Wednesday, January 15, 2025

couthie \KOO-thee\, adjective:

• Agreeable; genial; kindly.

Couthie stems from the Old English word cūth, originally meaning "to know." It arose in the 1700s in Scotland in the sense of "agreeable."

 

Driving the Bronco

1. An accomplice or accessory to an act.
2. A reference to A.C. Cowlings driving O.J. Simpson on a nationally televised slow-speed freeway chase after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

"Did you get your little brother drunk at that underage party?"

"Naw, but I guess I was driving the Bronco since I told him about it."

History

• British Museum: opened to the public in Montague House in the Bloomsbury district of London (1759)
• Harper's Weekly: published an editorial cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in which he used a donkey to represent the Democratic party; he had meant for the animal to indicate an anti-war faction (1870)
  Great Molasses Flood: 7.5 million liters of molasses were spilled in Boston killing 21 and injuring 150. (1919)
•  the Pentagon: opened; at the time, it was the world's largest office building (1943)
• Super Bowl I: the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs (35-10) at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1967)
• Miracle On The Hudson: Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger safely crash-landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River after strikes with wild geese caused the plane engine failure. (2009)

Birthdays

• Jean Baptiste Moliere 1622
• Frederick Authur Stanley 1841
• Pierre S. DuPont 1870
• Rex Ingram (Hitchcock) 1892
• Edward Teller 1908
• Gene Krupa 1909
• Lloyd Bridges 1913
• Steve Gromek 1920
• Maria Schell 1926
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929
• Margaret O'Brien 1937
• Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band) 1941
• Mike Marshall 1943
• Andrea Martin 1947
• Ronnie Van Zandt (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1949
• Nate Hawthorne 1950
• Douglas Elwin "Duke" Erikson 1951 (Garbage)
• Bobby Wilson 1951
• Ernie DiGregorio 1951
• Charo (Maria Martinez) 1951
• Martha Davis (The Motels) 1951
• Mario Van Peebles 1957
• Julian Sands 1958
• Peter Trewavas (Marillion) 1959
• Lisa Lisa (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam) 1967
• Chad Lowe 1968
• Kobé Tai 1968 t3h pr0n
• Lori Michaels 1968 t3h pr0n
• Regina King 1971
• Ernie Reyes Jr 1972 (martial artist)
• Angel Snow 1979 t3h pr0n
• Pocahontas 1980 t3h pr0n 
• Ginger Jolie 1982 t3h pr0n
• Sarah James 1983 t3h pr0n
• Tiffany Holiday 1986 t3h pr0n
• Cody Milo 1986 t3h pr0n 

 

 

 

 

 

Review Tuesday: Alien: Romulus (2024)

 

 

ALIEN

ROMULUS

A group of company miners trying to get off planet choose the wrong space station to loot. 

To be honest, the ALIEN franchise has been disappointing for a while so I really had little interest in this movie. It's supposed to fall between ALIEN and ALIENS in the timeline, and the commercials and trailers showed dozens of facehuggers in some facility, so how can this be? In ALIENS they had never seen these things before, so how can there be a space station full of them? Nah, something doesn't line up and I wasn't planning on finding out. 

However, Mr Nailsin on Youtube gave a good spoiler-free review saying that it's the best ALIEN sequel after ALIENS. That isn't saying much but he intrigued me. When my best friend said she wanted to see it for movie night, I was all in. 

 

So this movie gives you more of that gritty feel from the original movie. Similar music also helps set the tone. A group of young miners commandeer a ship to hit up a space station in orbit, the Remus / Romulus, that's been decommissioned and is in a degrading orbit with a collision course with the planet's rings. The plan is get on, steal cryo-fuel, and head off to another colony. Unfortunately, claiming the fuel unleashed the face-huggers kept in storage on this station. Mayhem ensues. 

I would say that, yes, after ALIENS this is probably the best sequel in the franchise. Again, that's not saying music. The film is polished. The special effects are great. The plot is fine. But this thing is bogged down with a bunch of timeline issues. I will get into those in the spoiler section below. After initially watching this I called it OKAY, but after I really sat and thought about it I started to like it less and less. That's the ALIEN fan in my wondering why they can't make an ALIEN movie without serious continuity errors in it...

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This movie takes place 20 years after the events of ALIEN and 37 years before ALIENS.

 

The tragedy on the space station was caused by Ripley's alien. The company somehow knew where the NOSTROMO self-destructed and in the dense debris field of its wreckage they find Ripley's alien in some sort of chrysalis. This was the scene that bugged me the most. Ripley spent over 70 years in cryo-sleep before the company found her, but the company found the wreckage of the NOSTROMO and knew to look for the ALIEN at that spot? We SAW the ship blow up in a huge nuclear blast with shock-waves that rocked the NARCISSUS even at a great distance. Am I wrong to assume that the shock-waves would carry the fragments of the ship to the far reaches of the galaxy? How did all the bits end up clustered like it was a Lego model that was dropped on the floor. AND how did the ALIEN end up IN that wreckage? The Narcissus traveled a good distance before Ripley blew the beast out of the airlock and then out of the engine, and we saw it coming apart. How did it survive??? 

 

The poor CGI of this movie's treacherous Ashe-like android Rook is distracting. It NEVER looks good or convincing. 

 

Rook says that they were looking for the alien ever since it killed the crew of the Nostromo, except for one, until 170 days prior when they found it. How did they know about what happened and where to look?

Why does Andy need to be rebooted SO OFTEN???

Rook explains that the Alien awakes and wrecks the station. Okay. How did they make the facehuggers???

  

The accents on some of the cast is almost undecipherable.

 

How did the offspring know how to speak English?

There are just so many questions this movie creates and continuity errors that it ruined my experience. The more I thought about it, the less I liked it.

 

 

 

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

exordium \ig-ZAWR-dee-uhm\, noun:

1. The beginning of anything.
2. The introductory part of an oration, treatise, etc.

Exordium stems from the Latin root ōrd meaning "to begin." The prefix ex- in this case means "utterly," and the suffix -ium which is often found on nouns borrowed from Latin, such as delirium and tedium.

 

Broscience

• Broscience is the predominant brand of reasoning in bodybuilding circles where the anecdotal reports of jacked dudes are considered more credible than scientific research.

Broscience in action:

"Bro, you gotta slam 40-60 grams of waxy maize plus 20 grams of BCAA within 7 seconds of finishing your last set of squat rack curls. Otherwise, you'll go straight catabolic."

History

• Marilyn Monroe: blonde bombshell wed legendary Yankee Joe DiMaggio; the marriage lasted less than a year, but DiMaggio remained devoted long after that (1954)
• Human Be-In: counterculture event took place in San Francisco, preceding the Summer of Love (1967)
• Margrethe II: ascended the throne of Denmark as its first reigning queen since the early 1400s, thanks to a constitutional amendment that allowed female succession (1972)
• Miami Dolphins: beat the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII, becoming the first, and so far only, NFL team to have an undefeated season (1973)

Birthdays

• Benedict Arnold 1741
• Henri Fantin-Latour 1836
• Albert Schweitzer 1875
• Cecil Beaton 1904
• William Bendix 1906
• Russ Columbo 1908
• Mark Goodson 1915
• Billy Butterfield (World’s Greatest Jazz Band) 1917
• Andy Rooney 1919
• Tom Tryon 1926
• Billy Walker 1929
• Caterina Valente 1931
• Clarence Carter 1936
• Sonny Siebert 1937
• Billy Jo Spears 1937
  
• Jack Jones 1938
• Allen Toussaint 1938
• Julian Bond 1940
• Faye Dunaway 1941
• Gibby Gilbert 1941
• Holland Taylor 1943
• Shannon Lucid
• Graham Marsh 1944
• Gene Washington
• Carl Weathers 1948
• T-Bone Burnett 1948
• Lawrence Kasdan 1948
• Geoff Tate (Queensryche) 1959
• Steven Soderbergh 1963
• Mark Addy 1964
• Slick Rick 1965
• Dan Scheider 1966
• Tom Rhodes 1967
• Emily Watson 1967
• L.L. Cool J (James Todd Smith) 1968
• Jason Bateman 1969
• Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) 1969
• Jordan Ladd 1975

 

 

 

Look forward to MILA!

Mila Kunis

Birth Name: Milena Markovna Kunis

from the Ukraine

Hotty of the day!

Monday, January 13, 2025

compotation \kom-puh-TEY-shuhn\, noun:

• An act or instance of drinking or tippling together.

This lively term is derived from a Latin translation compōtātiō of the Greek word symposium or "a convivial meeting for drinking and intellectual conversation."

 

5 To 3 Scale

• A scale used to amaze and confuse stoners and otherwise slow people.

Person 1: Dude, on a 5 to 3 scale, how high are you right now?

Person 2: .....WHAT?!

History

• J'accuse: French journalist Emile Zola published his defense of Alfred Dreyfus, the army captain falsely convicted of treason because he was Jewish (1898)

  
• Henry Ford: patented his plastic car, which ran on ethanol; the plastic was soybean-based, and the car was unsuccessful (1942)
• L. Douglas Wilder: became the first African American elected governor of a US state — Virginia (1990)
• The Fantasticks: the world's longest-running musical ended its off-Broadway run after 17,162 shows and nearly 42 years (2002)

Birthdays

• Horatio Alger 1834
• Sophie Tucker 1884
• Alfred Fuller 1885
• Earle Wheeler 1908
• Butter (Quentin) Jackson 1909
• Jeff Morrow 1913
• Robert Stack 1919
• Gwen Verdon 1926
• Liz Anderson 1930
• Frances Sternhagen 1930
• Robert ‘Squirrel’ Lester (The Chi-Lites) 1930
• Charles Nelson Reilly 1931

  Rip Taylor 1934
• Billy Gray 1938
• Richard Moll 1943

  
• Trevor Rabin (Yes) 1954
• Kevin Anderson 1960
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus 1961
• Graham McPherson (Madness) 1961
• Penelope Ann Miller 1964
• Patrick Dempsey 1966
• Tim Kelly (Slaughter) 1967
• Anna Marie Goddard 1970 (actress / playmate)
• Nicole Eggert 1972

  Orlando Bloom 1977 
  Liam Hemsworth 1990 (Thor)

 

Apple in a nutshell

Sunday, January 12, 2025

anthropogenic \an-thruh-puh-JEN-ik\, adjective:

• Caused or produced by humans: anthropogenic air pollution.

Anthropogenic was coined in the 1880s. It is a combination of the prefix anthro- meaning "human being" and -genic meaning "produced by or causing."

 

carb bloating, n.

• The resultant feeling of unease from ingesting too many carbohydrates in the days leading up to a marathon.

Big Mike: Junior, you can't possibly want another plate of spaghetti, can you?

Paul: Sure, I'm carbo bloating a little, but I'll eat all you've got.

History

• Hattie Caraway: became the first woman elected to the US Senate, exactly 17 years after the House rejected suffrage for women; she made no speeches in the 14 years she served (1932)
• James Bedford: Californian professor of psychology became the first person to be cryonically preserved when he was frozen a few hours after his death from cancer (1967)
• All in the Family: groundbreaking sitcom premiered on TV, dealing with issues previously considered unacceptable — including racism, homosexuality and impotence (1971)
• Deep Impact: space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral to study the core of comet 9P/Tempel by crashing into it; the probe reached its target in July (2005)

Birthdays

• Edmund Burke 1729
• Johann Pestalozzi 1746
• Jack London 1876
• John Singer Sargent 1856
• Herman Goering 1893
• Joe E. Lewis (Klewan) 1902
• Tex (Woodward) Ritter 1905
• Henny Youngman 1906
• Luise Rainer 1910
• Martin Agronsky 1915
• P.W. Botha 1916
• Ray Price 1926
• Ruth Brown 1928
• Lloyd Ruby 1928
• Tim Horton 1930
• Glenn Yarbrough (The Limeliters) 1930
• James Fergason 1934
• The "Amazing Kreskin" 1935
• Ron Harper 1936
• William Lee Golden (The Oak Ridge Boys) 1939
• Tucker (Ivan) Frederickson 1943
• Joe Frazier 1944
• Maggie Bell (Stone the Crows) 1945
• Cynthia Robinson (Sly and the Family Stone) 1946
• Anthony Andrews 1948
• Wayne Wang 1949
• Drew Pearson 1951
• Rush Limbaugh 1951
• Ricky Van Shelton 1952
• Howard Stern 1954
• Kirstie Alley 1955
• George Duke 1956
• Tommy Ardolino (NRBQ) 1957
• Per Gessle (Roxette) 1959
• Charlie Gillingham (Counting Crows) 1960
• Jeffrey Bezos 1964
• Rob Zombie (White Zombie) 1966
• Vendela Kirsebom 1967
• TBird (B-Rock and the Bizz) 1967
• Raekwon 1970 (Wu Tang Clan)
• Matt Wong (Reel Big Fish) 1973
• Melanie Chisholm (Spice Girls) 1975
• Alicia Angel (t3h pr0n) 1984
• Andrew Lawrence 1988