Confused by Disney ineptitude

Jun. 14th, 2025 12:03 pm
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Two weeks after seeing the CGI Lilo and Stitch at the cinema I'm watching the original with the kids. And it's so much better. The direction, the writing, the acting are all just much higher quality.

The remake felt much clumsier. And I don't really understand why.

Edit: Just realised that they entirely cut the Ugly Duckling part from the remake. Why would you do that? It's key to Stitch's arc!
And all of the bits where Lilo how to be like Elvis.

In fact, nearly all of the bits where Lilo talked to Stitch and built a relationship with him.
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Jun. 14th, 2025 04:27 am
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Yesterday I came home and spent 3.5 hours in the yard. Finally finished the winter clean up chores and planted the plants that I bought in May. It's bee a slog with all the rain. Plus almost every time I put in the gardening gloves my phone would go off. I was out at 7 AM last Saturday (before the rains) and it went off and I just started to cry. My sister texted Thursdsay when I was out for over an hour and then wanted to chat yesterday. I said look, I love you, but I need to get stuff done and it requires my hands. Call me when I am in New Hampshire at night. I'll have no chores then.

Today ...its before 5 AM...sigh... I am off to New Hampshire with Dad for Father's Day. I bought him a camera and I will try and teach him how to use it in program mode. He did photography when he was a kid... and since he likes being up before the birds it maybe something we can do together that doesn't involve a lot of sodium ;-) Wish me luck.

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Jun. 13th, 2025 11:03 pm
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1990, [redacted a lot of depressing anecdata]. Let's just roll the credits, hmm? Nine movies because I was choosy... and honestly don't have much to say about movies of this year.

~ Tremors - AWW YEAH a hella good creature feature. To be honest? This was like catching old 50s B movies on TBS, because those creature features were my kind of camp horror comedy.
~ The Hunt for Red October - I can't remember much of this film, but there were some pretty people in it.
~ Ghost - +sighs+ Patrick and Whoopi, I loved. I am still on a fence about Demi's acting, but she's pretty.
~ Quigley Down Under - the movie that reinforced lessons I had begun studying due to "Beds are Burning" by Midnight Oil. It's also the movie that put Alan Rickman on my radar properly. I love his villainy here.
~ The Rescuers Down Under - Hmm, two Aussie based movies for me this year? MARAHUTE! Not quite mixing the adventure and scary like the first, but a DAMN GOOD FILM.
~ Predator 2 - So I enjoy the first. So much. BUT THIS?! This movie started solidifying actual lore for me (BLESS DARK HORSE COMICS) and the yautja in this one is BADASS.
~ Mermaids - A really sweet film, and the cast? +faints+ Hoskins, Cher, Ryder, Ricci? Excellent. A little angst and harm to children warning.
~ Hamlet - So I rather hate putting this on the list. And I know it is seriously panned. But honestly? Seeing this in the theater, watching EVERY ACTOR CHEW THE SCENERY? Made me delighted at an above the top performance. Just wish the fucker in the lead role wasn't... himself.
~ Kindergarten Cop - Sweet. Funny. Dramatic at parts. "It's naht a too-mah" Was surprised when I went back to find that his partner that was supposed to do the teaching and got sick was Iza from Clan of the Cave Bear.

Fave? Toss up between Predator 2 and Kindergarten Cop.

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Jun. 13th, 2025 08:59 pm
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What a day, huh? I feel like every time I try to gather my thoughts about it, I stumble across some news I haven't seen yet. I imagine a lot will change in the next few days too. I guess I'll just say for now that it's good, albeit in a bittersweet sense, to see something happening. Just. Some degree of accountability for someone.

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Jun. 13th, 2025 03:23 pm
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Yesterday turned to be a bit of a mixed bag, I had a nice time sitting outside listening to music on my cell phone and more fun hanging out in North Light listening to more music but Artichoke Basille was totally empty so no karaoke, I just had a drink and pizza and got bored so I left. Tonight should be better, I'm going to the new Wes Anderson movie.

PRIDE 7: Dick Grayson

Jun. 13th, 2025 03:00 pm
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Dragged to Fabulous (200 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU [Comics]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dick Grayson, Original Human Character(s)
Additional Tags: Pride Parades, Double Drabble
Summary:

Dick gets there in time for Ms. Syl to make him over.



Dragged to Fabulous

"Oh honey, you cannot be seen next to me looking that… plain," the drag queen said when Dick walked in to get ready for the beginning of the parade. "Girlfriend, I know good and well you have something more fabulous in your closet — wish it was me, honestly, but — because I have seen what you wear on your dates!"

Dick smiled, holding up the duffel bag. "Knowing I'd be riding with you, Miss Syl, I figured I'd better bring a few things and let you pick."

Miss Syl put both hands over his heart and made a dramatic sound. "You know just how to flatter a girl." He held his hand out for the bag, dead set on making certain Gotham's younger prince was ready to sparkle at the parade.

"If I promise to keep it toned down and mostly straight, may I do your makeup?" Miss Syl asked as he settled on which outfit would work best.

"Total package," Dick agreed, laughing some.

"Oh I wish. I could show you things those débutantes have never heard of," Miss Syl answered, before setting to the crafting of perfect look for one of their wealthiest allies in all of the city.

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Jun. 13th, 2025 03:12 pm
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I was just coming back from an hour's walk early this morning, all sweaty and with my hair frizzing all over the place, when I met my across-the-cul de sac neighbour walking her dog. She told me I was looking amazing; I said I guessed it was the early morning humidity giving me a glow.

Today I've made a large batch of tomato sauce for pasta in the slow cooker, enough to last for almost two weeks if that's all I eat for dinners. If I have to cook, that's the way to do it as far as I'm concerned.

I'm expecting to have to turn on the a/c soon, but so far I've avoided it by using a fan when I start to feel a bit too warm. I've just now moved a couple of fans into strategic positions, ready for action. The nights are still relatively cool so I can cool the house somewhat by opening all the windows in the early morning. The time will come when that won't work because the nights will be too warm, but not yet.

The sudden warmer weather has also inspired me to finally pack away the last of my winter clothes and take out my summer ones. At the same time, I forced myself to separate out some clothes I've had for years (decades in some cases) and don't wear anymore, and put them into a bag to go to Goodwill. I figure that since it's still some months until I'll be moving, I can chip away very gradually at sorting and disposing of things.

I ordered and received a bundle of small sturdy packing boxes for books a couple of days ago and I've been filling one every day with books to go to Friends of the Library for donation. Even working on just one box a day is rather emotionally taxing, I'm finding. I'd rather not have to get rid of any of the books in the house except a very few that don't interest me at all, but I'm making myself dispose of others that, although I enjoyed them, I'm pretty sure I'll never get around to reading again.
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My morning started with Ingrid screaming from her balcony. She was dressed in a lovely short see thru nightgown howling down at the workers below (who probably don't speak English) "It's 6:30 in the morning!!! Why are you working??? Who do you work for?? I'm going to tell the director right now. Be Quiet."

I am sure that the director got an email from Ingrid. I'm pretty sure she gets one every day from from her.

My finance guy's assistant sent me some extra docs. He, so rightly, assumed I wanted Transfer of Beneficiaries (TOD) and how I wanted it set up. Then he also assumed I wanted my brother to have full access to the new accounts so he had that all ready to sign. I'd actually forgotten about both these things so I was delighted. BUT, no DocuSign. ARUGH.

I printed out the page I needed and then the printer and internet severed their connection (no clue who said what to whom). I had to sign and then scan to send back to the assistant and on to my brother. But, when it came time to scan, all I got was sad faces everywhere. If you complete all 37 steps in the right order with your mouth set just so, hooking the printer to the internet is a breeze. Miss one step or move your gaze elsewhere and you are fucked and you have to start from the beginning. Oh, and one part of the process is restarting the router which, of course, takes for frickin' ever to come back.

After buckets of blood, sweat and tears, I finally got it going again. One was 9 pages. I figured the only thing he needed was the first page. Soooooo wrong. So I had to do it all over again. THEN I had to find someone to witness my signature.

I considered ringing Ingrid's doorbell "since you are up anyway..." but figured my dying before the documents were done would be silly. So I went down to the front desk where the receptionist was happy to do it. Then I scanned all the pages in and sent them off. Whew. Done.

When I went to my doctor last January, I bitched about my runny nose. She told me Flonase or irrigation. I tried Flonaise (I have no idea how to spell it and don't care) for a month - nothing. Irrigation is to clear up stuffed up noses, so I went with an allergy pill which worked fine for six months then a couple of weeks ago, it just said 'nope, i'm done' and my nose started running away again. Dr. Google and Amazon list remedies and solutions for 'stop runny nose' that are for clearing out stuffed noses. WTF? So first I did the irrigation. I hate doing it. The first 2 seconds are really uncomfortable. The rest isn't but it's so messy. But, damn, if it didn't work! So then I ordered up some spray that is supposed to help between irrigations. It comes today.

I'm going to be shocked to learn that my doctor, Dr. Google and Amazon are all right and I was wrong. But I checked the filter on my gizmo and ordered a new one. I don't fancy a brain worm. (I've been watching so much Clarkson's Farm, and listening to Peter Grainger novels, that I now have a British accent - at least in my fingertips.)

Today's agenda includes cat food. These two are eating me out of house and home. Amazon is bringing new wet and dry food on Tuesday but their current supply of dry food ain't going to make it. At least the sun isn't out.

Then it will be the usual knitting and farming and baseball later.
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My day on Thursday started with something I will probably never experience again in my life: the sighting of a pine martin in the wild. I literally have never seen this animal before in my life, except a brief glimpse at the Minnesota Zoo.

The folks working at the lodge confirmed. They'd been sighting a pine martin between the staff cabin and Cabin 1 (where we're staying.)

I did another big hike. This time I took Poplar Trail. Again, there wasn't a whole lot to see on this trail of note, except that for a brief time I turned off and headed toward Bear Cub Trail and was following very closely to the Gunflint Trail road. 


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Image: wild roses

Much of the rest of the day was spent reading and enjoying the intermittent sunshine. Shawn and I walked down to the Lodge's beach and stuck our toes in the water. It is very cold! The ice only came off the lake a couple of weeks ago. But, my ankles had been kind of sore from all the hiking I've been doing and so I decided it was the right kind of refreshing.

We drove up to the Trail Center for dinner and generally enjoyed being "in civilization" (or at least in company with more of our fellow humans.) As we were leaving there was a clot of old duffers sharing actual fish stories about that "eight pound walleye" caught "out by the big rock."

Classic.

We head home tomorrow, but I'm hoping to stop along the way at all the State Parks so get my passport stamped, etc. But, I may have to do a big re-cap on Sunday of both today (Friday) and our drive home (Saturday.) See you all then!

In the meantime, here is some honeysuckle (I believe) growing in a sunny spot on a wide road.

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Image: close-up of honeysuckle

A sunny day

Jun. 13th, 2025 02:36 pm
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When I went offline yesterday I did some more of my jigsaw. I then had my tea and watched Pointless on BBC1 followed by the concluding two episodes of Rabbit Hole on the ITV Hub. After that I returned to my jigsaw before reading more of The Chestnut Man.

This morning I made my moves in the Kingdom of Loathing and posted a review of Rabbit Hole on the IMDb. I then watched A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof on Crunchyroll and did some more of my jigsaw.

In the afternoon I made my moves in RavenBlack's Vampire Game.

Chapter 4

Jun. 13th, 2025 07:39 am
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We arrived in NC May 27th 2016, so have entered the tenth year here. And maybe chapter 4? The first two and a half years we were here were about clearing the overgrown property, getting a fenced area for the pets and the "orchard."  Let's call that Chapter 1. Mom had her stroke in Dec of 2018. We still had some trees to plant in the orchard, but between Dec of 2018 and Mom's death June 1 of 2022, Mom's health and Grandmámá's health and care were constant concerns. I had a trip to Europe in there, and COVID certainly affected all those concerns for health fragile persons. I'm thinking of that as Chapter 2.

With Mom's passing i became focused on my health: i had just discovered the ADHD diagnoses of family members and realized it applied to me. A year later I had had my nose reshaped so i could breath through it, envisioning more energy from better breathing. I had a hard time recovering energy after the surgery. I finally pulled myself out of what i supposed to be depression, and then i was covered with spots. And so very tired. If this were fiction, the lethargy after surgery would be foreshadowing for the ITP diagnosis, and i can't imagine why ITP isn't the explanation for that low energy sense i had that year. Perhaps this third chapter ends with loosing two of our companions for the cross country move. It ends with Christine's sister becoming a widow,  promising some change in her relationship with Christine. Part of Christine's desire to move here had to do with her relationship with Diana: i wonder how it will change. I hope it's a positive change.

I realize how different our experience of the political world was when we left California. NC's anti-trans "bathroom bill" was proposed or passed  on the same day we closed on the house. Trump's position as presumptive nominee occurred  as we were driving across country. I read the Doonesbury comics that are re-running George W era strips and feel horror at my nostalgic feelings for Rumsfeld.

My work world has changed in the third chapter: colleagues i was working with before we moved have left, including leadership changes that are beginning to reshape my work life. I hope i have the privilege of keeping my job until i want to leave. Were the world to continue as it has during my working life, i would retire in six years.

I am not optimistic. I think of the huge weight that sat on me in ... 1990? 1989? ... when i watched computer and climate scientists present their models of how climate would be in fifty years and the  dreary and dim prospects they presented. Every presentation essentially ended with a list of aspects they didn't have included or that we didn't know that might make the impact less drastic. I walked away realizing i'd be in my early 70s. I did consider switching fields. I talked to someone doing acid rain research whose advice was that if you wanted to save the environment we needed advocacy and public opinion changed, not more research. He had apparently "gotten into trouble" by trying to advocate for change politically. His advocacy was used to turn against his research, implying it wasn't impartial. He was depressed and probably not a good person for me to turn to, but there it is.

I did not foresee the disaster of politics or the possibility of a tech change like generative and agentic AI.  (OK the promise of "Agentic AI", something that could be a personal assistant has been promised by speculative fiction for ages.)

It seems like a new chapter. I dunno. One foot in front of the other.

He's alive, alive!

Jun. 13th, 2025 07:30 am
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Surgery went well. I'm exceedingly glad we chose to do a hotel 5 minutes from the surgery center, as that meant a normal sleep & wake up time, as opposed to the 40-60 minutes an uber would have taken in the morning (with all the necessary schedule adjustments to sleep, etc.). The staff were great. Had a slight issue with getting an IV going on my left arm, but they got it first go on the right side. Absolutely no recollection of talking with the surgeon afterwards, so I'll find out more details about what they found when I see him on Monday. The only thing the husband remembered was him saying that my ligaments were a little strained as well, but those are strengthenable with exercise so I'm not as concerned there.

So far the nerve block is still mostly in place, not quite 24 hours later. That or (hopefully) it's not going to be that painful. In any case, Tylenol is at the ready. Turned down any opiates/opioids, as I can't handle the constipation they cause. It's hard enough to use a toilet with the brace and crutches without also not being able to go, ya know?

The cats got some fun sniffing in on the brace, and thankfully they've seen crutches before so they're not freaked out. Ezri is mostly hanging out near me and squishing the back cushions on the couch that she's lying on; Benjamin is mostly in my office in his heated bed, unless/until it's time for treats.

Excited to see that they're working on Spaceballs 2 after 30+ years. The trailer was delightful, especially all of the factoids in the crawl. It's one of my favorite films, so here's hoping they let Mel run with it (perhaps not to the level of Blazing Saddles, but still, let the mensch do what he does best, please!).

I started situational telework early this week, and it was weird being at home all day. Couple of Teams calls, but those aren't the same as just popping into a colleagues office and talking through something (or just shooting the shit). A lot of what I have to do as an attorney for an agency is managing relationships and small-p institutional politics and in-person time is a lot easier to handle that aspect. Even when the commute eats up 10 hours a week (though, frankly, half-time in the office - 5 days every two weeks - was plenty for managing that in most instances). I did write out at least one big research project, on the history of some of my small agency's specific legislative authorities and limits for construction activities, which will be easier to handle at home without meetings or drop-ins. And which can allow me to get in some creditable work hours versus the full week of leave I have scheduled for next week.

But for today it's reading, some crochet, napping, maybe some replay comfort video gaming.

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Jun. 12th, 2025 08:54 pm
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I feel sick with anxiety. I don't know what kind of news I should expect to wake up to tomorrow. The naive part of me keeps thinking, someone has to do something now. But of course these last couple of years have shown us they don't.

thursday

Jun. 12th, 2025 09:36 pm
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Rainbow Waves. This was a picture I started a long time ago - with gouache paint. I added the pen to it today and it seems to be done. I think I have an idea now of a new project I want to work on since the "LIVE" project is over. I want to work a little bit every day, every single day, even if I only put a line down, but it has to be SOMEthing. I have 2 different kinds of 5.5" by 8.5" books with heavy watercolor paper in them - hot pressed and cold pressed. I'm going to work my way through them, not with the rule that I will have a page done each day and move on to a new page the next day like I had been doing, but that I will spend time every day adding something to them no matter how small. I can't give up art-a-day. It makes me feel too good.

Women's group today. We played Shut the Box for a while before we left for lunch at Pub 76 in Stoneboro. I had a really good meal of grilled shrimp over cilantro rice with a spicy pineapple sauce. Tomorrow Jan and I are going to Chloe's Paint and Sip in Oil City and have lunch with Chloe beforehand at Baked Goods from Heaven. I'm spoiled.

Daily Health

Jun. 12th, 2025 08:50 pm
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*\o/* Word Count Step Count Headache?
Daily 0 9,617 no
Monthly 6,793 125,847 1 days

Are we cursed or what?

Jun. 13th, 2025 09:23 am
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Seriously doubting whether we have been cursed or what.

So Dad had that accident, now in hospital.

Mom forgot to switch off the stove and burnt dinner and a pan.

Mom crashed her own car in the parking lot.

Three's a charm so it should all be done and over?

I get hit in the back by a taxi!

Untitled

I am so, so, sooooooo upset that it has busted my reverse gear proximity sensor (the beep beep beep you get when in reverse gear, telling you the distance you have).

It was a zebra. I stopped at the zebra to let the pedestrian pass. And bam. I got hit.

haaaaarrrrrrrummmmmppppphhhhhh!!!

I was initially fine, but after the adreline rush I started to feel a weird nick in my neck and a weird headache, so I went to the emergency hospital, waited 4 hours to be seen, then, when it was all done, was asked to go back to the traffic police headquarters to update my statement. All I wanted was just to get myself checked out by a doctor in case of any internal injuries I may have.

The force of the hit was pretty bad actually. I got pushed over the zebra, and even my car seats got pushed backwards without pulling the release lever. While I did not hit my head anywhere except for the headrest behind me, I did jerk front and back.

Doctor didn't do much except asked me to look at her finger (concussion testing) and said I should go back the next day if I start vomitting.

I still have that weird headache or pain in the left side of my head, so I don't know. They gave me sick leave so I'll just make use of that.

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Jun. 12th, 2025 08:42 pm
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B-- is at the hospice facility tonight, giving D-- a measure of rest from her worries as she keeps vigil with him.  Christine returns tomorrow to to join D--.

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