I can’t recommend hiring a skip (or a “dumpster”, if you’re nasty) highly enough! Marie Kondo the shit out of your house before Christmas and you’ll feel lighter than air!
Note to self: don’t use Biblical quotes as instructions for Purge Day™️ with a teen. I told him “render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s….and the skip is Caesar, b t dubs.” The eye roll was LEGENDARY. Fair play to him, though - he filled a quarter of the skip just from his bedroom.
I suspected while watching it that the banshee wails and screams from that #CelebrityTraitors challenge were provided by a metal vocalist and I just found out I was right! Her name is Jessica and she’s in the band Mallavora. I hadn’t heard of them so checked out their stuff and they’re REALLY good!
I could just turn on text-to-speech on Wikipedia if I wanted to listen to that kind of thing. I enjoy podcasts because I like the feeling of being privy to an informal but informative chat between engaging people who banter well together. Being interesting is harder than it seems, people.
I have quite niche interests and for 9 out of 10 of the podcasts listed when I search for those interests, it’s 2 or more people reading a script on a topic and barely engaging with the material or each other at all. And they all sound like it was recorded on a Fisher Price my first tape recorder.
I know it feels like the entire world and his dog has a podcast now, and I bet that makes it feel like anyone, including you, can do it. But let me say this very gently to you - if you don’t have a personality, it’s not the medium for you…
Celia Imrie has always been hilarious as a comic actor, but thanks to #CelebrityTraitors, we’re learning that she’s hilarious 24/7 and I love that! “Put a pussy in it” followed by her death rattle had me crying 🤣! NATIONAL. TREASURE.
Got tired of re-watching shows so decided to try something completely new and - shocker - American! (I normally don’t do US sitcoms for reasons way too complex for this post.)
Stumbled on ‘Resident Alien’ and my goodness, it’s funny! It’s bananas and wouldn’t work without Alan Tudyk, but SO fun!
Why are you all just now learning that Jared Leto sucks? What’s he done this time - Started another cult? Released more shitty music? Interfered with another woman without a fully developed prefrontal cortex? The possibilities really are endless with that guy.
This reminds me of one of my all-time favourite cross-over Star Wars/LOTR anecdotes. Sean Astin (my beloved) went to introduce himself to George Lucas at some early ‘00s awards do. Lucas was salty about all the praise LOTR was getting and said “I don’t know who you are. All you hobbits look alike”…
I think it ended up taking me a total of about 4 hours to download this trailer via late ‘90s dial-up modem. I watched it endlessly, I was so excited. Ditto the Phantom Menace trailer…..one of those films sure did meet and then exceed my expectations.
Also! We already know that SOMEONE already owns the trademark for The Avengers, because why else would She-Hulk & co. have stumbled on that ‘Avongers’ merch? My professional advice would be to find the trademark owner and enter into negotiations to purchase. It’s first past the post in TM law.
If it WERE possible to copyright a word, Tony Stark is the lawful copyright holder for the foreseeable. Unless all his assets, including intangibles went to Pepper, then I guess she could do what she wants with the name. But there’s no other way it would belong to Sam in this insane scenario.
Copyright applies to artistic works and you don’t even technically NEED to “file” for it, as Yelena says (although you can if you really want to/are paranoid.) It’s automatic and lasts for the author’s life, plus 70 years (currently) until the work becomes public domain……
That whole discussion about the *copyright* of the name ‘Avengers’ makes no sense. What they’re actually quibbling with Sam over is the *trademark* for ‘Avengers’ (the word. The logo and even just the stylized ‘A’ can also be trademarked.) You can’t copyright a word.
Did a little Phase-whatever Marvel re-watch lately and I think Thunderbolts has been out long enough that I can talk about the post-credit scene in detail, because the one thing I hate more than Bucky’s blow-out is when films get MY job wrong. (🚨Sexy intellectual property law chat incoming🚨)
