Amy Jo Johnson

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  • Mech Rest

    Recursion (Wearing the Cape #7)

    It’s been just weeks since the state funeral for the Sentinels, Atlas, Ajax, and Nimbus, lost in the Whittier Base Attack. Astra, Hope, is recovered from her own injuries. At least physically. Mentally . . . not so much, but she feels ready to actively wear the cape again. Which is good since, between the revelation of her short-lived relationship with Atlas (nine years her senior) and her virally pungent public comments on the current political debate over breakthrough registration (the National Public Safety Act), she needs to raise her profile. But she’s better now, steady, ready for anything.Or is she? First her quantum-ghost BF Shell reveals that something’s off. Hope’s CHANGED. Unaccountably and impossibly changed, she’s not the Hope she was even just last week. Confronted with Shell’s evidence, Hope recovers an impossible memory and follows it to the realization that she’s really not the Hope of last week. She remembers three years of memories of a life she hasn’t lived yet. She remembers the fight with Villains Inc., the addition of the Young Sentinels, her adventures in Littletone, Japan, and across a dozen extrarealities. The one thing she doesn’t remember is how she got here.How did she get here? WHERE is here?Worse, things here are already starting to happen differently. Is her presence here messing things up? Or is she supposed to fix something already messed up? And what does Kitsune have to do with everything?

    This is a refreshingly Aasimov-esque rule breaking story about time travel to the past in a universe that explicitly does not allow for time travel to the past. I didn’t catch a few hints about what was going on, but I eventually figured it out right before the big reveal.

    I’m going to be sad when I’m done with these ten books.

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    BIKINI

    loopy bridge

    Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

    Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Directed by Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson. With Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, Burn Gorman. A father’s wish magically brings a wooden boy to life in Italy, giving him a chance to care for the child.

    This is a pretty heavy film for a story that Disney also adapted twice, once in the same year that Guillermo del Toro’s version came out in. I haven’t seen the Disney live action version and really have no interest, they’ve not done well with their live action stuff, but this one is damn well done and explores some especially difficult subjects from fascism to life after death.

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    Karen Gillan.

    The Batcave

    Lego 76252 Batcave Shadow Box

    Cthulhu.


  • SPACE

    “Tetris” Review

    Tetris: Directed by Jon S. Baird. With Taron Egerton, Mara Huf, Miles Barrow, Rick Yune. The story of how one of the world’s most popular video games found its way to players around the globe. Businessman Henk Rogers and Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov join forces in the USSR, risking it all to bring Tetris to the masses.

    I’d love to see the eventual comparison of the actual events of the contract adventures of Tetris, but until then, this is an enjoyable journey of a slightly clueless programmer / salesman that really ended up being one of two people in the entire store that wasn’t completely out for himself with all others being damned for their personal greed.

    I have a fond memory of the game itself, it was the first real handheld game that I ever played and I still get nostalgic about the main theme song.

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    4X4

    Larsen Thompson

    BISON

    bad vibes man

    IMPALA

    1968

    Star Wars Visions Season Two: The Studios

    metal face

    Palazzo Borromeo, Italy

    WATERFALLS

    Sasquatch.