#chinese new year 2024 parade

[usasocialtrends]

When is Lunar New Year 2024? Unveiling the Festive Secrets

The Lunar New Year 2024 , also known as the Spring Festival, is a time-honored celebration rich in cultural traditions and vibrant festivities. As we eagerly anticipate the arrival of the Year of the…, let’s delve into the magic that surrounds this auspicious occasion. When is Lunar New Year 2024 I. IntroductionII. Lunar New Year TraditionsIII. Lunar New Year 2024 DateIV. Preparations for Lunar…

[alexisr294]

Last Day of the Year of the Dragon!

Here are some videos I took during the dragon parade at Chinatown in Los Angeles, California.

[ksadvent]

✨Day 31!!!!✨

It's the last day of December 2024, and thus concludes our K/S Advent for this year. Today you get 9 fanworks as a (pet-friendly) firework of fannish creativity: 3 fics, 1 poem, 3 ficlets, and 2 3D-artworks. We will publish the masterlist early in January. A big heartfelt thank-you to everyone who participated: our writers, artists, poets, readers, kudosers, commenters, rebloggers! Title: Starburned and unkissed Author: lesbobaggins Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series Rating: General Audiences Words: 2,282 Summary: Jim takes a step forward, and Spock’s heart leaps. They’re really close, and he has seen Jim do this maneuver before. But it can’t be… No, surely it’s his mind playing tricks on him. Jim wets his lips. Or is it really happening? Spock is having a hard time maintaining his stoic expression and a harder time controlling his blood vessels in order not to blush ridiculously. Then the captain steps away, and withdraws his hand from Spock’s shoulder. ��Happy New Year, Mr. Spock,” he says, and his smile looks unusually bittersweet now. “Happy New Year, captain,” Spock replies. Title: Happy Mew Year Author: Lupo (LupoLight) Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) Rating: Explicit Words: 6,660 Summary: Scotty tries to play a silly prank on Keenser. Jim's luck of course gets in the way, as it tends to do, and Spock gets to experience all the stress of it. In response to a prompt by Florian_Gray. Title: Better Than Drinking Alone Author: spacedogfromspace Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Words: 2,659 Summary: It's Jim's first New Years since the five year mission ended, and he has nobody to spend with with but a pack of beer. That is, until Spock turns up at his door with Chinese food, doughnuts, and the news that there's a Hallmark movie marathon on. In response to a prompt by 1lostone. Title: Keeping Count Author: ForFucksSakeJim Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Words: 828 Summary: The flame flickered, and Spock remembered the way Jim's eyes had softened during his botanical explanation. He had observed that expression 47 times over the past 2.7 months, though he had not previously acknowledged keeping count. In response to a prompt by Affixjoy. Title: Trouble With Tribbles Author: ForFucksSakeJim Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Words: 779 Summary: "I see you are keeping dangerous contraband in your quarters again, Captain," Spock said, one eyebrow arching as the door sealed behind her. She moved with predatory grace to stand at parade rest, hands clasped behind her back. "Going to report me to Command, Commander?" Jamie's fingers never stopped their rhythmic stroking of the tribble's soft fur. "That would be..." Spock paused, crossing to the bed with measured steps. "Illogical. Particularly given the specimen currently residing in my own quarters." In response to a prompt by CampySpaceSlime. Title: melt me like snow Author: ForFucksSakeJim Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek: The Original Series Rating: Mature Words: 55 Summary: Melt me like snow In the fresh breath Of the new spring In response to a prompt by ForFucksSakeJim. Title: No Troubles as Tribbles Author: ForFucksSakeJim Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek: The Original Series Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Words: 371 Summary: Spock and Kirk are women and also tribbles; I don't know how else to say that this is crack treated seriously. In response to a prompt by RookSacrifice. Title: Delta-Snowflakes Artist: ForFucksSakeJim Fandom: Star Trek Rating: General Audiences Summary: Snowflake Trek (trekflake? Snowtrek?) In response to a prompt by ForFucksSakeJim. Title: T'hy'la: Friend, Brother, Lover Artist: ForFucksSakeJim Fandom: Star Trek Rating: General Audiences Summary: some dreidel art? i did In response to a prompt by T'Lara.

[balioc]

BALIOC'S READING LIST, 2024 EDITION

This list counts only published books, consumed in published-book format, that I read for the first time and finished. No rereads, nothing abandoned halfway through, no Internet detritus of any kind, etc. Also no children’s picture books.

(There were still so many children's picture books.)

(I've relaxed my standards a bit for this year. I've counted two graphic novels, and one text so short that it's basically just an illustrated short story. This doesn't particularly feel like cheating, and it doesn't seem to be lowering my standards generally. Next year, I may decide to count texts read on the Internet, so long as they're genuinely substantive in some way; we'll see.)

The Pilgrim of Hate, Ellis Peters

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East, Amanda H. Podany

An Excellent Mystery, Ellis Peters

Moon Dark Smile, Tessa Gratton

The Raven in the Foregate, Ellis Peters

Demon Daughter, Lois McMaster Bujold

The Rose Rent, Ellis Peters

Bea Wolf, Zach Weinersmith

The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandasekera

The Hermit of Eyton Forest, Ellis Peters

Warlock, Oakley Hall

The Confession of Brother Haluin, Ellis Peters

The Heretic's Apprentice, Ellis Peters

Of Ghosts and Goblins, Lafcadio Hearn

The Potter's Field, Ellis Peters

Golden Hill, Francis Spufford

The Summer of the Danes, Ellis Peters

The Holy Thief, Ellis Peters

Ducks: Two Years In the Oil Sands, Kate Beaton

The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett

Brother Cadfael's Penance, Ellis Peters

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, Brandon Sanderson

Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild

Emma, Jane Austen

Lyorn, Stephen Brust

Magus: The Art of Magic From Faustus to Agrippa, Anthony Grafton

The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, Bill Schutt

The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, Russell Hoban

The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo

Unraveller, Frances Hardinge

Pilgermann, Russell Hoban

Breaking Hel, Miles Cameron

The Emperor's Sword, Christian Cameron

Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs

Out of Tales: Or, January, Meg Moseman

Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History, Chün-fang Yü

Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson

Intelligence: All That Matters, Stuart Ritchie

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind

Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee

Prince of the Godborn, Geraldine Harris

Children of the Wind, Geraldine Harris

The Dead Kingdom, Geraldine Harris

The Seventh Gate, Geraldine Harris

The Night Parade of 100 Demons, Marie Brennan

The Game of 100 Candles, Marie Brennan

The Market of 100 Fortunes, Marie Brennan

Aztecs: An Interpretation, Inga Clendinnen

Sand, Wolfgang Herrndorf

The Wood at Midwinter, Susanna Clarke

The Chains of the Earth, David Mealing

Plausible works of improving nonfiction consumed in 2024: 7

Balioc's Choice Award, Fiction Division: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind

>>>> Honorable Mention: Warlock, Oakley Hall

Balioc's Choice Award, Nonfiction Division: Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East, Amanda H. Podany

>>>> Honorable Mention: Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History, Chün-fang Yü

The Celephaïs Award for Mythopoesy With Which I Would Have Been Absolutely Obsessed Had I Read It As a Teenager, and, Let's Be Honest, It's Not Like I'm Not Obsessed Now: the Seven Citadels books by Geraldine Harris [Prince of the Godborn, Children of the Wind, The Dead Kingdom, The Seventh Gate]

The Emerald Champion's Award for "I've Cared About This Setting Since I Was Twelve and This Story Can't Possibly Be Canon, Oh Shit, There Was a Total Reboot and Now You're One of the People In Charge of the Canon?!": Marie Brennan's L5R novels [Night Parade of 100 Demons, Game of 100 Candles, Market of 100 Fortunes]

The Pepsi-Cola Award for "We Have Brandon Sanderson At Home": the Ascension Cycle books by David Mealing [Chains of the Earth, plus two earlier books read in previous years]

The Dumott Schunard Award for Advanced Queerness In the Field of Metaphysics, No Seriously, You Did Not Know That Fantasy Worldbuilding Could Be So Fundamentally Queer: Moon Dark Smile by Tessa Gratton

The Glandeco-Angelinian Award for Real Goddamn Outsider Art Made By a Real Goddamn Outsider Artist Who Is Definitely Thinking Thoughts That Stretch Beyond Your Trifling Mundane World: Out of Tales: Or, January by Meg Moseman

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This year was a lot better than it looks. I swear.

...the numbers are real bad, I know. 52 is the absolute bottom edge of "respectable" for a year's total-books-read count, for me, and no fewer than 11 of those were part of the same silly historical-mystery series. 7 is well below the absolute bottom edge of "respectable" for the nonfiction count.

But, given how shamefully little reading there was overall, there was a surprising amount of serious high-quality stuff with lasting value. Chinese Buddhism, Aztecs, and Weavers, Scribes, and Kings are all exactly what I want nonfiction tomes to be: each one left me with a sense that I understood a particular chunk of the world much better than I had before. I think any one of those three probably caused me to feel more educated than some entire years' worth of nonfiction reading. And on the fiction front, there was just a lot of excellence. Books like Pilgermann and The Saint of Bright Doors are flawed but also possessed of genuine literary greatness. Books like Of Ghosts and Goblins and the Seven Citadels novels are light-weight, but light-weight in the way that a faerie-gossamer cloak is light-weight; they possess genuine beauty that moves them into the realm of the transcendent. Even the usual genre-fiction filler stuff had a lot of semiprecious gems.

I'm still alarmingly bad at getting any reading at all done when I'm working on a serious writing project. I should figure out what I can do about that. Possibly it's time to bite the bullet and start listening to audiobooks when I drive.

[stari-hun]

Insight 2

Insight 2 is defined in the game as the depths of their enlightenment towards their own Arcanum. 

Important Note : Insight 2 is kept once reached, however like in the game, the outfits can be unequipped at any time. 

Sonetto doesn’t have a labeled Insight 2 outfit however you can get a second outfit for her that functions as it from completing the beginning player missions. The outfit shows her leading a parade in the Foundation with the description of “A new sky, an exotic journey, a perfect show, the beginning of a breathtaking story.”

Assuming this is her Insight 2 outfit, it’s still unclear when she gained Insight. We can assume that the outfit was gained before 1.1 

Druvis shows Insight 2 in (4.6), in (4.4) she is Insight 1. In her Insight 2 art, the tree we see her on in 1.8 is alive and flourishing again when it was dead in (1.8). She possibly reached Insight 2 during (2.6) or (2.11) when she left Manus Vindictae and decided to live moving forward again. A good reason for her to become enlightened and supported by her Inspiration of “Thirst of the Woods [Plant]” following Vertin showing her the Rowan branch she kept on her all this time was reviving itself in symbolism that she too needed to start healing from within. 

During the First New Year's art (2024), Regulus is seen with her Insight 2 outfit. X, Vertin, Sonetto, and APPle are shown at Insight 1. The new years art is them in London at an unknown time

Important note : APPle is shown at Insight 1 in Regulus’ Insight 2 art implying that he gained Insight 2 after her. However in the Chinese New Year’s art (2024) , everyone is insight 1 including Regulus.

This means that either she gained Insight 2 before the first the New Years / Holiday within the Foundation, or the official art cannot be taken as canon representation. However, The Foundation celebrates holidays as The Fool implied in the end of [Master of Theatrics] that The People’s Troupe put on a play every Christmas.

[inyoureyes-415]

Chinese New Year Parade

Feb 24, 2024

Chinatown, San Francisco, CA

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Today at the Lunar New Year parade in Manhattan Chinatown, a group that I’m a part of @asians4palestinenyc called attention to Palestine during the biggest Lunar New Year celebration in NYC. On Mott and Bayard, one of the busiest intersections in Chinatown, our group infiltrated the parade and unveiled two banners that said “FREE PALESTINE FREE GAZA” and “CEASEFIRE NOW! END THE SEIGE!” with Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Arabic translations. We organized a faction of people at E. Broadway and Market Street where a large group of activists gathered to spread education about the genocide by handing out our zine packages and chanted for Palestine as cowardly politicians made their way through the parade. Our goal is to draw attention to the dire situation in Palestine while celebrating the year of the dragon. This weekend marks 140 days of genocide and over 30,000 Palestinians killed by Israel. It is tradition in cultures who celebrate Lunar New Year to make a lot of noise, wear colorful clothing, and perform lion dances to scare away the bad spirits. Incredibly proud to have been a part of organizing and documenting this action to demand an end to the genocide and a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

-- Cindy Trinh, 25 Feb 2024

[rjeldridge]

Chinese New Year Parade, Chinatown, NYC (2024)

[yonderoo]

2024 is the Year of the Dragon on the Chinese Calendar

Chinese New Year 2024, also known as the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, marks the beginning of the Year of the Dragon according to the Chinese zodiac. This vibrant and culturally significant celebration, observed by millions around the world, will be a time of joy, family reunions, and traditional customs. Colorful parades, dragon and lion dances, and spectacular fireworks will light up the streets as people welcome the new lunar year with enthusiasm. Families will gather to share special meals and exchange red envelopes (hongbao) for good luck, and temples will be bustling with worshippers offering prayers for a prosperous year ahead. It's a time when the rich tapestry of Chinese culture is beautifully displayed, promoting unity, happiness, and a fresh start for all.

Learn how to draw a chinese new year dragon

[phuket-fantasea]

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[sanfranciscoblog]

The Chinese New Year Festival is one of the biggest annual events in San Francisco. Awkwafina starred in the 2021 Marvel film "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," and drove a Muni bus in a very memorable fight scene.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

BRICS 2024 Summit: Is the Bloc Trying to Rival the Western-Led Global Order?

Last week, there was much handwringing in Western capitals over Russia’s hosting of the BRICS summit in the city of Kazan. Western nations have poured resources into ostracizing Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but the attendance of representatives from 36 countries underscored that President Vladimir Putin was hardly a global pariah.

Parading in front of the cameras, a glowing Putin embraced Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, conversed with Chinese President Xi Jinping, discussed the Middle East with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, and welcomed none other than U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.

Last week, there was much handwringing in Western capitals over Russia’s hosting of the BRICS summit in the city of Kazan. Western nations have poured resources into ostracizing Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but the attendance of representatives from 36 countries underscored that President Vladimir Putin was hardly a global pariah.

Parading in front of the cameras, a glowing Putin embraced Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, conversed with Chinese President Xi Jinping, discussed the Middle East with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, and welcomed none other than U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.

The meeting was the largest held by BRICS since its creation in 2009. Initially composed of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and later South Africa, the bloc welcomed four new members this year: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. Now, the group represents more than 40 percent of the world’s population, and some 30 additional countries are considering joining it, including Turkey, a NATO member.

As BRICS has grown in size, Western analysts have expressed increasing concern over its reach. Some claim that the bloc is fanning anti-Western sentiment in the global south and that China and Russia have propped it up as an alternative or rival to the postwar order rooted in the United Nations and other key institutions, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Yet these fears are overblown. Instead, BRICS should be seen as what it truly is: an effort to rebalance power within the existing order away from Western hegemony rather than to overthrow it.

Continue reading.

[swldx]

RNZ Pacific 1213 15 Jun 2024

9700Khz 1158 15 JUN 2024 - RNZ PACIFIC (NEW ZEALAND) in ENGLISH from RANGITAIKI. SINPO = 55434. English, music until pips and news @1200z anchored by Vicki McKay. Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales, made her first public appearance on Saturday since surgery five months ago revealed the presence of cancer, attending a military parade in central London. Kate rode in a covered carriage with her three children before watching the "Trooping the Colour", an annual military parade near Buckingham Palace that marks the official birthday of the British monarch, King Charles. New Zealand authorities have offered a reward to anyone who can help them find three children who have been missing since their father vanished with them from a remote rural community more than two years ago. Minister for Agriculture and Trade Todd McClay said he was optimistic for the future of New Zealand's multi-billion dollar dairy exports to China, despite a 5 percent drop in dairy export value to China over the past two years. Chinese premier Li Qiang has visited Fonterra's headquarters in Auckland before departing for Australia on Saturday. There is a recognition of the role that Fonterra played in terms of the bilateral trade between New Zealand and China. The commission reviewing New Zealand's Covid-19 response says its mindful of the possibility of a bird flu outbreak. The Royal Commission inquiry into the government's pandemic response is "making good progress," chairperson Tony Blakely said in a statement. "It is not a matter of "if" but "when" the next pandemic occurs. It's vital that we have the right systems in place to ensure that any future pandemic can be managed safely and successfully." A 100-year-old Ballantynes sign, evidence of 19th-century fraud and tobacco pipes made of clay are among thousands of early Christchurch artefacts on display in the country's first online archaeological museum. More than a million artefacts were unearthed from sites including the Christchurch Town Hall following the 2011 earthquake, as a result of a requirement for archaeologists to be present during earthworks at certain pre-1900 sites. Sports. @1204z Standards and Complaints PSA. @1205z Weather Forecast: fine spells with showers, rain and thunderstorms by evening with some heavy falls. @1206z "All Night Programme" anchored by Vicki McKay. Backyard fence antenna w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), JRC NRD-535D. 100kW, beamAz 35°, bearing 240°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 12912KM from transmitter at Rangitaiki. Local time: 0658.

[alolanroy]

2024 Watch Thread-Part 3

Part 2: https://www.tumblr.com/alolanroy/743462089395470336/2024-watch-thread-part-2?source=share

Lensman (anime): Sometimes lost media is bad. I'm glad it was found, but it still wasn't good 3/10

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: It got a few sensible chuckles out of us, but I'm glad they figured out how to make comedies funny after this. 5/10

Zombie vs Ninja (aka The Undertaker of Sohwa Provence). A South Korean parody of Chinese Kung-fu movies billed as ninjas for the US market. Imagine a turducken if every layer was racism. -5/10

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor: While my PC and Unreal were fighting for their lives, this janky game blew me away. Rarely do we get sequels that truly feel iterative, let alone head and shoulders better than their predecessors. It continually fed me new toys and mechanical twists. I think I'll remember this as both a fun action game and as an outstanding metroidvania. It made me remember that I liked Star Wars, and for that I am thankful. 9/10

Protodoid Delta: I see what they are trying to do here, but it just wasn't fun. just a lot of generic platforming and combat that didn't feel right. Weak buster shots and a three-hit melee I didn't find reliable do not a combat system make. 3/10

Blades: Not quite funny enough for the comedic premise, but for my friends who hadn't seen jaws, it still was enough of a thriller to hold their interests -5/10

Monster Squad: I feel like if this came out when I was a kid, this would have been my favorite movie of all time. The fun monster madness and tone was almost enough to distract me from how the horrible pan'n'scan always found a way to crop out the black buddy-cop, even when he was the one speaking. 7/10

Star Wars The Bad Batch: In all fairness, I stopped only a few episodes in, but this just felt like Dave Filloni playing with his action figures. No real tension, just a parade of his OCs talking to each other, mostly with the same voice. I don't really care to find out if it gets better, because all I've seen is people get excited that more characters from Clone Wars show up. I want a good show, not reminders of a good show. 4/10

Goldeneye: I'm glad Bond isn't quite as brutish with women as the franchise was historically, but while watching it with someone who had never seen a Bond movie before, it occurred to me how strange this movie is without the context it is trying to respond to. 6/10

Battle Star Wars: There wasn't much battle or wars in this one. The stars were allright, but I would've preferred maybe some different hallways or a second hill in the California desert. Hell, I think a second jpeg of the Earth might've gone along way. Besides one of the most funny-bad costumes I've ever seen, this was utterly forgettable. -2/10

Gundam Seed Freedom: This might actually be the most frustrating movie I have ever seen. It made me so mad that I, no joke, walked out to the lobby and stared at an arcade machine to cool off. The writing on display is insanely bad. The first half hour is a sequence of scenes where characters state their thoughts and exposit about a fanfiction-tier plot that barely makes sense. If you liked the cuck arc from Seed Destiny, you will love this movie. It doubles down on the concentric melodrama to a point where everyone has to just be cartoonishly mean-spirited and has the same ending as Destiny, down to the macguffin. 0/10

The Intruder (1962): The day of Roger Corman's passing, this film came up a few times. I took a chance and within a minute and a half I knew this would be a winner. I've never seen a film more quickly and elegantly set up that a character might as well be the devil. Shatner is absolutely fucking evil in this role and it is GREAT. The more I read about this film the more ballsy I realize it was. allegedly this was filmed using mostly actual locals given a watered-down script. All those teens actually went through integration the year before. absolutely wild. 10/10

The Last Man on Earth (1964): Wow, I can't belive that Will Smith Movie 'I am Legend' ripped this off. *Checks Wikipedia* Oh. 7/10

Vikingdom: When people say that a movie feels like a videogame, Ithink this is what they should mean. I would describe it as Jason and the Argonauts by way of a ps3 action game. Cheap as hell, but willing to go hard at random intervals. Shoutout to the sequence in the land of the dead. 6/10

The Cat Who Wore Sunglasses: I'm no expert on Czec new wave cinema, but I think that this was pretty neat. However, I'm not sure that it really fit the mood of a Costco Pizza movie night. 7/10

Dragonball: The Magic Begins: This movie is a laugh-riot mix of good wuxia action and bursts of some laughable CG...until it slows to a crawl at Kame House for like and hour and kills all its energy. The remaster they had on Amazon was gorgeous, but uncanny since these movies aren't usually accessible in any quality. The funniest takeaway was that the production interpreted anime hair as an 80s hong kong action lady perm, so Goku ended up looking a little they/them. -7/10

Blood of Zeus Season 2: I feel as though I can't speak for it much since this is clearly part 1 of a two part story, but it certainly is cut from the Castlevania mold. It does have better forward momentum than its predecessors, but the main party feels almost auxiliary to the other plotlines. I kinda forgot what they were supposed to be doing. 6/10

Everyone is in LA: I don't think the first batch of guests really grabbed me. If this ever got the chance to 'get good' they might be on to something. 4/10

Teldryn Serious: I get what they were going for, but it didn't really work for me. On the literal side, the quest objectives for the last third broke for me. Otherwise, I felt kind of confused because I guessed what was going on before I was supposed to, so I wasn't sure why the story hadn't caught up. 4/10

The Fall of the House of Usher: I think a lot of Japanese RPGMaker and VNs owe Poe and Corman money. Entertaining, but not mind-blowing 7/10

A.D. Police: It had some real cool energy and episodes, but its sure...uh... ended. 7/10

Gundam Twilight Axis: This is a prime example of the cutoff point between a series of scenes and a story 3/10

Skyrim-Mirai: I won't judge this too harshly since I really do feel teenage wish-fulfilment radiating off of this mod. When it clicked for me that Mirai has essentially the same narrative as Serana, and the romance post-game is longer than her main quest...I knew I had to meet it it's level. Not sure I like her ambiguous age, but I chalk it up to harmless fanfiction cringe. 6/10

Jiu Jitsu: With a little editing, this could have been an all-timer martial arts vs. predator mashup movie with a cool alien costume. Nick Cage is in it for a surprising amount and the martial arts is shot pretty fun. Sadly the movie as it exists starts off poorly and gives the impression that the movie is less ambitious than it might actually be. As a result I tuned out for the first half. 4/10

Dick Tracey: The funny makeup and production design does its best, but the awful pacing kneecaps the flow it has at the start. 4/10

Year One: uuugh -3/10

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom: We really had to make our own fun on this one. Except that gnomes, those were great -4/10

Jack-Of-All-Trades!? A Day in the Life of Master Micchi: The geats cast really is at its best once the series is over. These characters are just funny to follow around without the end of the world looming. 5/10

Kamen Rider Geats: 4 Aces and the Black Fox: This would have scored a full point higher if the main villains weren't a greasy discord mod/discord kitten pair that just did not fit the sick recolor of Geats 9. The brief pre-production view of Gotchard made me sad about what we ended up getting. 5.5/10

Kamen Rider The Winter Movie: Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy★Great Gotcha Operation: I know getting turned into a marketable plushie is a meme and all, but this was hilarious. Until it turns into a generic Rider movie in the last third, the puppets are funny as hell and the Geats cast shines so well against the mildness of the chemies. 6/10

[brookston]

Holidays 2.24

Holidays

Central Excise Day (India)

Day of Stripes & Dots

Dia de la Bandera (Flag Day; Mexico)

Dragobete (Lover's Day; Romania)

Edwin Dickinson Baker Day (Oregon)

Engineer’s Day (Iran)

Flag Day (Mexico)

Forget Me Not Day (Disabled Veterans)

Full Moon [2nd of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Bony Moon (Cherokee)

Budding Moon (China)

Daeboreum (Great Full Moon; Korea) [1st Full Moon of Lunar Calendar]

Eagle Moon (Traditional)

Grain Moon (South Africa)

The Great Fifteenth [Lunar Calendar]

Hunger or Hungry Moon (Alternate)

Ice Moon (Celtic)

Little Famine Moon (Choctaw)

Naval Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Raccoon Moon (Traditional)

Snow Moon (American Indian, North America, Traditional)

Southern Hemisphere: Barley, Corn, Dog, Grain, Red, Sturgeon, Wyrt Moons

Storm Moon (England, Neo-Pagan, Wicca)

Trapper’s Moon (Colonial)

Gregorian Calendar Day

Honus Wagner Day

International EBM Day

International Family Drug Support Day

International Repetitive Strain Injury Awareness Day

International SCN2A Awareness Day

International War Animal Day

Loud Shirt Day (New Zealand)

Makha Bucha Day (Thailand)

Marbury vs. Madison Day

Mitch Hedberg Day

National Artist Day (Thailand)

National Dance Day

National Day for War Animals (Australia)

National Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea)

National Trading Card Day

N'cwala (Thanksgiving; Zambia)

Nylon Toothbrush Day

Obnoxious Day

Osmon Roy (Osmanda Regalis) Day

Showza-Shinzan International Yukigassen Tournament (Snowball Fight; Japan)

Sweden Finns’ Day (Sweden)

Tourism Day (Taiwan)

Twin Peaks Day

Ukrainian War Anniversary Day

Voice of America Day

Wild Ginger Day (French Republic)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Caesar Salad Day

Defend the Donut Day

Gouden Carolus Cuvée van de Keizer Open Day

National I Hate Coriander Day

National Tortilla Chip Day

National Tortamali Day

Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Day

World Bartender Day

4th & Last Saturday in February

Camellia Day (California) [Last Saturday]

Clam Chowder Cook-Off (Santa Cruz, CA) [Last Saturday & Sunday]

International Sword Swallowers Day [Last Saturday]

International Tongue Twister Contest Day [Last Saturday]

National Day of Terere (Paraguay) [Last Saturday]

National Library Open Day (UK) [Last Saturday]

National Pretty Brown Girl Day [4th Saturday]

National TRiO Day [4th Saturday]

Open That Bottle Night [Last Saturday]

Independence & Related Days

Iseseisvuspäev, Independence Day of Estonia (from Russia, 1918)

Territory Day (Arizona; 1863)

Zamboanga Sibugay Province Day (Philippines)

Festivals Beginning February 24, 2024

Annapolis Restaurant Week (Annapolis, Maryland) [thru 3.3]

Beer City Festival (Santa Rosa, California)

Chinese New Year Parade (San Francisco, California)

Chocolate Wine Trail (Hermann, Missouri) [thru 2.25]

Melodifestivalen (Eskilstuna, Sweden)

New York City Beer Week (New York, New York) [thru 3.5]

Orange Beach Seafood Festival (Orange Beach, Alabama)

Taiwan Lantern Festival (Tainan, Taiwan) [thru 3.10]

Feast Days

Æthelberht of Kent (1st Christian Anglo-Saxon King) [original date]

Ascensión Nicol y Goñi (Christian; Blessed)

Ayyám-i-Há begins (Baha’i) [thru 2.28]

Beard Day (Pastafarian)

Carthaginian Ghost Spotting Day (Pastafarian)

Charles Le Brun (Artology)

Day of the Abdication of the Sacred King (Pagan)

Feast of Vartan (Armenia; Saint)

Giving of Shoes (Shamanism)

Hammie Swinette (Muppetism)

Huey Newton Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lethard, Bishop of Senlis (Christian; Saint)

Lindel Tsen and Paul Sasaki (Anglican Church of Canada)

Lucan (Positivist; Saint)

Mattia Preti (Artology)

Matthias the Apostle (Christian; Saint)

Modest, Bishop of Trier (Christian; Saint)

Montanus, Lucius, Flavian, Julian, Victorious, Primolus, Rhenus, and Donation, martyrs at Carthage (Christian; Saint)

Pretextatus, Archbishop of Rouen (Christian; Saint)

Primrose Lore Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Regifugium (Flight of Kings; Ancient Rome)

Richard Hamilton (Artology)

Robert of Arbrissel (Christian; Saint)

Sergius of Cappadocia (Christian; Saint)

Sepandārmazgān (Women's Day; Zoroastrian Iran)

Shivaratri (Shiva’s Night; Hinduism; Everyday Wicca)

Winslow Homer (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Alamut, by Vladimir Bartol (Novel; 1938)

Buddy and Bowser (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)

Chips Ahoy (Disney Cartoon; 1956)

Cocaine Bear (Film; 2023)

Figure Eight (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

Fleetwood Mac, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1968)

Frozen Feet (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

Get Out (Film; 2017)

Help Me Rhonda, recorded by The Beach Boys (Song; 1965)

How to Ride a Horse (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

I Got Six (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

Johnny Cash at San Quentin, recorded by Johnny Cash (Concert Album; 1969)

Kidnapped (Disney Film; 1960)

Lest Darkness Fall, by L. Sprague de Camp (Novel; 1941)

L’Orfeo, by Claudio Monteverdi (Opera; 1607) [1st Modern Opera]

Lucky Seven Sampson (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

Misguided Missile (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1958)

Musical Moments from Chopin (Woody Woodpecker & Andy Panda Cartoon; 1947)

My Life as a Zucchini (Animated Film; 2017)

O-Solar-Meow (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1967)

Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen & Edvard Grieg (Musical Play; 1867)

Philadelphia Freedom, by Elton John (Song; 1975)

Physical Graffiti, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1975)

The Practical Pig (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1939)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Film; 1969)

Putty Tat Trouble (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

Rabbit Remembered, by John Updike (Novella; 2001)

Rinaldo, by George Frederic Handel (Opera; 1711)

Rock Dog (Animated Film; 2017)

Silk Stockings (Broadway Musical; 1955)

Space Kid (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1966)

Wanderlust (2012)

WhatsApp (Social Media App; 2009)

When You Wish Upon A Star, recorded by Frances Langford (Song; 1940)

Working Class Dog, by Rick Springfield (Album; 1981)

Today’s Name Days

Matthias (Austria)

Goran, Modest, Montan, Sinerot (Croatia)

Matěj (Czech Republic)

Mattias (Denmark)

Madi, Madis, Mäido, Maido, Maidu, Mait, Mati, Matis, Mats, Matti, Mattias (Estonia)

Matias, Matti (Finland)

Modeste (France)

Matthias (Germany)

Elemér (Hungary)

Edilberto (Italy)

Diāna, Dina, Dins, Gatins, Gatis, Kurbads (Latvia)

Gedmantas, Goda, Motiejus (Lithuania)

Mats, Mattias, Mattis (Norway)

Bogurad, Bogusz, Boguta, Bohusz, Lucjusz, Maciej, Piotr (Poland)

Ioan (Romania)

Matej (Slovakia)

Modesto, Sergio (Spain)

Mats, Mattias (Sweden)

Taras (Ukraine)

Maddison, Madison, Madisyn, Madyson, Mateo, Mathew, Mathias, Matt, Mattea, Matthea, Matthias, Mattias, Mattie, Matty, Modesto (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 55 of 2024; 311 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 8 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 155 (Wu-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 15 Adair I 5784

Islamic: 14 Sha’ban 1445

J Cal: 25 Grey; Foursday [25 of 30]

Julian: 10 February 2024

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 27 Homer (2nd Month) [Lucan]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 66 of 89)

Week: 3rd Week of February

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 6 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Half-Month 5 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 3.10)