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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-08 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 19:07:14 -0700
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On 3/9/2025 6:31 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 3/9/2025 10:33 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>> Sorry this is late today - it's a combination of the switch to Daylight
>>> Savings Time and me deciding to run errands this morning (to beat the
>>> crowd, thanks to DST!!).
>>>
>>
>> I didn't realize today was DST.  I was wondering why I slept in so late.
>>   I miss the old days when you had to manually adjust all the clocks.
>> At least then you knew it was daylight savings.  Now it just sort of
>> happens automatically without warning.
> 
> So many years ago, I put these newfangled atomic clocks in just about every
> room of mom’s house and her House had a lot of rooms. And we waited to see
> what happened to come daylight saving time. Well, they changed just like we
> were on mountain time. So I had to go in and change them all an hour, which
> was a real pain because they were those funky Asian things where you have
> to push three buttons in sequence and hold them down for two seconds to
> activate the third sequence to make something go back one.
> 
> Then two weeks later the good folks in Pueblo Colorado figured out they
> were doing it wrong and sent out the signal to correct it and I had to go
> back and change every goddamn clock again.
> 
> And then six months later do it all again.
> 
> That lasted a couple of years and I threw the damn things away.
> 
> 
>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>
>> I watched:
>>
>> 9-1-1 - "Sob Stories" - Season 8, episode 9.  During this episode a man
>> calls 9-1-1 threatening to kill himself, and the operator tells him to
>> go ahead to do it.  The man worries that maybe if he does kill himself,
>> he won't get into heaven, but the operator assures him that an exception
>> will be made and he'll still get into heaven.  I have the feeling this
>> episode was written by someone going through some serious relationship
>> issues and this is their way of venting.
> 
> Was it love Hewitt?
> 

Yes. I was trying to avoid spoilers, but the kill yourself 9-1-1 
operator wasn't a guess star or some random background extra, it was one 
of the main leads of the show.

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>>
>>
>> The Hateful Eight (blu-ray) 2015 movie written and directed by Quentin
>> Tarantino.  This was his 8th film.  The movie stars a cast of Tarantino
>> regulars including Sam L. Jackson as a veteran of the Civil War.
>> Jackson's character runs into an old bounty hunter friend played by Kurt
>> Russell, and Russel is transporting a criminal (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to
>> be executed.  But thanks to a snow storm they are all forced to hold
>> over at a store with several others (including Tim Roth, Michael Madsen,
>> Bruce Dern, and Walton Goggins).  But someone isn't who they appear to
>> be and sudden there's a murder that needs to be solved.  But this is a
>> Tarantino movie so it's less solved and more shoot first and ask
>> questions later.
> 
> I saw about half of this, I think the extra long version, and then it
> expired on the streamer I was watching and I never did find my way back to
> it. Should I try?
> 
> 

Yes.  It's a good movie.  I like all of the movies written and directed 
by Tarantino.  But if I had to rank them all, I'd probably rank this 7 
or 8 out of 9.  So it's not as good as his other movies, but Tarantino 
sets a pretty high bar and even his worse movies are better than 
average.  Keep in mind this is basically a bottle movie with a lot of 
talking.  Not much more than that until the end.  Think Reservoir Dogs 
set in the 1880s.