#jim kirkland

[hasellia]

Okay so I was scouring jojowiki.com as usual and it says there that Diego's dinosaur form is based on an outdated record of a Utahraptor, and I don't know anything about them but I have a slight suspicion they were found in Utah.

I dunno just thought it was funny how to the point the name is. "it's a raptor in Utah, let's call it Utahraptor"

You blame Jim Kirkland over on his twitter for naming them that.

But yeah, "[Place name]saurus [place name]ensis" is a meme in the paleocommunity for a reason. (The word "ensis" meaning "from [place name]".) Image souce: Adam-Loves-Dinosaurs.

I think Utahraptor is probably the most famous one. When another large dromeosaur was found in Dakota, DePalma felt it natural to smash the usual dromeosaur suffix of "raptor" with the prefix of [Place name] to name Dakotaraptor.

A dinosaur not many realise was intended to be named after a place is Mamenchisaurus. (Source: Cervente on Tumblr)

It was discovered in (yes I'm using Wikipedia's text) Mǎmíngxī (马鸣溪 'horse-neighing brook') by Yang Zhongjian (楊鍾健), grandfather of Chinese Palaeontology. However, Yang wasn't from the area and mistook the intonation for the locale name. So he ended up calling it (馬門溪龍屬), from Mǎménxī (马门溪 'horse-gate brook').

That's probably the most fun one I can think of, but the others are like...

Koreacertops. Aegyptosaurus. Argentinosaurus. Patagotitan (Patagonia). Chilesaurus (Chile, but apparently it sounds like "dick" in latin countries?) Edmontosaurus (Canadian province, Edmonton). Albertosaurus (Candadian province Alberta, named after Princess Louise Carolina Alberta... named after Prince Albert). Gondwanasuchus (A crocodile actually, that was found in São Paulo, you know where, which USED to be part of the supercontinent Gondwana). Adamantisaurus is named from the same formation the croc was found, Adamantina.

Probably the most common kind of argument on the internet regarding dinosaurs at the moment is names and... IMO, it's not worth it unless it's REALLY bad or a bit mishandled, like Kuru kulla or Mamenchisaurus. But then, that's what the ICZN (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature) is usually for.

Anyway, Thanos is the worst dinosaur name in current use. Grapes, I need your Brazilian Portuguese expertise to write a strongly worded letter to Rafael Delcourt and Fabiano Vidoi Iori on good naming conventions. Obrigado Uva!

[witchthewriter]

𝑭𝑹𝑶𝑴

Please tell me that there's people who love From just as much as I do??

I am definitely writing about the characters. This has become one of my favourite shows this year. I wish it was more well-known!

So I will be writing for:

Boyd

Kenny

Fatima

Randall

Jade

Kristi

Victor

Julie

Donna

And a lot of these will be platonic! But some will be romantic as well 𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡˚♡

[jess-emurphy]

Idk how it happened but Randall is now a more likeable character to me than Jim. Like yeah he tied Donna to a tree and that isn't cool but Jim is annoying so

[cleopatragirlie]

𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐮 𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐬 𝐊𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 (𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟓) ❀

[biggest-geo-oogami-enjoyer]

FROM

So, I have been a raging fan of this show since its commencement, and therefore, I wish to ask of the fromily:

SHALL I WRITE FOR FROM CHARACTERS?!

(you don't have a choice I'm doing it anyway but im really excited about it)

anyway i'll write for literally fucking anyone and anything (with Ethan and Julie being solely platonic, along with boyd and maybe fatima/ellis idek tbh).

expect a lot of my appreciation over jade and randall btw <33

[80smovies]

[adamwatchesmovies]

Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White—Another Bite @ the Apple (2009)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

I never thought I’d see a movie that would have me looking back fondly at Happily N’Ever After but here I am, wondering if the original really was THAT bad. Yes, it was but this direct-to-DVD follow-up is even worse.

After her mother dies, Snow White (voiced by Helen Niedwick) grows up spoiled, caring only for the fame and fortune of royalty. The kingdom’s chances of a “happily ever after” ending is in danger when Mambo (Jim Sullivan) and Munk (Kirk Thornton) accidentally tip the scales of good and evil and give Lady Vain (Cindy Robinson) - who hates Snow White - the means to seduce now-widowed King Cole (Kelly Brewster) and become queen herself. Banished from the kingdom through Vain’s machinations, Snow White must learn kindness to save her home and people.

This is one of the worst-looking movies I’ve ever seen. People sometimes joke about first-generation computer imagery looking like something out of a video game but this time, no one is exaggerating. Every character is stiff, lifeless, and moves around like a cloud. The backgrounds are missing textures, objects seem misaligned, and everything is generally ugly. When characters speak, their mouths are stretched in any which direction. - You’ve seen better lip-synch from one of those rubber talking fishes hanging on the wall. It’s an eye-sore to watch and the experience is made worse by the garbage story.

You’ll notice none of the voice actors from the original film return. It's the same for the characters. Only the dwarves, the fairy godmother and both Mumbo & Munk make an appearance. Those last two add so little to the story they should’ve been cut. They weren't because this would’ve made this sequel even more tenuously tied to the 2006 Shrek wannabe and it would’ve also slashed precious minutes from the 70-minute running time. Even at barely over an hour, this feels like an eternity.

The jokes are never, ever funny, the dialogue inane and the plot lazy. The songs are so bland and forgettable you’re likely to fall asleep (if only you could). There isn’t an ounce of inspiration to be found anywhere. Happily N'Ever After 2 is inexcusably lazy and takes every shortcut possible. I can’t imagine anyone was clamoring for this sequel considering what the first one was like so this can’t even be something that was green-lit by some misguided fans. Happily N’Ever After 2 was spawned by an accountant; a bean counter who figured out the company could make X profits if they made a sequel that cost less than Y. It’s a disgrace.

If Happily N’Ever After was to Shrek what vegan spaghetti and meatballs is to regular spaghetti and meatballs, then Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White—Another Bite @ the Apple is a collection of dog turds squeezed through some Play-Doh moulds to look like food. I can’t imagine anyone enjoying it. The ones who worked on this should be ashamed of themselves. (On DVD, March 22, 2019)

[mineralsrocksandfossiltalks]

Science Saturday

Science Saturday: How do you tell the Cedar Mountain Formation from the Morrison Formation? Answer: with a lot of trial and error. Both are characterized by colorful smectitic mudstones (though neither are only made of those rocks.

There is much variation). In the San Rafael Swell, the basal unit is the Buckhorn Conglomerate which is a resistant layer of rock that is very different than Morrison musdtone.

Furthur east, the basal unit of the Cedar Mountain Formation is either the Yellow Cat Member or the Poison Strip Sadnstone. The Poison Strip is another resistant layer easy to pick out from the crumbly muds,

however, the Yellow Cat is variegated mudstones identified from the Morrison by being...drabber in color. Not a great difference haha. Where I work in Colorado, the Yellow Cat sits on top of the Morrison.

It took some thorough field investigation to find the contact which was a black chert layer and carbonate nodules in a calcrete layer.

At DinoFest, I was able to speak with the Utah State Paleontologist, Jim Kirkland about other differences to look out for and he mentioned that there were more ash in the Morrison than the Cedar Mountain which we did note in our area.

[1264doghouse]

Jim & Jesse with Ray Kirkland on bass.

[gnomebud]

1 24 29 38. :3c

:3c

1. who is/are your comfort character(s)?

ok i answered this already for current ones but for all-time: dale cooper from twin peaks, mob from mob psycho 100, jim & spock, jack from miss fisher's murder mysteries, eleanor from the haunting of hill house, the little prince. probably more that i can't currently remember but all of these guys make me go AAA.

24. if we were together on a rooftop, what would we be doing?

WELL FIRSTLY I WOULD BE HUGGING YOU. secondly stargazing or listening to the nighttime creatures if it was night. there are so many to hear around me. if it was daytime i would be way too aware of being on a roof and would be trying not to panic at falling off a roof. thumbs up !

29. how do you like your shower water?

this one is interesting. um. good spray?? i used to take very warm showers and now im good with like. lukewarm. shower overheats me

38. a soap bar that smells good?

i never use bar soap but the uhhhhh. kirkland's citrus body wash from costco. smells good!

(from here!)

[byneddiedingo]

Clive Owen in Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam, Pam Ferris, Peter Mullan, Danny Huston, Oana Pellea, Phaldut Sharma, Jacek Koman. Screenplay: Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, based on a novel by P.D. James. Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki. Production design: Jim Clay, Geoffrey Kirkland. Film editing: Alfonso Cuarón, Alex Rodríguez. Music: John Taverner. Since Malthus, overpopulation has always been one of the roads to dystopia, the breakdown of society and the imposition of authoritarian government. But lately, speculative fiction has focused on the opposite: infertility. It gives rise to the theocracy of Gideon in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. And it results in a police state in Alfonso Cuarón's remarkable film Children of Men, set in a dank dystopian London in the year 2027, a world in which human beings stopped bearing children 18 years earlier: i.e., in the year 2009 -- only three years after the film was made. The specificity of the date is reminiscent of the way George Orwell's 1984 serves as a commentary on the year in which it was published, 1948. In its treatment of the plight of immigrants and the racism that underlies it Children of Men has something like the prophetic core of the books by Orwell and Atwood, but it sidesteps a central question: How does the failure of humankind to reproduce precipitate the worldwide cataclysm that the movie presents us? Why are immigrants, in a world with a declining population and therefore less pressure on natural resources, a problem? Cuarón is indifferent to such questions, but he runs the risk of suggesting that the film promotes the extreme "pro-life" view, not only anti-abortion but also anti-contraception. Or is it simply that, as one character puts it, "a world without children's voices" is inevitably a terrible place? The lack of backstory seems to me a weakness in an otherwise extraordinary film, full of violent action and suspense, with some wizardly work by Oscar nominees cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and editors Cuarón and Alex Rodríguez. The way they handle the film's much-praised long-take sequences, aided by special effects to give the sense of complex action taking place in a single traveling shot, is exceptional. There are also fine performances by Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Clare-Hope Ashitey, and the inevitably wonderful Michael Caine. 

[harrison-abbott]

I was blogging about this the other day, but it’s worth a repeat; check out this film: it has a lot of valuable information and makes one think differently. 

[pblackk]

Black History Month 365 | # 59 Althea Gibson

Approx 2 hours

Did you know Althea Gibson was the first Black player to win the French (1956), Wimbledon (1957–58), and U.S. Open (1957–58) singles championship? Gibson won eleven majors—five singles, five doubles, one mixed—and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971. Her reign was during the Jim Crow era. AND she also became the first black player to compete on the women’s professional golf tour. Talk about a legend in two games like I’m PeeWee Kirkland huh? Incredible. This was all during the Jim Crow era. She was changing society. In her autobiography though, she states “I have never regarded myself as a crusader…I don’t consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.”

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[bookclub4m]

Episode 187 - Favourite Reads of 2023

This episode we’re discussing our Favourite Reads of 2023! We talk about our favourite fiction and non-fiction books we read this year! Plus: Our favourite comics, video games, documentaries, podcasts, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Favourite Fiction

For the podcast

Anna

The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao  (Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers)

Jam

Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones (Episode 184 - Horror)

Matthew

Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, vol. 3 by Eiji Otsuka and by Housui Yamazaki (Episode 184 - Horror)

The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 edited by Lisa Unger and Steph Cha (Episode 186 - Suspense Fiction)

Meghan

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw (Episode 176 - Fantasy)

Not for the podcast

Jam

Heaven’s Design Team by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, & Tarako

Naked mole rats do not die of old age

Owls’ ears are at asymmetrical heights

Tarsiers have two tongues

Accidental Elephant (YouTube)

Matthew

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith 

Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (Wikipedia)

Meghan

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Anna

Daisy and the Duke by Elizabeth Cole (The Wallflowers of Wildwood)

Favourite Non-Fiction

For the podcast

Matthew

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara (Episode 174 - Economics)

Meghan

Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith (Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry)

Anna

They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles (Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs)

Jam

Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson (Episode 170 - Gender Theory & Gender Studies)

Not for the podcast

Meghan 

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

Anna

Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – and what we can do about it by Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Jam

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney (also discussed in Episode 181)

Matthew

Thirty-One Nil: On the Road With Football's Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey by James Montague

Other Favourite Things of 2023

Anna

If Books Could Kill

The Meme Stock Cult (patron episode) & two parter on Nudge

Folding Ideas - This is Financial Advice (YouTube)

Two Point Hospital / Campus

Oxygen Not Included

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art

Jam

Nimona (film)

Shuna’s Journey by Hayao Miyazaki

Matthew

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Nier: Automata (Wikipedia)

Meghan

Ten Candles

Le Plonguer - Stéphane Larue

Runner-Ups

Jam

Games 

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia)

Baldur’s Gate 3 (Wikipedia)

Redactle

Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore (Episode 176 - Fantasy)

Boy Island by Leo Fox (comic released via 133 installments on Instagram; link is installment #1)

Changing my name (legal procedure)

Best Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe (cookies)

Moon (celestial body)

Matthew

Comics

Box of Light, vol. 1 by Seiko Erisawa

Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen

The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Deluxe Edition, vol. 1 by Nagabe

Incredible Doom, vol. 1 by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden

Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni

Steeple, vols. 1-3 by John Allison, Sarah Stern, and Jim Campbell

Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? by Matt Fraction and Steve Leiber

 Books

Boss Fight: Jagged Alliance 2 by Darius Kazemi

Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams by Alfred Lubrano

Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Dr. Kit Heyam

The Caped Crusader: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Games

Hitman: World of Assassination Trilogy

Yakuza 0 (Wikipedia)

Tetris Effect

Bayonetta (Wikipedia)

Video Essays

The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse - Folding Ideas

Panzer Dragoon Series Retrospective - A Complete History and Review - I Finished A Video Game

 Meghan

Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker

Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

Onley's Arctic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Arctic by Toni Onley

Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden by VitaSackville-West and Sarah Raven

Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga by Benjamin Lorr

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold and Charles W. Schwartz

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism by Daphné B.

Witch King by Martha Wells

Bad Fruit by Ella King

Other Media We Mentioned

Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh

Theme Hospital (Wikipedia)

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Then on Tuesday, February 6th just in time for Valentine's day we’ll be discussing the genre of Humourous/Funny Romance.

[goalhofer]

2023 In Memoriam Part 20

Bill Mondt, 88

Chris Von Gross-Zauche aka Chris Strachwitz, 91

Gloria Belle, 83

Michel Cordes, 77

Brian McKenna, 77

Vida Blue; Jr., 73

Frank Kozik, 61

Pietro Barucci, 100

Jim Copeland, 84

Sam Gross, 89

Bishop Patrick J. McGrath, 77

Ingrid Arvidsson, 103

Ray Fortin, 82

Larry Foster, 85

Hassan Idrissi, 46

Grover Jones, 89

Vic Stasiuk, 93

Alexandros Varitiamadis, 28

Joe Kapp, 85

Vern Holtgrave, 80

Bishop Edward Cullen, 90

Denny Crum, 86

Heather Armstrong, 47

Jacklyn Zeman, 70

Moon Chin, 110

Bishop Carlos Jesús Patricio Baladrón Valdés, 78

Ed Flanagan, 79

Lt. Gen. Donald Kirkland II, 61

Loonkito, 19

Nakanishi Futoshi, 90

[othnieliaregina]

Jim Kirkland has quite a few :3

Short post of paleontologists absolutely slaying photo shoots with their discoveries. Please add more such images if you have them.