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Baron Grim Posted Jan 3, 2018
Nope... I don't care who sings it. I was mistaken earlier. It was Whitney who made this song ubiquitous, not Celine. Celine had that insipid song from Titanic.
Dolly Parton got awards for writing a song that has one single line.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 3, 2018
We also sang the Titanic song at the same concert.
Song quality seems to have been on a downward slide for the last twenty or thirty years. Which you would expect me to say in a thread for grumpy geezers. Yep, I'm a geezer, and I'm grumpy.
The songs in "The Greatest showman" are very undistinguished, and yet one of them was nominated for a Golden Globe award. Gone are the days when a Mancini song would get awards as well as popularity. I haven't heard the music from "Hamilton" yet, so maybe there are still pockets of tunefulness and maybe even lyrical wit. I'm not sure it helps that Gershwin tunes are repackaged for new shows, or that Mel Brooks thinks his old movies can be mounted a Broadway shows with some new tunes. Even Monty Python's Eric Idle is repackaging movies as stage shows.
Something better will come along eventually, but for now.....
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jan 3, 2018
I called Celine Dion "The Siren of Titanic" in a review a decade or two ago. Not many caught the reference
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ITIWBS Posted Jan 3, 2018
Girasole (Jerusalem artichoke) is tricky, one of the most easily overcooked and mildly flavored vegetables in the world, more easily overcooked than bean sprouts and milder in flavor.
Best used after the manner of Chinese water chestnuts or in salads.
If cooked longer than suggested above, might as well boil till they dissolve completely for soup stock or gravy.
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Jan 4, 2018
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 4, 2018
Topic drift? Yes.
But are you saying it's a good thing or a bad thing?
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Jan 4, 2018
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 4, 2018
That's what I thought.
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jan 4, 2018
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 4, 2018
Well, today I'm getting both. As the blizzicane moves past us, it will suck polar air into our region, with temperatures as low as 8 below zero Fahrenheit.
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jan 4, 2018
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Baron Grim Posted Jan 4, 2018
Our meteorologists are just having so much fun introducing the American public to scary sounding weather phenomena.
This time it's "bomb cyclone" or "bombogenesis"...
Srsly!?
Last year, or mehbe it were the previous year, we learned of "Polar Vortices", now we got "bomb cyclones". From what I understand a polar vortex just involves an uncommonly deep bulge in the jet stream bringing arctic air further south. And a "bomb cyclone/bombogenesis" (proper term is explosive cyclogenesis) is just when the barometric pressure in a low pressure area drops more than 24 millibars in 24 hours.
But that don't sell soap (or pharmaceuticals like 90% of the ads we see during the evening news hours) so they gotta scare it up.
And when they're not introducing us to new "scary" terms, they've been just flat out making them up. Remember the "snowpocalypse?
Give me peace.
It's this kind of hyperbole that gives credence to the climate science deniers who claim that scientists are trying to scare the public to get more funding. (Yes, people I know have told me that's why they think climate science is a hoax.) TV meteorologists aren't scientists, they're specialized newsreaders, but they are the public face of weather and most Americans don't know the difference.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 4, 2018
I hear you, Baron, I hear you.
Siberian methane was part of the plot in the movie "Downsizing," which I saw last night. The Norwegian colony of downsized people are so sure of imminent climate horrors that they create an underground bunker to stay in for 8,000 years, after which (if they haven't gone mad and drunk the purple Kool-aid) they can safe come back to the Earth's surface One of the characters pooh-poohs their extreme expectations, calling them a cult. In a way, the whole movie is about peer pressure to join the latest "discovery," in this case shrinking people so that they're only 5 or 6 inches tall. This is supposed to reduce humanity's pressure on the environment for food and fuel, etc.
Here in Boston, they've coined the term "blizzicane," which wasn't necessary, as we already had "Nor-easter."
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 4, 2018
The last "they" refers to media meteorologists in these parts. Our weather has little to do with meteors, but that's a problem of much longer standing.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 4, 2018
That makes sense. It's driving me bats, man!
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ITIWBS Posted Jan 4, 2018
Scary, isn't it, knowing the news readers are semi-literates who learned their popular science watching exploitation movies like "Shark-nado" and actually believe in their own qualifications.
All part of the 'great leap backwards.
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