One assumes that loyal commentor (and Elba fangirl) LAMH36 already knows about this charity promotion. But there’s enough 16-year-old Original Generation Trekkie left in my ancient, shriveled heart to find this admirable.
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Apart from dreaming of fewer degrees of separation, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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kdaug
“I play for gain, Kirk. What do I have to gain here?”
KG
I’d have liked this more if the recent movies weren’t abominations (I refuse to accept the stupid borked time line stuff, so much more annoying than a straight reboot)
Baud
Since we now have Batman vs Superman, the next big thing should be Star Trek vs Star Wars.
KG
@Baud: they already did that a couple years ago.
wait, what?
elmo
@kdaug: Journey to Babel?
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
OT-ish, but since we were having some fitness talk the other day, Philadelphia’s First Lady Lisa Nutter is a semi-pro racer and major cycling advocate. She took up cycling 13 years ago after her knees gave out from running (she is now 50):
http://www.usacycling.org/cycling-advocate-lisa-nutter-is-right-on-track.htm
Pogonip
I’ll enter and if I win I will take my son the Trekkie as my guest. He doesn’t like those stupid movies either but he’d love to get on The Bridge.
Brachiator
Cool promotion. And not nearly as crass as marketing/PR might be. Everybody should just chill, and live long and prosper.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Baud:
Lego Star Trek vs. Star Wars.
FTFY. I’d pay top dollar to see that.
Baud
@KG:
Fascinating.
Chris
@KG:
Actually, I disagree on the borked timeline, but agree about the new films.
Good franchises should be allowed to die in peace. In Star Trek’s case, that moment should’ve been the end of DS9.
rikyrah
Love you Idris!!
David Koch
Obama meeting inmates.
Chris
@Baud:
Will the crossover be suitably Dark And Gritty?
Chris
@David Koch:
I am honestly amazed how much ass his Lame Duck incarnation is kicking. Pardoning drug felons now, and calling out our incarceration policy for what it is? You go, POTUS.
KG
@Chris: I don’t necessarily mind franchises continuing on – don’t get me wrong Enterprise was a bad idea (but prequels always are bad ideas – it’s no fun when we know what’s going to happen), and Voyager never lived up to its potential – what bothers me is that this was a half assed attempt at a reboot. Either reboot completely or don’t but the time line angle was just cheap in my mind.
@Baud: the movie, Fanboys, is actually a lot of fun. a lot of geeky fun in it.
Gimlet
If I win, do I get to see Gen. Keith Alexander in the captain’s chair on the bridge?
kdaug
@elmo: Ding
mtiffany
The original series(es) and movies were total sci-fi, but they at least tried to get some of the actual science right: supernovae don’t destroy galaxies, and “subatomic red matter” belongs in the comic books from which that concept sounds like it came. And for the love of the FSM, lens-fucking-flare. I wish a supernova destroyed that reboot universe.
rikyrah
The look on this President’s face today. I sometimes think that my respect for this President cannot grow, but it does. Looking at his face. Him being in that prison. I can’t even put into words how moved I am that he went, and it’s not just because he went, but it is. Because, he went to where so many are forgotten about in our society. A prison industrial complex that has torn an abyss through the community. And, to know that my President understands ALL OF THAT.
Elizabelle
Now for some positive reading; it’s a good one.
NY Times magazine: You just got out of prison. Now What?
This article will lift your spirits, that such good people have managed to turn their lives around, and are helping others. Fits in with PBO’s concerns on the criminal justice system.
And what it might be like, to be released from prison walls and a daily regime. To a world with cellphones and Starbucks and all the technological innovations that accumulate over 20-30 years. And having to claw back to a meaningful life, and to find work and housing …
Baud
The man who picked Sarah Palin as his running mate has something to say.
kdaug
@Chris: Nothing to lose, baby, and nowhere to go but up. Balls-out.
gogol's wife
@kdaug:
It is a thing of beauty to behold.
kdaug
@rikyrah: He’s a young man. Once that presidentin’ thing’s over, I think he shows potential. Good chance he’ll go far.
Baud
@kdaug:
He may even take up blogging.
Chris
@KG:
To me it’s just the fact that at some point, a franchise – especially a TV franchise that runs on twenty hours a year instead of a couple hours every few years – will simply run out of things to say.
trollhattan
Walker, unchained. Scotty has beaten the rap and now free to
movecampaign about the country.Oh, lucky us.
mtiffany
@mtiffany: “And this, class, is how President Obama showed us that being a lame duck is optional. All you have to do is: don’t sell weapons to our enemies in contravention of our laws, don’t abuse the power of the office by getting blowjobs from interns, and don’t start wars out of some bizarre hybrid motivation of creating profits for your cronies and kick-starting the Second Coming.”
kdaug
.@Baud: So long as he stays away from mops and – apparently, though I’m late to the conversation, Metamucill – and doesn’t try to climb on his roof or do any naked dancing in the bathroom or…
Aw, fuck it. He can blog.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I did a really nice hike in Griffith Park on Tuesday, Amir’s Garden & ‘Taco Peak’. Next up is the Verdugos via the Los Fores motorway.
shell
Im a original Trekkie. Remember stumbling onto my first episode when I was 11. Went to the first ever ST convention in NYC.
Had high hopes for The Next Generation. But by the second season….if Id been a producer on that show, Id have laid down the law on the writers…You cant use the holodeck for any story lines EVER AGAIN!!
Pogonip
@kdaug: I eagerly await the day the Secret Service launches Operation Find The Mustard.
I don’t think Cole ever did find his mustard. Maybe the reason Tunch was so round was he had a jar of mustard inside him?
Roger Moore
@rikyrah:
There’s also a religious angle (Matthew 25:34-40):
trollhattan
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I’m quite certain Amir is going to be surprised and delighted at the heap ‘o tacos in his garden.
Baud
@Roger Moore:
And here I thought Jesus was all about capital gains tax cuts.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
You’re thinking about Jeezus son of Mammon, not Jesus son of YHWH. It’s an easy mistake to make.
kdaug
@Roger Moore: Point taken. And Carter. Head down, mouth shut, doing the works
BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: I’ve been assure that, that Jesus is the only one on Morning Joe.
BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan: It makes for a nice lunch or dinner. Actually when I returned from my hike, madame wanted tacos!
srv
Idris will make a fine Klingon. Or Andorian. Or Dr. Daystrom.
Felonius Monk
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Roger Moore
@kdaug:
The person I always think of when I read that passage is Johnny Cash and his shows at Folsom Prison and San Quentin. He did lots of other, unrecorded shows at prisons, and from what I know of his religious views, I’m sure he was thinking of it when he agreed to do them.
Pogonip
@shell: It should have been “You can’t use the holodeck for costume parties.”. Here they’d come up with a plot device that let them do literally anything they could think of and afford, and they wasted it on Sherlock Holmes and pre-war private eyes, things that were boring the FIRST time around. Why not show us The Great Literature of Planet X, whose people just happen to dress in a manner resembling simple, inexpensive clothing?
Pogonip
@kdaug: Cole got into the Metamucil? I missed that one. What happened?
kdaug
@Pogonip: He thought it was mustard.
lamh36
SAY WHUT!!!!
Me and Idris broke up some time ago, but we are on good terms!
I got my $10 TOMORROW!
WaterGirl
Okay, count me as officially excited about the movie.
Phoenix_Rising
My mom had a successful Whipple today. I’m in my 14th hour of waiting and the hard part starts tomorrow when the pain drip ends, but she has a 1 in 5 shot at being cured. That’s the good news, with pancreatic cancer.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I have something to say to John McCain: Fuck you, John McCain, you are the king of firing up the crazies. See Palin, Sarah.
I know that’s a little harsh for me, but it was my first thought and they always say your first answer is likely to beat the correct one.
lamh36
BTW, I guess now we know that Idris will be a major character and not just periphery
schrodinger's cat
@Baud: Future Balloon Juice front pager?
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: He’s no Freddie DeBoer.
lamh36
@srv: Gosh…I hope not. Bad enough I have to “settle” (not really, it’s not that big a deal to me, I’m not some crazed Trekkie or Star Wars fan) for having Lupita N’yongo in a CGI role (I kinda wanted to see her in beautiful crafted space attire ala Natalie Portman in the prequels, but oh well). I kinda dont’ want Idris beautiful face hidden behind a Klingon mask…
But hey, maybe he’ll be the ONE male actor that makes a Klingon hot?
Baud
@schrodinger’s cat:
The next Freddie DeBoer?
Baud
@schrodinger’s cat:
The next Freddie DeBoer?
bemused
@Baud:
Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran McCain isn’t quite sane himself.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Ha!
WaterGirl
@lamh36:
I’m very sorry to hear that.That just leaves more of him for the rest of us!That just leaves more of him for me!Edit: Idris and the cute guy from Almost Human – in the same movie. I will be beside myself.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: I got there first because I only typed it once.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Maybe Obama can fix FYWP once he gets here.
lamh36
@WaterGirl: Yesss!!! I love Karl Urban. I was soo mad Fox messed up Almost Human…ugh.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: There’s only one Freddie DeBoer.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Some things are even beyond Obama’s abilities.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: Donald Trump responded with a tweet that echoed a thought I’ve often had: What if McCain was last in his class at Annapolis, not because he was out on the town, being a lovable young rake, but because he is, to borrow Trump’s phrase, a “dummy”?
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: He is only a man. Fixing FYWP will take HRC.
JPL
@Phoenix_Rising: Thinking about you.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
It’s not as simple as health care, that’s for sure.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: So if HRC is elected, will she only get 76% of Obama’s pay?
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: I was thinking of adding that, but I left that as an exercise to my fellow commenters.
Felonius Monk
@BillinGlendaleCA:
One, is one too many.
Omnes Omnibus
@BillinGlendaleCA: I was told there would be no math.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: @Baud: I didn’t know you guys were pining for Boring Freddie. I thought you had better taste. Just saying.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s what my roommate in college used to say; he, of course, is now a lawyer.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Better than if a Republican were elected, which would mean everyone else’s pay goes down.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: Who’s pining?
Felonius Monk
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Not much of an airplane driver, either.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Omnes Omnibus: My parrot.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: You and Baud. Sounded like you missed Freddie.
BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodinger’s cat: I think you may need to take your snark meter in for service.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: Saying Obama is no FdB is not saying I miss FdB.
ETA: Litotes can be fun.
Baud
@schrodinger’s cat:
We all need someone in our lives who makes us feel superior.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: No worries, ya still got me.
schrodinger's cat
@BillinGlendaleCA: What makes you think that I am serious?
@Omnes Omnibus: I extrapolated and I was just teasing.
@Baud: Indeed!
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I appreciate the gesture, but you are too tech savvy.
BillinGlendaleCA
OT: I’m getting a new UHD monitor tomorrow. Fortuately the 10′ DisplayPort cable arrived today so I can do the cable runs tonight(when it’s cooler) and just plug and play when the monitor arrives. I have to run DisplayPort to one computer and HDMI to the other.
A 10″ cable would be rather, eh, short.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: The concept icked me out a bit.
BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodinger’s cat:
I guess I’ll have to check the Yellow Pages for an authorized snark meter service center.
[Hangs head in shame.]
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: @Baud: You guys were making me laugh at the end of the afternoon open thread, but the thread was dead so I thought I would mention it here.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: We are planning on taking the act to the Catskills soon.
Pogonip
@kdaug: Really? Or are you joking? My dad takes Metamucil. Doesn’t look or smell anything like mustard.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Don’t forget to tip your waitresses.
schrodinger's cat
@BillinGlendaleCA: It is right next to the WP service center.
@Omnes Omnibus: Understandable.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Perhaps you guys can perform at BJ Woodstock, whenever we finally set a date for that.
Felonius Monk
JADE HELM — DAY 2 UPDATE
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: I am a bit uncomfortable with the way that was worded.
schrodinger's cat
@WaterGirl: Don’t you mean Tunchstock? To be held in field with the abandoned Subaru.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Phoenix_Rising:
Phew! Hopefully she will have a smooth recovery. You probably already know this, but the trick to pain management is to take the meds on schedule. If you try to tough it out, it just makes it harder to get the pain back under control. This is true for any kind of pain meds, from opioids to ibuprofen.
BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodinger’s cat:
That should make sufficiently difficult to find.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
I’m in. Can we follow the garden thread performance?
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: It took me a second to understand the cause of your concern. I meant your comedy performance with Baud, of course. :-)
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Better that than following zombie Jimi Hendrix.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Sure you did.
Felonius Monk
@Omnes Omnibus:
Not much there anymore, unfortunately. Brown’s Hotel was turned into condos, then burned down a couple of years ago. The Concord is long closed except for golf and Grossinger’s is pretty much a pile of rubble. The Borscht Belt is pretty much bupkis. Best bet would be Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (Woodstock site), but you’d probably have to wear tie-dyeds.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I thought you might prefer to follow the “adopt a rescue animal” petting zoo. But if you prefer to follow the garden thread performance, that slot is still open.
schrodinger's cat
@Felonius Monk: They could come to the Berkshires instead.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Never follow an animal act.
Felonius Monk
@schrodinger’s cat: Jacob’s Pillow, perhaps? Can they dance?
WaterGirl
@Baud: Especially with a BJ!
No, seriously, I had to read my original comment 3 times before I figured out what Omnes we referring to. Really. I must be losing my touch! Or, alternatively, Thursday is not “dirty mind” day for me.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Even God has a day of rest.
NotMax
Who are these kids, why aren’t they in school instead of boldly playing hooky, and what do they have to do with Star Trek?
/get off my lawn
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Yes, but no rest for the wicked; as my pappy used to say.
Or Wicked Weasels.
Helen
@Phoenix_Rising:
Good Luck to you and your mom. My brother had a Whipple 5 years ago. Are you aware of the Lustgarten Foundation? They are very helpful.
schrodinger's cat
@Felonius Monk: Or Tanglewood, a musical performance, perhaps?
NotMax
@Felonious Monk
Abandoned Grossinger’s: the Search for the Pool.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
That’s the main reason I chose not to be wicked. Too much work.
Anne Laurie
@schrodinger’s cat:
But then they’d definitely have to wear tie-dye!
Or worse, those pastel pants that rich WASPs and wanna-be WASPS wear to indicate they’re “at play” while summering…
schrodinger's cat
@Anne Laurie: Don’t know about Baud but I think Omnes has some New England connections. I vaguely remember a mention of the Salem witch trials.
schrodinger's cat
@efgoldman: OMG that’s positively hideous.
KS in MA
@rikyrah:
I feel the same way. He is more amazing every minute.
Pogonip
@efgoldman: I have a T-shirt that horrible color; I bought it for $2 to wear to jiujitsu class. Wouldn’t you know it–that thing got pulled, stretched, yanked, twisted, wadded, tugged, you name it. Still looks new today.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: Hey, I have a pair of those!
PurpleGirl
@Felonius Monk: One of the older Italian places has been advertising on TV again. Don’t remember it’s name.
Anne Laurie
@Omnes Omnibus: Hey, I don’t judge.
(Mock, yes.)
Mapaghimagsik
Thank heavens Star Trek Online is continuing the tradition /snark