Jaybird
Jaybird is Birdmojo on Xbox Live and Jaybirdmojo on Playstation's network. He's been playing consoles since the Atari 2600 and it was Zork that taught him how to touch-type. If you've got a song for Wednesday, a commercial for Saturday, a recommendation for Tuesday, an essay for Monday, or, heck, just a handful a questions, fire off an email to AskJaybird-at-gmail.com
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on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025At the risk of invoking Godwin, At first they came for the Jews, and I did not speak because I was n…
on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025It's a classic trope when someone says a bunch of marginal positions are unpopular and marginal to t…
on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025I may be going out on a limb here, but I think Hamas is bad and if they're having fewer kids because…
on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025I am in total agreement. on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025I have read some recent damming reporting from gift links at WSJ and NYT that the decline may in fac… on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025I think that an under appreciated implication of MattY's thoughts here is the corollary to his point… on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025Yes, soft peddling abortion is going to be a sure fire winner for Democrats on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025In my time as a politically aware person I have seen it done successfully twice, once by Bill Clinto… on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025Cut myself off: Also trans issues impact on teenagers in a profound manner in a way that previous LG… on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025Someone may need to let the Dems and the Groups know.
The I.C. has Nothing on Union Depot
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Cheer Up — All Is Not Politics
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As Long as the World Goes Round
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I’ve been rereading William deBuys’ A Great Aridness about the consequences of warming climate on the US Southwest. If it’s even half as bad as his experts think it will be, the Colorado Lower Basin states are so screwed.Report
I’ve been reading the Dispossessed by Don Carpenter. The novel is basically a thinly veiled slice of life Mill Valley and Marin from Upper-middle class yuppies to the oddball eccentrics who came north from SF to sleep among the redwoods.
Now this is in the right thread. I also picked up David Cronenberg’s novel from the library and a book by Mary Beard about laughter and jokes in Ancient Rome.
Nerdius Maximus.Report
So, the second best novel called “The Dispossessed”?Report
Reading the Luminaries, and Austin Grossman’s You.
Have been watching food movie after food movie, as well as catching up on The Blacklist and trying Dennis’s recommended Young Justice. (Which for some reason Netflix has decided to remove Season 2… arrrrggghhh…..) Plus a lot of NBA and college football, obviously.Report
I am a couple episodes from being current on Continuum. Then on to Suits. Lain permitting.
Audiobook-wise, I’m finishing up Stephen White’s Alan Gregory series. I have a bad feeling it’s not going to end well. After that, I’m thinking Asimov.Report
I don’t know how many times I’ve told Jaybird that I’ve seen all three Mad Max movies, more than once, but he keeps managing to get all excited about introducing me to this one. 😀
We saw Interstellar today, which I liked for sufficiently personal and painful reasons that I don’t want to talk about it. We’re still watching Person of Interest, I’m still watching Lost Girl, and I’ve been reading, but very slowly. Mostly a Martin Greenberg compilation of apocalyptic stories. It’s funny, but I can pretty much tell within 5-10 years when a sf story was written… “oh, this must be from the 60’s … yup,’69. this one is from the 80’s, yup, 1985.” It’s also funny that Lester del Rey wrote better women in the 40’s than Spinrad did in the 60’s… No wonder I liked del Rey better than Spinrad back when I was too young to know why…Report
Jaybird, I will leave this here for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfArvpLtBiUReport
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.Report
Mother Night is one of Vonnegut’s most undeservedly obscure books.Report
For the record: Thunderdome holds up.Report
Been re-reading the Tiffany Aching series by Pratchett, and just started The Survival of the Birch Canoe by John McPhee, which is pleasing to me on more levels than I could possibly describe. (If I could come into a great unread Mowat book I think I’d call this a perfect reading week.)Report
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I am glad you are enjoying it! At some point I should at least attempt to narrow down which of his books is my favorite, but it is so much less work to just say “all.”Report
Yeah me too Aaron. I just love that dude’s writing. I’m on my way over to Amazon to buy more. I don’t even care if it’s stuff I’ve already read. He’s just delightful.Report
I recently got the Farscape boxed set and have started rewatching the series. All I can think of now when I hear the intro is: “My name is John Crichton. I used to be an astronaut, until… When you’re shot through a wormhole, you’ve got nothing…”Report
Oh, that’s awesome. Ka D’argo is Fiona, Aeryn is Sam Axe.
No, wait.Report
You rely on anyone who’s still talking to you.
A trigger happy ex-Peacekeeper…
[“Pull it out. Point it like a gun. And shoot.”]
… a new friend who once try to kill you…
[“Where is the human?!”]
… Royalty, too… if you’re desperate…
[“I am Rygel the XVI, Dominar to over 600 billion subjects. I don’t need to talk to you!”]
… and down-and-out Nebari you met along the way.
[“Don’t tell me how to lie! It’s one of the BEST things I do.”]
Bottom line: until you figure out how to recreate wormholes, you’re not going home.Report
Rewatching (at least some seasons of) BtVS (again – so this is at least the 5th time). Almost finished with S1. Such a pleasure seeing the iconic main characters and their interactions, as archetypal as Kirk/Spock/McCoy, nailed by the perfect actors for the parts, right from the start.
Was discussing it with my brother, and telling him that if you ask me what the best TV show ever was, I’d tell you The Wire; but if you asked me which one I loved the hardest, it would probably be Buffy.
What he told me, and that I never would have suspected, was that David Simon himself might disagree and call Buffy best.(!)
Got the new David Mitchell and a Joe Hill book (Horns); but haven’t cracked either one yet.Report
Poor Simon. He needs to learn how to punch harder.Report
Oh, I dunno. If you’ve watched the show, you know that Simon knows how to punch you right in your soul’s breadbasket.Report
Glyph,
somehow, i doubt it’s anything, compared to The Tribe.Report