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Black Mirror: Season 3, Episode 4. San Junipero

The credits tell me this is a Netflix Original, but I thought it was a BBC Show? Whatever. It's probably something they bought and added another season.  For some reason there is a 50s style car, 70s style architecture, 80s music, and 80s movie fashion. It also appears to be American, and what I'm guessing is the main character is entering into a bar called Tuckers.  Main character girl can be best described as movie star plain. She's tall, thin, dressed in boxy clothing and has glasses and

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 15 & 16

Chapter 15: The Chocolate Room  Mr Wonka opens the door to The Chocolate room with keys. Like actual keys. I guess the part where Mr Wonka plays a keyboard to enter is movie only. I tried to find it but the only video on youtube ends with a rude sound as a "joke." Also did you know that Mrs TeaVee is wrong when she smugly states " Rachmaninoff" as the composer?     The kids and grownups push their way into the room and they look "upon a lovely valley" with a brown river. The chocolate

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 14

Thank you to everyone for not wondering where I went for two weeks. I'll be continuing my reread of the beloved children's classic "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" on my normal schedule of "whenever I feel like it" from now until I finish or get bored. JUST KIDDING! I went on vacation. It was lovely.  Chapter 14: Mr. Willy Wonka  We, the readers, finally  meet the much described Mr. Wonka. He's wearing a tail coat made of plum-colored velvet, bottle green trousers, grey gloves, and

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 13

Chapter 13: The Big Day Arrives  There is a crowd of people in front of Wonka's chocolate factory on February 1. The five ticket holders and their adults are shielded by the police.  Everyone who isn't Charlie has both of their parents with them. Charlie has Grandpa Joe, the lazy old man who isn't at all interested in helping out his family until free chocolate is put on the table.  The other children are being children and trying to climb over the gates.  Charlie hears peopl

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 12

Chapter 12: What It Said on the Golden Ticket Charlie (which I pronounce in my head as Chaaaaalie, which I think is a TWOP Lost reference that I should stop doing) bursts into the cat's grandparent's room. They are eating their evening soup. Charlie shouts about finding the Golden Ticket, and finding money in the street. Everyone is silent. They think it's a joke. Charlie shows them the Golden Ticket.  Grandpa Joe, who is not illiterate, holds the ticket up to his face, so close it's a

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 11

Chapter 11: The Miracle Charlie goes to the candy store and buys a Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight. Maggie Mae tears open a Russell Stover Mini Egg, with Fudge Brownie filling. I think it's pretty similar. 50% off! I put the rest of the bag in the jar with the old Halloween candy, the christmas/Hanukkah candy, and the Valentine's day candy. There is probably candy in there from two Halloweens ago. I know there are New Years Eve Noisemakers from three years ago, also in the sam

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 10

Chapter 10  It is now winter in unnamed city of indeterminate size, in the year of "industrial revolution/Victorian era. Or maybe later. Who knows. It's winter. It's snowing, and the Bucket family + Mrs Bucket's parents are cold, hungry, and still very poor. Soon after the candy bars ran out, Mr Bucket lost his job at the toothpaste factory. So the three meals of cabbage soup a day are halved. Mr Bucket goes out to try and earn money by shoveling, but it doesn't feed the family. Charlie beg

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapters 7, 8, and 9

Chapter 7: Charlie's Birthday Charlie's present is a bar of "Wonka's Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight" and I am not going to lie, it sounds delicious, and my opinion is based only on the name, because it is not described at all.  Charlie's entire family gathers to watch him unwrap this candy bar. They remind him that it's still a candy bar, that it has the same chance as any other candy bar. Finally they tell him to hurry up and get on with it before he's late for school. Charlie ope

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 6

Chapter 6: The First Two Finders  "Mr. Bucket's" evening newspaper (O.M.G. I had forgotten how newspapers used to be delivered twice a day) announces that the first Golden Ticket has been found. The winner, of course, is Augustus Gloop. Augustus is a nine-year-old boy who is "enormously fat" and "looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump." His fat is further described in great detail and I'm a little uncomfortable.  Augustus's mother tells the papers how Augustus eats

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 5

Chapter 5: The Golden Tickets Grandpa Joe tells Mr. Bucket to read faster, as he simply must know the big news. He's content to sleep all day until Charlie comes home, but as soon as there is some sort of news about this chocolate factory, he's all about ordering his son (who works on the line at a factory) to read faster. Hey, Grandpa Joe, why don't you just read it yourself?  The newspaper says that Willy Wonka is a "candy-making genius" whom nobody has seen in 10 years. Willy Wonka

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 4

Chapter 4: The Secret Workers  Grandpa Joe tells Charlie how the large factory in their city randomly shut down one day, laying off all of the workers and closing. Mr. Wonka said he was SORRY, and then sent home every single worker. Not an HR professional was left to handle the closeout and/or severance packages. No safety inspector left to ensure the ongoing safety of this large industrial building. Just shut it down. The reason for laying off the local workforce? Supposedly corporate espi

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 3

This chapter is awkward.  Chapter 3: Mr. Wonka and the Indian Prince  Grandpa Joe tells Charlie the story of "Prince Pondicherry," who had asked Mr. Willy Wonka to "come all the way out to India and build him a colossal palace entirely of chocolate." Those Indians, amirite? Always with their weird names and schemes to do impractical things. /s Mr. Wonka, of course, builds the chocolate palace and tells Prince Pondicherry (Which is a cute name but also strikes me as somewhat i

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Mr Willy Wonka's Factory The old people are old. They are not only chronologically old, but they are physically old and described in great detail how very old they are. They are so old they are willing to stay in bed for years, all day, every day. They are so old they are sharing a bed with people who at one time were acquaintances. Grandpa George and Grandpa Joe only know each other because their children married. Mr and Mrs Bucket (who have no first names) must not have sibling

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 1

I was "inspired" to reread the children's classic "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" today, when @HerNameIsBuffy voiced a thought I've had many times about Grandpa Joe. I posted the photo of the cover I am most familiar with, which is the 1970's cover. Apparently I too was poor as a child and read mostly used, hand-me-down books. Fine with me! Less wasted paper in the world, I suppose.  Chapter 1: Here Comes Charlie  We are immediately introduced to our main characters by having drawi

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

A Game of Thrones Reread: Catelyn IV

Chapter 18: Catelyn Catelyn arrives in King’s Landing and speaks with an old friend. Characters: Catelyn Stark of Winterfell Captain Moreo Tumitis: Captain of The Storm Dancer. Has a very slight Tyroshi accent. Has a forked green beard. Ser Rodrik Cassel – Traveled with Cat from Winterfell to King’s Landing. Littlefinger/Lord Baelish – was a ward of Cat’s father. They grew up together in Riverrun. Challenged Brandon Stark for the right to Catelyn’s hand in m

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Breaking news!

Units en route to McDonald's on W 41st for a group of teenagers throwing a dead muskrat around in the drive thru.

MarblesMom

MarblesMom

The Phantom Tollbooth Reread: Chapters 19 & 20 (The End)

Chapter 19: The Return of Rhyme and Reason Tock, with the Princesses on his back and Milo and the Humbug holding on the back, flies over the demons, lands on the ground, and starts running with the Princesses still on his back. They all run down the mountain trails. with demons chasing them. They meet: Triple Demons of Compromise   Horrible Hopping Hindsight    Gorgons of Hate and Malice. These guys inched along like giant soft-shelled snails, with

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

The Phantom Tollbooth Reread: Chapters 17 & 18

Chapter 17: Unwelcoming Committee After what seemed like days, the trio of reluctant heroes have barely made any progress on their projects. Milo notices that he doesn’t feel tired or hungry and could on doing the same thing forever. The faceless man remarks that perhaps Milo will go on forever. Tock suggests that Milo use “his magic staff” and find out how long it will take. Milo calculates that it will take them over 800 years to finish. Milo chooses to question the “man” about the 8

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

A Game Of Thrones Reread: Bran III

Chapter 17: Bran Bran’s direwolf gets a name. Characters: Bran Stark - Middle child of Eddard Stark and Cat Tully, recently defenstrated. In a coma. Currently dreaming or something.  The Three-Eyed Crow - also known as (SPOILER) Bloodraven.  Location: Winterfell What Happens: Bran Stark has a chapter long dream/prophecy/vision quest. Bran is told to fly, and instead he falls. Bran believes that he will wake up before he hits the ground, like in dreams

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Unreailstic expectations and other nonsense

"Being musty is not a blessing" "i'm the ass flap" Trembling loins.  Trump loins.   (Snuggy thoughts!) 1Ball+Unranus ... new boy band?  Sounds like they are headed in a New Direction.... NO UNICORNS?! "His don't dangle excessively" (we need a 'danglegram' to fully appreciate the angle of said dangle) "The Karma train is a sin?" There is more than one Bread Guy on tindr, apparently. And Unicorns are a sin.   Just sayin'.  

MarblesMom

MarblesMom

The Phantom Tollbooth Reread: Chapter 16

Chapter 16: A Very Dirty Bird Milo climbs the stairs to infinity, but eventually collapses. As he begins talking to himself, half of a small child starts talking to him. Okay, .58 of a child. The child says that they are the average family, with a mother, father, and 2.58 children. He is the .58. He also says that infinity is a dreadfully poor place where no one can make ends meet. They discuss averages. Milo is confused by some of the examples given to him, such as The boy offe

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

A Game of Thrones Reread: Eddard III

Chapter 16: Eddard King Robert overstays his welcome at Castle Darry. Characters Present: Eddard Stark: AKA “Ned.” Lord of Winterfell, Hand to the King, Warden of the North. Vayon Poole: a steward for the Starks. King Robert: The drunken king of the seven kingdoms. Not really suited for the actual duties of being a king. Cersei Lannister: King Robert’s beautiful but horrible wife. Joffrey Lannister: Heir to the Seven Kingdoms. Also quite terrible.

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

A Game of Thrones Reread: Sansa I

Chapter 15: Sansa Sansa and Joffrey spend some time together, alone. Characters Present: Septa Mordane: Septa to the Stark girls. Sansa Stark: Betrothed to the Prince. Daughter of Eddard Stark & Catelyn Tully. Auburn hair, young, girly, obedient, dreams of Princes and Knights and Romance. Lady: Sansa’s incredibly well behaved direwolf. Arya Stark: Sansa’s younger sister. Tomboy. Dirty and wild. Takes after the Stark side of her family in looks and attitu

Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

Super sad face

Sorry, there is a problem There was an error joining the chat room. Please try again or contact us. Error code: 5H269/A I know D is on it.  But still, sad face.

MarblesMom

MarblesMom



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