(movie trailer music starts) in a world… where online commenters… don’t read articles… ONE HERO… challenges EVERYONE… to do the unTHINKable… (movie trailer music stops)

How night and day work above the Arctic Circle.

Movies and TV and stories talk about how there’s 6 months of daylight and 6 months of darkness. That does not fucking happen. This is still part of storytelling to this day (I’m looking at you, Sweet Tooth season 3).

Days get stupidly long in the summer, and there’s a while where the sun really doesn’t go down. in the Winter days get stupidly short, and there’s a while where it doesn’t really come up all that much. But it’s not 6 months of one and 6 months of the other.

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yeah but a script that sucks the balls of an executive is far more likely to be greenlit.

is it Saturday already?

It stands for American/Sign/Language

needs more Webring

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a) aw cute dog

b) I’ve totally had weekends like that

c) is for cookie and that is good enough for me

yep. I heard David Lander doing the voice of one of the weasels in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and figured he was having a comeback. 1988 kinda spoiled us for movies, didn’t it?

me as a kid: “Hey that’s Squiggy on the left!”

Same. I still believe “if you take care of the pennies the dollars take care of themselves” of course, that implies the ownership of dollars, which some do not have, so this wisdom does not always translate completely.

and some young’uns don’t understand that letting AOL onto the internet was the biggest mistake ever made.

I spent years playing games on Commodore-64. Suddenly they release the NES, and the first game I saw for it… kinda didn’t look super impressive compared to the games I was playing on the 64. My buddy says: “You can rent games now” and I shook my head in disbelief at the whole thing.

I had that on a particularly study business card. I used one of those fine-tip pens and got about 40 numbers on it. Now I talk to strangers on the internet, and the points don’t matter.

when I was wee we only needed to use 5 digits for many years. The system would assume the first digit you dialed was the final digit of the initial group. When they switched us to the full 7 digits people acted SO annoyed: who’s got that kind of time when you’re using a rotary phone?

he didn’t leave the building?

Same thing for VHS tapes. That had to be something **super **important, like if they showed Raiders on TV

I edited the file to change ‘now’ to ‘not’ just for grins.

I only saw it on TV. It must have been so surreal.

Art Garfunkel’s song “Bright Eyes” is absolutely, beautifully, brutally sad.