Michael Hopcroft

Having numerous Facebook conversations with his new online friend, Petey the Stone Cold Penguin (Macot of the sport of Curling). They politely disagree on everything.

I've seen part of the controversial (and, by many, despised) 1984 film of Dune.  When you give a filmmaker like David Lynch an unlimited amount of money, this is what you get -- a beautifully shot, decently-acted bit of Grand Guignol weirdness.
 
Everything in the film is grandiose and much, much larger than life. Every set is massive, every costume is ornate, all the action bigger than life. Even the Gom Jabbar scene  is big.
 
Does it work? Sort of. The novel itself is very problematic, and it's unsure just what Frank Herbert was either lauding or condemning. Paul Atriedies is an ambiguous figure, at least morally, and I don't know why such an entitled young man deserves to be a Messiah. The Spice itself is a major logic hole -- there appears to be nothing it can't do, and the battle over it reminds me of a drug war.
 
But grandiose though it is, it's lovely to look at.  Kyle MacLachlan is not at all a bad actor, although he is asked to play Paul as a nearly perfect man. I haven't read Dune in a while, so  I don't know how he decided to write  the character. Sting does not at all look, sound, or act like Sting. You just don't expect to see one the artists most dedicated to peace and compassion playing a homicidal maniac whose grasp on reality is tenuous at best. (He has since said that this shoot was one of the many things that turned him off to acting.)
 
I'm kind of surprised this is being remade for a second time, because I'm still not sure the source material demans it. Realism does not match this novel. It demands the sort of operative treatment Lunch brought it.
 
 
 
 

That the genie badger Michael Hopcroft until he makes a wish (other than for the genie to go away or stop bothering him).   

I can survive all conceivable car crashes, and cause them without driving or even being inside one. Even when hit by a seni, I copme out the end of the trailer unscathed/
 
Insurance companies love me because my accidents are so unbelievable that they get to deny all the claims.
 
Flo, on the other hand, hates my guts.

Mickey! Minnie! Cut it out!
 
Clearly he needs a vasectomy.

Eaton was the prototype of the "no-shot defensive specialist". He was bigger, stronger, and tougher than just about any center he faced. His arms were so very long, making his ability to block shots unparalelles in his time.
 
I don't know whether it was after Eaton's career that the Dallas Mavericks made BYU center Shawn Bradley a top-three pick hoping he would be an attacking threat (like Eaton with a reliable shot). That turned out to be ill-advised/ Bradley became a liability on both ends of the court. Eaton had shown a player can be effective -- and even iconic -- without putting up bad shots.
 
Eaton rewrote the book on the center position in the NBA, and demonstrated that viewing basketball as a :team-first s[ort can win you the sort of fame you would never expect.

Author of book abut cooking with HUMANITY -- AS AN INGREDIENT...
 
NT: The Olympics are coming, plague or no plague, and Petey the Stone Cold Penguin (Mascot of the sport of Curling) is told to check it out. But they don't make vaccines for Penguins! How will poor Petey survive the journey?

Groiver's Mill, New Jersey, because nobody expects spacecraft in Grover's Mill after last tiime.
 
NT: How an alien invasion of Earth will help humanity in the long run.

Q: Why do you have a rat in your hair?
 
A: Some days  you cook the chicken, other days the chicken cooks you.

No, it\ll cost you your heart and soul. An arm and a leg are what go into the soup bar.

Blue Bombers (Winnipeg, CFL)
 

"THEY KILLED FRITZ!"
 
"I'm glad you changed your last name, you son of a bitch!"
 

Oh, and since everyone is proudly displaying their battle scars needle marks, I got my vaccine this morning. J&J, single dose needed. I got it at about 10:00am today.  No major effects yet, though, I have yet to go to sleep and have no idea what I'll feel like in the morning. I remember my last flu shot gave me some frightening symptoms for a way, which soon passed.
 
 

Oh, and since everyone is proudly displaying their battle scars needle marks, I got my vaccine this morning. J&J, single dose needed. I got it at about 10:00am today.  No major effects yet, though, I have yet to go to sleep and have no idea what I'll feel like in the morning. I remember my last flu shot gave me some frightening symptoms for a way, which soon passed.
 
 

Oh, and since everyone is proudly displaying their battle scars needle marks, I got my vaccine this morning. J&J, single dose needed. I got it at about 10:00am today.  No major effects yet, though, I have yet to go to sleep and have no idea what I'll feel like in the morning. I remember my last flu shot gave me some frightening symptoms for a way, which soon passed.
 
 

To err is human, to moo bovine.

On Quora I said rthis about own goals in soccer, but the modified version still applies -- a lost basketball game is not worth killing someone over. I hope they can protect this man well and find the person who gave out this death threat.
 
If it's a joke, it's not funny.

His latest Master Plan, which involves flying to the Fictional Central Asian Republic of Gatchastan, runs into a snag when his flight is diverted to Shangri-La, which has none of the weapons he needs but some really cool food.

Does the documentary address his feelings ove3r having to take a different name if he wanted to make it as a Japanese-American in Hollywood?

FASA designed this starship when it produced the Star Trek rpg.
 
 

If we're referring to hospitals, they have always been a substatnial user of the power grid -- for excellent reasons. Everything from EKG machines to BP monitors to kitchens, CPAP machines, and the room TVs that help keep a patient's sanity (I should know!), all need to be powered. Not to mention the ventilators in the Covid wards. But off power to the hospital and a lot of people could die.
 
Exterior lighting is very important too. Those signs in front of every hospital showing drivers how to get to the Emergency Department? Those are life-saving in an emergency.
 
 

"Remember: Walk without rhythm and we won't attract the worm. It will go to the thumper."
 
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when my fear is gone I will turn and face fear's path, and only I will remain." 
 
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the Juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."

"Rosebud, dead or alive!"
 
"As Charles Foster Kane who owns eighty-two thousand, six hundred and thirty-four shares of public transit - you see, I do have a general idea of my holdings - I sympathize with you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel. His paper should be run out of town. A committee should be formed to boycott him. You may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of one thousand dollars."
 
"He married for love. Love. That's why he did everything. That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough, he wanted all the voters to love him too. Guess all he really wanted out of life was love. That's Charlie's story, how he lost it. You see, he just didn't have any to give. Well, he loved Charlie Kane of course, very dearly, and his mother. I guess he always loved her."
 
"I suppose he had some private sort of greatness, but he kept it to himself. He never gave himself away. He never gave anything away, he just left you a tip, hmm? Ha. He had a generous mind. I don't suppose anybody ever had so many opinions. But he never believed in anything except Charlie Kane. He never had a conviction except Charlie Kane in his life. I suppose he died without one. It must have been pretty unpleasant. Of course, a lot of us check out without having any special convictions about death, but we do know what we believe in, we do believe in something."