Sunday Post #362

  

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading is hosted by Book Date  

So this week the new Blogger changes took effect on my blog. I logged in one day and there it was- the new interface. Fun! To be honest, I don't really mind it though? Which, frankly, surprises me. Last week I talked about this a little bit and asked for suggestions on switching to Wordpress, and I appreciate all the suggestions and advice! I may still switch at some point (let's face it, I've considered it for years) but for now I think I'm okay? I was expecting new Blogger to be a disaster, and honestly I did just have an issue editing an older post, but generally I think I'm okay so far. 

In other news I started season three of The Rain on Netflix and so far so good! 

 

Song of the week

PULP COVER OF THE WEEK: 

BOOKISH LINKS

Here's a new HU's in the Kitchen.    

The walking tours continue! This one is amazing and is Positano in Italy. Some amazing views and I love the segment at 7 minutes in when there's an enclosed area with vines overhead.  

Here's a new Tokyo walking tour with subtitle commentary. 

And Vietnamese Girl has a new one also. 

Bookcover Spotlight #238

Jonny Quest 01x08

Jonny Quest is one of my favorite cartoons but I've never seen all the episodes. Here I'll just be looking at the original series. I'm going to be sharing thoughts as I go. 

A UFO! I bet this was timely back in the '60's during the UFO craze. Anyway the saucer shows up on military radar and they scramble a couple jets, but the UFO takes cover underwater and gives 'em the slip. It continues on until it reaches a base that just happens to have Dr. Quest working on some top- secret project- a laser apparently. The UFO opens up and releases a spidery robot, which is kind of cool looking- I imagine this was a little eerie at the time for kids! So Dr. Quest and Race, alerted by a guard, go investigate and it's not long before Jonny and Hadji tag along. 

Wait, so a UFO lands and instead of taking along military units for safety, Dr. Quest and Race go alone, and they bring two kids. Okay, got it. Oh, and we see Hadji's levitation trick again. Hmm, of course an Indian kid has mystical powers. Eye roll. Anyway it turns out Dr. Zin is behind the robot spy, and Dr. Quest does exactly what Zin wants him to do- he takes the robot back to base to examine. However, they put in a warehouse and leave it there (??) since they don't have time to examine it right now. Seriously? 

The robot, of course, wakes up and takes care of a pesky guard before he can sound the alarm. It then crawls all over the base, spying on Dr. Quest and Race, and of course no one sees it. Quest and Race eventually discover it in the lab, though, recording the secrets of Quest's new laser thingie, since that's what Zin really wants. Cue maniacal laughter. They can't stop the thing from escaping, though, nothing seems to work against it, even flamethrowers. But wait- the laser thingie of course is the last resort, and they manage to stop the robot at the last minute, after it reboards the UFO and takes off. Thank goodness. 

So for a show called Jonny Quest this one had very little Jonny in it. Just like in the last episode this was more the Dr. Quest and Race Bannon show, but I liked this one. It was kind of eerie and the music rocks too. A fun episode. 

I give this one 3 of 5 stars.  

Top Ten Tuesday 214

  

 Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new Top Ten list will be posted. Everyone is welcome to join. Link back so everyone can check out other bloggers' lists. It's a fun way to get to know fellow bloggers.

This week is books with colors in their titles. I wasn't sure how I wanted to approach the topic and as I was pulling covers I ended up almost making this an all- Tintin post! But I restrained myself (who knew they had so many colors in their titles?) and included a few others, as well.  

Song of the Week #53

   

This week I'm listening to Love On A Real Train by Tangerine Dream. Bonus if you can name the film! There are a ton of versions of this song, so I've posted my favorite (at least on Youtube) with the train through the city. The second one is an alternative train ride, and then the third one is a shorter version that says it's the original, although to be honest I don't know since there, again, a zillion versions of this around. Enjoy!!