This is the world liberals want!
07.03.2026 11:32
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This is the world liberals want!
I chose the quotation for today's Screen Time Saturday installment (2026-03-07) of the Gridogram puzzle by @gridogram.com :
www.gridogram.com
RPGgeek says Greg Gorden, Sam Lewis, and Brian Reid:
rpggeek.com/rpgitem/5094...
I still recall one Conchy strip, a lovely text piece that began "The man resolved to climb the mountain" and ended "leaving him standing at the even horizon of his beginnings." Can't find it online.
"I'm gonna put the Olmecs in ancient Mesopotamia!" Good, with you so far. "But would it be historically inaccurate to give them mounts?" Uhh... maybe swallowing a paraceratherium but straining at a gnat? (Also, have your Olmecs ride paraceratheriums.)
Every Star Trek Next Generation script had lines like "We can't beam aboard their ship because TECH TECH TECH" and they had a consultant devise suitable contextual gibberish.
Paramount CEO David Ellison has a generic face, a template face. Describe him to a police sketch artist - "wide face, strong jaw, high forehead, thick lips" - and ten seconds after the sketch artist starts roughing in the outline, you'd say "That's him."
www.imdb.com/name/nm19111...
Three of those guys are the same guy.
Well, you know, the Buddha said the same thing about us.
Only because of this Hal Foster strip have I learned, astonishingly late in life, about Cheddar Gorge, a great natural wonder of England that draws 500K visitors annually:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar...
That cover must have taken forever to ink.
Hancock (2008). First 45 minutes, Will Smith as a down-and-out superhero getting his life back. Then the script turns hard into oncoming traffic. I thought, "I was enjoying that other movie, I wonder what this movie is about." Answer: Nothing interesting.
Interestingly bad films are the ones that deserve remakes. Keep remaking them until you get it right! The original "Killer Shrews" (1959) - fun script, terrrrrible effects - has been remade twice and they still haven't got it right. Keep trying.
Didn't know that! Sorry, and thanks for the reference.
"Hal Ellson" = Harlan Ellison
Ditto Niccolo and the queen.
The Gasparo-Niccolo relationship is redundant with Gasparo's motive box. How about an emotional touchstone a la the "intense jealousy" arrow that mirrors it down below?
I was going to crack wise, "Still far short of Cabot Cove," but apparently the murder rate in Jessica Flether's home town (pop. 3,560) is close to average for the US, if you count summer tourists:
murdershewatched.com/2018/12/24/c...
I wonder if Batman gets frustrated constantly having to pose in all these group photos.
Actress Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island"
When that man is dead and gone
When that man is dead and gone
When they lay him twelve feet deep
I'll be there to laugh, not weep
When that man is dead and gone
Satan, Satan thought up a plan
Dressed as a man
Walking the Earth, and since he began
The world is Hell for you and me
But what a Heaven it will be --
What a day to wake up on
What a way to greet the dawn
When a certain man is dead and gone
Some fine day the news will flash
Satan with the small moustache is asleep beneath the lawn
When that man is dead and gone
When that man is dead and gone (Dead and gone)
When that man is dead and gone (Dead and gone)
We'll go dancing down the street
Kissing everyone we meet
When that man is dead and gone (Dead and gone)
In 1941 Irving Berlin wrote a protest song against Hitler, "When that Man is Dead and Gone," covered nicely in 2017 by Lizzy & the Triggermen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkh...
A close read of Haney's 1973 World's Finest story where Metamorpho gets Superman's powers and, uh, Batman's ... powers? ... and upstages them both. Batman and Superman get so upset by this, they defect to a Communist country:
comicsarcheology.com/index.php/20...
Earth-Haney stories were demented in a way very few DC Comics ever achieved (or suffered). This 2011 Comics Alliance feature only scratches the surface:
comicsalliance.com/bob-haney-co...
Was gonna say "Old Man in the Corner"! Imagine a nephew who pops in occasionally to do Archie Goodwin legwork, and then exploits the mystery's solution for his own profit -- a Bitcoin bro selling short before tipping off the feds about the CEO murderer.
A few years later it all happens again with a new main suspect. Can nobody learn?
Everyone flips out again. Repeat seven times. A week later the CEO posts on LinkedIn (Well, heh-heh, that didn't go well!"), wholly retracts the ToS, and pledges to rebuild the trust he just burned to the ground for no gain.