It just would not be Halloween without some kind of Kaiju movie! I picked one of the last of the rubber suit era Godzilla films for this year. Last year I played one of the best of the rubber suit films, Godzilla vs Megaguirus. Toniught’s film is the same quality. If you are a super Godzilla nerd, this is the last film of the Heisei era, before we hit 2000. Things got hit and miss in the 2000s, we had American films that bordered on generic, and Japanese films that got really, really drawn out with minimal monster action (Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, I am looking at you.)
So what happens in this film? Godzilla overheats and is on the verge of experiencing nuclear meltdown, the Oxygen Destroyer from the 1954 movie has become an actual kaiju instead of a gas, and a giant monster fight ensues! This film has a similar concept as Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, where you have a bunch of smaller creatures that grow and begin to merge into a larger creature. Really stunning fight scenes, cinematography, just all over a great end to this particular era of films.
Trivia! This was the last film where the original producer and creator of Godzilla, Tomoyuki Tanaka, participated in a major role. He was old and this film was a burden for him to complete. This was also the last Godzilla film for the original composer, Akira Ifukube. He had been doing this since 1954 as well. Lots of swan songs! I wonder what else might end with this film? Watch and see!
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! With any luck the government shutdown continues and Trump has approved plans to slash the workforce by a significant amount. Who knows? All I can say is I have popcorn out for the shutdown and for tonight’s film! Next week, we have a classic old dark house movie – House of the Long Shadows!
Kickoff is in 15 minutes. So I’ll miss this movie.
Sad, I am.
https://tenor.com/view/donald-trump-sad-gif-10277636
I’ll poke my head in during commercials.
Fuck Shitidelphia.
Fuck the tush push bullshit, it isn’t any different than the flying V.
I thought the Flying V was a guitar. 🤔
The Flying V, or Flying Wedge.
https://jvlone.com/sportsdocs/wedge.pdf
The original oxygen destroyer one was one of my faves, I’ll have to try this one.
It starts right up with the action. It’s a solid Godzilla action film.
Finally figured out how to cast Tubi to my TV. The world is my oyster.
Speaking of oysters:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=myqSETD5_bs
I deliberately did not post that as the music so one of you could do it.
I use HDMI, but bluetooth should work?
I’ve got the Tubi app on a Roku box.
Speaking of oysters
If you have a phone for TUBI you can cast, and it is surprisingly good depending on your TV. Great for traveling where you don’t really want to log in to a foreign TV and add apps.
@tater
HDMI should work fine. I’m casting over my Wi-Fi network.
Oysters
(such a weird album)
I’ve got your weird seafood music right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_wgP8JwRcU
Better Eels
Eelpout festival (too local)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7JXtffBpMg
I’ll queue this up for later viewing. I won’t be able to watch tonight.
Thanks RJ!
I did not have the Giants looking better than the Iggles tonight.
I can’t even with some of you and your Amazon Prime privilege.
Don’t worry, that strangeness didn’t last long.
I’m grateful to Amazon. I don’t have Prime. So, they freed me of my Thursday night football commitment.
If you are in NY, shouldn’t it be on regular TV?
Common Tater:
No. Thursday Night Football is Prime only.
NYC only. I’m not in that market anymore.
The local markets seem to get the broadcast too.
Igles are getting plucked. You could have made a fortune in the last week or so betting against favored Philly teams.
Were they favored against LA? I don’t follow baseball but I hate the idea of an LA team winning anything.
I’ll take it over SF winning.
Harsh. I have lived there so I have a tiny residual good feelings for there even though I kind of hated living there.
My dad was born there, and I had a ton of family there and in Berkeley. I lived on the outskirts, but the hubris of that city makes me root against them.
lol Memories of one of the local news channel slogans “best place on earth” or some stupid shit. Yeah they are quite full of themselves there.
RJ, that little gif of somebody that slightly resembles you getting swallowed by a cyclopean… thingy is a work of art.
Obligatory:. GODZIRRRAA!!! OH, NOOO.
Jib Jab is a great tool.
I’m looking forward to the full length version.
I *hate* those commercials but you do put it to good use.
It’s good but such a huge file.
1995 film last movie of Heisei era?
🤦♂️
2016 film in Reiwa era?
🤦♂️ 🤦 🤦♀️
There are so many eras. I would say Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One were their own era and deserve that name.
Eras are emperors’ reigns. Showa (Hirohito) 1926-1989, Heisei (Akihito) 1989-2019, Hisei (Naruhito) 2019-present.
Era is laundry soap. Don’t try and confuse me with yer fern ways.
God, the Giants are just beating the piss out of the Iggles.
Not a Giants fan, but it is glorious.
I need an ai slop version of Spock’s Brain with “Thursday football? What is Thursday football?”
Spock’s Brain?
BBC: All-female construction project reveals industry gaps.
You don’t say?
But it’s the good kind of sexism.
My favorite sexism is wherever there are men and women working together and the men are still expected to do any and all physically demanding tasks for the same pay as their female counterparts.
Christ, what aholes.
They’re mixing percentages and total numbers, which is usually a good sign they’re slinging bullshit but it sounds like they’re wildly over represented in the executive suite.
*narrator*those are all HR jobs
Sounds like the basis for a weepypasta story.
“My wife threw me—an owner of a home renovation company for twenty years—out of the house and hired her women’s rights friends to refurbish the kitchen. What she doesn’t know is that I froze all our bank accounts and filed for divorce…”
Why is there a pic of a dude in that “all female” crew?
Not Adahn: They got an all women photography crew for the story, obviously.
For you early INXS fans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzTqNfgNtIk
Good morning Glibbernam! Time to take a nap and start the hamster wheel all over again.
Man, if they had stuck with mixing practical and digital effects the rubber suit would kill all the CGI versions.
It’s Friday folks, get out there and release your inner Viking.
🥾🍑😡
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yE_cQjokBs
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., U, and Roat!
Morning.
How goes?
It goes well, but I had to ditch my capri-length jeans for a full-length pair and find a matching pair of socks. I guess I really should finish the second sock I was knitting. It’s perilously close to being done – I just haven’t touched it in months. 🧶🧦
How are you?
I decided I would go into the office, despite the lingering cough, since I should be able to make it through the workday.
I’m having trouble reaching protonmail from the office, so I’m not sure if you responded to my last email yet (I love the “something went wrong” error, so helpful)
Wasted too much time poking at the LLM yesterday, so I didn’t get anything more written.
I got the email, but I haven’t responded yet. Waiting until I can reliably form coherent sentences…which may take a while.
Well, no rush, I wouldn’t be able to read your reply until I got back to the house anyway.
The thermometer, which I don’t think is in the best location, says it’s 37 outside, but there was frost on the windshield when I went out to check.
NWS says it’s 32 here.
My iPad says 35
39 at the CLE airport
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
It’s a good day for a bonfire.
I thought that was in about four weeks.
Tonight would be a great night to light up our firebowl, but even after a record-setting rain a couple of days ago, we’re supposedly still in a drought. 😞
With a vanity?
No vanities. Maybe a credenza.
Weather app says it’s a balmy 44, but we’re under a frost advisory. 🥶
76-83 today. Finally starting to cool off.
Thank you for sending my brain back to 9th Grade English, I think.
That must have been before you learned HTML. 😉
Why yes… yes it was.
(grumble)
https://poets.org/poem/when-the-frost-is-on-the-punkin
High-Tension Metallic Layer?
When the air is hot and sticky
is not the time for dunking dicky.
But when the frost is on the pumpkin
that’s the time for dicky dunkin’!
— National Lampoon
BD 🙂
I think I get it. You’re using TCP over telegraph, and get charged by the character.
You are the one who objected to “GM” and I’m not learning a third language!
Perhaps I have a preference for whole words.
I have a preference for whole milk.
One octet + 16 octets TCP + 16 octets IP + 30 octets 802.3
“Hey, why does my X11 forwarding performance suck so bad?”
You think something is funny about the name, “Biggus Dickus”?
SM.
Breast Day?
“Did Israel Kill Charlie Kirk (The Leaked Texts)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EFNx1NwArQ
I keep seeing stuff like this. Even in the DailyMail. It’s why Jillian Micheals walked off Her Take (and the next episode they didn’t even mention her leaving). I can understand there were inconsistencies and questionable things, but that doesn’t mean the Jews did it.
32 minutes of this shit?
You need to maximize ad revenues.
Would you rather have 3 1/2 hours of Dave Smith and Nick Fuentes?
Here’s the best part – you’re not required to watch any of it. Not one jot. You can choose not to subject yourself to it.
No, I’d rather read a synopsis.
The people accusing Israel of killing Kirk are only telling me what THEY would’ve done.
I doubt Kirk was that important to the Israeli government.
Also, if Kirk had been that important, and he was really turning against Israel, it would have been more productive to address whatever concerns he was expressing than shooting him in the head.
There are people who claim that Kirk wasn’t actually shot, and it is a coverup. Something about angles of fire and bullet wounds, and videos of people at the scene moving evidence around.
I’ve seen similar things, that the text was AI, etc.
I saw the leaked texts and that Turning Point confirmed them. Not in the linked video, a different video. Kirk had American Jewish donors that were upset with his questioning of Israeli/American relations and were upset with Kirk wanting to have Tucker Carlson on his show. Some of those donors pulled funding.
I don’t buy there is any connection between this and Kirk’s murder.
She isn’t even the first black antisemitic loon.
Would you like a bean pie?
You mean Candy O?
Good morning Gilbs from the Appalachia plateau, where it is chilly and pretty.
Greetings from the piedmont-tidewater fall line.
Just a tich below freezing here in the ADK foothills.
Mornin
Morning all from the edge of the Delaware state line!