Let's All Go To A Fern Bar!
That was a thing they used to have. Fern bars. Filled with ferns. Fun!
Hello and happy weekend!
This week, I bring you a brand new skill set … I guess. Specifically I am bringing you an TGI Fridays Bartender Flair Training Video so that you, too, can get your Cocktail on.
I’m assuming this was something they gave up on well before I ever made it to a TGI Fridays, because I do not remember this happening … ever.
Fun fact, at least to me — the original TGI Fridays was something they called a “fern bar” and apparently single people used to go there to hit on each other and … hang out around ferns and fake Tiffany Lamps? I guess? I’m not judging! I love a good fern. I’d hang out around some ferns. Still, I did think my friend was fucking with me when he told me this years ago, until I went home and looked it up for myself, just because it sounds like a very random concept.
If that doesn’t float your boat, here is a pilot for a sitcom starring Bozo the Clown. Amazing that this terrifying concept never took off!
Both of these treasures were found through the r/ObscureMedia subreddit!
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Talk amongst yourselves!
Okay, done with Damsel.
First let me say as I should have said before: Netflix released this on International Women's Day and that wasn't a coincidence. This was a lovely bit of murder and mayhem celebrating all the common women who dreamed they could be princesses but were better than princesses the whole time.
I was expecting a bit of brainless bashing and battling, with lots of good, swift kicks to patriarchy's nuts along the way. I got less of that than I thought.
I was expecting a poor plot with cursory backstory and paper-thin characterization. But I got more of all those things than I thought.
I was expecting visuals that focussed on how monstrous and threatening CGI could be, but instead I got something much more nuanced, often downright metaphorical.
It is not a perfect movie, and it does rely heavily on the fairy tale with a twist OMG the damsel saves herself! trope. That's not bad. it's just a particular genre, and if you don't like it, you can skip it.
But if you're not opposed to the genre, just someone who doesn't appreciate how it's so often been badly done and thus unwilling to take a chance on another, you might take a chance on this one. It is an above average action movie that follows Chekov's laws of scriptwriting. It doesn't try too hard to redeem those who should not be redeemed, and doesn't try too hard to make evil those whom the plot requires only to be selfish.
One mild thumb up for those can take action movies or leave them. Two thumbs up for those who love the chance to see a woman kick ass in a movie without obvious plot holes.
OT:
'𝗡𝗼 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗼𝘄': 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘁 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗡𝗖 𝗰𝗼-𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿
https://www.alternet.org/republicans-revolt-lara-trump/