Link of the Day [9.07.16]
Let’s continue with the time travel back to 1996.
Last month AV Club went and looked at the pop of 1996. Today’s link sums up all they did.
I turned 25 that year. I always thought it was my favorite time ever. Maybe.
Link of the Day [9.06.16]
There are now 47 Nogis to love.
Nogizaka46 just announced their newest members this past weekend. They found another 12 girls to be the third generation of Nogizaka46.
I’m happy for them. They get to be one of the next faces of Nogizaka46, my favorite idol group. I will support them from here on out.
I’m sad for them. Idoling is a brutal business. They are starting at the bottom as novices. They must go through training in dance, singing, and idol maneuvers before they can be said to be ready. Then they face their fans who will bring their attitudes and prejudices against them.
It took the second generation almost two full years for them to all achieve full membership. Will third generation make it to full fledge membership in a shorter time? I’m not sure I have 2 years to find out…
Anyhow, I’ll support them as long as they are Nogizaka46 members. Also, even after.
Support them Japanese people. All of them!
I haven’t talked about the Baltimore Orioles in a while.
I went to last Friday’s game against the hated Yankees. We won. But it felt like too little too late.
I have no confidence in the team making it into the post season. I didn’t reserve post season tickets. They were available to season ticket holders a week ago and will still be there until mid-week. I’m not wanting to buy because it will mean believing in the team. I haven’t believed since the all star break. I would love to but…
So they kept winning through this weekend and won again today. They are making a play for the division as the season wanes. I’m still questioning my decision.
Let’s go Orioles!
I love the nostalgia of looking back twenty years ago to 1996. That was the year I broke. My favorite and I turned 25 during the proto-NewsRadio Quote Month.
Today’s link takes us to a list of music from that era. I remember, love, and cherish some of these songs. It reminds me of sitting on the couch and watching M2.
Sadly, that was then this is now. It doesn’t come back. At least we have “Peaches” from the Presidents of the United States.
http://www.spin.com/2016/08/96-best-alternative-rock-songs-1996/
Did I really say that it is NewsRadio ‘Quote’ of the Day Month?
Strike that it is only NewsRadio Quote Month.
Management regrets the error.
Day? Month? Year? You can never get enough of NewsRadio
Bookstore Haul: Volume 8
This is long overdue. I think I started it on the 23rd of August. Only just posting now. I need to do this quicker.
Git For Teams. Now I will now how to work with people. Using Git!
Link of the Day [9.01.16]
Is it?
It is!
NewsRadio Quote of the Day Month has started! It’s been a long time. Like a year. Maybe this time I’ll get into it again, but the quotes are getting to be slim pickings.
Not much to say today. Just a link of the day. Several hours too late to make you click. But just click anyway.
You’re gonna need a translator for this one because I’m sending you over to a Japanese idol’s blog. A member from my favorite group, Nogizaka46. It’s Hina Kawago. She’s writing about taking over center for her kami-oshi, Mai Fukugawa who graduated from the group in June. Kawago-san is one of the least popular members of the group. Fukugawa was one of the most popular of the group. She’s beloved by the members, fans, and idol freaks. Kawago is not. So for her to reach center during a really important show it was awesome.
The first time I had read about her taking over center I teared up. Then reading her blog entry through Google translate I teared up again. I am really glad for her. It seems from the amount of comments the fans did too.
Chou zetsu kawaii, Kawago!
He starred in many funny movies, but will always be memorable for me as being the star of one of the earliest R rated movies I saw in the theatre.
Stir Crazy was some afternoon matinee my mom took me, my younger brother, and younger cousin to see at the old Timonium 4. There was a lot of swearing. And some boobs. I’m not sure if I got it all at the age of 9, but I knew that the film wasn’t meant for young kids. I’m not complaining, there was some boobs, but I’m not sure if I laughed at the entirety of it all.
(And of course he was Willy Wonka – someone tell Johnny Depp that.)
R.I.P. Gene Wilder.
Suicide Squad cleared the low bar I had set for it. I liked it better than Batman V Superman. But that doesn’t mean it was a bad film and a terrible waste of time. What I do for my readers! I watch the films that you don’t so that you don’t have to ever.
The major problem is that you don’t know any of these characters at all. Maybe you’ve seen them, but you don’t know them. And you won’t care either. Sort of like one of the squad members introduced in the middle of the film only to be used as cannon fodder.
The best was the flame guy, but he’s not gonna make it to the sequel. If there is one. God help us.
2 of 5 stars.
I was a victim of a bad mom. She took me to see Bad Moms. Not that it was a bad movie. It just wasn’t good.
First, who can believe that Mila Kunis can have 2 grade school aged children? That is unreal right there.
Second, she wasn’t bad at all. Just her attitude was bad. I’ve seen movies where the mother has left behind the kids to fend for themselves and eventually die. Mila Kunis did not leave her kids alone. She just got drunk and partied hard. Plus, she fought the PTA. Everyone fights the PTA!
Third, even the PTA was sympathetic. They were all high strung, but just a little bit of partying would help them. And it did.
Last, this was a better movie when LL was in it — Mean Girls.
3 of 5 stars.
