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The photo of big DG with his wife made into a little girl fellating his 'other' microphone (it seems his main microphone is more than enough for big DG's right hand) is kind of funny...
Assuming funny means f***ing weird.
The movie Leon never went there.
Or maybe it's an in-joke about old timey netroots and where you had to go to be embraced by the DNC.
FWIW, regarding starting more books but not necessarily finishing them - as stated in other posts here, I dislike George R.R. Martin, primarily for his painfully overused "hook" of painting a character as totally good or totally evil, then flipping the script and showing a "surprising" dark or light side to them. It's a reasonable hook if it's done well, which I don't feel GRRM does. (As a counterexample, read almost any book by David Gemmell, going all the way back to Legend.)
I'm currently reading a book on cancer (The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee). It's engagingly written, but info-dense and sometimes a bit dry. I'm proceeding through it at a glacial pace. I'll be pleased if I finish it by the end of 2023. The end!
It's totally okay to not read with the voracity of a grad student or a bibliophilic librarian. Just read. It actually is good for you!
Thanks for all y'all do - seriously. Happy holidays and new year!
Well, I'm double posting. Apologies. Also, the following is to relate, not make the story about me. Hope that comes through.
DG/BG - I had a colonoscopy earlier this year. I had a few (short, but seemingly endless) days of sheer terror, as the MD let me know they'd found a nearly 2cm polyp with high-grade dysplasia. He was careful to assure me that it looked like it had been caught "a breath away" from being cancerous, but tests would confirm.
The tests came back affirming the dysplasia but negative for adenomatous change, which means, more or less: benign, but it was close.
I've worked in oncology (administratively, not PT-facing) for about 11 years. Those few days were absolute terror for me. And I'm fortunate. It would have been financially crushing, but I probably would have survived. I'd have emptied my bank account, lost any chance to pay off my house early (or at all?), and have had a brutal journey ahead - but I wouldn't have FUCKING DIED, or lived a pauper for decades, struggling to pay off mountains of medical debt.
Probably.
All this to say, I sympathize and empathize, and am glad you came out okay. And man - didn't that prep just suck?
Again, happy holidays and thanks for all you do.
Great line: “They thought that dog would never bite through the leash and come after them. You keep feeding that dog raw meat and rabies and eventually it’s gonna get big and angry and turn on you…”
Keep up the great work, 2023 here we come!
About those Sci Gi movies.
Their endings. Many are defeating the bad aliens or devastation and end to Earth and /or Humans.
There are some ending that are different ones that entice me more to Sci Fi .
One of these Sci Fi movie endings is
From the ending of the movie, Mission to mars. I love how this ends……. I don't think it was a top movie of its time yet, it led me to an unexpected ending I enjoyed and provoked thought.
Final scene
The three astronauts enter the opening, which seals behind them. A three-dimensional projection of the solar system depicts the planet Mars, covered with water, being struck by a large asteroid and rendered uninhabitable. A projection of a humanoid Martian lifeform reveals that the native Martians evacuated the planet in spaceships, one of which was sent to seed Earth with DNA, intending to create life that could one day land on Mars and be recognized as descendants. An invitation is offered for one of their group to follow the Martians to their new home. Jim accepts the invitation, bidding farewell to Terri and Luke, and is sealed inside a small capsule. Terri and Luke race back to the ERV and arrive just as Phil is about to take off. They barely escape the dust storm into space as Jim's capsule is launched from the crumbling formation and past them toward the Martians' home.
Where the Sci Fi movie ends up taking you . To an end or to a beginning can be inspirational or a devastating omen.
I've never owned a TV, and your colonoscopy image threats reminded me of a big reason why that is. In 1985 I rented a TV to watch Live Aid. They delivered it Friday evening, I took it inside and plugged it in to make sure it worked. It powered up, but the picture was kind of garbled, all bluish-pink and blurry. About then what the audio was saying began to register and I realized that I was looking at video shot from inside president Reagan's colon. I wouldn't have actually thrown it out the window because then I would have had to pay for both the TV and the window, but I thought real hard about it. Besides, I really did want to watch Live Aid.
About ten years ago, my doctor at Highland Hospital told me I should probably have a colonoscopy. I told him that I didn't walk all that well and the bathroom in our warehouse space was a long way from my room, and asked if he had any advice for the pre-op laxatives they give you. He had me try what was a new thing at the time, where you just submit a stool sample once a year, and the results are comparable in accuracy to a colonoscopy every five years regimen, and I have been doing that ever since.
I was going to say "enough about buttholes, let me rant about politics" then I remembered Republicans.
So due to the collapse of Tesla's still overvalued stock price, Elon Musk has lost $200 billion. Mr. Brilliant Wonderboy lost the GDP of Greece, while throwing a petulant fit that will most likely doom Tesla going forward by driving off its customers. Hint: It ain't MAGA Republicans buying Teslas.
Doesn't bother me a bit. Before Tesla's factory was Tesla's factory, it was a thing called NUMMI, which was a partnership between GM and Toyota, and it opened right about the time I moved to the East Bay. Nobody I ever talked to who worked there really hated the place, like Tesla's workers do, and sure, Toyota pulled out of the deal partly over unionization, but they did unionize.
That is not likely to happen at Tesla. If you want to buy some advanced robotics that apparently get replaced way before they wear out, I do know where Tesla offloads them.
Thank you again for the podcast. I am hella thankful that the atmospheric river is dumping inches of rain instead of feet of snow. The cat, however, is quite miffed at having to poop in his litterbox.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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