Happy #NationalBlackCatAppreciationDay to these two little gremlins, who needed a comforter wall built between them at 6am this morning to stop them from beating the crap out of each other on top of me.
To my sweet, calm girl who gives better side eye than any human and chirps at me to give hear head rubs and chin scritches...
...and my sweet, dumb little chaos tornado, who learned how to climb screens last night but couldn't figure out how to get himself down.
*her
Dammit, Monday.
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What you're looking at is the Gulf of Mexico on fire. As in the actual gulf, i.e. the ocean. All thanks to a gas line that burst underwater near the offshore platform you see there. It's apparently been burning for hours.
Super super super cool considering the ecosystems in and around the Gulf of Mexico still haven't fully recovered from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
Chief: Yeah but we don't know where they came from, this will be safer
[one hour and one explosion later]
Chief:
As long as no one is badly injured and the people's homes/cars will be covered by insurance, I find this entire situation absurdly hilarious in a Suez Canal Boat way.
Regarding the news bit that's been going around, there is no "faithful" retelling of the King Arthur story because there is no definitive version of it. It's literally impossible. His story isn't historical record but myth that has been added to by various writers over centuries.
Almost all the most famous stories and characters we know were added by either Geoffrey of Monmouth or Chrétien de Troyes a full 600+ years after "Arthur" was roughly dated to have lived. Scholars can't even agree on whether there WAS an Arthur.
The problem with people being tired of Arthurian legend movies isn't that the legends are boring or overdone but because Hollywood keeps telling the same damn love triangle story (Troyes' invention btw), or, when it does branch out, it's usually been done badly.
I don't actually think we're talking enough about how bad this is. Or connecting the dots between Trump failing to adequately staff important positions, then firing everyone and installing clueless yes-men with zero experience, and the extent of the Russian hacking efforts.
For those who haven't been following this story: Russia hacked a number of vital agencies' data, including:
- U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile
- The U.S. Treasury
- The Pentagon
- CDC
- State Department
- Justice Department
- DHS
- multiple utility & tech companies
We still don't know the full scope of the data they got, or how fully widespread it is. The hack started IN. MARCH. and our gov't. agencies only found out about it a week ago because an outside company alerted them to the breach.
I have to question the wisdom of releasing a heavy, dark superhero movie in theaters while there's still a raging pandemic, a movie the majority of general audiences will realistically only see as a 4-hour cut of a movie that already underwhelmed them once.
I'm genuinely trying to understand the reasoning here & failing. A movie that did so-so with general theatrical audiences once & only got a greenlight to be recut in order to boost a struggling streaming platform now potentially undercutting that by also opening in theaters? Why?
This is not whatsoever a commentary on the quality of the finished product. I have no idea if it will be good or not. This is simply me trying to figure out the logic here from a realistic business and financial perspective.
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The Senate race is as important as the presidential one. Arguably more important. It doesn't matter if Trump is removed from the White House if the GOP maintains control of the Senate & Senate Majority Leader position. Donate if you can, share if you can't. #FightLikeRBG