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gas is expensive now

How dare they try to take care of their citizens

tiny tires

Just like humans

nice seat on a broom

Expendable

Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little crime, and life is sacred…unless you’re an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different–and terrible–ways to die. Festina Ramos belongs to the well-trained, always-dwindling ranks of ECMs (Expendable Crew Members). Now she and her partner, Yarrun Derigha, have been ordered to escort the unstable Admiral Chee to Melaquin–the feared “Planet of No Return”– which has swallowed up countless Explorers before them without a trace. Obviously, this is meant to be the last mission for Ramos and Derigha. But it won’t be, if Festina can help it.

I had some extra credits at a local used book store and chose this one because I had purchased nearly every Trek book they had and the cover was lurid and lewd enough to catch my eye, then the synopsis on the dust cover caught my interest. It’s one of those classic science fiction stories that set hard and fast rules about their universe, then show you how to get around every single one of them. In this, it’s that Humanity has one rule: no murder, premeditated or otherwise, under penalty of death by nearly god like aliens that know all and see all. There’s some real goofy concepts in the book that I absolutely love, so if you check it out, stick around until they leave the ship for the first time, by that point I was personally hooked on the story.

It’s the first book in a series set in the same universe, but I don’t think there’s enough here for me to continue on with them. This is a great stand alone story and I enjoyed my time with it.

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lady straw

pizza tire

Nuno sa Punso by Brian Valeza

DC Villains of LEGO

A bright red train snakes through the snow-capped Alps mountain range This train is the Bernina Express and it’s journey across the Alps constitutes the highest railroad crossing in Europe

Ladder Holder

Mallrats 1995

It all makes sense now

Off brand retro futurism

Ghost Dogs

Poster from the NASA Exoplanets Exploration Program’s Exoplanet Travel Bureau

Blood Quantum

Blood Quantum: Directed by Jeff Barnaby. With Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck, Kiowa Gordon. The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.

Filled with beautiful cinematography and a fairly haunting soundtrack, the first half of the film is a sheriff from the Red Crow PD finding out what horrifying things were starting to happen in his community by responding to a series of quickly escalating 911 calls. There’s never a time that he falls to the stupidity that most zombie film people do and he takes the appropriate action every time he needs to, but damn if some of the scenes are difficult to watch.

There’s an unfortunate flash forward in time where we find that we’re in a nearly completely different type of film, just with the same characters. I’m not disappointed in the second half of the film, but it would have been nice to see the progression from “hey there’s zombies out there” to “oh, we’re immune, I wonder why, ok that’s why and here’s how we’re going to save everyone that doesn’t have this blood quantum”. Instead, we’re just plopped into a survivalist camp that’s been running for a while and everyone is ANGRY about the situation, which leads to the normal stupidity that zombies lend themselves to in zombie films. I’m particularly salty about the fact that they weren’t doing body checks on incoming visitors.

High point for me: a movie reference that I hope won’t go over your head.

Low point: shooting a hole in your boat because of dumb reasons.

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Brasilia

Police officers take a ride on a New York subway in the 80s Vandalism and graffiti were widespread in New York during the 70s and 80s Unrecognizable from how it is today

big roll

is that fat guy new

my medical history

Cherenkov Diver

breathe easy

Pleasure Planet by Ryan Heshka

Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner in London 1976

T54B Vietnam Miltary History Museum Hanoi

1975 X-Men by Peter V Nguyen

No love is forbidden

Dark Phoenix by Orlando Arocena

I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch: Directed by René Clair. With Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward. A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

Another nearly perfect clean up and release from the Criterion Collection, this is an entertainingly surprise to me, both that I hadn’t run into it on tv before and that I enjoyed it so much. She’s a truly evil witch, wanting to burn down entire hotels and kill everyone inside, then torture some poor sap that had the misfortune to be the descendant of a man responsible for her death 200 years prior. Tables are turned however when her poison concoction ends up in her belly instead of his and she falls desperately in love with a guy that she had previously wanted to watch suffer. Veronica Lake as the witch is enthralling, I do look forward to seeing more of her in the future, though I’ve read that she suffered a fair bit in her later years, dying at a pretty young age.

Some fun trivia for you, this was released in 1942, a full 3 years after Wizard of Oz and you can clearly hear the same style of music for her as the witch as you hear for the Wicket Witch of the West. Additionally, if my math works out, Veronica Lake was either 19 or 20 when this was filmed while her costar Fredric March was 45.

“Every man who marries, marries the wrong woman, True Suffering is when a man is in love with someone he cannot marry…”

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Sophia Loren 1952

jacked watermellon seller

Mail boxes

Young Vietcong female fighter armed with a Mosin-Nagant rifle Date and location unknown

Teresa Graves trying out her fangs for the film “Vampira” 1974

Meta take

1980s – Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira – Mistress of the Dark

happy halloween ghost town

Salma Hayek 1995

Lillian Wells 1947