and take back one kadan, to honor the hebrew god whose ark this is
raiders of the lost ark is on and i've watched this movie so many times this long weekend even i can't believe it. belloq's staff is too long. they're digging in the wrong place. :D "do you realize what the ark is? it's a transmitter. it's a radio for speaking to god." harrison ford and john rhys-davies have such good friend chemistry, and karen allen is just the feistiest and the best. "you can't do this to me! i'm an american!"
anyway. happy labor day to my fellow americans, from those swell folks who brought you the weekend. those of you who had the day off, i hope you took advantage, and those of you who didn't, i hope it wasn't too much of a monday. i went to the grocery store (where i admired but did not buy the cactus paddles or the adorable little japanese eggplants), saw black panther with my sister (the mcu 10th anniversary special imax showing), and took myself out for dinner for the third night in a row, because i was craving fish tacos. they were delicious.
i might have noticed this the first time i saw it, but killmonger saying "the sun will never set on the wakandan empire", after he takes the throne, has to be a deliberate echo of the saying that the sun never set on the british empire, back in the day when queen victoria's dominion literally circled the globe. so is he aligning himself with colonizers? or saying that wakanda will take what it wants at the point of a sword, the way the brits (and lots of other european countries) did? which i guess is aligning himself with colonizers.... michael b jordan is charismatic as hell, i tell you what.
yesterday i got the slowest start imaginable and because there wasn't anyone around to do anything with, i did the touristy thing by myself and went to see the uss constitution (aka old ironsides, aka the oldest commissioned warship still afloat). i'd never been. because she's still technically an active-duty ship, she's got an actual crew, and they all look so young! the sailors were all wearing reproduction 1812 uniforms, and they were adorable. and chatty! they're there so you can ask them questions, and people totally did. it was a gorgeous day and i walked a lot in it, and i may or may not have taken a lot of pics of the constitution's rigging. (she currently only has one sail, because squirrels got into the other one and ate holes in it. so now the crew unfurls the remaining sail i think once a week to shake out anything that might be living in it, and when the ship leaves the harbor, which she does from time to time, she has to be towed.)
saturday i saw a couple of open houses - one actual house (the kitchen was narrow, comparatively small and dark, and weirdly laid out, and of the four bedrooms, one was just the width of a double bed which i know because they had a double bed in it, and the other was impractical as a bedroom because the washer/dryer hookups were in the closet, and once you put a full-size washer and dryer in the closet there's no room for clothes) (it was new construction and not thoughtfully designed, altho the tile in the showers was really nice) and one condo in a converted victorian (the bathroom was HUGE and they packed a lot of kitchen into the fairly small kitchen, plus they kept some of the original details like a half-moon stained glass window and a couple fireplaces, plus it had a finished basement), which i'd want if i had the money and was in the market for a condo. it wasn't near anything but it was a fabulous place. it also had baseboard heat, which is unusual for old apartments around here. usually you get radiators. it was a good day to see places for sale, bright and sunny and not too hot.
and friday we had pizza for lunch at work (there was almost no one in the office aside from tax and advisory) and got out early. so i went to the diesel and dicked around online, because i could.
so it was a good weekend. i was a tourist and ate out a lot. >.<
holy shit skinny steve is real. O.O
over the past twenty years, a french guy now living in quebec has identified upwards of 150k native american and first nations soldiers who fought in ww1. some of the info he dug up was stuff that even the soldiers' descendents didn't know.
anyway. happy labor day to my fellow americans, from those swell folks who brought you the weekend. those of you who had the day off, i hope you took advantage, and those of you who didn't, i hope it wasn't too much of a monday. i went to the grocery store (where i admired but did not buy the cactus paddles or the adorable little japanese eggplants), saw black panther with my sister (the mcu 10th anniversary special imax showing), and took myself out for dinner for the third night in a row, because i was craving fish tacos. they were delicious.
i might have noticed this the first time i saw it, but killmonger saying "the sun will never set on the wakandan empire", after he takes the throne, has to be a deliberate echo of the saying that the sun never set on the british empire, back in the day when queen victoria's dominion literally circled the globe. so is he aligning himself with colonizers? or saying that wakanda will take what it wants at the point of a sword, the way the brits (and lots of other european countries) did? which i guess is aligning himself with colonizers.... michael b jordan is charismatic as hell, i tell you what.
yesterday i got the slowest start imaginable and because there wasn't anyone around to do anything with, i did the touristy thing by myself and went to see the uss constitution (aka old ironsides, aka the oldest commissioned warship still afloat). i'd never been. because she's still technically an active-duty ship, she's got an actual crew, and they all look so young! the sailors were all wearing reproduction 1812 uniforms, and they were adorable. and chatty! they're there so you can ask them questions, and people totally did. it was a gorgeous day and i walked a lot in it, and i may or may not have taken a lot of pics of the constitution's rigging. (she currently only has one sail, because squirrels got into the other one and ate holes in it. so now the crew unfurls the remaining sail i think once a week to shake out anything that might be living in it, and when the ship leaves the harbor, which she does from time to time, she has to be towed.)
saturday i saw a couple of open houses - one actual house (the kitchen was narrow, comparatively small and dark, and weirdly laid out, and of the four bedrooms, one was just the width of a double bed which i know because they had a double bed in it, and the other was impractical as a bedroom because the washer/dryer hookups were in the closet, and once you put a full-size washer and dryer in the closet there's no room for clothes) (it was new construction and not thoughtfully designed, altho the tile in the showers was really nice) and one condo in a converted victorian (the bathroom was HUGE and they packed a lot of kitchen into the fairly small kitchen, plus they kept some of the original details like a half-moon stained glass window and a couple fireplaces, plus it had a finished basement), which i'd want if i had the money and was in the market for a condo. it wasn't near anything but it was a fabulous place. it also had baseboard heat, which is unusual for old apartments around here. usually you get radiators. it was a good day to see places for sale, bright and sunny and not too hot.
and friday we had pizza for lunch at work (there was almost no one in the office aside from tax and advisory) and got out early. so i went to the diesel and dicked around online, because i could.
so it was a good weekend. i was a tourist and ate out a lot. >.<
holy shit skinny steve is real. O.O
over the past twenty years, a french guy now living in quebec has identified upwards of 150k native american and first nations soldiers who fought in ww1. some of the info he dug up was stuff that even the soldiers' descendents didn't know.