Edgar Ramirez in Wasp Network (2019)
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I'm taking Ryan Bergara's 0.5 second cameo as confirmation that BFU/Watcher is canon in the mcu.
Which means that despite living in a reality full of aliens, monsters, and superpowers, mcu!Shane Madej still does not believe in ghosts.
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exhausting
all this for such a weak centrist film. If they were gonna get sued anyway then Assayas should have gone waaay harder and actually followed the book
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Another gardening-adjacent observation: the area around the tree and property line has a ton of English Ivy. Obviously not native, but it does look intentional, and so no one mows over there. (the briars may also contribute to the no-mowing).
Leaves are allowed to rot where they fall. Plants and bugs can root around.
The soil of my yard is clay and dense. Half of the “lawn” is moss (so no roots there to break it up). It’s dense and hard to cut through. But the ivy area? It’s moist and looser. It’s hard to tell where leaf rot ends and soil begins. It feels like dirt, whereas the rest of the lawn needs bunch of planting soil dumped on it if you want to garden. You can dig into it with your hands.
Now, it’s still rather dense; it’s still more clay-like than sandy. But it’s not hard-packed like the lawn area is, not at all.
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Edgar Ramirez in Wasp Network (2019)
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Gael talking about the Five Heroes / Cuban Five at the press conference for Wasp Network at the Venice Film Festival in 2019.
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The Wasp Woman (Revisited)| Episode 348
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The Wasp Woman (Revisited)| Episode 348
On this Halloween Episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies, Jim reflects again on a favorite from his early days of Monster Movie viewing, Roger Corman’s “The Wasp Woman.” This 1959 classic stars Susan Cabot, Barboura Morris, Anthony Eisley, Willian Roerick, Michael Mark, Frank Gerstie, Bruno, VeSota and Roy Gordon. The head of a giant cosmetics firm uses a controversial enzyme derived from wasp royal jelly to look younger with tragic results. It’s all ahead on this week’s episode.
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most of us have heard of the red car game. you’re on a road trip, you’re bored, you start looking for red cars to do something.
and then they’re everywhere. you notice them nearly every few minutes.
there aren’t suddenly more red cars now, of course. you were seeing them already, but you weren’t noticing. you weren’t looking.
I am noticing things.
there is a plant I notice everywhere now, a small bushy plant in suburbs, along streets, by shops on the highways. dwarf umbrella bush is what the internet tells me when I look for it’s name. I did this because I wanted to know why,
every time I ever saw it, every place,
it was always dying.
always the leaves turning yellow, the branches small and scraggly. inside out - nitrogen deficiency. their soil drained.
I am noticing how many of these landscaping plants are yellowing, how small and sickly they look in just a few years. I am noticing how often the grass outside the house is replaced when it once again turns brown and dry, how the type never changes and the cycle starts again. I am noticing how the unmowed, unkempt spaces on lakesides and roadsides look more alive than this. how the preserve I grew up next to was miles of “messy” unmanicured nature and the ground was covered in leaves instead of grass and there was life.
I am noticing the birds that come by the lake. there was a flash of blue wings and red chest - eastern bluebird, male, relatively common. I had never seen one before. there is a family of ducks that appear every spring; i cannot say if it’s successive generations or different ducks, but I can always look forward to ducklings. there are little brown birds with white heads whose names I do not know - are they some kind of piper? why don’t I already know?
why is it so hard to learn about my native plants (accurately, that is)? why are so many gardening sites littered with people who think a plants value is based on how pretty or useful it is to them, who think a tree shedding leaves is “messy”?
why is knowing about the world we live in so… odd? why is it a hobby and not vital knowledge? I learned about polar equations. I taught myself about mycorrhizal networks and species of insects.
(did you know there are shiny green bees? a special species of wasp pollinating figs? that white flowers bloom at night for moths? do you know? have you looked?)
I cannot look at a lawn and see life anymore. it is a wasteland, devoid of life, dying slowly itself. everywhere is grass, grass, doused in water that runs over into storm drains, soaked in fertilizer and pesticides and a hundred other poisons and sending one clear message:
this is a place of death. life is not welcome here.
I do not think I could live in a city. too loud, yes, too busy, yes, too many people, yes, but the plants would bother me. a tree allotted only a convenient square, surrounded by dead stone and metal.
a forest cleared for this, for burning asphalt streets and racing cars and shops whose bathrooms are “for paying customers only”.
this is a place of death. life is not welcome here.
and now I am noticing.
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