(1) THE FENCE. A recent Pixel Scroll reported construction is almost finished on the residence replacing Ray Bradbury’s torn-down home. Designed by architect Thom Mayne, the new house where he and his wife Blythe will live had been promised to include a tribute to the late author in the form of a fence with Bradbury quotes. But you can’t really make out any text in LA Observed’s photo:
So John King Tarpinian swung by and shot his own set of pictures.
These are three of the four panels that Mr. Mayne has erected. The fourth panel was removed, not sure why. You can only see panels one and two easily. Panel three is behind shrubs, as will be panel four when it is reinstalled. For the life of me I cannot decipher anything.
There are some words visible if you stare long enough. The top line seems to be “I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.” — a Bradbury quote the architect may have picked to send a little “F.U.” to anyone unhappy about what he’s done wiith the property.
(2) GUARDIANS OF THE FIDUCIARY. The cash registers were scorching hot this weekend: “‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2’: A one-time underdog returns with $145 million opening”
Disney (DIS) and Marvel Studios’ “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise put up stellar results in its return to theaters this weekend, nearly three years after unexpectedly blowing the doors off the box office.
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” brought in $145 million, making it the fifth highest grossing domestic debut for a movie in Marvel’s universe of interconnected films. Forecasts had estimated its U.S. opening weekend haul would check in around $140 million to $160 million.
Openings in the Chinese and South Korean markets this weekend helped push the movie’s global gross at $427.6 million, according to Box Office Mojo.
(3) FILE SEVENTEEN YEARS. Congratulations to Julia Bartlett-Sloan, who graduated from the University of Georgia on May 5 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
The last time File 770 ran a story mentioning her, in 2000, she was one of the Bartlett-Sloan sisters in this picture. Time flies!
(4) LIVING HISTORY. Last night’s Saturday Night Live did a Star Trek: TOS skit that featured the show’s production designer Akira Yoshimura as Sulu.
Vanity Fair points out that 41 years ago in the show’s first season, a Star Trek skit had Yoshimura as Sulu.
S.N.L. buffs will be the first to tell you that Yoshimura—who has been with the show from the start—first appeared as Sulu opposite John Belushi’s Captain Kirk in a 1976 sketch titled “The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise” from Saturday Night Live’s very first season.
(5) FRENCH SFF COMPETITION. Entries are being taken for the Prix Joël-Champetier through August 31. Eligible works are unpublished stories in French by non-Canadian authors, no longer than 10,500 words. The winner will be selected through blind judging (see the guidelines about preserving anonymity.) Subscribers to Solaris can enter free, others must pay a C$20 fee. The winner will receive a 1,000 Euro prize.
(6) HYDRA HAILING FREQUENCY. At io9 James Witbrook says it’s getting worse, not better: “Captain America Is No Longer a Supervillain, He’s a Monster”.
Secret Empire #1—by Nick Spencer, Steve McNiven, Jay Leisten, Matthew Wilson, and Travis Lanham—doesn’t immediately pick up after the events of Secret Empire #0, which chronicled the reveal of Captain America’s deception of his friends, allies, and the world at large. Instead, it’s an unspecified number of months after, with Hydra in control of the United States, and Captain America at its head.
Heroes still attempt to resist—spearheaded by a group lead by Black Widow, Hawkeye, and the A.I. essence of Tony Stark operating out of a hidden base in the Nevada desert, with the young Champions running sorties against Hydra patrols in Vegas—but for the average America citizen, Hydra is now their leader. And while Marvel Comics has blustered over accusations of Hydra’s past links to the Nazis, and even attempted to deny the political undertones of Secret Empire, it’s hard to read Secret Empire #1 and not draw parallels between Hydra’s rule and the rise of the Nazi party in ‘30s Germany. Books have been burned in classrooms, history has been rewritten….
(7) REAPING WHAT YOU SOW. Sigrid Ellis’ post “Marvel Comics has given Captain America’s shield to real-life white nationalists” is quoted here in full:
This news story appeared yesterday:
Trump rally overshadowed by standoff outside Minnesota Capitol
Look at the photos. Look at the fourth photo.
There’s a man, there, carrying Captain America’s shield.
That man is one of the neo-Nazi white supremacists who attempted to get into the Minnesota State Capitol yesterday. He and his compatriots could not get in.
They were defied by regular Minnesotans, linking arms, standing their ground against hatred. The neo-Nazis were defied by the heroism of ordinary people who see evil and refuse to turn away. These regular Minnesotans understand something that Marvel Comics and Nick Spencer have completely failed to grasp.
Decent human beings do not harbor, encourage, or condone white supremacy. Decent human beings do not by their action or inaction permit evil to fester.
You brought this on yourself, Marvel. Instead of cute kids running around playing at being Avengers, a grown man carried YOUR shield, Marvel, into battle on the steps of my state capitol building yesterday.
And your shield, Marvel, stood for hatred.
May you long reap the joy and reward of your actions.
(8) NEXT AT KGB. E.C. Myers and Sam J. Miller will read at Fantastic Fiction at KGB on Wednesday, May 17.
E.C. Myers was assembled in the U.S. from Korean and German parts and raised by a single mother and a public library in Yonkers, New York. He has published four novels, and short stories in various magazines and anthologies, including Space & Time Magazine, Hidden Youth: Speculative Stories of Marginalized Children, and Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy. His first novel, Fair Coin, won the 2012 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult SF and Fantasy, and YALSA selected The Silence of Six as one of its “Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers” in 2016. His next book will be DoubleThink, a collection of stories related to The Silence of Six from and he continues to write for ReMade, a science fiction series from Serial Box Publishing.
Sam J. Miller’s short stories have appeared in publications such as Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, and Lightspeed, along with multiple “year’s best” anthologies. His debut novel The Art of Starving, forthcoming from HarperTeen, was called “Funny, haunting, beautiful, relentless and powerful… a classic in the making” by Book Riot. His second novel, The Breaks, will be published by Ecco Press in 2018. He graduated from the Clarion UCSD Science Fiction & Fantasy Workshop in 2012. A finalist for multiple Nebula Awards along with the World Fantasy and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards, he won the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award for his short story “57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides.”
Begins 7 p.m. at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs) in New York.
(9) HELP NEEDED. If someone reading this who is fluent in Korean would be willing to serve as a go-between for a brief exchange regarding some fan-related questions, please send me your contact name and e-mail address and I will put you in touch with the fan who needs the help.
Write to me at – [email protected].
(10) LET’S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt are back says io9 – “Edge of Tomorrow Sequel Gets Title and Return of Emily Blunt”.
In an interview with Collider, Liman confirmed that the new movie will be called Live Die Repeat and Repeat, a nod to the tagline and later title that was given to the film for digital and home release, Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow. Blunt is on board to reprise her role as Rita Vrataski, along with Cruise as star Bill Cage. Liman previously said the movie will be a sequel that’s actually a prequel, playing on the film’s use of time to subvert people’s expectations of what a sequel should be like.
(11) DE-AGING. The Washington Post’s Michael Cavna looks at the CGI wizardry that enabled Kurt Russell, in a crucial early scene in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, to look the way he did in 1980.
From there, [director James] Gunn credits the technological growth. “It helped that Kurt has aged pretty well and that the makeup and hair team did their [work] properly,” the director says, “but it’s also that visual effects are just getting better and better.
“It’s not cheap and it’s not easy,” Gunn adds. “That [scene] pretty much took our entire post-production period to finish. I didn’t get the final shots till almost a few weeks before ‘lock.’ ”
(12) DAMMIT I’M A DOCTOR. Motley Fool tells about “3 Ways Real Health Care Is Catching Up to Sci-Fi Health Care”.
2. Curing cancer with machines Neill Blomkamp’s 2013 film Elysium featured a magical medical pod that could cure cancer in less than a minute. While that device is an obvious Hollywood fantasy, it has roots in real medical technology that is available today.
Over the past decade, cancer treatments have improved dramatically on the pharmaceutical level, with immunotherapy and targeted therapies, and on the mechanical level, with advanced oncology machines.
Accuray’s flagship product, the CyberKnife Stereotactic Radiosurgery System, is one of these machines. The CyberKnife uses tiny lasers to deliver highly concentrated doses of radiation into the body to kill cancerous cells. The process, unlike chemotherapy, spares healthy cells and requires no physical incisions — making it a pain-free, minimally invasive option for patients with inoperable or surgically complex tumors.
(13) DON’T MESS WITH MAMATAS. What’s appropriate here? Maybe a warning: “Never bring a letter opener to a gunfight.”
Does Bill O'Reilly pay you to tweet nonsense with his settlement money, or did you sell your psych drugs to an undergrad? https://t.co/CQmar0icsX
— Nick Buy My Book Mamatas ??????????????? (@NMamatas) May 7, 2017
(14) RANKING STAR WARS. David French, in “The Actual Definitive ‘Star Wars’ Movie Ratings” at National Review Online, has lots of funny bits and isn’t that political. I especially liked his throwing in ratings for the zombie apocalypse, “the actual apocalypse” and The Phantom Menace…
4. Revenge of the Sith: What? A prequel movie cracks the top four? Ahead of Return of the Jedi? Here’s the thing about Revenge — Anakin’s turn to the dark side just works. You can see why he did it, why it made sense, and why a Jedi would turn on his own order. I don’t know if this was Lucas’s intent, but he spent the prequels making the Republic (and the Jedi) look like an intergalactic U.N., wielding their lightsabers to lop off the heads of anyone who dared to exercise the slightest degree of self-determination. Revenge made me like the Sith. It made me root for the emperor.
(15) FLY ME TO THE LEGO. It might be almost as tall as the bheer can tower to the Moon. Business Insider says “Lego just launched a giant Apollo Saturn V moon rocket set that comes with 1,969 pieces”.
This summer will be one small step for Lego fans, and one giant leap for nerd-kind.
Lego Ideas is launching a NASA Apollo Saturn V rocket set on June 1, 2017, to help space fans everywhere pull off historic moon missions from the comfort of their own homes.
Like NASA’s storied space program, this kit will come with three separable Saturn V rocket stages, a lunar orbiter, lunar module, crew of three astronauts, and even an American flag for the microfigurines to plant on the moon.
These are the components, according to the original LEGO Ideas proposal:
The whole Lego rocket is about 1 meter/130 studs high (aprox. 1:110 scale), has 1179 bricks and lots of features:
- removable 1st rocket-stage with the main rocket engine
- removable 2nd rocket-stage with rocket engine
- removable 3rd rocket-stage with the Apollo spacecraft
- Apollo spacecraft with the “Eagle” Lunar Lander and the Lunar Orbiter
- the rescue rocket on top of the whole spacecraft
- two minifigure astronauts on the Moon for displaying
(16) FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO BIND THEM. But don’t count on buying a set like this — “LEGO Leia vs Jabba The Hutt Should Be a Real LEGO Set”.
One of the greatest scenes in sci-fi history has been captured perfectly in LEGO. That is the moment in Return of the Jedi when Princess Leia chokes Jabba the Hutt and kills him dead. It is Leia vs Jabba. This cool creation is the work of artist Iain “Ochre Jelly” Heath and it is stunning. It really captures the moment perfectly, with Leia pulling the chains and Jabba’s tongue coming out of his nasty slimy mouth. The quality here is good enough for an official LEGO kit. If only we could buy it.
(17) PAINTED NIGHTMARES. I’d practically forgotten that Rod Serling’s Night Gallery involved actual paintings. Dangerous Minds has assembled a photo gallery of the artworks.
Night Gallery, Rod Serling’s follow up to the highly successful Twilight Zone series, only lasted for three seasons before imploding under the pressure of internal conflicts. It seems that in a complete lapse of sanity, Jack Laird, the show’s producer, forgot a fundamental maxim of making great television: allow Rod Serling to do whatever he wants to do. Nevertheless, the show managed to squeak out a run on NBC from 1970-72.
The premise of Night Gallery centered around Serling as the curator of a Museum of the Macabre, and he would introduce the shows various segments with a piece of art that represented the basic story on canvas. These stories still mined the areas of fantasy, science fiction and horror which Serling knew so well—again utilizing his own original teleplays as well as adapting works by such writers as H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, and Robert A. Heinlein for the small screen—but at an hour’s running time, the show could present multiple segments, some of the more whimsical segments clocking in at under five minutes.
(18) FORRY, BLOCH AND “EGO”. Earlier this year Fanac.org posted the audio recording of Loncon II’s (1965) Guest of Honor and other Banquet speeches.
This audio recording is enhanced with over 40 appropriate images and features: Guest of Honor speech by Brian Aldiss, Arthur C. Clarke on working with Stanley Kubrick, Robert Bloch’s hilarious comments on fandom, TAFF winner Terry Carr, and Forry Ackerman’s presentation of the Big Heart award. Most astonishingly, Robert Silverberg presents the Hugo awards in 6 minutes while still torturing the nominees by delaying the announcements. Original audio recorded by Waldemar Kumming and digitized by Thomas Recktenwald.
[Thank to rcade, Martin Morse Wooster, JJ, Cat Eldridge, Carl Slaughter, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Xtifr.]
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“He must be a king.”
“Why?”
“He hasn’t got pixels all over ‘im.”
[tick? Too soon?]
“Hello pixel my old friend, I’ve come to scroll with you again.”
Revenge made me like the Sith. It made me root for the emperor.
I guess he forgot that it made him root for Annakin murdering children.
Oh, good grief.
The idea that this current story gave white supremacists some kind of inspiration or permission to try to co-opt Captain America imagery is absurd — they were doing that before the story even started. Heck, I used get white supremacist recruiting literature in the 1970s, whenever I’d have a letter of comment published in CAPTAIN AMERICA or THOR, because white supremacists aren’t terribly continuity-minded.
The idea that they only do this shit because Marvel’s story somehow opened the door to it is simply nonsense.
Clicky
Bradbury wall: I can also see “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity” and “Risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down”, twice each in the small sans serif font. There’s also a big “Stuff your eyes with wonder”.
12 – Cyberknife and Gamma Knife radio surgeries have been around for a while, and is not nearly like that pod. It requires planning scans, radiation therapists, technicians and surgeons who’ve been trained on it. Some people like the idea of it as it’s less invasive, up until they get their head screwed into the machine since no movement is allowed during the procedure. While it’s cool it’s not catching up to a 2013 movie when it’s existed for some time.
Crichton’s The Terminal Man however is very similar to Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) that’s used to treat movement disorders and that they’ve started testing on other conditions like depression.
Oh and the big cursive line 3 down is “vulgar one moment” – interesting words to emphasise from a longer quote.
“If you want to write… You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.”
It took longer to get this posted than I had wanted, but here is my review of Caliban’s War.
(3) FILE SEVENTEEN YEARS. I remember when she was this tall! Actually, I don’t know who she is, but I love her cap! 🙂
(7) REAPNG WHAT YOU SOW. There is no “I” in Team – or in “Reapng.”
(16) FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO BIND THEM. Way cool! 😀
@Xtifr & @Mike Glyer: Great Pixel Scroll title!
@Soon Lee: “Hello pixel my old friend, I’ve come to scroll with you again.” – Also great!
Kendall: Aha! Appertan yourself your favorte beverage!
@16 Was fun to see.
@Mike Glyer: LOL. I may have some ce cream instead of a beverage. 🙂
@Aaron: Yeah, funny how he didn’t mention all the small trusting children murdered by someone who was their teacher/older brother figure. He also forgot how much self-determination the Emperor let people have, what with dissolving the Senate and blowing up entire planets.
(1) Unreadable AND ugly. Hope Ray’s ghost haunts him.
(16) How do you torture people by stalling when the whole thing only takes 6 minutes? I know we didn’t have nearly as many categories back then, but still. Guess I’ll have to listen.
The experience seems to have been magnified in the retelling. Ron Bennett’s 1965 Worldcon report focuses on the joke that Silverberg affected to take all the time in the world, and go off on tangents, without addressing whether he literally took a lot of time or not.
@Aaron
I think your review is spot on when you say the new viewpoint characters make the book – Bobby and Avasarala in particular IMO.
(2) GUARDIANS OF THE FIDUCIARY
I am unsurprised. I went to a morning showing in the hope of dodging the crowds and it was already packed, which is always a good sign for the box office (but bad for me getting a decent seat!)
(10) LET’S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN
I suppose it could be interesting, but surely if a movie was a surprise hit then waiting several years for a sequel just lets the surprise wear off?
(17) I like seeing so many Night Gallery paintings at once, but (as someone who watched most episodes first-run on NBC) I am compelled to note some factual errors in the accompanying text. There never was a Night Gallery Heinlein adaptation, for one thing. Moreover, the series was not always an hour; it was cut to 30 minutes for the final season, which actually lasted until spring 1973. (This meant that the 1972-73 episodes fit into the half-hour syndication package without major alterations. The story of the addition of the Gary Collins Sixth Sense segments is otherwise accurate, but is missing the sad detail that Rod Serling – presumably with no choice in the matter if he wanted any syndication of Night Gallery at all – had to tape introductions to those segments as if they were proper Night Gallery segments.)
I saw Serling speak at a college in April 1975 and got to meet him afterward. He looked much older than his age, wizened really, and I do wish he’d lived longer than 2 more months.
gottacook: According to the book Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson, there was an unproduced Serling adaptation of Heinlein’s short story “They” submitted and considered for production in 1971 but never made.
Yeah, if you weren’t aware that a superhero named Captain America who wears a US flag-based costume appeals to nationalists/white supremacists… bless your innocent soul.
Scroll-emperor of Pixel?
2) Didn’t get to GOTG2 this weekend. Spent my Saturday on my North Shore trip, Sunday was cleaning up everything else. Maybe this weekend, if I am lucky.
@Kathodus I think Sigrid was pointing at Marvel execs and defenders who are convinced that they are not shielding white nationalists and racists with this (IMO) idiotic and offensive storyline.
(Which makes me wonder if there isn’t a non-in-house-Marvel defense of this storyline to date anywhere in the SFF Noosphere. Not a generic “free speech!” one, but is there anyone who thinks this is a good idea and likes it
Re 14: Root for the Emperor. Yep. Because only the Emperor can Make the Galaxy Great Again. MGGA!
I think Secret Empire would have made a perfectly fine issue of What If… from back in the 1980s when they were double sized issues.
OGH was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he:
He called for his pix, and he called for his scroll, and he called for his Filers’ squee.
Now every Filer had a very fine pixel, and a very fine pixel had he,
Ticky-box, ticky-box, ticky-box went the Filers
God-stalk, God-stalk, God-stalk went the Filers
There’s none so droll who pixel scroll
As Mike and his Filers’ squee.
7) Jack Kirby wept real tears.
Adventures in BDP (Short): so a few weeks ago I had a grump at another filer – sorry I cant remember who, and thread subscription hasn’t been working for me so haven’t been able to look it up – about Doctor Who’s treatment of female characters in the Moffat era, and how I’d stopped watching at the end of Peter Capaldi’s first season because I was too frustrated with the whole thing. Which the other filer said was rather a shame, but we’re all adults who make our own choices so that was that.
This month I’ve had a lot of free time on my hands and a desire to catch up on lots of TV that I’ve missed, so I decided to give the show another go for the sake of BDP completeness. It is because of that that I can confirm that MYSTERIOUS OTHER FILER, you were absolutely right. I stopped watching Doctor Who at basically exactly the wrong time and Season 9 answers a lot of my frustrations over lack of representation and overuse of tropey Strong Female Characters, and backs it up in my affections with a set of ridiculous-in-the-best-possible-way Doctor Who storylines with barely a missed note in them. Hard to pick a highlight, but the sheer quantity and quality of Ladies Onscreen in the Zygon two-parter was a particularly magical moment for me.
Now one could point out that if the show hadn’t had years of mild disappointment and ladies defined primarily by weird arc words (to be fair, not just a Moffat problem) in the first place, I wouldn’t have stopped watching, but the point is that it’s really great for everyone when things improve, so hurrah for that I suppose! I’m still gonna be mad if 13 is another white dude, however.
Having said that, the Hugo finalist episode isn’t quite at the level of the 2015 offerings (also I don’t love superheroes) – there’s no way its displacing San Junipero as my favourite TV of the bunch and there’s no way any of the TV is getting past Splendor and Misery…!
Re. Captain America: Thats ridicoulus. First of: The comics didnt make the white supremists, white supremists. Does it make a difference that they are using a Cap-Shield? Would it be different if they use Red Skull imigery? Sinistros? Judge Dredd? I doubt it. And if Cap now turned villain, it just means, they identify themselves as villains.As they should.
I click a white box cause I want it tainted black
No pixels anymore, I want them to scroll back
I see the comment posts, appertainted by their drin o´ choice
I have to click again, until the checkmnark goes.
So does anyone recall what that 1962 GOH joke that Ted Sturgeon wouldn’t tell the audience?
I scroll the pixel electric…
Something pixel this way scrolls.
The pixelated scroll.
@1: looks like the scribe was taking lessons from the designers of 1960’s West Coast rock concert posters — or maybe from Robert-Houdin, who I’ve read had a business card that had to be tipped on edge (in several directions) to be readable.
@3: I remember, decades back, Missy Pavlat (Peggy Rae’s daughter) showing up in a shirt saying “How do you spell relief? ‘g-r-a-d-u-a-t-i-o-n.’ ” This is much more … pointed?
@Mark (re Guardians): one new multiplex in Boston opened with all-reserved seating (which IIRC has been common in UK cinemas for some time), and another converted a couple of years ago. Not bad if you don’t mind paying the advance-purchase premium, and you can know before paying whether there \are/ any good seats — IFF you have a mental map of the theater. (I never used to count rows, just moved along the aisle until the screen width looked right.) And having a between-the-seats surface for snacks doesn’t make up for the seats being so big I feel like a five-year-old trying to sit in an adult’s chair.
On that Captain America issue: The BBC today ran a story about the “death” of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon that was turned into a racist meme by Atl-right groups, So it can happen. But Captain America seem to be a different story.
Is it because he’s been turned into a “super villain” by Marvel itself?
Anamorphic writing? My legendary (because he died before I was born) grandfather used to love that, and I learned to do them as well. Each issue of NEW PALS would have a fake bar code that was a secret-ish message for the Pals. Something short and anodyne.
A book I treasure, Hidden Pictures, has many examples of anamorphic art, and comes with a mylar sheet that can be rolled into a cylinder or cone for viewing some of the images. There was an exhibition at the Uffizi that was chock full of illusionistic paintings, perspective boxes, and devices surrounding the working out of perspective on 2-D surfaces. I had five minutes to race through the show, as I only stumbled onto it as we were about to leave, but I was able to purchase a catalog of it, Nel Segno di Masaccio. It’s all in Italian, so the deep explanations elude me, but the photos are superb.
That only works twice.
Or so Ive heard.
🙂
no, you cannot enter the same river twice.
You only tickybox twice.
This is absurd. As Kurt said, there’s nothing new about white nationalists and similar types adopting Captain America iconography. They’re nationalists. He’s a national symbol in our pop culture. Connect the dots.
Cap’s my favorite superhero going back to the 1970s when my friends in seventh grade had a serious debate at lunch over who was the best. They chose Iron Man and Daredevil, respectively. They were wrong.
I’ve read Captain America ever since. I have no problem with the storyline. It’s a trick played on his mind by a Cosmic Cube, not a retcon of the character.
@ CHip: the seats being so big I feel like a five-year-old trying to sit in an adult’s chair.
That sounds to me as if the theater is trying to be inclusive. I know a number of fen who would think of “seats I can actually fit into!” as a feature.
First full Blade Runner 2049 trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcx85zbxz4
I am … um …
@Paul – I get that , but I don’t understand the outrage.
Oh, hey, @Iphinome, if you’re reading this… if you’re walking down the street and a fluffy black and white tuxedo cat and a short-haired blue tuxedo cat attempt to lure you into an alley, be careful. My cats are very, very angry with you for recommending Stardew Valley. They claim I pay more attention to my in-game cat than I do to them.
[boxstalk]
[sorry i’m late]
Scroll me to the river*
Drop me in the pixel
*That I’ll never enter again
“Scrolling on the Filer” (aka “Pixel Mary”)
“Big wheel keep on filing
Pixel Mary keep on scrolling
And we’re scrolling, scrolling
Scrolling on the Filer”
Alternative name for arrival: Squid pro quo.
(Sorry, I had to let it out somewhere)
I’m…confused. I made a post and am nicely tickyboxed but do not see my words. This is new.
Ooh, title credit–still a rare enough experience for me to get excited about.
Of course, this just means I’m going to be redoubling my efforts for a while… 😀
Set out scrolling, but I’ll take my time; a friend of the pixel is a friend of mine.
Hey scroll, where you going with that pixel in your hand?
I scrolled the sheriff, but I did not scroll the deputy.
We scrollin’, we scrollin’, I hope you like scrollin’ too.
When my kid was younger, first we watched that anime-influenced Spiderman cartoon together, I think more for my sake. Then it was Phineas and Ferb, and now that I have a teenager, it’s Steven Universe that we watch. Not all the time, because I don’t have cable (and can’t find the remote for the digital converter, so no SNL except on line for Johnnie), but when we can, we do, and I’m very grateful.
Because my time out of house is very restricted (care giving), the only “convenient” time for me to go to films is Thursday nite. Fortunately, the local sixplex usually runs a thursday evening before the friday rush opening for many genre films.
So I got to see GotG V2 in theater.
Such may be offered fir other films in other regions.
This is an ex pixel.
It has ceased to scroll. Its six feet under and pushing up the daisies.
Its gone to meet its filer. Its shuffled off this mortal coil and gone to join the filkers invisible.
I didn’t want to be a pet store clerk. I wanted to be a pixel scroller.
Oh I’m a pixelscroller and I’m ok
I sleep all night and I file all day
Chorus: he’s a pixelscroller and he’s ok
he sleeps all night and he files all day
I enter fifths, I tickybox and go to the lavotry
on fridays I send titles and appertain some tea
Chorus: he enters fifths, he tickyboxes, he goes to the lavotry, on fridays he sends titles and appertains some tea
Enough of that! Go on you, go on about your business!
Well, it was a silly song anyway….