Raithe

It doesn't actually take that long. As long as you're on winning teams, you can get Pierce with 10 pvp matches. Remember to pick up the Weekly pvp thing as well, completing that gives you a boost to his influence. I think I've done about half the weekly heroics now, and with what I did last week, I've got three of the specialists up to 12 and one to 14. It's that point where you need 4 crates to go up one rank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3lF2qEA2cw

For the random interest... Orson Welles interview and apology on the day after the War of the Worlds scared the crap out of America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuEGiruAFSw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXAW2qd65nA

"The first scene of the new Star Wars film is going to be Han. Because the first shot is always Han."

Heh. Popular Mechanics - Why Nasa needs a programmer fluent in 60 year old languages...

Massive Crack in Earth mysteriously opens up in Bighorn Mountains

And still going strong... Clarkson threatened with three years in jail as Argentina re-opens Falklands row probe...

With the bouncing around on planets doing heroics, I finally actually wrapped up part of that macrobinocular chain. I thought "finally, i'll get around to clearing that." Got to Nar Shadaa, wen through the first batch of that Heroic 4 fairly easily - The whole jumping from air car to air car was a new and fun touch. Then I get to the hideout.. and find out you have to have a group to do it, because there are multiple clickied you need to press all at the same time. I loathe these quest chains that are all single player up until the end point, and then it demands a group. Especially on these quirky quest chains that no-one seems to be at the same point on.

With the upcoming Halloween / Day of the Dead time... Dressing up the Pinata?

To be fair, the book series started interestingly enough (with a few clichés) but then wandered into the authors personal political diatribe hidden behind fantasy and various deus ex handwavey stuff to fill it out and wrap it up. The tv show was entertaining enough with just the right touch of camp to the seriousness.

Cinemablend - How Kurt Russel Feels about Big Trouble In Little China remake

Still, we should wander back into the random amusements territory rather than get stuck being oh so serious here...

I think it comes down to how you read the tone, and that's always going to be a personal interpretation. To some the things she said and that style come across in a somewhat pushy, half threatening "if things go bad I'm going to be reaching for this bat" type of way. To others it's more a "I'm just being safe and letting you know this in case of issues". Either way, it made the guy uncomfortable so he backed out, and that's his choice. Her rage over it seems a bit odd regardless. Personally, I'd see it in a better light if it was more a "I let a friend know where I was going and the name of the guy I was meeting" as a general safety net. But jumping to the big name drop of "police chief" does seem a little overkill and heavy handed.

Variety - Fall TV Ratings Well, a general "scorecard" on how the current crop of tv shows are doing and the likelihood of them being continued, or cancelled....