Okay, So I May Have Broken Everything
So I took a day off, sent Monday’s thing out at a weird time, and then completely wrecked my cadence through unexpected napping is kind of the short of it. So we’ve got some late-ass Star Wars content (though some people say Revenge of the Sixth? Okay fine no one says Revenge of the Sixth but it was worth a shot) and other things.
In a brazen attempt to brush all this over, here are some quokkas, which I just found out about recently.
Look at those things just absolutely vibing out. Found primarily in Australia, these bois and koalas look like the continent’s attempt to overcorrect for the fact that literally every other animal there is a spider the size of a Buick that will absolutely annihilate your family tree, or a fish that evolved to have a gun or something, just an absolutely terrifying place.
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One of my more recent content wormholes has been food and travel shows, a double dip of nostalgia for when we could travel outdoors and eat in other places. One of the best in recent memory was this short-run series (only 4 40something-minute episodes), starring chef Samin Nosrat, author of the book from where the series is drawn. Each episode has Nosrat traveling to a locale where the cuisine embodies one of the titular elements of cooking, sending her from Italy to Japan to the Yucatan region of Mexico.
Right, the STAR WARS content! Here’s George Lucas at the now-rebranded Hooters Casino in Las Vegas:
My favorite thing is that he’s got the same look he does in just about every picture I’ve ever seen of him, to the point where I can’t say with certainty that that’s not a cardboard stand-up of him. While it switched over to become the Oyo Hotel earlier this year, presumably with less of an objectifying gimmick, I wonder what happens to the wall of famous guest pictures when a place like this closes.
In other new-to-me content, I’d never seen this behind-the-scenes picture of Ahmed Best, the actor behind Jar Jar Binks, live on set before. It looks a bit more like Best has killed Jar Jar and is using his carcass as a suit, which would be an even more compelling plot to explore.
Finally, in some productivity crossover, Disney released a whole mess of Star Wars-related backgrounds you can use for all of your conferencing needs, as well as to trigger arguments over EPISODE IX between your colleagues (it’s worse than some of the prequels no mail please).
In today’s Elon Musk update, he’s welcomed a child into the world! I’m not going to leave the name in here because it looks like some sort of dark incantation, but if there’s one thing we all know, it’s that becoming a parent adds no additional stressors to your life, so hopefully we’ll see Elon mellow out and definitely not help his baby become the #1 seed in the “if you had a time machine…” hypothetical. There’s an explanation behind the name at the link but since life remains finite I didn’t look any further into it.
And in the same orbit, this seems normal:
The fella in the replies is joking, but, it does speak to the caliber of Muskites that I did have to look into it further to make sure his person wasn’t “pobody’s nerfect”-ing their steering wheel falling off dozens of times a year in order to defend Elon.
The much less popular sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, it’s The Audubon Field Guide to Karens:
Finally, this short but interesting video from LEGO on how a minifig is assembled, wherein I learned what the practical function is for that mark on the neck stump!
