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Wednesday, April 09, 2025
Hasselhoff Wednesday - Hoff to Hef
A birthday wish from one great man, the Hoff, to the greatest man who EVER lived, the Hef, Hugh Hefner.
Tuesday, April 08, 2025
Review Tuesday: Parasyte: The Grey - Season One (2024)
Parasyte: The Grey
Season One
(2024)
Forces are assembled to combat a parasyte that takes over human bodies and also has a taste for human flesh.
I hadn't heard of this thing. It's a Netflix series from Korea that's based on a manga. My friend wanted to give it a shot, so why not? I like horror and manga, should be fun, right?
The series starts off with a man being taken over by some hideous parasite. It entered through his ear. After that it went on a violence spree. After that it is explained that these parasytes popped up at certain locations around the world and each country has been mobilizing teams to neutralize the threats. The trouble is, the parasytes can hop to another body if they aren't disposed of properly. And they are VERY strong. There is a considerable cast of characters, but this mostly focuses on a young and pretty store clerk. Sorry, I had terrible difficulty learning any of the names...
The basic concept: the parasites are trying to survive, but it's hard to remain undetected when they insist upon eating other humans. If they just invaded and kept a low profile, that would be one thing, but they are in a city and collect humans for food to the point that it is impossible NOT to notice. Then there is the Grey Team, a paramilitary force assembled to battle these things. Their leader is this cute chick who seems completely unstable. She's like a comic-book parody of trigger-happy law enforcement. Imagine a substantially less logical Judge Dredd.
The special effects are okay. The characters are very cartoonish and one-dimensional. There's a lot of stuff going on that defies logic. I would call it okay at best. The pretty women in it helps a lot. Season one ran six episodes. Netflix did NOT pick it up for a second.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
tranche \trahnch, trahnsh\, noun:
- any part, division, or installment: We've hired the first tranche of researchers.
- Finance. a. one part or division of a larger unit, as of an asset pool or investment: The loan will be repaid in three tranches. b. a group of securities that share a certain characteristic and form part of a larger offering: The second tranche of the bond issue has a five-year maturity.
verb:
- Finance. to divide into parts: tranched debt; A credit portfolio can be tranched into a variety of components that are then further subdivided.
Tranche unsurprisingly shares a root with trench. Both words come from the Old French trenchier meaning "to cut." While this term first entered English in the sixteenth century, it was 450 years before tranche took on its financial senses.
Patient Zero
- Typically an asshole that spends between five and ten minutes talking to you before mentioning casually that he/she is sick. Causing you to wonder if you've now been infected by what this mouth breathing fuck stick has. Usually its just the common cold, but it could just as easily be ebola.
I can't come in today, fuckin' Patient Zero there got me sick yesterday when he was breathing all over the coffee cups."
History
- Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.: the US Supreme Court ruled that the income tax in effect at the time was unconstitutional (1895)
- Times Square: Manhattan area was renamed in honor of then-tenant The New York Times (1904)
- WPA: Congress approved FDR's program to alleviate joblessness during the Great Depression (1935)
- League of Nations: assembled for the last time (1946)
- Hank Aaron: hit his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth's record (1974)
- Clint Eastwood: movie star was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea (1986)
Birthdays
- Guatama Buddha 563 BC - 'The Enlightened One' in the Buddhist faith
- Philip IV (Spain and Portugal) 1605
- Ray (O. Raymond) Knight 1872 - 'Father of Canadian Rodeo'
- Mary Pickford 1893 - Actress ("Coquette", "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm")
- Sonja Henie 1910 - Ice skater
- Elizabeth "Betty" Ford (Bloomer) 1918 - Wife of 38th U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, founder of the Betty Ford Clinic
- Carmen McRae 1922 - Jazz singer
- Franco Corelli 1923 - Tenor
- Edward Mulhare 1923 - Actor ("Megaforce", "Knight Rider")
- Ruth Gaines 1872 - Playwright
- Shecky Greene (Sheldon Greenfield) 1926 - Comedian, actor ("Laverne and Shirley", "Northern Exposure")
Charlie (Charles Richard) ‘Smokey’ Maxwell 1927 - Baseball player
- John Gavin (Anthony Golenour) 1928 - Actor ("Psycho")
- Monty Sunshine 1928 - Jazz musician
- Jacques Brel 1929 - Singer, songwriter
- Dorothy Tutin 1930 - Actress
- Fred Ebb 1936 - Lyricist
- Klaus Löwitsch 1936 - Actor
- Symore Hersh 1937 - Investigative reporter
- Kofi Annan 1938 - United Nations secretary-general
- John Havlicek 1940 - Basketball player
- J.J. Jackson 1941 - Singer
- Peggy Lennon 1941 - Singer (Lennon Sisters)
- Darlene Gillespie 1941 - TV personality ("The Mickey Mouse Club")
- John (Frederick) Hiller 1943 - Baseball player
- Roger Chapman 1944 - Singer
- Hywel Bennett 1944 - Actor
- Stuart Pankin 1946 - Actor ("Irreconcilable Differences", "Arachnophobia")
- Jim (James Augustus) "Catfish" Hunter 1946 - Baseball player
- Steve Howe 1947 - Musician (Yes, Asia)
- Mel Schacher 1951 - Musician (Grand Funk Railroad)
- Chris Frantz 1951 - Musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
- Peter Case 1954 - Musician
- John Schneider 1954 - Singer, actor ("Dukes of Hazzard", "Smallville")
- Gary Carter 1954 - Baseball player
- Barbara Kingsolver 1955 - Writer
- Donita Sparks 1961 - Musician (L7)
- Izzy Stradlin 1962 - Musician (Gun's 'N Roses)
- Julian Lennon 1963 - Musician, son of John Lennon (Beatles), Today in Beatles History
- Dave Rountree 1963 - Musician (Blur)
- Donita Sparks 1963 - Musican (L7)
- Biz Markie 1964 - Rapper
- Robin Wright Penn 1966 - Actress
Patricia Arquette 1968 - Actress ("True Romance", "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors"), sister of Roseanna Arquette- Craig Honeycutt 1970 - Singer (Everything)
- Darren Jessee 1971 - Musician (Ben Fold Five)
- Emma Caulfield 1973 - Actress ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Beverly Hills 90210")
Katee Sakhoff 1980 - Actress (BSG Starbuck, SW: TCW) - Taylor Kitsch 1981 - Actor ("John Carter")
- Taran Noah Smith 1984 - Actor ("Home Improvement")
- Kirsten Storms 1984 - Actress ("Days of Our Lives")
Gabriella Wilde 1989 - Actress ("Carrie")
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