Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)

Woke up with an intense headache on a day when I don't have to work, so I went back to sleep after my alarm. Dreamt I was falling asleep in a university class because I had a bad headache in the dream, and was getting kicked out of the room for sleeping in class.

Thank you, brain, for your contributions.

@Gargron oh jeez man

I still owe you an album review from uhhhhhh

Five years ago, heck

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@Gargron awwwww 😻🍑

@Gargron happy two-year anniversary!! (A day late, whoops)

Hope you both had a lovely time yesterday. Here's to many more. 🥂

Did those two hired goons just kill the professor by repeatedly slamming him into an air conditioning unit? Was I reading that scene right?

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"The yeti has been taken out of his natural surroundings, his environment. It's difficult! We must be prepared for everything."

Look, he's not breathing regularly because there is visibly no snow on the ground, which means it is HAY FEVER SEASON. Get that yeti some antihistamines.

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*yeti looks completely nonplussed walking around downtown Toronto near University and Queen, around City Hall, because even in the late 70s we still had not prioritized the walkability of that neighbourhood, leaving it only a few narrow sidewalks to accommodate a huge volume of foot traffic. And in this case a volume of huge foot traffic.*

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DID THEY JUST STAB THE DOG

C'mon back, yeti, we're going to need some more stomping, please and thanks.

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Oh hey, the Toronto Police are responding with alacrity to a violent crime in this movie?? I guess it's confirmed, none of the hired goons were gay.

(Sorry, I'm still pretty peeved about that systemic problem with our TPS.)

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Time check, 1h17m, woman screaming while grabbing her head in terror and then fleeing. Perfect GIF capture moment.

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(For anyone wondering why these two goons are wandering through a field of parked construction vehicles, that part is completely plausible. Toronto's like that.)

MONSTER SQUASH! ...or not..? Mysteriously spared?? Oh, nope, grabbed between two toes and then squished murderously, I think? This is a bit hard to follow.

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"Go back to the wilderness, to the mountains! Where life is like you knew it! Goodbye, yeti."

'Twas not bullets, but beauty s̶l̶a̶y̶e̶d̶ exiled the beast!

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MONSTER STOMP

Well, there goes an odious character. F

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Those two goons just autoyeeted themselves over the edge of that small cliff in the most hilarious fashion possible. The only thing missing was a foley "sproing!" sound effect.

Oh jeez, are they attacking the yeti with artillery now? What is _happening_?

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Oop, landscape change, I think we're back in Italy now. Those hillside S-curve roads aren't in Ontario.

MONSTER BOULDER TOSS

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Look, Jane just dropped 32 stories down that elevator shaft before the yeti caught her. I don't care how gentle he was, that's still more than enough kinetic energy to reduce her organs to chunky salsa. We have covered this already innumerable times while watching Superman, we know this.

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The yeti is surprisingly sanguine about being helicoptered over Niagara Falls while suspended by a single cable directly beneath the rotor.

"Toronto is honored to be the first to greet this ancient ancestor and is sure to give him a warm welcome."

*insert crowd scenes with implausibly light motor traffic*

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(Why is Tony stropping a straight razor against his _hand_?)

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!!!

Finally, a movie showing an elevator getting its cable rigging messed up *and acknowledging the presence of rail brakes*!!

Huge points to Yeti for that detail! Thank you, Yeti. Theti.

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"Please, what's happening?"

"The yeti has gone berserk!!"

Here we go, 53 minutes in and _now_ the movie has really begun

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