Review Tuesday: Slingshot (2024)

  

 

Slingshot

2024

The crew of a space-flight to Saturn's moon, Titan, experiences a multitude of challenges.

This was another random movie selection by my BFF. It's labeled as a space / sci-fi / mystery / thriller so it sounds like it has all the makings for something fun. 

 

John (Casey Affleck) is part of the crew of a spaceflight to an exploratory mission to Saturn's moon, Titan. It's handled in separate phases, so the crew hybernates for months to conserve resources. 

 

Immediately into the trip the crew is showing ill-effects from the sleep meds. Paranoia. Hallucinations. Delusions. It's all they can do to try to keep it together. 

 

Okay, this was actually pretty good. You wonder and have suspicions about what's going on, but your are never really sure. Never. Even after the ending you question what you thought and what occurred. Yep, this one messes with your mind for sure. I'd call it worth watching.     

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

litigious \li-TIJ-uhs\, adjective: 

1. inclined to dispute or disagree; argumentative.
2. of or pertaining to litigation.
3. excessively or readily inclined to litigate: a litigious person.

Litigious is derived from the Latin word lītigi meaning "a quarrel." 

superbowl

• 30 second clips of men running in between commercials.

Person 1: Who do you think will win the Superbowl?

Person 2: What's that? Oh, those men running in between the commercials?

 

History

• 15th Amendment: was ratified, granting black men the right to vote (1870)
• 16th amendment: was ratified, authorizing income tax on a federal level in the US (1913)
• the day the music died: a plane crash killed rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "the Big Bopper" (1959)
• Luna 9: Soviet spacecraft became the first to soft-land on the moon (1966)

Birthdays

• Horace Greeley 1811
• Sidney Lanier 1842
• Gertrude Stein 1874
• Norman Rockwell 1894
• Alvar Aalto 1898
• James A. Michener 1907
• Simon Weil 1909
• Joey Bishop 1918
• Bibi Osterwald 1920
• John Fiedler 1925
• Art Arfons 1926
• Shelley Berman 1926
• Frankie Vaughn 1928
• Peggy Ann Garner 1932
• Jeremy Kemp (Edmund Walker) 1935
• Victor Buono 1938
• Emile Griffith 1938
• Fran Tarkenton 1940
• Angelo D'Aleo (Dion and The Belmonts) 1940
• Blythe Danner 1943
• Dennis Edwards 1943
• Eric Haydock (The Hollies) 1943
• Bridget Handley 1944
• Melanie (Safka) 1947
• Dave Davies (The Kinks) 1947
• Morgan Fairchild 1950
• Nathan Lane 1956
• Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth) 1956
• Thomas Calabro 1959
• Lol Tolhurst (Cure, Presence) 1959
• Keith Gordon 1961
• Michele Greene 1962
• Matraca Berg 1964
• Maura Tierney 1965
• Nick Hawkins (Big Audio) 1965
  Isla Lang Fisher 1976
• Grant Barry (Reel Big Fish) 1977

   

   
   

   

   

   

 

 

 

  

Look forward to SARAH!

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And the groundhog says... 2026...

Well let's see. The one in PA and Staten Island agree that we will have six more weeks of winter. Regardless, they are both fucking groundhogs. What do they know? Meteorologists can't get it right, but a giant rat can?

Monday, February 2, 2026

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Tax Season 2026

It's tax season!!!

 

This weekend is the official opening weekend for tax season. This will mark the third tax on my own. It's not a bad feeling having almost complete control over your own destiny. I am looking forward to a good season!

 

Sunday, February 1, 2026

echt \ekht\, adjective: 

• real; authentic; genuine.

Echt entered English from the German word of the same spelling in the early 1900s. 

 

ACB

• Mnemonic device for "Air Conditioner Booty": a woman whose buttocks, when viewed from the side, resemble a wall-unit air conditioner protruding from a house.

Holly's ACB was knocking peoples' drinks off the table last night.

selenology, \sel-uh-NOL-uh-jee\, noun 

• the branch of astronomy that deals with the nature and origin of the physical features of the moon.

Origin: Selenology stems from the Greek word for "moon," selḗnē. In English, the combining form seleno- means "moon"; the combining form -logy is used in the names of sciences or bodies of knowledge.

 

 

History

• US Supreme Court: held its first session, in NY; John Jay, a Federalist Papers author, presided (1790)
• Oxford English Dictionary: first fascicle, A—Ant, was published (1884)
• Grand Central Station opened in New York City (1913)
• Greensboro, NC: four black college students began a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter, where they'd been refused service (1960)
• Ayatollah Khomeini: returned to Tehran after some 15 years of exile; the Iranian Revolution turned the country into an Islamic republic soon after (1979)
• Columbia: space shuttle disintegrated on reentry, killing all seven astronauts aboard (2003)
• wardrobe malfunction: Janet Jackson, in a duet with Justin Timberlake, caused a stir at the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show (2004)

Birthdays

• Victor Herbert 1859 - Cellist, conductor
• John Ford (Sean Aloysius O’Feeney) 1894 - Director
• Clark Gable 1901 - Actor ("It Happened One Night", "Gone with the Wind")
• Langston Hughes 1902 - Author
• S.J. (Sidney) Perelman 1904 - Writer, screenwriter
• Renata Tebaldi 1922 - Opera singer
• Stuart Whitman 1928 - Actor ("Cimarron Strip", "The Longest Day")
• Boris Yeltsin 1931 - Russian president 1991-1999
• Bob Shane 1934 - Singer (The Kingston Trio)
• Garrett Morris 1937 - Actor, comedian
• Don Everly 1937 - Singer (The Everly Brothers)
• Ray Sawyer 1937 - Singer (Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show)
• Jacky Cupit 1938 - Golfer
• Sherman Hemsley 1938 - Actor ("The Jeffersons")
• Joe Sample 1939 - Jazz musician
• Del McCoury 1939 - Bluegrass singer
• Terry Jones 1942 - Comedian ("Monty Python" series)
• Wayne Rivers 1942 - Hockey player
• Dennis Farina 1944
• Paul Blair 1944 - Baseball player
• Dick Snyder 1944 - Basketball player
• Debbie Austin 1948 - Golfer
• Dave Thompson 1949 - Football player
• Rick James 1952 - Singer (Songs: "Cold Blooded" and "Super Freak")
• Bill Mumy 1954 - Actor ("Twilight Zone-The Movie", "The Rockford Files", writer, producer)
• Mike Campbell 1954 - Rock musician (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers)
• Exene Cervenka 1956 - Singer (X)
• Brandon Lee 1965 - Actor ("The Crow")  
• Sherilynn Fenn 1965 - Actress ("Twin Peaks")
• Princess Stephanie of Monaco (Stéphanie Marie Elisabeth Grimaldi) 1965 - Singer, youngest child of Grace Kelly and Rainier III of Monaco, recorded "In The Closet" with Michael Jackson.
• Lisa Marie Presley 1968 - Musician, daughter of Elvis Presley
• Pauly Shore 1970 - Comedian, actor ("Encino Man")
• Big Boi 1975 - Rapper (Outkast)
• Jarrett Lennon 1982 - Actor ("Freaks and Geeks")
• Lauren Conrad 1986 - reality TV personality