I think it’s funny how Kevin Kiner keeps ripping on JW’s other work. In the past we’ve gotten plays on themes from Raiders, Jaws, E.T., and probably a couple more I missed/forgot. This week there was some Jurassic Park.
I don’t really mind it.
You’re telling me that who people vote for doesn’t really matter in regards to who gets elected‽‽‽ Here‽‽‽ In America‽‽‽
I mean I guess I could have said “better Slave Leia art.”
Anything would be better than this
Everyone who is registered as a Democrat went to polls and voted for which Democrat they wanted to represent the Democratic party in the General Election.
Out west, things get murkier. At least in my state, you don’t register as a member of a particular party at all, so technically everyone in the state is an independent. At primary time, you basically decide right on the spot which party’s primary you’d like to influence this year and choose that ballot (or attend that caucus, or both because yes we’re weird that way). It’s not quite an open primary, but we love open primaries out here and it’s the closest we can get to that ideal without the parties suing the crap out of the state. The parties claim they can restrict primary access to their own members; the public reminds the parties who’s paying for these elections in the first place, and a tense standoff is maintained.
Now some of that independence is obviously fictional. We have more self-reported independents (as opposed to the meaningless registration numbers) than most states, but lots of those are leftists who are choosing between third parties and Democrats, and rightists choosing between third parties and Republicans. The percentage actually choosing between Democrats and Republicans probably isn’t that different than other states, although we do have a lot of ticket-splitters, and we were one of the last refuges of the fabled liberal Republicans before they went extinct (or more accurately became Democrats).
We also have a long history of messing with the primaries of other parties. Since the primaries are occasionally just formalities with a single plausible candidate, and you can choose at the last minute which primary to vote in, people often talk about crossing over to the other side to vote for the weakest/craziest candidate on the other side, to improve their own party’s chances. However, that sort of talk has lately fallen out of fashion since it makes the situation a lot more dire when your party loses. Now people talk about crossing over to vote for someone they could stomach, if not vote for, which I guess is moderation coming back into fashion.
I’m registered independent in MA and it’s the similar for me, pick which ballot you want when you show up. Haven’t done the “vote on the other side” thing though.
good slave Leia art.
Does not compute.
Oh I see.
This turn of events exemplifies the degree of delusion some people can be driven to by their unfulfilled desires.
Hey buddy, I think your sarcasm detector’s broke
I think he was referring to the other guy and not BB8
True, Crumb.
Was that a Who’s Harry Crumb? reference?
This thread has everything!
No, I Care Trump Computer, we’re just referring to everyone by their avatar now.
This turn of events exemplifies the degree of delusion some people can be driven to by their unfulfilled desires.
Hey buddy, I think your sarcasm detector’s broke
I think he was referring to the other guy and not BB8
True, Crumb.
I definitely hoped Trump would win, although I obviously underestimated how dumb our country is.
I was sort of similar but a little torn on it. I definitely thought the chances of him winning the general were extremely low so I was kinda hoping he’d take the primary, but at the same time I was worrying about if it was worth the risk. Evidently, no.
The primary fraud idea is somewhat silly - if you end up stuck with a ballot on the other side, what’s the point really?
Well, you could vote for someone you though had no chance against your own party’s candidate in the general election.
This is not a smart strategy. I remember some Dems saying they were hoping the GOP would nominate Trump because beating him would be a cake walk. Look how that turned out…
Ryan is not from the US and I’m not sure how his party system works
WeTo put it as simply as I can… In a General Election. We just vote for our local MP. The Party with ththe most MPs wins and must form a government. We don’t directly vote for the Prime-Minister.
In the US, a primary is an election held by a party to determine who will represent that party in the upcoming general election against the other party or parties. Hillary beat Bernie in the Dem primary and Trump beat a billion other Republicans in the Repub primary.
I think I’ve got a handle on it all this year. It seems like a very complicated system overall… and it still comes up with a result 2.7 million votes shy of the right answer 😉
It’s crazier when you look at the actual numbers of who voted Trump into this position.
Primary:
14mil
General:
62mil
Total US population:
324mil
Come on guys. I already broke down the Witches of Eastwick connection. Sarandon will do ESB and Pfieffer will do ROTJ. Nicholson will do the prequels.
The idea is that which person/party is going to vote for would matter in a general election because if you’re a say a tricky fraudulent Dem/Hillary supporter, you don’t want to bother committing fraud by voting as someone who would have voted for Dems/Hillary anyway.
The primary fraud idea is somewhat silly - if you end up stuck with a ballot on the other side, what’s the point really? You don’t have a horse in that race. In either case, knowing the affiliation of the fraudee is important for the potential frauder.
I don’t think there was anything wrong with how you phrased it.
His Vision Returns is a great piece though but I’m pretty sure it has been posted before.
Nah, it’s stupid. Why is she still wearing that? Why is Han looking at the roof? The artist is talented, but that image is stupid from concept to completion. …which I’m sure it’s helped many geeks to achieve.
These are just my opinions, of course.
But I’m right.
Yeah, yes.
Go find an Evil Dead forum to spew your weird opinions on you two.
Was that supposed to be funny?
Just the truth ™.
Don’t quit your day job.
Look man, all I’m saying is Cher has confirmed our suspicions. If you don’t want to get excited that’s your problem.
10 years after Star Wars, the film Witches of Eastwick was released. What do those two have in common? Musical scores by John Williams. Believe it or not, Cher was the star of that film, which, of course, makes her the most obvious candidate to do a review of the original Star Wars in its unaltered form before its 4K UHD HDR 3D Blu-ray Digital VR release.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. But wouldn’t Cher be under an NDA? Well no, because REMEMBER she won an Oscar in 88 for Moonstruck, and, after last Sunday’s Best Picture kerfuffle with Moonlight, the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse Coopers, being in some deep shit, nullified all legal contracts. WHICH MEANS Cher’s NDA is up, but, she still needs to save face with Lucasfilm OBVIOUSLY because of her upcoming Sy Snootles anthology film (keep up, won’t you?).
So then how do we know all of this? HELLO of course she still wants fans to know what’s up, so she’s been sending coded signals for months via her Twitter account.
Just look at this tweet from February 2 (https://twitter.com/cher/status/827226043467456513):
FYI ARENA IS AMAZING.SO 🌬❄️
Rehearsed on Stage,Sang,Danced. I’m still Somewhat of a clod. New opening costume…You’ll need smelling salts 🤣Okay let’s break this down. So we all know that “Arena” is referring to Season 1 Episode 18 of the original Star Trek. That’s not a coincidence. Notice how the word “original” is very similar to the word “original” in “original trilogy,” or how the word “Star” is very similar to the word “star” in “Star Wars.” Fascinating, right? She then says “Rehearsed on Stage,Sang,Danced.” I don’t know what that means. But THEN she says “I’m still Somewhat of a clod.” the word “still” meaning the same - as in same as in the 70s - and notice the capitalized “S” as in the capitalized “S” in “SE” which stands for “Special Edition”! The rest of the tweet of course refers to the new packaging and smellovision feature.
Now, stick with me here, because this one’s a doozy. On March 4, she tweeted this (https://twitter.com/cher/status/838273936848670720):
WATCHING 1ST STAR WARS IN THEATRE.SPECIAL EFFECTS OLD,BUT ❤️IT.REMINDS ME OF 1st TIME. HANS,CHEWY,LUKE,OLD BEN,
👑LEIA,DARTH VADER,HYPERSPACEDon’t let the caps lock distract you, she specifically mentions the words “watching” and “old.” Put these two words together - “watching old.” Watching old what Cher? Could it be an old movie? Could it maybe even be gasp Star Wars?
I guess we’ll all find out when she shows up at Celebration.
Was that supposed to be funny?
Just the truth ™.
10 years after Star Wars, the film Witches of Eastwick was released. What do those two have in common? Musical scores by John Williams. Believe it or not, Cher was the star of that film, which, of course, makes her the most obvious candidate to do a review of the original Star Wars in its unaltered form before its 4K UHD HDR 3D Blu-ray Digital VR release.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. But wouldn’t Cher be under an NDA? Well no, because REMEMBER she won an Oscar in 88 for Moonstruck, and, after last Sunday’s Best Picture kerfuffle with Moonlight, the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse Coopers, being in some deep shit, nullified all legal contracts. WHICH MEANS Cher’s NDA is up, but, she still needs to save face with Lucasfilm OBVIOUSLY because of her upcoming Sy Snootles anthology film (keep up, won’t you?).
So then how do we know all of this? HELLO of course she still wants fans to know what’s up, so she’s been sending coded signals for months via her Twitter account.
Just look at this tweet from February 2 (https://twitter.com/cher/status/827226043467456513):
FYI ARENA IS AMAZING.SO 🌬❄️
Rehearsed on Stage,Sang,Danced. I’m still Somewhat of a clod. New opening costume…You’ll need smelling salts 🤣
Okay let’s break this down. So we all know that “Arena” is referring to Season 1 Episode 18 of the original Star Trek. That’s not a coincidence. Notice how the word “original” is very similar to the word “original” in “original trilogy,” or how the word “Star” is very similar to the word “star” in “Star Wars.” Fascinating, right? She then says “Rehearsed on Stage,Sang,Danced.” I don’t know what that means. But THEN she says “I’m still Somewhat of a clod.” the word “still” meaning the same - as in same as in the 70s - and notice the capitalized “S” as in the capitalized “S” in “SE” which stands for “Special Edition”! The rest of the tweet of course refers to the new packaging and smellovision feature.
Now, stick with me here, because this one’s a doozy. On March 4, she tweeted this (https://twitter.com/cher/status/838273936848670720):
WATCHING 1ST STAR WARS IN THEATRE.SPECIAL EFFECTS OLD,BUT ❤️IT.REMINDS ME OF 1st TIME. HANS,CHEWY,LUKE,OLD BEN,
👑LEIA,DARTH VADER,HYPERSPACE
Don’t let the caps lock distract you, she specifically mentions the words “watching” and “old.” Put these two words together - “watching old.” Watching old what Cher? Could it be an old movie? Could it maybe even be gasp Star Wars?
I guess we’ll all find out when she shows up at Celebration.
I think we should all be able to agree that “awesome” usually means “not shit.”
I liked it when this thread was exclusively “awesome” art.
what’s the next movie you’re going to see?
Probably Logan for me, sometime this weekend.
It’s been seen.
Batman has been around so long that he’s been interpreted through many different prisms. Can’t pin him down in that way.
A follow up on the story I posted earlier about a local High School performing Ragtime and the local NAACP people being upset about the use of the N-word:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/Ragtime-Star-Visits-Cherry-Hill-High-School-.html
I thought the uproar was ridiculous. I mean, did these people oject to the use of the n-word in Roots? Do you know how I came to understand why the n-word is so bad? It is because, as a child, I watched Roots. It taught me all I needed to know about that word.
It’s a high school Warb. When was the last time you saw a high school put on a performance of Roots?
Well never, because no one has ever turned it into a play. It was however shown in my history class one year(11th grade, I think).
You miss the point. Performing it is a lot different than watching it.
So you think it if were made into a play it would be wrong to perform it in Highschools even though Root is designed to teach the horrors of slavery and racism?
I didn’t say wrong. I just think it is understandable that students and their parents are uncomfortable with such things.
A follow up on the story I posted earlier about a local High School performing Ragtime and the local NAACP people being upset about the use of the N-word:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/Ragtime-Star-Visits-Cherry-Hill-High-School-.html
I thought the uproar was ridiculous. I mean, did these people oject to the use of the n-word in Roots? Do you know how I came to understand why the n-word is so bad? It is because, as a child, I watched Roots. It taught me all I needed to know about that word.
It’s a high school Warb. When was the last time you saw a high school put on a performance of Roots?
Well never, because no one has ever turned it into a play. It was however shown in my history class one year(11th grade, I think).
You miss the point. Performing it is a lot different than watching it.
People object to a lot of things in high school plays. When I was in high school we did Rent but had to use a somewhat censored version.
Yeah, these things do happen in High School I suppose. But I do have to wonder if the same complaints would make if the production was at a local community theater(not owned by the government) instead.
Well considering there have been local community productions of Ragtime without complaints, I wouldn’t be so sure.
A follow up on the story I posted earlier about a local High School performing Ragtime and the local NAACP people being upset about the use of the N-word:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/Ragtime-Star-Visits-Cherry-Hill-High-School-.html
I thought the uproar was ridiculous. I mean, did these people oject to the use of the n-word in Roots? Do you know how I came to understand why the n-word is so bad? It is because, as a child, I watched Roots. It taught me all I needed to know about that word.
It’s a high school Warb. When was the last time you saw a high school put on a performance of Roots?
People object to a lot of things in high school plays. When I was in high school we did Rent but had to use a somewhat censored version.
