Dan of the various projects of limited interest

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31 May

My recent projects: * thepuddingblog.blog - dormant, mostly comics @ int'l tv * Tywyll, a zine about Welsh language crime tv from a non-speaker's perspective (link to purchase on the blog) * secretlycanadian.neocities.org - guide to recent changes to Canadian Citizenship law

I have some quibbles with the story and how some characters were coded. It wasn't as good as Kubo or Coraline, but... the animation itself was gorgeous and you should go see it. Now that I have, I switch my anticipation to what Guillermo del Toro & ShadowMachine will do with The Buried Giant.

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Just saw Laika at the Bagdad. I'm also pretty sure that in the 2d animation credit sequence, that's also where the Decemberists are performing.

Just saw Laika at the Bagdad. I'm also pretty sure that in the 2d animation credit sequence, that's also where the Decemberists are performing.

4 hours until Wildwood

maybe I'll finally return to my blog with the ramble about the statoil cup scene from Wisting and the "it's not a ghost, it's a dybbuk" scene from Attachment that's been kicking around in my head for a few years now.

talkingpointsmemo.comDOJ Sues to Block Alaska Senate Certification if Republican LosesThe Justice Department asked a federal judge on Friday to stop Alaska...

The thing about this is that it's a non-issue. Alaska has ranked choice voting. Want to vote for Sullivan, but confused as to which Dan Sullivan is which? Just rank them #1 and #2. It would only be an issue if one of the Dan Sullivans win (and the other claims it should be them).

(obviously the real purpose is to lay the groundwork to complain about Peltola's seemingly likely win, but this is an even more limp attempt than usual)

One thing that makes Taskmaster work is that the 5 contestants (+ hosts) means that a lot of comedy styles can be covered. So regardless your sense of humor something will probably work. For example: Last season was drudgerous, this one is great. Plenty of people think the opposite.

Dan of the various projects of limited interest@thepuddingblog.blog

I love the dynamic on Taskmaster this series, with three contestants in open rebellion in the studio.

I worry that if Chloe doesn't win Taskmaster, Alex won't make it out of the studio alive.

My favorite recent behind-the-scenes story is that Rik Mayall (of The Young Ones) was cast in a minor role in one of the boy wizard films. He hated the script and spent his first day of filming trying (and succeeding) to make the kid actors corpse.

Amy "Thunderjam" Chase@amythunderjam.bsky.social

We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.

The director sent him home and his scenes were cut, but he still received his full contract pay plus residuals for the film. He later stated that it was his best role ever. (I always wonder if that footage exists somewhere and if it'll ever see the light of day.)

I love the dynamic on Taskmaster this series, with three contestants in open rebellion in the studio.

my coffee maker has a pump and when I turn it on, it warms up the pump and sounds just like the opening to Pepper by the Butthole Surfers

nytimes.comKatie Zacharia, Trump’s New Press Secretary, Is Fired After 5 DaysThe ouster came as Ms. Zacharia was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.

.5 Scaramuccis! (or 1 deciTruss if you prefer metric)

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rahaeli

@rahaeli.bsky.social

I guess it's as good a time as any to announce the new moderation list I have: "Silence, robot", for bots, LLMs, and agents that speak to you without all parties who will receive the notification having solicited the speech: bsky.app/profile/raha...

Jon Bois@jonbois.bsky.social

would someone mind dumping a gallon of apple juice on whatever rack this thing lives on

thepuddingblog.blogA SAILBOAT IN THE MOONLIGHTNavigating With You is a sweet, sapphic YA romance about two girls falling in love while supporting each other across differences. It may seem at times that they’re a little too good at behav…

My review of Navigating With You was pretty much about how reading a story about two teenagers easily modeling behavior adults find difficult was an emotional balm.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social

I say this all the time. Wish fulfilment in comics is a lot more than just power fantasies.

forget trying to find something new to watch. I'm just gonna rewatch a bunch of Hugo Blick, Will Sharpe, & @joebarton.bsky.social shows heading into my annual rewatch of The Terror

remember before streaming when we used to rewatch things? That was pretty great. Even stuff that you were meh on, but had on VHS could get multiple views. Crazy talk, I know. It's all about sticking your face in the spray from the fire hose of "content" now.

I appreciate the ephemeral experience of watching theatre, but that's in person. I boggle at the swamp of shows intended to be watched once, and even then only half-watched so you can keep scrolling on your phone.

last repost: I really should know better than to post something while at the same time putting "big if true" type language on it. Sorry, just got excited about a drop in bots.

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Joseph Menn

@joemenn.bsky.social

No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.

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CREDITS: Most of these points were earlier posted on Reddit by someone else: www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/c...

Dear Toyota, Please bring back the Scion Xb as an electric car, so I can one again have a car that doesn't kill my back when I drive. Thanks.

My only comment is that the Lost Canadian bill is about citizenship, not immigration (we are Canadians) and the Hon. Min. Diab has made a shambles of the implementation of C-3 far beyond cancelling proofs (the most egregious example, but just the tip of the iceberg).

Jenny Kwan@jennykwan.bsky.social

Minister Diab’s total lack of leadership and basic knowledge of Canada’s refugee framework is hurting families, exacerbating processing delays, and undermining our immigration system. Prime Minister Carney must fire Minister Diab immediately—our immigration system needs a reset.

When Waylon Jennings sings "lovable losers, no account boozers, and honky tonk heroes like me" and when Bruce McCulloch sings about the Daves he knows, they're talking about the same people btw

I've literally never heard of hyperbole before now.

and again, although only mildly inappropriate

Dan of the various projects of limited interest@thepuddingblog.blog

There's a really inappropriate joke that I'm working really hard on not posting here and I just want you all to appreciate my restraint, and no I won't elaborate because I don't want to be one of those people who post "well I could've said X but I didn't" (you just did mate)

you may ask "why bother doing this?" but it actually does remove the temptation to just post it anyway

Had my intro to curling class and it was so much fun, definitely found a new hobby. It was way more physically demanding than I realized, particularly in muscle areas my physical therapy addresses (is this good?).

Finally, I'm woefully bad at figuring out how much force to use, unless I'm trying to knock out a single stone and can just go full bore. Otherwise I'm as likely to not make it across the far hog line as I am overshoot (make it into the house is less likely).

If @anginedepoitrine.bsky.social played a cover of Nitroglycerin by The Gories, would they cease to exist?

this joke involves translation from French, references to both experimental & garage rock, and medicine. College me would be so proud.

Got my tickets for Wildwood, only a month early. At a McMenamin's for extra Portlanditude. Thank you to all the folks who moved things ever so slightly for months on end to make this film happen.

dlvr.it‘Black Doves’ Season 2 Trailer: Keira Knightley & Ben Whishaw Return To Netflix’s Spy Thriller November 5Netflix’s slick British espionage series “Black Doves” returns this fall, bringing Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw back together for another round of secrets, assassins, and deeply compromised loyalties. Following its well-received first season, creator Joe Barton’s spy thriller returns November 5 with another six episodes and a considerably expanded ensemble. READ MORE: ‘Black Doves’ Review: Keira Knightley & Ben Whishaw Charm In Joe Barton’s Witty & Entertaining Spy Series Season 2 finds Knightley’s Helen Webb still feeding British secrets to the covert Black Doves organization just as her husband Wallace (Andrew Buchan) prepares to become Prime Minister. Continue reading ‘Black Doves’ Season 2 Trailer: Keira Knightley & Ben Whishaw Return To Netflix’s Spy Thriller November 5 at The Playlist.

More Eleanor & Williams! (and some other folks in "lead" roles too)

The Playlist@theplaylist.bsky.social

‘Black Doves’ Season 2 Trailer: Keira Knightley & Ben Whishaw Return To Netflix’s Spy Thriller November 5

18 Sept

18 Sept

Is there a Canadian equivalent of @talkingpointsmemo.com ?

17 Sept

PPD working hard to get Mitch Green re-elected

13 Sept

Various Wildwood Crows spotted around Portland today. Unlike a couple of years ago with the cats, the website doesn't list all of the Crows and all of the artists. Instead you need to download an app which isn't free (so two ways I'm not getting it). So I'm not able to credit the artists here.

13 Sept

This one, in front of City Hall by Maya McDarragh was our favorite. In addition to the cherry blossom theme, there's also lots of references to the history of Japanese-American Portlanders, and depicts the Japanese American Historical Plaza on the bird's back.

11 Sept

just had some quick service done on the car at the Jiffy Lube on Beaverton Hillsdale Highway and one of the mechanics had multiple Nazi tattoos... so I don't think I'll be stopping there again.

11 Sept

There is nobody writing about comics I find more enjoyable to read than Chloe, and this one is ever better than usual.

Chloe "KLO-E" Maveal@cuntersthompson.bsky.social

GOOD MORNING DEVIANTS

11 Sept

Hear me out for a second: wintergreen gum with chili flakes, or Icy Hot the chewing gum

10 Sept

If we do end up getting the $5k, I'm booking a week at the Château Frontenac.

7 Sept

Lanterns does not deserve Kelly MacDonald

huh, bsky now auto-numbers bleat storms. When did that start (also, impressed at an actually useful new feature)

I grew up exposed to multiple accents just in my community, let alone ones from travel and summer camp. I kinda use bitsa alladem. I'll add eh, no or yo to the end of sentences (the latter less since leaving NY) consistent w/dialects, but inconsistently to myself.

Fat, Bald Dabus@thebleats.by86400.link

I really cannot take those dialect quizzes because I’ve got a sort of Schrödinger’s accent where things like the way I say “route” changes based on context that I don’t understand so if I start thinking about which one is “natural” my brain completely misfires

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Similarly, a large multi-lane highway w/o lights can be a freeway or a highway, but also an interstate (if it is one) or a 'pike, or also a parkway, which is usually smaller than a freeway, but I've been on sections of interstates that are less wide than parkways where I grew up.

so I find this/these dialect quizzes frustrating, even if sneakers + soda somehow nails me as a New Yorker.

Fat, Bald Dabus@thebleats.by86400.link

likewise I'll use different "regionalisms" for the same thing with no real preference (rotary, roundabout, traffic circle). I feel like some of the questions don't get to my accent, like this one. I'll use most of these depending, although youse is never alone, it's always "alla youse"

I'll use hero or sub most often, but occasionally hoagie or grindah. (Po' boy would imply some sort of Cajun sandwich filling, like how a banh mi isn't a sub/hero). But for most of my youth, this was a wedge (and served on half a loaf of Italian bread)

3 Sept

where can I find pants for my gothling who is apparently now too tall for girl's clothes, but doesn't seem to quite fit women's clothes? (or does fit some women's clothes but somehow only pants that are in bright colors, which are no-gos)