Sunday, June 22, 2025

Today's news and jokes



Clandestine gun-making facility discovered in Australia (including an Aliens pulse rifle?)



"The search was carried out as part of Strike Force Temarang..." which "was established by State Crime Command’s Drug & Firearms Squad into the importation and manufacture of 3D printed firearms and firearm parts, 3D computer aided designed software, and other privately manufactured firearms."

Saturday, June 21, 2025

Dan Simmons's Endymion is $1.99 right now

at Amazon.

Great trailer for KPop Demon Hunters (plus concept art and interviews)
























("The Saja Boys, comprising members Jinu (Ahn Hyo-seop), Abby, Mystery, Romance, and Baby, were inspired by Korean groups such as Tomorrow X Together, BTS, Stray Kids, ATEEZ, BIGBANG, and Monsta X. There’s always a muscular one who shows off their abs; one who was the romantic type (“I purposely gave him these bangs that were meant to be heart-shaped”); and, the baby of the group.")



("For some of the songs, we did as many iterations, or close to, as on storyboards because you had to. Some of the story keeps changing and we needed some of the lyrics to be a little different, and when you do that the rhythm of it could change. I don’t know if the songwriters were told that from the start. Some of them were like, “What? That’s not how we work in pop music!” But we do an animation!") ("We worked really hard to create mouth shapes and eye shapes that were very Korean. So even though the girls are speaking in English, they were mouth shapes that you would only make as a Korean person, with our Korean language. ")

Today's news and jokes



(Also, Starbucks is testing a drink that "pairs a banana-flavored foam, packed with 15 grams of protein, with a sugar-free vanilla latte")

Wonderful audiobook for Tamsyn Muir's "Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower"

A princess with no real skills is imprisoned by a witch atop a tower packed with monsters, and realizes no one is coming to save her. Performed by Moira Quirk. Available at Amazon, although I listened to it in Libby.

Black panther in love