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Congratulations Mercedes! Most of us never get to the point in life where we can be who we truly are. We should all admire you for even getting close to that point. You have lots of fans out here in readerland. Please keep amazing us all.
Whomever is watching Plex just watched a great one: Lockout, which is a totally awesome Escape From LA remake with legitimately tough Guy Pearce in the Kurt Russell role and Spacecatraz in the LA role. Check it out!
I’m so happy that showed up here because I had completely forgotten the name of it and occasionally have the itch to watch it again.
No answer key this time?
I’m more interested in their online reviews:
Rust Never Sleeps
1979 ā¢ PG ā¢ 108 min
Documentary covering Neil Young’s October 22, 1978 concert performance at the Cow Palace.
David Tracy: Verified ā
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Not Recommended
Very misleading ā title writes a check this film absolutely refuses to cash. Turned off 10 minutes in and would have asked for my money back if I’d paid anything to see it. Don’t fall for the false promises. I am looking forward to that Alec Baldwin movie coming out during the holidays, but even for that I’m waiting until I can see it at my future in-laws’ house ā they’ve got cable.
Bwahaha!
Wow. The opening show of that tour was at Pine Knob (now it has some corporate tag) and it was spectacular.
The fuck is Plex?
It’s software that you can point at a collection of video files, and it lets you browse them with an interface like a streaming service.You can then give access to friends and family so they can stream from it too.
(Usually the videos in question are pirated).
A quick search will tell you more
Mercedes
Rivers
Matt
Jason
David
Peter
Adrian
Is having The Wedding Planner teed up for #4 a nod to not-Elise?
7 is 100% Adrian. I can see him loving Transmetropolitan.
Also, Mercedes, you are amazing.
#1 is Adrian. So MANY guilty pleasures in there….
There are literally two, maybe three things I would watch pictured there.
I’m picking number two for Matt. He leans so heavily into his Millenialness that he’s going to be unsufferable when he hits 70.
What, and I say this with all sincerity, the actual buggering fuck is a time salad?
Timexes and Casios blended together and seasoned with a hint of gear oil
The description makes it sound like Hot Tub Time Machine, but with salad.
Iām chaste and virginal, as you well know. The pile of books is David.
I’m surprised to discover Adrian went to boarding school.
Believe it or not I did, from the ages of 11-16.
OK, what the heck:
1) Mercedes
2) Peter
3) Matt
4) Jason
5) Rivers
6) David (duh)
7) Adrian (double duh)
Okay, I will take a stab..
1 – Mercedes
2 – Peter
3 – Rivers
4 – Matt
5 – Jason
6 – David
7 – Adrian
4 is Mercedes
Maybe I didn’t look close enough, but I can’t find anyone binging all episodes of the original sixties “The Prisoner”, so I don’t know where to place Chairman Pao š
Happy Anniversary to Mercedes!
I couldn’t begin to guess on any of these except… Plex has to be Jason, right?
Mercedes, congratulations on figuring out who you are and having the courage to move forward with it, consequences be damned. Plenty of people will never take that kind of chance; āThe mass of men live lives of quiet desperationā – Thoreau
I’m sorry to hear you have trouble making friends. From your writing, you seem like an outgoing, adventurous person who could meet many like minded people who share your diverse interests (planes, trains, automobiles, motorcycles, campers and probably other non transportation related interests).
Making friends as adults is a noted issue in America. When we are young and in school we are surrounded by people the same age tuned in to the same music, movies, and pop culture. Even if you interests diverge, you’re likely to find other like minded individuals to hang with. Once you are out of that microcosm, you end up in the work place among different generations and interests.
At any rate, I wish you all the best.
Aww thank you! Funny enough, I’m somewhat shy in real life. I sort of just push myself to go outside of my bubble. Sadly, it’s an odd time right now. Over the past few years I’ve learned that a lot of people who I thought were friends really weren’t, and they were largely associating with me in an attempt to get free legal work out of my wife. One of those people recently threatened to murder us, which was pretty terrifying.
Thankfully, I’m very slowly making new friends and a couple of my childhood friends stuck around. So, it sucks to have lost who I used to think would be friends forever, but not all is lost. I recently joined the Chicago railfanning scene and I’m having fun watching them teach me stuff I didn’t know about trains.
So, if we get to be friends, it comes with free legal work from Sheryl? Heeeyyyy gurrlll! Want to get brunch?
More seriously, of the few trans people I know, I’m closer to than before their transition. I admire bravery and honesty.
“Making friends as adults is a noted issue in America”
Eh, friends are overrated. They ask you to help them move but are busy when you ask, knowingly give terrible advice just to watch the inevitable train wreck and if they set you up with anyone it’s with people on the bad side of the crazy/hot curve they need otherwise occupied.
IMHO, most “friends” are actually transactional acquaintances. Go Merc! Keep rockin’ it š
7 is definitely Adrian, I recognize one of the books.
And happy Femiversary, Mercedes!
First congrats to Mercedes for 10 years of bravery!
I only have partial guesses for this list and speaking of Mercedes I’m guessing she’s #4 because I feel like she’s the most adventurous Autopian willing to spin up a Plex server (I’m watching Cannonball Run II on my Plex server while reading this article.)
#6 has to be Tracy because heaven forbid he absorb any popular culture by watching movies and TV shows.
#7 absolutely HAS to be Adrian because it just is and we all know it.
You’re a helluva classy dame, Mercedes. Happy anniversary for the day when you made sure the rest of the world knows it.
Happy Womanniversary, MS. Keep on truckinā ā¦ and busing, biking, flying, camping, driving, and- most important – writing.
And swimming!
I know youāll get back to the Mediterranean now that youāve had a taste for international travel
First off, congrats to Mercedes on the coming out anniversary! I imagine it’s been quite the relief to get to be your true self. As a not very feminine cis dyke, I can somewhat empathize with your journey.
My mostly random guesses:
#1-Matt
#2-Rivers
#3-Jason
#4-Peter
#5-Mercedes
#6-David
#7-Adrian
Hope folks who are into it have a Happy Halloween! I work in San Francisco, where it’s practically a giant city-wide holiday. My work even has a costume contest.
“I work in San Francisco, where itās practically a giant city-wide holiday. My work even has a costume contest.”
I worked for First Republic for many years.
We’d have costume contests in each major market office (SF, LA, NYC, Palo Alto, Portland, San Diego, Palm Beach, etc) and share our exploits on a huge Zoom call.
The one city who never participated?
Boston.
Any speculation (informed or not) on why not Boston?
Witches, Salem and Fire.
Or a general lack of appreciation among the townsfolk for shenanigans that don’t involve tea.
There can be a reason for the term “Masshole”.
I vote #3 for Mercedes. It’s well rounded and intelligent. A sign of a good mind. That makes everyone else ineligible.
Uh oh… š
I am going to say Mercedes is the action fan. You’ve seen her articles? She took a speed freak personal water craft through crocodile infested waters. Obviously this was pre Posh Mercedes (I think Kristin should retain the Fancy Title).
Klassy Mercedes? Mercedes S(treeter) Klasse? There’s gotta be something there.
Sheryl can confirm that I love things that are high-intensity. I blasted Carpenter Brut while racing through those Florida waters. I…I love bad disaster movies where everything’s constantly blowing up for no good reason.
#7/the books are so Adrian.
His countryman is currently doing a bang-up job as a major character by one of those authors.
This is the logical choice.
Plex checks out for David being that its free and seems like shows he would watch.
Also finally got my shirt. Nice design this year and my kids like it. Another package still says “label created, waiting for package” so who knows when that’ll arrive.
David gets the black screen. He doesn’t watch TV. Too busy with work, wedding, and kittens.
Isn’t Plex just a streaming aggregator – like Apple TV but without the specific content?
I use Plex entirely with stuff that I own and have ripped, not attached to any streaming services (I don’t have any to attach to it).
Same, I just use Plex for my local library and sometimes some of the free shows they put on their service. I don’t have it attached to anything external and certainly don’t allow external access to my Plex.
I thought it was a free ad supported service like tubi and the Roku channel. Maybe I should read about it.
Plex has to be Jason because he’s the one that would build his own Plex server and host his own movies.