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“People need to bring anger into their lives.”

I said this to a co-worker yesterday as we were discussing The Last Jedi, and the people who not only dislike the new movies, but outright hate them AND must let you know this as much as possible.

It’s like they thrive on being angry with something, anything, that brings joy to others.

I’m guilty of this to some degree (Star Trek Discovery).  But at the very least, I gave it a chance, watching a few episodes before deciding that it wasn’t for me.

The hate mongers out there decide to hate something before it comes out (The Last Jedi) yet they’ll go see it anyway, just to complain about it later.

“That’s hate watching,” as I explained to my co-worker.

And this morning the news of the Disney-FOX deal has brought out the same hate over something that they have no control over.  Or do they?

Mostly I’ve seen people claiming that they hate that Disney is buying up studios and properties and ‘ruining’ franchises.  They call the new Star Wars films ‘unwatchable’.

You could just choose to not watch.

I’m not an anime fan.  So I don’t watch any of it.  And I never mention it.

Why is this so hard to do for some people?

“People need to bring anger into their lives.”

And the truth is, that’s kinda sad.

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Fans

Star Trek fans are the worst, Trekkie or Trekker.

And I do count myself among them.

I can be just as bad as the worst ones I’ve ever met.

I usually choose not to be.

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If I ever start complaining about Star Wars, just shoot me.

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I’m a comic book fan.  It’s never been about DC vs. Marvel, to me.

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Said it before, I’ll say it again: I drink both, I prefer Pepsi over Coke.

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It’s the STAR WARS COUNTDOWN

*keyboard riff*

  • Wednesday (12/6): The Phantom Menace
  • Thursday (12/7): Attack of the Clones
  • Friday (12/8): Revenge of the Sith
  • Saturday (12/9): Rogue One
  • Sunday (12/10): A New Hope
  • Monday (12/11): The Empire Strikes Back
  • Tuesday (12/12): Return of the Jedi
  • Wednesday (12/13): The Force Awakens
  • Thursday (12/14) The Last Jedi
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Calendars

I’m glad Amazon carries them now, and at discounted prices, close to the 25%-50% off that the mall calendar kiosks charge close to New Year’s Day.

The 2018 choices:

I just need to figure out which is for the office, and which is for home.

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Crisis Day 2

That was one heck of a story.

Lots of action, with equal parts funny and sad, and an ending that I didn’t expect.

And of course an awesome homage to the Christopher Reeve films.

I totally enjoyed all 4 episodes.

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Baseball Thoughts

Watching Ken Burns’ Baseball on MLB Network.

The commercials show that they’re doing MLB divisional previews, which I think may be premature, with the Winter Meetings coming up and Spring Training a couple of months away.

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If the Giants do not get Mike Stanton, maybe they should pick up free agents  Brandon Morrow and Curtis Granderson from the Dodgers.

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There I was, the black grandson of a slave, the son of a black sharecropper, part of a historic occasion, a symbolic hero to my people. The air was sparkling. The sunlight was warm. The band struck up the national anthem. The flag billowed in the wind. It should have been a glorious moment for me as the stirring words of the national anthem poured from the stands. Perhaps, it was, but then again, perhaps, the anthem could be called the theme song for a drama called The Noble Experiment. Today, as I look back on that opening game of my first world series, I must tell you that it was Mr. Rickey’s drama and that I was only a principal actor. As I write this twenty years later, I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
― Jackie Robinson, I Never Had It Made

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I do miss baseball.  As I do every year, after Thanksgiving Day.

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I’m gonna play a couple of games of my 1967 San Francisco Giants season replay.