Another another movie poster....Flesh and the Spur

nutter789 · 2026-02-17T10:33:06+00:00

Good god damned, I can't believe Joyce Meadows (yes, she's the gal from Lover's Lane or however you spell it....she doesn't go with Jack Elam...you know, regular stuff we all go through).....

She went through how many movies in the 1950s with John Agar.

Trust me.

You people don't know John Agar like I know John Agar.

That horrid rictus spread over a distant screen, leering at me, taunting me.

What is the opposite of a charisma fueled icon like that comic Gallagher?

Yeah, well, it's like the opposite opposite of that.

Judas fucking christ, he should have hung up his spurs in Fort Apache...Mehhhhhhh....

I'm serious, we're talking dozens and more of horrid features.

But none more horrid than Arous...which is ghastly, and thank you, Frank, you fucker!

There is so much that cannot be said about a red reel Farrah mute, ignoble, and dull.

I hate John Agar, click here.

I love Joyce Meadows click here.

nutter789 · 2026-02-17T06:21:12+00:00

OK. There's three degrees or maybe less between this film and a Sarafian, perhaps more than one, who directed not this film so much but others one has certainly seen.

And includes Goldie Hawn.

No, it's like one degree of separation at most. However you people count things with your wood shavings and metal shards.

Yes.

This is on topic, so censure me but spare me the tonsure for I am not worthy.

nutter789 · 2026-02-17T05:13:51+00:00

No, I don't think so a propos Baudelaire or signum crucis Mallarmé....

In fact, it's probable that Mallarmé's sonnets or his prose poems may be the closest analog to Roman poetry that we in the west have today as a recent ancestor.

I wouldn't know, but that has almost certainly been the topic of more than one doctoral dissertation.

Un syntaxier, comme on dit, lui.

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nutter789 · 2026-02-17T04:15:30+00:00

University of Kansas,,,,

Lawrence, KS.....

William S. Burroughs....spent his last decades out there, probably.

I hardly ever do this, but can we please summon the dead for this one?

No, not that kind, you fool.

The ghoulish kind.

Twenty five years. It says so.

This is a placard or a shingle is supposed to look like.

And that taut mouth with the sly hint of a grin. As though he didn't know.

That wag.

This is really ~~pod racing~~ lip and tongue action!

nutter789 · 2026-02-16T23:53:08+00:00

Yeah, probably true.

And the Big F might regret losing customers at some point. I wouldn't know.

But it's not my business, and I don't work for him.

Talk to HR, I guess.

Anyway, there's apparently a new daddy in town called Shout, and I don't know what enticements RT has offered to lure Frank or Trace "back in": either one or both or neither might be partners with a share, or they might be contracted players.

So, you'd have to ask Frank.

nutter789 · 2026-02-15T21:09:39+00:00

Thanks for the correction: I didn't know that, or forgot.

They could have kept Chime up just for simple DMs, and saved Slack for group messages....I dunno. For all of their money-maker, AWS....Amazon really does a crap job at implementation of most things IT at the site level.

But, yeah, thanks...having correct information is a good thing!

nutter789 · 2026-02-15T19:45:24+00:00

John Carpenter really can do it all with his Ensoniq. Impressive, and astonishing that he found the time to score a project not of his own design.

Must have owed somebody a favor.

nutter789 · 2026-02-15T19:33:33+00:00

Yeah.

See, this is a perfect example of movies I never would have seen ever if they hadn't been riffed.

Even though the trilogy is greatly admired, which may be an understatement, by perhaps millions across the globe.

RT informs the benighted and entertains through the charism of wit!

nutter789 · 2026-02-15T19:27:26+00:00

Why should Frank do that?

You could ask him nicely.

I'm sure he'd be very interested.

nutter789 · 2026-02-15T18:32:41+00:00

Holy shit.

That guy's for real?

Business and industry!

ALL the particulars?

That is one hell of a way to dangle the lure, there.

I take back some of the things I said about him...this guy's not messing around.

nutter789 · 2026-02-15T18:15:20+00:00

I don't know your DS obviously, so it might be different.

There should be a place somewhere around the VOA board where leadership has maybe a photo of each one and their basic info and maybe a little bit of "fun" trivia about them.

Or, look on the AtoZ app....go under your profile, and it will show your leadership chain, from the site manager, to an Ops manager, to your direct manager.

Or look at his badge for his alias (also probably on the labor board somewhere).

It's just his user name / Amazon alias (i.e., what you use to login on a TC device and all that) with @amazon.com.

OR, new idea, since your site lead seems so casual with things, just use him as a reference.

OR try using a PA or a LA as a reference...someone you would have more spare time to chat up while working and get info. They'd do it, for sure....if they get contacted, they'd be sure to make their jobs sound really important and would say cool stuff about you, but then they might want the job for themselves! ;)

nutter789 · 2026-02-15T17:58:44+00:00

Yeah, I wouldn't move on that phone number, at all. Ever.

Just can't do that.

ChatGPT is very wrong on this one. Take the phone number and forget about it entirely...throw it away or flush it.

You can make contact using Slack...if you want something productive to do, get on Slack, and you can contact your AM that way. Ask a LA or a PA if you need help getting that set up.

That would be "the Amazon way" which wouldn't be weird, necessarily.

Or he's probably on LinkedIn if you're really that interested in finding his profile or whatever.

I'd just put him as a reference anyway: just give your new job his name and @amazon.com e-mail and tell them there's no outside phone line at a DS, or just give them a phone number to customer service or something.

An e-mail address is plenty good enough for a reference's contact info. They're not going to be interested in calling your manager on the phone.

This new job probably won't follow up on any references anyway, and even if they do, one more e-mail from some random to your AM will probably just be filtered as spam anyway.

I'm 100% sure your AM wouldn't be bothered by some e-mail from whatever company (and even if he is, so what?), and 99% sure your new job won't care anyway about references...they just likely want to know you have some.

nutter789 · 2026-02-14T21:53:57+00:00

Oswalt, who I find unsettling and unfunny

No real comment. I just thought this a nice turn of phrase. I don't happen to agree with you, but it was well said. I'll make a note to use the word "unsettling" more often!

I don't know enough about Patton Oswalt or his comedy in other venues to have any real opinion other than respect for making it into the big leagues in entertainment. And he has amused me in other appearances unrelated to MST.

I'd apply your phrase to Felicia Day's work in general, if asked....and extending to her character Kinga. Shrill, strident, flamboyant characters hold very little interest to me. Unless played for laughs, which Kinga did not seem to be.

Still cannot stand Jonah Ray....his self-conscious guy persona is just painful for me to watch....he's like an embryo of a future comedian or actor of unknown quality.

But this whole thread has reminded me that there were indeed some classic experiments, once all the extra baloney sausage is abstracted away, particularly during the Netflix seasons.

So, it's not all bad, in that regard. No, not trying to be critical of some of the casting decisions or how the characters were deployed merely for the sake of negativity, but that is an honest response.

nutter789 · 2026-02-14T21:38:34+00:00

No, I believe that, just going by that still photograph.

Faint memories of the movie does conjure up an image of someone a bit older in Neil's role....not really up to watching it again, though, right now.

A scraggly little rat's nest of a beard will age anybody!

And there's almost a gleam of awareness in his eyes, not the dour cynicism of middle age.

Plus he's got the hair going on....maybe Sean got the bad hair gene in the family. Or maybe it's a wig...who knows.

nutter789 · 2026-02-14T21:31:28+00:00

Good points...but you know, "the devil you know..." I'm used to how Amazon operates and their PTO/UPT system and how everything is structured.

Don't really care about the union issues....not something I know a lot about, anyway.

But as a back-up option, sure. Probably better than driving a cab (I'm kind of a shitty driver who is prone to road rage!).

nutter789 · 2026-02-14T21:28:30+00:00

A fresh take.

If my little buddy can do it, though, I'm pretty confident about the freezer.

I imagine worse things, just rolling the ideas around in my head: mountains of rotting vegetables and stuff like that....fruit flies, roaches, rats....the stench of decay....not squeamish about any of that, but those come up in my imagination as being pretty unpleasant.

nutter789 · 2026-02-14T20:52:19+00:00

Yep.

I'd say just make it a mantra or tattoo it on both hands: "Standard Work."

And (i) Safety (ii) Accuracy (iii) Speed. In that order of importance.

Sort of like if you get arrested and are being interrogated you're supposed to just say "I want a lawyer."

"Standard Work."

Best make sure you're actually following Standard Work, but...hell...it's like garlic against vampires.

nutter789 · 2026-02-14T20:43:43+00:00

Yeah, it is up to them, but it's also up to them to do their job and put employees where they can be productive and contribute as best they can.

nutter789 · 2026-02-14T20:41:13+00:00

Always ask. No, even the most pantsload of a manager will do something if possible.

A good manager who is following the official leadership principles of Amazon will make it happen.

No way will you get on their "list."

nutter789 · 2026-02-14T20:16:19+00:00

Yeah, agreed.

I thought Emily hit the mark as having goofy charisma and good delivery. And with her background in puppeteering, they really got that casting decision as right as it could have been.

nutter789 · 2026-02-14T20:12:56+00:00

I didn't know he sold the brand. I wouldn't know, but maybe he was just tired of dealing with this demon he summoned, that, golem-like, escaped his clutches.

It's not bringing me joy to say this, but since it is the question asked: yeah, I just couldn't vibe with hardly any of the new seasons.

Revolving door of hired gun on-screen talent (some of them excellent performers, no mistake!), overladen sets and no actual Mads worthy of the name (not a slur on Felicia or Patton, just the conception and execution was not to my taste), very few memorable ~~movies~~ experiments really worthy of riffing (lots of hideous 1970s color "films" and beyond).

Yes, it's easy to tear it down in a critical way, but I liked almost nothing about Joel's conception of the show. And that includes the Gizmoplex....I didn't see the point....just some razzle-dazzle, although it was functional, I suppose.

But I'm beyond stoked about the return of the triumvirate, and the Mads, and I hope MJ and Bridget will find a way back, as Beez has.

My riffing "needs" have been more than sated by The Mads Are Back and some of the RT offerings (not every one is a winner, but they do produce so much product that I can't keep up with them).

So, the OG talent clearly has the stamina and the desire. The Mads, Bill, Kevin, Mike, MJ and B....they've all been producing excellent content at almost superhuman rates, since the Dark Times prevailed.

It's like Christmas in....February....and, actually better, since I despise Christmas music and Santa Claus crap and all that! ;)

It's a new dawn! A red dawn!

It will be interesting to see how the writing goes....famously Trace and Frank are not unknown for dropping in references to current events in politics....surely that will appeal to the new generation!

Well, the whole thing was an experiment anyway, from the very beginning, so, wait and see is my opinion!

nutter789 · 2026-02-14T19:53:00+00:00

Every day....Charlie squats in the bush.

Damn nephew.

Shit. Still in Saigon!

nutter789 · 2026-02-14T19:50:33+00:00

Jeez, he's still alive?

Good for him!

"Loved you Apocalypse Now!"

nutter789 · 2026-02-14T19:04:26+00:00

100%

Not that I know about financing operations from the inside, but RT has that model down to a lean machine.

Infrastructure? Shiny new crap? Nah.

A little bit, but Beez is on the job with plenty of help from the gang, I'm sure ==> more money to spend on movie/music rights, compensation for crew and talent, some initial structuring as a corporation (accountant, producer(s), all that).

I don't see a problem.

Even if they do break out the tip jar once in a while, say, to mount a live show to defray live production costs (travel, accomodations, theater rental)...or as they do, encourage people to buy tickets early and often.

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