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Gord Green Galactic Ambassador

Joined: 06 Oct 2014 Posts: 3001 Location: Buffalo, NY
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Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2024 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Fearless Leader, Thank you for activating the links!
Not on vacation, but between my wife and myself the last few months has been too much time in and out of the hospital! (Things are basically OK, just getting old I guess.) Also, I get injections in my eye (Shiverrr!) making too many times I basically have trouble seeing anything!
You've had some eye trouble too, haven't you? Hope you're doing OK.
I hope to get my posting back up to snuff soon! _________________ There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child. |
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Pow Galactic Ambassador

Joined: 27 Sep 2014 Posts: 3739 Location: New York
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Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2024 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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Hoping & praying that you and your wife are doing much better and don't have to have any more hospital trips. We've missed you. Stay well.
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)

Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 17637 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2024 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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You have been sorely missed, Gord!
My right-eye injections for macular degeneration are not painful, believe it or not, and I only get them every six to eight weeks.
My vision is blurred for a few hours after each visit, but only because both eyes have been dilated.
Although the condition is slowly worsening, the injections slow the progression. But I figure I'll just drink lots of beer and not dwell on the future.
I told my doctor that Milwaukee's Best Ice malt liquor was my "anti-depressant" and my "tranquilizer" — with far fewer side effects than all the prescription drugs we see those happy commercials for on TV . . . you know, the ones that have the cheerful narrator list all the side effects at the end.
Boy, those side effects talk me right out of trying that stuff!
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Side effects may include, but are not limited to —
~ muscle cramps
~ obesity
~ shingles
~ cancer
~ blindness,
~ deafness
~ suicidal thoughts
~ hallucinations
~ insanity
~ stupidity
~ identity theft
~ death
~ dismemberment
~ destruction
~ and erectile dysfunction
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Cheers, gentlemen!_ _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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WadeVC Astral Engineer

Joined: 06 Aug 2024 Posts: 255 Location: Pioneer, CA
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2024 12:09 am Post subject: |
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Bud Brewster wrote: | My right-eye injections for macular degeneration are not painful, believe it or not, and I only get them every six-to-eight weeks. |
I got queezy just reading that!
I'm glad they don't hurt, but man-o-man, it sure sounds like it would. _________________ "You look like a pooped out pinwheel."
-Robot Monster |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)

Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 17637 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2024 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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I wish I could say the injections were holding the macular degeneration at bay, but it's slowly getting worse. It makes it harder to read the text on my computer — which means I make even more typos on my posts than ever.
Ah, well . . . at least I've still got my hair and my dazzling good looks!
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Pow Galactic Ambassador

Joined: 27 Sep 2014 Posts: 3739 Location: New York
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Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2024 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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You are always in my prayers each day my hopeful agnostic. |
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Maurice Starship Navigator

Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 542 Location: 3rd Rock
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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I know I'm replying to years-old messages here, but I thought a few points were worth addressing.
johnnybear wrote: | How they've resisted doing a Forbidden Planet remake after all these years is beyond me. You know they will, you can feel it a coming...
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No one's resisted it. There were multiple attempts to do so since the 90s, including that ill-conceived JMS trilogy. Putting movies together is hard; you need a script that will attract name actors, financiers who will back to the project to the scale called for by the script, a distributor to get it into theaters, etc. etc.
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Johnny, I guess they haven't remade Forbidden Planet for the same reason they haven't remade Gone With the Wind. |
With all due respect, one reason no one's attempted to remake "Gone With the Wind" is because the property is all sorts of problematic, especially in its romanticizing the pre-emancipation US south and its enslavement of Blacks. There were protests over the film even when it first came out. For example: https://www.flickr.com/photos/washington_area_spark/albums/72157647077464017/
How do you make that story palatable to a contemporary audience without totally reframing it and standing its politics on its head?
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WadeVC Astral Engineer

Joined: 06 Aug 2024 Posts: 255 Location: Pioneer, CA
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Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2024 9:17 am Post subject: |
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Maurice wrote: | How do you make that story palatable to a contemporary audience without totally reframing it and standing its politics on its head?
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You don't. Like the movie or not, and regardless of the subject matter, it is a classic through and through.
I for one absolutely hate when films, any films, are remade and "reimagined" to cater to today's political correctness or sensitivities.
Many, many classic movies, across all genres, no longer adhere to today's standards, but they are classics just the same.
Leave them alone and enjoy them for what they are or were. _________________ "You look like a pooped out pinwheel."
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