So, I was reading a bit of Sweet Thursday, and I come across a section regarding the Los Angeles PD trying to trace a source of discount Marijuana which contains this sentence:
“The border was sealed, and it is well known that muggles does not grow in the Pacific Ocean.”
Muggles? Excuse me? I had to look into this. And, yeah, “muggles” has a history predating Harry Potter.
Wait a minute. Harry Pot ter? How’s your aunt Mary Jane, hmmm?
He didn’t have an aunt Mary Jane, although now that you mention it, both his mother and aunt were named for plants (Lily and Petunia).
Coinky-dink? I think not…
Analyzing the first Iron Man film as a piece of American military propaganda:
The MCU films that don’t use cooperation with the military are much more honest about military-industrial matters, colonization, and slavery. Ragnarok, Guardians, for two examples. The Earthbound stuff always has to talk about things by not talking about things, the way Civil War talks around real issues but doesn’t get down to it because it’s all in the context of magic honkies doing rockemsockem superheroism rather than just being the kind of superheroes-only-in-their-own-minds that we’re so used to in real-world billionaires.
I think Winter Soldier did a pretty good job.
The framing of Project Insight is that it’s a massive overreach by SHIELD and a violation of civil liberties, and that’s before it’s revealed that Hydra is going to use it to target its own enemies.
It’s a pretty scathing indictment of mass surveillance and extrajudicial assassination by a government agency that bears a striking resemblance to the American national security apparatus.
I was shocked that they brought that film out so soon in the wake of the Snowden revelations, even if they filed off the numbers on that story.
Yup. Even more scathing in that a WWII superhero is the one being most vocal about its issues.
You mean prioritizing cost-cutting over safety doesn’t always lead to big bucks?
Who woulda thought.
As long as Boeing is going, “This is not our fault,” anybody who gets on a Boeing airplane is an idiot.
I don’t quite know what to think of this. How can one experience the essence of a performing artist in hologram form? There will be no “HE LOOKED AT ME!!!” from anyone, as I’m sure occurred during their shows when both men were alive.
I don’t dig it.
Is “hologram” being used as some kind of metaphor here?
I don’t think holograms, in the literal sense, had even been invented when Buddy Holly was alive, much less used to record a performance …
They’re raising from their graves and teaming up with Jem and the Holograms!
I think they normally use the peppers ghost illusion for this.
If it’s the same technology as this, it sounds like a Pepper’s Ghost illusion.
Edit: bloody holographic ninjas
That is truly, truly outrageous.
outrageous.
truly, truly, truly outrageous.
A fantasy?
We’re just a bunch of Misfits, eh?