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  3. 3.

    Mnemosyne

    Repeating myself from the dead open thread:

    All right, jackals, I saw Black Panther last night and I feel totally confident making the following three predictions for next year’s Oscars: Best Supporting Actor (Michael B. Jordan), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Picture.

    There’s no way it wins Best Picture, but it has a good chance at Screenplay, IMO. That’s how the Academy likes to reward promising young writer/directors.

  8. 8.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    Turns out I have pleurisy for the third time. Not too much fun, but it could be a whole lot worse, since when you get sharp, stabbing pains around your heart, well, I’d rather have pleurisy than a heart attack or pneumonia. I thought maybe it was pleurisy, since I’ve had it twice before, but they gave me an E.G.C. or whatever the thing is where they stick things all over your chest and take a look at your heart, and my heart is great, and then they did an x-ray to look for pneumonia, and it wasn’t that either. Could be a lot worse…

  9. 9.

    Major Major Major Major

    So I submitted my short story to Lightspeed last Friday morning. They say most rejections come within two business days, but stories under serious consideration can be held for up to two weeks. So, kinda hopeful? It’s a “no simultaneous submissions” shop ? so I can’t do anything further until I hear back anyway.

  19. 19.

    Elizabelle

    @Betty Cracker: So you just had a birthday?

    Happy tiki and chickens birthday, Ms. Cracker. Hope it was wonderful.

    The Gorey cat that ruined the work of 2.5 weeks … would have ended up tail-less.

  21. 21.

    khead

    The second video is really adorable.

    Wanted to say thanks to the couple of folks who asked about out rescue cat Jack. I crashed out hard after posting last night before I could answer any questions. The short version: Jack is a rescue from the New River Valley in VA. He was dumped by some tool into a feral colony where he was (luckily) snagged and fostered by a childhood friend who works for a rescue and adoption organization. She thought she was helping Jack move on up like George and Weezie by offering him to us but it turns out Jack doesn’t play well with others. At least not our kittehs. Anyway, Jack’s previous foster parent likes him enough to take him back and she has several other folks already interested in him too. So, it’s kinda, sorta a happy ending – I know people here like that sort of thing – even though we hate giving him up.

  25. 25.

    MoxieM

    @Major Major Major Major: Many recommendations to visit the Gorey House (now museum) if you find yourself within striking distance of Brewster MA (on the Cape). He left generous support for his cats, and much of his household/studio/collections are as he left them. Fascinating, brilliant man. Edward Gorey House

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne

    Somehow, we ended up watching the behind-the-scenes mini documentaries of the new “Twin Peaks” series. I’m not a Lynch fan, but it’s interesting to see his process. I would actually rather watch this than the series itself.

  28. 28.

    MoxieM

    @Major Major Major Major: It’s utterly fantastic! I had the joy of going when my daughter turned 16… she skipped school that day (hehehehe bad mommy), but we had the best day! He was fairly recently gone, so the house was really in original shape — he had his large puppets like the Uninvited Guest peeking in through the windows. His car was still in the driveway (the plate read “Ogdred”). I don’t live close, but let me know if you can come, I’ll meet you!

  29. 29.

    Steeplejack

    I recommended Gorey’s book The Unstrung Harp as a great take on the writing process in one of the writing threads. Someone said they had ordered it. I want feedback! I want a book report!

  32. 32.

    efgoldman

    @Betty Cracker:

    Mr. Gorey and I share a birthday. George Washington was also a 2/22 baby!

    Our daughter turned 37 today (Friday). It’s also GF Handel’s (Messiah) birthday. Hallelujah!

  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mary G:

    Now to figure out how to DVR “Sesame Street” without G becoming suspicious … ?

    BTW, I met someone who worked closely with LMM on a project. He apparently really is just as nice in person as he seems to be.

  35. 35.

    Gravenstone

    @Timurid: Heh, watched that back in the late 80s, just a bunch of drunk midwest college kids. Later we had to pull one of the freshmen off the two Latino guys on our floor because he swore they were Cubans. Good times.

  42. 42.

    Major Major Major Major

    @WaterGirl: They’re probably just backed up.

    The line of thought reminds me of something I read one time, as a depiction of the depressive mind. Roughly:

    Random person on the internet: your writing is bad and you are bad and I hope you die
    My brain: oh god this random person from the internet can peer into my soul with complete accuracy
    Loving husband of fourteen years: Love you!
    My brain: he’s probably just saying that

  44. 44.

    Mnemosyne

    @Aleta:

    Mmmmmmaybe. It’s hard to win for an “unserious” movie like that. That’s why I’m predicting a Screenplay win — that’s a traditional award for up-and-comers like Coogler.

    Also, I think Jordan Peele has a good chance of winning Best Original Screenplay in a couple of weeks, for the same reason.

  45. 45.

    WaterGirl

    Adam, thanks for this thread. I love the pup who’s helping his brother learn to sit. Simply adorable.

    Reminds me of a couple of dogs I met decades ago. The big dog and the pup. Owners gave the big milkbone treats which were too big for the puppy. First big dog gets his cookie, which he drops without eating it. Then he gets the second cookie, which he breaks up into pieces for the puppy. THEN he ate his own cookie. So much goodness.

  48. 48.

    WaterGirl

    @Major Major Major Major: First off, enjoy the hopefulness! Second, you’ve been married for 14 years? That is awesome. Or maybe that was just an example?

    Either way, it makes me a bit sad that s smart, funny, interesting guy like you would feel insecure. And on that happy note, I am heading for bed. I had to go to bed every night at 9 or 10 when I had the pups – just for my own sanity, they were delightful and exhausting. I must have gotten used to that because I am tired and ready for bed, and this is quite early for me.

  50. 50.

    Steeplejack

    Is there a way for the reader to rearrange the #RedDawnTom thread into 1/n order (with responses), or does the author have to do that? If the latter, damn you, Tom Nichols!

  51. 51.

    Major Major Major Major

    @WaterGirl:

    Second, you’ve been married for 14 years? That is awesome. Or maybe that was just an example?

    I was trying to quote the thing I’d read; that writer had been married for 14 (or whatever) years. We didn’t get married until the country decided to recognize it, but we started dating ten years ago next month.

    ETA and, goodnight :)

  53. 53.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @WaterGirl: My Cocker would have gone for the throat of any dog who didn’t submit to him.

    ETA: From his point, I need to get mine. I will cut a bitch. He was so nice with approrived people.

  54. 54.

    Rommie

    Since it’s always projection, I’m expecting the talking points to find their way to White Collar Crime. And how it’s not a big deal. And Tax Evasion is just Common Sense™ and shouldn’t be a crime at all! Etc. Etc.

  57. 57.

    Steeplejack

    Joy Reid (sitting in for Lawrence O’Donnell) is playing the CPAC clip of Trump criticizing (at length) the resource officer who didn’t go into the high school during the shooting last week. God, what a sanctimonious prick!

    Whatever you think of the officer’s performance, no one deserves that. If he wasn’t suicidal before he probably is now (especially if, like most LEOs, he was a Trump supporter).

    Yes, I’m way behind on the DVR.

  61. 61.

    Elizabelle

    @Steeplejack: Yeah, I am worried about the resource officer. Possibly failed at his mission (jury still out); castigated and made a national example of, has a firearm. I am worried he will be another death.

    It’s appalling we put the officers in this situation. Get rid of assault weapons. Ban them, and buy backs.

  62. 62.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Rommie: It’s always about defending utterly unearned privilege with these assholes. They hate the very idea of egalitarianism.

  63. 63.

    Mnemosyne

    @WaterGirl:

    Oh, it’s going to win a ton of awards. I just don’t think the Academy is going to be willing to give Best Picture to a comic book movie. They have some weird ideas about what’s an “appropriate” Best Picture and what isn’t.

    I do think that The Shape of Water has a good shot this year, though. Partly because the Academy voters love movies that reference classic movies.

  64. 64.

    seaboogie

    @Mary G: I’ve known one or two. The underbite always reminds me of James Cagney.

    I get to pupsit my favorite regular one next week – a very fit 13-y-o quite deaf black Standard Poodle named Suzy. She’s a smart, flouncing princess in a chenille robe – reminds me of Katharine Hepburn in “Bringing Up Baby”.

  65. 65.

    Steeplejack

    @Mnemosyne:

    They have some weird ideas about what’s an “appropriate” Best Picture and what isn’t.

    They will rarely even give Best Picture to a comedy.

  67. 67.

    seaboogie

    @Steeplejack: t is not a sanctimonious prick – he doesn’t have the level of intelligence required to be that kind of douche. He’s a bully who is scared, mentally declining and “Look-squirrel!!!” is something he’s done so often it’s reflexive, so still very much in his repertoire.

  70. 70.

    Jay Noble

    @Elizabelle: Latest is there were 3 more officers (Good Guys With Guns) there while the shooting was going on. Pistols drawn, hiding behind their police cars.
    But what else could they have really done at that point that wouldn’t have ended up causing some friendly fire casualties?

  71. 71.

    Steeplejack

    @Rommie:

    Since it’s always projection [. . .].

    I had a minor epiphany about this while watching a few (very few) of the Trump clips from the CPAC speech today.

    Chris Matthews showed Trump reprising the “snake” story he used all through the campaign:

    I saved you, cried the woman. And you’ve bitten me, heavens why? You know your bite is poisonous and now I’m going to die. Oh, shut up, silly woman, said the reptile with a grin. You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.

    Trump was literally snarling the words today.

    And it hit me: at some point in the future, this is going to be the defining image of the Trump administration. He is the snake. He got the Republicans and the deplorables to take him in because he validated their racism and promised them he would fix everything, and he’s well on his way to destroying them as a political party and (the deplorables) respectable members of society.

  72. 72.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    Our February break started last Friday. My MIL died on Sunday. This has been one rotten week. Funeral in about 10 hours. My wife is crushed. Fuck cancer. Watching E.T. currently. I saw this movie when I was 7. It’s intense.

  75. 75.

    Washburn

    Oh my god, both of those videos are hilarious.

    Can kittens consume dog milk with no problems? Do the get the necessary immunities?

  76. 76.

    Mnemosyne

    @Duane:

    It’s a very funny song (on purpose), so I don’t mind that much. It just annoyed me that I had to Google an entire verse to find the damn thing.

    My favorite verse is still:

    Oh god it’s another disease
    And you just got rid of the last
    You were beginning to feel okay
    And the friends you gave it to
    Were speaking to you again

  94. 94.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Yarrow: I was having a cocktail at a friend’s house in the Bay Area earlier and realized that in the last six weeks I had seen his kids like four times as much as I’d seen my own.

    Hoping the wife hasn’t run off with the pool boy yet!

  109. 109.

    Yarrow

    @Steeplejack (phone): I did, earlier today. An exchange here was upsetting to me so I stepped away for a bit. Then my life got complicated again and I didn’t have time to keep up with much of anything.

  112. 112.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Yarrow:

    And that Tonga flag carrier at the Olympics went shirtless in below freezing weather, so…

    I went on a hike today up in the hills north of here and it was cold and very windy. I had to abort part of my hike because I was almost getting blown over by the wind.

    I did manage to get some nice pics.

  117. 117.

    Mnemosyne

    One last Black Panther note before I sign off for the night:

    For people who are on the fence because it’s a superhero movie, it plays much more as an action/spy movie than a “superhero” movie. If you like James Bond or Jason Bourne movies, you’ll love Black Panther.

    ‘Night, all!

  131. 131.

    J R in WV

    @Old Dan and Little Anne:

    Late to the thread, but wanted to tell you how sorry I am for your loss. Cancer does suck, hard. Lost my dad to it, lost my oldest cousin to it, about to lose a younger cousin to it. We grew up together like brothers and sisters, so very hard.

    Take care of each other in this stressful time! Come here for encouragement as needed!!

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