Sora on Broadway: (1/) Laugh all you like at technology… But while real Broadway was transcribing the latest 80’s cult movie, Sora users were giving us a never-was peek at what more imaginative adaptations COULD have lit up theaters— Like…a Three Stooges musical, for instance:
The Best of Sora: A Memorial Thread. 😢 It had no useful function. That’s why we liked it. It turned joke premises into waking dreams, and cartoon gags into “real” life. We had no control, so we challenged its “creativity” to match our imagination. Like the many “Jurassic Park: the Musicals”: 1/)
People just don’t turn into Scotsmen for no reason at all…. 🏴🛸 youtu.be/LEoqx4CQnm4
10 RCMP Pipes and Drums - Ottawa - 10th Anniversary - Finale - Liberton Boys Polka
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The recent cold snap has opened up some unique areas for side-hustle business opportunities, in our community:
Just sitting inside on a snowy MA, enjoying our colorful New England weather…. ☕️😊 ❄️❄️
We must each be willing to defend our own opinions against the masses, no matter how unpopular. Mine is a question of major and minor keys: I believe the J. Geils Band did NOT steal their “Centerfold” riff from the Smurfs theme: youtu.be/BqDjMZKf-wg I have said my piece. 🙂↔️
The J. Geils Band - Centerfold (Official Music Video)
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This Christmas, I’m sitting down with the warm nostalgia of the first version of A Christmas Carol I saw as a kid— The 70’s Kenner Classic Tales version CBS used to show right after the Macy’s parade! ☺️ youtu.be/ArRUOa2LeEw?... (What, that Kermit thing? Yeah, think I streamed it on D+ once. 🤷♂️)
A Christmas Carol (1969)
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Y’know, things might get out of hand if this hack went viral, and people sent it to their relatively tech-illiterate Senators demanding action— 😈 Like @warren.senate.gov here in MA, f’rinst. bsky.app/profile/jwbf...
Bruce@jwbfat16.bsky.social · 10mo agoScooping litter over the turds does not make them go away. It turns out that the redactions are not necessarily as redacted as they appear to me. I suspect that some folks is gonna get, "YOU'RE FIRED!!!"
With December here, snow in the air, and Yuletide fast approaching, we’re never too busy to make time for that annual holiday tradition: Debating whether the Beach Boys or the Electric Mayhem had the better cover of “Little Saint Nick”: youtu.be/kDkRvfo8jVE
John Denver & The Muppets-Little Saint Nick
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Remember, Turkey preparation is an art. Learn to enjoy it. 😄🍗
I was going to post the annual tradition of prank AI “Strangest Macy’s Parade float” videos…. 😛 But then that real Stranger Things parade float had to come along and outdo the joke. 🤨
Watching tonight: Wag the Dog (1997) A wacky absurdist political satire, as ruthless presidential aide Robert DeNiro hires Hollywood producer Dustin Hoffman to concoct an imaginary “war”, to distract the press away from an embarrassing scandal between the president and an underage girl. 😂
Trapped with roommate making me watch NCIS— I can’t concentrate, as I have this obsession with wanting to see Gibbs watch his partner go into a situation, and warn him “No, no, don’t open that door, McGee!”
Today’s reminder of why we’re living in Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here”: Stephen Colbert edition. 🤨
Today’s reminder of why you can put down the freakin’ George Orwell already, we’re living in Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here by now: Chapter 12
Despite the protests, Trump’s military parade seems to be attracting a small crowd:
The next time ICE convinces us they’re going after “bad criminals”, remind them: Strawberry fields. FOREVER. 🍓😠
Reminder to Read a Banned Book, this week (while you still can)! 📖😎 youtu.be/D6hFsqNF0iQ
Hot Hero Sandwich Episode 8: "The One about the Whale"
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In today’s headlines, security guards detained a man who tried to crash through the front gate of Jennifer Aniston’s Bel Air mansion. ANNN-nyway, her bag of SkinnyPop popcorn was reportedly unharmed. 🙄🍿
Ways Anime Predicted the Future, #7: Two-way communication earrings (as worn by the Dirty Pair)
👶 “Liberty.” 💁♂️ “It’s pronounced ‘Biberty’.” 👶 “Liiiiberty.” Okay. I want to know: WHO wished on a monkey’s paw that they’d freakin’ get rid of the Flightless Bird commercial? 😡
In latest sports news, Paige Bueckers became first pick in this year’s WNBA Draft, winning a spot with the Dallas Wings. And you can tell it’s women’s basketball, because they have My Little Pony for a team symbol. 😛
In today’s headlines: Trump removes tariffs for computers and smartphones made in China— For reasons having ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO with expensive iPhones getting more bad media press than expensive produce or lumber. Unless those bad Chinese keep sending us more bad Fentanyl. 😠
In latest headlines, State Farm insurance announced plans to drastically hike emergency insurance rates for already financially strapped California homeowners in light of the recent wildfires. …This sounds like a job for Batman. 🙄
Literally EVERY single news article on the de-extinction of Dire Wolves has, without exception, and often in the lead headline, used “They were on Game of Thrones! 🤓” as scientific justification. If so: I demand a campaign to increase funding for dragon DNA research. Now.
Latest Fox News faux-outrage? Tim Walz on tour, quote, “Acting like a standup conic” heckling Elon Musk’s financial freefall…. 😆 I’m Eric Janssen, and my pronouns are “Ever sit through a cringeworthily stagestruck Ted Cruz appearance at CPAC?” 🙄
Given Trump’s quality musical tastes, a new anthem for his so-called tariff “Liberation Day” has been offered: 🪩 🕺 youtu.be/1uGKcrAgbg8?...
LIBERATION
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So, given the trending Free Luigi fandom posts this morning… Has SNL yet done a parody of Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins”, with a new number of Luigi Mangione singing old 90’s boy-band Fangirl numbers? 🙄 youtu.be/UP4VwmwkI1c?...
Assassins - 2004 Tony Awards Performance
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Just to give some microcosmic representative example of how Disney’s pandering-over-backwards destroys their live-action remakes, but… …Shouldn’t the title properly be “Snow White AND the Seven Dwarfs”? 🤔 Or would the mere suggestion there was anyone else in the story disrespect her girlbosshood?🙄
Just watching Disney’s Encanto, and… Is it just me, or does Abuela look unsettlingly like that crazy Alzheimer’s mom from the pharmaceutical ad? 🤔
