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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

Happy Lantern Festival, as the first Full Moon of the Chinese New Year dawns... or dusks... you know what I mean?

Those of us hoping for at least one month of the current US Presidemcy which wasn't an entire new verse of "We Didn't Start the Fire" were disappointed again when the US and Israel decided to bomb Iran. And those wondering "Why" have the disturbing benefit of multiple choices answers, as Trump, Vance, Rubio and Netenyahu all appear to have different explanations.

The fact folks were instantly able to point to a series of tweets from 2012 when Trump speculated that Obama would, because of plummetting popularity declare war on Iran as a distraction has not gone un-noticed.

Sigh...

A by-election in England last week gave us the first Green MP to ever win a by-election (As opposed to a General Election), and by a handsome majority too. This led Reform, who are finding out out that being hostile arseholes to pretty much every possible minority group is not paying off the way they hoped it would, to immediately pull a Trump card, and claim/whine that the election was rigged against them.

We bid a sad farewell to co-creator of Red Dwarf, Rob Grant, who passed away at the age of 70. "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!"

I've not watched the new Monarch: Legacy of Monsters episode yet, but I have high hopes.

I did watch the latest Starfleet Academy which is a strange mix between working through grief via "Our Town" (a 1938 meta-textual play which, as far as I am aware, has no real pop culture relevance outside the US) and a rather beautiful subplot (Which was a lot stronger than the actual plot IMHO) with Robert Picardo's Doctor and SAM.

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The feelings General Glory inspires in me are…mixed. I think he was useful as comic relief in the JLI’s last year-and-change, when the stories were otherwise leaning toward heaviness. I don’t miss him at all, but I think he’s fun in small doses.

A five-issue introductory arc is nobody’s idea of a small dose, and “Glory Bound” has some logical flaws on top of that. But Giffen and DeMatteis are interesting even when they go astray, Linda Medley knows her stuff, and the plot gets off to a promising start.

( Like the priest at Mister Miracle’s funeral, this is a Kirby tribute that I suspect left Kirby more annoyed than gratified. )

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Most of the icons feature characters from the Monsterverse (aka Godzilla 2014 and Kong: Skull Island universe, including Monarch Legacy of Monsters) but there are a couple of Godzilla: The Series icons in this post 'cause I love that series and I couldn't help myself.

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Gojira is not only living proof that coexistence is possible. He is…the key to it.

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Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.

https://xkcd.com/3214/

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📽️ The Old Guard 2 felt more like a generic action movie than its predecessor. Don't get me wrong! I love my action movies, generic or not. And the aforementioned action was certainly slicker and more visually appealing than the first movie. But there were too many moments where the plot points or dialogue choices took me out of the moment. This was in a weird spot between, "Not dumb enough for me to enjoy this mindlessly," and "What the hell are they doing?" All that said, I'd still watch a third installment to see Uma Thurman and Charlize Theron fighting to the death 😆

📚 Something about Makoto (the top/alpha) from Omega no Mukotori lit up all my neurons in the best way 👀 I guess I just have a soft spot for dark-haired burly dudes. I also very much enjoyed the fact that Yoshiharu (the bottom/omega) was the much more aggressive character and did most of the pursuing. I will gladly consume A/B/O content, even the non-traditional stuff.

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It seems that dropping off of Dreamwidth is unavoidable when I take a long-ish vacation somewhere because of the disruption to my routine. Yet another reason why I'm not fond of out-of-town trips.

I want to write about what I've been up to lately—because I want to be able to go through my entries in the future and not think, "What was I doing back in 20xx?"—but I also have a list of random things I want to post about while I work on that.

First up, "Llorando se fue" by Los Kjarkas:

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When I was younger, it seemed like all the trucks and jeepneys played the same exact snippet of music whenever they were backing up instead of a generic beeping sound. As I got older I realized that it sounded like it came from J. Lo's "On the Floor", which I personally think is highly improbable. I guess you could argue that there are truck and/or jeepney drivers into J. Lo's music but?? I had my doubts.

This year I finally decided to do some internet sleuthing and found out that "On the Floor" sampled "Llorando se fue" and that's where the snippet came from! You can listen to the sampled part here, at around the 12-second mark.

(I don't know why I have an easier time accepting that Filipino truck/jeepney drivers like Bolivian folk music vs. them liking J. Lo's music 😂 I don't have anything against J. Lo.)

Listening to the song on YouTube made me feel oddly nostalgic; I can't remember the last time I heard a truck/jeepney using the song as their replacement backing up sound.

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After defeating the Extremists, the JLE is confronting a new reality: they’re popular with French people now.

( Not Nutella popular, but at least egg mayo popular. )

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The time for talk and peaceful protest is past.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.

So make the demand. - Ultimates Handbook

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This series is just so much better than 'main' Wonder Woman, isn't it? Look! Giganta's even crushing the logo on the cover! I think that's neat!

Not included in the following scans: the use of sound effect 'YEET!'

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tvmovie20in20 Round 24 with The Mummy (1999).

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Nothing bad ever comes from reading a book......

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The series ends. Things seem to wrap up rather quickly, but it still finds time for Batman helping Harley Quinn get over Mister J, and the Most Intense Laser Battle Ever.

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