Doug Jones Victory Dog Dance Party! Open Thread for laughing at Roy Moore

*peeks in to say hello*

Re Nancy Drew: I read the majority of the older series when I was around 8-13 as well as a few Hardy Boys books. As for non-mystery series, I liked Baby Sitters Club and its assorted spin-offs.

Is there a term for a series where each book can stand alone? Anyway, in books like that, the characters need to be introduced each time. Ann M. Martin (Baby Sitters) tended to do this by focusing mainly on hair colour and personality traits, e.g.,

“Kristy has brown hair and leadership abilities, Mary-Anne also has brown hair but is quiet and dependable, Stacey has blond hair and diabetes, Claudia has black hair and she’s Japanese but (shock!) bad at math…”

Okay, not quite like that. But close. 🙂

@Manecki Neckbeard – hello and welcome!

@wwth –

I actually had to stop near the beginning of Dean Koontz’s retelling of Frankenstein because there was a serial killer who killed people because not believing in God was so traumatizing for him that he snapped. What the fucking fuck?

Aaaugh, that sounds irritating. It doesn’t fit the spirit of the original either. Victor Frankenstein might be “playing god”, but I think it’s at least as important that he freaks out and loses his scientific curiosity, which causes him to react to his creation with revulsion rather than compassion.

Congratulations Americans on this small but significant victory. Keep up the good work and you may just take back your country from the orange nightmare. 🙂

Victor Frankenstein might be “playing god”, but I think it’s at least as important that he freaks out and loses his scientific curiosity, which causes him to react to his creation with revulsion rather than compassion.

Hell, he admits himself that half his problem was not being scientific enough – not having access to up-to-date texts, he got his scientific grounding from old alchemical theses full of occultism and esoterica.

I actually like the film of it as well, but may be in a minority of 1 here.

I love it too. It could so easily have just been an 80s music video, yet the rotoscoping and visual effects manage to be atmospherically creepy.

@Dormousing_it

Thank you! I’ve found this channel which has lots of beautiful videos. I’ll try them on Piper, Shiro, and Mei-Mei tomorrow.

Re posting links etc.: I used to just do it the easy way – copy the url from the bar, and just paste it into the comment box like so:

https://www.youtube.com/user/GoldfinchGarden/videos

Embedding links looks nicer, though; I think this page is where I found some good tips.

As for embedding videos, apparently YouTube clips should embed automatically when you post the url, but I’ve had patchy luck with that.
I know there are Mammotheers with more knowledge on this, so please feel free to weigh in here.

In other news, Mei-Mei is trying to climb the Xmas tree. This could end badly.
In Star Wars news, as someone here predicted, there are already cries and screams of “sjws have ruined muh movie!!!”. I saw a review yesterday where the author didn’t go down this road at all; he didn’t like the film, but his reasons were completely different. Anyhoo, many commenters had … different reasons for not liking it.

Ooooh, have to post again, sorry. Too good not to share!
There’s a story doing the rounds right now about a petition to change the name of Father Christmas to Person Christmas. It’s ignited exactly the kind of outrage you’d expect (PC police; PC gone mad, SJWs out to ruin xmas for kids).
What’s hilarious is that the story is based on thin air, pretty much. It’s all built around a couple of tweets, one from October, one from March, where enby people are joking about Santa being gender fluid.
I thought we were the perpetual outrage brigade? How dare they! 😀

@ Mish

… I’ve had patchy luck with that.

I’ve had patchy luck with pretty much every facet of computer/electronic device technology….

🙁 🙁

And now, in completely off-topic news: I have kitties again! Two lovely beastie boys: One is a ginger tabby with lots of white and amazing dark amber eyes which are the same color as Jabba the Hutt’s. He’s coming up on a year old and is a rambunctious love bug. The other is a seven year old black cat with big green eyes who was convinced Husbeast and I were evil cat-nappers and hid in a corner of the closet for a week and a half. He finally ventured out into the closet proper on Monday for some ham and lovins and last night HE SLEPT WITH ME!!

Unfortunately, Beast One (ginger boy) has an upper respiratory infection and has to go back to the vet this morning for a check on his temp. He’s feeling much better now (after the first dose of antibiotics) but still has snot-face. He’s been exiled from the master suite so that hopefully, Beast Two stays healthy.

I’ve also managed to bork up my office computer. I fell for a scam in which my computer opened a new window with a sound file that kept repeating that my computer was infected and if I didn’t call the “helpline” number on the screen in five minutes, Microsoft would do something drastic (don’t remember what now.) The window wouldn’t close and panicked Hambeast picked up the phone.
DON’T DO THIS!

Very long story short, now Husbeast has to wipe the whole thing and start over.

So, beware of this.

Orange Crass will neve make Obama Class go away. It just illustrates his deep insecurity.

And trying will never work because the Obamas don’t try too hard. They were like regular people, only better. Michelle wore Banana Republic a lot. She didn’t need designer everything to look good. Since the media doesn’t discuss men’s clothing choices as much (gee, I wonder why) I don’t know what brands Barack wears and what brands Donald wears, but I’d be willing to bet that the latter spends more on clothes and fails to look better.

Now that I think of it, Republicans make big noise about the “American dream” of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps to become successful but the last few Republican presidents were all children of privilege who inherited their wealth instead of earning it. None of the last few Democrats were. The last Dem president born super rich was Kennedy.

You want to see huge levels of “Atheists are just believers that hate god” obnoxiousness, look no further than Pure Flix films like God’s Not Dead or Christmas With A Capital C. Having been a Cinema Snob fan since probably about 2010, his dip into the world of the Christian exploitation movie world has been nothing short of dazzling (for me or Mama Katamount, who watches new Snob episodes with me on our Sunday get-togethers). Part of the fundamentalist Christian persecution complex is the cultural reinforcement of the notion that it’s just godless rabble-rousers who sue about monuments and nativity scenes (rather than those actually interested in inclusive cultural representation). Hence you get TV’s Hercules as Not-Richard Dawkins in God’s Not Dead or Evil Smirking ACLU Lawyer Ray Wise in God’s Not Dead 2.

It’s the kind of cinema that says a lot more about the creator and the audience than it says about its detractors. Because they are as incompetent as they are insulting, to Christians and atheists alike.

@ WWTH

I don’t know what brands Barack wears and what brands Donald wears,

We know at least one of Donald’s preferred brands is 3M.

@Redsilkphoenix
To an extent, this is already being done. Star Wars Rebels re-introduced Grand Admiral Thrawn in its third season, with none other than Lars Mikkelsen (brother of Mads Mikkelsen of Rogue One) providing the voice of everyone’s favorite blue skinned art collector. As time goes on, there will almost certainly be further retoolings of more Legacy material as the rebooted series branches out to feed Disney’s unending appetite (there already being some pretty sweet BB-8 toys on the market). I would not put it beyond Disney to start reusing old IPs like Dark Forces and Rogue Squadron, particularly since The Old Republic seems to retain some staying power. Who knows, perhaps we’ll get a decent MMORPG or even a Star Wars response to Star Citizen?

Though, I must say, the negative reviews of the movie are hilarious. The frequent complaints about a strong female lead (and, eek gad, a feeemale general) ignore that Princess Leia both led much of the Rebellion (itself led by a former senator and feeemale) and she personally killed a fair number of Stormtroopers in the original trilogy. The first thing she did upon meeting Luke Skywalker is snidely remark about his short height before taking his gun to shoot at space fascists; all after surviving a round of enhanced interrogation by a torture bot. So great is the obtuseness of the “SJWs ruined Star Wars” line of criticism that I have many times wriggled my various tentacles and gripping appendages in animated amusement.