KD^3C^3 - 20250824 It forced me to kill my radio
I went to a cat cafe this weekend. Well it’s called a cat cafe, it’s really more of a public facing cat cat rescue with the ability to purchase beverages if you feel like it.
The cafe itself requires a reservation and a fee to hang out with the cats. You get an hour with them, along with anyone else who booked the same time (up to a dozen people at one time). I’m really glad I went. I miss having a cat, and visiting with a bunch of cats even for a short while, was a very pleasant experience. Across the various rooms in the cafe there were 12 cats, we were told, and I’m pretty sure I at least touched all of them. They ranged from about 4 months old to about 7 years old and I was a little surprised at how quickly I picked up on their different personalities. Some were quite shy or skittish, some wanted to play more than cuddle and some loved skritches above all else.
I joked before going in that we might come home with a cat or two, and while that wasn’t really a possibility (we can’t really get a new cat until we finally get around to building our own house) it was still rather tempting. Spending time with these cats at the cafe was a clear reminder of how much I enjoy and miss having one.
That being said, I did have one complaint, although not about the cats or people running the cafe. One woman who shared the rooms during our time decided it would be a good idea to make multiple face time calls to other people and explain at full volume to them that she was at cat cafe. The cats didn’t seem to mind, but I sure did, as it marred an otherwise quite peaceful and quiet experience.
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Peacemaker is back for its second season. Only three years or so after finishing its first. I know I keep yelling at this particular cloud, but TV shows should have new seasons every year. And thos seasons should have between 18 and 26 episodes. Recently I've been granting some leeway to shows, because, well there was a massive strike of both actors and writers for a while in the middle there, but still, thee years between seasons means I barely remember what happened in those paltry eight episodes.
I'm reminded of a joke from The TV series The Good Place (4 seasons, 58 episodes) where a character mentions er favorite TV series ran on the BBC for 16 years and made almost 30 episodes in that time. It's a good Joke, because British series are notoriously short runners (usually 6 episodes per season) and can take a long time to be renewed, but the rest of the TV landscape is moving more and more towards that model.
Sometimes shows need only 6 episodes! I'm not saying that's they don't! But we used tt have a word for TV shows that lasted only 6 episodes: The Miniseries. Now everything is a miniseries. Sometimes you get a sequel miniseries 3 years later, and if you really want to be caught up, you should probably just watch the first one again.
Or you hope the show has a really long and robust "Previously On" segment to remind you of all the important plot points. Which, in it's defense, Peacemaker does! Well Sort of. Becaust the other thing that kept Peacemaker off the air for so long was that its creator, James Gunn was given control over the entire DC Universe n that time and he ended up rebooting everything that had come before. Even his own TV show Peacemaker.
Long story as short as I can make it: James gun got fired by Disney after making Guardians of the Galaxy 2 because of some tasteless tweets he had made nearly a decade before. DC/Warner Brothers scooped him up to make The Suicide Squad, a movie a lot like Guardians of the Galaxy in ways that aren't important. In tat movie he introduced Peacemaker, played by John Cena, who was then given his own spinoff TV show, also written and directed by James Gun. Disney realized they let a good thing go and hired James Gunn back for Guardians of the Galaxy 3, but DC/Warner Bros didn't like that so they hired Gunn back to reboot their entire DU Movie Universe. Gunn Jettisoned nearly everything that came before (All of Zack Snyder's Justice League stuff, including the 2 Wonder Woman movies, the Suicide Squad & Birds of Prey movies, and anything else that was around those movies) and rebooted the whole universe with his new Superman movie that came out this year. But he wanted to make season 2 of Peacemaker still. Since he was now in charge of everything DC, he could just do that. He just picked up the entire show from the previous DCU and plopped it, almost unchanged into the new one.
This leads to Peacemaker being the only show I can think of that exists in two different cinematic universes over the course of it's run. In season 1 Zack Snyder's Justice League existed and now it doesn't. The leads to one of the weirdest "previously on" segments I have ever seen, where things that didn't actually happen replace things that did in the first season. They show whole new (parts of) scenes with new characters that didn't even exist when the first series was made. It's a wile choice, and if you're willing to just go with it, I think a pretty neat solution to a problem made (even unintentionally) by suits in an executive office (one of those suits now happens to be the guy who made the show, but whatever.)
Anyway, Peacemaker season 1 was pretty good. I hope season 2 is also good.
The cafe itself requires a reservation and a fee to hang out with the cats. You get an hour with them, along with anyone else who booked the same time (up to a dozen people at one time). I’m really glad I went. I miss having a cat, and visiting with a bunch of cats even for a short while, was a very pleasant experience. Across the various rooms in the cafe there were 12 cats, we were told, and I’m pretty sure I at least touched all of them. They ranged from about 4 months old to about 7 years old and I was a little surprised at how quickly I picked up on their different personalities. Some were quite shy or skittish, some wanted to play more than cuddle and some loved skritches above all else.
I joked before going in that we might come home with a cat or two, and while that wasn’t really a possibility (we can’t really get a new cat until we finally get around to building our own house) it was still rather tempting. Spending time with these cats at the cafe was a clear reminder of how much I enjoy and miss having one.
That being said, I did have one complaint, although not about the cats or people running the cafe. One woman who shared the rooms during our time decided it would be a good idea to make multiple face time calls to other people and explain at full volume to them that she was at cat cafe. The cats didn’t seem to mind, but I sure did, as it marred an otherwise quite peaceful and quiet experience.
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Peacemaker is back for its second season. Only three years or so after finishing its first. I know I keep yelling at this particular cloud, but TV shows should have new seasons every year. And thos seasons should have between 18 and 26 episodes. Recently I've been granting some leeway to shows, because, well there was a massive strike of both actors and writers for a while in the middle there, but still, thee years between seasons means I barely remember what happened in those paltry eight episodes.
I'm reminded of a joke from The TV series The Good Place (4 seasons, 58 episodes) where a character mentions er favorite TV series ran on the BBC for 16 years and made almost 30 episodes in that time. It's a good Joke, because British series are notoriously short runners (usually 6 episodes per season) and can take a long time to be renewed, but the rest of the TV landscape is moving more and more towards that model.
Sometimes shows need only 6 episodes! I'm not saying that's they don't! But we used tt have a word for TV shows that lasted only 6 episodes: The Miniseries. Now everything is a miniseries. Sometimes you get a sequel miniseries 3 years later, and if you really want to be caught up, you should probably just watch the first one again.
Or you hope the show has a really long and robust "Previously On" segment to remind you of all the important plot points. Which, in it's defense, Peacemaker does! Well Sort of. Becaust the other thing that kept Peacemaker off the air for so long was that its creator, James Gunn was given control over the entire DC Universe n that time and he ended up rebooting everything that had come before. Even his own TV show Peacemaker.
Long story as short as I can make it: James gun got fired by Disney after making Guardians of the Galaxy 2 because of some tasteless tweets he had made nearly a decade before. DC/Warner Brothers scooped him up to make The Suicide Squad, a movie a lot like Guardians of the Galaxy in ways that aren't important. In tat movie he introduced Peacemaker, played by John Cena, who was then given his own spinoff TV show, also written and directed by James Gun. Disney realized they let a good thing go and hired James Gunn back for Guardians of the Galaxy 3, but DC/Warner Bros didn't like that so they hired Gunn back to reboot their entire DU Movie Universe. Gunn Jettisoned nearly everything that came before (All of Zack Snyder's Justice League stuff, including the 2 Wonder Woman movies, the Suicide Squad & Birds of Prey movies, and anything else that was around those movies) and rebooted the whole universe with his new Superman movie that came out this year. But he wanted to make season 2 of Peacemaker still. Since he was now in charge of everything DC, he could just do that. He just picked up the entire show from the previous DCU and plopped it, almost unchanged into the new one.
This leads to Peacemaker being the only show I can think of that exists in two different cinematic universes over the course of it's run. In season 1 Zack Snyder's Justice League existed and now it doesn't. The leads to one of the weirdest "previously on" segments I have ever seen, where things that didn't actually happen replace things that did in the first season. They show whole new (parts of) scenes with new characters that didn't even exist when the first series was made. It's a wile choice, and if you're willing to just go with it, I think a pretty neat solution to a problem made (even unintentionally) by suits in an executive office (one of those suits now happens to be the guy who made the show, but whatever.)
Anyway, Peacemaker season 1 was pretty good. I hope season 2 is also good.