Peddoc63

Peddoc63, where have you gone? 

You were once ranked among the top 150 people influencing the presidential election.  But I tried checking your Twitter account yesterday and the page had vanished. 

I found a cache from June 13, and you'd tweeted:

Hey guys I’m back. They tried to destroy me but they failed, miserably! Did you forget about me? So soon? Help me rebuild! I’m counting on you! All my love ❤️Feisty Floridian
Otherwise known as @peddoc63

Maybe you're tweeting from the account @Feisty_FL now?  It appears so.  But who was trying to destroy you?  And why do you need to rebuild?

That's a shame if you had to reboot your Twitter account and get back all your followers.  The @Peddoc63 account had 164,000 followers, while @Feisty_FL has just 16,000 followers. 

The @Peddoc63 profile said: "Doctor & Daughter of LEGAL immigrants living the American Dream.  Followed by Elder, Woods, Hannity, Gov. Abbott, Cruz, Guilfoyle, Watters, Crowder, Pavlich." 

The @Fesity_FL bio says: "Doctor and Daughter of LEGAL immigrants who achieved the American Dream."  It doesn't list any big-time followers.

Russell Crowe gets dissed

The song "Climbing Uphill" from the original cast recording of The Last Five Years contained the line:

"Why am I working so hard?  These are the people who cast Linda Blair in a musical.'

In the 2014 movie, that line is changed to:

"Why am I working so hard?  These are the people who cast Russell Crowe in a musical."

Listen for yourself:

PETA critic gets roasted

Roasted:

Mic Drop

This was an entertaining article about the turbulence felt at Mic.com:

https://theoutline.com/post/2156/mic-com-and-the-cynicism-of-modern-media?zd=1&zi=w2kbxqh2

I try to remain skeptical of any opinions coming from ex-employees (especially anonymous ex-employees), but these lines really stuck out:

“Mic trafficked in outrage culture,” a former staffer who left in 2017 said. “A lot of the videos that we would publish would be like, ‘Here is this racist person doing a racist thing in this nondescript southern city somewhere.’ There wouldn’t be any reporting or story around it, just, ‘Look at this person being racist, wow what a terrible racist.’”

Also, the introduction makes the same sort of observations that float around half-formed in my own head, and it's a pleasant surprise to see someone else making them (the author of the piece was Adrianne Jeffries):

Every day, there was someone, like plus-size model Ashley Graham, to cheer for, and someone else, like manspreaders, to excoriate. Kim Kardashian annihilated slut shamers, George Takei clapped back at transphobes. “In a Single Tweet, One Man Beautifully Destroys the Hypocrisy of Anti-Muslim Bigotry.” “This Brave Woman's Horrifying Photo Has Become a Viral Rallying Cry Against Sexual Harassment.” “Young Conservative Tries to Mansplain Hijab in Viral Olympic Photo, Gets It All Wrong.”

A clarification about hobbits

I e-mailed Erwin Beekveld to ask where the orcs were taking the hobbits in The Two Towers.  It's a bit confusing, because they don't wind up in Isengard straight away (despite what the song would make you think):

Thanks, Erwin. 

Here's the song that started it all:

Warriors win again!

The Cavaliers and their $137,000,000 payroll were no match for the Warriors.

Congrats to Golden State:

Thanos Hotels, where check-in is a snap!

I was surprised to find out the domain www.thanos.com is not owned by Disney or Marvel.  The URL redirects to www.thanoshotels.com, which is controlled by the hotelier Thanos Michaelides.  Upon discovering this, I sent the folks at Thanos Hotels an e-mail to ask if there was any connection between their hotels and the mad Titan:

 Good to know!

Ricochet and Will Ospreay

Good song choice for this highlight video:

Star Wars dance-off medley

Historians in the future will study this clip with great interest:

Lasagna Cat RPG

I'd play this game:

Arab Andy is blasting off again

The absolute madman:

This is library

He's the hero we need:

JR Smith -- Shooting Stars

He is one with the stars:

Guile theme goes with everything: Mushroom girl

She can hear the music in her head: