Thereās over a million without power in my area. I worked clearing trees and pulling wire back up until about 2am last night. Will probably end up doing the same again tonight. If your powerās out just settle in because this oneās a doozy.
And donāt go near any downed powerlines, please.
Made the amateur mistake of not putting my cellphone on the charger overnight during a hurricane. Everything is shut down and I woke up to no electricity. My multi-purpose car battery charger that has electric outlets, which Iāve kept charged for something like this doesnāt seem to want to charge my phone. I foresee a lot of sitting in the dark with my thoughts.
Hope you all are doing okay.
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Found out that a nearby country club is letting anyone come in that wants a warm shower. Now itās down to whether my aversion to ice cold showers or meeting new people(especially in the nude) wins out.
What??? This is incredible? I want to walk into a building just to go āone shower pleaseā???
Would not have expected such generosity from a country club.
It makes more sense when you know their history. This was the country club started by Jewish and colored folks, because the other ones black balled minorities, so they probably have an idea of compassion.
Iāve spent the last two days having a rager in celebration of my childhood friends getting married. Everyone I grew up with all met in town, and we have all been catching up with one another.
My heart is full and I am exhausted.
Latent resentment over what Frank said a few episodes ago on the podcast about Boomerang just being a playlist of Hannah-Barbera cartoons that no one would ever want to watch in the 21st century got the best of me, so just now I went to wikipedia to verify that I was correct in remembering seeing a bunch of other stuff on there (mainly 90s Cartoon Network shows and some other stuff like the early seasons of Pokemon). This led me to perusing the entire programming history of Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and NickToons (which I suppose was Nickelodeonās equivalent of Boomerang ā though it apparently only broadcasts Spongebob now, 24 hours a day), and it was a strange sensation to see how much weird forgotten nonsense from the late 90s up to about 2010 has been stored in my brain dormant for all these years.
I felt especially weird about realizing that I must have seen every episode of Speed Runner: The Next Generation and Kappa Mikey (which I remember often being scheduled right next to each other). I think I was in high school when I watched these, and didnāt really like either of them? Shortly after this I stopped watching television completely, which has lasted until now.
I remember hating live action kids shows ā all I wanted was cartoons! This is something I keep forgetting about myself. For whatever reason, I seem to classify myself as a stranger to cartoons, especially western cartoons, acting like I have no idea what people in the same age bracket as me are talking about when they get nostalgic over, say, Invader Zim ā though I realize now that this is mostly a front. I still donāt really understand the deeper psychological underpinnings for why I do this though.
(For anyone who cares, my favorite 90s cartoon that I watched as reruns in the early 2000s was KaBlam!)
also didnāt the space ghost crew curate the broadcast schedules of those crusty old HB toons?
When did this start happening, anyway? Every time I end up in a hotel Iām reminded that every channel that isnāt just a movie channel now seems to do these multi-hour loops of the same show. Itās weird! Iām not sure what purpose it actually serves!
Manā¦ Kappa Mikey. I remember I caught the first episode when it aired and thought it was so cool (I was 11), but then I was never around to catch it at whatever time slot it was in. (Probably after my bedtime or something.)
When I was eleven, basically all I did was watch television ā I would get home from school and theyād play a full hour of Saved by the Bell and then a full hour of Full House, and then Iād switch to Teletoon (Canadian cartoon channel) or maybe YTV for the rest of the evening. I watched so much television it was crazy, and the amazing thing is that I didnāt like any of it. Like, none of it appealed to me at all. I never laughed at the jokes or enjoyed the plotlines. I just watched. Itās kind of weird to think back on it now.
yeah, i have no idea what time slot it originally aired on, but when i watched reruns of it like 5 years after the original premiere, it was always on really late (which i suppose is why i watched it ā i always hated adult swim for whatever reason, and instead preferred whatever nonsense was on late-night Nicktoons.)
i know in my case that i very rarely just watched tv ā i was usually playing something on my gameboy or ds at the same time, which maybe makes it more understandable why i could watch hours and hours of stuff i didnāt like. still not very healthy iām sure, and perhaps contributed to many of the deep seated psychological problems i have now
as for kappa mikey itself, i also thought it was the coolest thing in the world the first time i saw it ā i couldnāt believe a show like that existed ā but after i got over the initial premise i donāt think there was much about it all that memorable.
I took Frank at his word because the only time I ever heard about Boomerang was in some kind of ad that ran in the early 2000s on Cartoon Network. I saw some HB stuff like Scooby-Doo and Tom and Jerry (minimal Jonny Quest), but all on Cartoon Network proper as part of the Boomerang programming block, and didnāt know what programming blocks were so Boomerang to me was only the thing the guy in the commercial wanted me to get my parents to ācall now!ā about so I could watch more Yogi Bear and that yellow cat show. According to Wikipedia I guess they ran a few shows on CN until 2004, but were also a separate channel starting in 2000. No idea where Frank was coming from.
I truly donāt know what people are talking about when they get nostalgic over Invader Zim because I didnāt ever see it! Was it banished to the Nicktoons channel immediately before I started watching Nickelodeon in 2003?
This is how I did it, although Kappa Mikey was one of the shows that even multitasking with video games couldnāt get me to watch. Not sure why, it looks better than What Ever Happened toā¦ Robot Jones? which I hated and watched plenty of.
I definitely remember boomerang being a lot of Top Cat et all, alongside that Saturday morning action block of like Johnny Quest and James Bond Jr. man that was twenty years agoā¦
When I think of Boomerang (the programming block) I think of Scooby-Doo and Hong Kong Phooey. I really disliked Hong Kong Phooey.
i canāt even begin to relate to how excited the girl next to me is to see dinosaur jr., but iām happy for her.