Saturday, September 7th, 2024
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_Man_(film)](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/The_Elephant_Man.thumbnail.jpg)
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In Victorian London, Frederick Treves, a surgeon, discovers John Merrick in a
freak show. He pays Bytes, Merrick's “owner” to have him at his hospital to
study his deformities. On his return to Bytes, Merrick is badly beaten and
asks for help from Treves who gives him shelter at the hospital. Nurses are
frightened because of his appearance and Treves believes at first he is
intellectually disabled, but soon discovers that he can speak and read.
Merrick has tea with Treves and his wife and from then starts to get London's high
society interested in him and visit him in his room where he builds a model of
the cathedral he can see from his window. He even receives actress Madge
Kendal who gives him a copy of Romeo and Juliet; the they play some lines from
it and Kendal kisses Merrick. At the same time, a night porter named Jim
starts selling tickets to locals who come at night to gawk at the Elephant
Man. Some members of the hospital council consider that the hospital should
not pay for Merrick's lodging, but he is guaranteed a permanent residence by
Queen Victory, the hospital's royal patron. One night, during Jim's showing
where they invade Merrick's room, Bytes kidnap him and forces him to play the
Elephant Man in the circus, this time in Belgium. Merrick is ill and weak and
unable to perform, so Bytes leaves him to die in a cage. He is however rescued
by the other freaks who all flee in the night. Merrick travels back to London
where he is first harassed at the train station before being returned to the
hospital by policemen. Merrick recovers some of his health and even attends a
performance of Kendal's at the theatre; Kendal addresses the audience who then
applauds him. Back in his room at the hospital he finishes his cathedral
models then lies down and dies (his was aware that, due to his deformities,
lying down would cause asphyxiation).
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Sunday, September 1st, 2024
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fugitive_(1993_film)](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/The_Fugitive.thumbnail.jpg)
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Chicago Surgeon Richard Kimble is sentenced to death for the murder of his
wife. He claims to be innocent and that his wife was killed by a man with a
prosthetic arm, but the police is not able to find that man. A year later
Kimble manages to escape during transport when other prisoners cause an
accident leading to the bus being destroyed by an oncoming train. Kimble
sneaks into a hospital, tends to his wound, shaves his beard, steal clothes
and escapes in an ambulance. US Marshall Samuel Gerard chases Kimble into a
tunnel from which Kimble escapes through the storm drain and despite being
followed by Gerard, manages to disappear by jumping from a high spillway into
the river. Kimble then returns to Chicago to find the one-armed man himself,
getting money from his friend and colleague Charles Nichols. Posing as a
janitor at the prosthetics' department of Cook County Hospital, he manages to
make a short list of patients who could be his wife's killer. He however blows
his cover when he is asked during a rush in E.R. to take a boy on a gurney to
another floor but instead modifies the doctor's orders so that the boy would
be operated on, saving his life. Gerard deduces what Kimble is doing and
produces his own list of suspects. He spots his fugitive when interviewing a
jailed suspect in Chicago City Hall, but loses him during the St. Patrick's
Day parade. Later Kimble breaks into the home of his last suspect, Fredrick
Sykes, a former cop, now chief of security for a pharmaceutical company.
Kimble finds a link between this company and Lentz, the doctor who was in charge of
testing a new drug, soon to get FDA agreement, that Kimble knew was causing
liver damage. Kimble phones Gerard and leaves evidence in sight before
leaving. He then visits a former colleague of his at the hospital. He learns
that Lentz has died in a road accident six months earlier (presumably killed
by Syskes because he too had found that the drug had side-effects). Kimble
then gets proof that the liver samples used for the FDA agreement are fakes,
and that Nichols, now a member of the board of the company, is the only person
who could have replaced them. On his way to the cardiologists' conference
where Nichols is going to announce the new drug, Kimble is attacked by Sykes
on a train and a transit police officer is killed; Kimble is blamed and
Chicago PD wants revenge. At the hotel, Kimble confronts Nichols, they fight
and end up in the laundry, followed by Gerard and his men. Kimble saves the US
Marshall's life when Nichols attempts to kill him. Gerard tells Kimble they
have got Sykes and proof that Nichols helped the killer to stage the burglary
of Kimble's home and to kill his wife.
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Categories: [ Books/James Bond ]
![ISBN: 9782221049242](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn2221049241.thumbnail.jpg)
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Dix ans après la seconde guerre mondiale, Sir Hugo Drax est un industriel
britannique qui a fait fortune dans les minerais stratégiques et construit
pour le royaume son premier missile balistique près de Douvres ; pour des
raisons de limitations budgétaires, tous les techniciens travaillant sur la
fusée ont été sont Allemands et ont été embauchés par Drax, et seuls deux
policiers de Scotland Yard sont chargés de la sécurité, dont une, Gala Brand,
sous la couverture de secrétaire de l'industriel. Drax fréquente le même club
que M, et ce dernier le soupçonne de tricher au bridge. Il demande de l'aide à
Bond, qui se fait un plaisir de faire perdre une fortune à Drax. Peu de temps
après, le policier en charge de la sécurité est tué par un des techniciens
pour une histoire de c½ur. Le Yard demande de l'aide à M et Bond devient le
nouveau chef de la sécurité. Il découvre que son prédécesseur avait aperçu
quelque chose de louche au large la nuit précédent sa mort, et Brand et lui
manquent de se faire tuer par l'effondrement de la falaise alors qu'ils
examinaient la plage. La veille du premier lancement d'essai, Drax part à
Londres avec son homme de main, Krebs, et sa secrétaire. Brand parvient à
voler le carnet dans lequel Drax note chaque jour les réglages des gyroscopes
du missile que sa secrétaire calcule en fonction de données météo. Elle
découvre que ces réglages emmèneraient le missile de test droit sur Londres et
non pas vers la mer du Nord, mais Drax s'en aperçoit et la fait prisonnière.
Ayant planifié un rendez-vous à Londres avec Brand et ne la voyant pas venir,
Bond part à sa recherche et finit par poursuivre la voiture de Drax. Ce
dernier provoque un accident, et Bond se réveille prisonnier dans la base aux
cotés de Brand. Drax révèle être un ancien officier Nazi qui, déguisé en
soldat anglais, avait posé à la fin de la guerre une bombe dans un QG
britannique ; il avait été blessé dans l'explosion, a feint l'amnésie et pris
une fausse identité en sortant de l'hôpital. Drax compte se venger du Royaume
Uni en plaçant une ogive nucléaire fournie par les Soviétiques dans son
missile et en le lançait sur Buckingham Palace. Drax ayant laissé Bond et
Brand se faire incinérer par le décollage du missile, ces derniers
parviennent à s'échapper et à re-régler les gyroscopes de sorte à le faire
retomber dans la mer. Drax et ses hommes, qui s'étaient échappé à bord d'un
sous-marin soviétique, sont tués dans l'explosion. Bond part alors à
l'étranger, se faire oublier quelques temps.
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Categories: [ Beer/Hiisi ]
Hapan ja hedelmäinen, muistuttaa vähän Madeirasta. Sisältää ohramallasta,
kauraa ja vehnämallasta.
Panimoyhtiö Hiisi, Jyväskylä, Suomi. 8.0% alkoholia.
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Friday, August 30th, 2024
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women_(2019_film)](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/Little_Women.thumbnail.jpg)
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During the American Civil War, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March live with their
mother in Concord, Massachusetts while their father is at the front. Meg wants
to become an actress, Jo writes, Beth plays the piano and Amy draws and
paints. They live near the Laurence's house where Laurie lives with his
grandfather and his tutor John. The sisters live happily many years together
even though Amy is jealous of Jo's relationship with Laurie. Mr. Laurence
invites Beth to play his late daughter's piano in his house, eventually
gifting her the piano. Mother and daughters also help a poor neighbouring
family, the Hummels, from which Beth contracts scarlet fever, and Amy is sent
to rich Aunt March to avoid catching the disease. Despite getting eventually
better, she remains in weak health. Aunt March eventually takes Amy to Paris
to take art courses, while Meg marries John and resents being poor compared to
her richer friends. Laurie appears in Paris, revealing that Jo rejected his
marriage proposal as she does not see herself married. Amy however refuses to
be his second choice, despite having secretly been in love with him for many
years, but also rejects the proposal from her wealthy acquaintance Fred. Jo
has gone to New York to become a writer; she manages to publish dreadful
stories that sell well, but her friend Friedrich criticises her work, angering
her. She returns to Concord upon receiving a letter telling her that Beth's
illness has worsened; she eventually dies. Amy returns from Paris with an ill
Aunt March. Jo wonders if she should have accepted Laurie's proposal, but
discovers he and Amy got married on their journey back. Jo then begins to
write a novel based on her and her sisters' lives. In the meanwhile, Friedrich
visits her and her family on his way to California. Jo's publisher is not
impressed by the first chapters, but eventually agrees to publish the novel
after her daughters demand to know how the story ends, but refuses to accept
that the protagonist remains unmarried in the end; Jo then ends the book with
the protagonist, herself, asking Friedrich to stay in the East. Jo
successfully negotiates copyright and royalties. Following Aunt March's
death, she inherits the house and opens it as a school where Meg, Amy, John
and Friedrich all teach.
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Saturday, August 24th, 2024
Categories: [ Books/Canopus in Argos ]
Al·Ith is the queen of Zone Three, where people live in harmony and
have some kind of a shared consciousness. The god-like Providers order
Al·Ith to go to Zone Four and marry its king, Ben Ata. Zone Four has
lots of natural resources but its completely militarized civilisation makes no
use of them and to Al·Ith its people look poor and unhappy. Both
countries however see the natality rate of both humans and livestock decline
very rapidly, and Al·Ith supposes that the marriage between the zone is
going to solve it. The two rulers could not be different, Ben Ata being
foremost a soldier, not used to the company of women he cannot control. After
being forced to live together they however learn each other habits and end up
falling in love. A son is born, Arusi, future ruler of both Zone Three and
Four, and Al·Ith receives the help of some women, led by Dabeeb. The
Providers then order Al·Ith to go back to Zone Three without her son
and Ben Ata to marry Queen Vashi of Zone Five, ruler of many tribes of desert
nomads who pillage the rest of the rich Zone. Both Al·Ith and Ben Ata
are devastated by this news. Back in Zone Three, nobody recognizes
Al·Ith whose sister Murti· has taken over as queen.
Murti· is disturbed by how her sister has changed and exiles her at the
frontier with Zone Two. She tries to enter the Zone but she finds it
inhospitable and is told by invisible people it is not her time yet. In he
meanwhile, Ben Ata disbands most of his army so that the men can rebuild the
towns and villages; he also manages to gain Vashis's confidence and convince
her to stop plundering Zone Five. With Arusi old enough to travel, Dabeeb and
her band of women travel to Zone Three to visit Al·Ith and are shocked
to see the former queen working in a stable. the inhabitants of Zone Three
also have xenophobic attitudes towards the visitors. Five years later, the
Providers tell Ben Ata to go and see Al·Ith. He is at first stopped at
the border by a makeshift army but comes back with his own troops and despite
not being well received, he finds his first wife surrounded by a small band of
followers. Ben Ata tells her of the reforms he introduced in Zones Four and
Five. One day, Al·Ith enters Zone Two and does not return but there are
apparent changes in the three previously stagnant Zones where people and
knowledge flow freely between them.
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Sunday, August 18th, 2024
Categories: [ Beer/Thornbridge ]
“tropical medley of American hops… Centennial, Citra, Ekuanot, Mosaic…
pineapple and grapefruit… peach, lemon… orange, papaya”
Tropical fruits indeed. Very good. Contains malted barley and wheat.
Thornbridge brewery, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England. 6.2% alcohol.
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Sunday, August 11th, 2024
Categories: [ Beer/Williams ]
“tropical with a citrus burst of bitterness”
Definitely tropical fruits. Quite good. Contains malted barley, wheat and
oats.
Williams Bros Brewing Co., Alloa, Scotland. 5% alcohol.
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Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books ]
![ISBN: 9782072933851](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn2072933854.thumbnail.jpg)
© Amazon.fr
Isaïah et Agathe sont chasseurs de fantômes : elle est médium est peut les
voir et les attirer dans un piège pour que lui, sorcier hoodoo, les force à
partir vers l'au-delà. Ils sont appelés à Landrez en Bretagne pour chasser les
fantômes du manoir de Ker ar Bran, situé à coté d'un phare que l'on dit
maudit : celleux qui en ouvrent la porte sont condamnés à mourir sous peu.
Agathe se rend compte que la maison est hantée par les fantômes de deux jeunes
filles, et parvient à apprendre le nom de l'une d'entre elle, Solen (grâce à
un enfant qui l'a vue et lui a parlé). Iels découvrent aussi les archives de
Théophile, un érudit parisien, ésotériste spécialiste des anges, venu
s'installer à Ker ar Bran en 1921 et mort tragiquement en 1922 après avoir
tenté un rituel magique pour invoquer des anges. Les archives de la mairie,
qui auraient pu les éclairer sur l'identité des fantômes ont été détruites
dans un incendie quarante ans plus tôt. Toutes ces informations sont cependant
insuffisant et Isaïah et Agathe repartent à Paris ; Agathe surtout a le
sentiment d'avoir échoué alors qu'elle aurait dû réussir. Après avoir demandé
de l'aide à un sorcier plus puissant qu'elleux, iels sont rappelés à Landrez
et retrouvent des document ayant échappé à l'incendie des archives. Iels
découvrent qu'en 1841, Tugdual de gardien du phare qui habitait Ker ar Bran a
été reconnu coupable du meurtre d'une adolescente. La même année, Gwennyn, qui
avait été accusée de sorcellerie a été bannie du village. Avec les prénoms des
deux fantômes, Isaïah et Agathe tentent un nouvel exorcisme, sans plus de
succès. Mais Agathe découvre une connexion avec Gwennyn (Agathe, Théophile et
Gwennyn partageraient la même âme) et parvient à lui parler. Elle lui révèle
que Solen, fille d'un marin mort dans un tempête, a été tuée par le fils du
maire en essayant de la violer. Le maire a étouffé l'affaire en faisant
accuser et condamner Tugdual. Gwennyn, qui pouvait entendre les fantômes, a
appris de Solen qui l'avait tuée et l'a annoncé à sa mère. Cette dernière,
horrifiée par le pouvoir de sa fille, l'a dénoncée au curé qui l'a fait
bannir, la conduisant à se suicider. Théophile, quant à lui, a réveillé les
nombreux esprits vivant sous Ker ar Bran et même s'il a été sauvé par Nenoga,
une sorcière locale qui y a laissé ses pouvoirs, a fini par tomber en
dépression et se suicider. Après ces révélations, les deux fantômes, apaisés,
décident de leur plein gré de partir vers l'au-delà.
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![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo_(2011_film)](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo.thumbnail.jpg)
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Mikael Blomkvist is a journalist who lost a libel trial against crooked
businessman Wennerström. Wealthy Henrik Vanger promises Mikael proof of
Wennerström illegal activities in exchange for investigating the disappearance
and presumed murder of his grandniece Harriet forty years ago. Mikael moves
into a cottage on Vanger family estate on Hedestad Island and starts studying
the files collected by Henrik. Most of Henrik's relatives live on the island
and were Nazis and Nazi sympathizers during World War II. In a notebook that
belonged to Harriet he discovers a list of names and numbers that are Bible
references. At least one name matches an old, unsolved murder, and the
reference describes the way the victim was killed. Mikael hires Lisbeth
Salander, an investigator and computer hacker who researched Mikael before
Henrik hired him. Lisbeth is a ward of the State, deemed unable to make social
relationships and take care of her finances and who has been abused by the
social services employee handling her money. Lisbeth discovers more victims,
all with Jewish names, and matches their locations to places in the country
where Vanger's company has business places and where Harriett's father
Gottfried was present at the time of each murder. One more murder was
committed after his death, leading to suspect her brother Martin committed it.
Confronting Martin at his house, Mikael is made prisoner and taken to the
basement where Martin brags about having committed many more murders while
preparing to torture and kill the journalist. Mikael is saved by Lisbeth,
Martin flees. Lisbeth chases the man on the road and the latter then dies in a
road accident. Mikael and Lisbeth then deduce that Harriet is alive and living
in London under the name of her estranged cousin Anita who had helped her flee
Sweden. Harriett had killed her father Gottfried who had raped her, but had
been seen by Martin who also had used this as leverage to abuse her too.
Harriet and Henrik are finally reunited. The proof against Wennerström is
however outdated and useless, but Lisbeth has hacked Wennerström's computer
and found evidence of money laundering for various criminal syndicates. While
Mikael publishes this information, Lisbeth empties Wennerström's offshore bank
accounts, leading the fallen businessman to be murdered by his criminal
employers.
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Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
Categories: [ Books/The Hainish Cycle ]
![ISBN: 9781598535389](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn1598535382.thumbnail.jpg)
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Rocannon is part of a survey team on an unnamed planet orbiting Formalhaut II
where four different intelligent species have developed. All the other members
on Rocannon's team have been killed by people from the Faraday system who have
installed a secret military base with the intent on conquering planets from
the interstellar League of All Worlds. With the enemy now controlling the only
means of contacting the League, Rocannon wants to reach the base and use their
ansible to reveal the location of the base. Rocannon travels on the back of
windsteeds, by boat and walking, in the company of members of the Angyar
culture of the Liuar species, on the northern continent. They meet with a
members of the Fiia who guides the for a while, are made prisoner by
cave-dwelling Gdemiar who wants to burn Rocannon (he survives thanks to his
high-tech protective suit) and by the Winged Ones. The latter, a hive society,
have captured them to feed on them, and they manage to escape only thanks to
the Kiemhrir. In the mountains near his goal, Rocannon encounters an entity
that gives him a form of telepathy. He finally reaches the enemy' base and
contacts the League, leading soon after in its destruction; having felt
telepathically the hundreds of deaths of his enemies, Rocannon feels guilty
and is traumatized. Rocannon then retires among the Angyar of the southern
continent, waiting for rescuers from the League. However, as humans cannot
survive FTL travel, he has to wait at least eight years for anyone to reach
him and dies before they arrive, not knowing the planet is now named after
him.
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Sunday, July 28th, 2024
Categories: [ Beer/Thornbridge ]
“classic US hops (Chinook Cascade, Amarillo, Columbus)… aromas of pine and
citrus… caramel sweetness, flavours of orange and peach”
Just another ale. Contains malted barley an wheat.
Thornbridge brewery, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England. 5.0% alcohol.
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Monday, July 22nd, 2024
Categories: [ Beer/Brewdog ]
Roasted, chocolate, coffee flavours. Contains malted barley.
BrewDog Ltd., Ellon, Scotland. 4.1% alcohol
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Categories: [ Books/The Bromeliad ]
![ISBN: 9780552546072](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn0552546070.thumbnail.jpg)
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Masklin (along with Angalo and Gurder) are searching for Grandson
Richard,
as the Thing has told him that it could call their spaceship if it could get
aboard the communications satellite Richard is going to launch. The nomes
first go to the airport where they quietly board Concorde and fly to Florida.
After causing some trouble on the plane, they hide in Richard's luggage and
end up in his hotel room. They however have to flee and end up outside where
they meet a tribe of Nomes who speak a language close to ancient Nomish. They
manage to communicate thanks to the Thing and the local Nomes fly them to the
space shuttle's launch site on geese (thanks to which they migrate yearly
between Alaska and Florida). Near the shuttle, the Thing uploads itself into
the satellite and exhausts in doing so all the power it had stored. After the
takeoff, Masklin decides to take it to a human building to let it recharge
itself near electrical wires. He is caught (on purpose) by humans but manages
to escape with the recharged Thing as the Nomes' spaceship arrives and Angalo
and Gurder board it. Masklin then by chance meets Richard, with whom he
discusses briefly as the Nome's spaceship, piloted by Angalo, lands again and
let him board. They then fly away back to Britain after making a detour
through South America where they pick up a Bromeliad flower that Masklin
gives to Grimma before taking the Nomes. Gurder decides to stay on Earth to
search for other Nome tribes, tell them of their origins and give them the
possibility to migrate to a Nome planet the next time the spaceship would
visit Earth.
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Saturday, July 20th, 2024
Categories: [ Books/The Bromeliad ]
![ISBN: 9780552546072](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn0552546070.thumbnail.jpg)
© Amazon.fr
The nomes
have resettled in a closed quarry. When they discover that the quarry will
soon reopen, they wonder what to do, and consider moving to a barn on the
other side of the field. Reading a newspaper article about Arnold Bros'
grandson who who is traveling to Florida on business about a communication
satellite, Masklin decides to leave with a few nomes and find more about the
grandson. In the meanwhile winter comes and covers the ground with snow,
making it impossible for the younger and elder nomes to travel to the barn.
As humans come to reopen the quarry, Grimma has to oppose a rising religious
nome who promises that faith in Arnold Bros will solve all their problems;
that nome is accidentally killed by humans. The nomes sabotage a truck in an
attempt to prevent the humans to enter the quarry, lead by Dorcas who make
them steal the battery and diesel fuel, but the truck accidentally rolls onto
the railways tracks and causes an accident. More humans come to the quarry,
put poisoned bait to eliminate what they believe to be rats. Dorcas and his
nomes, who had been lost outside after the accident, is finally found and
presents his plan: he has found and repaired a JCB digger in shed, and
proposes to use it to take all the nomes to the barn. The drive out among
amazed humans, but are chased by the police. The eventually get stuck on the
top of a hill, when a spaceship appears above them.
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2024
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Categories: [ Cooking/Chocolats ]
Cachet, Costa Rica 71% : un peu amer et astringent, cacaoté.
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Monday, July 15th, 2024
Categories: [ Books/Roger Rabbit ]
Roger hires Eddie to check if his wife indeed cheats on him with Clark Gable,
as the tabloids claim. Soon after, Eddie is also hired by Selznick who want
him to find a small metal box that had disappeared after a triple interview
with Roger, Baby Herman and Enigman for his next film, Gone with the Wind.
Eddie first suspects Enigman, but the latter gets killed with Eddie's gun as
the detective is interviewing him at his home. Suspected by the police,
Eddie's investigation leads him to a shady rum dealer who is later murdered.
Eddie is also hired by Clarke who suspects his girlfriend Carol Lombard to
cheat on him. Roger is also suspected of murder, but it's his cousin Dodger
who is also after the box that framed him, only to be murdered soon after.
With Roger and Clark as sidekicks, Eddie discover that the box contains the
formula for the Toon Tonic that can transform a toon into a human and vice
versa, and Selznick's right hand, Pepper Potts, is the toon behind the
murders. Eddie recovers the box from Roger's coverall pocket (where Baby had
put it to reduce the competition for Selznick's film). Roger makes some of the
Toon Tonic and becomes another human in the crowd. Eddied eventually agrees
with Potts to exchange the box against Jessica and her twin sister Joellyn
(who is only 6 inches tall) whom Potts had abducted. During the encounter,
Eddie gets wounded, Potts gets killed, but the two women are found and saved
by the police. Roger decides to become a toon again and gives Eddie the
leftover tonic for safekeeping, after having burnt the formula. Selznick then
explains Eddie he knows nothing of Potts' dealings and that he had bought the
formula from the rum dealer in the hope of making enough money from it that he
would be able to produce his film; Eddie suggests he makes the film with human
actors and with a serious tone instead. Jessica then explains Roger that she
leaked the rumors of her infidelity to the press to make Carol jealous and
open to Clark's marriage proposal; the plot succeeds. Jessica and Roger also
get triplet children. There is also a side story with Eddie's lost brother
Freddy who had disappeared but is actually happily living his life as a toon
and Eddie's sister Heddy whom he suspects of being a toon pretending to be a
human married to a toon cop.
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Friday, July 12th, 2024
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Categories: [ Books/Comics/Spirou ]
![ISBN: 9782808501941](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn2808501943.thumbnail.jpg)
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En 1961, Spirou et Fantasio se rendent à New York pour interviewer Castro lors
d'un discours à l'ONU. Ils y retrouvent Longplaying à qui ils donnent un GAG
amélioré, sans savoir qu'il travaille pour la CIA. Deux agents utilisent
Spirou, le prenant pour un groom, pour un attentat contre Castro, et les
hommes de ce dernier kidnappent Spirou et l'emmènent à Cuba. Les agents y
envoient alors Fantasio, armé du GAG, reprendre contact avec la rébellion
pro-USA. À Cuba, Seccotine est en reportage et rencontre Guevara. Lors d'une
réception où elle est invitée par ce dernier, elle rencontre Fantasio déguisé
en clown. Suite à une altercation causée par le Marsupilami, les deux
journalistes s'enfuient et se réfugient dans la forêt, où ils sont faits
prisonniers par les rebelles. Après avoir réussi à s'expliquer, Seccotine part
de son coté pour tenter de libérer Spirou en prévenant la police que les
américains préparent une attaque, mais finit par être mise par Guevara en
prison, dans la même cellule que Spirou. De son coté, Fantasio et les rebelles
préparent une attaque contre la prison et parviennent à libérer les deux
prisonniers. Ils apprennent de Guevara que Castro, qui s'est emparé du GAG, va
participer à la défense contre les américains et se cachent dans son avion,
faisant échouer son plan et détruisant le GAG.
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Monday, July 8th, 2024
Categories: [ Books/The Bromeliad ]
![ISBN: 9780552546072](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn0552546070.thumbnail.jpg)
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A handful of nomes live in a burrow at a rest area along the motorway. Life
being very hard, they decide to hop on a lorry and leave, in the hope for a
better life. The lorry stops in the garage of the Arnold Bros department store
where they meet a community of two thousand nomes who has been living there
for generations and mostly refuses to believe there exists an Outside. The
newcomers have a black box, transmitted from generation to generation, that
starts to speak to them as it comes near electrical wiring; it explains that
the nomes have crashed on Earth in a spaceship fifteen thousand years ago and
that it is a flight recorder. The nomes had attempted to teach technology to
the humans in order to get them to build a space shuttle that could fly them
to their mothership, but it failed. When the nomes discover that the store is
about to be closed, they plan to escape by stealing a lorry. As the closure
happens faster than expected, they have to steal a lorry (thankfully loaded
with plenty of useful items) in a hurry and learn to drive (with the help of
numerous levers and pulleys) as they escape. They eventually find shelter in
a quarry near the airport and contemplate stealing an airplane.
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
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Categories: [ Books/Comics/Yoko Tsuno ]
![ISBN: 9782808504942](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn2808504942.thumbnail.jpg)
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En Écosse, Bonnie et Émilia obeservent des moines dans un monastère en ruines,
mais ces derniers disparaissent. Le lendemain, un moine explique à Yoko
que'ils cherchent les traces historique d'un animal satanique qui a habité
les lieux au moyen-âge. Cecilia montre alors à Yoko une patte d'aigle en or,
trouvée une siècle plus tôt. Plus tard, le moine révèle à Yoko les deux
versions de l'histoire de l'aigle, soit tué par les moines, soit enlevé par
des démons dans une machine entourée d'une spirale de lumière. Yoko contacte
alors Zarkâ qui explique que l'aigle, synthétique, avait été mis en place par
les Vinéens pour surveiller les moines 800 ans plus tôt. Zhyttâ vient alors
chercher Yoko à la demande de la déesse Brigit. Mais Monya arrive alors avec
le translateur temporel, et Yoko décide de plutôt l'accompagner à l'époque de
l'aigle 800 ans plus tôt. Elles arrivent juste après l'incendie du monastère
et rencontrent Sébastien, un jeune moine qui les explique que les moines sont
surveillés par d'autres moines-alchimistes qui fréquentent Lucifer,
apparemment un extraterrestre. Les moines confient à Yoko l'aigle qu'ils
gardent prisonnier, et elles repartent vers le présent avec l'aigle et
Sébastien. À leur retour, elles voient que Khâny est arrivée et repartent avec
elle au temple des immortelles pour faire réparer l'aigle par Zhyttâ, qui est
partie en avance. Au temple. Yoko présente Sébastien à Brigit, puis rejoint
Zarkâ auprès du sarcophage où survit une créature que Zarkâ décrit comme avoir
été imposé pour gérer la Terre, et qui a crée Zarkâ. De peur d'être détruite
par Yoko, la créature, qui ressemble au Lucifer des moines du passé, les force
à fuir.
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Categories: [ Books/Comics/Aquablue ]
![ISBN: 9782413043775](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn2413043772.thumbnail.jpg)
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Suite à un accident, Rabah est devenu un légume. Carlo a fait construire un
nouveau Stromboli, mais a besoin d'argent pour le payer. Nao et lui sont
enlevés par Ragnar le pirate qui a besoin d'un courrier pour échanger de l'or
contre des otages. Ragnar travaille avec un scientifique peu scrupuleux qui
affirme pouvoir guérir Rabah. Nao accepte, en échange de laisser Ragnar
établir une base sur Aquablue. Carlo et Nao récupèrent les otages et
parviennent à garder l'or, grâce à une dissension entre deux factions des
kidnappeurs, une espèce insectoïde. Rabah est soigné par le scientifique
pendant que l'autre faction d'insectoïdes attaquent la base de Ragnar pour
reprendre l'or. Une fois les attaqunts repoussés, Rabah se réveille et prend
possession de son nouveau Stromboli.
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Categories: [ Books/Comics/Les quatre de Baker Street ]
![ISBN: 9782749310107](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn2749310105.thumbnail.jpg)
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Patch, le roi des brigands fait enlever Puck par Scabs afin de contraindre Tom
à voler, dans le musée privé de Scotland Yard, une lettre écrite par Jack
l'éventreur. Lorsqu'il lui livre la lettre, Patch dit à Tom de se débrouiller
avec Scabs libérer Puck. Tom s'enfuit grâce à l'aide de son ami le vieux
Bailey. Billy et Charlie trouvent la cachette où Scabs a enfermé Puck et le
libèrent. Holmes est cependant mécontent que Tom lui ait caché son problème et
soit allé voler la lettre. Quand Tom découvre que Patch a fait tuer Bailey,
il retourne chez Patch pour se venger. Ce dernier lui propose de tue Scabs,
mais Tom refuse. Patch, qui vient de faire enlever Charlie, exige que Tom
revienne dans sa bande de voleurs. Tom accepte pour sauver son amie. Charlier
demande alors de l'aide à Watson, qui va exiger la libération de Tom. Bones,
le tueur dont Patch use pour contrôler les autre brigands par la peur se fait
tuer et ces derniers se débarrassent de leur roi. Holmes récupère la lettre
chez un ancien policier du Yard qui revend ds relique criminelles à des
collectionneurs sans scrupule, mais bannit Tom des Irréguliers pour avoir mis
en péril sa réputation professionnelle.
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Categories: [ Books/Comics/Midi minuit ]
![ISBN: 9782302093478](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn230209347X.thumbnail.jpg)
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Sur fond de campagne présidentielle, Belton enquête sur la source d'une
drogue frelatée qui tue nombre de ses utilisateurs. Une femme masquée appelée
Foudre cherche elle aussi le fournisseur, qui est un criminel masqué appelé
Crâne. Josh s'infiltre dans l'organisation de Kenler, un baron de la droguer
connu (aussi candidat à l'élection), tandis que Jenna devient danseuse dans le
cabaret de Melvik, connu pour diffuser la drogue. Josh est fait prisonnier par
Crâne au cours d'une opération de Kenler pour se débarrasser de son rival, et
est libéré par Foudre. Cette dernière est capable d'utiliser les miroirs pour
se déplacer. Jenna se fait inviter à dîner chez Melvik où elle est attaquée
par Crâne et sauvée par Foudre. Plus tard, lorsque Marnie surveille
l'appartement de Melvik, elle le voit s'échanger avec Crâne grâce à un miroir
et se battre contre Foudre. Crâne est démasqué et arrêté, mais Foudre
s'échappe.
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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
Categories: [ Books/The Gap Cycle ]
![ISBN: 9781473225527](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn1473225523.thumbnail.jpg)
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Morn
has been rescued by Nick's pirate. The ship's computer expert is killed
by Nick for having attempted to rape her just after having boasted that he
planted a virus in the ship's computer. Morn, needing to be useful to the ship
to avoid being killed, claims she can flush the virus. To bear being raped by
Nick, she accidentally sets her zone implant so that she takes pleasure in it,
slowly making Nick fall in love with her. Thanks to the device, she also works
continuously for days and successfully gets rid of the virus. She also
discovers being pregnant (from Angus) but leads Nick to believe he is the
father. As a spaceship is no place to rise a child, Nick decides to go to the
Amnion outpost and trade some of his blood for getting the baby extracted and
artificially grown close to adulthood. As the Amnions cannot create a new
mind, the boy, Davies, receives Morn's memories. The Amnions are specialists
in genetics and want to mutate humans to turn them into Amnions; until now the
process is imperfect and most humans are frightened of them, but as Nick seems
to be an agent of UMCP (the mining corporation's all-powerful police) he has
access to an anti-mutagenic drug that UMCP has kept a secret. The Amnions
notice that Nick has cheated when donating his blood and demand Davies in
reparation. As Nick seems willing to agree to that deal, Morn rigs a
self-destruct of the ship and threatens to blow up the Amnion's outpost if
they don't leave with Davies. The pirate ship manages to leave to a human
outpost but an Amnion cruiser blocks their way. Nick has locked Morn in her
cabin and has humiliated her as a revenge for manipulating him in multiple
ways. He agrees to transfer Davies to the Amnion ship in an escape pod, but
Morn manages to escape and change the pod's programming and send it to the
human outpost. Nick also sends a secret message to UMCP, who then sends Angus
Thermopyle, turned into a cyborg against his will, to capture her.
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Monday, June 24th, 2024
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/DC ]
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_Prey_(2020_film)](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/Birds_of_Prey.thumbnail.jpg)
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Four years after defeating Enchantress,
Joker breaks up with Harley Quinn. Without his protection, all the people she
has wronged in the past want to kill her. At a night club owned by crime lord
Roman Sionis, Harley meets Dinah, a singer who becomes Sionis' driver, the
latter being impressed by her fighting skills when preventing a drunk Harley
from being kidnapped. Sionis is also investigated by Gotham City PD Detective
Renee Montoya, who also investigates a series of mob killing carried out by a
crossbow-wielding vigilante. Sionis sends his sadistic henchman Szasz and
Dinah to retrieve a diamond containing the account numbers to the fortune of
the Bertinelli crime family, who were massacred years ago, but Cassandra Cain,
a child pickpocket steals the diamond and swallows it as she is soon after
arrested by the police. Harley is captured by Sionis' men and convinces him to
release her under the promise she can retrieve the diamond from Cassandra.
Harley breaks into GCPD, frees Cass and takes her to her apartment, but they
have to flee when attacked by criminals, Sionis having also placed a bounty
on Cass' head. Harley agrees to meet with Sionis in an abandoned amusment park
to exchange Cass for his protection. Dinah, who had agreed to become an
informant for Montoya, tells her about the meeting, but Szasz notices it and
tells Sionis, who assembles an army of thugs to attack the meeting place. At
the amusement park, Harley and Cass are joined by Montoya and soon by Szasz
who forced Dinah to come with him. Szasz is killed by the crossbow killer who
appears suddenly and who reveals herself as Helena, the sole survivor of the
Bertinelli family and who wants to avenge their deaths. Together they fight
Sionis' thugs, but Cass is captured and chased by Dinah and Harley. Sionis is
finally killed by Cass. In the end, Montoya (who has left the police), Dinah
and Helena form the Birds of Prey team of vigilantes thanks to the Bertinelli
fortune, while Cass and Harley sell the diamond and go their own way.
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Sunday, June 23rd, 2024
Categories: [ Beer/North Brewing ]
“USA and Australia hops… honeydew melon, green grape and pink grapefruit
flavour… citrus finish”
Just another ale. Contains barley, wheat and oats.
North Brewing Co, Leeds, England. 8.5% alcohol.
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Thursday, June 20th, 2024
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Alien ]
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(film)](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/Aliens.thumbnail.jpg)
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After having drifted in space for 57 years,
Ripley is
rescued. Her employer accuses her of destroying the Nostromo and does not
believe her story about the alien, since the planet is now being colonized and
terraformed and no alien ship has been found. When contact is lost with the
colony, she is asked to accompany Burke, a representative of the company,
and group of colonial marines to investigate. They find the colony destroyed,
two alive face-huggers in vats in a laboratory and one little girl called
Newt. They locate the other colonists under the fusion-powered atmospheric
processor, cocooned in a sort of nest with many eggs, where some of them are
still alive and waiting to be taken by face-huggers. They are attacked by
several adult aliens when trying to kill a juvenile that just hatched, and
some of the marines get killed. They decide to evacuate with the dropship that
took them to the surface, but an alien who had climbed aboard causes it to
crash; in doing so it damages the fusion reactor which will explode and
destroy the colony after a few hours. The survivors barricade themselves in
the colony and wait until Bishop, an artificial man and technician with the
marines, is able to got outside, reach and hack the colony's transmitter to
remotely pilot the second dropship from the spaceship waiting in orbit. Ripley
discovers that Burke asked the colony to investigate the alien ship on in the
hope to profit from turning the aliens into a biological weapon. Before she
can expose him, he attempts to get her and Newt impregnated by the two
face-huggers from the lab, that would allow him to smuggle the alien back to
Earth. Having failed, Burke flees and is taken by the aliens that attack and
kill most of the remaining marines. Ripley, corporal Hicks and Newt try to
reach the dropship that is on its way, but Newt is taken by the aliens and
Hicks is severely wounded. Ripley arms herself and enters the nest under the
fusion reactor where she angers the alien queen laying eggs. She manages to
save Newt and escape as the reactor explodes, destroying the aliens' nest, but
the queen stows away on the dropship. Ripley manages to push her into an
airlock by using an exosuit cargo loader. Then they all go into stasis for
their return trip to Earth.
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Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Marwen](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/Welcome_to_Marwen.thumbnail.jpg)
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Five years earlier, Mark Hogancamp was beaten up and left for dead by a group
of white supremacist because he admitted, while drunk, to sometimes enjoying
wearing women's shoes. He has physically recovered but has lost all memory of
his life before the attack. Formerly an illustrator specialized in World War
2, he cannot draw anymore and has turned to photography. Mark has constructed
a model village named Marwen, set in Belgium during the war and built up a
story about an American pilot, Hogie, who is rescued and later protected by
the women of the village. Characters are represented by fashion dolls and each
of the women of the village is imagined after a real woman whom Mark has met.
The village is regularly attacked by Nazi soldiers who, despite being killed
by the villagers come back to life thanks to Dejah Thoris, the village's
witch. Mark photographs his fantasies to help him cope with memory loss and
post-traumatic stress disorder. After a lot of hesitation, Mark agrees to
appear in court to deliver a victim impact statement but upon seeing his
attackers he imagines the court room is attacked by Nazi soldiers and he flees
in terror; the judge postpones the hearing. When Nicol moves in the house next
door and is nice to him, Mark adds a new doll named after her to the village.
Hogie falls in love with doll Nicol and they get married. In real life
however, Nicol turns his proposal down. In Mark's fantasies, doll Nicol is
killed by a Nazi which is in turn killed by Hogie. Dejah Thoris revives the
Nazi and demands that Hogie comes with her to the far future in the time
machine Mark built for her, but during a struggle Hogie discovers that the
witch is actually a Nazi spy and Mark learns that she is the personification
of his addiction to pills that he thinks are helping him. He throws the pills
away, attends the court hearing and delivers his statement. He also agrees to
attend the exhibition of his work and makes a date with his friend Roberta,
who is a sales clerk at the hobby store where he gets his supplies.
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Monday, June 17th, 2024
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![ISBN: 9781473225527](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn1473225523.thumbnail.jpg)
© Amazon.fr
Angus Thermopyle is an evil an unsuccessful space pirate. When he enters a bar
on a mining space station accompanied with a beautiful young woman, Morn
Hyland, the patrons wonder how that happened. Another, better looking pirate,
Nick Succorso, confronts Angus and somehow rescues Morn. It sounds like a
classical drama of captor, victim and rescuer. The real story however is that
Angus was chased by a United Mining Company Police vessel aboard which Morn
was serving. Suffering from undiagnosed gap-sickness, she lost control and
provoked the vessel to self-destruct. Angus rescued her, installed a zone
implant in her brain (for which he could be executed if caught) to control her
actions and prevent her from destroy his beloved ship, and used the implant to
torture Morn into submission to him. He however unexpectedly grew emotionally
attached to her. When Nick leaves suddenly the station to raid a ship in
distress just before it is locked down, Angus, who has been monitoring his
communications, follows him. Th ship however does not exist, it is all a trap
set by Nick with the complicity of someone in station security. Nick cripples
Angus' ship, and flies slowly back to the station. There Nick makes secretely
contact with Morn who helps him frame Angus for stealing stations supplies.
She negotiates the zone implant's remote control from Angus in exchange for
her silence about the illegal installation of the device. Morn leaves
in Nick's ship and Angus is arrested but his life is spared, making Morn his
rescuer.
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July 3rd, 2024 at 15:59
Categories: [ Beer/Thornbridge ]
“stone fruit and citrus… papaya and pineapples”
Just another ale. Contains malted barley and wheat.
Thornbridge brewery, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England. 5.9% alcohol.
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Saturday, June 15th, 2024
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Alien ]
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/Alien.thumbnail.jpg)
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The crew of the Nostromo ore transporter wakes up, believing they are arriving
close to the solar system. Instead, they were woken up to respond to a
distress signal from a nearby planet. A team crash-lands near a large alien
spaceship. As part of the team repairs the shuttle, others go out and discover
the long-dead body of a creature with a hole in its torso. Analyzing the
signal, Ripley concludes it's a warning to stay away, not a distress signal.
One member, Kane, discovers a chamber containing hundreds of eggs and as one
of them opens, a spider-like creature jumps out and attaches to his face,
through his helmet. When the shuttle flies back to Nostromo, Ripley insists
Kane's body remains in quarantine, but science officer Ash decides to let him in
the infirmary, where he tries to remove the creature from Kane's face by
cutting one of its legs. The creature's blood is very corrosive and manages to
drip through several floors. The creature eventually detaches itself and Kane
regains conciousness, but a few hours later he dies as another creature jumps
out of his chest. The crew starts hunting the creature, but, having quickly
become full-grown, it kills first Brett, and then Captain Dallas who was
following it in an air duct. Having to assume command, Ripley learns from
Mother, the board computer, that Ash has secretly been ordered by the Company
to bring alien creatures back to Earth and that the crew is expendable. She
confronts Ash, who tries to kill her, but with the help of Parker they manage
to kill him out and discover he's an android. Upon reactivating its head, Ash
indicates the alien cannot be killed. The remaining crew decides to
self-destruct the Nostromo and to escape in the shuttle. Parker and Lambert are
ambushed and killed by the creature, so Ripley initiates self-destruct, and
despite the alien initially blocking her way to the shuttle and a failed
attempt to cancel the self-destruct, she manages to escape just in time. As
she prepares for stasis, she notices the alien is hiding in the shuttle; she
puts on a space suit and flushes it out of the airlock. She then prepares for
the trip back to Earth.
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Monday, June 10th, 2024
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby_(2013_film)](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/The_Great_Gatsby.thumbnail.jpg)
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Nick Carraway tells his psychiatrist about his meeting of Jay Gatsby in 1922
in New York. Carraway's cousin, Tom Buchanan is a domineering man whose wife
Daisy introduces her friend Jordan Baker to Carraway. Tom also has a mistress,
Myrtle, wife of a garage owner in a disreputable part of the city, whom Nick
meets at a party. Carraway has bought a house next to Gatsby's mansion and
wonders about the mysterious man. One day, Nick is invited to one of the
extravagant parties held by Gatsby, and is apparently the only person with an
invitation. Gatsby asks Nick to invite his cousin Daisy for tea at his cottage
one day, when Gatsby would just happen to visit his neighbour. Nick learns bit
by bit that Gatsby had met Daisy five years earlier when he was in the army
and had fallen in love with her. But since he was poor, he could not marry her
and she then married Tom and started to throw parties in the hope she would
attend. Gatsby and Daisy begin an affair, but when she ask him to run away
with her he refuses, saying she must divorce Tom. Gatsby pressures Daisy to
tell Tom she is leaving him, and during a dinner at the Buchanan Tom becomes
suspicious of Gatsby and his wife, but Daisy changes the subject, suggesting
they all go into town, at the Plaza Hotel. There Gatsby tells Tom that his
wife never loved him (which is not quite true) and Tom reciprocates exposing
Gatsby as a nobody who made his fortune through bootlegging with mobsters.
Gatsby and Daisy leave and on the way back home they pass by Myrtle's garage
and accidentally kill her but do not stop. Nick eventually deduces that Daisy
was driving that night but Gatsby protects her by letting people believe is is
responsible. He then waits for Daisy's phone call where she would tell him she
has finally left Tom, but he is instead killed by Myrtle's husband. Nobody
attends Gatsby's funeral except Nick, as now that his past is know and he is
still thought to be Myrtle's killer, he has become an outcast from the society
of the wealthy. In the end, Nick reflects on Gatsby's ability to hope.
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Sunday, June 9th, 2024
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“toffee, caramel, biscuits and toasted nuts… tangerine marmelade and
citrus… grapefruit zest bitterness”
Just another ale. Contains malted barley and malted wheat.
Marble Beers Ltd, Manchester, England. 5.5% alcohol.
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Friday, June 7th, 2024
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books/James Bond ]
![ISBN: 9782221049242](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn2221049241.thumbnail.jpg)
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Des pièces d'or anciennes entrent en contrebande aux États-Unis et financent
l'organisation de Mr. Big. Ce dernier, à la tête d'un réseau criminel, est un
agent de l'URSS, originaire de Haïti et possède une grande influence sur la
communauté noire américaine qui le considère comme le Baron Samedi du Vaudou.
Le yacht de Big va régulièrement de la Floride à la Jamaïque pour y chercher
des poissons exotiques et des coquillages, vendus par un grossiste local.
Comme l'or semble provenir de la Jamaïque, Bond est envoyé à New York pour
enquêter avec Felix Leiter, agent de la CIA. Dans une boite de nuit de Harlem,
Bond est enlevé et interrogé par Big qui fait appel à une jeune femme,
Solitaire, capable de détecter le mensonge. Bond s'échappe et part ensuite
en train en compagnie de Solitaire qui veut échapper à Big. Ils échappent de
peu à un attentat et arrivent en Floride mais sont rapidement repérés par un
agent de Big. Solitaire est enlevée par Big, tandis que Leiter, allé enquêter
seul chez le grossiste, finit à l'hôpital, mutilé. Bond y enquête à son tour,
découvre que l'or est caché dans le sable au fond des aquariums de poissons
venimeux. Il est attaqué par le propriétaire du magasin qui finit à travers
une trappe dans le bassin à requins dont Leiter a été victime. Bond part alors
pour la Jamaïque et se prépare pour une expédition sur l'île, privée, où
mouille le yacht de Big. Il parvient à l'île en scaphandre autonome et place
une mine sur la coque du navire, mais est ensuite repéré et arrêté, tenant
compagnie à Solitaire. Les hommes de Big sont en train de vider la caverne
contenant le trésor du pirate Henry Morgan. Leur départ est prévu le lendemain
matin, juste au moment où la mine doit exploser et Big prévoit de tuer Bond et
Solitaire en les trainant derrière le yacht à travers le récif de corail pour
attirer les requins et barracudas qui les achèveront. La mine explose
heureusement juste à temps et Bond et Solitaire sont sauvés par Quarrel.
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Saturday, June 1st, 2024
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books/James Bond ]
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Le Chiffre est un agent de SMERSH en France. Il a perdu de l'argent de ses
commanditaires dans de mauvais investissements et tente de gagner de l'argent
en jouant au casino de Royal-les-Eaux. James Bond, sous la couverture d'un
riche fils de planteur de la Jamaïque, est chargé de lui faire perdre son
argent au Baccara afin de le discréditer auprès de ses supérieurs. L'opération
est un succès, mais sa collègue Vesper Lynd avec qui il dinait est enlevé par
Le Chiffre. Bond les poursuit en voiture mais est enlevé à son tour quand sa
voiture est forcée à sorti de la route. Le Chiffre torture Bond pour lui faire
révéler l'endroit où il a caché le chèque que lui a remis le casino. Il doit
son salut à un assassin de SMERSH qui exécute Le Chiffre mais qui n'a pas
d'instructions à son sujet. Bond se réveille à l'hôpital quelques jours plus
tard et songe sérieusement à changer de carrière. Il passe sa convalescence
avec Vesper, mais leur relation se détériore au bout de quelque jours, cette
dernière devenant mélancolique et distante; elle est effrayée et voit des
ennemis partout. Bond décide de la demande en mariage, mais il la retrouve
morte le lendemain. Dans un lettre expliquant son suicide, elle révèle être
une agente double. En colère de s'être fait manipuler, Bond décide de
poursuivre sa carrière d'agent secret.
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The civilization of Canopus colonizes the planet Shikasta and expects to keep
it under its positive influence, but a cosmic event reduces that influence to
almost nothing. Johor, emissary of Shikasta reports that the Giants, installed
there to guide the evolution of the Natives disappear slowly under the
ambiguous influence of agents of Sirius and under the negative influence of
the emissaries of Shammat, the moral opposite of Canopus. The Natives
themselves are less and less benevolents towards each other. Johor reports the
typically miserable lives of a few individuals between World Wars 1 and 2, and
History books cite the diary of a young woman telling the story of her brother
George in the time leading to World War 3. Very charismatic, George organizes
Youth groups that turn into Youth Armies in various parts of the world, who
take care of providing refuge to children orphaned by the various conflicts
that erupt everywhere. Reports by Chinese agrens indicate that at some point
George is chosen to represent non-white people in a mock trial of the white
people regrding the colonization of Africa and the Americas. This event seems
to mark the beginning of the third World War.
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Sunday, May 26th, 2024
Categories: [ Beer ]
Strong fruit flavour, probably guava. Contains malted barley and wheat.
Northern Monk Brew Co., Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. 4.0% alcohol.
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Friday, May 24th, 2024
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/DC ]
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As a child, Diana
participates in a competition that she almost win by cheating, only to be
stopped before the finish line by Antiope, who explains that anything
worthwhile must be obtained honestly. In 1984, Diana works as the Smithonian
Institution and befriends Barbara Minerva, a shy geologist and cryptozoologist
with whom she tries to identify stolen antiquities by request of the FBI. They
notice a Latin inscription on a large yellow crystal, claiming it can grant
one wish. Barbara wishes she would be more like Diana and soon gets more
self-confident, noticed by other people and develops super powers. Diana,
yearning for Steve Trevor, discovers that her dead lover has resurrected in
the body of random man; he seeks her and they are reunited. In the meanwhile,
failed businessman Max Lord steals the crystal and wishes to become it. He
thus can grant anyone else's wish and take something from them in return. This
soon results in worldwide chaos, destruction, and instability. Diana and
Barbara discover that the crystal was created by the God of Lies and grants
exactly what is asked, but in a way that is always detrimental to the wisher,
and has caused the downfall of many civilisations throughout History; the only
alternative would be that all wishers renounce their wishes, but neither
Barbara nor Diana are willing to do so. Max then visits the US President who
wishes to have many more nuclear missiles than the USSR; in exchange Max gets
access to a US satellite system that allows to broadcast to anyone in the
world. Max thus plans to steal the wisher's life force to compensate for his
body's decay due to granting wishes. Diana tries to stop Max, but Barbara
sides with him and they escape together. Steve then convinces Diana to
renounce her wish, which restores her full strength. She then flies to the
island from which the broadcast system is controlled and again battles
Barbara, who is turning into a humanoid cheetah. Having won, Diana confronts
Max and uses her Lasso of Truth to communicate with the world through him,
persuading everyone to renounce their wishes. Seeing a vision of his son
searching desperately for his father, Max realizes his error, renounces his
wish, cancelling most of the changes that occurred due to people's wishes.
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
Categories: [ Beer/Marble ]
Indeed roasty. Contains malted barley, malted wheat and malted oats.
Marble Beers Ltd, Manchester, England. 5.7% alcohol.
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Saturday, May 11th, 2024
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Categories: [ Beer ]
“hedelmiä, vaniljaa… tammea, karamellia… Bourbon-tynnyreissä”
Makea, väkevä, vähän savua, hedelmäinen. Sisältää ohramallasta.
Teerenpeli panimo, Lahti, Finland. 10 % alkoholia.
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Masklin (along with Angalo and Gurder) are searching for Grandson Richard, as the Thing has told him that it could call their spaceship if it could get aboard the communications satellite Richard is going to launch. The nomes first ...