DEROCHE: So, let’s talk about your results so far.
MARTIN: Ah, yes.
DEROCHE: Well, firstly, you’ll be pleased to know your references from your current airline are excellent.
MARTIN: Oh! Are they?
DEROCHE: Indeed. Positively glowing report from your CEO, and another from your Chief Pilot.
MARTIN: Well, that’s very … from who?
DEROCHE: Your Chief Pilot – Mr. Richardson. He is most complimentary: “Myself apart, there is no-one at MJN whose abilities as a pilot I rate higher.”
MARTIN: How kind(!)
DEROCHE: And we also request your CEO to select at random a member of the cabin crew to fill out a questionnaire, rating you on various attributes from ‘poor’ to ‘very good’. In your case, the respondent drew in and ticked an additional box at the end of each line, labelled ‘brilliant’.
There are three graphic novels of the Moore run on Miracleman but they can be hard to find. I have them and I ain’t selling.
The other two, TDoCM and GLMK are both widely available and worth reading, if not up to the standards of Moore. Then again, saying something’s not written as well as Moore is like saying a blues guitarist is good, but he’s not as good as BB King. It’s just not fair.
You never want one British bad guy to gain too much power. For example, if David Warner started getting out of hand, Stamp and McDowell could team up to bring him down.
My son has just started reading “The Watchmen”. He’s finished the first chapter and is in the first chapter break, excerpts from the fictional book written by the the retired original Nite Owl, Hollis Mason. He’s writing about the phenomenon of costumed vigilantes in his fictional world called “Under the Hood”, ‘cuz, duh, it’s about costumed vigilantes who wear hoods and masks and cloaks (this graphic novel pointed out the problems with capes long before Edna Mode).
What I never picked up on before speaking about it aloud with my son is that Hollis Mason became an auto mechanic, and ‘under the hood’ is also referring to the inside ‘under the hood’ look at costumed crimefighting.
With a s00n-to-be two year old I’m watching a lot of childrens songs, and ABCs and counting songs on youtube. Quite a few of them have something extra for the bigger kids to enjoy. For example the song “wind the bobbin up” has an animation of two mice having tea, the table at which they are seated is a bobbin. I was watching one count down from 10 song and they had in a small square in the corner with different animals for each number. I wasn’t sure why at first then I noticed that the number of letters in the animal name corresponded to the number on screen, eg. 3 was a cow. They didn’t do anything for “2” and “1” though, so I was a bit dissapointed - I was hoping for a panda on “2” (two letters - “p” and “a”. That would have been fun.
The Sting, has been around for 45 years; I’ve seen it at least 4 dozen times. I had the soundtrack album on vinyl, then on CD; I’ve listened to it well over 200 times. The Marvin Hamlisch pieces are titled after characters. Except a nifty little 1930s-sounding tune called “The Glove.” Could never figure out why it’s called that. It hit me yesterday, out of the blue: the song is playing “on the radio” as one of the characters, an assassin, is pulling on his gloves (a plot twist/red herring). D’oh! :smack:
It occurred to me the other day that that the Underdog villain Simon Bar Sinister’s name literally means Simon The Bastard. :eek:
I can’t help wondering how the heck poor Peter Dinklage ended up playing him in the movie.
Think he’s related to Fat Bastard from Austin Powers?
Speaking of The Watchmen, I was just re-watching the movie and noticed that Ozymandias had a damaged but complete version of the statue of Ramses II referenced in Percy Shelley’s poem. I’d always wondered about why Adrian Veidt selected the name Ozymandias; considering that the poem has as a theme how fleeting are the works of man, and Adrian’s ego and ambition seem not to recognize any limitation.
I decided Adrian comes from an alternate universe where the statue of Ramses II was not destroyed as in our universe where no trace of it remains but survived. Now the name makes sense. The statue of Ramses II survived for more than 3,000 years. Not too shabby.
I was listening to Abbey Road for the 1,435,277th time, and while the song “Mean Mister Mustard” played, I was thinking of our Mean Mister Mustard, and heard the line, “his sister Pam works in a shop…” I was idly wondering if the Doped MMM has a sister named Pam, when the album sequed to the next song, “Polythene Pam.” And for the first time I realized that Polythene Pam is Mean Mister Mustard’s sister. Never made the connection before!
