Amentep

I dunno, I think the European Badger's just have better press agents.

Ah, I thought he was the actor who played Rom.

THE PERFECT MATE (TNG)- Why can't the computer, which apparently can track every crewman, keep people who aren't part of the crew from traveling willy-nilly all over the ship? Why are there civilians on the ship (other than to have rowdys around for the one scene)? Tim O'Connor and Famke Jansen are good in their respective roles, and Picard and Beverly get some good scenes as well. One of the dramatic episodes that actually has some pretty decent drama in it.

<star trek>Nobody had a Beastie Boys CD with 'Sabotage' on it handy</star trek>

Maybe it'll be a Kaiju shooting skybeams out of its eyes. (Yes I know what it appears to be)

Beverly Cleary

Larry McMurtry

It's not a direct follow-up (only the actors for The Wall, Flagg, Quinn, and Boomerbutt return) and I think giving the mixed reputation of the original, the title is an attempt at a fresh start. I imagine ties to the original film will be few if not entirely non-existant.

I'm just a subscriber (I don't want to see him in court!)

There's an ad now by one of these stupid semi-anonymous PACs telling us we should be thanking our benevolent overlords elected officials for 'saving the integrity of the vote'. But, the Gov, Lt Gov and Secretary of State said there was no voter fraud. So why are we changing laws to "prevent the rampant voter fraud"? Well apparently its not because there *was* voter fraud, but because people *feel* there was fraud, so the laws need to be changed so that these people with the *feels* can return to confidence in the election process. Despite the fact that the only reason the *feel* there was fraud was that people lied to them and told them there was voter fraud. Which the Gove, Lt. Gov and Secretary of State said there wasn't. Its quite possibly the dumbest political theater I've seen. Its a solution searching for a problem, as one pundit here put it.

As I understand it (not lawyer/not legal advice) you have a legal right to ring a doorbell, and then a legal obligation to leave if no one answers or they ask you to leave in the US. So provided he didn't have to get behind a posted no trespassing sign or gate or something, I would doubt it could count as trespassing, even if the police ended up being called. Only time I had a package knowingly delivered to somewhere else, it ended up at an abandoned property(!) so it wasn't a big issue for us to retrieve it.

I just watched the film again not long ago. Transported me back to the 80s (alas, only figuratively).

Will the militia require them to learn how to use the gun and gun safety? What if a person doesn't perform to the expected level in the militia, can they be kicked out? Questions, questions...

George Segal

Surely for lumberlasses, it'd be Timber...? ... I'll get me coat.

I misspelled her name, and then went to check it and had to fix it for every instance of the name, and still misspelled it.

"Cost of Living" TNG Forgot to post here after watching it. Lame B story that doesn't go anywhere and doesn't add any impact at all. TNG really suffers from the A/B plotting I think. Not because they use it, but they seem to insist on it when even when the A story is sufficient to be left alone. The A story wasn't anything to write home about; TNG isn't typically at its best trying to be a family drama. There are a few really good bits (this may be my favorite Lwaxaana Troi episode so far, simply because I hate the others, but here Lwaxana displayed a certain amount of savvyness usually lacking in the character which made the character more tolerable. Nice final sting with Worf, Alexander and Lwaxana which was a better payoff than the episode deserved. But Counselor Troi spouts psychobable child psychology (making a contract with a kid who is most likely too young to actually understand a contract or why it may be important or indeed what he needs vs what he wants? Huh?) and they waste Tony Jay entirely. Bonus points for the grumpy assistant to Jay's character, though. He was appropriately grumpy.

Iirc whedon was brought in to add humour/ punch up the script (like he did on the 1st x-men film) and when Snyder had to step away, he was brought in to finish as he was already connected to the product. But he did extensive reshoots and changes (with studio approval who were worried about the tone and second guessing Snyder) to the plot. Supposedly he was determined to prove the criticism over the 2nd Avengers film to be wrong. I think with everything that's gone on, including the Ray Fisher stuff, all the people who were in charge of DC movies, WB movies, and the major producers are all gone (albeit I think Geoff Johns still works independently with WB, he's no longer with DC/WB.) Suicude Squad supposedly tested well, it was the response to the ad campaign that led to the ad company making an edit.

Animator, director Yasuo Otsuka

Monopoly allowing people to vote on new Community Chest cards - https://www.cnet.com/news/monopoly-wants-your-help-in-updating-its-community-chest-cards/