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Hydrate or die-drate

When I get rich enough to have a yacht, I want an Airlander 10.

It’s a blimp that looks like a butt. And it will be my airbuttyacht.

I’m a fairly fast walker.

I was coming back from a grocery-store trip, and two girls were walking side-by-side ahead of me. The sidewalk was a bit narrow. They were going slowly, talking. I slowed down a bit to overtake them where the sidewalk widened, as it expands toward the road with the little grass strip paved over for ten yards or so. This was on our right. They looked like they didn’t realize I was there.

I said, “On your left,” as I came up behind.

The girl on the right moves over into the wider part, but the other didn’t. I don’t think the other one heard me. The right-side girl waves and beckons, the other moves, I pass and say thanks.

As I’m two steps away, the right-side girl says, “We just got Captain America-ed,” in an undertone to her friend.

I’ve been laughing about that for ten minutes now. Ma’am, you made my day.

Scenery gorgeous, special effects well done, and acting wooden. I’m not quite sure where the script goes. Galadriel’s ending made no sense to me unless she dies, which would really split from the lore, and the way they keep insinuating romance angles for her is perplexing.

Also, they got a lot of basic stuff wrong unless the Noldor are intentionally ignoring the silvan elves. Which would be in character for them but sort of odd.

I don’t really get why the plot relies on her not running around searching. I want her to search. Go travelling, Tolkien style. You’re in a Tolkien show. Walk around. Look at trees. It’s Tolkien!

But it really isn’t. It’s Amazon, and it’s stylistically identical to Wheel of Time. It’s like a Zack Snyder movie. It’s not whatever it claims to be; it’s Zack Snyder. And this is very Amazon.

I really wish the Autopian would take the editorial interludes down a notch. Make them comments or something. They may have good information, but the constant interruptions is very distracting.

Frankly, the movie industry needs villians at the nation-state level.

North Korea? Really?

Keep your dreams, but don’t hold them tightly. Hold them in open hands.

If it helps, I know that’s easier said than done.

I’m rooting for you.

Seriously, the one class the physics department offers I’d love to take exactly conflicts with the one class I need from the engineering program.

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