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I hear OCP is working on a fantastic idea, currently referred to as ED-209...

My understanding - correct me if I'm wrong - is that the money was already set aside by Congress during the Trump administration for the wall, and since Congress declined to rescind the funding when the current Homeland Security Secretary asked, the money has to be used for its intended purpose as allocated. Biden is irrelevant <insert joke here>.

My dad was telling me when that he remembered a game where the Bears were playing the Falcons and he could see on a play Butkus with Falcons center Jeff Van Note in a headlock punching him in his face/facemask/helmet. A few plays later, Butkus went out with an injury and he always wondered if the Falcons offensive line had targeted Butkus for payback leading to the injury or if it was an accident. Dad didn't say if this was the injury that Butkus went out on in '73 (I believe a groin injury) that lead to the doctor's saying his knees were so bad they didn't think he should be playing which ultimately lead him to retire. Anyhow, always enjoyed Butkus in his second career as an actor when he'd pop-up in tv or movies. It seemed he ended up playing mostly weird nice guys rather than what you'd think his football reputation would have him playing. RIP.

Happy soon to be Birthday!

Seems like I need to add Suburban Sasquatch to my watch list.

RIP. He was good in everything I ever saw him in (think Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986) would have been first).

Asylum asylums an upcoming movie but...it doesn't look bad...? Also, movie awards are at low ebb so Golden Globes adds blockbuster and stand-up categories

The Great Escape is another good one - which i should have noted; forgot he was in Greatest Story but been ages since I saw it.

David McCallum, 90 maybe best known by modern audiences as Ducky on NCIS, but fondly remembered by older audiences as UNCLE agent, Ilya Kuryakin.

Looking forward to Mad God whenever I get around to it.

I've actually never watched them. Heard they were fun, but never got around to watching them.

I'm told it's been more of a stop kids voting thing the last few years.

There are groups that go onto college campuses whose intention is to get students to 'register' to vote. Because of free speech rules for public schools, there are places there allowed to go so long as they aren't disruptive or use space adjacent to campus. Some are legit. Some will do things to invalidate all or some registration forms, such as using fake forms or offering to mail them for students and disposing of them. Some are seeking to use voter registration to get personal details and scam students. Been a big problem here locally at least. Auto registration ruins this scam somewhat if students get drivers licenses.

Liked the trailer for El Conde, looking forward to see it...someday.

Auto registration also bypasses the groups that go to college campuses on voter registration drives but are there primarily to ensure that those registration aren't valid and students aren't eligible to vote.

If you haven't been to this doctor, they may want to get a baseline for a few visits and then drop you to annual physicals unless something happens. Or they may just want that sweet, sweet insurance money.

I think the bridge crew comes down to the modern belief that the ST universe doesn't allow enough interpersonal conflict (i.e. people siding with Ellison that people in the future are just like they are now rather than going for a humanity that's learned some things and can dusagree but come together for the common good). But much like Vulcans post TAS, the idea of professional crews that worked together slowly got eroded in TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT. Then blown up in DIS, PIC and LD. (If you want a professional crew, Lower Decks ain't it, unless you can get into the send up).

Yeah the alternate ending is probably too long; watching the version for the director's cut it feels very repetitive (which I've heard some people debate whether Oz would have really used all that footage). While the original film ending keeps to the idea of the Broadway ending, the original Broadway version is substantially different as well - *** For my part, I finally got around to watching New York Ninja. While it was fun, it was pretty obvious IMO that the film they put together misses parts of what the original plot was which was pretty unfortunate and makes for an overall weaker film than perhaps it should have been even with its super-low budget nature.

I enjoyed the first season of SNW. Of the new ST shows I've seen (Discovery season 1 & 2, Picard season 1, Lower Decks Seasons 1-3), I'd say its the most classic Trek feeling of the shows. If you get caught up in continuity minutiae or why the bridge looks fancier ~10 years before TOS, it might not be for you though.

Aww, RIP. Cobra and Goku - Midnight Eye might be the works I knew him best by.

To be fair to Eli Roth, this film is supposed to be the 70s horror film his ad in GRINDHOUSE advertised, and I think buckle capotains fits that asthetic pretty well.