Getting the Award
1) Animal work partners, including the self-taught kind, though humans can still be needed for interventions. Plus a dog being very startled that humans aren't staying in their own lane and a cat who is going to love a toddler into submission. Plus, baby Appa and a beautiful sentiment.
2) I recently rewatched S3 of Killing Eve as I'd been unable to see all its episodes when it first aired. Even though I am not in the fandom or following any content on it, I gathered that a lot of people hadn't cared for this season. I'm not sure why - I've enjoyed all of them, and the last episode alone! How have I not seen swaths of fanart from the dance hall?
3) I've been watching Titans on HBO Max. Finished S1 and it was ok. It was better in concept than execution. For example, I just couldn't get over the fact that a house that has been unlived in for 5 years not only hasn't been foreclosed on due to lack of tax payments, but it still has electricity and water and phone service and looks very tidy and clean. At one point a character says that they're going to prepare food yet nobody has been grocery shopping and I don't know what they are doing for money anyway. But no problem, because there is a backyard garden that of course is still growing things despite being untended!
Of course, a lot of what happens in these shows wouldn't occur at all if people didn't stomp around insisting they didn't need anybody's help when they obviously do. In the S2 premiere the resolution to S1 seemed rather underwhelming given the threat level. It didn't even take the whole episode so that we could set up the S2 premise.
Still, it's an undemanding view while I'm folding laundry or making the bed, so I'll probably keep watching it now that I've finished Prodigal Son.
4) Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) access cable channels have been vital services during the pandemic.
"A recent Center for Media and Social Impact study found that many communities, especially in rural and exurban areas, relied on PEG services to communicate when people were forced into isolation. Community leaders relayed timely public health updates via virtual town halls, press conferences, and safety bulletins. PEG stations also circulated vital information across multiple platforms such as cable channels, over-the-air radio, social media, and online streaming sites. These integrated communication services proved crucial, especially in communities that suffer from spotty broadband connectivity and severely limited local journalism."
However these stations are funded by cable subscriber fees which have been declining as people cut the cord. Yet they could be a partial solution to the decline in news coverage for a number of areas.
5) I'm pretty sure no Sexiest Man Alive has ever worked harder for the title. We really laughed at Paul Rudd's segment on Colbert, and clearly given the frequent cuts, Colbert himself couldn't keep from laughing. Bravo!
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2) I recently rewatched S3 of Killing Eve as I'd been unable to see all its episodes when it first aired. Even though I am not in the fandom or following any content on it, I gathered that a lot of people hadn't cared for this season. I'm not sure why - I've enjoyed all of them, and the last episode alone! How have I not seen swaths of fanart from the dance hall?
3) I've been watching Titans on HBO Max. Finished S1 and it was ok. It was better in concept than execution. For example, I just couldn't get over the fact that a house that has been unlived in for 5 years not only hasn't been foreclosed on due to lack of tax payments, but it still has electricity and water and phone service and looks very tidy and clean. At one point a character says that they're going to prepare food yet nobody has been grocery shopping and I don't know what they are doing for money anyway. But no problem, because there is a backyard garden that of course is still growing things despite being untended!
Of course, a lot of what happens in these shows wouldn't occur at all if people didn't stomp around insisting they didn't need anybody's help when they obviously do. In the S2 premiere the resolution to S1 seemed rather underwhelming given the threat level. It didn't even take the whole episode so that we could set up the S2 premise.
Still, it's an undemanding view while I'm folding laundry or making the bed, so I'll probably keep watching it now that I've finished Prodigal Son.
4) Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) access cable channels have been vital services during the pandemic.
"A recent Center for Media and Social Impact study found that many communities, especially in rural and exurban areas, relied on PEG services to communicate when people were forced into isolation. Community leaders relayed timely public health updates via virtual town halls, press conferences, and safety bulletins. PEG stations also circulated vital information across multiple platforms such as cable channels, over-the-air radio, social media, and online streaming sites. These integrated communication services proved crucial, especially in communities that suffer from spotty broadband connectivity and severely limited local journalism."
However these stations are funded by cable subscriber fees which have been declining as people cut the cord. Yet they could be a partial solution to the decline in news coverage for a number of areas.
5) I'm pretty sure no Sexiest Man Alive has ever worked harder for the title. We really laughed at Paul Rudd's segment on Colbert, and clearly given the frequent cuts, Colbert himself couldn't keep from laughing. Bravo!
View poll: Kudos Footer-325
Comments at Dreamwidth
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