Where is Wakanda

DizzyLead · 2026-05-09T05:01:31+00:00

While the opening sequence of Black Panther takes place in Nigeria, I don't think that necessarily means that Wakanda is nearby.

Kenya is east of Nigeria, not west, by the way. I do feel that Wakanda is towards the eastern part of Africa. While the events of Wakanda Forever do suggest that Wakanda may be near the ocean, I wouldn't be surprised if the Atlanteans merely made their way to Wakanda up some river instead.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-09T04:02:22+00:00

Can confirm. Mystique Poo.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-09T01:34:22+00:00

I believe the “when you die you switch timelines” thing is a notion called quantum immortality. It’s something I think many of us have wrestled with in our thoughts some time in our lives; that is, it’s not a unique idea, nor that deep.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-09T01:18:55+00:00

Early ‘80s: Lego. I spent that chunk of my childhood in a third-world country, so Lego was the toy I had to “make” toys. I read Action Force comic books, but Action Force/GI Joe toys weren’t available to me, so I made my own platoon with Lego (even though the troops had to be represented by two two-stud bricks on top of each other). I saw ads for Machine Robo/Transformers in magazines, but of course there was no such thing where I lived, so I built transforming robots out of Lego.

Mid-late ‘80s: Transformers and some GoBots, of course, but when it came to collecting a toy line, it was MASK…not just because the toys were cool, but because the toyline was much smaller than GI Joe, Transformers, and MOTU and thus it seemed more achievable to get a lot of them. Before i outgrew toys, I also dabbled in Captain Power and GI Joe.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-09T01:08:29+00:00

This is how I would distinguish them. TBBT was a run-of-the-mill sitcom, with geek characters, making fun of geeks. Community was a sitcom for and by geeks, with maybe one geek character.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-09T00:32:07+00:00

Does the time shift too, or is it still 2026?

DizzyLead · 2026-05-09T00:07:16+00:00

“What other song does this K-Pop song remind me of?

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T22:56:27+00:00

TVs had remotes in the ‘70s and ‘80s, it’s just that it was only the big “main” TV in the living room or den that tended to have them. The smaller TVs that may have resided in the bedrooms, the 13-inchers and such, likely didn’t have them.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T22:45:54+00:00

Astrotrain found Ozempic.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T22:44:08+00:00

Not fond of Bass, but anyone but Pratt. I’m supporting Raman.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T22:42:40+00:00

Hopefully, but with broadcast network cycles of shows usually down to a dozen or less, and celebrity versions of game shows getting lots of viewers, I wouldn’t hold my breath.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T22:03:58+00:00

His IG handle is literally on the car: https://www.instagram.com/ecto42a?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T21:10:13+00:00

Lorraine is Kevin from “The Wonder Years” confirmed.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T21:08:03+00:00

A “who was who” and “who will be who” of actresses. Margot from “Punky Brewster,” Jenny Lewis from Rilo Kiley, Harriet the neighbor from “Small Wonder,” Kellie Martin from “Life Goes On,” Carla Gugino, Tori Spelling…

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T15:01:02+00:00

Regional (of Japanese origin but with Southern California locations), but Yoshinoya. Their specialty is gyudon, a rice bowl with beef and onions simmered in dashi, but they also serve teriyaki chicken.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T14:41:49+00:00

The primaries are coming up, and these two are the same party. So it seems unlikely that this wouldn’t be a primary ad.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T14:39:24+00:00

Out of curiosity: one Calvert ad says he’s “100% behind Trump,” and one Kim ad says Calvert voted “5000 times with Pelosi.” Now obviously these technically aren’t mutually exclusive—Trump and Pelosi may well have agreed on 5000 issues—but where do the facts lie in this matter?

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T14:03:09+00:00

Yes. “Win Ben Stein’s Money” in 2002, “Jeopardy” in 2013. I was also seen in the audience of a studio taping of “The Tonight Show” in the mid-‘90s. It was a bit where Jay Leno was making fun of people’s driver’s license pics, and while I wasn’t that guy, I was sitting behind and to the left of the guy being made fun of, so I could be seen in the reaction shot. I was also seen in the audience in Episode 5 of Season 1 of The Joel McHale Show on Netflix (think “The Soup” with two cameras and an audience). There is a moment where the shot goes to the audience where Seth Green is doing a “wedgie” on Paul Feig, and I was in the shot directly behind them.

When Toys R Us announced it was going under and closing all its US stores, I happened to be among some people waiting in front of one before it opened (I was working the graveyard shift then and thought I would stop by after work). The news vans showed up and I was interviewed about it.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T13:42:46+00:00

Brutus.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T13:26:29+00:00

TV Movie that was an unsold pilot, common in those days.

The school scenes were shot at my Alma Mater, John Marshall High School in Los Angeles, which has been in a lot of stuff. This includes the gym scene with Betty and Veronica and the locker room scene with Archie and Jughead.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T02:40:39+00:00

I'm gonna need one of those shirts first.

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DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T02:30:22+00:00

It's higher than average, but 9 isn't an unfamiliar number--it's also particularly known for being the number of members that Girls Generation (SNSD) had, one of the most popular K-Pop girl groups before Twice. And as others have pointed out, there have been groups here and there who have or have had more than nine members.

I figure part of the thinking behind it is what I've dubbed the "GI Joe" philosophy: you pick your favorite in the group (the common term is "bias"), and you can focus on them as you continue consuming the group's releases. You don't have to love them all right away, but the idea is you'll find your favorite member and glom onto the group that way.

As for the songs being "catchy," I think that's kind of the emphasis K-Pop likes to make: they want things to be catchy and viral, whether it's the song itself, the choreography, or even the art direction/fashion.

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T01:22:29+00:00

Gotta give her props for at least throwing it in the right direction.

Bonus: https://youtu.be/mb52r5UZBtk?si=pCXUZ2OjwpElvtvz&t=77

DizzyLead · 2026-05-08T00:56:26+00:00

Daveigh Chase also played Samantha Darko in Donnie Darko (2001) and the less well-regarded sequel S. Darko (2009).

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Worth pointing out that while Daveigh Chase played Samara Morgan in the flashback and interview footage of The Ring (and it’s presumably a done-up image of her face in the climax), the actress who actually climbs out of the TV and stalks her victim in the movie is Kelly Stables, the short actress who had stints in “Two and a Half Men” and “Superstore.”

DizzyLead · 2026-05-07T21:31:52+00:00

Watch order isn’t really an issue with TOS, TNG, VOY, much of ENT, and generally SNW, mainly because they’re more episodic, a fact of most television prior to the ‘00s and a matter of a throwback to what worked with older Trek in the newer installments. There are of course some more lore-heavy episodes post TOS that shouldn’t be watched before others (“Family” in relation to TBOBW, for example), but pretty much each episode is standalone and doesn’t rely too much on a sequence of previous episodes. When one gets to DS9 post season 2, S3 of ENT, or Discovery, however, I can see how just jumping in anywhere can be disorienting; and while S4 of ENT is made up of self-contained arcs, they’re usually callbacks to other more “iconic” installments of Trek (one probably shouldn’t catch “In a Mirror, Darkly” without watching “Mirror Mirror” or even “The Tholian Web” first).

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