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I got really tired of the House/Cuddy stuff. And although it was always formulaic, I always enjoyed the medical mystery stuff. I felt they started going into ER/Gen Hospital etc. territory after season 5. I haven't watched past S3 in years, though.

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Oh, so I'm aiming for this: Sorry fellas, it's me, so it'll be more like this.

hahah well, monster movies aren't known for their mold-breaking plots... Though I absolutely agree. There doesn't seem to be much of a middle ground between "BLOW ALL THE UP/KILL ALL THE DRONES YAYY WE SAVED EARF" and super cerebral "what the hell did I just watch, I am so confused right now and I think I need a PhD and several experts to explain it to me to understand".

Ok so if y'all are really wearing tuxes what the hell are the ladies supposed to wear? Are we sitting through a hockey game in high heels and an evening gown? I don't own a tux.

Grand opening of our new aerial studio tomorrow... If you're around Elmwood village, pop by the school on West Delevan and say hi! I'll be teaching a workshop and performing as well.

Any movie with giant robots swinging effing ocean freighters at each other is dumb/awesome.

Well yes on a broader theme of course we need the arts, that's not what I'm talking about. C'mon. If you're asking the average joe to shell out 30-50 bucks on something, chances are they are going to choose other things besides art. They see a print or shirt they like, it goes on the favorite list, sometimes they'll bite on it around the holidays. Maybe I just have a "I can't afford much and feel guilty buying anything" mentality now. But I doubt I'm the only one.

uh.... Yup.

No, no worries about soapboxing! That's the problem with art... it's not a necessity. I can't hawk a shirt or print and say "this fancy design will totally cook your eggs faster/clean your house better/improve your life as a must need". It's just... "you like to look at it? Do you like to look at it so much that you're willing to pay money so you can look at it alllll the time?" My main source of income right now is designs for a guy who sells patches/shirts/hats. He makes bank (is a cop full time, this is his side hustle), and pays me very well. He has a niche group that loooove to spend money on military morale patch stuff. He found that sweet spot, and together we're always coming up with new ideas to sell. I don't have that niche yet. I could go after aerialists... but I don't want to go all in on an idea that I'm not sure will actually profit. Hockey isn't working out as I want it to (doesn't mean I'll stop). The average sports fan doesn't want to spend 30 on a shirt, you have to be fan base specific, etc. Aerialists... they're rarer, but often love to advertise their hobby/livelihood and are willing to drop coin. And there aren't any good aerialist shirts out there. I posted rough sketches and have a bunch of Cirque du Soleil and professional circus artists following me now.

No. Let's all dress like it's 1974 at the Aud. Terrifyingly awful plaid pants. Bad hats. Big yellowy aviator glasses. Moustaches. Sideburns. I'll dig up some polyester at a thrift store.

Ok, it is freakin' impossible to actually make a profit off selling prints and shirts. Well, the prints actually isn't so bad. It's the shirts. I have a group of people who want to buy some aerial designs I've whipped up, and others interested in my rust belt stuff. No biggie, just tossed it on my Society6. Yeah.. you make like... nothing off a sale. And that particular site doesn't let you adjust price for better commission. I mean, if i went through a local printer and had overhead for my own shirts etc, it's still no profit and actually loss but... Trying to find a better way. It's pretty discouraging. Now I know why artists charge $30 for a tank top, and why prints cost so damn much. It's the only way to make a buck. I make 2 bucks off every 25 dollar tank on S6. Almost every design you buy is actually costing the artist more to put it out there. (If you factor in time to make it. S6 is free to use/upload, which is nice). The trick is trying to make something good enough/interesting enough that people will actually want to pay it. Unfortunately, I don't have the self esteem for that. I recently raised my rates and I'm terrified to actually ask the new rates. I keep going by my old, lower rate. How the hell do businesses actually exist...

Whoop whoop! Yeah, I also talked to him a bit around the time of the last one and he def wanted to get a beer with everyone. Had some conflict come up. You can take the man out of Sabrespace, but you can't take the Sabrespace out of the man.

I like the country near my hometown, even though it's super super flat. But the town itself is an incredibly superficial, wealthy, stereotypical suburbia place that thinks it's more important than it is. No real culture to speak of; after all, brown people are scary. Loads of mcmansions (many sitting empty post housing bubble burst). Boys will be boys mentality. Everyone is blonde or has the "I want to speak to the manager" haircut and wears the same clothes. Huge opioid problem. There is no live and let live there. D4rk figured I was just exaggerating. Then he went there with me. I've never really come across another place like it. I won't say I'll never go back to Ohio, I genuinely have love for the place. Cue the "oh it's an armpit I've been on the 90/to downtown Cleveland/etc" comments. Just not settling back into my hometown.

Here's hoping you can make it- I miss you!!!

:wub: :wub: :wub: I think I can comfortably call her my favorite actress. Hell of a talent, not just a pretty face (though it's extraordinarily perfect). She'll get "ugly" to play characters like Aileen Wuornos. Seriously... that role... she played the nuances of schizophrenia so well. I grew up with a violent schizophrenic family member and man, she nailed some of the unsettling characteristics. And then she can also go traipsing around selling perfume for Dior. AND do comedy (arrested development). And be Furiosa. I just love her. It was cute. And super super dumb. And that's what I expected from it, and what I got. The hockey bits were my favorite parts, though. Def reminded me of my beer league team!

My class was 360. I was mumbled about because I chose to leave the state for school. I was made fun of for going to "the wannabe MIT for art, what a waste". Oh well, still think it was the right choice. It's so odd- my sister graduated in 2002 and most of her class is just now starting to have children/get married/buy houses, and the vast majority moved away. Several have actually found their way up here to Buffalo. My class of 2007- a good 70-80% are married, on their second or third marriage, have 2-3 kids (or more, the mormon girls have about 5 now), all live in the hometown, living that NW Ohio dream... Quite a few went to ivy leagues, they all just moved back. Most went to BGSU or OSU. I'll consider myself a failure if I end up in that tiny little stepford wives town.

Oh yeah, I saw the Swearnet car on my street out here on Sheridan yesterday. Full livery, trailer park boys paraphenalia, etc. not just some superfan. Didn't see who was driving it. Also have no idea if any of the TPB crew is in town for whatever reason.

I am enjoying the pithy reviews of The Emoji Movie, however.

Judging you. Hard.

Says the guy who likes LaLa Land :P

As a grumpy feminist/reasonable SJW... I wouldn't toss the whole thing out just for that. It really is a good movie. Has a male/female relationship that's supportive, not romantic. Shows a struggle with domestic violence. Even Samuel L Jackson being Samuel L Jackson doesn't ruin it (sorry, not the biggest fan of the guy). It's fun in a Hot Fuzz sort of way. Just skip the literal last 3 minutes and it's perfect fun.

It really was fun. One of my friends is beyond obsessed with it. Not sure I'd go that far, but it was a really enjoyable movie. I am, not surprisingly, on the side of the people who wishes the last scene with the female hostage was either cut or different. Like, I get the reference with Bond and womanising and male wish fulfillment and all, but it was a really sh!tty final note that didn't fit the rest of the film's feel and left me with a bad taste in my mouth (heh heh). If there'd been more stuff like that in the movie, fine. But I think the lack of that kind of thing was why it was such a breath of fresh air, honestly. But other than that... great flick. Hope the second one holds up. Love me some Colin Firth. also

The book about him, Boy on Ice, is incredibly good. And sad. A lot of parallels to the autobiography by Derek Sanderson, Crossing the Line. And Malarchuk's book, A Matter of Inches. Haunting stuff. Not a read, but I recommend the documentary series Hockey: A People's History. Good stuff.

They forced us to read that book for orientation at RIT. We were then asked to write a paper about it in groups in one of those useless freshman intro classes. In one of my high school classes senior year, I'd done an "senior thesis" AP 4 month research project on that cholera outbreak/Dr. Snow/epidemiology/everything Ghost Map is about. I read that book and kept feeling like I was having deja vu. I dug out my research notecards and found entire passages in that book lifted out of scientific journals/other books. Didn't even bother to reword or paraphrase. Just straight up plagiarized without citing source. I mean, it's all accurate, but I didn't even get halfway through it before I got mad and refused to read the rest. If you're into epidemiology, I highly recommend Dr. Snowden's course on Open Yale Courses- Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600. He's kinda dry, but incredibly knowledgeable. His wife was a nurse in the beginning of the AIDS epidemic and her lecture is heartbreaking. Good book on that- And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts. I am a documentary junkie. Nonstop. Every day. I also pretty much only read non fiction. I don't have time to read books much, so docs are how I "learn" now. My top constant rewatches: You really can't go wrong with most anything by HBO or ESPN 30 for 30 (they have a podcast now!!). so: When the Levee Broke (4 parts, about Hurricane Katrina. Really hard but important watch- it's on youtube) Going Clear (expose on scientology- gotta dig to find it) Blackfish (yeah yeah everyone's heard of it- it's good.on netflix.) Glory Daze (about the Club Kid scene in 90s NYC, great/dark/fascinating book on it by James St James- Disco Bloodbath. renamed Party Monster, about Michael Alig murdering another clubkid) When We Left Earth (NASA. the entire history. It is SO SO SO SO good. Hard to find right now.) Inside Mega Tornado El Reno (Nat'l Geo. About an incredible weather event in 2013, the storm that killed pro storm chaser Tim Samaras. If you like tornado/storm chasing stuff, I have a storm chaser's channel I can recommend. He's not a screaming idiot, but calm and informative) Secrets of Great British Castles with Dan Jones (was on netflix. Guy is such a history nerd, you can't help but get excited about it with him. Good stuff) Bunch of different animal docs on netflix with Martin Clunes. They're fun and informative. Senna (doc on legendary formula one driver) OJ: Made In America (one of the best docs I've ever seen. Incredible comprehensive on the culture of the era. high recommendation) Anything by PBS Frontline. Bush's War is really good. Any of the docs about the 2008 financial collapse. Can't lose with Planet Earth or Human Planet. All amazing. I can't work with them on, though. Too much to look at. Check out anything by Werner Herzog. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga is fascinating. He did a rather artsy but dark piece on the Kuwaiti burning oil fields- Lessons Of Darkness. Also has one on scientists in the Antarctic. He's an acquired taste but really solid work. Check out r/documentaries, but look at their categories. It became a default sub and is overrun with loads of crap right now. Lots of sh!tty conspiracy theory/Hitler's gold type BS. Keep in mind with any documentary that there is an agenda. There are a lot that I can't get through because they're just... kinda cringey with their aims. I like to find docs on both sides of major issues whenever possible. Books- if you want to read anything on mountaineering/arctic/polar exploration, let me know. I've got... loads. It's my latest obsession. I have loads of war/battle books, surgery/medical history books, too.