Songs From The Movies.....

Oct. 20th, 2025 06:17 pm
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Trying to come up with a movie song and I randomly thought, what was on the soundtrack of the movie, "Pulp Fiction"?

Imagine my surprise when I saw an old classic Country song was on the soundtrack.

This week's song is "Counting Flowers on the Wall" by the Statler Brothers.
This is the kind of Country music I grew up listening to. :) So much better then today's "Country" music. :o


第四年第二百八十五天

Oct. 21st, 2025 07:36 am
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部首
子 part 2
存, to exist; 孙, grandchild; 季, season pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=39

语法
Uses of 才
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/four-uses-cai2/

词汇
种, species/kind/to plant; 种子, seed; 各种, all kinds of pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
到时候等我们老了,我们就让我们的小孙子小孙女给我们拍照, when we get old we'll make our grandsons and granddaughters take pictures of us
只有我们都活着,才能守护天下的和平, we can only preserve peace if we stay alive
我本来以为我种下的这颗种子就要失效了, I'd thought the seed I planted had failed

Me:
季节总算换了,好安心。
我才有三分钟,说得快。
你种了什么样的菜?

Monday At The Movies.....

Oct. 20th, 2025 05:03 pm
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This Week's Movie Quote...

E.: [M. is crying hysterically] Is she sober?
Mr. S.: Yes she's sober! I've been with her all aftern... When... I... Uh... I saw her w... Yes, of course she's sober! Don't be stupid!

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Last Week's Movie Quote...

Chief Bogo: Life isn't some cartoon musical where you sing a little song and all your insipid dreams magically come true. So let it go.

It comes from the 2016 movie, "Zootopia".
It's the story of a rabbit who wants to join the big city police force, and she ends up getting paired up with a fox criminal.



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Monday Update 10-20-25

Oct. 20th, 2025 02:56 pm
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These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Poem: "The First Swath Cut by the Scythe"
Linguistics
Poem: "Finding the Gold of the Spirit"
Poem: "Thresh Through the Complexity of Life"
Today's Cooking
Birdfeeding
Romance
Poem: "Knitting Is a Therapeutic Activity"
Today's Adventures
Vocabulary: Vellichor
Birdfeeding
Science
Creative Jam
Philosophical Questions: Tribalism
Today's Adventures
Today's Cooking
Follow Friday 10-17-25: Joss Whedon
Wildlife
Birdfeeding
Books
Birdfeeding
Food
Gaming
Birdfeeding
Activism
Hard Things

Poem: "New and Innovative Approaches" is featured in today's Magpie Monday by [personal profile] dialecticdreamer. If you like Frank the Crank, drop her some prompts or join the discussion under the poem, which already has 19 comments.

Trauma has 30 comments. Food has 52 comments. Affordable Housing has 55 comments. Robotics has 89 comments.


"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv and needs $191 to be complete. Maiara and Arthur discuss taking notes.


The weather is much cooler and fall-like now. It rained most of Saturday and was around 75°F that day, then dropped 20 degrees overnight so Sunday was around 55°F. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a male cardinal, and a fox squirrel. While we were out Saturday, I saw a bald eagle! :D 3q3q3q!!! Currently blooming: dandelions, marigolds, petunias, red salvia, verbena, lantana, sweet alyssum, zinnias, snapdragons, blue lobelia, perennial pinks, oxalis, moss rose, firecracker plant, tomatoes, tomatillos, morning glory, chicory, Queen Anne's lace, sunflowers, cup plant, cypress vine, sunchokes, sedum, violas. Tomatoes, ball carrots, and groundcherries are ripe. Fields are about 2/3 harvested.

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This is so sad to see. My dad was depute rector at Hawick High School from 1971-1996, and for most of his time working there his office was in the Henderson Building that's now been demolished. I knew that building and his office from when I was very tiny. Long before I went to the school as a pupil. It was a beautiful building, really nice architecture. I wish they could have kept it.



Here's a glimpse of what the building looked like before this last week.


Image © Crown Copyright: HES

I was just talking to my Mum earlier this evening, and mentioned that the Henderson Building must be nearly gone if not gone already 🙁

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Oct. 20th, 2025 08:37 pm
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I was an hour late for the away day, thanks to a combination of my own doofusness and regular transport hell. And this was so stressful for me because I knew an hour in that I was gonna be involved in the agenda item.

But of course it turned out not to matter because nothing ever gets done on an away day. I mostly think I'm pretty extroverted and neurotypical in this regard but since covid I'm like "...does any of this justify the increased chances of contracting a deadly and disabling illness?" and of course few things are.

One thing that would feel worth it for me is to have someone here to rub my feet. I just got back to my hotel room after wandering around, sometimes with my colleagues, finding food and trying to be normal enough.

The planned afternoon session couldn't happen and so we just carried on with more of my topic from the morning. It was hard work and stressful, and I'm not sure if much good came out of it.

I don't want to sound miserable; I did have a nice evening because I spent it with my favorite team member K, her support worker who's great company and who's also very kindly willing to help me out if I tag along with the two of them, and her friend W who I hadn't met in person before.

I kinda wish I had a support worker, not for every day but for trips like this. But I don't know anyone feasible and I don't want to deal with Access to Work so. This is the lesser evil. But it is nice to be able to borrow K's support worker on team events. And I met W's support worker today too who's also great.

Birdfeeding

Oct. 20th, 2025 02:46 pm
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Today is mostly sunny, breezy, and cool.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/20/25 -- We rolled up the hose.

EDIT 10/20/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 10/20/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/20/25 -- I planted 10 'Spectrum Sweet Aroma' daffodils in the daffodil bed. I have at least 15 more to spread around.

EDIT 10/20/25 -- I finished planting the rest of the daffodils under trees in the house yard.

EDIT 10/20/25 -- I planted 10 Pink Snow Crocus in the goddess garden.

As it is almost suppertime, I am done for the night.
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This is another horror bundle featuring Ghastly Affair, the "Gothic Game of Romantic Horror in the fevered age of Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon." 

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Ghastly

  

This one is quite interesting, although it does have its origins in systems that put numbers on everything - I'm a little boggled that these include stats for Death and for Lucifer. it's primarily focused on Gothic horror, but claims a lot of other things as inspiration including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, etc. - a list of fictional characters that might be inspirational puts Faith Lehane immediately after Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter. It has quite a lot about weird science and weirder magic, horrible illnesses (including several that often get overlooked in RPGs, such as rabies), and period architecture - the last is there because a major theme of Gothic horror was strange crumbling manors and their denizens. While the military history of the era is mentioned in the timeline, it's mostly there as background, and this isn't the game you want if you want to re-enact Sharpe or Master and Commander. On the other hand, it would work very well for ideas like a Napoleonic-era version of The Beguiled and other war-adjacent dramas.

The bottom line is that you get a huge amount very cheaply, and it's full of ideas that could be useful for any game or fiction with similar themes. This is one I definitely recommend, but I should really add a disclaimer that I sometimes forget - I get to download this stuff free, if you don't your mileage may vary.

Asexual Pride Week

Oct. 20th, 2025 02:27 pm
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This year's Asexual Pride Week runs October 19-25.

My QUILTBAG characters include many aroace ones.

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Life with two kids: Their every move

Oct. 20th, 2025 08:15 pm
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Through the power of (very basic) smart home automation I now get a notification whenever the kids open the back door, and can then remotely check if they've left it open.

Many parents throughout history would be jealous.

Coincidence?

Oct. 20th, 2025 07:48 pm
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Another flare-up of lower-back issues. This will be the third time this has happened with Academic Thing impending.... (podcast particiption scheduled for tomorrow). Can do without this, really. in particular the associated insomnia.

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Further cause of miff: thought from listing in back of an NYRB paperback that there was a Jessica Mitford volume I did not have - further delving reveals it is merely The Making of a Muckraker under a different title with a new introduction and one chapter that is not in my 1979 Quartet p/b. Huh.

***

Honestly, I look at the headshot at the top of this piece and go, 'man, he is such a square he is cubed': after 70 years of hip-shaking thrills, is rock’n’roll dead?

Come on (thanks Chuck): styles of music have their day and time moves on.

Will concede that have recently been reviewing books leaning heavily on popular music culture of the 50s-70s and its impact, but you know, that was a particular time and context, and anyone doing rock now is pretty much a tribute band or very very retro, surely?

It was clear from the works I was reviewing that The Scene was constantly shifting and moving on and developing niche scenes differentiating themselves from The Mainstream and so on and so forth.

And it is one thing to be nostalgic, and to be interested in a bygone epoch of popular music culture, and another to believe that it has to keep on being a living scene.

Bundle of Holding: Ghastly Affair

Oct. 20th, 2025 02:04 pm
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A bundle for Daniel James Hanley's tabletop roleplaying game of Gothic and Romantic Horror in the decadent, disastrous age of Marie-Antoinette, Napoleon, and Lord Byron.

Bundle of Holding: Ghastly Affair

Magpie Monday

Oct. 20th, 2025 12:56 pm
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[personal profile] dialecticdreamer is hosting Magpie Monday with a theme of "hidden expectations or accidental entanglements."

Over on [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith’s blog here on Dreamwidth, a comment on her poem “New and Innovative Approaches,” led to the theme for this month’s Magpie Monday.

Because there’s such a strong tie to Frank the Crank’s write-in election to the Mercedes city council, I’d like to specify that all the prompts remain in or around Mercedes, in the Polychrome Heroics universe. It’s still possible to write a near-infinite range of prompts which connect to one or both of the broad ideas of this month’s theme. Modern society has an enormous number of hidden expectations, based on one’s age, gender, skin tone, ability or disability, and even one’s mental health. How do those expectations affect life as the town is rebuilding after a tremendous, world-changing earthquake? Is it easier to stay, where there are familiar faces and resources (stretched to the breaking point), or to leave, to possibly escape a hidden expectation?

Rani Icons

Oct. 20th, 2025 05:52 pm
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No sooner does one make a whole load of icons of the Rani than two more come along.


The Punjabi Rani in her Red Bavarian dress and cloak. Mrs Flood in her black dress with white collar and cuffs, arms crossed. Mrs Flood in her red Jacket.  Head and shoulders Mrs Flood and the Punjabi Rani - face to face looking at camera.  Publicity shot. The Punjabi Rani in her read leather jacket.  Waist up. Close up side view of the Punjabi Rani's face.

fifteen minutes of tron

Oct. 20th, 2025 09:05 am
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Joachim Rønning (dir.), Tron: Ares

Apparently I have developed sufficient distance to be at least somewhat objective about a Tron movie. Tron: Ares is ... not good.

It's not awful. It's fine. It's a movie-shaped object. The dialogue, especially in the first third, is too on-the-nose, too screenwriter-school, too concerned with making sure the audience picks up what it's putting down in terms of plot and character. It spends an insufficiency of time inside the computer and too much time bringing inside-the-computer to the Real World.

However. It does look pretty. It has nonwhite characters, something both previous films were sorely lacking. Greta Lee absolutely carries the bulk of the movie, and Gillian Anderson does the heavy lifting for all her scenes. (Zarf: "A good movie would have stabbed the kid and let Mom carry the third act.")

There's a plot. It's ridiculous, as is traditional. The Macguffin is "the permanence code," an algorithm that can allow things to come out of the computer and not fall apart after twenty-nine minutes. The rival heads of rival big-tech-AI companies are trying to find it: one (the one whose computer-world is red) to sell weapons and soldiers to the military, one (the one whose computer-world is blue) to ... make orange trees in Alaska? Just go with it. It's still the case that good, as Jonathan L-- observed in the late nineties, is higher on the electromagnetic spectrum than evil. Eve Kim, the good CEO, finds the permanence code in some forty-year-old five-and-a-quarter floppies that used to belong to Kevin Flynn. Julian Dillinger pulls his main security program Ares into the real world and sends it to get the code from Eve. Ares gets cold feet at the thought of killing Eve and goes rogue, and plot ensues.

Having said that, I can't actually be all that objective about the movie. I imprinted hard on Tron as a kid. I enjoyed Tron Legacy even when it felt like it was trying really hard to visually distance itself from the original. The Ares script is a mess, but someone told the designers that they were making a sequel not just to Legacy but to the original as well. There's a portrait of David Warner, who played the human villain from the first movie, in his grandson's office in the evil corp. I laughed out loud in the theatre when Eve's phone rang and it was the descending-arpeggio motif from Wendy Carlos's Tron soundtrack.

And towards the end there's about a fifteen-minute sequence where Ares ends up in the 1980s 'grid'. It -is- the original Tron, dim lighting and lack of textures and all. I laughed again when the Bit turned up, and caught my breath as Ares shifted into a proper lightcycle. That made me so happy. It even had a few moments of appropriately airy philosophizing, this time about the value of mortality rather than "if you're a User then ... everything you've done has been according to a plan, right?". Jeff Bridges returns to full-on seventies guru mode, and that's pretty good too. (People will say "It's just The Dude from The Big Lebowski" but The Dude was always channeling the same flower-child vibe that Flynn embodied, just twenty years later.)

So, it was absolutely worth it to me, and I cannot in good conscience recommend it to anyone else.

Maybe I'll rewatch the multi-hour Making Of Tron stuff this week.

Postscript: I saw Ares in 3D. I mostly avoid things in 3D, it doesn't add much for me and costs a lot more. (My go-to "this was worth 3D" are Tron Legacy, which I might have a different opinion on now, and The Cave Of Lost Dreams, Werner Herzog's movie about cave paintings, which really did benefit from being able to see how the artists used the texture of the wall.) This was worth it mostly to say "yep, 3D movies do very little for me, even in the kind of effects extravaganza that they're sold for."

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