Marilyn

A detail from the Easter story that your Sunday school teacher didn’t tell you

My paternal grandparents, 1971

Grifting the Justice system

meirl

“3 Body Problem” Review

3 Body Problem: Created by David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Alexander Woo. With Jovan Adepo, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Jess Hong. A fateful decision made in 1960s China reverberates in the present, where a group of scientists partner with a detective to confront an existential planetary threat.

A fun hard science fiction series that doesn’t stay very jovial for very long and gets right into the hard truths portion fast enough to turn off those that don’t enjoy such things but kept my attention the entire time. I’ve heard so much about the book that I was expecting something much more esoteric than what we ended up with, as a story in a book it’s not all that unique, but as a televised series, I don’t think there’s been much done with relativistic alien invasions or the mismatch of technological levels that only just a couple decades would present. The show is run by the same guys that failed the stick the landing for the final season of Game of Thrones, so if you remember that mess, you can understand my trepidations of how this was going to turn out. If you remember though, they only went off the rails narratively when they lost the foundations of the source material, which isn’t going to be a problem for this series based on a completed book.

I look forward to the future seasons to see what kind of technology story elements are going to get introduced and if they’re going to end up doing any time jumps. Also, I’m super curious about that brain in space, surely it’s not going to be a dangling story thread and will be resolved, right?

Maybe I need to read the (translated) book.

Buy On Amazon!

Taxes [OC]

[3840 x2160] Later Nerd

Dwayne Johnson Won’t Endorse a Presidential Candidate in 2024 Election: ‘Between Me and the Ballot Box’

After endorsing Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said he won’t publicly support any candidate in 2024.

Greta Thunberg getting arrested in the Netherlands.

Madison beer

Fly Me to the Moon

Fly Me to the Moon: Directed by Greg Berlanti. With Scarlett Johansson, Woody Harrelson, Channing Tatum, Jim Rash. Marketing maven Kelly Jones wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as back-up.

Carmen Electra and Tara Reid in 2001

In Mexico, 19 feral cats can officially roam the presidential palace fur-ever

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government have declared the cats roaming the National Palace as “living fixed assets” for as long as the felines live.

How I view the recent Florida Supreme Court ruling

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Only in the USA – when the Moon is between the Earth & the Sun, it is a Solar Eclipse; when the Earth obscures the Moon it’s a Lunar Eclipse, but, in the image below, it’s an Apocalypse.

Hey Leo

Agnetha Fältskog of ABBA (1976)

Your honor, what time is recess, my client needs a blanket and binky

MC

Halo: Warfleet by artist Darren Bacon

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Spirit of Flight by Robert McCall, 1992 (For the Dryden Flight Center)

Raquel Welch 1970

Catherine Zeta Jones

Joe Flaherty in Happy Gilmore 1996

oligarchs are freeloaders!!

Pilar Rubio in 1999

meirl

No wonder they never listen

Zooey Deschanel

I deserve it

Barbara Eden, 1950s

What “thing” is it?

Bjorn Barends cover art for Spawn #321 (2021)

Sigma-class T-5c Administrative Shuttle by freighter_factory [OC]

Tara Reid, 2000

Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2023

Take me home country roads

This is Max. And this is how he sleeps

Thomasin McKenzie

Their appetites are insatiable.

Emma Stone

Bruce Springsteen’s Yearbook Photo, 1967

Progress! [OC]

Floating Ruins (1440×3200)

Lucy Liu

Minneapolis skyline on a Sunny day

CJ Perry