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Silver Screen Magic with Natalie Wood
Actress Natalie Wood began her career early, before she became ten, in the films “Miracle on 34th Street” and “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir." She earned a Golden Globe award for her performance of Karen Holmes in the TV adaptation of “From Here to Eternity." She died tragically drowning in 1981 at the age of 43.
By Rasma Raisters6 months ago in Geeks
Stagecoach (1939) is Still Great!
I love westerns, I've said it before, and I'll say it 'til the cows come home. Unfortunately, however, the western genre isn't always family-friendly...unless you look at some of the older titles to hit the screen. See, usually, when one thinks of westerns, the image of men and women riding around in broad-brimmed hats with revolvers, and shooting bad guys is what comes to mind. The genre is quite literally built around violence...most of the time.
By Greg Seebregts6 months ago in Geeks
"What a maroon" may not be a racist statement
What is a Maroon? In the early Looney Tunes animated shorts, Bugs Bunny at times said of Elmer Fudd, the Tasmanian Devil, and others, "What a maroon." He uttered this statement behind their backs, always looking into the camera as if letting the audience know he was mocking his fellow Toons.
By Cheryl E Preston6 months ago in Geeks
The Source Code of Animanga: Ranking the Top 10 Anime Arcs by Narrative Architecture. AI-Generated.
In the world of software engineering, we talk about "clean code," "scalability," and "system architecture." But as a student of AI and development, I’ve realized that the greatest mangakas are essentially master architects. They don't just draw; they build massive, interlocking systems of lore and logic that have to run without "crashing" for decades.
By Abhijeet Singh6 months ago in Geeks
The Big Book Review: "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman (Pt.3)
Read Parts 1 and 2 here: Welcome back to this series on Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, part of the 'Big Book Review' in which we look at sections of a book every month in extreme detail, focusing on what they have to teach us about their topics. Part 3, entitled Overconfidence looks at what businesses, experts and individuals may overlook or misread due to their own faith in themselves. A more extreme and intricate form of the 'Dunning-Kruger Effect'. If you haven't read parts 1 and 2 then I suggest you read those before continuing, of course these articles will cross-reference each other and ideas from previous chapters are not going to be re-explained unfortunately (for the sake of length and word count).
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Fumfer Physics 44: Neutron Star Mergers, r-Process Nucleosynthesis, and Cosmological Implications
Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner examine gold as a tracer of rare astrophysical events. Rosner explains that elements heavier than iron, including gold, cannot form through ordinary stellar fusion but arise from extreme environments such as supernovae and neutron star mergers via rapid neutron capture (r-process). He emphasizes spectroscopy as the key method for detecting elemental abundances and notes ongoing uncertainty about the relative contributions of different cosmic sources. While anomalies in element distribution or early galaxy formation invite scrutiny, Rosner argues they typically refine rather than overturn established frameworks like the Big Bang, underscoring science’s iterative, evidence-based progression.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen6 months ago in Geeks
Halloween Ends
Michael Myers can never look weak. Halloween fans reject this mantra as they reject this with the current Halloween Ends. Laurie should never have over powered Michael. If you are not a complete dumbass you noticed Michael was overpowering Cory; then he finally tripped and fell. I maintain Michael let Cory take the mask. You have to tell us Michael allowed Cory to take the mask. Michael got fucked up by an entire town in Halloween Kills only to slaughter half the fucking town. It also needed to be revealed that Michael was only pretending to be as weakened as he was when Michael killed Cory. This should have been a realization, that he chose hate and carnage over love and healing. An overbearing mother, a town turning you into their boogeyman, and being bullied sucked plenty. It was quite understandable why Cory was upset. However, he was shown plenty of love by his stepfather Ronnie and Allyson. Laurie even helped Cory stand up to the bullies.
By DJ Robbins6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Details" by Ia Genberg
This is one of those books where I browsed the bookshelves for about a minute before landing on something that felt more Virginia Woolf than linear narrative. The Details is a story about love and grief, a family that isn't liked and a family that is quite literally chosen. It's about sickness and emotional destruction, it has a main character who is constantly trying to make sense of their past. Like the book I Wished by Dennis Cooper, this book feels like a stream-of-consciousness where we are invited into the world of the main character, we are pulled into their thoughts and even though we have only just met them, we are sitting and holding their hand as they speak to us from a sickbed, from a bedroom or even from a reel of photographs representing each important memory.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Thoughts On One Piece Season 2
Okay, guys, buckle up, because Steven is going to ramble. Less than three weeks ago, the second season of the One Piece Live Action adaptation dropped, and it absolutely, unironically, hardcore slapped like a Netflix series has never slapped before. I held off as long as I could to talk about it, and even so, as my goal is to get you to watch it, I will hold off on any major specifics as there will be spoilers, and I dare not spoil everything for my loyal readers. However, let me tell you, as a One Piece fan, this season blew the first season out of the water. As a storyteller, this season did so much justice to the greatest story ever told. This series is such a passion project, and we as a fandom are so blessed to have it.
By Steven Christopher McKnight6 months ago in Geeks
