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My time has been limited lately, so only about 250 pages in. It reads easy. It's a odd blend of Shel Silverstein and Suess and some other stuff I can't put my finger on...but it's enjoyable so far.

You're just realizing this now? Silly Sox fan...

Does anyone else get the sense they've decided that, since they have the R Rating, they've decided to see how high they can set the bar for dropping F-Bombs in a MCU movie right out of the gate...?

Until it all backfires and curves back again. There should be room for both in this world. Also, the inability of streaming services to let a series grow beyond a couple seasons more often than not, is also a mark against the model also, in my mind. And I just thought I'd see about maybe picking up a copy of Shogun at the local B&N, since it should be available again with show interest...only they're selling it in Book 1 and Book 2...ha.

This show is absolutely exemplifies everything that's wrong with the whole idea of a show being only 10 epsiodes for a season. It's wrong because I want more. I've not read the book (yet), and it seems, based on comments above, there's been some divergence? But is one more episode enough to wrap this up? My goodness this show is so good. (The Kay comment above was also apt, I thought)

I stumbled upon the works of Walter Moers while looking for new things to read at the library...so I'm now starting The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear...

And for some reason they want to make an "origin" movie set in the Kelvin Timeline...ignoring the fact that the timeline diverges at the time of Kirk's birth, not back when the Federation was founded. But they'll leave the Legacy show idea sitting in limbo... Truly Paramount needs me to run their Trek arm...

Soooo...to try something different, I've actually chose to read the second book after listening to the first. The Philosopher's War by Tom Miller, who because I'm reading the physical copy, I've come to realize is from (originally) the very town I live in now in Wisconsin...

My gods, X-Men '97 is going at a pace that defies all logic, throwing together and combining and condensing some of the X-Men's best storylines, plus adding its own twists to them...and then Episode 5 lands. That was what you're supposed to get at the end of a season. But this was Episode 5. Five. Just wow. How do they even keep this up?

Dungeons & Dragons: Suicide Squad... (I so want to read this though...)

Phrasing?

Well, that sucks. I love the Palmer House, but can't say I've been there in at least 5 or 6 years...and yeah, Covid truly helped the service industry understand how essential they are, yet how the system has been designed to screw them over and over and over.

Why did you stay at Trump International if you knew it was going to piss you off???

Wholly agree. I think there's been only one really clunker of an episode during Season of Bad Batch. But with just two episodes remaining, I'm not sure how they're going to land this with the constraints of existing canon... I also still expect that the elite tracking Storm Troooper who's been hunting Omega will turn out to be

Fixed that for you. Let's not let Liefeld get away with too much altruism/common sense...

Wouldn't a Black Panther movie with an all white cast, excepting the token black CIA agent, be just such an interesting thing...or something...a modern take on just about anything else ever...

Mitch McConnel: American Savior? Nothing said by this guy should ever be taken at face value. And it's easy to say that Thune or Cornyn aren't going to want to leave NATO or they might try to check Trump, but history has already shown that Republicans, en masse, regardless of private statements, have no interest in preventing Trump from running roughshod over laws or the Constitution. If he is in office and says, "NATO is on their own", then how in the world can anyone think Republicans, if they control Congress, is going to tell him no? Or once Trump sends his DOJ to arrest/remove people on a whim? The guy continues to violate a legal gag order and no one says boo. He posts, on his social media, an image of the sitting President hog tied and dead, and not a single Republican has said anything that indicates they think he should be held to the extent of the law that anyone else would be...

Well that assumes the law even matters anymore if Trump is in the White House and Republicans control Congress...because if we're believing what they're telling us, Congress passing laws isn't going to be needed in the coming autocracy... If you want to believe in that sort of thing...

Hmm...true on the current law and the likely shenanigans to eliminate it to hasten leaving NATO. How does that calculus change once the Dems start getting thrown in the slammer, as promised by various Trump surrogates though...? If we're going to be all pessimistic about the whole thing...

Isn't that all academic though? If, as Kal suggests, the Senate does shift to the Republicans, and the House stays in their control...Trump back in the White House means he's pulling out of NATO and no one says boo to him, right? Maybe some military people? But since his COTJC will be Flynn, or someone of his ilk, where's the brake there?

I can't say that sounds particularly familiar, but it sounds like the kind of story that W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear would write as part of their North America's Forgotten Past series...

The incessant playing of the same political ad, that started yesterday, pleading with Wisconites voting in the Democrat Promary to vote, "Uninformed" to protest, specifically, spending money in Israel is not the winner they think it is. Mostly because having it play during every commercial block, seemingly on every channel, sometimes three times is too much.

After last season and the additions the Cardinals made this year, I was flabbergasted the pundits were picking them to won the NL Central. I know I'm a Cubs guy, and expect them to win the Central, but the Cardinals aren't the worry in the division. The Red are.