Saw that this was a book and wanted to read before watching. Got it, couldn’t put it down, devoured it and have been book-drunk the last two days. Holy shit that was something!
I can imagine that Håkan was once like Oskar, a boy, an outcast, smitten but never bitten, bound to Eli for life. His life. As Eli’s never ends.
This is the most haunting part of the movie. And it’s a very interesting and very believable origin story of how someone becomes the caretaker of a vampire.
That isn't Hakan's origin story in the book. It is exactly what I thought was going on when I went into that film blind (the movie I was planning to see was sold out). I didn't realize what Eli was until the scene in the basement..
Mayor Called out Over TPS Comments as Doralzuela Sees Exodus
"Hypocrisy at its finest," one user wrote in Spanish in response to the Doral mayor's statement about the suspension of TPS.
"The ruling comes as Venezuelans are fleeing Doral, also known as Doralzuela, amid President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration agenda. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently reported that Venezuelans have fled the community, driving up vacancy rates and lowering rental rates to their lowest level in three years."
I just realized that I've never seen a soybean in its natural state before it is processed. I had no idea that they grew in a pod containing multiple beans, each of which is less than 1/2" (11mm) in diameter. From these small beans we harvest so much food that is rich in protein, vitamins, minerals, and healthy fats, including omega-3 fatty acids. What a wonderful gift from Mother Nature!
I snack in them all the time- they're available in the frozen section of most grocery stores near me. I also see them grown in fields everywhere around here but I'm sure they're used for animal feed.
Did my 5k this morning. 30.05 was my finish time, which might be a personal best for the middle-aged version of me. My son was going to run it with me, but he's sick.
And if you aren't already angry enough this morning, check out this fuckalump. "Robby Starbuck," who looks like an incel fresh from the basement with the cum still drying on his little hands.
Three MiG-31s go into a bar... strike that, three MiG-31s fly into Estonian air space. MiG-31s are the hot rods of the fighter plane universe - top speed is Mach 2.83, ceiling is 82,000 feet. They can outrun or out climb anything, so the pilots are feeling pretty confident. They're expecting the usual song and dance. NATO will scramble a few jets right away to politely intercept them, and they will politely fly back to Russian airspace. They'll also make note of NATO's response time.
Except this time, nothing happens. Minutes pass and the Russians are still cruising Estonian airspace unchallenged. What gives? Here's what gives. Two Italian F-16s scramble from an Estonian airbase and two Gripens scramble from Sweden. They all have the latest technology for avoiding radar detection, and just as important, they are networked with ground command and a spy plane, collecting data on everything the MiGs do.
The networking is very important, in fact, because it enables NATO pilots to coordinate their activities with other pilots AND with ground troops and ships at sea.
The MiG pilots are unable to detect the NATO fighters until it's too late. That's because, for all their speed, the MiGs are far behind in radar, target acquisition and fire control technology. The NATO pilots deploy their more advanced electronics to jam the MiGs, and allofasudden, the MiGs are surrounded by the NATO fighters.
A Swedish pilot comes on the emergency channel and tells the Russian pilots in crisp, perfect English, "You have been in Estonian airspace for 12 minutes, and you are now under our control. Turn your planes around and head back to Russia."
And that's what the Russians did. They had no choice in the matter. The NATO fighters were locked and loaded and there was nothing the Russians could do but turn tail and run. They gained no useful information from the encounter, except that the NATO fighters had the technology to beat them in a fight. That must have been a somber debrief session back at their base.
There is a full-page ad in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch stating "I have personally uncovered massive irregularities in my own Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the DEA. Despite submitting information on numerous occasions, the records I received from the DEA were compromised and incomplete" and it urges people to check on their own records in the DEA, DHS, and DOJ.
It then posts contact information for Missouri and Illinois Senators and Congresspersons. How very interesting...I'm not sure I trust this ad 100% because who can you trust these days??? I've become very skeptical in my old age.
Gulf temps down a bit, Raymond dissipating in the Baja, like every guy does, but will push moisture into SW US. I noticed a super low pressure (900millebaar) over the Bering Sea. Very bad weather there. Atlantic mostly quiet except a low off the Carolinas which seems to be sweeping moinsture inland to DC. Fall cleaning?
But anyone who insists on blurring their vision badly enough to perceive the choice of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado as in any way a rebuke to Trump, or a rejection of the global tendency he represents, is badly fooling themselves. (That’s a well-known moral hazard of the Trump era, but one that remains difficult to resist.) We’re at the opposite end of the spectrum here from the election of Pope Leo XIV, which absolutely and without question was intended as a forceful rejection of MAGA and the global right.
It’s difficult to imagine the upside-down universe where I end up writing this sentence, but it happens to be reality: The Vatican stood up to Donald Trump, but the Nobel committee bent the knee.
After a long, very hot, parchingly dry summer it began raining late last night and has continued to do so abundantly hereabouts. There is going to be some significant flooding in valley areas and mudslides are going to do some damage. At the moment I am damned glad to live at the top of a hill. Gratitude for a sturdy new roof also abounds.
This crazy weather that we've propagated with our selfish behavior is going to do some fucking damage here in eastern Washington today. Dammit.
Thank you! I don't plan to go out in it. And I was born and raised here and have the fear of god put into me re: flash floods. I don't drive into any appreciable standing water. XD
Monkey was a smart monkey. Li'l Feller just appeared by my front door when I got home from grocery shopping. He was meowing loudly under the patio table by the door. About two-three months old. I opened the door and he went right in like he owned the place. He was madly air kneading he was so happy to be home. He immediately earned the $700 surgery to get his broken femur fixed. We bonded over my giving him physical therapy for several weeks after that so he could learn to walk with a reconfigured leg.
I don't know if they can get it from just rain, but yes. The cold water does something to the muscles/nerves at the base of their tails and the tail just hangs limp and is painful/sore.
My dog got it last year b/c I gave her a bath and didn't make sure the water was warm enough first. Cookie Lady told me about it. I'd never heard of it before.
I had a black lab, Miss Robin, rest her beautiful soul, who got cold tail when we were visiting friends in N. C. and she kept jumping in the cold mountain streams having a ball. Worried the hell out of me, but it went away in a day or two.
Ahhhh! That sounds like what happens with my feet sometimes. Luckily, while I was in bed this morning Simba seemed happy cuddling my feet which seemed delightfully warm for some reason. He makes for a good heating pad.
Saw that this was a book and wanted to read before watching. Got it, couldn’t put it down, devoured it and have been book-drunk the last two days. Holy shit that was something!
Good film. Spooky.
I can imagine that Håkan was once like Oskar, a boy, an outcast, smitten but never bitten, bound to Eli for life. His life. As Eli’s never ends.
This is the most haunting part of the movie. And it’s a very interesting and very believable origin story of how someone becomes the caretaker of a vampire.
That isn't Hakan's origin story in the book. It is exactly what I thought was going on when I went into that film blind (the movie I was planning to see was sold out). I didn't realize what Eli was until the scene in the basement..
I'm glad they kept the book's version of his origin story out of the movie. The thought that he was like Oskar at one point works so much better.
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I saw that and on the next post too.
I bet the account liked itself too.
Actually, yes. It's auto-liking too. HAR.
LMAO!
The only activity it has is empty posts like the one below.
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Hmmmm, if the mods can see who liked it they can probably get it's accomplice too.
TrackDok? Dok has his very own stalker now?
Mayor Called out Over TPS Comments as Doralzuela Sees Exodus
"Hypocrisy at its finest," one user wrote in Spanish in response to the Doral mayor's statement about the suspension of TPS.
"The ruling comes as Venezuelans are fleeing Doral, also known as Doralzuela, amid President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration agenda. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently reported that Venezuelans have fled the community, driving up vacancy rates and lowering rental rates to their lowest level in three years."
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/mayor-called-out-over-tps-comments-as-doralzuela-sees-exodus-40493191/
BTW, Doral, with its Republican Venezuelan-American Mayor, voted 60% for Trump, higher than his statewide average.
You hate to see it.
MAFA--Make America Fishbone Again
I like songs that tell you in the title what the message is. In this case, Racist Piece of Shit
https://youtu.be/P9F4YnZS_qQ?si=Gy3wVXWcYIc3-OWP
I see you coming down the street
With tiki torches and hate speech
You're not a proud boy
You're just a fuck boy
Drinking the kool aid of a mad orange king
Another kid rock
With all the hate talk
Murder, sickness, global crisis
Coup d'état, vanilla isis
Wow. I was JUST thinking of Fishbone like 15 minutes ago.
I'll have to add this to our playlist that we blast on our front porch. XD Along with Chumbawumba's "The Day the Nazi Died."
"Murder, sickness, global crisis
Coup d'état, vanilla isis."
lol, excellent.
I just realized that I've never seen a soybean in its natural state before it is processed. I had no idea that they grew in a pod containing multiple beans, each of which is less than 1/2" (11mm) in diameter. From these small beans we harvest so much food that is rich in protein, vitamins, minerals, and healthy fats, including omega-3 fatty acids. What a wonderful gift from Mother Nature!
It's like a sesame, we never let it grow up, we just use the seeds ... at least according to Mitch Hedberg. (rip)
I snack in them all the time- they're available in the frozen section of most grocery stores near me. I also see them grown in fields everywhere around here but I'm sure they're used for animal feed.
edamame, delicious steamed and lightly salted.
mmmmmm
Did my 5k this morning. 30.05 was my finish time, which might be a personal best for the middle-aged version of me. My son was going to run it with me, but he's sick.
Good run!
Nice! I hope you treat yourself to something lovely today.
Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if you aren't already angry enough this morning, check out this fuckalump. "Robby Starbuck," who looks like an incel fresh from the basement with the cum still drying on his little hands.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/meta-ai-adviser-robby-starbuck
I disapprove of Starbuck a latte.
LMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok all you lovely people. I am peacing out for the day (unless the orange "god" kicks it). Everyone take good care of yourselves!
Bask in your Sunday, Rosy
Yep, about to play Spelling Bee and then chores, some fun, and will check back later!
Hope to see you soon!
Kick back and enjoy a lovely lazy Sunday and keep yourself SAFE.
Have a good day!
Three MiG-31s go into a bar... strike that, three MiG-31s fly into Estonian air space. MiG-31s are the hot rods of the fighter plane universe - top speed is Mach 2.83, ceiling is 82,000 feet. They can outrun or out climb anything, so the pilots are feeling pretty confident. They're expecting the usual song and dance. NATO will scramble a few jets right away to politely intercept them, and they will politely fly back to Russian airspace. They'll also make note of NATO's response time.
Except this time, nothing happens. Minutes pass and the Russians are still cruising Estonian airspace unchallenged. What gives? Here's what gives. Two Italian F-16s scramble from an Estonian airbase and two Gripens scramble from Sweden. They all have the latest technology for avoiding radar detection, and just as important, they are networked with ground command and a spy plane, collecting data on everything the MiGs do.
The networking is very important, in fact, because it enables NATO pilots to coordinate their activities with other pilots AND with ground troops and ships at sea.
The MiG pilots are unable to detect the NATO fighters until it's too late. That's because, for all their speed, the MiGs are far behind in radar, target acquisition and fire control technology. The NATO pilots deploy their more advanced electronics to jam the MiGs, and allofasudden, the MiGs are surrounded by the NATO fighters.
A Swedish pilot comes on the emergency channel and tells the Russian pilots in crisp, perfect English, "You have been in Estonian airspace for 12 minutes, and you are now under our control. Turn your planes around and head back to Russia."
And that's what the Russians did. They had no choice in the matter. The NATO fighters were locked and loaded and there was nothing the Russians could do but turn tail and run. They gained no useful information from the encounter, except that the NATO fighters had the technology to beat them in a fight. That must have been a somber debrief session back at their base.
Just shoot them down.
Or at least one of them, just to show you mean business.
Russia has been warned. After that experience, I doubt they will put their very expensive MiGs and more importantly, their elite pilots at risk.
They’ve also been warned prior to this.
Heads must roll to the Ukraine front.
Next time make them land at an Estonian base and they can take the bus home.
If the Russian want 'em back, they can tow the empty shells to the border after stripping them of the parts.
There's Ukrainian farmers who have experience towing Russian war stuff with their tractors.
"Three tickets to Pskov, please."
There is a full-page ad in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch stating "I have personally uncovered massive irregularities in my own Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the DEA. Despite submitting information on numerous occasions, the records I received from the DEA were compromised and incomplete" and it urges people to check on their own records in the DEA, DHS, and DOJ.
It then posts contact information for Missouri and Illinois Senators and Congresspersons. How very interesting...I'm not sure I trust this ad 100% because who can you trust these days??? I've become very skeptical in my old age.
Well, if it sparks an investigation, it might not be all bad...and I haven't even had any weed so far today.
Gulf temps down a bit, Raymond dissipating in the Baja, like every guy does, but will push moisture into SW US. I noticed a super low pressure (900millebaar) over the Bering Sea. Very bad weather there. Atlantic mostly quiet except a low off the Carolinas which seems to be sweeping moinsture inland to DC. Fall cleaning?
"Raymond dissipating in the Baja, like every guy does . . ."
LMAO
"I swear this never happened before"
LOL
Ba-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!!!!!
Trump didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize, but the Nobel Peace Prize committee picked the wrong person:
At least Trump didn’t win the Nobel Prize. Or, wait — did he?
Nobel's cowardly shuffle: Prize goes to Venezuelan right-wing activist, who immediately "dedicates" it to Trump
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/12/at-least-trump-didnt-win-the-nobel-prize-or-wait-did-he/
But anyone who insists on blurring their vision badly enough to perceive the choice of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado as in any way a rebuke to Trump, or a rejection of the global tendency he represents, is badly fooling themselves. (That’s a well-known moral hazard of the Trump era, but one that remains difficult to resist.) We’re at the opposite end of the spectrum here from the election of Pope Leo XIV, which absolutely and without question was intended as a forceful rejection of MAGA and the global right.
It’s difficult to imagine the upside-down universe where I end up writing this sentence, but it happens to be reality: The Vatican stood up to Donald Trump, but the Nobel committee bent the knee.
I'm disappointed. I was hasty in praising her.
Yeah, pretty disappointed when I read about her. That bit of joy was short lived.
Ditto on that !
Me, too. I was super happy in the morning and then 2 hours later was pissed off.
The entire world is rolling over for these Nazi-adjacent fucks and there seems nothing we can do to stop it.
She's a right wing Margaret Thatcher worshiper. 'Nuff said.
Stupid bint.
Venezuela seems pretty fucked when she’s the best alternative to tyrants like Chavez and Maduro.
Then how about "We don't have any suitable candidates for this year's prize"?
Fuck that noise. And fuck her.
I mean, Greta Thunberg's right there!
OMG, yes. Or Jose Andres as Ciobella mentions below.
There were a million more suitable candidates. Like Jose Andres of World Central Kitchen, for example.
It seems like the world is just lining up to suck the floppy dick of fascism. I don't understand it.
Girl, I guiltily love your way with words 😹
My sentiments toward that power-whoring slag are blisteringly ban-hammerable.
Precipitous precipitation, Batman...
After a long, very hot, parchingly dry summer it began raining late last night and has continued to do so abundantly hereabouts. There is going to be some significant flooding in valley areas and mudslides are going to do some damage. At the moment I am damned glad to live at the top of a hill. Gratitude for a sturdy new roof also abounds.
This crazy weather that we've propagated with our selfish behavior is going to do some fucking damage here in eastern Washington today. Dammit.
I hope you're not at the hilltop of a cut-and-fill subdivision.
That reminds me to go exercise in the slightly cooler morning air before it dissipates until god knows.
My backyard is full and things are floating in it. It's going to apparently be raining non-stop until Tuesday.
ETA: The water filling up our yard is like an inch below crossing our threshold into the back room. :(
We're in AZ.
Ohhh nooo. Second floor? Groceries? Gas shutoff?
Scared for you.
AAACK!! My phone just blatted out a flash flood warning from now to 11AM (3h 15m from now.)
And we in north Texass in a drought during our wettest month. Damn.
Yep. It's bad. The street in front of our house has standing water, too. It must have rained all fucking night.
I just looked out my front door and it looks like it was raining all night. So that's why Simba was growling at the front door at 2:30 AM.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kxSq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2Ff47809f8-18fb-4075-84a7-80421a69fef1%2Fcac39700-8493-41ea-b8df-29aa1dfd2c2e.jpeg
Meteorological madness prevails globally.
This is NOT good.
Keep yourself safe, precious comrade.
Thank you! I don't plan to go out in it. And I was born and raised here and have the fear of god put into me re: flash floods. I don't drive into any appreciable standing water. XD
People still do that around here and end up dead as a result. Darwin crosses himself.
Yeah, I know. It's so fucking STOOPIT!
ETA: And it's usually big MAGA men in their big MAGA trucks and think they can't possibly get swept away. *eyeroll*
Fuck them, but when it kills children like the fucko last year, they can take their stupid toxic masculinity and shove it up their blowhole.
The big MAGA men get tears in their eyes and call the DPS officers "sir!" if they survive.
OMG, this. It has happened for decades. So fucking stupid. :( I'm glad people are finally having to pay up for their stupidity.
Simba was growling at the front door at 2:30AM. I thought it was a coyote or something. Probably standing out front to get out of the rain.
Monkey was a smart monkey. Li'l Feller just appeared by my front door when I got home from grocery shopping. He was meowing loudly under the patio table by the door. About two-three months old. I opened the door and he went right in like he owned the place. He was madly air kneading he was so happy to be home. He immediately earned the $700 surgery to get his broken femur fixed. We bonded over my giving him physical therapy for several weeks after that so he could learn to walk with a reconfigured leg.
LOL! My dog wasn't happy. I'm afraid she'll get cold tail again. :/
Cold tail is a thing? I never thought about that.
I don't know if they can get it from just rain, but yes. The cold water does something to the muscles/nerves at the base of their tails and the tail just hangs limp and is painful/sore.
My dog got it last year b/c I gave her a bath and didn't make sure the water was warm enough first. Cookie Lady told me about it. I'd never heard of it before.
I had a black lab, Miss Robin, rest her beautiful soul, who got cold tail when we were visiting friends in N. C. and she kept jumping in the cold mountain streams having a ball. Worried the hell out of me, but it went away in a day or two.
Ahhhh! That sounds like what happens with my feet sometimes. Luckily, while I was in bed this morning Simba seemed happy cuddling my feet which seemed delightfully warm for some reason. He makes for a good heating pad.
"Nate Morris: Donald Trump Deserves Nobel Peace Prize to Be Named After Him" (Breitbart)
It's not enough that he didn't win, the actual Prize should be named after him
Go ahead and rename it. It's now meaningless to me anyway, after who they just awarded it to.
But it's not a cult.
"Nobel Prize Committee Announces Name Change to María Corina Machado Peace Prize"
He would never accept a prize named for a woman
That just means more prizes to go 'round for the rest of us!
Just write “nobel prize” on his ketchup packets
POUND! SPLAT!
The Trump Piece Prize.
Trump Peace Price.
Side piece.
Trump: Women crave it, many are saying.
This is just fucking bonkers. These schmucks live in Bizarro World and can just get fucked.
If I wanted to live in North Korea, I'd move there.
MANK--Make America North Korea
It's just bonkers. :(
The cats leave Trump Prizes in the litter box all the time!
I leave a Dump Prize every morning in the toilet!
I hope he likes tootsie rolls!
If he were as rich as he says he is, he could endow his own prize.
Just sayin'!
Except for his ban from operating a charity due to stealing from kids with cancer.
D'oh!
Sure, but just so we don't confuse it with the real thing, we'll call it "The Cheeto Pedo Worthless Piece Of Shit" Prize.
It can be called The Nepo.
Trump Pees Prize. Comes with a diaper.
The Drumpf Peas Prize.
Instead of mashed potatoes it will involve dumping a bowl of those veggies he won't eat over the top of his over-sprayed bonce.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And a new Superfund Site is consecrated.
A diaper for his face.
A Kotex for his ear also too.
Two diapers. That way we'll know for sure we got the correct end. (They are fungible.)
Fungible, exactly so.
But it's not a cult.
The Chemistry Prize should be named after Trump too because of that MIT uncle.