My understanding was this was supposed to be a streaming film but the stars protested it should be in theaters, so it eventually got a theatrical release. Fitting it into existing commitments by the theaters may have contributed to it not lasting long in theaters.
They’re on display in the bottom drawer of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “Beware of the Leopard”.
I use my phone to video under the couch / bed / bureau, so that I know where to look and how far back it is.
Her ear is purple because the light is coming from the right. The top of her ear is in shadow - but it’s also being lit from underneath, through the thin skin of her ears. And her ears are pink because of her skin color, her fur color, and the blood running through. Blue/twilight shading from being in the shade, mixed with being underlit with pink, is purple.
First off, it’s been a decade or two since I saw the movie. That said, there’s a bunch of questionable content there, but I would argue that noticing and pointing out the glasses indentations isn’t one of them. People do notice and put emphasis on different things.
For example, in this old reddit thread, a man is a dead ringer for a robbery suspect, down to the clothes he was wearing. But one person on the jury was a professional seamstress, and pointed out that the sewn-in pleats on the shirt the man was wearing vs the pleats on the suspect’s shirt were completely different. No one - not the prosecutor, the defendant’s lawyers, not the judge, not the defendant himself - noticed the seams or thought they were significant. But that seamstress did.
In both cases, this wasn’t something they sought out to bring in from the outside, it was knowledge that they already had that they applied to the case. And I would argue that that’s part of the responsibility of a jury. If I was on a jury listening to an audio recording that included … I dunno, a plane engine or a train engine, and there was a plane mechanic or a train enthusiast on the jury, I would hope they’d point out whether the recording with the engine did or didn’t match the suspect’s. Because I certainly couldn’t tell engine sounds apart, but someone who’s around them all day could, and that’s certainly relevant information.
I’m so glad he’s feeling better!
Local community scrip?
But … but why would you open the window in -5°c?
While the main stages will be in London, the show will be shot all over the world
They’re also targeting a release date sometime in 2028.
It’s easy to have the time to build your own secret underground bunker when you’re a PoS that no one wants to hang with. It’s easy to hire people to build your secret underground bunker when you’re a leeching PoS billionaire.
Thank you for not being a PoS.
It started in Texas, and it picked up a helluva lot of water in the Gulf.
I don’t have to go out until Tuesday (and I can cancel that if I absolutely have to, but I’d really prefer not to). The HOA will take care of the sidewalks, and I pre-paid the kid next door to dig my car out for me (my back got injured recently). I filled up my gas tank and got some cash out of the bank. I was already fine on food and didn’t bother shopping this week (I have several weeks worth of food in the house), but I’ll pick up a pizza before the storm starts.
Pulled out my deep weather winter gear (heavy duty jacket, gloves, mittens, those Canadian hats with the built-in ear muffs, yaktrax, etc). Stuck a bunch of audiobooks on my phone.
Double-checked that our heated mattress pads and electric blankets work, so we don’t have to worry about heating the whole house. Put towels across the bottom cracks of the doors in the rooms we’re not using. Made sure the utility room door is open - that’s not very well insulated and our pipes come in there. Opened the cabinet doors under the kitchen sink. Changed the furnace filter. Took a shower and did the laundry and dishes. Took the garbage and recycling out to the community bins. I’ve been putting out extra food for the birds and wildlife for a few days now, and I put out an extra serving this morning.
My main concern is losing power: with this being such a large storm, we won’t be able to borrow power crews from other areas, and I live in a smaller exurb area so we’re not high on the “restore power” list.
I’ve verified the location of my candles and matches (you can seal yourself in a room, bundle up and light a couple candles and stay surprisingly warm-ish), some large plates to prevent accidental candle fires, and rotated my fire extinguisher to make sure the powder’s still loose. Pulled two camping coolers out of the shed and stuck them by the back door in case I need to store food outside.
Charged up my power packs so I’ll still have my phone, and verified the location of my little solar-charger for camping in case I need it. Verified the location of my sterno and mini-propane stove. Retrieved my headlamps from storage and put in fresh batteries.
Filled up a few extra bottles of water and stored them in the fridge. Made sure I have the power company’s phone number and my account number stored in my phone so I can quickly report any power loss. (In smaller storms, my power company slightly prioritizes earlier reported outages, so quicker can be better.)
Brought out extra blankets and throws and placed them around the house. I have friends I can evacuate to if I need to, but I’d rather not drive in the weather - and I’m uncertain if they’ll still have power too. I’ve entered the phone numbers of the three nearest hotels into my phone, just in case.
No idea if it’s true or not but there was a rumor back in the day, that “natural flavors” was code for just a tiny bit of catnip essence.
In 2024, creative industries minister Chris Bryant admitted that Brexit had made touring in Europe “simply not economically viable” for many artists.
It’s an interesting look into older architecture, but I feel many architects today have higher priorities than making sure the house faces South and has thick walls - like getting the houses oriented along whatever street they put in and not having the house cost the same as a medieval castle. I think what’s most disappointing is that, in the end, the only “changes” the author even considers making are moving a desk and maybe planting a tree.
I appreciate the article, I’m just disappointed in the author.
All in the Family had seven direct or indirect spinoffs: Maude; Good Times (a Maude spinoff); The Jeffersons; Checking In (a Jeffersons spinoff); Archie Bunker’s Place; Gloria; and 704 Hauser.
Hey, here’s a TIL: that’s a specific part of a newspaper article, generally called a drophead or a deck. The drophead appears between the headline and the byline, is often in a font partway between that used in the headline and that used in the article, and typically provides one of three types of additional information:
A) important additional context, usually some combination of who, what, where, when, or why;
B) explain why it matters;
C) or sets the tone.
As a specific part of a newspaper column, it has it’s own set of linguistic and stylistic rules. One of those rules is that (as with headlines) it may drop “unnecessary” words. In this case, the drophead has been transformed from Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, [who is] known for [his] lavish lifestyle, [is] also accused of theft and being [an] illegal immigrant after [a] man [was] allegedly shot in back to it’s current form.
My one quibble with this particular drop head is the use of “being illegal immigrant” instead of the “illegal immigration” that I personally would have found ‘smoother’ to read. However, there may be language differences that explain their decision [it was written by the South African correspondent of a British paper, and I’m from the States]; alternatively, there may be some legal distinction between being accused of “being [an] illegal immigrant” vs being accused of “illegal immigration”. I don’t know what the reason for that specific wording is and I’m not invested in this article enough to go research it.
But anyway, tl;dr: that’s a drophead, which is a specific part of a newspaper article with it’s own linguistic and stylistic rules.