Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Maze for 9/12/26

 So sorry to have a maze again so soon, but I've been just ill and can't puzzle out another type of puzzle for today :)

 

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 9 5 26 Rebus

 Wasn't that lovely? It's from an interview with musician John Coltrane.  I left the punctuation out as far as commas because they sometimes throw off the puzzle maker.

That's what music is to me-- it's just another way of saying this is a big, beautiful universe we live in, that's been given to us, and here's an example of just how magnificent and encompassing it is. 

 

 

Mary's Recipes 9/10/26 The Finale

 This is the last Mary's Recipes post, as I've posted all of the recipes from her recipe box.  There are so many good recipes!   I started posting these on Thanksgiving Day, 2025.  Here's where you can start all over and get anything you missed:

https://librariandoa.blogspot.com/2025/11/happy-thanksgiving-marys-recipes-returns.html 

Happy Baking!

 

DOA On TV Lanterns, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, the Mandolorian and Grogu

 

Lanterns Ep. 3

 

From the first episode of Lanterns I've been captivated by the character of young John Stewart.  He is a complete fan of his hero the Green Lantern.  He loves his hero in the way only a child can.  So open, so awestruck.  Such a sweet kid.

When his parents tell him he will need to start training right now, right on his birthday to become the next Green Lantern, he's all in.  He wavers a bit when it is his turn to shoot an apple off of his father's head.  He's been training in firearms for quite awhile, so he likely has the skill.  But he fears hurting his father. And he can't fear anything.

In that first episode where John's dad came home and shot an apple off John's head, he seemed a monster.  It turns out the mom is the monster, who has spoken to a Guardian in person, and she takes up the challenge of making John fear nothing.  Her husband is along for the ride, but it is the mom who is determined that John succeeds where his father failed.

Adult John is disillusioned when he meets his hero Hal Jordan, but his determination and training to succeed in becoming a Lantern keep him on course.  He seems unable to be ruffled.  He's not just fearless as required of a Lantern, he has a solid inner core that cannot be breached.

I only read Green Lantern comics eons ago, and the Hal Jordan of those comics was nothing like we see here.  I haven't read any John Stewart Lantern comics, so I don't have any outrage at changes to his origin story.  I only know what I see here, an old, failing to be a hero Hal Jordan, and a pure, idealistic John Stewart who'd better be wearing a ring by the end of this season.

 

Star Trek Strange New Worlds   Like Chronitons  Through The Hour Glass

 

This is the first terrible episode of the season.   It is supposed to be a soap opera episode, with all sorts of personal entanglements, and an acting style that is a bit over the top for everyone.   Personal entanglements: Pike is Uhura's secret father.  Una goes tigery over M'Benga, letting him know she's there for him (wink wink).  La'an tries not to slaver over Spock's twin brother with his long locks, open shirt, and flirtatious ways.

The problem isn't the sub plots at all.  It is in the delivery of lines.  The over the top facial expressions are not there.  It's a dull reading of things.  

The other problem is Trelane, who appeared in a previous season, and in the original Star Trek series.   He's a bratty, spoiled godlike being who just wants to toy with the captain and crew.  I cannot stand characters like that.  Don't get me started on Q.  Grrrr.

 

The Mandolorian and Grogu 

Originally in theaters, this film made it to Disney this month.   There's much to love. The Mandolorian training Grogu to fight , and at one point how to fly.   A moment when some tiny mechanics come to rescue the Mandolorian in their tiny ship, and there's no way he can get off of the Hutt's planet in that craft.  Grogu staying behind and tending to and hiding his friend who has been injured and poisoned by a truly monstrous Dragonsnake.  It is the stuff of nightmares.

 Though I love the characters here, particularly Rotta The Hutt, I felt the movie went on too long.  You'd think the story was done, then some other fight breaks out.

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Rebus For 9/5/26

 Good evening, here's a longer than usual rebus, but I loved the quote.   Best of luck!

 

 

Make your own rebus :  https://www.festisite.com/rebus/ 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 8/30/26 Maze

 From the Mazes For Fun puzzle maker.

 

 

Five Things Friday 9/4/26

 I love September! I’m ready to start putting the garden to bed.  I want to bake, bake, bake.  I’m ready to get my Halloween decorations out, and to comb the stores for new things, especially for outside.

Mary’s Recipes 9/3/26

 A mere 9 years ago Mary and I had a great day at the fair, just us. She is a fun lady.

DOA On TV Star Trek Strange New Worlds and Alias

 

Star Trek Strange New Worlds "Off Hours"

 

If it were that sort of show, Off Hours would be a disaster of the week type episode.   The Enterprise is sucked into a slipstream worm hole that will cause the ship to accelerate to a point beyond warp speed, that would, by hour's end, disintegrate the Enterprise. 

Of course most systems are down and staff are isolated in various pockets of the ship trying to survive.

The prominent pair stuck together are Nurse Chapel and Dr. M'Benga.  When the ship enters the wormhole a lab table crushes M'Benga against a column, almost cutting him in half.  He can't feel his legs, but otherwise he seems stunned rather than dying, which he is.  It's up to Chapel to find a way to save her old friend, and she will do anything to accomplish the impossible.

 

Alias Pilot

 

Alias aired from 2001 to 2006.  Now on Hulu, it features Jennifer Garner as a college student with a secret life as a spy.  Sydney Bristow carries on both lives with confidence and fearlessness.  She's highly intelligent, but can really fight and defend herself.  Seeing her knock out one bad guy after another with a kick to the head is pretty great. 

In her college life, she's going to get married. She makes the mistake of telling her fiance about her secret life, and then, spoiler, he'd dead, killed in a very messy manor.  

After that, she rebels, or tries to rebel against her employers.   She hasn't the confidence she once has in the pilot as she can't function with her grief and anger and hatred towards her employers for killing the man she loves. 

I've never watched the show before and have only seen Garner in commercials  (and a Marvel movie I can't think of).   She's incredible in this show.  It's well worth continuing to watch it.

 

Saturday Puzzles A Maze for 8 30 26

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