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Finished up the Madam Secretary series a week or so ago. So the family pivoted to Anne with an E. It's the Anne of Green Gables series told slightly differently per my youngest.

I finished up Queen's Gambit. Not bad if you like chess and a kinda 1960s period-ish piece.

Also, catching America's Cup highlights on YouTube. Damn those boats are fast for their size. I think Luna Rosa is gonna win mostly because of the start is so important and they are getting the better draw in the sequence of starts. However, they are so closely matched that one mistake could change that.
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Watching Quatermass and the Pit. They finally released it on dvd a year or so ago, apparently. For my money, it’s the best sci fi-horror movie of all time (even better than Alien) and arguably one of the best sci fi movies of all time.

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Welleran wrote:
Sun Mar 14, 2021 6:50 pm
Watching Quatermass and the Pit. They finally released it on dvd a year or so ago, apparently. For my money, it’s the best sci fi-horror movie of all time (even better than Alien) and arguably one of the best sci fi movies of all time.
Yeah I saw that one not too long ago on TCM. I remember seeing that one as a kid on TV a couple of times. The mantis looking alien dudes. I love some of those old Sci Fi movies.

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Last night we watched Red Sonja and Demon Knight.
probably gonna drop netflix for Starz on Prime, it has all the old flicks.
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This guy gets it. Is this somebody we know?

The DUNGEON MASTERS GUIDE City of Brass cover is good and bad at the same time. While its very representational of a high level adventure, it sends a clear message to the dumb: Satan is going to cornhole Miss USA with a big red member and theres nothing science or the military can do about it. - Gene Weigel
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Watched Henry V last night (the Sir Kenneth Branagh version, still have yet to see Laurence Olivier version).
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Still working our way through a lecture series on the Vikings. Not sure what's up next after that.

We might continue our focus on medieval Western Europe or shift focus to the Ottoman Empire. We watched through a series on the Eastern Roman Empire prior to starting the series on the Vikings.

I need to make time to watch some classic noir films and the rest of my Kurosawa collection.
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Flambeaux wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:46 pm
Still working our way through a lecture series on the Vikings. Not sure what's up next after that.

We might continue our focus on medieval Western Europe or shift focus to the Ottoman Empire. We watched through a series on the Eastern Roman Empire prior to starting the series on the Vikings.

I need to make time to watch some classic noir films and the rest of my Kurosawa collection.
What exactly did you watch. I’m always interested in that stuff. I’ve been watching some of the Amazon prime history stuff. battle Castle is fun very D&Dish as well.
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The Great Courses The Vikings and
The Great Courses World of Byzantium

Both feature Kenneth Harl of Tulane University.

We discovered his lectures when studying the ancient Greeks with the kids a few years ago. He's an excellent lecturer with a dry sense of humor.

Decided today that next up is The Great Courses The Medieval World presented by Dorsey Armstrong of Perdue University.

We grab them on sale; The Great Courses almost always have something interesting on sale.
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For Saint Paddy’s Day I'm going with Boondock Saints and a glass (or two) of Paddy’s Irish whisky. (The Quiet Man was runner up).

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Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:23 pm
The Great Courses The Vikings and
The Great Courses World of Byzantium

Both feature Kenneth Harl of Tulane University.

We discovered his lectures when studying the ancient Greeks with the kids a few years ago. He's an excellent lecturer with a dry sense of humor.

Decided today that next up is The Great Courses The Medieval World presented by Dorsey Armstrong of Perdue University.

We grab them on sale; The Great Courses almost always have something interesting on sale.
Oh cool! Haven't watched either of those. Yeah the Great Courses are usually really good. We're watching the Tudors to Stuarts now (Robert Bucholz at Loyola). The one on Cathedrals is really worth getting if your into that sort of thing. I forget the lecturer, but he's excellent.
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AxeMental wrote:
Wed Mar 17, 2021 6:16 pm
Oh cool! Haven't watched either of those. Yeah the Great Courses are usually really good. We're watching the Tudors to Stuarts now (Robert Bucholz at Loyola). The one on Cathedrals is really worth getting if your into that sort of thing. I forget the lecturer, but he's excellent.
Thanks for the recommendations, Axe!
We'll check those out.
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About to start ep4 of WandaVision.

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I am watching March Madness at the moment but my Mean Green are getting crushed by Villanova after knocking Purdue out of the tourney. Soon it will be baseball season again.......

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Going old school. I started watching Kolchak: The Night Stalker. I probably haven’t watched these since the 70s. This was the first thing I watched growing up that really freaked me out (in a good way). So far they hold up pretty well. I never really thought about it but shows like X Files, Supernatural, and other “monster of the week” shows owe a lot to this one.

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