MINTS

Get comment notifications on your phone!

I believe if you install the wordpress app on your phone you’ll get comment notifications. Obviously you’ll need a WordPress Username and I have no clue how to merge a MCS user -> WP user, but if you’re already logging in with a WP username, you’ll be able to do this.

maybe.

MAGA MUG

well protected

UNEDUCATED

STAR WARS

SPACE CONQUEROR

I have a strong immunity

OUCH

CONCEPT

SCULPTURE

BIKINI

CONCEPT

BATMAN

MONSTER

Daddy LITs Instagram profile post I see right through you

BACK HOE

CANADIAN HELL DRIVERS

WHEELIE

The Real Reason to Wear a Mask

Much of the confusion around masks stems from the conflation of two very different uses.

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MONTE CARLO

Aliens MegaBox MB-02 Power Loader

Based on the 1986 Alien sequel, the MegaBox MB-02 features the Power Loader as a transformable item. This Power Loader figure can change from a heavy duty alien battling machine to a compact cube form.

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TRIKE

The Great American Debate

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MARIJUANA

Lunarbaboon – “Darkness” – Making Comics As a Form of Art Therapy

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CAMARO

Got some mail

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INCH HIGH PRIVATE EYE

Crow which bizarrely asks bypassers ‘You alright love’ – in Yorkshire accent

GULF

Green Room

Directed by Jeremy Saulnier. With Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Patrick Stewart. A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.

I watched because it was on one of the 50 free streaming services on my roku and I noticed that Patrick Stewart was here, but holy fuck this movie is not for the feint of heart, either ethically or physically. I enjoyed the movie, but my wife definitely did not.

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GUITAR

upon reflection

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SHORTS

Y’all are excited right

OUCH

i hope this is helpful

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Shannon McMullen Loves Goats

Hey watch me

Hey, watch me

Daisy’s Arms Ups

Spider-doofus

VALIANT

the rest of us

CHER

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

 

THE WORLD HAS ENDED. AT LEAST WE STILL HAVE DOGS.

My name’s Griz.
I’ve never been to school, I’ve never had friends, in my whole life I’ve not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, before all the people went away, but we were never lonely on our remote island. We had each other, and our dogs.
Then the thief came.
He told stories of the deserted towns and cities beyond our horizons. I liked him – until I woke to find he had stolen my dog. So I chased him out into the ruins of the world.
I just want to get my dog back, but I found more than I ever imagined was possible. More about how the world ended. More about what my family’s real story is. More about what really matters.

 

I’m torn on this review, so here it is in two parts:

The good review:
What a fun book with an engaging story and elegantly described world, I loved reading absolutely every page in detail. There’s a difficulty in drawing a picture in people’s minds eye, but Fletcher definitely knocked it out of the park, I highly recommend the book if you’re a fan of post-apocalyptic adventure stories that have a clear ending to them.

The bad review:
I can’t imagine that the author didn’t know about the short story “A boy and his dog”, or didn’t know about the movie that was then made from that story. Released in 1975, it was moderately successful and is one of the time period’s best post-apocalyptic stories with a telepathic dog and an underground civilization that was absolutely enamored by the fact that the guy has working testes. I thought I was getting this story when I bought the book, but half way through I realized that the dog in this book wasn’t talking at all, which is normal as far as dogs go, but why wasn’t it telepathic? So I pulled up the wikipedia page to see about the novelization differences, only to find out that it’s a completely unrelated story that just happening to be:

1 – titled exactly the same
2 – set in the same genre
3 – have the same premise (someone stole a dog)
4 – have the same apocalyptic setting (fertility issues)

To put some icing on the cake, after the story is finished, there’s a cool book club question section and the very first question is asking about the title and seeing if you thought it was clever maybe? It is in relation to what the story eventually reveals, but in terms of how I was feeling about the story, that question was not received in the way I bet they were expecting to be.

To summarize, this is a good book, but the IRL issues around it really left a bad taste in my mouth.

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PINTO

MT ST HELENS

CHARGER

“Blueskies” – Soma Sonic

Elevation 3, 2000

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