Activity from Halloween Jack

Very interesting take on the place, not quite what I was expecting. My experience of Branson was through my then-wife's having an annual get-together with some of her relatives there... but not for any of the dinner-theater or tourist trap… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by jedicus, caviar2d2, TrishaU, non canadian guy, wenestvedt, clew, chavenet
MeFi comment - 23 hours ago

Memory Alpha has Patar (the Vulcan admiral) as someone named Tara Nicodemo. (Incidentally, the unnamed Section 31 ship that Leland is (nominally) commanding has a registry number of NCIA-93. Cute! I really loved this episode. Per mordax's… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by riotnrrd
FanFare comment - 2 days ago

On a somewhat lighter note, on a trip to my local comics/memorabilia shop, I found a bargain that represents what may be the absolute apex of Peak Action Figure. [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by riotnrrd
FanFare comment - 2 days ago

Whoopsers, this is the video that I intended to link to. (The other one looks good and I'll be watching it as well. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

What really blows my mind is how all four of the examples succeeded despite being obviously, utterly, devoid of charisma, sincerity, or professionalism because YouTube, its algorithm, and the audience reward prolificacy. Well, I watched… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Peacemaker: It's Cow or Never
favorited 7 times, recently by fiercecupcake
FanFare post - 3 days ago

Still SMH at the comparison of nicotine and caffeine. I mean, caffeine isn't without its negative effects, and I've started cutting back generally on my intake, but nothing anywhere near the league of "traditionally delivered in a form that… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Zumbador
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

You can't just go to the mirror universe and not do something bold with it. Hey, they can't all be alternate-versions-of-prime-universe-characters episodes. Even DS9, which did the most with the mirror universe before DIS, had an episode… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by CheesesOfBrazil
FanFare comment - 4 days ago

and then he told me the origin of the fetish was his MOM (a lesbian who only wore very expensive leather outfits) she'd been the 'girl' on a kids show back in the 60s and it was her role to always get a pie in the face. Good grief… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Bella Donna, mersen, AzraelBrown, Kitteh
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

What this sort of piece says about McSweeney's: they're turning into Buzzfeed. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by carnival_night_zone, palmcorder_yajna, pxe2000, The Ardship of Cambry, snuffleupagus
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

Tudyk's dogs look like they're in dog Valhalla. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by jenfullmoon, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, Kitteh
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Ba'ul. The Ba'ku were the friendly, immortal, identical-to-humans aliens from Star Trek: Insurrection, not to be confused with their fellow hyphenatees, the Son'a. Overall, the episode does tie together (or continues to tie together) a… [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by riotnrrd
FanFare comment - 8 days ago

I was very happy with Burnham pointing out a couple of times, both with Saru and with Rayner, that she didn't take her second chance for granted and is willing to extend that to someone else. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by suelac
FanFare comment - 9 days ago

Ha! I wrote that up for FF as well, and pegged it as not "bad so much as aggressively mediocre," which isn't how I'd describe this; the closest similarity that I'd venture is that they both starred guys who really wanted to be those guys,… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by rhizome, kittens for breakfast
FanFare comment - 9 days ago

I have no idea who would fit the bill (other than Keisha Castle-Hughes?) I was unfamiliar with the name, but she'd be ideal; she voiced Emerie, had a brief appearance as Apailana (one of Padmé's successors as queen) in the prequels, and… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by sarble, suelac, Atreides, orrnyereg
FanFare comment - 9 days ago

The thing that irritates me most about this, by far, has nothing to do with the ad itself (which as someone else noted is just riffing off a very popular YouTube series), and more to do with someone like Matt Zoller Seitz taking time out from his no… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Bella Donna
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

Wow, tough room. I wasn't dismayed so much by Lt. Mansplain's death being telegraphed (it was foreshadowed, in retrospect) so much as it seemed to be a repeat of Spock's story from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Spock is going on… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by riotnrrd
FanFare comment - 9 days ago

Finished it last night and, as I remembered it from having seen it over twenty years ago, it's a very mixed bag. There were some interesting riffs on the basic idea in it; the idea that Murdock would have to sleep in a sensory deprivation tank and… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by humbug, The Pluto Gangsta, mark k, mediareport, GenjiandProust
FanFare comment - 10 days ago

I would imagine that, if you wanted to hide something that valuable and funky, a sewer would be the perfect place to hide it. Maybe too perfect. [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by adrienneleigh, clavdivs, corb, Abehammerb Lincoln, clew, Faint of Butt, May Kasahara
MeFi comment - 11 days ago

Not sure what's funnier, that most of these things aren't exclusive to the 80s or that commenters are having a misery-off. What's worse than Cabbage Patch Kids? Getting actual cabbage for a gift! [more]
favorited 23 times, recently by The corpse in the library, lyssabee, mmoncur, lesbiassparrow, burntbook, NoiselessPenguin, armeowda, star gentle uterus, May Kasahara, hototogisu, Artifice_Eternity, Illusory contour, GenjiandProust, dhalgren, maggiemaggie, paper scissors sock, potrzebie, Countess Elena, kimberussell, migurski, fimbulvetr, seanmpuckett, St. Peepsburg
MeFi comment - 12 days ago

They were both rivals for Terry Yamaha's affection. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by The Manwich Horror, Faint of Butt, RonButNotStupid, chavenet
MeFi comment - 12 days ago

I'd pretty much given up on music criticism well before Pitchfork even existed, and the high-minded rationalizations ("Progression—whether it was in hip-hop, pop, guitar music, electronic music—was important to us at the time") behind the… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by The Manwich Horror, chavenet
MeFi comment - 12 days ago

ctrl-f "hyperlexia" 0/0 Some of these stories tend to center around "how could this three-year-old know about [x]." Maybe your kid can already read, or is just picking up stuff off of YouTube? I sure knew a lot more as a very… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by pelvicsorcery, fairlynearlyready, camyram, adrienneleigh, audi alteram partem, eirias, bq
MeFi comment - 13 days ago

T'Lyn is in! Makes up for a lack of Mariner making up with Jennifer; also was hoping for a Yorba Linda. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by artificialard
FanFare comment - 13 days ago

Old and tired: UFOs are really real, this time, you guys, honest New hotness: reincarnation is really real, this time, you guys, honest [more]
favorited 28 times, recently by bunbury, h00py, Mouse Army, henuani, interogative mood, gingerbeer, camyram, reclusive_thousandaire, sharp pointy objects, WatTylerJr, Selena777, Popular Ethics, kinnakeet, tzikeh, jewel-jerk-dazzle, Gilgamesh's Chauffeur, thecjm, Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted, eirias, wenestvedt, kdilla, DeepSeaHaggis, adrienneleigh, Reverend John, Pemdas, flabdablet, The Manwich Horror, hippybear
MeFi comment - 14 days ago

- It's been so long since I've seen this and Blue in the Face that I tend to conflate the two, and would have to see them both to remember which scene was in which movie. - Wasn't this filmed in Park Slope? I lived there from about late… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Pedantzilla
FanFare comment - 14 days ago

It suddenly occurs to me that this story and "The Nine Billion Names of God", by Arthur C. Clarke, have exactly opposite premises. [more]
favorited 19 times, recently by Tacit
MeFi comment - 14 days ago

njohnson23, that scratches the same itch as the scene in Real Genius in which Mitch finds Lazlo Hollyfeld's secret hideout (after having previously seen Lazlo walk into his closet and disappearing). I'm reading Geoff Manaugh's book right now,… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by BrashTech, condour75, torokunai, ImproviseOrDie
MeFi comment - 14 days ago

I've had the experience of having a woman come up to me in tears because I was a dead ringer for her dead brother. No claims of reincarnation, just a random (and rather awkward) experience. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by coolxcool=rad, adrienneleigh, kinnakeet, Bella Donna
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Movie: Daredevil
favorited 1 time, recently by GenjiandProust
FanFare post - 2 weeks ago

I'd suggest "crazydaysandnights" and "cdan" tags. [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by ohshenandoah, northtwilight, armacy, chavenet, Iris Gambol
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Star Trek: Voyager: Sacred Ground
favorited 5 times, recently by The corpse in the library
FanFare post - 2 weeks ago

So... this is a documentary about a documentary? Is it documentaries all the way down? [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Laura in Canada
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

That's funny that Jerry thinks that comedy is dead or dying, because I've been enjoying comedy a lot more lately, tuning in (a bit late in some cases, but better late than never) to some really excellent comedy by the likes of Taylor Tomlinson, Iliza… [more]
favorited 29 times, recently by jedicus, The corpse in the library, zymil, stoneegg21, danielleh, tiny frying pan, The Outsider, grog, nofundy, adrienneleigh, camyram, mmoncur, cinnamonduff, Cremcraw, zenon, vac2003, nat, Lexica, stellaluna, Hactar, mefireader, bassooner, queensissy, Jacen, tzikeh, supermedusa, Kitteh, hangashore, Glinn
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Very much not really the ending I was expecting, either; I thought that the Beebs would all go down getting Omega and the Force Babies out, but they decided that one death in the group was enough (although RIP Crosshair's hand). In the end, although… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Atreides
FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

I can trace the end of a friendship to a Monopoly game, one in which we were playing with a house rule that allowed for "partnerships", i.e. combining properties to form monopolies and splitting development costs, rents, and the sale… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by grubi
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I had three or four Palm devices (depending on whether or not you really count the watch, which was underwhelming even when it worked); the first one was a Palm III and the last one was a Treo, which I traded in for an iPhone 3 because it stopped… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by jenfullmoon
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Quite good in a lot of ways, and the ways that it wasn't didn't really derail the movie. One of my complaints about X3--that they didn't seem to put a lot of thought into world-building--gets handled here, pretty well; Cerebro wasn't fully developed… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by eustatic, ApathyGirl, Atreides, GenjiandProust
FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

For my money, the best individual action scenes in the X-movies proper are both Quicksilver's, in Days of Future Past and Apocalypse (the latter being about the only good scene in that movie, period), but this probably does hang… [more]
favorited 17 times, recently by ApathyGirl, epj, slimepuppy, hototogisu, cowlick, Pope Guilty, jedicus, Atreides, Faintdreams, Servo5678, qxntpqbbbqxl, AlonzoMosleyFBI, praemunire
FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

When I think of Marillion, and this album specifically, I think of "Childhood's End?", because a friend of mine got into the album as a sort of replacement for Peter Gabriel-era Genesis and played this song repeatedly. Such a great bass… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Cremcraw
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I'm going to start with a link back to a comment that I made in the 2011 thread, which I think still holds up and connects well with this thread. In particular, the part of the above-the-fold quote in the FPP that says "his reputation for… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by mmoncur, chavenet, Kitteh, adrienneleigh, atoxyl, The Manwich Horror
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I've been thinking about this movie since finishing it yesterday, and while I don't think that I'd put it in the bottom 3 of X-Men movies--X3, the first solo Wolverine movie, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Dark Phoenix wore all arguably… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by DirtyOldTown
FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure a good Batman movie is possible. I don't think that a Batman movie that makes everyone happy is possible. The Burton, Schumacher, Nolan, and Reeves movies all seem to scratch very different itches; I suppose that you could… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by riruro, Atreides
FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

A great film, lots of things from lots of places coming together in a most pleasing way, and largely held together by the glue of Iman Vellani's bottomless reservoir of enthusiasm and being perfectly kidlike. I've got a bunch of different thoughts… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by eustatic
FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

I liked this, mostly, until the big dumb fight near the end. The source material (i.e. Logan's various adventures and experiences in Japan) is a bit of a mixed bag for me, as some of it flirts with proto-weeabooism, but this mostly avoids that, and… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by DirtyOldTown, eustatic
FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

Same problem as with X-Men: The Last Stand IMO: trading quality for quantity, putting too many characters on the screen without really working out what to do with just about any of them. Danny Huston is a poor substitute for Brian Cox (I'm… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Atreides
FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

Grace Cummings
favorited 23 times, recently by moonmilk
MeFi post - 2 weeks ago

Per my earlier comment about the first movie, this movie tries to do too much, and does little of it well. And that's really too bad, because the Dark Phoenix storyline could easily be hooked up to the cure storyline; what if someone suggested that… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Atreides
FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

Before getting into the franchise as a whole, I'd like to comment on how good this movie is, which I think gets lost in the high points and low points of the X-franchise in general. With all of the dramatis personae that it felt necessary to… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by skoosh, Servo5678, Atreides
FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

On review of TFA: indeed, Christ, what an asshole. Apparently, his reaction to #MeToo putting a lot of stuff out in the open was to double down and just make shit up. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

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