Little bit of “no shit’ news to feed the slop-culture drone machine on this Monday. Did you know, could you fathom, that the storyline so obviously inspired by Marvel’s Infinity Gauntlet will feature motivations taken from, wait for it, Infinity Gauntlet? But, hey. I’m down to talk anything Infinity War, so here we are.

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King Kong: Super Skull Island was a fun little embarkment of a flick this Spring. Fleeting, buttery-as-fuck popcorn flick. So while I enjoy the idea of more King Kong, I don’t really need a “drama” set in the world of Skull Island.

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The well had dried.

Just to be sure, Louise through dropped a stone and listened eagerly, waiting for a PLOP! and a renewed hope. All she got was a THUNK! and a reaffirmed desperation. It wasn’t looking good.

Louise turned the pail upside to triple-check for any signs of water, and when gravity told her that she was shit out of luck she almost cried. She would’ve, too, if she wasn’t’ already so dehydrated. At this point, she was sure her blood was turning into dust and that her next period would look more like Lawrence of Arabia than Dracula.

“Fuck it,” Louise muttered, dropping the pail and looking to the sky. Not. A. Cloud. In. Sight. Her only hope – the only hope – of getting water would be to march down to Padre Sausalita’s house and knock on the door. Diligent as ever, the good Padre’d anticipated the drought and had pre-ordered countless gallons so that the congregation’d never run out of holy water.

The only problem? Louise had promised herself that if she ever saw him again, she’d kill Padre Sausalita. In fact, she’d promised herself that she’d drag his scab-ass to a big `ole mirror and slit his throat in front of it so that he’d be able to watch himself bleed out.

And Louise never broke a promise.

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This right here? This is the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE!

First, I caffeinate myself into enough of a frenzy to offer a bit of prose — call it microfiction or short narrative or drivel-fiction — for your reading pleasure! Then, I present the various means I’ll be using in the upcoming Monday-through-Friday to cope with the workweek. Finally, you hop into the comments section and offer your own anti-ennui elixirs.

It’s not much more than show-and-tell, but it’s a fairly well-attended event aboard SPACESHIP OL!

Okay, let’s rock!

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There we are, friends. Between Saturn’s rings. Tiny, and distant, and wonderful.

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Here’s another Kingsman: The Golden Circle teaser trailer. This one, this second tease, reveals the full thing is dropping tomorrow.

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In what is becoming a yearly tradition, Activision has officially announced a Call of Duty title. After it’s been leaked to the public.

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Oh man. Oh man, oh man! Don’t know what to make of this, if it is even true. The first season of Mr. Robot was some of my favorite television in the past five or so years. That said, I found the second season of Mr. Robot to be an unbearable train wreck. So, I guess I’ll split the difference and be cautiously optimistic.

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Fox has released the, uh, release dates for its next slate of Mutant Movies! Most salient to my interests (salient? appropriate here? idfk, idfc?) is Deadpool 2‘s date. June 1st, 2018.

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I am of the opinion that posting a Weekend Open Bar belatedly is a losing gesture, if a gesture at all. If it don’t hit Friday evening, it might as well not hit. But hey, what can you do. Last night I was besieged by PLAYAWF HAWKEY, and blessed with the opportunity to spend time with Rendar and Bateman.

So like, you know.

When the stars align and the three founders of OL hangout all at the same time (an occurrence one can hope happens more often, but an occurrence complicated by busy lives and us upon our own journeys in the omni-multi-verses), you better take goddamn advantage of it.

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I keep forgetting this anthology series is in development. Dope news, though. Steve Buscemi starring in an episode of Electric Dreams? Fuck yes.

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