theaters will show indie film series, but they arent dedicated to indies. And this museum theater knew how to draw really great crowds that the other theaters dont.

 

Well, Covid did the theater in. Theyre being forced to sell their space and downsize, with no space for a theater in the new building.

 

Theyre losing their public access art studios, too.

That really sucks. We had a new indie cinema that was planning to open in March (no major corporation backing like the one and only art-house cinema our city's had for years), but then came All This.

 

They apparently received an okay number of initial memberships and donations for starters, so they've been holding watch parties while waiting for the world to change. Hopefully someday they actually get to open.

The level of pretty-clarity seems to have varied wildly by state and city.

After two straight nights of the worst (and possibly first) riots in my lifetime in our normally quiet downtown, Indianapolis will have its first ultra-strict curfew tonight.

 

My workplace downtown had its windows busted out, which is arguably minor since it's a skyscraper, but it sucks to see the damage photos.

 

The same (proportionately worse) happened to my local comic shop, as if they needed more headaches on top of their last three months' COVID hardships. Ditto for dozens of downtown restaurants. The CVS across the corner was set afire. I did see footage of three protestors hurriedly putting out some would-be arson at the breakfast joint down the block before it could really flare up, so that was a heartening glimmer of encouragement in an otherwise nightmarish Midwest weekend.

 

But at least we cured police brutality and millions of non-racists have pledged to go to police academy to replace the monsters who'll need to be weeded out, so that's pretty magical.

And I know it makes me a bad comic nerd, but I kinda like Watchmen, even though I think if you'd never read the comic it would be a mess... and maybe even if you did.

This was actually one of the topics that came up in last month's Zoom chat!

 

Short summary of my rambling there: it wasn't fantastic, but there're parts where it arguably achieves some deconstruction of the superhero films that preceded it, and its best feature is that its existence allowed Hollywood once and for all to get a Watchmen adaptation out of its system and move on after all those wasted decades.

Meanwhile in his hermit shack, Josh Trank sits by the phone waiting for someone to offer him a $30 million Fantastic Four do-over.

Fun Nightly news: Leatherface is now on Peacock!

 

Xfinity cable subscribers have just been given sneak-preview access to NBC/Universal's new streaming service, which doesn't officially launch for one-'n'-all till July. There isn't much there yet -- three kiddie cartoons, NBC shows that are already on Hulu, trailers for stuff they'll eventually have (the Saved by the Bell and Punky Brewster revivals, Brave New World with Alden Ehrenreich) and some 478 movies. I went through all 478, which had far more "classic" films than Netflix and Hulu combined...and, as you'd expect for a startup streaming service, a couple hundred direct-to-video crapfests that make Redbox look like Criterion.

 

I marked seven of 'em for watching ASAP -- Do the Right Thing, Clockers, The Front Page, Broken Flowers, Hard Candy, and, at long last, Leatherface.

 

I just finished watching it, but I've also never seen any previous TCM flicks all the way through. I once caught 15 minutes of TCM2 some 25 years ago, but all I remember is how it bugged me that one character looked and sounded an awful lot like Mojo Nixon. Otherwise...well, now I know what it's like when someone tries to get into the Star Wars Saga by starting with Phantom Menace -- I had no context, barely knew what was about to be explained, recognized zero Easter eggs, and was severely grossed out more than once.

 

But hey, someone from Nightly made it! And Stephen Dorff was fun. I realized I'd seen Sam Strike in an episode of Timeless where he played Clyde Barrow. And I did laugh perhaps a bit harder than I should've at the final fate of Deputy Iron Fist.

 

Hopefully this earns you a few cents?

I've largely stopped collecting physical media except Criterion sets, Black Friday Blu-rays, and whatever I'm given as gifts, but I still have a sizable unwatched backlog dating back over a decade, thanks in part to my wife's previous job at a company that dealt in multimedia products. While she and I have been diving into assorted streaming shows, on my own time I've resolved to plow through all those sets this year or else.

 

My physical binge-watching over the past two months:

 

Static Shock - final season

Homicide: Life on the Street - final season

Batman: The Brave and the Bold - s.1

Battlestar Galactica - s.1, just started s.2

The Weird Al Show - two episodes in

 

Non-physical viewing for the two of us lately:

 

Unbelievable

House of Cards - s.1-2

Wild Wild Country

Tiger King

McMillions

The Crown - s.1, nearly done with s.2

Im Seth and Im a good father

 

I mean Nicole was so wasted that she was slurring every word but also had her daughter with her.

It sounded like all her parts were recorded at 78 rpm but played at 33-1/3 rpm. A reverse Chipmunking, if you will.

We probably don't wanna over do it. You guys will get sick of my **** in no time. I was thinking monthly, maybe?

 

Weekly might be overkill, but "never again" is definitely not an option.

 

Pretty annoyed I forgot to take any screen shots, though. Not the jazz hands, not the part where Tami's phone got hit by a tornado or whatever that was, and not of the segments that were like Kids Say the Darnedest Things minus the Cosby stigma.

 

Next time pick an Archive thread and do a dramatic rereading.

 

I would absolutely be down for this.

Not sure if anyone is still reading...

I'm quiet but fascinated! I wish I didn't suck at thinking of questions to ask. Thanks very much for sharing all this BTS stuff.

pig in a poke

pig in a blanket

high on the hog

bringing home the bacon

porkchops and applesauce

ham on rye, hold the mayo

wee wee wee all the way home

silk purse out of a sow's ear

Arnold Ziffel

 

...now all of these sound like Muppet sexual positions. THANKS, BRANDO.

I actually saw most of the best picture contenders this year. Parasite was one of my favs, but I didn't think it had a chance.

Ditto. I'd already seen 8 of the 9 Best Picture nominees before the nominations were announced, and caught the ninth one a few days later. Perversely, out of those nominees the only one I actively disliked was the quote-unquote comic-book movie.

 

The Oscars have been one of my guilty pleasures for a couple decades now. I remember starting out as one of those fledgling viewers who hadn't seen anything outside the Sound and Visual Effects nominees. After a decade or so of getting into it, then my wife and I started an annual tradition of watching all the Animated and Live-Action Short FIlm nominees once ouir city finally got an art-house theater ready and willing to exhibit them. And thanks to the internet and the rise of original streaming-media programming, last year and this year I found myself tracking down the documentaries online, long and short, and watching for fun.

 

Well, maybe not "fun". Aleppo reality-horror shows can damage the psyche when you stack too many of them in a row.

 

But, y'know, good luck trying to drum up chats about this stuff on Facebook, where nobody went to theaters last year to see anything but Endgame.

I always pronounced it "boad" in my head because "BODE" is a preexisting one-syllable word and "BODIE" is pronounced "boh-dee". The closed-captioning insists it's still spelled "BODE", so my pet theory is his entire family started pronouncing it wrong years ago on purpose just to get under his skin, and he got tired of correcting them all by age 5.

 

I kinda multitasked while watching the first few episodes, but eventually it picked up steam and held my focus, especially episode 9, which ratcheted up the tension quite nicely in time for the oddly simple climax. Aiming the show at teens and toning it down to TV-14 seemed like weird choices at first, but in hindsight it feels like a better fit. Gabe Roridguez' art was amazing, but the atrocities inflicted upon his Margaret Keane-eyed subjects could be extra jarring at times, bordering on just plain mean. One reviewer complained the show was "more spooky than scary". but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

 

All the casting was absolutely spot-on. I'm surprised Uncle Duncan's role was minimized. I laughed at the cameos in episode 2 and 10.

 

I've forgotten some details about the original comics over the years since I collected them, but while I saw one aspect of the ending coming, they caught me off-guard going a few steps beyond that. Reviews seem mixed enough that I have no idea whether a second season is likely, but I'd be fine with it happening. The show reminded me how much I liked the Lockes.

Extremely similar, yeah! And they're bringing in Georgie from IT and the alien-superpowered teen from Falling Skies. I'm unreasonably optimistic about this.

ONE of them dead inside?

Okay, at least one of them. I'd diagnosed Pitt as just catatonic inside, but I'll concede my instruments might need recalibrating.

Yeah I haven't had a bad planned Nightly meet up either. There was an unexpected run in with Exodus, but it was just unexpected and took me a second to realize who it was, but definitely not bad at all. You guys are all mostly okay and there's several of you I still really want to meet.

 

 

You west-coasters are so hard to reach, it's REALLY annoying.