What's everyone up to right now?

[Rev. Rye]

And now, a mock-up of the facade once it gets finished.

[Jackalope]

Shrooms. Psilocybe azurescens. By the gods, I forgot how gagtastically nasty they are to choke down.

[Fireball]

Shrooms.  Psilocybe azurescens. By the gods, I forgot how gagtastically nasty they are to choke down.

Maybe sautee them in butter and a little sherry? Hell, I get weird dreams from plain old mushrooms if they aren't washed enough. Maybe I should switch to straight cow shit for the high.

[Jackalope]

These don't grow in dung in the wild, they're forest mushrooms. Gonna put some on some pizza.

[Rev. Rye]

For over a year, my home printer has been close to impossible to work with, often requiring us to set it up multiple times on the off chance that it might actually work. Sometimes, it works, but only for a few days before that new profile I needed to make for the printer didn’t work, either. It’s been doing this for a long time, and I eventually resorted to creating an email address for the printer and using that every time I needed to print. And apparently, we needed to change that address at one point. It’s really a testament to my Dad’s patience and tenacity that only now has he considered that maybe this printer can’t actually be fixed. He’s trying one more thing, and he’s waiting until tomorrow to decide if it’s worth it to just get a new printer. It’s worked for him, but I can’t even get the damn thing to show up on my computer, even when I ask settings to search for a new printer. I think he said he’ll try to install it on my computer tomorrow and if it’s still as unsuccessful as it was today, he’ll consider it a lost cause.

On a lighter note, this week’s entry in the Deep Hurting Project will be Life’s a Jungle: Africa’s Most Wanted. I saw it in I Hate Everything’s “Not Dreamworks Collection” video and I suspect it May take the place of Glitter in the “most tolerable film I’ve watched for the Project So Far” category. I suspect I’ll need it. Why?

Well, I decided to sort them by genre (or what my local library calls a genre) and I decided to alternate between genres. I was set to watch a World film this week, but the sole entry in that category (a Russian ripoff of the Avengers called Guardians) was checked out. If this keeps up, There’s a very distinct possibility that next week, it’ll be Vaxxed. Yes, a movie directed by Andrew Fucking Wakefield. As someone who is A) on the autism spectrum and B) possesses a functioning brain, I fully expect to throw a shitton of vitriol at that film, and I figured watching something that could potentially be So Bad It’s Good will be a good breather.

[Rev. Rye]

Let my Dad fiddle with my laptop for about an hour, and he thinks he fixed the printing problem. Something to do with printer privileges making everything spotty, especially on my computer. I tried some printing jobs and it looks like he fixed it. And when I print something, it even removes it from the queue automatically when it's done. On the rare occasions I had been able to make it work in the past year, I had to delete it when it was done printing and wait a few minutes for it to actually clear before I could get anything else to print. Yes, that's how fucking backwards the printer had been acting for a year. And now, it's working like normal.

And now, let's see how it takes before it fucks everything up again.

[SteelCurtain]

Well, it looks like George Clooney's version of Catch-22 has finally had its trailer drop. For the record, Catch-22 is probably my favourite novel that I think can actually be properly adapted, and here's the trailer:





Any thoughts? Well, the thing is, it took a long time into the trailer for me to positively identify anything from the novel, giving me the impression that they're going to take a lot of liberties with the source material. That doesn't necessarily mean it's bad; Preacher does much the same thing and it's still good. But it gives shockingly little insight into how it's going to work as an adaptation. And it's surprising to see prominent swastikas, especially since they're stationed in Italy, and in the novel, the Germans exist solely as creatures that give the Americans flak and occasionally trade with Milo. No names whatsoever are given, and the only ones I recognise are Yossarian (mostly from the line "that's some catch, that Catch-22,"), Scheisskopf and de Coverley, and in those cases, it's only because I know George Clooney and Hugh Laurie's faces. Where the fuck are Milo, Nately, Major Major Major Major, or even Orr, Aarfy, or Chaplain Tappman? Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear? I get some hints at the darkness and the absurdity in the novel, but remarkably little of the combination of the two that makes the original novel so great?

Well, the one problem I have with the Mike Nichols film (besides the fact that so much shit had to be left out) is that Alan Arkin played Yossarian like someone playing through a vaudeville routine. Christopher Abbott, for his part, seems to be closer to my conception of the character: an everyman losing his mind (intentionally or not) because everyone else around him is totally far gone.

Holy shit I loved that book. I am 100% gonna watch that. I was just about to cancel my Hulu subscription too...

[Rev. Rye]

And let's just hope that nothingburger of a trailer isn't representative of the final product.

Also, I think it may actually be my second-favourite novel that I think could potentially be properly adapted into a book. #1 is Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts. I guess most people don't have the balls to even try to do a faithful adaptation of such a dark novella, even if it is short enough that a reading of the entire 23,374-word text could easily fit into a feature film length.

[*Deidre*]

Went on a business trip for a few days this week, and it was meh. Disappointing. Not sure what I expected, but I definitely didn't expect coworkers to get so lit that they were rude, and I just wish I hadn't gone out to a bar with them. I don't drink much around coworkers, it blows my mind that some people in a business setting don't know how to act. Then, the business meeting was the next day, and it was really strange. Top management swearing and such. I don't know, it's just not what I'm used to. They were nice to me looking back at it, but I don't think it's healthy to swear and use intimidation when trying to get points across. It's amazing to me how some people rise to the top, and somehow remain there.

[Gwaithmir]

I just got up and I'm making morning coffee. I had a look outside, only to discover that's it's snowing. I'll have to cancel my weekly visit to Mom's.

As soon as I finish my coffee, I'm going back to bed.