Trailer tomorrow (Monday).
Action Comics #1000
A week?
I must have been busy. Or lazy. Both?
I spent part of my weekend cleaning stuff around the house, like the upstairs bathroom, among other locations.
I’ve been hitting my elliptical for about 10-20 minutes for the past week. I hope to make it back up to 30+ minutes, if not more.
I caught up with my TV watching, the CW DC shows are surprisingly keeping me interested. Black Lightning is good, so far.
I used my instant pot TWICE in one weekend, making some chicken in salsa thing, and pork ribs. Both turned out pretty good.
More games that I’ll (maybe) eventually play came in.
More porgs were acquired. And dice.
And it’s almost February. Yikes.
Snubbed
I’ve been kicking this around in my own head for half the day, after there were no Oscar nominations for this movie.
As great as I thought this movie was, it was no Oscar contender, except maybe in some of the technical categories, like Best Costume Design or Best Cinematography. But they were snubbed there, too.
I dunno. Maybe the other genre films that did get nominated deserved it more.
And it’s not like the Oscars mean anything in the grand scheme of “what Chris likes.”
Raiders of the Lost Ark lost to Chariots of Fire for Best Picture in 1981, after all.
The 50s
January 19, 1968: premiere date of Star Trek episode ‘The Immunity Syndrome’.
The crew of the Enterprise encounters an energy-draining space creature.
The space amoeba!
In which we also learn that there was a starship manned solely by Vulcans.
WAS.
Spock has a bad reaction to the death of over 400 Vulcans.
Eventually, a Shuttlecraft is sent in (with Spock aboard) to gather information about this organism, and the Enterprise crew end up destroying it with a probe armed with an anti-matter warhead.
This episode is not to be confused with the Space: 1999 episode of the same name:
While on a survey of a planet to replenish food and water on Moonbase Alpha, an alien form attacks a crewman who seemingly goes mad; after a brief struggle with the crewman, Tony Verdeschi is attacked by the alien as well. Koenig and the survey party must find Tony and help him regain his senses before the madness kills him and solve the mystery of the alien life form. All their technology breaks down, preventing them from leaving or receiving aid; all food – native and their own supply – become toxic.
LEGO Responds
I picked up this LEGO set over the weekend, mainly because of this little guy:
A LEGO Porg.
I then emailed LEGO to ask if it was possible to order more porgs, and they sent me this response:
I’m sorry, but we aren’t able to help you get the LEGO® parts you requested. The pieces you need are based on a story and characters we didn’t create ourselves. Our licensing agreements with their original creators specify we can only sell these “licensed” pieces as part of a set.
Bummer. But I understand. No way I’m buying that $800 Millennium Falcon, though, just for two more porgs.
Prepare for Ground Assault
Solitaire wargames update!
I picked up Tiger Leader a while back, in a ding-and-dent sale at Game Kastle. I never got around to playing it due to other games that occupied my time.
After playing a couple more of DVG’s ‘Leader’ games, I decided to pick up Sherman Leader, and this one came with an upgrade kit for Tiger Leader.
And after punching the counters and sorting the cards, both are ready to go.
I don’t know which one to try first.
Do I invade Poland or defend the Philippines, both of which are campaigns in their respective games.
Or recreate the North Africa campaign?
Though I did pick this up last year (and haven’t played) as well:
Decisions, decisions…
STD: Despite Yourself
After missing the previous 6 episodes of Star Trek Discovery, I decided to take a peek at the second half premiere to see if I’d like it any better.
I didn’t.
The characters and story are still meh, and I’m simply tired of them dancing around the idea that this show is NOT set in the Prime universe.
They’re currently in *a* mirror universe. They started in another mirror universe. Tonight they made reference to the Enterprise episode “In a Mirror, Darkly” by mentioning the USS Defiant, but that schematic in the screenshot is not of the Defiant that appeared in that episode.
The nacelle struts are wrong.
The primary hull has notches.
Yet the producers/showrunners still want us to believe that this is the Prime universe.
Sorry, no.
I guess I’ll sit out the rest of the season.
Most Exciting Thing of 2018 (so far)
I was going to Lucky’s Supermarket for some lint traps, and as I pulled into parking lot, I spotted one of my dream cars.
I actually said “OH MY GOD” a few times as I parked my car.
I excitedly got out of the car, forgetting to grab a reusable grocery bag, and even forgetting to lock my car, as I walked, transfixed as the Wienermobile was within walking distance to me.
I kept my geeky enthusiasm in check as I walked up to the little table next to the car, with a family talking to the lady who was at the table, handing out stickers and Wienermobile whistles.
She asked if I had ever seen the Wienermobile before, I told her “never this close,” and she went on to give me the rundown on this particular model, the 2016 version, which has already traveled over 300K miles up and down the West coast and as far as Idaho and down to Texas.
As I tried to take a selfie with it, the lady offered to take a picture for me, since it’s such a big car.
She then gave me a sticker and a whistle, and I went on my way to get lint traps.
Best day of 2018, so far.
Squawk’s new shirt
Not quite right on Porgie Fisher…
Looks a little better on Diz…