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And a happy new year too! Yes, I'm early.

I need to replace the battery for my Mac Air...

I'm struggling to get my Dutch to conversational level. My French, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese are already there though.

The original voice of Popeye in the old Fleischer cartoons was a vaudevillian known as William "Red Pepper" Costello. Red has been described as a drinker and a hooligan who drove the Fleischers to distraction. Then they found out that one of their staff writers, Jack Mercer, had taught himself how to do the Popeye voice just as good as Red.

And so, Jack Mercer became the voice of Popeye, and kept the role for decades, until his death in the early 1980s.

The Pugad Baboy series of Philippine comics just released its 30th collection earlier this year.

I was watching clips of the old game show "I've Got a Secret" with Garry Moore as host. In the clips, you can see him smoking during the show. One clip even has him lighting the cigarette of a contestant. Some of the shows have Winston cigarettes as the sponsor and part of the prize for a contestant was a carton of Winston cigarettes.

I had meatballs in peanut sauce today

Hi! Suppose you're going nut-gathering; your buddy wants to know where and when. Use an adverb and tell him!

Heh. Nuts.

Peanuts are the best nut,

I love peanut butter

Ray Bradbury wrote some bad poetry.

I have a headache

I couldn't find the "So Who Was In Your Weird Dream Last Night?" thread, so I'll share this here:

Last night, I dreamed I was watching a documentary on a forgotten 1970s rock band who sounded like a cross between Genesis and Chicago.

I haven't remembered a dream in a long while.

"Sueno Contigo" ("I Dream of You") was a popular Latin American telenovela from the late 80s. The theme song was a big radio hit, and it still gets the occasional spin on Latin Oldies stations.

https://youtu.be/uEXDQhnjibg

I just spoke to an old friend, one of my oldest and best ones. It was great catching up.

So I had a dream about an animated Justice League adventure.

It started with the Justice League meeting a group of woman (more of a nation) who are being oppressed. The group explain how they can't risk a direct confrontation, but use one member to distract the authorities while the other get what they need. Next they are about to launch an attack against the oppressors, but Superman uses his heat vision to melt the spearheads of their weapons. He is against them killing. This split up the Justice League.

Next Superman is attacking a group of the rebels, but Wonder Woman dives out of the sky. I think "Ut oh! Wonder Woman vs Superman." I am rooting for Wonder Woman but think that she is in for a tough fight.

The scene shifts to Hawkgirl flying in a snowstorm. The Justice League had been transported to another dimension (where the oppressed women were)and she was the only one in our dimension who could get them back. There is a radio and a message is coming through for Hawkgirl, but she can't hear it due to the storm.

The scene shifts again to another radio and a message from Hawkgirl is coming through but faintly. Next I see a red haired woman, At first I think this is Hawkgirl, but it turns out to be Barbara Gordon. She is reading a bunch of thin books. Alfred comes in up some stairs. He is wearing a cape that is a modified version of Karate Kid's white high collar costume. He tell Barbara that what she is doing is wrong/forbidden. Barbara puts down the book she is reading, and then all the thin books fly up and merge into a huge tome. Barbara is doing this through magic. The tome is sealed with a skull on the front.

That ends the dream.

I went to a museum today. It had an exhibit on slavery and colonialism.

In my opinion, a lot of the unease that comes with the dredging up of racist caricatures from decades ago is simply that, by choosing to sweep such awful stuff under the carpet, we delude ourselves into thinking we have moved on from that, when in effect it's a cowardly, expedient way of not actively dealing with the societal complexities which give rise to such imagery.

I read an article on how white men feel treated like gods in India. This is sadly very common in many parts of South and East Asia. Even in the Philippines, most of our celebrities are half white.

This is my first post on Legion World in way too long.

Some things are good long, but absences on LW are not

While show business has *always* been more about opportunism, commerce, and luck than true artistic merit, I think it's gotten steadily worse and worse over the past 50 years or so. When people began to be lauded as artistes for their brazen cunning and cold calculation rather than their actual talent, the quality of the product went into decline.

I finally found an artist to do all the commissions I want! I am so happy!