LJ Idol Presents:

 I've just been working with the FAA to roll out a fantastic new Ai program to keep the flies free of those annoying air traffic controllers, always telling people what to do!!  gizmodo.com/the-faa-is-rolling-out-its-ai-air-traffic-tool-nationwide-2000839347

Now that it's in place, things are going to be good. You'll see!! 

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What is happening with you this weekend? 

(Just realized I didn't actually post this earlier today/!) 

 Happy Veterans Day. Sorry newbies!  ;) 

In the words of the late great Rob Schneider, why don't YOU get a month too? Or at least a day?  It's really not fair!!!


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Anyone else have today off?  I say that, but I brought my laptop with me because I'm completely underwater right now, and someone is holding my head under!!  I'm sure you know the feeling!

I'm glad that once things calm down a bit though that I will have a lot of cool things to read! therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1243900.html

 How did you spend your Vacation from Gary? 

A double prompt week!! 

How are you going to navigate this? 

Let's find out together shall we? 

As always, we start with the coin flip:   heads = new prompt tails = classic prompt 

Tails. So a classic prompt. Let's find out what the Wheel has in store!!  *spins the wheel*

Season 9.  But which prompt?   *spins the Wheel* 

Oh. Nice.  (refer to the Prompt post for what it is!)   *spns again* The Wheel selects... IT"S OWN DEBUT season! Wheel of Chaos!

Hahahahahahaha... it's a DOUBLE PROMPT week!!  I won't do that to you. It's flip the coin again.. that's better. 

One of them is a popular cultural reference and the other a non-English phrase.   https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1243900.html

Where is your mental starting point for these, and how does it differ from an one-prompt week?  For that matter, how does it differ from one prompt idea to a different one? 

 This was a really great week for entries, and it came close to being a decent sized tie.  Ultimately though, one person ended up two votes shy of that happening. 

Before we get to the elimination, we have our very first immunity of the season to give out. This week the Jiury selected to give immunity to scribblesinblue .  Congratulations!/  You didn't end up being in danger, but if you had, this would have been really helpful!

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Which means that we are saying goodbye to purplepetrichor in the competition and Hello to them as a member of the Jury who will be helping to shape how the rest of this season is going to go! 

Jude is an old friend from Seasons 6-8 and I was really happy to see their return!  It was great reading your entries again! Looking forward to interacting with you as part of the Jury!

I know you miss them, so I've arranged to have you receive text messages every 5 minutes asking for donations!

It's for MY campaign to be Supreme Galactic Ruler! Don't Andromeda our Milky Way!!!


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There is a poll: therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1242710.html    Make sure you are reading, commenting and voting for your favorites!   

I know there were a lot of bye outs this week, but it occurred to me this morning that most of them had something in common. They were last minute signups who weren't SURE they could play but wanted everyone to be eligible for 3 byes.   In a way, them leaving is a good thing, because they sacrificed so you could have an extra bye!  :)

I've placed them behind a giant rock. Maybe they can come back around Easter!!!

 I hope everyone knows the stakes in this election and why it's SO important - we need to work together to STOP OHIO FROM BECOMING A STATE!!!   :) 

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More importantly though, we need to work together to properly shame anyone who hasn't turned in their Idol entry yet!! therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1240620.html

The deadline is tonight at 7pm ET. 

Who do you want to shame????? Or maybe not WANT to, but because of their own actions, or lack of, who are you forced to shame???


This is going to be the first of the bye-outs. If it's anything like every other season, this will be the people who signed up with good intentions and then wandered off before doing anything. Next week will be the ones who showed up once and then wandered off... :) 

We will have a couple of those rounds until it becomes far less common as people fight as they hold on by their fingertips!

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Last night's Screen Unseen was I Play Rocky. The biopic of Stallone and how Rocky came about. I *completely forgot* that he wrote it! (until I started seeing the trailers) 

It's definitely a testament to sticking to what you believe in and betting on yourself. He wasn't getting the acting jobs he wanted, so he wrote a script himself! (and how he fought for that to happen) 

How are you betting on yourself??? 

 

 Good Morning Good People of Idol.  (murille and Julia Idol) 

Good Morning People Of Highly Questionable Moral Standing (everyone else) 

There's still a few more days to get your entries in, and they are coming in slowly, so if you just want to read ahead, there's a good opportunity right now to catch up!  therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1240620.html

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What are your plans for the weekend? MIne? Going to the movies of course. Attending Celena's hockey game, maybe games! (she has two a weekend, sometimes I can't get to the one further away. Much like I've never seen her Wednesday night games in the third league she plays in. No one outside her boyfriend, who plays on the team, has seen them!) 

Last night to went to see Clownvis Presley perform. It's just what it sounds like.  A clown. Dressed like Elvis. He was great. www.youtube.com/watch


Movies I'm excited about this weekend include: 

Wildwood (I saw the first half hour or so and had to leave. I didn't HAVE to I guess. But I had one of those anxiety attacks and I just needed to get out of wherever I was and the place I was at was watching Wildwood. So I need to go finish it!!! It was REALLY GOOD but I've heard it gets GREAT)

Wicker 
Fjord 
Wild at Heart re-release
Whalefall
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (re-release)

Movies that haven't been getting good reviews, but I want to see anyway: 

The Mongoose  (Liam Neesen has a particular set of acting skills, and this movie seems like it could be fun) 
Klara and the Sun
The Mosquito Bowl

Movie that sounds really good, but I've only seen one review on, because it's Vietnamese:  Karaoke Murder.  See also Everest: The Other Side minus the being a movie from Vietnam. 

Movies currently out that I've seen that I would recommend if you happen to be looking for a movie to go see and for whatever reason wanted my advice, but didn't actually ask for it: 

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York 
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
You Can See Everything 
Sense and Sensibility (if it's your kind of thing, it's my kind of thing so I loved it.) 
Breeder
A Talent for Murder (that's more a "maybe" on the list. But it was decent) 

The first two in that category I would be shocked to not see get nominations for Best Actor. You Can See Everything is probably going to be the first documentary to win Best Picture. (Unless there's something coming out in the next couple months that knocks it out of contention) 

Those last 3 are "that are enjoyable" but won't be nominated for anything.  :) 

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What are YOU doing this weekend? 

 Last night we said goodbye to those who fell in Week 3 

and their special power to change the game was revealed! therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1240378.html

Make sure to take the time to say a proper goodbye to them, even if their presence is going to be felt in the game for some time to come! 

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There was also the new prompt therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1240620.html
and Work Room: 

So, make sure you are checking those out as well! therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1241030.html

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I've been coming into work extra early to (1) make up time and (2) because I didn't sleep much last night and (3) to keep my coworker from "being bored" and doing part of my job.   It's just running a report, but it becomes accessible sometime after 6am (it varies) so I've been here at 5:45am to be in place.  I had the tab open so when it showed, I could immediately do it.  It was 6:15 and the files started appearing... and just as quickly, they were vanishing.  A minute later, that coworker sent out the notification that everything was completed and then?  Then she logged off again. 

I'm probably more irritate than I would normally be because of the whole "lack of sleep" thing. But it's *really* annoying... especially since whenever she does stuff like this, it is defended as "she's trying to help. She just needs to work on her delivery"... No. She needs to help where it's needed and requested! 

What is irritating YOU this week? 

 It's finally Week 4, so it's time to bring back out the Wheel of Chaos to see what it has in store for us!!

As always, we start with the coin flip:   heads = new prompt tails = classic prompt 

*flips* 

It's Heads.  The Wheel will be choosing from the New Prompts.  

Coin flip again:  Heads: The file on my phone Tails: the file on my laptop. 

Heads.  

*opens up the phone document* 

*spins the Wheel of Chaos*  

This week's prompt is 

Sin-eater 

The deadline to link your entry back to this thread is Tuesday, November 3rd at 7pm ET. 

Have fun!

 Today is the final day to get your votes in! therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1239796.html

I don't have access to my spreadsheet where I'm recording everything from work, so I won't be officially letting you know that it's been received and recorded until I get back.  I also haven't started counting, so that might take a little longer than normal for the results. And yes, I acknowledge I made more work for myself.  :)  Never let it be said that I don't make my life more difficult than it needs to be!  :) 

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Because I've been away for several days, last night I rested and recuperated... oh wait, sorry, I misspelled "Went to the movies". 

There was that rare double feature combination of a "Screen Unseen" AND a "Scream Unseen" (which are always horror.  Given how many people DON'T like horror, it's smart that they keep those as separate names and categories). 

Screen was Christmas AT the Kringles. Which was actually a comedy/horror. If you really like those "that's just crazy bloody Christmas movies", it might be worth streaming at some point.  (EDIT TO CORRECT THE NAME)

Scream was Breeder. Which is only having a brief run in the theaters (starting tonight, which is rare/really weird to start a movie this early in the week). before moving to the Shudder streaming service.  That was actually pretty good. 

I saw Wildwood mentioned in a comment this weekend and I'm really looking forward to seeing it sometime this week. I've been hearing *great* things about it.  I have NOT been hearing great things about Klara and the Sun but still want to see it! 

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What entries have YOU been hearing good things about. or do you want to share good things about, to make sure people check them out? 

Is there anything else non-Idol related (you know that absolute nonsense "out there" in "the world") that is worth checking out?