#groundhog day
It’s “Build Back Better” Day again!
Halloween’s origin is ancient and astronomical. Since the fifth century BC, Halloween has actually been celebrated as a cross-quarter day, a day halfway between an equinox (equal day / equal night) and a solstice (minimum day / maximum night in the northern hemisphere). With a modern calendar however, even though Halloween occurs next week, the real cross-quarter day will occur the week after. Another cross-quarter day is Groundhog Day!
Halloween’s modern celebration retains historic roots in dressing to scare away the spirits of the dead. Perhaps a fitting tribute is this view of the Ghost Head Nebula (NGC 2080) taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Similar to the icon of a fictional ghost, it is actually a star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy. The nebula spans about 50 light-years and is shown in representative colors.
Image Credit: Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri (Observatoire de Paris) et al., ESA, NASA
THE DO-OVER
by Lynn Painter
Simon & Schuster BFYR | Nov 15 | 9781534478862
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After living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine’s Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother’s house for some comfort and a consolation pint of Ben & Jerry’s. She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she’s back home in her own bed—and it’s Valentine’s Day all over again. And the next day? Anothernightmare V-Day.
Emilie is stuck in some sort of time loop nightmare that she can’t wake up from as she re-watches her boyfriend, Josh, cheat on her day after day. In addition to Josh’s recurring infidelity, Emilie can’t get away from the enigmatic Nick, who she keeps running into—sometimes literally—in unfortunate ways.
How many days can one girl passively watch her life go up in flames? And when something good starts to come out of these terrible days, what happens when the universe stops doling out do-overs?
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Concept: inverted metroidvania where the environments are full of things that move you around in various complicated ways, like every screen is a Rube Goldberg machine of cannons and jump pads and teleporters and things that grab you and swing you around like a reverse grappling hook and such, and all of your “mobility” upgrades are things that let you selectively interrupt specific types of movement in specific ways in order to fuck with where you ultimately end up.
I know this isn’t quite related… but if this took place along the axis of time as well as 3d space, you’d basically just have Groundhog Day.
It’s Groundhog Day
I woke up today and saw my shadow. I guess that means six more weeks of cardio!
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It’s Taxidermy Thursday: Groundhog Day Edition! We can see his shadow, but I don’t think this guy’s seeing anything. From Birds and all nature, 1898-99.
It’s Groundhog Day! Again! Perfect day for a repeat post.
Well, whaddaya know? It’s Groundhog Day! Again!
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Midnight: Yamada, what are you DOING??? Stop shining that flashlight on Aizawa’s sleeping bag!!!
Mic: I’m tryin’ ta’ wake him up!!!
Midnight:WHY???
Mic: It’s Groundhog Day & we don’t have a groundhog!!!
Mic: Shota can be a stand-in! He’s grumpy enou—
Midnight: OH HE’S AWAKE—-annnnd he rolled over!!!
Mic: DANG IT!!! 6 MORE WEEKS OF WINTER!!!
Happy Groundhog Day! Groundhog-zawa has spoken!
Sam in season 3x11 is so hot for no reason
- Bernie or Hillary?
- The return of the Valentine’s Day cards
- Groundhog Day
- Chinese New Year
- Squidward dabbing meme
- Beyonce’s Formation music video
- Superbowl
- Betty White dabs
Who is that?⁽ᵂʰᵒ ᶦˢ ᵗʰᵃᵗ⁾
Emergingfrom his burrow!
Who can see today what we won’t see until
t o m o r r o w ?
sʜᴀᴍᴀɴ of the sʜᴀᴅᴏᴡs
ⓈⓅⓇⒾⓃⒼⒺⓇ of the ⓈⓅⓇⒾⓃⒼ!
C ’ M O N
Is it a SQUIRREL? Is it a BEAVER?ｋｉｎｄａ ｂｏｔｈ
ＢＵＴ ＮＯＴ ＱＵＩＴＥ ＥＩＴＨＥＲ
blorbos from my shows
Deep in the Pennsylvania forest, an unsuspecting Punxsutawney Phil looks for his shadow.
I don’t review often but in a season so packed with really, truly original musicals (I’m counting this, based on a non-musical film amongst their number), how could I not? There be spoilers here.
Groundhog Day starts strong and peters out a bit but Andy Karl is every bit as dazzling as you’ve heard. The opening number is really classic, and right away introduces us to the wonderful cinematic way the show and that turntable will work. In general, the driving score is strong with a modern feel that doesn’t sound like anything else on Broadway at the moment. Minchin chooses unusual moments to musicalise and some seem out of left field but they all fit together in the kooky puzzle of a plot that flies forward in time in leaps and starts and lurches (for obvious reasons) and the whole thing is suitably chaotic. The orchestrations are lush although they are sometimes lost in moments of muddy sound design that left me struggling to make out lyrics whenever there was more than one person singing.
I welcome the return of Tim Minchin with his biting lyrics to Broadway. Not constrained with the label of ‘family show’ this time around, he really lets fly, and the lyrics and an equally nasty, hilarious book by Danny Rubin got me laughing except for a recurring fat joke that got even less funny as the 'days’ wore on.
Andy Karl runs the show more than ably with the energy of a precocious, bratty child and make no doubt, this is a star turn. In the film Bill Murray gives us an obviously odious city slicker, Andy Karl’s winning good looks and ability to switch the charm on and off give us a Phil Connors who is difficult to suss out. Barrett Doss’ Rita is slow to be introduced but she quickly becomes the charming heart of this manic show. Their chemistry together is sweet as pie and the choice to make the ending a quiet moment between them is perfection. Some of the side characters (looking at you, Larry!) don’t get enough to do but I appreciate the difficulty in spreading a plot like this out.
Some of the staging got rounds of applause from the audience but it runs out of steam after the car chase scene, and the choreography never really takes off in a way that would really make use of the repetitive themes of the show.
In a crowded season, Groundhog Day is a solid show that would be leading the pack in many a season but is maybe a bit too good and a bit too safe for this one. I will say this though: the show has a nice diverse cast for a show that is ostensibly about a basic white guy visiting a small Pennsylvania town. Other shows this season especially should take note (listen up, Bandstand!), this is the minimum we’re expecting now.
