#that's a soylent green reference

[lokiinmediasideblog]

All the McSylki marketing just makes me think of Loki begging Marvel not to turn him into marketable plushies only to find out that not only are there marketable plushies, but collectable figurines, sauces, bags,wallets, etc..

And coming soon to a McDonald's near you, nuggets!

McDonald's nuggets is Lokis

[clonetroopercantina]

"Student green is made out of peopleee!!!!!"

Wow, last month you can post this John Solie poster art! Can’t believe 2022 is almost over

[ridragon]

im considering buying soylent when we have more money to help with bad stomach or nausea days but part of me will never not think of soylent Green... And more importantly: what if I like it??? I don't wanna be known as the soylent lover!!!!!

[ronqueesha]

It's Warhammer facts time!

The food most commonly eaten by Imperial citizens is corn. Regular, average sweet corn that we eat IRL, in all its different forms. It's one of the few plants that survived the destruction of Terra's ecology, largely thanks to how it can grow almost anywhere. It's been a staple of offworld human colonies since humanity first colonized the stars tens of thousands of years ago.

Agri-worlds are planets that have had the majority of their landmass flattened into continent-sized agricultural fields. The Imperium uses these endless fields to ship food to all the hungry planets of the galaxy. Of course, this is the Imperium we're talking about. They do not practice sustainable farming on a planetary scale. Every single Agri-world is eventually doomed to have its soil collapse from over-production. Many inhospitable and barren planet that has some tiny shred of human population living on it were once agri-worlds that were farmed to death.

The meat that MOST people eat, if they're lucky, is grox meat. Groxes are large lizards that have been domesticated and bred on agri-worlds in countless number. Like corn, they can live just about anywhere, so are perfect to be shipped to any part of the galaxy.

Corpse Starch is a bit of a meme because it's not REALLY eaten by that many people in the galaxy. Only the truly desperate and downtrodden citizens in the worst hive cities have eaten it. And is often used as an emergency food ration for soldiers when zero other supplies are available. As its name implies, corpse starch is the ground-up remains of dead people, processed into tasteless sludge packed into tin cans. Its whole existence is a meme referencing Soylent Green. In fact, corpse starch is also known as "soylent veridian" in some parts of the galaxy, if the reference wasn't blatant enough.

Games Workshop's official stance is that Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy/Age of Sigmar are completely separate universes with no real crossovers. This stance was a little different in the past, with lots of little cheeky references in old codexes and magazine articles. Such as the non-canon notion that the entire 40k galaxy is actually contained in a bottle on the shelf of a wizard's tower.

BUUUUUUT - ever since Doom Eternal came out, the stance seems to have followed a path similar to how the Doom franchise treats hell. There is only one warp, only one sea of souls that connects all life, and all life across multiverses. The four chaos gods are constant because they are the same four beings in the warp, although they are viewed by very different lenses depending on where an observer thinks of them. Their greatest daemons likewise can appear in any reality the gods wish them to be, though the daemons themselves are unaware of how they're being used as toys. That's why you can play as Skarbrand/Kairos/Kugath/Nkari in Total War Warhammer 3, and also have those daemons on the tabletop in a 40k game.

Likewise, there is a character with an identical name, design and backstory in both fantasy and 40k. Be'lakor was the first ever champion of chaos. From an ancient unknown land, he was the first to gain their favor, and was forever transformed into an immortal daemon prince with immense power. But the gods quickly realized they gave him too much power, and his ambition and evil proved a threat to their grand design. So Be'lakor has forever been cursed to be toyed with by the gods, his schemes for revenge and domination always thwarted. In Fantasy he was even forced to crown another person the everchosen, and watched that man literally destroy the world.

And if you like Richard Armitage's voice, he did the voice acting for Be'lakor in Total War Warhammer 3. Just saying.

[yourobedientserpent]

Blade Runner is a serious contender for Your Obedient Serpent's Favorite Movie of All Time. I quite enjoyed this video essay, but, alas, while it's a pretty good assessment of the Ridley Scott classic, it suffers from a Small Reference pool and a lack of historical perspective.

At timestamp 1:56 in the video, the narrator says something that made me stop and do a double-take:

"The optimistic visions of the future that dominated the '70s were giving way to something darker."

I have an unfair advantage when it comes to Science Fiction Movies of the '70s: I sat through a whole lot of them, good and bad. As I've said many times before, I Was There At The Dawn Of The Nerd Age, when science fiction transitioned from a niche to something mainstream.

It's amusing to see the science fiction cinema of the 1970s dismissed as "optimistic". I mean, this was the decade that gave us dystopian masterpieces like A Clockwork Orange (1971), Silent Running (1972), Soylent Green (1973), Westworld (1973), and the original Rollerball (1975), and whose whose biggest SF franchise was the interminable chain of sequels to 1968's post-apocalyptic Planet of the Apes.

Star Wars came out toward the end of the decade, and it didn't get a second installment until 1980, so it's hard for me to think of it as a '70s franchise. Compared to the SF cinema of the rest of the decade, it's an outlier. It's funny that the video keeps going back to it as as the archetype of "optimistic SF" with a "bright clean white palette," though. When Star Wars first came out, part of what blew everyone away was that it WASN'T Bright Shiny White plastic: it was a grungy used future that looked lived-in.

Blade Runner's immediate visual progenitors in the early '80s were even bigger flops, though, and not ones that were redeemed by time. Films like Saturn 3 (1980) and Outland (1981) both tried to escalate the grungy look of Star Wars into a "noir" aesthetic, but their cinematographers and practical effects were nowhere near the scale or quality, and frankly, their plots were garbage. I'm not gonna pay Amazon $2.99 to watch Outland again; I still want my three bucks back from seeing it in 1981.

In conclusion:

Blade Runner was groundbreaking, but it was more evolutionary than revolutionary.

It's not that it did things that nobody had ever tried before. It's that it succeeded, because it did them on a scale that nobody had tried before. The video describes all of the elements in superb detail: an excellent script based on an excellent story, an accomplished cast, amazing practical effects, and a genius director. It was the first "dark SF" movie to really make the grade as cinema.

[zigcarnivorous]

you know what nobody needs. Mass market bread. Bread is exceedingly easy, homeslice, it is really dumb to SHIP BREAD AROUND .???? 'Mass' market?

Even capitalists would agree, forgive me, it is cheaper to bake the bread as near to the market as possible. Which maximizes freshness and REDUCES SHIPPING AND FUEL COSTS. HELLO

BREAD DOES NOT NEED MASS MARKETING YOU STUPID CAPITALIST PIGLET hellllppppp

Is yeast illegal what is this mentality. BAKE BITCH

[fannele]

I have to do this ‘Soylent green’ reference after seeing this on their menu on their website.

[falmerbrook]

Gates of Oblivion Thoughts

What an interesting mess. I've been turning it over in my head for a few days now that I've finished it.

Thoughts (and spoilers for it if for some reason you care) under the cut

The whole thing, especially Blackwood, felt like the first rough draft of a potentially interesting storyline. Unlike the past Chapters/DLCs, there were really no solid emotional beats in this one, and outside of maybe Lyranth and Arox, I don't feel like the character writing or pacing let us get attached to any of the characters properly. While I enjoyed Blackwood, I get why people say it's mid/bad/boring. Like i said, it felt messy but not without potential.

I just keep thinking about how interesting the Ambitions could've been. I wasn't that invested in the plot until the reveal that soylent green is the Ambitions were people, which genuinely had me taken aback. I just think the character concept of people who have been raised in complete isolation in a vault with 0 idea that they are being groomed to be weapons/sacrificed has some very cool potential, but not only did they not really do anything with it, even just the basic writing of Destron, Calia, and Sombren was lacking. The twins had really inconsistent characterization and almost all of their (all 3 of them) development happened off screen. Like, Sombren going off the deep end at the end didn't seem like a bad direction to take him, but it all happened completely off screen, and the epilogue was so fast paced that we had no time to dwell on it or his (or Calia's) headspace or motivation. And then he just became the Bad Guy and died with 0 fanfare. Idk I just keep thinking about what could've been with the three of them. They could've had a fucked up tragic found family thing going. On top of that, they did a really bad job explaining what the Ambitions actually were. The Longhouse Emperors refer to them as weapons, but the long term goal was also to just sacrifice them to Dagon?? Because he imbued some of his power in each of them... which he needed to let him invade Nirn? I think?? The emperors at least got hypothetical human weapons if they fell out with Dagon, but the whole time I was wondering wtf Dagon got out of it. Unless I missed something, they only explain/imply what Dagon got out of doing any of that (the Ambitions would develop and "nurture" the powers so there would be more power to give back to him I think?) in the final battle with him. Should've explained that way more and way earlier imo.

The rest of Blackwood's characters didn't really stand out either. I liked Eveli fine, but I think they wasted an opportunity to continue her development from Orsinium. In Orsinium she's completely new to being an adventurer/hero and really naive about it, and ends the story feeling like her perception of the role has been rocked and she's unsure if she wants to keep going on this path. In Blackwood she has some more adventuring under her belt, but is now facing a bigger threat. It could've been that in Orisinium she was sorta learning under the Vestige, and now in Blackwood she takes up the mantle to be more of a seasoned hero and leader (especially if you gave her more interactions with the Ambitions). Other than her and some fun side quests (Alchemy and Stibbons), not much else stood out.

Fargrave really grew on my though. It was visually stunning and I loved the layout and the clutter and the concept. The story was same meh as Blackwood but it ended up having a pretty strong cast that made me like it quite a bit by the end! That's something I've noticed with ESO's stories, that for me personally a stronger cast of characters is more important than a good story (although obviously both are ideal, and arguably good characters are needed for a good story, but I think it can still enjoy something with a weak story if the characters are good, y'know).

I liked Lyranth. The constant questioning of whether she actually cared about our goals and considered us a friend or if she was just acting on her own and the semi-twist with her at the end were good. I like that they steered away from her not being like other daedra and showed that in the end she still was one, no matter how friendly she had seemed (although, clearly she had cared at least a little bit since she let us defeat Dagon before taking the powers we needed to defeat him). I wish we got to see more revealed of her long term goals, but I'm honestly pretty fine with not knowing too. It feels in character for her not to tell us. The Anchorite was fine, and a fine mystery (although I called that she was the 4th Ambition from literally the first moment we met her), Arox was great, Rynkyus was great and was great for insight into how daedra think and see mortals. I like all the development on daedra and how they think and operate. The focus on daedra not being able to die properly was a good call and something that I liked seeing expanded. Just a cool setting with characters that help us explore it well.

To be honest though, I think Blackwood and Fargrave/Deadlands might've worked better as two separate stories. The stories in each are already barely held together imo, and I think letting them each have their own time to shine (and maybe let each be a little longer with better pacing) would've been good for fleshing out the setting of Fargrave and the characters in each. I though Murkmire was a really good one off setting/story, and I think Fargrave and the Deadlands would've worked well like that, with maybe Blackwood having a different DLC that fleshed out what was going on with the characters from that storyline more.

All in all I liked it, but I completely agree that it's one or if not the weakest storylines in the whole game.

Also I'm fascinated there is like 0 fan content for this arc. ESO is pretty sparse on fan art/fic anyway but it's kinda hilarious there is nothing for this expansion lol

[goodnessandgrief]

When I’m feeling depressed, it can be nearly impossible to take care of myself, and that includes eating. Here’s a list of some foods that require little to no effort (aka: can be eaten right out of the package or just need to be microwaved), mainly for my personal reference, but also so others can find easier alternatives when they’re struggling.

Water bottles or canned water - stay hydrated!!

vegetables - green beans, peas, corn, black/kidney/pinto beans, chickpeas (all canned or microwaveable frozen bags) - I’ve also tried Harvest Snaps, which are baked snap peas & they’re v good

Fruit - grapes, raisins (or any other dried fruit like apricots/dates), mandarin oranges, apples, applesauce cups, bananas, pears, peaches, etc. (most fruits require no prep anyway, but especially if they’re canned - you can also buy frozen bags)

Canned soup or chicken, beef, or veggie broth

Pasta (ramen, spaghetti, mac and cheese, chow mein) or instant rice are my go-tos. You can buy these in individual cups or bulk packs.

Any microwaveable food - frozen/tv dinners, burritos, toaster strudels (they make an egg bacon & cheese version too!), mini pizzas, breakfast sandwiches… there’s a lot you could do here :)

Dairy - Yogurt, cheese sticks, (or just straight up eat cheese slices, there are no rules here), cottage cheese, almond/oat/soy milk, powdered milk (if you want something shelf-stable)

Grains & carbs - cereal, crackers, chips, popcorn, toast or bagels (I’ve eaten plain bread before tbh and it kinda slaps), Oatmeal (these packets are dinosaur themed & have little sugar eggs!! - https://www.quakeroats.com/products/hot-cereals/instant-oatmeal/dinosaur-eggs)

Nuts - peanuts, peanut butter, almonds, cashews, walnuts, trail mix, etc.

Meat - deli turkey, trail bologna, spam, jerky, frozen chicken strips or nuggets, Morningstar vegetarian corn dogs, canned tuna

Eggs

Fast food or take-out is also a good option if you don’t feel like making anything yourself.

A little tip - most foods you would take on a camping or hiking trip are great! for some, all you need to do is add water & heat it up. they are usually on the expensive side, though!! here’s some I’ve found that are decent:

https://mountainhouse.com/

Things to keep on hand for particularly bad days:

⁠Boost/ensure/Soylent - liquid meals for when the idea of chewing or mixing anything is too much.

⁠disposable cutlery/bowls/utensils so you don’t have more dishes to worry about.

Multivitamins

Liquid IV, Gatorade, or some other form of electrolytes. It’s too easy to get dehydrated!

If you do have a little energy to cook or make something, here’s some ideas:

If you have a blender: frozen spinach + frozen banana + shelf stable almond milk + peanut butter makes a great smoothie.

frozen fruit + frozen spinach/kale for smoothies

Adding whey protein makes it more filling.

⁠dried pasta + jarred pasta sauce (Rao’s is low sugar and awesome, but pricey) + frozen meatballs

Boil tortellini on hand. Its as easy as boiling water. You can eat it plain, add a spoonful of pesto, sprinkle with a little olive oil or butter and some garlic salt, or pour it back in the pan after draining and add a little pasta sauce

⁠frozen fried rice + frozen stir fry veggies

⁠favorite frozen protein and veggies for sheet pan meals

⁠canned refried beans with a tortilla and some cheese to microwave, can add extra toppings too

⁠oatmeal + pb + dried fruit of choice

⁠rice cakes + pb + jam (or substitute bread if you have it)

Rotisserie chicken in a salad, soup, sandwich or wrap

Frozen salmon with some veggies

air fryer foods - chicken nuggets, tenders, fries, etc. You can also toss different vegetables (baby carrots, Brussels sprouts, etc.) in a little olive oil and throw them in there

chicken broth & frozen dumplings - you can dress it up a little with some miso, soy sauce or other seasonings. You could also add some frozen vegetables.

snack type food - a combination of canned Garbanzo beans and black olives. The olives are salty enough that you can get low sodium beans and it will still taste good.

A lot of these ideas I stole from the good people of Reddit (particularly r/depressionmeals)!Here’s the post I referenced if you’d like to look further into it:

[self-loathing-angel-of-thursday2]

Beautiful Spouse’s Rewatch Thoughts SPN 06x06

You Can’t Handle the Truth

“The fuck” “oops” “That’s some unhinged shit, dude” “The Happy Place” “Squish” “Oh I know now why you wanted to watch one more” “Didn’t Sam sell his soul or something?” “Cat” “Crochet Today” “Why is one tie red and the other one blue?” “Why is the dentist being creepy?” “Oh there we go” “Yeah that would be my reaction too. Jesus Christ man” “I thought it was the unhinged doctor but no it was something else.” “That didn’t follow the Hippocratic oath” “Now Sam is wearing the red tie” “Talk with that face” “So if it splattered that way, how is the floor not filled with blood and how is Dean not tracking blood everywhere” “Harry’s got a horn” “oh shit” “in the hotel room” laughed

“They’re like this close” I waved at Misha

“He’s looking straight at you” “He made that drink last a really long time” “Doctor Giggles” “What’s he hinting at? Were the bodies raptured?” “That’s not a news anchor” “you could never say that kind of shit in a public stairwell. What if someone heard you around the corner?” “that’s a good line” “what?” “Know why she’s snorting oxy all day?” “Mm hmm” “Idk if I would have gone for the double take but whatever” “To be fair they didn’t look fake” “What is it with these hunters, man?” “She didn’t even need truth horns to say that.” “Shouldn’t have gone for the visit” “Who puts a cat statue on a cat tree? Who’s the statue for? A real cat would have knocked that down ages ago” “I don’t know what Soylent green” “What’s with the old desktop?” “Dean’s always fkn eating” “We’re going to need to pay you to walk up stairs. We’re going to point a camera at your ass” “meow” “oh delicious” “Is this a WestWorld situation?” “yeah” “I don’t know that reference” Me neither

“Dean’s a lot quicker at cranking one off” “dun dun dun” “a bunch of shit is wrong with you im sure” “yay” “ding dong” “crunchy”

[lotsathink]

Makes me think of Amazon's meal replacement drink called Soylent

For reference, Soylent Green is a 1973 movie about overpopulation in which it's uncovered that the food they've been eating, Soylent Green, is made of people. Why would you name your meal replacement drink after it?!

There's nothing funnier to me than a company named “Crowdstrike” taking out multiple computers worldwide. Great job, buddy, you sure did.

[eyeballtank]

Random thoughts

1: I wonder if some star constelations no longer exist, since stars can die.

Like the "Big Ursula" or whatever you call it. Because ancient explorers even used them as reference when lost.

2: I wonder if Egyptian music that we see in movies, shows etc is like the actual music that existed in ancient Egypt.

3: I was once thinking on comparing bees to mosquitos for some reason. One at least gives us honey but the other takes our blood like vampires and sometimes carries diseases. Both sting but one is not as bad as the other. Though some variations of wasps can still be very dangerous but mosquitos are like used needles sometimes.

4: It's funny that the current year is based off Jesus' birth and even Atheists use that instead of "the year is 5000000000000000000000000 because that's when the Big Bang happened". Kinda like how even they say "Jesus Christ" as an expression.

5: Kinda funny that our current tech and creations made humans live longer yet there's so much that can technically decrease or lifespan and give us cancer. Almost like the lifespan extension part was humanity unlocking something that should've been default, which is why we'll never get any stronger than that.

7: If the human body is 70% water and water is a valuable but limited resources, what if there's a plot to kill people and turn their remains into water? I know Bill Gates wanted to turn shit into water but imagine if there's an actual Soylent Green plot about water.

8: Kinda weird that mold affects both people and stuff like walls. It's like how the word virus applies to both micro organisms that affect people and things that affect computers.

[awesomeassfuck]

ok but the tie in book indicating troy and gabby are lost in space fans is adorable. and the idea they're old sci fi nerds [didn't realize troy had the forbidden planet robot until it was pointed out] is adorable, i have images of them shouting SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE in the cafeteria one lunch

i don't understand the reference, but i support troy and gabriella nerding out together

[drewoclock]

Commentism

Originally published October 27th, 2014

One day, the inventor of the Internet had a brilliant idea.

"My goodness... It's genius!" "WHAT IS IT, PROFESSOR STINKLES." "Why Bebop4000, my robot companion, do you know how people are always remarking things to each other?  Sharing their thoughts about a central thing?" "YES PROFESSOR STINKLES I AM NOT A DUMBASS." "Well, what if, when somebody puts something on the Internet, other people--can REMARK about it?!" "THAT IS A WEIRD QUESTION.  HOW WILL YOU DO IT." "I'll create a--a little box!  And in the box, people can write a comment.  And they can make more and more comment boxes!" "CANNOT COMPUTE." *massive explosion*

And despite their untimely deaths, this idea of comments indeed became a thing.  But I don't think anyone expected it to become as glorious as it did.

YOU get a comment!  YOU get a comment!

...hmm, that wasn't--well, anyway, there's reviewing products, there's commentating on live events, but in the comments section on the Internet, you've got a global bathroom wall where everyone can read and participate at any time while taking a giant dump.  And some people have really found their calling with comments, because they're fantastic at it.

I was supposed to be a fighter pilot.

...Alright, that needs to stop, whatever that is.  ANYWAY, these certain commenters make reading comments a form of entertainment.  It could be one person or a whole group of people, and the possibilitites are endless.  With timing, grace, finesse, and maybe a diaper or something, these commenters essentially create literature: A dialogue that can stand on its own from the very thing that's being commented on.  Comments imitating art, if you will.

Yes, I'm sure the infinite contributions of "fake and gay" would make a fine book.

Hey, if Kim Kardashian can make a book about her selfies, anything is possible.

please buy my book guys, its all the times i accidentally took a screenshot on my phone

EVERYBODY CALM THE FUCK DOWN I'M TRYING TO TALK.  So YES, THESE kinds of COMMENTS are VERY ENTERTAINING, and I've even indulged in making them myself.  But I've noticed an interesting phenomenon.

Soylent Green is people!

SHUT THE FUCK UP.  THE PHENOMENON is that these COMMENTS are BECOMING THEIR OWN POSTS.  I look at these expansive constructions of commentary and think that they themselves should be a separate piece with their own comment boxes.

Comment-ception.

BUUUUUUUMMM.

You have to write a comment in one minute that takes two minutes to read.

It's two minutes to write, one minute to read, dumbass.

Go home, you're drunk.

Is that why somebody called him a BUM?

Guys, alcoholism is a serious problem.

Yeah, come on guys, you're bumming me out.

The road to recovery is a bumpy one.

I recorded twelve songs about my own experience as an alcoholic.  You can buy it on my brand new album.

I am a bum.  am I doing this right?

Alcohol is a serious probum.

I actually think I may be onto something there.  In fact, and I'm totally serious, I had an idea for a social network specifically for comments.  But I'm getting off track.  My point is that with all this focus on comments, sometimes you lose sight of the original post.  And I know some of these original posts encourage this comment spectacle, and some people don't mind what happens to their posts, but you know what?  I kind of do.  Call it controversial, but I think some posts should be spared the comment circus.

Is the op trying to reclaim control of his own post?

ITS A TRAP.

If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

Hahahaha, Star Wars, it's funny because it's a reference, what I'm trying to get at here is that perhaps we should use more discretion when commenting.  Maybe take a look at these original posts and decide whether they might be important enough to deserve their own attention?  Hell, I've had a lot of important posts I've made that have been subject to comments that have distracted people.  I even used to do the same thing to other people.  I love comments, but I think there are some posts that are too important for this parading of comments.  Dare I say it, I am a COMMENT ACTIVIST.  COMMENTISM.

#Kony2012

#GamerGate

#StopYellowFever

#KKK

#sicsemptertyranis

#MenAre#1

#But there's two sides to commentism.  I've made many frivolous posts which have been commented on.  I've watched the comments get more likes than my own post, and its always (to my surprise) really upset me.  It's people essentially declaring that they prefer what someone else said over what I said.  That my content is inferior.  And you know what?  That's a bummer for me, but what's wrong with it?  There's no rule that my original post should be considered better than comments made on it, and there shouldn't be.  Hell, I've made comments on posts that wound up more popular.  Comments may bother me, but just because something was based off of another thing doesn't mean it can't be as great, or even greater.  Dare I say it, I am a COMMENT ACTIVIST.  COMMENTISM.

tl;dr

what are you doing making words?  this is AMERICA

*eagle dives into pool of fireworks*

'MURICA

Morocco?

'MUROCCO

*Moroccan eagle dives into pool of Moroccan fireworks*

SO TO SUM THINGS UP I think comments are grand.  I think that sometimes comments seem right when they're actually out of place, and I think that sometimes comments seem wrong when they're actually fine as they are.  I think this is all something that people really don't consider much because people don't take comments seriously.  But let's face it, a lot of us pay attention to comments.  We notice them more than we think.  So maybe this commentism thing is worth your time.  After all, we're all commenters.  We're all in this race together.  And as long as we're racing, we may as well finish it in...

...

Come on guys, I literally set this one up for you.

FOURTH.

SECOND.

EIGHTY-THIRD.

PI.

SECOND.

ONE HALF.

NEGATIVE EIGHTY-THIRD.

Oh, comments.

[hisuianhellion]

a "energy bar" its green and kinda chunky

((its soylent green

((I'll step in here, because again, I get the reference. If only in passing. Never seen the movie, BUT, I have heard the line.

For those that don't know, I'll put it under a Read More, but it's a bit TOO dark for my liking. I'm not really all that sure what to tag this other than "death". No offense taken or meant, though.))

The line, from the movie Soylent Green, is rather succinct in why I'm not gonna subject Rose to this, because admittedly? She'd be oblivious.

"Soylent Green is people!"

It's a "nutritional wafer" made from, ah. Dead people.

It's a very interesting twist by the sound of it and the movie has won plenty of awards, I may actually check it out just to see the horror unfold knowing the big twist, but. Nah. Not for Rose.

[project1939]

(Tenor Jussi Bjorling sings on Voice of Firestone, and the Nelson family poses for The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.)

Day 64- TV and Radio: 

TV: 

1. Howdy Doody, October 1st, 1952. 

2. Tales of Tomorrow, season 2, episode 7, “Substance X,” October 3rd, 1952. 

3. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, season 1, episode 1, “The Rivals,” October 3rd, 1952. 

Radio: 

You Bet Your Life, October 1st, 1952. 

Voice of Firestone, “Jussi Bjorling,” October 3rd, 1952. 

Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show, “Hotel Harris,” October 5th, 1952. 

There was a lot of interesting stuff today! On Voice of Firestone, “The Swedish Caruso,” tenor Jussi Bjorling sang. Bjorling definitely has a powerful voice- it's even more noticeable to me, having just heard Mario Lanza. The orchestra selections were mostly parts of operas, but they were riveting. One song I knew solely from Takarazuka- “Nessun Dorma,” from the opera Turandot. It was gorgeous. 

On You Bet Your Life, a couple won their section, won the word of the day, and then won the bonus question. That gave them $1880, which would be almost $22,000 today! There was also a bit of fun banter between the first contestant and Groucho. She said she was 46 and unmarried, so Groucho asked, “Would you like to get married?” “Not particularly.” “Why Not?” “While I’ve tried it three times.” “So what? The Republicans have tried it four times and they’re still going!” 

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was interesting to me, because it’s one of those shows that was a cultural reference point for decades, and I’ve never seen it. It was a decent family sit-com, made unique by the fact that they were a real family. I liked that the pace was a little slower, so it didn’t just go from punchline to punchline. 

Finally, Tales of Tomorrow was creepy to the max. It was about a mysterious substance that people in a tiny town ate to the exclusion of all else, yet they managed to thrive. What was it? (It wasn’t Soylent Green!) Most of the episode was a homerun for me, except for the fact that Ayn Rand seemed to have written part of it. When the people are just given all the food they want without having to work for it, everyone suddenly loses their ambition to go to work or do anything productive anymore. Gag me. (It’s stupid anyway, because of the simple fact that people want more than just food in life! No one would want to work for any possessions? For cars, houses, clothes, jewelry, status, etc?) 

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