it's you girl and you should know it
RIP Mary Tyler Moore! You made it, after all. Dick Van Dyke and James L. Brooks remember her.
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Last night, Alyssa texted me and asked who I thought would win in a football game between the Justice League and the (MCU) Avengers and I was like, definitely Justice League and she reluctantly agreed. I mean, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Martian Manhunter? That is a powerhouse of a team, and sure the Avengers have Hulk and Thor as inside LBs, but no speedster and very little to counter a speedster. This is why killing off Pietro was a mistake! Not that Quicksilver's ever been as fast as a Flash. Vision, I guess, or Scarlet Witch could do it. She had Batman on the sidelines coaching the JL, and Steve coaching the Avengers from under center, which is a pretty even match tactically, I think, though I imagine Bruce has pages and pages of plays to choose from and gets annoyed with Superman when he deviates, while Steve frequently audibles and the Avengers are used to it and do better in the no huddle, tbh.
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January talking meme, day 26: imwalde asked: If you were god emperor and could make everyone read one book, watch one show/movie, and listen to one album, what would they be?
Wow, this is a really hard question. I had a lot of potential answers for each question, so these could change if you asked me again in a week, but okay, here we go:
book: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, because it talks plainly and memorably about the horrors of war and the impact it has on the people who fight in them:
A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things they have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. [...]
You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.
Show: on a similar note, I'd suggest everyone watch M*A*S*H. The show, not the movie. It was my mother's all time favorite show and we watched it both in first run and in reruns every night and not only is it often hilariously funny, it's frequently kind and sharp and smart and thoughtful in ways most sitcoms aren't.
Album: I'm not generally an album person - I don't generally listen to albums because too many songs by one artist in a row tends to make me twitchy, and my playlists are always on shuffle - but I find I can't really choose between Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby because they were super formative for me in various ways, and just. My heart still lifts unaccountably at the opening strains of "Where the Streets Have No Name" and even after years of being over played, "One" can still stop me in my tracks. *hands*
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Last night, Alyssa texted me and asked who I thought would win in a football game between the Justice League and the (MCU) Avengers and I was like, definitely Justice League and she reluctantly agreed. I mean, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Martian Manhunter? That is a powerhouse of a team, and sure the Avengers have Hulk and Thor as inside LBs, but no speedster and very little to counter a speedster. This is why killing off Pietro was a mistake! Not that Quicksilver's ever been as fast as a Flash. Vision, I guess, or Scarlet Witch could do it. She had Batman on the sidelines coaching the JL, and Steve coaching the Avengers from under center, which is a pretty even match tactically, I think, though I imagine Bruce has pages and pages of plays to choose from and gets annoyed with Superman when he deviates, while Steve frequently audibles and the Avengers are used to it and do better in the no huddle, tbh.
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January talking meme, day 26: imwalde asked: If you were god emperor and could make everyone read one book, watch one show/movie, and listen to one album, what would they be?
Wow, this is a really hard question. I had a lot of potential answers for each question, so these could change if you asked me again in a week, but okay, here we go:
book: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, because it talks plainly and memorably about the horrors of war and the impact it has on the people who fight in them:
A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things they have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. [...]
You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.
Show: on a similar note, I'd suggest everyone watch M*A*S*H. The show, not the movie. It was my mother's all time favorite show and we watched it both in first run and in reruns every night and not only is it often hilariously funny, it's frequently kind and sharp and smart and thoughtful in ways most sitcoms aren't.
Album: I'm not generally an album person - I don't generally listen to albums because too many songs by one artist in a row tends to make me twitchy, and my playlists are always on shuffle - but I find I can't really choose between Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby because they were super formative for me in various ways, and just. My heart still lifts unaccountably at the opening strains of "Where the Streets Have No Name" and even after years of being over played, "One" can still stop me in my tracks. *hands*
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