Friday Ephemera
High stakes game. || Hardcore buffet. || You think you’ve had a bad day? || A brief history of Supermarionation. || Insert tab ‘a’ into slot ‘b’. || Whatever this is, he’s doing it better than you. || Hot mountain. || Handsome devil. || In my day, we had to make our own entertainment. || Nommy nommy nom. || San Francisco, March 22. || You want one and you know it. || The Antarctic Winter Film Festival. || Wash your potatoes thoroughly. || Under pressure. || Build your own paper jukebox. (h/t, Coudal) || A guide to the giraffe. Includes chest-butts and achieving longness. || Isolated showers. || Look sharp, your date’s arrived. || Unintended consequences. || And finally, amphibiously, one tab or two?
I was a bit young for Thunderbirds, but I remember they had that oddity in our school library, Thunderbirds spin-off comics. That is, peculiar spin-offs off a peculiar form of animation, itself a spin-off of action movies/thrillers at the time.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone sent the genre up excellently with Team America.
I already have something for sleep…
The production values are good, but anyone with an IQ above room temperature in an igloo can guess the plot twist in about 15 minutes, but it just drags, and the acting is wooden. Same with the second – I was starting to doze.
The two part “The Pale Horse” was pretty good and I hate Agatha Christie as a rule, and a seven part “Gallipoli” that is not too shabby.
The two part “The Pale Horse” was pretty good and I hate Agatha Christie as a rule, and a seven part “Gallipoli” that is not too shabby.
Thanks for the suggestions.
I enjoy Christie, but unfortunately “The Pale Horse” is not available yet on Prime Video in Canada. I’m looking forward to it despite not being a big fan of Rufus Sewell. I found him a little wooden in “The Man In The High Castle.”
I had overlooked “Gallipoli” but really enjoyed the motion picture from 1981. I’ll put it on the watchlist.
I’ll put it on the watchlist.
If you want something different trapped in the shack, there is a bunch of Russian language stuff if you don’t mind subtitles (or speak Russian, which I don’t worth a damn) which is interesting either for historical perspective – 10 parter “Admiral” about Admiral Kolchak who fought the Red Army during the revolution, four parter called “Ladoga” about the ice road to Leningrad – just for fun a series of series called “Death to Spies”. You can go down a rabbit hole with the stuff.
I already have something for sleep–the Andromeda Strain
I am starting to get the impression that a lot of 60’s and 70’s TV and movies had a much slower pace than today.
I found the 1971 movie of Andromeda Strain to be a decent thriller that holds up pretty well, but the 2008 tv miniseries just dragged, and had a bolted-on stupid “message” about eco-destruction or some such. Also time travel. Gag.
More evidence to support the theory that wind turbines are the work of the devil
I did see it, and it’s true! But now the tweet has been deleted. 🙁
Here it is. It’s a simulation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Simulated/comments/fiqqdf/whats_with_the_winds_recently/
“Admiral Kolchak”
Oooh, I may have to look at that just because of the name.
More evidence to support the theory that wind turbines are the work of the devil:
That Tweet has been disappeared for the greater good, comrade.