Had a tiny bit of an accident on my bike ride this morning. I missed a big low hanging branch, and rode face first into it. At first I thought I broke my nose, but luckily I just cut it, it wasn't a big, but it bled pretty badly. I had to keep wiping it off my face so I wasn't dripping it everywhere on the way home. It's still hurts a little if I touch it.
So Jacinda Ardern is stepping down as the Prime Minister of New Zealand. Best wishes to her, and I hope she finds happiness whereever her journey takes her next. But if she ever decides she wants to return to politics, but needs a change of scenery.... may I suggest Canada? Sorry to hear that! Glad it's not broken, and hopefully the pain doesn't last too long.
Thanks. I almost took another hit to the face this morning, this time by a horse's head. I was petting her and she swung her head over to look at me, and I barely managed to dodge in time to avoid getting whacked.
Thanks. I almost took another hit to the face this morning, this time by a horse's head. I was petting her and she swung her head over to look at me, and I barely managed to dodge in time to avoid getting whacked.
1965 Jeffrey Hunter interview, people might have seen before, but I hadn't. At the end he talks about some sci-fi pilot he's doing with Desilu. https://saved.jeffreyhunter.net/NewSite/InPrint/1965/interview013065.pdf
Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this! Doctor: Don't do that! If someone asks what happened, just slyly say "You should see the other guy."
I recently rewatched the Baz Lurhman Romeo + Juliet and I noticed something I never really picked up on before, the title characters decided to run off and get married the morning after the party where they met. Which means they probably didn't even know for twelve hours before they decided they wanted to get married.
That timeline is from the book. The playhouse would have been shut down in the 16 hundreds if unmarried teens were fucking on stage, even if one of them was a dude in drag. Google says they get married in 24 hours, and dead in 5 days.
Oh yeah, I know it comes from the play, I just never really noticed before that they it took place over such a short time. I was thinking it took place over at least a few months.
A while back I was bitching and moaning to myself that Picard's mum called him the star gazer when he was kid, and was like this is dumb because it wasn't like Kirk's mum called him enter prise (although maybe it could work for Sulu if he was a fan of Stan Lee - Excelsior!) But then today I read that Gene Roddenberry wanted to have Picard's nickname at the academy be stargazer and I'm like "Okay, fair enough." https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Stargazer_(NCC-2893)#Background_information Oh yeah here's the Stargazer dedication plaque. https://web.archive.org/web/20220309043603/https://twitter.com/DaveBlass/status/1501416315851980805 It's been on my mind recently because for ages I wanted to put Stargazer decals on a Constitution model and I finally figured out how to do it.
The talk about Romeo + Juliet reminded me of how much I love films that use Shakespearean dialog but set in modern times. Shakespeare with guns ... pure genius. Also Hamlet set in present day New York City and the "Denmark Corporation". For awhile there was talk about Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen doing a version of The Merchant of Venice set in present day Las Vegas, but that seems to have been just a rumor...AFAIK it was never going to be a thing.
It's interesting that Star Trek is very much concordant with pop culture in its adherence to the "immortality is evil" trope. While people who die unnatural deaths are routinely brought back, people who are offered an endless existence seem to turn it down. Some examples... The Odyssey - Ulysses is offered an immortal life with Calypso, turns it down to return to Penelope. Peter Pan - The Darling children return to London, choosing to grow up (and by extension die). In some versions, the Lost Boys return too, leaving only Peter to his immortal life. Hook - Oops, there's Peter gone and grown up too. Hercules (Disney) - Hercules chooses a mortal life with Meg over returning to Olympus. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Dumbledore destroys the titular stone, which grants immortality. The Chronicles of Prydain - In this tale that inspired Disney's The Black Cauldron, Taran is offered immortality, turns it down. Tuck Everlasting - Maybe the ultimate... Winnie is offered the choice of an immortal and idyllic life, or a mortal life in a miserable repressed Victorian culture... chooses the latter. Funny, that.
Mercutio had the frickin' WEIRDEST get-up, though. Do I remember right? I think it consisted of... - Silver sheath dress - Platinum blond wig - Red lipstick, if I remember - A... beard? - And a stainless Beretta M92 (AKA 9mm SWORD) in a shoulder holster.
There's also the 1995 version of Richard III starring Ian McKellen. The setting is 1930s England but in an alternate history where the country is ruled by a quasi-fascist regime.
IMHO, of all the losses that we endure with age, the most profound loss that is most often a casualty of age is impressionability, and it's entirely voluntary. We so predominantly considered becoming rooted in ones' ways a virtue.