This week: the Fan Four; Coke encounters; patent vending; there goes the neighbourhood; story ark; quiz whiz; the sequelizer; Mutt and death; flagging interest; deep cults; acid reflects; psychonuts; nothing is real; out on a liminal; prayer home companion; holy mantra; watch out; Easter ughs; celebrate long time; forgive and for pets; cold fish; complimental health; physical education; R.I.P. Ed Piskor;
internet outage; emaotional magnification; frontier injustice; mobilized mobs; fitful misfits; business as usual; R.I.P. Joe Flahery; Maniac Mansion mania; we have come to praise Joe; Ian recommends Martin Short specials; please appreciate stuff we love; wholly Grail; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; social horror; he-man woman haters club; what the ess; eclipse show; hammered by time; best podcast ever; guest services; and, finally, good listener.
Question of the Week: Who is a performer that is always the “glue”?
Sub-question of the Week: What are your summer plans?
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Here is Martin Short with plenty of fellow SCTV alums!
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Regarding the flag talk, I was reminded of Scott Thompson (as Buddy Cole) in a Kids in the Hall sketch, thusly: “There’s a big hoopla down south over some wag burning the flag. Oh, Jesus! I don’t know what all the fuss is all about. We burn our flag all the time, to keep warm.” (This was part of the “I can make the word ‘Canadian’ sound sexy” monologue.)
QotW: Octavia Spencer (The Help, Snowpiercer, Ugly Betty, dozens more, honestly…she works a lot) can anchor a cast or lead it, and is always memorable. Serious glue.
subQotW: Trips back to NYC and to see family are top priorities. Plus music, writing, and art projects are in the works. Hopefully all-in-one if it comes together.
As much as I still enjoy the Marvel Cinematic Universe with all its myriad episodes and films, I feel a lack of the leadership that not one, but two signature characters provided. Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans bowed out at the same time, both an essential “glue” to the cinematic juggernaut that started with Downey Jr. back in 2008. They both kind of tag-teamed their leadership responsibilities but I feel that Downey Jr. was essentially the Godfather of the MCU, it’s hard to imagine anyone else in that role. I’m fine with the decisions made with their exits, the stories were fitting and heroic but that’s not the way the comics treat their characters…there’s always a way out with a way back in. I have no solutions to their absence, only that the void of leadership finds a way of being filled and some new “glue” fills that vacancy. Maybe a certain stretchy guy who knows everything will be up to the challenge, it’s wide open.
I’ve always thought of actors who don’t have that certain sex appeal or star power status to rely on to be great glue actors. I’m sure it helps to be easy on the eyes when on film but we also have so many actors who make up for that with their stellar performances but were never considered “sexy” like movie stars were in the golden age. Actors like Gene Hackman, Kathy Bates, Jeff Goldblum, Paul Giamatti, Bill Murray and Frances McDormand come to mind. I look forward to when actors like this come together and glue a cast together.
I do plan on maybe traveling to Waco, Texas in the upcoming months to see the Dr Pepper museum. I went there many years ago with my first wife who also worked for Dr Pepper and the museum was an embarrassing wreck. About the time I was let go from Dr Pepper, so were a lot of other execs who had way more money than me. They decided to invest their time and money in a brand new museum down in Waco and in doing so, asked for my help. One of the chairs for the museum, who was head of P.R. when I was at Dr Pepper, asked if I would donate any art I had for the museum. I gave him a huge box of original art to use and about a year later, was given the art back. He told me then I should visit the new place since a great deal of my work is adorning the exhibits of the new museum. I feel it’s been long enough and you can understand how curious I am to see just what he meant. If it’s worth seeing, I’ll post photos to Facebook or something.
Ian, about the Sentinels in X-Men #59 and their destruction into the sun, we were both kind of right. Their programming is skewed one they realize that Larry Trask is in fact a mutant who was disguised by wearing a pendant. Larry Trask was also the son of Bolivar Trask, who invented the Sentinels.
This following is from the Marvel Database:
“With Trask outed as a mutant, the Sentinels refuse to follow any further orders from him and instead become fixated on carrying out his last order as a supposed human, to capture all remaining mutants and destroy them. The Sentinels begin to administer first aid to human, Judge Chalmers, as a result of their programming to protect humans. Chalmers tells Cyclops that the only way to beat the Sentinels is with logic. Cyclops then suggests to the Sentinels that the most efficient way to accomplish their goal would it would be to eliminate the source that causes the creation of mutants.
Meanwhile, the Sentinels ponder Cyclops’ suggestion and realize that it’s the very sun that is the cause of mutants on Earth. The entire Sentinel fleet blasts off into space in an attempt to destroy the Sun, a mission that is destined to end in failure and the Sentinel’s destruction.”
I have feeling we’ll be seeing these guys again in the future of the MCU. I looked at the sun this past Monday during the eclipse and I didn’t see any Sentinels coming or going, so I guess we’re safe. But I’m not a mutant either…not that there’s anything wrong with that.
It’s raining here and I’m glad it held off for the eclipse’s PATH OF TOTALITY! Which was awesome…
But I do wish for clear skies and beautiful Spring weather to all my fellow Sneakers out there!
Louise?