Saturday, June 22, 2019

537 - The Fantasy Of Hot Properties

[8:55 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Watched The Neverending Story. Probably for the 10th time but first time in like 25 years
It's good, probably better as an adult than as a kid
As a kid i liked the visuals but just found it confusing
As an adult its the opposite... effects looked cheap but story was good
[8:59 AM] 
You should try the book.  It's amazing.
First movie covered about 1/4
And the movie (justly) pissed off Germany
Though I admit I liked the movie too
[9:00 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Why?
[9:00 AM] 
Why did it piss them off?
It skipped a lot
Missed some big points
Didn't happen the same way
Characters weren't right
And most decidedly it did NOT complete the structure that the title came from.
I can't remember if even Gmork explained himself properly and why he was there.
Maybe
Been too long
[9:04 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
He said he was sent by whoever was in charge of The Nothing to make sure Atreyu didn't complete his quest
that was after he told Atreyu how to complete his quest
and then lunged at him and died easily
[9:06 AM] 
Yeah...no
He was a human from Earth
Sent to kill Atreyu so he'd fail
[9:07 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
i guess that makes sense but that's not how they explained it
[9:08 AM] 
Because earth powers from the real world knew they could take over and control the earth if humans were hopeless and had nothing to dream of or hope for.
[9:08 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
he did mention something about that
but never said he was from earth or who his "boss" was
he did say that without dreams people are easier to control, which is why he was helping The Nothing
if they went into greater detail it'd probably have needed to be like 2 1/2 hours and kids would've tuned out
[9:10 AM] 
Nod
It's a vast experience
[9:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
although.. runtime was only like 1:45
probably coulda squeezed in 5-10 more minutes for exposition
[9:11 AM] 
Think they ended up doing 3 to try...
Just failed completely though
[9:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
3 films?
[9:11 AM] 
yes
[9:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
yeah i watched 2 a few times as a kid too
[9:11 AM] 
I saw some of the second
[9:12 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
as a kid i remember liking 1 and 2 equally
the critics definitely did not
3 looks and sounds like absolute shit
for some reason as a kid i'd pick the sequel to watch first
[9:12 AM] 
"Netflix presents The Neverending Story" 
There...they'd have a chance
[9:13 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
so i saw 2 first then was bummed that it was different characters in 1
but i think it'd have been better if they got all the same people
To be honest i didn't like gmork dying. seemed like a neat character that'd be better off redeeming himself somehow.  like the Grinch
The Atreyu / Artax swamp scene really wrecked me as a kid
[9:17 AM] 
Artax giving up is touted as one of the most traumatic events in "kid" film history.
Gmork and Atreyu have a decidedly different last encounter.
Lotta bad stuff happens in the book
Keeps you involved for sure
Ol' road to Hell...good intentions stuff.
Then it gets worse
Great book
Probably my #3
Tons of beauty too, of course...it is Fantastica/Fantasia after all




[9:48 AM] 
[9:57 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Should i invest in graphene?
[10:01 AM] 
Not sure how you would.
Have to find which companies are doing the best research I guess.
Stuff is the closest thing to magic other than actual magic ;)
"Oh...turns out you can make a lightbulb of it that is much more efficient than LED, brighter, and lasts longer."
"Yawn...turns out if you dope it with a little diamond dust it's nearly frictionless is all..."
"Sigh...well...I mean, once it's in the right configuration it's a superconductor switchable to a resistor...no biggy."
"Meh...it's just carbon atoms an atom thick that's stronger than steel..."
"Wellll...it's kinda hard to make a lot of it except for this new process that just automatically makes like 20"x20" sheets we worked out... What evs..."
[10:07 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
maybe invest in pencil companies
they probably hoard the stuff
[10:07 AM] 
heh
[10:08 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
The Acme #2 Pencil and Invisible Superconductor Concern
[10:08 AM] 
I'm not sure you can write with graphene like graphite.  Probably....Probably permanent, Probably can write on tungsten and never wears out.
[10:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Probably need a lot of graphite to make graphene though, right
[10:54 AM] 
Well it's an atom thick...so...no



[10:05 AM] 
Check this one out - INVESTIGATIONS BY KING
"Forsooth!"
[10:05 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
"The case of the queen's missing head"
[10:06 AM] 
"His Majesty of Scottdale PA hath decreed a rousting of the peasantry in investigation of claims of witchery!"
I have to admit, it's a wonderful business name
The Case of the Queen's Missing Head sounds like one of those mysteries that will be officially “solved” by the king and involve a politically inconvenient noble with a lot of property.
"Treason!  Treason I say!  Shalt be executed and thy lands granted to the father of my new mistress!"
"It is a crime tantamount to the scandalous 'Case of the Earl Who Found a Silver Mine' of two Summers gone!"



[12:07 PM] 
OH! 
Earlier this week
Real estate show.
Walk-thru on the lowest prices I'd seen on one.
$75000...another was $44000
Naturally they were doing a walkthrough and virtually spending huge amounts of “update” money.
"We can do the kitchen for X...we can knock that out for Y."
get to the stairs...
"There's no handrail."  "No...but we can put one in."
(me) "For $650!"
(other person) LOL!
[point: there was no price quoted for a hand rail...]
But not 30 seconds later...next room
"Well, they did a partial crown molding in this bedroom for some reason.  We could finish that off and the room will look a lot better."
(Price popup) "Crown Molding - $650!"
(me) "GEEEE-zus!!!  $650 For 20' of crown molding and some paint??? I think I underestimated the hand rail!"
(other) "No kidding!"
[12:41 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Wait, was this in town?
[12:41 PM] 
No
It was one of those "Pick one house out of three and remodel" TV shows
They should go up to Butler and do one in “The Island”
(Establishing shot of flaking paint factory house, 14" grass lawn, sheriff sale paper taped to window.  Realtor/Redecorator Host and buyer go to front door, opens without using key)
"So here's house #2.  It's listed at $10000 so it's still in your budget.  As you can see, the front door conveniently opens right to the living room." 
"Nice feature."
"Very hot right now..."
(doubtful) Hmmmm.  Seems kind of bare over there."
"Well, I'm thinking we can stack some milk crates and boards for a shelf unit here...and put a carpet sample to cover the hole there."
"Ohhh...maybe... Hmmm."
**Ching! (Price popup) “Crates and carpet - $0 if no one looking.”
[12:53 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
oh okay
Those shows that are like: "He's a janitor, and his wife sells acorns door-to-door. Their budget is $2.7 million."
[12:59 PM] 
Yes
"They desperately NEED a second home within 5 miles of work and with a 15000 square foot lawn for their Pekingese 'Emperor Maximilian'.  A tall order.  Can we find a palace to suit them?



[1:00 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
I'm gonna retire to the Meningitis Belt! 
[1:03 PM] 
Appealing... what's the cost of living in the Meningitis Belt?
As high as 1000 per 100,000
[1:04 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Meningitis sounds like a weird one... and bad
Somehow a bacteria or virus or something else crosses your body's natural firewall into your brain / nervous system
No wonder humans were clamoring to get out of Africa
[1:16 PM] 
(primitive Africans looking out over the Mediterranean) "Maybe their kids don't drop dead on the other side of that."
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536 - Putin Periodically For President, Naughty Aliens, Red Rubes

[2:07 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
LORRAINE ST. OURS  
There's a Saint Ours?
[2:10 PM] 
St. Ours sounds like a bandit joke that caught on. 
"S'cuse us, but everybody get down from the carriage and tithe to we poor brothers of the Church of St. Ours."
[2:11 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
heheh
I wonder if she knows their namesake's feast day is tomorrow



[11:07 AM] 
"Putin Seeks Re-Election"  
"You will have to assess that new reality and become convinced that what I was said today isn't a bluff," he said. "It's not a bluff, you trust me."
[11:09 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
What's the deal with their elections?
Do they have to go back to Medvedev again?
They have technical consecutive term limits
[11:10 AM] 
(Putin at podium with Stupiduel deck)  "We also have...(flips)...3...million...radioactive...mutant...ducks.  You trust me on that.  So vote for me as if it counted!"
Yes...Russian term limits are definitely written down, Mr. Blue.
The Constitution of Russia limits the election of one person to the Presidency to two consecutive terms. Since the constitution contains no ruling on a total number of terms that a President may serve, a former president may seek re-election after sitting out one complete term
So if he wins this one he'll get 6 more years on paper
Considering the man in question, Putin's victory in the upcoming election was likely decided – by him – in July of 2012
[11:25 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
His biggest opposition, that Navalny guy, seems very much the same as Putin
in personality and policy
Maybe less corrupt?
[11:47 AM] 
"Vote for Navalny – He's Less Corrupt"



[8:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I watched Alien 3 again
[8:11 AM] 
That's funny...I almost clicked that last night
[8:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
It has some problems compared to the first 2...
For starters they killed off everyone cool from 2. Then they kill off the interesting new characters far too early.
I understand if Beihn and the girl weren't available. Make something up.
Say they were separated in their pod and couldn't be located
But it's a decent movie
It's kind of like The Name of the Rose in space with all the celibate monk-like dudes
And the prison itself has some influence of like an old abbey in some areas - big old pipes look like flying buttresses, giant fans look like Catherine windows
[8:16 AM] 
There's a couple cuts of 3.  Only seen the unloved theatrical
[8:16 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
yeah that's all i could find
[8:17 AM] 
Been so long I only remember bits
Lotta orange
[8:19 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
for some reason Ripley having sex with the doctor guy seemed out of place
Both in the story arc and for the character herself
[8:22 AM] 
"So...doctor...technically I haven't gotten any action for...(counts) maybe 95 years.  And then I got dumped on a planet of celibates.  Ya think you could help a girl out?"
[8:26 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
And there was the manner in which she did it
I mean she liked the guy, but she had sex with him to deflect from his questions about the "contagion" she was worried about
It seemed to cheapen the character
Ripley will use sex to get what she wants? Boo
You could easily cut the scene and lose nothing
[8:34 AM] 
Maybe they did
(shrug)
I've read about the other version but never run across a copy
[8:35 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I guess the production was a mess
Script pages came in the morning they were supposed to film the scene
Not Fincher's fault, the production company's



[2:09 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
weird... Alien 4 director also did Amelie?
wtf
[2:10 PM] 
Never saw Amelie
[2:10 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
quirky movie... enjoyable
I swore i saw Audrey Tautou walking down a narrow street in Paris when i was there... Same neighborhood the film was filmed in
[2:10 PM] 
"For my next one I want to do something more frightening on a visceral level.”
[2:11 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
and also apparently the neighborhood she lives in
[2:11 PM] 
Pretty good odds then
[2:11 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
But i'm only like 50% sure it was her... lotta cute brunettes in Paris
[2:11 PM] 
You don't say ;)
I know the WWI hit lyrics were "How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Par'ee"...but I'm betting it was a polite shift from "French girls" to the city.
I still wonder if Americans say "Whee" because soldiers brought "Oui!" back from the Moulin Rouge
[2:15 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Could be
My dad was stationed in Germany during Vietnam, and apparently he learned German. But only, like, dirty cat calling
One was something like “guten tag fraulein mitten den hose der sehen underwasche”
and it actually worked once in a while
[2:26 PM] 
Not quite translating that one...
I know the words I believe, just not making them into anything reasonable
Based on this...and adjusting... "Lift your skirt and show me your underwear"
I was a bit off
In the middle of the pants, see the underwear
lol
[2:28 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
It was something about lifting your dress or dropping your pants and show me the underwear, but in a rhyming pattern as well
[2:34 PM] 
Perhaps some found it bad enough they thought it was cute
heh



[1:32 PM] 
Food Drive suggestions list
Bunch of items
But for some reason only two of them had to have examples written next to them:
Juice, and Condiments
Do they commonly have misunderstandings about what juice and condiments are?
"Sir!  What is this?"
"Purple Drank."
"We wanted juice."
"And you got it."
[1:57 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
heheh
[1:58 PM] 
I don't even want to know what street "condiments" are.
...actually yes I do...



[11:50 AM] 
Tale 1 - Dual flush toilet.
About a week ago it started filling funny after a flush
Bit of water...stop...bit of water...stop...bit of water... repeat til tank full.
I could see the intake control was leaking some water out the top but couldn't see what to do about it. 
So fearing to crack it open without more info, I spent...off and on...several sessions trying to research something by description since I didn't even know the part names.
Eventually I started getting close, but all the advice was not exactly what i needed or for the wrong part, or was net dips not reading the questions...
And then, last night, I'd scrolled down past about 25 entries and one said:
"is the water pressure too high? It can do that."
Half twist and it's been fine since.
[12:11 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
try googling "toilet anatomy"
[12:12 PM] 
Heh
Story 2
Working on the blog I came upon some comment about Confederate preservation and Southern Pride
As typical for an opinion thing like that I cleaned it all up and clarified...expanded a bit. 
And I couldn't remember the best way to say "voting against one's own best interests"
It just wasn't sounding right
So I went and looked.
"Ah...OK.  ... what's this?"
I had happened to catch a glance through the first few lines of someone's comment on the topic, Re: Red State Conservatives voting against their own interests.
"Sigh...ok, let me explain this: No we're not."
"Ok..." I said, "I'm ready to be convinced. (click)"
[12:59 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Someone commented on the blog?
[12:59 PM] 
No, we still have zero
Just in the Google search because I had a brain fart over "voting against one's own best interests"
You type something...look at it...doesn't feel right.
Anyway
"No we're not"
[12:59 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
oh okay i get it... continue
[1:10 PM] 
Went on to eloquently explain about how people vote for their principles, and their beliefs, and what they feel should be done, and for those who back them.  "So we are not voting against our own self interests, because they are our interests."
(finish reading) "Uh...point against - that's not what it means." 
Passionate, eloquent...naive and stupid. 
About what I'd expected
I wanted to find a way to respond "And the candidates who spoon feed you this crap you want to here never actually follow through much but always manage to steal a bunch of money, don't they?"
Anyway...found it amusing
My kid's interests are free money, sleeping in, eating out and no school.  By the time he's 18 I hope he finds a good candidate.
[1:55 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
lol
The Eat The Rich party
[2:13 PM] 
Sounds great!
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Thursday, June 20, 2019

535 - Women Who Like Women Who Are Men Who Are Like Women, and Funny Names

[10:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Every "lesbian" i know is now in a relationship with a guy and has a kid with them
So that's, like, 3
[10:23 AM] 
Selective lesbianism
"In your case, I'm selecting to be a lesbian...get lost loverboy."
[10:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
In 2 of the cases they hid the relationship with the dude until the pregnancy
So i guess the moral there is don't give up just because they're a lesbian
or maybe they're bisexual but had a terrible experience with a dude
[10:24 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
A lot of people are bi sexual
[10:25 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
but the hiding thing is weird... like they were embarrassed to be straight
[10:25 AM] 
Could be
What if they talked up being a lesbian for years and it was expected, and it wasn't true?  Be just as bad as coming out.
...going in...
[10:26 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
probably
The one girl even had a "lesbian" tattoo
Like the figures you see to designate male and female bathrooms – it was 2 female figures holding hands
Oh i can think of a 4th example – girl that was actively in a long term relationship with a girl... Then all of a sudden boom – “I'm pregnant, and I'm marrying the father.”
[10:27 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
I see the value of being into both sexes, but I just am not built that way myself
[10:27 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
probably one clue is if the "girls" they're into are like real butch
[10:27 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Yeah they like guys, but hate how guys act
that is common
[10:27 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yeah
like "i'm a lesbian but i like girls that are basically men"
no you're not.
[10:28 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
My cousin is “lesbian” now, but was a teen preggo first
so that turned her off of guys
lol



[10:31 AM] 
This will perhaps be a shock, but Drag Queens like to sync to Lady Gaga...
[10:31 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
there is always a generational music thing with drag queens
[10:32 AM] 
Drag Baby (as they called the newbie) was a Culture Club / Cyndi Lauper...uh...man. 
"Classical Music" – He wasn't even alive in the 80s
heh
[10:33 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
QUEEN
That was always a big one for awhile
[10:33 AM] 
For drag queens?  No self-respecting queen is going to lipsync a guy. 
[10:34 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Well maybe just for the movie ones then
[10:35 AM]  
>:-( 
As for the Kings.  Boy bands.  And some rap/talker I didn't recognize.
[10:36 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
how old were they?
[10:36 AM] 
They were both good but the one was so peppy.  Voted for her but she didn't win it. 
She was, in fact, the daughter of the previous King.
I'm still not sure if mom or dad
Oh...mom
Emcee used the words "she came out of"
2nd generation Drag King
heh
Majority in their 20s
Mrs. Green and the old king were in their 40s...
[10:47 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Surprising enough, lots of drag queens are not gay
[10:54 AM] 
This is true.



[3:00 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
just commented on one of Felicia Day's posts on facebook hehe
its purple underwear and blue jeans
she is wearing a flannel shirt
so i told her  SO 90's
she also had the pants really saggy
like showing off the underwear
[3:28 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Mrs. Brown will be happy to see you commenting on felicia day's undies
cuz it'll probably show up on her feed that you commented
[3:43 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
yeah
all good
She already knows i would bang Reese Witherspoon if given the chance
[3:44 PM] 
interesting
[3:44 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
thats a star crush
Felicia is just cool
[3:44 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Just Reese?  i can think of a better option
[3:44 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
I just like her
Yes others are hotter, but i like her
[3:44 PM] 
He wants to see her Withoutherspoon
[3:45 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
lol
her daughter looks like her too
That was the film that I saw her in and started liking her
gotta ignore Paul, although he would be cool to hang out with
lol
[3:47 PM] 
“Splitting Heirs” did it for me and Katherine Zeta Jones
Haven't looked her up in a while



[8:06 AM] 
Agent: A, OLUWAFUNMI
"What do you mean I'm Oluwafunmi?  Do I amuse you?  Am I a clown to you?" 
[8:07 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
heheh
[8:08 AM] 
"Hey, I'm just saying you're Oluwafunmi...you're an Oluwafunmi guy, you know?"
"No!  I don't know!  How am I Oluwafunmi?"
"Hey...Tommy...he's just sayin'-"
"He knows what he said!"



[11:50 AM] 
Mrs. Silver was amused with Kull
"There's blood all over people, but not a single weapon has any blood on it...you notice?"
[11:51 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
heh
i forget what i watched recently where someone was stabbing someone.. but they were literally just wiping the blade on them
and the blade (the side away from camera) just had blood on it
We need to get Mr. Brown to watch Goodfellas so he can riff on it
[11:57 AM] 
:)
Now that you mention it, I guess he never really does chime in on Goodfellas
I haven't see it in so long I probably recall as much as I do from riffing.
[12:02 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
i think it helps that the dialogue is so.. simplistic
and the "how'my funny?" scene... Even if you haven't seen the movie, you know it
[12:06 PM] 
yes
[12:07 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
and other scenes were spoofed on the Simpsons and probably Family Guy
I wonder what the most "even if you haven't seen it, you've seen it" movie is
[12:07 PM] 
Interesting question
[12:07 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Probably, like, “Rocky”
[12:08 PM] 
“Wizard of Oz”...but I can't imagine how high the saturation level is on that
That's a hard thing to test
Have to do a survey to see what super-popular movies people haven't seen.
And then another to ask them to write down what it's about and what happens in it
Reminds me of the net recording with images of the “Friend who hasn't seen Star Wars explaining Star Wars”
Pretty amusing
"And then there's this guy Hans Solo."
"Hans?  Hans Solo?"
"Yeah."



[12:56 PM] 
That is the first time I can ever recall a customer calling me "dog".
[1:02 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Is he xzibit?
[1:15 PM] 
heh
Actually he was a Smallwood and I got a chill when the name popped
But he was OK, dog
[1:22 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
where's the Largewood
[1:27 PM] 
Last name: Smallwood. This unusual name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and can be either a locational or a topographical surname. As the former, the name derives from the place called Smallwood, near Astbury in Cheshire.
There is no Largewood
[1:32 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
What's that from?
Logan’s run?
[1:32 PM] 
yes
Came up in chatting with Mr. Red a while back
He didn't like it. much
It's one of my "Movie better than book" example faves though
[1:34 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yeah, i didn't think it was great
It seemed cheap
Like for something made not that long ago, it seemed like it was made in the 50s
It came out 8 years after 2001 a Space Odyssey
[1:38 PM] 
"Yinz kin tell its the 70s not da 50s cause deres nekkid wimmin in it."
It was a year before Star Wars turned up everyone's sci-fi production values
Its hard to match 2001's
I still think the wormhole at the end was a cop-out
[1:42 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yes
Just a helicopter shot with some color filters
[2:09 PM] 
And interminable randomized data streams under kaleidoscope and color filters
[2:10 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
oh yeah
Roughly the same special effects that the IMAX folks came up with 35 years ago
(although those were good enough to make me nauseous as a kid)
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