Matt the Bruins

Rest in Peace, Mira.

Yikes! Hopefully at least it wasn't deliberate this time? Most of one branch of my family has now contracted Covid-19, the one headed by my fundamentalist pastor uncle. I haven't gotten details on how badly everyone is being hit yet.

Years earlier Cap's shield absorbed the impact of another Superman expy's blows just fine, and in fact when Count Nefaria tried to crush it he wasn't able to. I was fine with it being able to stand up to Gladiator.

I wish they'd remembered the shield's special defensive capabilities in that movie. You're not going to get knocked back by a kick or punch on that thing from a 170 lbs. guy, even if he is a super soldier, when it can absorb and redirect the impact of Thor swinging his hammer at it for all he's worth.

In most respects inferior to tuna salad/tuna salad sandwiches, but if the mayonnaise is kept to a minimum and it's served on an onion roll, it can be decent.

I don't think our former First Lady is going to settle for what she can get under a prenup when the goalposts to becoming a billion-heiress are within sight. She's still relatively young; he's two years short of the average male life expectancy in the US and his resting blood pressure has got to be what, 200/150?

And in that movie it was pretty clear from Thor's speech to Rocket that he was hanging on by a thread and pinning all his hopes on stopping Thanos or dying in the attempt. When neither happened, and killing Thanos after the fact proved a hollow victory, he fell apart.

I must have missed the Bible verse where Jesus says "Let the little children come to me, for their parents entered the promised land illegally and I have many cages to house them all in squalor." 😇 There's always North Sentinel Island. 🏹 🏹 🏹 Lucky for them they might be going somewhere they won't have to see or hear women for years! 😆

I have a visual memory of the Viennetta, but it might just have been from the commercials. We lived a block from a trailer park when I was a kid, so my household wasn't really one for lots of frills in the desserts.

I know if someone sicced a huge armed mob on me that was chanting about hanging me and brought its own gallows, I'd be disinclined to protect them from legal consequences afterward.

What a way to go!

Makes perfect sense to me. I have a number of knives around the house. With the possible exception of my dad's pocket knife, none of them have drawn the blood of any human being but me, and thus I consider them tools rather than weapons. The Religious Right is pretty much composed of evangelical Protestants whose antipathy for Catholicism is well-publicized. The ones willing to march on Washington at Twitler's behest might not have too much respect for a historic Episcopalian cathedral, assuming they actually distinguish between the two faiths.

Sorry, someone's going to have to dump a bucket of water over her for that to happen before Jan. 20th.

I see my practice of befriending alley cats could have more benefits that I hadn't previously considered...

Why is the Jakartan patient facing charges and a potential 10 years in prison? There's no dereliction of duty or endangering unwilling people that he's directly responsible for, unlike the nurse he was banging, even if it was a spectacularly bad idea to be involved. Is it now a crime to have sex while suffering an illness in Indonesia?

That individual should be facing a mob of people whose elderly relatives his actions endangered.

While I agree that establishing Diana as having sat out most of a century of war and injustice so she could be unknown to the world in BvS is problematic, I think Snyder did actually "get" Wonder Woman, better than he did Superman and Batman in fact. She's portrayed as smart, capable, compassionate, courageous to the point of fearlessness, and ultimately willing to do what needs doing even if she'd rather be elsewhere. She was easily the best part of her debut movie. And I have the distinct feeling that every frame of film from Justice League that objectified Diana or played her for laughs was Whedon's doing rather than Snyder's.

Not gonna lie, watching that last scene and how beautifully the entree was presented, one of my thoughts was "well, it's not as if they can reattach it now, so it shouldn't go to waste..."

That's assuming one cares to try. I'm at the "let them eat cakesee if faith healing can cure COVID-19" point now.

I enjoyed it well enough, but mainly because most of the screen time was spent with intensely charming people. Maxwell Lord was so badly written that Pedro Pascal couldn't save him, and there were lots of contrivances and plot holes that would have really bothered me if they happened in a movie with less charming leads. At least this time the awful videogame-y CGI fight was short and wasn't the actual climax of the action—I thought the way Diane resolved the overall situation was how the FIRST movie should have ended, and it worked well here. The opening scene and mid-credits scene were awesome, and pretty much worth the cost of subscribing to HBO Max for me this month. (Once I binge watch Doom Patrol and the first season of Westworld we'll see if I want to keep it around longer.)

I made one of those cyclops jack-o-lanterns for Halloween this year!

Something like Styracosaurus albertinsis, perhaps?

With this many people infected, significant mutations were inevitable. It was just a matter of time. The Addams Family had the best response to this sort of thing. https://youtu.be/-ssFIdAd3_M?t=30

If I were Hannity, Carlson, or others of their ilk I'd be worried that an angry nurse who's had to watch hundreds of Covid patients die unnecessarily thanks to my misinformation might have something in that hypo other than Pfizer's or Moderna's vaccine.

I hope there's still time to put some of these reindeer in Thor: Love and Thunder!