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1 hour agoI guess the question is “What Who have you watched?”
For my money, peak Who will always be Tom Baker. Yes, it’s absurd, he knows it’s absurd and leans into it.
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The first flick was so well done! The original story by Clive Barker (Hellbound Heart) is good as well.
Wonder whatever happened to Barker? Seems like it’s been a while…
Wow… nothing for 10 years…
Chiliad: A Meditation (2014)
With either candidate, it all depends on timing.
If either candidate dies before their respective conventions, the Republicans on 7/15 to 7/18 and the Democrats on 8/19 to 8/22, then the convention becomes an open convention, with deals being made to select a new candidate.
If one of them dies after the convention, it’s up to the party to pick a replacement, likely the VP candidate, but it doesn’t have to be.
If the winner of the election dies after the election, it gets incredibly messy, again, depending on the timing.
There’s a good novel on that hypothetical called “The People’s Choice”.
1·13 hours agoAmerican malls are three categories. Generally when people say “the mall”, they mean big, indoor, enclosed malls. That’s what is dying a slow death.
A local example for me:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackamas_Town_Center
The problem has been the large anchor stores are going out of business and the stores that remain struggle to survive.
The kind of mall you describe, Americans call “strip malls” and are much smaller and open to the elements. A grocery store, maybe a bank, fast food, not an official post office, but a pack and ship location, sometimes a DMV. That kind of thing.
Strip malls also struggle, there’s one by my house where the big grocery store just closed leaving it maybe 50% vacant.
We also have stand alone grocery stores that aren’t part of strip malls that collect other small stores around it like mini-moons. Barbershops, laundromats, liquor stores.
As long as the grocery store operates, everyone does fine.
Edit Almost forgot… “Big Box Complexes”. Not really malls, just large block stores sharing a common parking lot. So like a Target, Home Depot, Best Buy, all stand alone stores with shared parking.
My Own Private Idaho. Portland, 1980s.
https://youtu.be/2WoJ4GN5MaQZero Effect. Portland, 1990s.
https://youtu.be/TF9YaxBAGycAnimal House. Eugene, 1970s.
https://youtu.be/KWjtI6n5xWMHow To Beat the High Cost of Living. Eugene, 1970s.
https://youtu.be/9-77VpXSygs
I have friends who try to convince me to sing, I always tell them “Look, there’s only one song I can do and I guarantee they don’t have it…”
“Come on man, they have thousands of songs, they have to have it…”
“Fine, if they have it, I’ll do it. Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs.”
And man, they’ll run and look for that song… then they argue…
“I don’t think it’s a real song!”
“I know it is! I’ve heard of it!”
The song:
Munchkin Riot
Definitely… Someone with a doctorate applying at McDonalds is just looking for a stop gap and will be gone the instant something better comes along.
Take a Brazilian Lemonade recipe and sub in oranges. :) Make it at home.
Malls were being killed by big box complexes before Amazon was prevalent, but the one-two punch didn’t do them any favors.
I see it as a combination of things…
Big box retailers.
Online sales.
People stopped going to movie theaters.So what’s the reason to go to a mall? Crappy food court food?
I consider myself an Oregonian first and American second. Most of the country I can absolutely do without.
Oregon though…
In fairness, it’s a Jaguar, it may not be able to leave the storage facility. :)
2018 - Having a heart attack and being told I need open heart surgery.
Nothing has scared me since then.
LOL, no.
“Who was your designer? Hannibal Lecter?”
And $200 in 1963 is like $2,000 today!
Jackie Kennedy had JFK killed. She had Marilyn Monroe killed first as a warning to stop fooling around, he didn’t listen… and a year later…
Cowboy Carter. There. I said it.
I enjoyed Renaissance, Break My Soul is an absolute banger of a song, there’s nothing comporable or remarkable on Cowboy Carter.
Wow, they got a photo from Mother Theresa’s facility? ;)
I mean, the basic premise of a lightsaber is pretty simple. You have some incredibly powerful power source, a blade made out of super hot plasma, and a magnetic containment bottle in the shape of a sword.
The reason they bounce off each other is the magnetic containment fields bashing into each other.