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Since its Pittsburgh, I'm guessing the name is from the Whiskey Rebellion? Yeah Dodger Stadium still looks like a 60s stadium which wasn't a great era for park design. I gotta confess, though, I like it existing since I think its cool to have a park with history rather than making a new one every few years (even if some of the modern throwback designs look nicer). But then again, if Atlanta had been forced to use its existing park when the Braves came to town, there'd be a magnolia tree in center field (Babe Ruth hit a home run into it in exhibition play, IIRC). 😆

I think this was his post from when she was on a short list -

Federal League had some fun team names. Chicago Whales? Newark Peppers? St. Louis Terriers? I'd include the Pittsburg Stogies, but they were named after the Union Association team in the 1884. I never thought about it before, but as Wrigley Field was originally a Federal League stadium, then that makes Dodger Stadium (of 1962) the oldest stadium built specifically for use in the National League that is also still in use. 😱

Sally Kellerman

IIRC, Honus passed away the next year (about a year and a half after this letter was wrote).

She's an Armaroid - essentially a nigh-indestructable robot.

Yes it is, apparently its the third film they've bought to stream.

I have the 3DS remake of Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers and only played it for a very, very little bit. Nothing to do with quality, but my "gaming life" is really out-of-whack with "work life" and "quality of life life"

"Life is the leading cause of death, scientists say"

Atlus has announced SOUL HACKERS 2, a sequel to an earlier SMT spin-off. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2022-02-21-shin-megami-tensei-spin-off-soul-hackers-2-announced

Space Cobra Episode XIII: "Shi no Rūretto" aka "The Roulette of Death" 6 months later, and Dominique has left to return to the Galactic Patrol. Lady brings a listless Cobra news a hijacking of gold, and he realizes that it has to have been hijacked by the head of Space Las Vegas, Hammerbolt Joe. It was an okay adventure, sort of a back-to-basics story after the grand adventure. But...

I thought Afterlife was fun, but wasted Ivor Shandor. Then again, I think the original is venerated far outside its actual merits. Its a fun film, but that's about it.

I used to see most major genre releases (and a lot of minor ones) in the theater. But I also have a high tolerance for bad filmmaking if it hits the right tone (I watched Plan 9 from Outer Space without need of hosts spoofing it). I actually liked Alien: Ressurrection but admittedly that partially may be because MK:A made it look good. I probably like 4 more than 3 too, but I don't think I've ever really forgiven its failure to be a true sequel to Aliens.

Also saw it in theaters. Saw MK: Annihilation on a double bill with Alien: Ressurrection.

TNG 'Sub Rosa' - Yet another episode where a characters begins acting out of character and everyone ignores it. Your appreciation of the episode probably depends on your ability to appreciate 70s Gothic romances more than Star Trek. Which makes it a bit of a bust as a Star Trek episode.

I saw HOUSE OF THE DEAD and ALONE IN THE DARK in theaters... EDIT: According to the trivia, Alone in the Dark was one of two films in 2005 to receive an "F" Cinemascore. The other was WOLF CREEK which...I also saw in theaters.

Based on wording used (Helel ben Shachar (son of the morning) and his title Hêlêl ben Šāḥar (bringer of dawn) to reference the morning star) hell is probably the planet Venus and I claim my No-Prize. ... ... ... Whaddya mean that only works for Marvel Comics from the 60s and 70s?

Hundeds Of Rare Sealed Nintendo and Sega Games Discovered In Nebraska Storage Facility

Why be terrified of things that in no way, shape or means can you effect? Things (not just this, but anything) outside of your control will either happen or it won't, you worrying about it only affects you. Better to put effort in things you can control (preparedness or mitigation at your personal level).

Reeves has been in a few film and tv properties, but I don't think any of them are definitive portrayals or accounts (and now after nothing much, there's supposed to also be projects from Amazon and HBO as well in development). I'd imagine we might have the 2019 WATCHMEN tv show to thank for bringing him back into the public consciousness in a big way.

I never considered TOS campy. Low-budget, sure, but campy TV is defined by Batman '66 in my mind (or for a sci-fi equivalent, the 2nd season of Lost in Space) and Star Trek wasn't that. Obviously YMMV. For TNG, Wesley was ill-used but I didn't mind his character on re-watch which surprised me greatly as I thought he was a waste of character-space in the original airings. Perhaps I could tolerate him better in retrospect as I knew there was a finite run for the character. To be honest, and hindsight being 20/20, TNG started the show with too many characters. TOS is Kirk-Spock-McCoy then the reoccurring characters - Scotty and Nurse Chapel then Uhura, Sulu, Chekov, Rand, Riley, with the lions share of episodes being majorly with the main three and then 1 more of those (usually Scotty) having a significant role. TNG had Picard-Riker-Troi-Data to start (the carryover from Phase II's Kirk-Decker-Ilia-Xon) but the remainder of the characters were fighting for story scraps. Worf in Season 1 was superfluous and had no role but to be the Klingon in the background. Worse, I think they realized from a story standpoint they needed an Engineer so badly that they just moved Geordi to that position. Worse for Wesley, he had no real role on the ship such that they had to sort of push him into a role for no good reason, really. Season 5, 6 and 7 have had some really dire episode in my opinion (the block of stories involving children in Season 5 almost put me off continuing they were so, so bad and came so close after one-another). I'd easily watch Season 1 and 2 over rather than the dregs of those three seasons. The better episodes of 5, 6, 7 may be a lot better than the betters of 1 & 2, but the lows are, IMO, less low. What I saw of DS9, it benefitted from having a lot of characters not directly affiliated with Starfleet (IMO) as TNG shows, the producers felt constrained by Starfleet. Voyager always struck me as a mish-mash of characters. I wanted Paris to "disobeys-orders and hotshot pilots" himself in a shuttle into an asteroid though, from the episodes I saw. Enterprise I didn't see much of as my work schedule changed and I didn't get home while it was on. It was on my 'next to watch' after TNG, but I think I'm going to put a short series in between TNG and my re-watch of it.

I dunno, I think I mentioned how season 5 is high highs and low lows for me and the lows are pretty terrible. And I don't think season 1 & 2 are as bad as most fans think, less high highs I guess but just mediocre lows. But to be fair, Roddenberry was being overruled left and right in season 1 (and sometimes with good reason, from what I've read) so I don't know if he 'had it' really either. I do want to watch DS9 and Voyager, but will probably take break for a little bit since I'm watching Disco and Picard after it. I liked parts of DS9 that I saw before, but not sure what I'll make of it now (I at best saw maybe a third of it, and a lot of it early on).