Wednesday, May 15, 2024

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apotheosis

1. Exaltation to divine rank or stature; deification.
2. Elevation to a preeminent or transcendent position; glorification: Down here I'm the apotheosis of cool (Sewer Urchin from the animated series The Tick).
3. An exalted or glorified example: Their leader was the apotheosis of courage.

 droll \drohl\, adjective:

1. amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.

noun:

1. a droll person; jester; wag.

verb:

1. Archaic. to jest; joke.

Droll originally comes from the Middle Dutch word drol referring to "a fat little man." The word came to English through the French droll which meant "pleasant rascal."

 

coffee nap

• A nap taken after someone has consumed any amount of caffeine (i.e. coffee) resulting not in sleep, but blissful rest, while still mildly conscious.

Evelyn: Hey Kaitlyn, how was your coffee nap?

Kaitlyn: It was fantastic I listened to the whole LOVE album, while seeming to float on a cloud.

Evelyn: Awesome! I just had a latte, about to have a coffee nap of my own!

History

• Las Vegas: the glitzy "entertainment capital of the world" was founded (1905)
• Standard Oil Company: in a historic ruling, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Rockefeller's mega-monopoly; several of the pieces would later be known as Exxon, Mobil, Amoco and Chevron (1911)
• air mail: first route in US was set up between NY and Washington (1918); on a Boeing flight 12 years later, Ellen Church became the first stewardess (1930)

  
• nylon stockings: first went on sale in the US (1940)
• Portrait of Dr. Gachet: Van Gogh painting fetched a record high price of $82.5 million; the record stood till 2006, and Dr. Gachet is now No. 4 (1990)

Birthdays

• Lyman Frank Baum 1856 - Author of children's books ("The Wonderful Wizard of Oz")
• Pierre Curie 1859 - Physicist
• Katherine Anne Porter 1890 - Journalist, essayist, short story writer
• Joseph Cotten (Joseph Cheshire Cotten) 1905 - Actor
• James Mason (James Neville Mason) 1909 - Actor
• Constance Cummings 1910 - Actress
• Max Frisch 1911 - Architect, playwright, novelist
• Eddy Arnold (Richard Edward Arnold) 1918 - Country singer
• Ellis Larkins 1923 - Musician
• Richard Avedon 1923 - Photographer
• Anthony Shaffer 1926 - Playwright, novelist, screenwriter
• Jasper Johns 1930 - Artist
• Wavy Gravy (Hugh Nanton Romney) 1936 - Entertainer, peace activist
• Paul Zindel 1936 - Playwright, author
• Anna Maria Alberghetti 1936 - Opera singer, actress
• Trini Lopez (Trinidad López III) 1937 - Singer, guitarist

  
• Madeleine Albright 1937 - First woman to become a U.S. Secretary of State
• Lenny Welch 1938 - Singer
• Paul Rudd 1940 - Actor
• Lainie Kazan 1940 - Actress, singer
• K.T. Oslin (Kay Toinette Oslin) 1942 - Country singer, songwriter
• Graham Goble 1947 - Musician (Little River Band)
• Brian Eno 1948 - Musician (Roxy Music)
• Chazz Palminteri (Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri) 1951 - Actor, writer
• Pat Hickey 1953 - Hockey player

  
• George Brett 1953 - Baseball player
• Mike Oldfield (Michael Gordon "Mike" Oldfield) 1953 - Musician, composer
• Lee Horsley 1955 - Actor
• Emmitt Smith 1969 - Football player
• Prince Be 1970 - (PM Dawn)
• David Charvet 1972 - Singer, actor
• Ahmet Rodan Zappa 1974 - Musician
• Amy Chow 1978 - Comedienne
• Jamie-Lynn Sigler 1981
  • Julieta "Keyra Agustina" Machado 1986 
    

     

     

     

    
    

     

    
    

    
    

     

    
    

     

    
    

    

  
  

   

    

    

   

  

    

   

   
  

 

 

Rewview Tuesday: THE BAD BATCH - Season 3

 

 

THE BAD BATCH

Season 3

The final season of the series that was meant to conclude THE CLONE WARS and answer questions about that period between Star Wars Ep 3 & 4.

I am taking a break for a couple weeks from all the fun stuff I watched with my friend to get to some other things that are more timely. This week I deal with the final season of THE BAD BATCH. I was watching this from the beginning and enjoyed it. Well, kinda. 

 

This series has had two problems from the beginning: 1. Omega's annoying accent and 2. Omega constantly doing stupid things. Basically the worst thing about this series is the central character despite the show being called THE BAD BATCH. Add to that add the overwhelming number of Star Wars CRAP that Disney has been vomiting out on the fans and I just lost my motivation to watch this. Ultimately it took some other friends to request a binge watch after tax season ended for me to give it a shot. 

 

Season three ran 15 episodes. It was really 16, but the last two episodes were pressed into one long episode to tie the series up. 

 

 

In this season we start off at Mount Tantiss where both Crosshairs and Omega are being held as prisoners for the Empire's new secret programs. One is a super soldier program which converts the clones into efficient assassins doing the bidding of their direct superior. The other was project Necromancer. Project Necromancer will later be known as how "Palpatine returned somehow." Of course Omega, the kid saves the day and escapes Mt Tantiss and rescued Crosshair at the same time. The rejoin the rest of the team and guess what? Omega gets captured AGAIN. 

 

As you would expect, The Bad Batch hatch some insane plan and end up rescuing Omega and the other clone prisoners which making a shamble of things, bringing a close to the super-clone program while causing the end of Project Necromancer. That was one of TWO surprises by the time the series ended. I thought for SURE Tech would be found, maybe being one of the super-clones and they rehab him but no, they left him dead! I didn't expect that. Plus, the closing of Project Necromancer baffles me. Without THAT, there would be no way for Palpatine to return, somehow. So that's ponderous to me. 

 

In the end I would say that season three was okay and I am glad I watched it just so I can have the closure after watching the first two seasons. The only trouble is that you have to watch it D+       

 

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

cockalorum \kah-kuh-LOR-um\ noun

1. a boastful and self-important person
2. boastful talk

Turd Giant

• Those who are around 6-7 feet tall, who go into public restrooms and proceed to use their height in order to look over the top of the stall at someone inside.

I was sitting in the stall in a bathroom the other day and a turd giant looked over the wall.

History

• Jamestown: America's first permanent English colony was established in Virginia (1607)
• Louis XIV: became king of France at age 4 (1643)

  
• smallpox: Edward Jenner administered the first vaccine against the highly contagious disease to an eight-year-old boy (1796)
• Lewis and Clark expedition: began its exploratory journey to the Pacific Ocean (1804)
• Olympic Games: were held in the US for the first time, in St. Louis, Missouri (1904)
• Israel: the Jewish state was proclaimed independent; Egypt, Transjordan (later Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq declared war on it almost immediately (1948)
• Skylab: America's first space station was launched into orbit (1973)
• Seinfeld: the final episode aired, with 76 million viewers watching (1998)

Birthdays

• Thomas Gainsborough 1727 - Painter

  
• Billie Dove 1903 - Actress
• Skip Martin (Lloyd "Skip" Martin) 1916 - Musician
• Norman Luboff 1917 - Music arranger, publisher
• Richard Deacon 1921 - Actor
• Al Porcino 1925 - Trumpet player
• Patrice Munsel 1925 - Singer
• Gump Worsley (Lorne John "Gump" Worsley) 1929 - Hockey goaltender
• Laszlo Kovacs 1933 - Sprint canoer
• Bobby Darin 1936 - Singer, actor
• Dick Howser 1936 - Baseball player
• Charlie Gracie (Charles Anthony Graci) 1936 - Musician, singer
• Tony Perez (Atanasio Pérez Rigal) 1942 - Baseball player
• Jack Bruce 1943 - Musician (Cream)
• Derek Leckenby 1943 - Musician (Herman's Hermits)
• George Lucas 1944 - Film producer, screenwriter, director ("Star Wars" movie series)
• Troy Shondell 1944 - Singer
• Francesca Annis 1944 - Actress
• Gener Cornish 1945 - Musician (The Young Rascals)
• Meg Foster (Megan Foster) 1948 - Actress
• Season Hubley (Susan Hubley) 1951 - Actress
• Robert Zemeckis 1952 - Film director, producer, screenwriter
• David Byrne 1952 - Musician (Talking Heads)
• Tom Cochrane 1953 - Musician
• Tim Roth 1961 - Actor ("Resovoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction")
• Ian Astbury 1962 - Musician (The Cult)
• C.C. DeVille 1962 - Musician (Poison)
• Mike Inez 1966 - Musician (Alice in Chains)
• Fabrice Morvan 1966 - Singer (Milli Vanilli)
• Cate Blanchett (Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett) 1969 - Actress, theatre director
• Danny Wood 1969 - Singer (New Kids on the Block)
• Freaky Tah 1971 - Musician (Lost Boyz)
• Sophia Coppola 1971 - Director
• Shanice (Shanice Lorraine Wilson-Knox) 1973 - Singer
• Natalie Appleton 1973 - Musician (All Saints)
• Roy Halladay 1977 - Baseball player
• Amber Tamblyn 1983 - Actress ("General Hospital")
• Frank Gore 1983 - Football player
• Mark Zuckerberg 1984 - Founder of Facebook
• Miranda Cosgrove 1993 - Actress ("iCarly," "Drake and Josh")

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Look forward to Ellie!

 

 

Ellie Jean Coffey 

 

  

   

 

 

  

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