Don Sinnamon (he/him)

I saw this independently and not even through the friend of mine who’s in it.
Sydney folk, check it out

I feel like I should preface the quote with something but all I can say is both major parties in Australia are complicit in genocide.
At least there's a protest tomorrow against the Israeli PM's visit, that is itself in response to our supposedly left wing PM inviting him

Didn't know there was a TV version but heard a radio adaptation about 30 years ago and occasionally still hear "You're making her owls when she wants to be flowers" in a Welsh accent, which is somehow extra unnerving in Australia

Yeah, I feel like I'm 900 years old railing about another social contract being abandoned, like people playing videos or music on their phones out loud.
Even when folks try to be a bit coy about it, if you get enough allusions, the negative space basically outlines the twist.
Still a great episode.

But Liam was scared and frequently asked what they had done wrong, where they were and what happened to the little blue knit hat he wore the day he was detained, Conejo said. There wasn’t much he could say to his son, “except hug him and tell him everything would be OK,” Conejo said. Worried about further upsetting his son, Conejo said, he was forced to bite back his own tears.

Liam has since been reunited with his hat and continues to wear it, even inside the house, his dad said Thursday. Asked how he might one day explain to Liam everything that has happened, Conejo said he would tell his son that he had become the face of hope and change. "He was the global figure who did all this so that the voices of the people demanding freedom would be heard, especially those of the children who are still locked up," Conejo said. “I would tell him he was very brave and that I am very proud of him.”

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

I'm not sure her name is ever said out loud in the movie, but I was delighted to discover watching the credits that Claudia Black's character was named 'Shazza' which is ocker as hell.

Not only do I see it, but it's making me think of the shot where Sisko is raising his glass at the end of In The Pale Moonlight in particular

Yeah, I got hit, really not very long after the episode came out, too.
Guh

Thought about Mork several times, and a lot of other references, but if she's digested all the cultural information of the Federation in a few months, of course she'd come to the obvious conclusion that the peak was 80s and 90s TV.

It, and the book, are both very good.
But for God's sake, man. Just send someone for your gloves!

Which Donne poem?

After whining on here, I did actually managed to buckle down and get a bit of momentum going.
Whining works!

I've had a shit January and spooling up my brain to be creative seems to involve it cycling through all the horrors before I get to a place where I can actually be productive.
And because I haven't moved beyond this one section, the stink of failure is threatening to settle in.
But we persevere

I fully support you bullying him into this.
Also? Say hi to him from me.

Wait, did they only starting writing mainstream articles about male loneliness *after* Epstein died?
That’s… not great

You make a compelling case for it.
Thorough.

Sounds like a podcast where they talk about eating meat and blaming girls

You do. You really do.

Or the Niners, obvs

Have you ever done Buck Bokai from DS9?

I had a book about Star Trek: Phase Two the show that would have followed the Enterprise 10 years later. It became the Motion Picture after Star Wars was a hit.
The notes described 'tasteful nudity' among the extras.
I have no problem with an uninhibited future but can't see that going to air

Replacing Greg Bovino with Tom Homan is like shitting your pants and changing your shirt.

2025 and onwards Bill Kristol still unsettles me with his correct takes

YES!
Use Your Delusion!

Agreed. Get on it.

It is a lot of fun. I haven’t played it for a while and a stack of updates and new content have been added since I last did

The livestream cut out just as a certain husband of yours was going to give his thoughts, so I hope he wrote them down somewhere. I think the recording may have also cut out at that point for five minutes or so

Wasn’t ‘Studs Not On Top’ Trump’s justification for eradicating DEI?

Yeah, poor Ace, she reminded me of the Hip Cool Show in one episode of The Young Ones called ‘Nosin’ About’ with Ben Elton talking about straight to the young kids, like, on their level.
Although Sophie Aldred was great despite that

Haven’t seen it yet but *hated* the idea when I first heard it in the 90s because obviously *I* was a very special hyper-mature teenager who deserved a place in SFA not like the imaginary 90210 types I imagined would be cast.
Glad I’m less of a dick now.
Holly Hunter! Paulie Giamatti!