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I decided to use an image I created myself for 'Barbie,' 'Poor Things,' 'Doctor Who,' and 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' among Hugo nominees for dramatic presentations.

I remembered to embed a video that did a better job in 'Succession' leads drama series nominees, followed by 'The Last of Us' and 'The White Lotus'.

I decided not to use the following video for CDC offering zombie apocalypse tips updates 'Zombie Apocalypse Index for Day of the (Walking) Dead,' the top post of the tenth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News for Throwback Thursday in favor of two that were more informative and had less shocking preview images.

I added the following video to Zombie Apocalypse Index for Day of the (Walking) Dead because the Wochit News video I embedded in it five years ago disappeared last week. Not only did that result in the video disappearing, so did the preview image. Since this is easily the most popular post this year, thanks to the pandemic, I couldn't let that stand.

• How did my predictions for the Saturn Awards movie nominees compare to reality?
• 'Avengers: Endgame' vs. 'Aquaman' at the 2019 Saturn Awards
• 'Ready Player One' vs. 'Bumblebee' at the 2019 Saturn Awards
• 'Aladdin' vs. 'Mary Poppins Returns' at the 2019 Saturn Awards
• 'Us' vs. 'A Quiet Place' at the 2019 Saturn Awards
• Action, Thriller, Independent, and International Films at the 2019 Saturn Awards
• 'Game of Thrones' vs. 'Outlander' at the 2019 Saturn Awards
• 'The Walking Dead' vs 'Fear the Walking Dead' and 'The Haunting of Hill House' vs. 'You' at the 2019 Saturn Awards
• 'Westworld' vs. 'The Orville' and 'Doctor Who' plus 'Star Trek: Discovery' vs. 'Lost In Space' at the 2019 Saturn Awards
• 'Supergirl' vs. 'The Flash' again for best superhero show on television plus 'Marvel’s Daredevil' leads streaming superhero nominees at the 2019 Saturn Awards
• 'Better Call Saul' vs. 'Riverdale' for Best Action/Thriller TV Series again plus home entertainment nominees at the 2019 Saturn Awards

I plan on posting my votes tomorrow.

TELEVISION AWARDS
Best Action / Thriller Television Series My vote: The Alienist. Who is likely to win: Riverdale
Best Actor on a Television Series My vote: Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead). Who is likely to win: Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead) or Bruce Campbell
Best Actress on a Television Series My vote: Caitriona Balfe (Outlander). Who is likely to win: Caitriona Balfe (Outlander) or Melissa Benoist (Supergirl)
Best Animated Series or Film on Television My vote: Star Wars: Rebels. Who is likely to win: Star Wars: Rebels or Rick and Morty
Best Fantasy Television Series My vote: The Good Place. Who is likely to win: Outlander
Best Guest Performance on a Television Series My vote: Michelle Yeoh (Star Trek: Discovery). Who is likely to win: Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead)
Best Horror Television Series My vote: The Walking Dead. Who is likely to win: The Walking Dead
Best New Media Superhero My vote: The Tick. Who is likely to win: Marvel's The Punisher
Best New Media Television Series My vote: Stranger Things. Who is likely to win: Star Trek: Discovery
Best Presentation on Television My vote: Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time. Who is likely to win: Twin Peaks: The Return
Best Science Fiction Television Series My vote: Colony. Who is likely to win: The Orville or X-Files
Best Superhero Adaptation Television Series My vote: Gotham. Who is likely to win: Supergirl
Best Supporting Actor on a Television Series My vote: Khary Payton. Who is likely to win: Khary Payton (Doug Jones or Michael McKean would win with professionals voting)
Best Supporting Actress on a Television Series My vote: Dakota Fanning. Who is likely to win: Candice Patton
Best Younger Actor on a Television Series My vote: Millie Bobby Brown. Who is likely to win: Chandler Riggs

HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Best DVD / BD Classic Film Release My vote: Lifeboat. Who is likely to win: The Old Dark House
Best DVD / BD Collection My vote: Christopher Nolan 4K Collection. Who is likely to win: Dracula, Mommy, or Abbott and Costello.
Best DVD / BD Release My vote: Colossal. Who is likely to win: Don't know, maybe 2:22 or Cult of Chucky
Best DVD / BD Special Edition Release My vote: Lost Horizon. Who is likely to win: Night of the Living Dead
Best DVD / BD Television Release My vote: Westworld. Who is likely to win: Twin Peaks

Now to vote on the movie nominees.  Deadline is May 28th.

October 2017 set more records with 81,888 page views and 131 comments on 31 posts on 31 days for an average of 2,641.5 page views per day and post and 4.2 comments per day and post. There is also a new all-time top post.

1. Doctors to Congress: Fund gun violence research at the CDC and NIH
December 3, 2015, 2 comments
8831 (10091 all time in 1st place)
(This entry had 1472 raw views before being shared at the Join the Coffee Party Movement Facebook page on 10/7/17. By the end of the month, it had 10,323 raw page views, for 8,851 additional raw page views. It earned 1348 page views in the first two hours and 6541 in the first 24 hours after being shared at the Join the Coffee Party Movement Facebook page. It entered the monthly top ten at 11:40 P.M. on 10/7/17. It entered the all time top ten between 10 A.M. and 11 A.M. on 10/8/17, knocking "2016 could be a good year for minor party candidates" out of the top ten and passing "Federal judge orders Michigan recount to begin today," "'Last Week Tonight With John Oliver' leads variety talk shows at the Primetime Emmy Awards," "The Michigan recount is on!," and "A 51st star for Puerto Rico on Flag Day" in that hour. It passed "Michigan recount still on as Trump fails to stop it" between Noon and 1 P.M. when it also became the most read post of the month. It then passed "John Oliver on feelings over facts and Colbert on truthiness" between 4 and 5 P.M. It passed "Trump thinks Sanders is the right enemy" to become the second most read of all time between 6 and 7 P.M. It then passed "Last Week Tonight examines Clinton and Trump foundations" at 10:40 P.M. to become number one of all time. It was mostly responsible for the 8676 page views on 10/8/17, including peaks of 840 page views per hour between 10 and 11 P.M on the 7th and 1026 per hour the next day after Noon. It earned 1438 page views the next day, so it was partly responsible for the 6076 page views for the second day it was shared, including a peak of 1516 page views per hour between 10 and 11 P.M on 10/8/17. It earned 490 page views the 3rd day. Not all of that was because of it being shared at the Coffee Party FB page. Between that and my original share at Crazy Eddie's Motie News Facebook page along with all the resulting reshares, I can account for 166 shares. The total is 507 on FB, so it was shared by a lot of people not connected to me at all!)

2. 'The Handmaid's Tale' sweeps last night of Emmys to win five awards
September 18, 2017
3225 (3658 all time in 10th place; 3704 raw page views.)
(This post was shared at the Join the Coffee Party Movement Facebook page at 10 P.M. on October 1, 2017. It had 447 raw page views before being shared. It earned ~1500 page views in the first two hours and 3017 page views in the first 24 hours after being shared. It had 3452 total default page views and was within 40 page views of passing "Rusty-Patched Bumblebee finally placed on the Endangered Species List" from Mar 22, 2017 at 3491 default and 3829 raw page views at 10 P.M. EDT on 10/2/17. It passed the former #10 ~11:30 P.M. EDT on 10/2/17. It then reached #9 on 10/4/17, passing "2016 could be a good year for minor party candidates.")

( The rest of last month's most read, liked, saved, and commented on entries behind the cut. )

I'm going to put my comment on zombies above the cut.

Death to All Zombies!

“A zombie is a terrible thing to behold, but a zombie holding a bag of dog-shit is like unto the end of the world.” No, a zombie holding a bag of dog shit is funny. All that needs to make it funnier is setting the bag on fire. Of course, the zombie will still try to eat your brains, but you’ll get a good laugh out of it. Just don’t step on the burning bag once you shoot the zombie in the head.

( Comments left at Greer's and Kunstler's blog about progress, the economy, and the election behind the cut. )

I saved one comment in February, my response to another comment on Perched on the Wheel of Time. If it looks familiar, it's because I used the first two paragraphs in 'The Walking Dead' vs. 'Westworld' at the 2017 Saturn Awards. As for last paragraph I wrote, I did ask at the liberal prepper groups if they participated in the SCA and if the archaic skills they practiced helped with their survivalism. A significant number of them said yes.

Me: @Armata: You were right to point to American popular culture for evidence that people are afraid that progress may be coming to a halt and soon, but the way you used your examples works against you with people who know television. In particular, your statement that "The most popular TV show right now is Game of Thrones, based on George RR Martin’s 'A Song of Fire and Ice' novels" requires closer examination. "Game of Thrones" may be the most award-winning drama on American television today with a record 39 Emmy Awards over its run, but if by "most popular" you meant "most watched," it most assuredly is not. According to Indiewire, it came in 38th among viewers of all ages and sixth among TV watchers aged 18-49 during the 2015-2016 season, the most recent in which the series aired.

The more popular show exemplifying Americans' anxiety about the end of progress is "The Walking Dead," which came in fourth among all viewers and first among those aged 18-49, making it, not "Game of Thrones," the most watched show on cable with nearly twice as many viewers. That's a fast-collapse show, but the series is now in its seventh season and has finally reached the stage where most of the rubble has stopped bouncing, so the conflict driving the drama has become a struggle for power among groups of survivors, including a barbarian warband that ironically (or maybe not) sees itself as the "Saviors of Civilization," instead of a fight for survival against the undead. That written, "Game of Thrones" makes your point that "Winter is coming" and people are aware it may be approaching in the real world as well. It's just not as salient an example as you made it out to be.

On another note, I'm a member of several "liberal prepper" groups on Facebook. I'll ask the members if any of them participate in the SCA and, if so, whether their historical reenacting has given them any survival skills. Coincidentally enough, one of the communities of survivors in "The Walking Dead" grew up around a park where Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century crafts were recreated for visitors. In the series, that was an intentional choice for those survivors, not an accident.

Justin: Pinku-Sensei, agreed about The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. I watched the first episode of the current season of the walking dead, and wow, that was some brutal stuff. If sufficient transcripts survive, no doubt that future historians will study that show. Game of Thrones is interesting too. "Winter is coming" is certainly appropriate. Of course, the whole theme was thought up by GRRM in the 90's - although who knows what GRRM thinks about industrial civilization. He's certainly a smart fellow.