On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend: How MarvlComics got started. We say farewell to Stan Lee. Some midterm cleanup. The Detective Pikachu trailer looks far better than it should. Plus a bit of Black Friday deals.
11/16/2018 – EXCELSIOR
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- F: Finishing things.
- P: Preparing to get back into a streaming mode one way or another, writing.
- B: Spyro, writing, canadian geese are the DEVIL.
- C: Jeopardy, Parks & Rec, Spyro, Hitman 2, Tetris Effect
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Couple named son after Hitler, guilty of being in neo-Nazi group
- Hero of the Week: Garbage collector saves 93-year old woman from Camp Fire
- 2018 Midterms Cleanup:
- Harry Rouda unseats House Rep Dana Rohrbacher in OC
- Jeff Flake’s Senate seat flips to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema
- Mississippi Senate race goes to runoff as Rep. says she’d attend public hanging
- Florida Senate race goes to manual recount, Broward missed deadline by 2 min
- Republicans no longer have a House seat in New England; Collins only Senator
- Stacey Abrams admits defeat, but doesn’t concede, citing voter suppression
- Love campaign sues SL Co to end ballot count, seemingly to avoid revealing margin
- Note, she left Utah Co alone, where she’s winning. This is not about vetting.
- Judge: LOL no.
- Hillary Clinton declares for 2020, but can she move far enough left to contend?
- P: 2016 was about Sanders taking on a field of moderates. In 2020, minimal expectation of a D candidate is Bernieism. This will not end well for Clinton.
- Let’s take a look at the 2020 Democratic Presidential picture:
- Beto O’Rourke, the chosen one?
- Andrew Yang, “the UBI guy”
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Woman arrested for Australian strawberry contamination with needles
- There’s a Sour Patch Kids cereal coming after Christmas
- Japan’s new cybersecurity minister admits that he doesn’t use a computer
- Dubai police are training on hoverbikes now
- Crater from an asteroid that hit 12k years ago discovered under glacier in Greenland
- Super-Earth discovered that’s about six light-years away
- Scientists are redefining the kilogram
- Threatin used a fake fanbase to scam themselves into a EU tour nobody attended
- Netflix’s first music competition show features hosts Cardi B, Chance, and T.I.
- Lost Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Disney film discovered in Japan
- Pixar put out a teaser trailer for Toy Story 4
- We got our first trailer of Tim Burton’s live-action Dumbo movie
- The first trailer for Ryan Reynolds’ Detective Pikachu is out
- The Black Friday Deals Previewstravaganza
- Because there won’t be news on Day 0 Update…
- PC Classic Edition announced
- 30+ games at launch with downloaded expandability
- Seems to be an early lean toward Id Software and Epic.
- Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers announced
- This continues a mini-arc from the tail end of Heavensward.
- Sony bows out of E3 2019…
- …and Microsoft doubles down on it
- It may have something to do with a BluRay-free Xbox One.
- PC Classic Edition announced
- Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com
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