Matt the Bruins

I'd definitely take Orbison over Mercury. I think I'd give the crown to Ann Wilson. My runners-up would include Aretha, Bowie, Pat Benatar, Elton John, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, Barry Gibb, and Linda Ronstadt. But they're all such different talents it's really difficult to rank them.

I've not encountered any particular dangers on occasions when I've slept naked, but it should be noted that I've never been crazy enough to do so when letting my cats share the bedroom. I get plenty of scratches and punctures courtesy of them on exposed flesh that's not dense in nerve endings, thank you very much.

I can see people in the 24th century confusing the Coca-Cola classic formula with the original formula of the drink. "Can you believe people by the billions in the 20th and 21st centuries drank some cocaine-based patent medicine?"

From the bits I've seen of it, that must have been a pretty small diamond. The FF movies in the 2000s were at least entertaining to me, if not precisely good.

I'm surprised to find the term isn't universal in English-speaking regions.

I actually thought Matt Salinger made a decent Captain America, though he was mired in a crap movie.

I lucked out in that I didn't have HBO for the early seasons, so I never got involved in watching it. And then when I tuned in once on the hotel room's dime while on vacation I thought "this must be that medieval fantasy show my friends are always raving about. Oh look, a wedding!"

I've seen 17, with Supergirl being the lowest-ranked on the list. But that was at least fun in places, and Faye Dunaway treated us to levels of overacting William Shatner can only dream of. Elektra was just a joyless slog, and Howard the Duck may have been the worst movie I've ever seen, full stop.

"I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode."

From the James Gunn panel at DC FanDome, I'm not sure if it's going to be vastly better than the first movie, but it's likely going to make the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise look like Merchant Ivory films. It might just achieve Farscape levels of craziness.

I held off seeing it until my LA vacation so I could watch it in 3-D at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. They had museum-style displays of props form the movie, it was awesome! I console myself that the perfect person to play the role (Mako) passed away a decade before the movie was filmed.

"Into the Fire" was really the dramatic climax of the series, and pretty hard to argue against. But I also have a great deal of fondness for "Z'ha'dum" and "Deathwalker."

I think you're misinterpreting that x16 Difficult to Dispel notation in the section of the Dispel entry dealing with Unbreakable foci. I've always read that as x16 active points (or 4 applications of the advantage, which would be a +1 advantage if purchased) rather than 16 applications of the Difficult to Dispel advantage (which would cost +4 if purchased). Mind you, any reasonably useful amount of armor is still going to be very difficult to break using that method—your basic suit of magical plate armor that gives +8 rPD would be treated as having a 192 active point power for the purpose of Dispel attempts. But if it were easy to do, declaring a focus Unbreakable wouldn't mean much.

Arkansas and Louisiana say welcome!

Replace the tofu with mahi-mahi and you've got yourself a deal!

Alligators are probably pretty hard to find in Canada.

I suppose it could just be internalized hallucinations, like she inflicted on all the Avengers in Age of Ultron.

Trust me, there are enough people on the Left who want Twitler pushing up daisies that the administration doesn't need to invent any bogeymen.

It ought to be cut from the police department's toys vehicles and equipment budget.

Cancer, m'man, you have to use soap with the water to improve that. 😄

It's inconclusive, but I think the various things she's able to do are treated as a very versatile set of mutant powers rather than actual magic (though it seems she may keep the codename). I do give them props for coming up with a workable substitute for the Belasco backstory that hits many of the same personal trauma beats without needing the X-Men's involvement.

I wouldn't entirely rule out increased stress on the mothers as a contributing factor apart from medical care.

My theater allowed mask removal once you were in your (stadium) seat, though if I hadn't had a partitioned row to myself I'd probably have worn mine anyway. I've found the KN95 disposable masks to be much more comfortable than the blue surgical masks or homemade options—wore one through a 3-hour live theatre performance last month with very little discomfort.

I went to the theater to see New Mutants, because I figure if it finally hitting theaters causes the end of the world, might as well have good seats. It was actually pretty darn good, though I regret the changes to the nature/origin of a couple of the characters, especially now that the X-Men franchise is owned by Disney and supernatural explanations are back on the table. And I am casting SERIOUS side-eye at the director for making Roberto white because he wanted someone believable as a rich Brazillian, though I have no complaints about Henry Zaga's performance. Most of the characters were true to their comics personalities if not origins, and well acted. It falls in the upper half of the X-Men movies for me.