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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    As Henry V says, "I was not angry... / Until this instant"... http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/h-1b-visa-holders-spouses-on-h4-visa-will-not-be-able-to-work-if-trump-administration-has-its-way-366224.html
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    Thanks so much guys. The hilarious thing was that the dean called to offer me the job in the middle of a phone interview for another university (in Illinois). Of course it was. Crusty Old Dean was all, (PS: She's the Dean, but I just call her Bobby)
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    7 1/2 years after defending my thesis, finally getting a chance to get on the tenure track. Holy crap.
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    Holy shit guys I just got a job offer
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    Snap! That's what it was! I hope you know I nag because I care.
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    YOU'RE welcome! You must have fixed them as I was searching too. If it wasn't for the fact that I was putting the kids to bed I would have done it for you an hour ago. Lesson learned, though, I hope. GRAMMAR MATTERS.
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    Me too! I'm playing the self-flagellating albino. Typecasting, but whatevs. We'll pitch 'My Two Dads' as the subtitle.
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    I searched through the threads it would have been in, and let's put it down to a fever dream. I can't find it so it can't exist.
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    Yeah, no one missed a newsletter. Cameron and I are meeting for... other reasons.
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    Time to nip this in the bud. No one has missed a newsletter. This is way more Black Ops/Opus Dei than that.
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    Guess we're finding out who's been recruited to Scheer's taskforce...
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    There's an amazing Swedish bakery around the corner from us that does a licorice cake that I dream about. Loving black licorice means you get more jelly beans than anyone else. Pays to enjoy aniseed...
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    At least now I know what to bring you when I meet you next month!
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    As an Aussie, my love for licorice is in my genes. Can't beat Darrell Lea! We take our licorice SERIOUS, yo. (including baffling flavours)
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    With that kind of analysis, I feel like you could be a prominent poster on an online movie discussion forum or something. Great stuff!
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    Oh, I'm not saying it's a big surprise or anything, and the tribute to the genre is fine. It just lifts it out of the humanity that's more prevalent in the previous two movies, which I found made it a far less satisfying watch. It wasn't so much that it was an alien flick, but it was that it was using the Cornetto Trilogy dynamic to explore it, which jarred for me.
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    For me it was the lazy 'it was aliens' trope that bugged me - in those cases you always want there to be some kind of grounded explanation for the wacky things that have been going on, and to explain it away with BTW Aliens made me feel like it was Kingdom of the Crystal Skull-esque. Also, the exponentially more money they had to spend compared to (especially) SotD meant there was more flash, less substance. I did like the idea that the rise of internet technology over the past two decades were entirely down to an alien race (sort of contradicting myself I know but I liked this element) and once the aliens left we were cast back into the dark ages. More of an exploration of that world would have been welcome in another film...
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    Yes, I remember seeing the trailer for 'World's End' and being really bummed that it wouldn't come out for months, I was so excited about seeing that group of guys on their pub crawl. And there was a stack of amazing things in the film, but the final product just didn't live up to the expectations from the past. And as I've said, Simon Pegg is someone I instinctively want to like, and his character in this is such a selfish twat that I didn't enjoy it the way I did the previous two.
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    Yeah bruh, don't mess with academics.
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    I just remembered a colleague of mine wrote in the lead-up to a conference we were both co-organising a panel at, that one of our panel members had used 'Shakespeare in the Movies' as a prominent source in his paper. My colleague wrote this email just prior to the conference:
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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

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    Musical Mondays Off-Week 6 (Quasar Sniffer's Pick)

    Cakebug Tranch replied to Cameron H.'s topic in How Did This Get Made?

    "What'll you read next, tom?" "Depends what someone throws out their car window. Fingers crossed for some Sookie Stackhouse!"
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