Lion ponderings

 Continuing the horror movie trend, it was Dawn of the dead 2004.  For some reason they're more cozy escapism than other genres.   It's 2004 sauce.  Mcmansions, plasma TV's, mega malls, midwest suburbs, peak generation X, it's all there.  No mcmansions now.  Tiny homes & ADU's are the thing.  Midwest suburbs have now been replaced by digital nomads.  Really contrasty, vibrant emulsion color from that era abounded.  Noted it in Tropic Thunder 2008.  It may be the 1st blue ray transfers were from that era & they were all stylized in that contrasty saturated way to show off the format.              This one came to the lion kingdom in an X post about the car POV.    It was entirely set in a mall.  That was the era of the mall of amerika, the great mall, the big box store.  The internet wouldn't be accessible enough for mass mail order for another 4 years but as soon as ipho...

  After years of progressively worsening chronic itching, the internet said the lion kingdom has either nerve damage from UV or nerve impingement, Brachioradial Pruritus or Notalgia Paresthetica.  More likely BP.  It seems to prefer the left shoulder.        Itching began in 2015 & progressively worsened for 11 years.  It was originally blamed on mane conditioner, pet hair, lice, dust, insect excrement, spider bites, ACNE.  It was 1 of the things you never notice.  It had been below the left shoulder blade since 2016, but finally passed a point of becoming an unending, debilitating stinging on the entire shoulder after July 2026.  Lions would be truly awful to live with, now.   It escalated during a period of higher than normal sun exposure.  The week before 8/9 was when lions noted an uptick in itching.   8/15 was when lions got more burned than usual.  Sleep disruption began after 8/24 as it cont...

   Another run down to document the empty field after the ground breaking for the new theater & the field wasn't empty.  They're just breaking ground & clearing the field simultaneously. Made a potato quality panorama from the phone.  Not sure why the phone did such a lousy job stitching this one.   Upon further inspection, previous panos were equally bad but didn't have as many horizontal lines.  It's absolutely piss poor compared to manually stitching a video but it provides a documentation grade 2k image.  Vibe coding a pano tool might give better results.  There were unsuccessful attempts to do it with Cinelerra's motion tracker.    Cooler weather & a serious hydration effort led to a much improved run down.  It finished at 72F.  Didn't cramp, though took many breaks to test for seizing.  Still finished with orange urine.  Bilateral posterior tibialis problems caused a slowdown.  It ended up ...

 Besides senioritis, other trends from college have returned after 50.  Lions noted working part time instead of borrowing was what the over achievers did in college & the path to success.  Working part time after retirement is now being seen as a similar path to success, as if our college phase was starting over again.   The abundance of gootubers worth many millions yet continuing to work after retirement was the 1st big sign that the part time working, college over achievers were coming back for retirement.  Instead of uploading copyrighted music & producing value, they choose to jump all the hoops for monetization, produce rehashed click bait, comply with AI art requirements.  It definitely feels like the desire for a higher standard of living is going to create the same hierarchy of over achievers & slackers in retirement as college.  Working in retirement is going to be a new rite of passage.  At the same time, in the l...

 From the opening AI generated spaceship animations & random AI generated scene morphs, supergirl was a steaming pile of dog turd & lions were lured once again into yet another a marvel movie.  1984 supergirl was so bad, it didn't stay on the hard drive.  The franchise was cursed from the beginning.  IMDB gave them 4.4 & 5.9.   Apparently, according to IMDB, some losers still watch these movies in a theater.  Unlike when lions were 20 & going to theaters because they didn't have any screen, the modern cohort goes to theaters just for the sake of going to theaters.  The comic book adaptations are now based on a medium which has been gone for generations.  The current audience only knows of comic books from archaeology.      Played the 1st 1h36 entirely at 1x because it was quite dense.  Then it hit the brakes & it went to 2x.  After all the panic about saving the doge, they took their sweet old...