Review Tuesday: Attack on Titan

  

 

Attack on Titan

People living in fear behind giant walls are hiding a secret they didn't even realize. 

I don't get to watch a lot of anime. Watching a series is hard for me. It's a big investment of time which I do not have. However, one of the biggest names in recent years is ATTACK ON TITAN. My BFF asked me to watch it with her, so why not? It's only 4 seasons...

 

I don't know what to say. It's a very long and weird series. It's mostly very well developed, but I feel like after season three, they went ape-shit trying to finish up the story. However, in doing so they added so many zigs and zags that it felt like it turned into something completely different. 

 

It starts off with a city behind walls to protect it from the monstrous TITANS getting attacked and the Titans getting in causing mass damages and casualties. Eren Yeager vows to exterminate the beasts. Pretty much entire rest of the series is his journey to meet that goal.

 

To me, I felt that since the story isn't linear with all of the jumping back and forth it led to all sorts of confusion. A massive conspiracy emerges. However, in the end it's mostly coherent if not rushed at the end. All that taken into account I am still glad I had the opportunity to watch it. I am up to date on that part of modern pop culture, as the series only concluded a couple years ago.    

 

 

  

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

sparge \ spahrj \ , verb;

• to scatter or sprinkle. 

noun:

• a sprinkling. 

Origin: Sparge comes from the Latin spargere meaning "to sprinkle, scatter." It entered English in the mid-1500s.

 

baxoteric

• the baxojayz initiated; those who are aware of and follow t3h bax0jayz. 
• also bax0teric, t3h bax0t3ric

one: why did Kate leave Len?

two: she found out he wasn't baxoteric

History

• Temple of Artemis: marble shrine that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was burned down by a fame-seeking young man, Herostratus (356 BCE)
• Bull Run: Confederate forces won the first major battle of the Civil War; Confederate general Thomas Jackson acquired his nickname "Stonewall" (1861)
• Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching Darwinism in a Tennessee high school (1925)
• 17th parallel: following defeat at Dien Bien Phu, France agreed to withdraw troops from communist North Vietnam (1954)
• Aswan Dam: was completed, preventing Nile floods and providing electricity and water for Egypt and Sudan (1970)
• WorldCom: filed for bankruptcy about a month after revealing deceptive accounting had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion; it was the largest bankruptcy in US history (2002)

Birthdays

• • Jean Picard (1620-1682): astronomer, the first to measure a degree of the Earth's latitude

  • Ernest Hemingway 1899 - Author, journalist
    

    
  • Marshall McLuhan 1911 - Educator, philosopher, scholar
  • Isaac Stern 1920 - Violinist
  • Kay Starr 1922 - Singer
  • Don Knotts 1924 - Actor
  • Paul Burke 1926 - Actor
  • Norman Jewison 1926 - Film director, producer, actor, founder of the Canadian Film Centre
  • Janet Reno 1938 - Attorney General of the U.S. (1993-2001)
  • Kim Fowley 1942 - Record producer, songwriter, musician
  • David Downing 1943 - Actor
  • Edward Herrmann 1943 - Actor
  • Leigh Lawson 1945 - Actor, director, writer
  • Cat Stevens 1947 - Musician
  • Robin Williams 1952 - Actor, comedian
  • Jon Lovitz 1957 - Actor ("Saturday Night Live") comedian, singer
  • Henry Priestman (Henry Christian Priestman) 1958 - Singer, musician (The Christians)
  • Lance Guest 1960 - Actor
  • Matt Mulhern 1960 - Actor
  • Jim Martion 1961 - Musician (Faith No More)
  • Emerson Hart 1969 - Musician (Tonic)
  • Paul Brandt (Paul Rennee Belobersycky) 1972 - Country musician
  • Gary Whitta 1972 - Author, screenwriter, video game designer
  • Josh Hartnett 1978 - Actor

 

 

  

Look forward to Jennifer!

Jennifer Walcott

   

  

  

  

  

 

Hotty of the day!

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Monday, July 20, 2026

embroil \ em-BROIL \ , verb;

1. to bring into discord or conflict; involve in contention or strife. 
2. to throw into confusion; complicate. 

Origin: Embroil entered English at the turn of the 17th century and comes from the Middle French embrouiller.

baxon

• bacon prepared by t3h bax0jayz

renee: this bacon is amazing!
soula: that's because it's not bacon, it's BAXON!

 

History

• Locust Plague of 1874: largest recorded swarm of locusts descended on North America's Great Plains, destroying some $200m in crops; the plague lasted about 10 days, but larger-than-usual swarms of locusts continued to plague the area for several more years
  
• Sitting Bull: Sioux leader surrendered to the US Army under a promise of amnesty (1881)
• Abdullah I: the king of Jordan was killed by a Palestinian gunman in Jerusalem (1951)
• Sirimavo Bandaranaike: was elected leader of Sri Lanka, becoming the world's first female prime minister (1960)
• Special Olympics: took place for the first time, in Chicago; 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities competed (1968)
• Neil Armstrong: the astronaut became the first human to set foot on the moon (1969)
  Chester Bennington of Linkin Park committed suicide (2017)

Birthdays 

• Francesco Petrarch 1304
  

  
• Veron Felton 1890 - Actress (Picnic, The Oklahoman)
• Theda Bara 1890
• Sir Edmund Hillary 1919 - Explorer, first to climb Mt. Everest
• Ted Schroeder 1921 - Tennis player
• Lola Albright 1925 - Actress (The Tender Trap, The Impossible Years)
• Robert D. Maurer 1924
• Michael Gielen 1927
• Mike Ilitch 1929 - Founder of Little Caesar's Pizza franchises, owner of Detroit Red Wings
• Sally Ann Howes 1930 - Actress (Dead of Night, Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang)
• Nam June Paik 1932
• Chuck Daly 1933
• Sleepy LaBeef 1935
• Butch (Fred) Baird 1936 - Golfer
• Diana Rigg 1938 - Actress (Medea, King Lear, The Avengers)
• Natalie Wood (Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin) 1938 - Actress (From Here to Eternity, West Side Story, Rebel Without a Cause)
• Tony (Pedro Lopez) Oliva 1938 - Baseball player
• Jo Ann Campbell 1938
• Pete Hamilton 1942 - Auto racer
• Mickey (Mitchell Jack) Stanley 1942 - Baseball Player
• Chris Amon 1943 - Auto racer
• John Lodge 1943 - Musician (The Moody Blues)
• T.G. Shepherd (William Bowder) 1944 - Singer
• Betty Burfeindt 1945 - Golfer
• Kim Carnes 1946 - Singer
• John Almond 1946 - Musician (Johnny Almond and the Music Machine)
• Carlos Santana 1947 - Musician (Santana)
• Frank Whaley 1953
• Paul Cook (Sex Pistols, Professionals) 1956
• Donna Dixon 1957 - Actress (Wayne's World, Dr. Detroit)
• Mick McNeil 1958 - Musician (Simple Minds)
• Radney Foster 1959
• Dino Esposito 1963 - Singer
• Chris Cornell 1964 - Musician (Soundgarden)
• Stone (Carpenter) Gossard 1966 - Musician (Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog), also known as Carpenter Newton
• Reed Diamond 1967
• Josh Holloway 1969 - Actor ("Lost")
  Judy Greer 1975
• Ray Allen 1975 - Basketball player
• Charlie Korsmo 1978 
• Gisele Bundchen 1980 
  Julianne Hough 1988
  Alycia Debnam-Carey 1993