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If it wasn't for the funeral scene i would say it makes sense, but the dude does make eye contact quite a bit with him when Walter and Donny go back and forth. @ d usa can you post the link to the article?
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Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
Deathshead420 wrote:If it wasn't for the funeral scene i would say it makes sense, but the dude does make eye contact quite a bit with him when Walter and Donny go back and forth. @ d usa can you post the link to the article?
I will have to hunt it down. Not sure if it was a Mental Floss article, or Cracked, or something like that.
I've been meaning to rewatch it since I read that too.
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htj wrote:Scott Lynch's the Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies.
Easily the best fantasy novels I've ever read, and probably two of the best novels. His writing is truly a joy to read, and his characters are probably the most fleshed out and believable I've seen in any fantasy. The setting is wonderfully realised, and the narrative is compelling and well structured.
Now if only he'd release the third book.
Now I see why we'll never get on. This was such a disappointing book, as I'd read hundreds of reviews like yours, and while the world was nicely imagined, the 'characters' were laughable, their motivations hopelessly muddled and the plot quite ludicrously simple. I kept reading, thinking, "Wow, I can see twenty possible twists here, each one cooler/more believable than the last", and none of them happened. Bitterly disappointed.
This on the other hand, keeps me warm at nights! Best fantasy I've read in years and years, and that's a lot!
North Korea week continues here at D5*PD, with Nothing to Envy, true stories of live in North Korea after the famines and economic collapse.
Whether you've been studying North Korea for years or only know it from MASH reruns this is a book that will entertain, enlighten and break your heart.
Barbara Demick interviewed dozens of North Korean defectors from the same northern city to build a complete picture of a place that is more like a prison than a country, where millions starve while the government builds nuclear weapons and where everything is slowly falling apart.
One woman recalls going to the clothing factory each day until they stopped getting cloth, then she would still go to clean and do make work, then to raise food on the factory grounds until finally the factory told her to stop coming.
A doctor remembers how her medical bag started full and year by year grew emptier until she was foraging in the hills for herbs and using beer bottles for IVs, then foraging in the hills for food to survive. When she fled to China she saw a dish of white rice and meat sitting on a stoop and realized that in China the dogs eat better than the doctors in North Korea.
A kindergarten class starts with 50 students and finishes with 15, the missing children are either too weak to come to school, or have starved to death.
Through it all the city of Chongjin itself dies. One by one the factories close for lack of supplies or fuel. The theaters and restaurants go dark from lack of electricity. Then the wires and machines are looted for scrap metal. Finally the food disappears.
But it's not all doom and gloom. Demick weaves in family dramas and a love story to remind us that behind the fearsome military and the insane government are real people with hopes, dreams and feelings.
There are other miserable places in Earth but reading this book reminds me that no where else is the misery so deliberate. The prosperity of South Korea and China show that there is no reason North Korea has to starve, there is no unrest, no famine. The government has chosen this policy to maintain its insane vision of socialist and racial purity.
I cannot recommend this book enough. Read it. You'll be moved.
Automatically Appended Next Post: OK, this is weird, that review was originally my Amazon review and it's cited in... or all things... a dog care site.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
Don't forget weird, in the sense of otherworldly and mysterious. Otus was (is, but I haven't really loved a lot of his recent work) one of the very best at conveying a sense of the macabre and unusual; and sometimes situations both humorous and dangerous.
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Kid_Kyoto wrote:So I think we have enough negativity on the board, let's try for something positive.
Pick some work, a movie, TV show, book, game, whatever that is genuinely purely good stuff. Not kinda good, not so bad it's good, but good good.
And of course why.
For example...
It shouldn't have worked. It really shouldn't.
By the early 80s Marvel Comics had a small empire of successful licensed books like Conan, Micronauts and most successfully Star Wars. Then one fine day Hasbro came to them, they were reviving their old GI Joe line but this time as 3 1/2" figures with a line of high tech modern vehicles. And they wanted a comic to go with.
Everyone turned it down. War comics don't sell after all.
Then they asked a Japanese-American writer and Vietnam vet named Larry Hama. As it happened he had just proposed a book involving a special forces anti-terrorism team called Fury Force. So he met with the toy folks and his first question was who do they fight? To which the toy people kind of said huh? So he quickly doodled a logo and said, they'll fight a terrorist army called Cobra.
Over the next 12 years GI Joe was a top selling comic and, despite the demands of supporting a toy line and working in dozens of new vehicles and characters each year. It had its ups and downs but Hama managed to wed Tom Clancy-like military jargon and details with fun stories and layers of story to turn GI Joe into an evergreen franchise that's still spawning TV shows and movies now.
And best of all, 15 years after the Marvel run ended Hama was invited to write a new GI Joe comic picking up the numbering and continuity of the original book.
So if you've never read it, Larry Hama's GI Joe run is today's five star pick!
Is it true that Larry Hama wrote everyone who wrote in to the G. I. JOE letters page a personal postcard response (unless they sent hate mail or a no-prize request)?
I asked Larry Hama about it and here is what he had to say:
No, not EVERYONE. I got hundreds of letters a week. And I read them all. I answered something like 20 or 30 letters a week with a short personalized sentence or two on postcards that Marvel had printed up for that purpose. I also sent out no=prizes when they were deserved. I answered the letters that actually posed questions or pointed out something interesting. At least 50% of letters are “print trollers” or people who have a form complimentary letter that they send to every title to try to get their name into a letters page. “I really liked issue #______ of ________! It was excellent! I liked it when _________ fought ___________! That was so cool!” Those, and the nasty hate letters got thrown out. If somebody had legitimate criticism and wasn’t being a jerk about it, I sent them a reply.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
I'm really enjoying the 'previous version restore' (the very opposite of a reboot) he's doing now. Well once the Joes stopped shooting policemen in the face that is.
Written by Russian/Soviet scholar Andrei Lankov, who studied North Korea before the collapse of the Soviet Union, North of the DMZ is a collection of essays on aspects of daily life in the closed and secretive society. Since most of his scholarship is from the 80s parts are dated but it makes a great set with Nothing to Envy to really capture the world behind the parades and military bluster.
It's about as alien a society as you can find on Earth, and Lankov manages to bring us hard information and explain it well. That's why this is your 5 Star pick of the day.
'Make me a happy monkey' A documentary by the Ventriloquist/Comedian Nina Conti. Its really interesting and incredibly personal, she is very revealing about herself. Its funny and very moving. Definitely worth checking out.
Second best was the new Adaptation of 'Coriolanus' by Ralph Fiennes. It's not necessarily the best shakespeare play as the principle character is in too many scenes but when it is performed with the gravitas of Mr Fiennes its pretty explosive stuff. Oh and the modernisation of the play is superbly done.
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What's so great about it? Stuffed pizza. By the slice.
You can now eat something heavenly but still keep it (somewhat)
manageable by limiting yourself to a single slice.
I know portion control is possible with entire pizza pies, but this makes it easier.
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"...he could never understand the sense of a contest in which the two adversaries agreed upon the rules." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
K_K, that is my all-time favorite big band tune. Excellent call.
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Paraphrasing, but they have at least this one interaction, just off the top of my head.
Not to mention the scene in which Donny dies, The Dude and Walter have an exchange wether Donny has been shot, and no shots were fired, must be a heart attack.
Not to mention the scene in which Donny dies, The Dude and Walter have an exchange wether Donny has been shot, and no shots were fired, must be a heart attack.
First let me just say that I don't believe the theory, but in all fairness in that scene where Donny dies Walter first says " we got a man down dude" and the dude says " was he shot" almost like he was playing along with crazy Walter.
Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
While Benny Goodman's version is fantastic, the fifth star IMO belongs to the man who wrote the song, Louis Prima. Best known for voicing King Louie in Disney's Jungle Book, Louis was a Sicilian trumpet player from New Orleans. The David Lee Roth version of Just a Giggilo/I Ain't got no Body? Note for note from Louis Prima's version.
Louis also did the first version of this song:
covered by Brian Setzer and his orchestra...
As an aside in the movie Cobb, when Ty Cobb goes to Reno, it is Louis Prima that he goes to see...
Edited for a better version of JJNW...
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Not even just Johnny Bravo, CN back in the 90's period.
Was channel surfing and found it on Boomerang. Watched it for an hour and started to remember how great cartoons were back when I was a kid, and how well they've aged. Most of the jokes are still pretty good.
Iur_tae_mont wrote:My first 5 star pick would have to be....
Not even just Johnny Bravo, CN back in the 90's period.
Was channel surfing and found it on Boomerang. Watched it for an hour and started to remember how great cartoons were back when I was a kid, and how well they've aged. Most of the jokes are still pretty good.
It is. Finally saw it for the first time last year, which is a downright sin for s cinaphile. I kept hoping I'd catch it on a big screen, but I got out of the habit of going into the city to the art theaters. So worth it; even on a smaller screen.
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