by Kim Filchak, Senior Reporter

Hello again. This is Rampant Speculation back after a long weekend spent brunching with Elder Gods and acting like the surly Irish drunk my genes say I am with a whole bunch of stuff that broke this weekend while I was otherwise occupied.

Once again this column is being tagged with a preemptive Spoiler Warning, as everything seemed to have spoilers this weekend. If you want to avoid the dread S, than I would skip Ant-Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Batman V Superman, Guardians of the Galaxy (No seriously skip it dude, so many spoilers abide here. Trust me), and Into the Woods.

Ant-Man- Marvel Studios Alpha and Omega Kevin Feige was at the CineEurope convention in Barcelona, Spain (Lucky bastard) and gave us a few answers about the fate of Marvel Studios most beleaguered offspring and if it is getting any major reconstructive surgery by way of rewrites in the wake of Edgar Wright’s (Shaun of the Dead) departure and the hiring of Payton Reed (Bring it On) to replace him and Adam McKay (Anchor Man 2) to “rework” the script.

“Ant-Man is still going to come out on July 17 [2015], we start filming this August. Edgar Wright, who I’ve known for many years, who wrote the draft with Joe Cornish – much of the movie will still be based very much on that draft and the DNA of what Edgar has created up to this point, but Peyton Reed has stepped in [to direct]. Adam McKay, a very good writer is reworking parts of the script – not the entirety of the script, but some of it – and it’s going to, we believe, come to life in the best version of Ant-Man that we could possibly make. Again Ant-Man is a very important character for us. We like that people don’t necessarily know what it is, we like that it sounds sort of strange when you first hear the notion of Ant-Man, or a hero that can shrink, but he’s a very key Marvel character: he’s a key Avenger. He’s an important character we want to bring into our universe and Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas and an amazing cast all set to start in August, we believe that we’re on the road to the best version of Ant-Man that we could have.”

Also in Ant-Man news- There are few rumors going around on who the Big Bad is going to be in Marvel Studios little summer blockbuster that could. JoBlo is reporting that the mustache twirler is going to be Darren Cross, an industrialist who is a competitor of Stark Industries and who’s cousin is the villain known as Crossfire. 

“It’s unknown if this role will be played by Patrick Wilson or Corey Stoll. He will have a suit with a similar feel to Ant-man’s but more military style, yellow and black in color, and with a tendril-looking apparatus coming off it’s back (like with Agent Venom). It’s to note that in the comics Cross looks more like a pink Hulk, so there may well be some merging of attributes from other characters for this role or multiple villains at that (Yellowjacket, perhaps?).”

Avengers: Age of Ultron- Robert Downey Jr (Iron-Man, Tropic Thunder, The Singing Detective) has left the building. Or at least he has left the set of the upcoming film, Avengers: Age of Utron, and is currently unemployed. The much beloved RDJ announced his return to the real world after his recent sojourn in the Marvel Cinematic Universe via the twitter and Facebook, sparking a rousing debate among the fan’o’sphere as to what his homecoming may mean for Tony Stark’s story in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Or you could just check his IMDB page which lists Avengers: Age of Ultron right up on top.

Comic Book Resource has even more photographic evidence that Avengers: Age of Ultron is a thing that is happening in the world even as we speak, and that many of the people in it look really annoyed, here.

The JoBlo strikes again, this time on their YouTube channel, JoBlo Movie Trailers, with a segment where they claim to have uncovered all the things, Cthulhu bless them, but mostly it’s about Wonder Woman’s outfit, Batman’s house and Lex Luthor’s ego.

Actually I am fine with this description. Yes she is not wearing pants but a traditionally based armor is way better than a bathing suit that seems to be held in place by the power of the Goddesses and Gods alone. And she’s going to be well armed, which I approve of. It seems like maybe they are drawing inspiration from a more amazon warrior/Xena based look, which has been interpreted by fan artists forever as the best look to capture Diana’s fearsome awesomeness and not have her look like a porn parody character. So, and I say this with the caveat that I am super fickle and I still have not actually seen the outfit, I approve.

For those who want a more in depth look, JoBlo has a written post here that gives a good break down of what Wondie is going to wear and wield in Batman V Superman and all of the other points covered in the video posted above for those of us who are too lazy to read.

Daredevil- After a few months of inertia there has finally been some forward momentum on the Marvel Netflix series Daredevil, the first of the five planned streaming shows featuring Marvel Comic’s “street level” heroes. With show runner Steven S. DeKnight (Dollhouse, Smallville) taking the reins the casting announcements having been coming out pretty steadily, and with each new name added the show gets more and more intriguing. First they announced Charlie Cox (Stardust) as the titular hero Daredevil, otherwise known as Matt Murdock, a defense attorney who was blinded in a childhood accident by radioactive material whose other senses were massively amplified along with gaining a sixth sonar like ability and who was subsequently trained by one of the greatest martial artists in the Marvel verse and uses these abilities to fight crime in the Devil’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. Then they added Vincent D’Onofrio (The Cell, Men in Black) as Wilson Fisk, aka The Kingpin, a brilliant mafioso type nemesis who is sort of like a Lex Luthor who gets his hands dirty and is built like a small mountain. Both of these announcements are pretty straight forward, the latest one however is more of a mystery. Rosario Dawson (Sin City, Rent, Gimmie Shelter) has been cast as an as yet unnamed woman who runs into Matt in Hell”s Kitchen and changes his life forever. Here is the exact quote, via Variety.

“Rosario Dawson is one the most charismatic, talented and powerful actresses in Hollywood, so she was always at the top of our list for ‘Marvel’s Daredevil,'” Jeph Loeb, head of Marvel Television, said in a statement. “Her role in the series is absolutely critical to Matt Murdock’s journey to become the hero we know as Daredevil.”

There are a few women she could be, Matt Murdock has had a long line of fascinating women he has been entangled with in one way or another. Of the ladies who have played significant roles in his story there are six that stand out, not counting Black Widow, as must haves for the upcoming series and therefore excellent prospects for Dawson to play. I will list them by order of badassery.

Which is why I hesitate to mention another option for Dawson’s potential role in the show but journalistic integrity is insisting I do so, stupid integrity. One last obvious option, besides them creating a brand new character for her to play, would be for her to play Matt Murdock’s first love, legal aid worker Karen Page but that would not only stick Dawson in a love triangle as her primary story line but also the character is soooo freaking useless, and I am sorry but Rosario Freaking Dawson deserves better than to be Daredevil’s version of Smallville’s Lana Lang (I have my eye on you DeKnight). If you have a howitzer you do not use it for angsty romantic subplots and kidnappings, use it to mess sh*t up.

DC Movie Verse- Previously on Rampant Speculation, we talked about DC/Warner Bros. “Master List” which purports to contain the potential lineup for the ongoing DC Movie Verse, and the sometimes very well informed folks at The Latino Review (TLR) now have a name to add to it. According to TLR, aka the internet rumor event horizon, DC/Warner Bros is planing on releasing a Batman solo film, called The Batman, in 2019. The math for that works out to be five years from now, 3 years after Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2 years after Justice League (Batman’s final officially confirmed prior appearance) , 2 years after Wonder Woman’s‘ purposed solo film and 1 years post a Man of Steel sequel.

I got exhausted just typing that, the people over at Screen Crush summed it up nicely for me.

If this sounds kind of crazy, that’s because it is. Marvel and Disney are infamous for planning their slate of superhero movies years in advance, but 2019 sounds like a distant science-fiction date that doesn’t actually exist. We can barely comprehend living in 2019, let alone watching a movie called ‘The Batman’ starring Ben Affleck in 2019.

If all of the recent rumors are true, ‘The Batman’ will hit theaters after ‘Batman v Superman,’ ‘Justice League,’ ‘Shazam,’ ‘Wonder Woman,’ a Flash and Green Lantern team-up movie, and ‘Man of Steel 2′ have reinvented the cinematic DC comic book universe. But let’s see what Warner Bros. has to say at Comic-Con next month. Until then, don’t spare the salt.

Doctor Strange-  More words from Kevin Feige during his appearance at the CineEurope convention, this time the words were about Marvel Studios next venture into the unknown with Doctor Strange.

“Scott Derrickson has been announced as the director. Doctor Strange is a character that I’ve been interested in for many, many years and that I’ve talked about in interviews for probably 14 years, because I believe it’s very, very important for us to explore every nook and cranny of the comic-book universe and we’ve done the street-level heroes, and we’ve done the billionaire superheroes [on Earth]. We’ve now done the cosmic side with Thor and Avengers and most obviously with Guardians, but there’s a whole other side of the Marvel comics, which is that supernatural side – the interdimensional side of the Marvel universe, and Doctor Strange is, I believe, our entry point into that other realm, which has dozens of characters and storylines all of its own. So Strange is very, very important, not just because it’s an amazing character study, and a journey of a man who’s gone from this very arrogant surgeon to somebody who is quite zen and literally keeps all of reality together on a daily basis, but it also is going to open up a whole other side of storytelling for our movies. So we’re about to hire a writer to redo a draft, and we think we’ll be casting probably in the next month or two, and announcing an actor, and then we get into production in the spring of next year.”

Guardians of the Galaxy- The life and death cycle of an internet casting rumor is a beautiful, if frustrating, thing to watch. This weekend there was a high speed version of that dance that popped up, got people super excited, ruthlessly dashed their hopes and then offered a bit of a consolation for the pain. I am of course talking about the rumor that hit the internet like a tsunami on Friday that beloved fan favorite everything in the known universe Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle, One Life to Live) would be playing the character Nova in Guardians of the Galaxy.

Rick Rider, aka Nova, in one of the most popular “cosmic level” heroes in the Marvel sandbox and bringing him in would be the next logical step to building a series of cosmic level movies, much like Marvel Studios has built their earth bound Avengers based movies. Also making the addition of Nova an intriguing possibility is the fact that his does play a significant role in the “Annihilation” story line if they plan on going in that direction and he is also founding member of the New Warriors team which as we have already reported is one of the properties Marvel Studios has licensed for use in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Added to this is the fact that Nathan Fillion is an extremely popular actor, within the context of fandom he is basically The Beatles made of kittens and baby sloths. So you can image that people got a little excited about this bit of news. This seemed like a match made in fan heaven! Which probably should have been our first clue that it was not going to happen, but logic has no place in a fans heart, it wants what it wants.

Who is to blame for all of this hubbub? That would be Mr. Nathan Christopher Fillion himself. At least a little bit. Back in April at the Saint Louis Comic-Con, Captain Tightpants was asked about any possible way that he might make an appearance in Guardians of the Galaxy since he and director James Gunn (Movie 43… wait really?) were buddies who had previously collaborated in the films Slither and Super. His answer was not a no.

“Wanting to get a part? Or maybe did? I’m just saying… maybe? Maybe you’ll be surprised? Maybe check the credits of the movie when you watch it.”

There was a brief flurry of excitement over this news but it pretty much got lost and forgotten, at least by me, until on Friday The Latino Review columnist Umberto Gonzalaz reported the that Fillion was going to be in the stinger for Guardians of the Galaxy playing Nova.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

And, rounding out this checkup on the three major unified franchises, Guardians of the Galaxy. We’re gonna see some Thanos and we’re going to see a post credits scene that has ___________________________ in it and…

…We’re gonna see Nova. 

Here’s the part I can’t get confirmed, but knowing the internet and superhero fandom’s history with this guy, I figure I’d just pass this on and hope it’s right because it’ll illicit a small cheer from Firefly and Castle fans.

I think Nathan Fillion cameos as Nova.

I expect this to be ignored or denied and, personally, I don’t want to know anymore. I just want to know to have my eyes peeled.

It was at this point that the internet collectively lost its mind. People were freaking out all over the place over this, which makes perfect sense as this is basically a fan-casting dream brought to life. Everyone and their nana jumped on this piece of news, the story gained legs so fast it was up and running and half to alpha centauri before Gunn jumped in and addressed it via the twitter on Saturday.

The rumors of my pal @NathanFillion playing Nova in #guardiansofthegalaxy have been greatly (and entirely) exaggerated. Sorry, humans.

Well, that’s disappointing.

What followed was pretty much consternation, lamenting, and recriminations as the life cycle of this particular internet rumor was put to bed.

But! All is not totally lost as in the end we did get one bit of solid Intel out of this particular bit of drama. Perhaps to make up for the devastation he wrought on our collective fan hearts by not actually doing what we had not even known we wanted him to do until Friday, Gunn also tweeted a bit of a balm for our shattered souls in answer to a fans question. Which was nice of him, he gets a cookie.

“@STARS_TyranT: Are the rumours true that he has some part in the film?” @nathanfillion has a very small fun cameo he did as a favor to me.”

So there you have it, this weekend’s tempest in a tea cup. Yes to Nathan Fillion in what is sure to be an adorable cameo, no to him playing Nova. Which honestly makes sense as he is a little too old for the part if we are going with an origins story for the character.

Also in Guardians of the Galaxy news- Marvel Studios played some footage of the upcoming film at the CineEurope convention and Total Film talked to someone who was there to see it. This is filled with spoilers folks! If you want to remain pristine for the film I would skip on down to the segment on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Insert Full On Spoiler Warning Here!  

“In the several clips shown (out of cont ext, and occasionally with unfinished special effects), it was Chris Pratt’s Peter ‘Star-Lord’ Quill who took center stage. The first sequence was set in 1988, as an eight-year-old Quill storms from his house, following an argument with his parents. He’s barely had a chance to fall on his knees and start weeping before he’s taken away from the misty night by an alien spacecraft that suddenly blinks into view. The only possession he has with him? A backpack loaded with ‘80s memorabilia, including his Walkman.

Following that, we leap 26 years ahead to the abandoned planet of Morag, for a fuller look at the scene that been a key fixture of the trailers, as Quill (now in Chris Pratt form) is on the hunt for an orb to steal. Geysers pop and splutter, as rain lashes the dusty, red planet, home to the remains of a lost civilization, like ruins of a cosmic Rome. Quill uses what looks like a hi-tech torch to survey the area as it once was in an augmented-reality style. With his trademark helmet vanishing digitally at the touch of a button, Quill slips on his headphones to dance his way towards his prize. Puncturing the faux sci-fi seriousness of the set-up, it’s a brilliant showcase for Pratt, who demonstrates his likeability further in his now infamous run-in with Djimon Hounsou’s Korath. After making his jet-booted escape, Pratt’s back in his ship, revealing a Captain Kirk-esque side when a red-skinned alien girl – who he’d forgotten was still there – appears from below decks.

His escape was clearly not all that successful, as the next clip we were shown had Quill being flung into prison, alongside the others that will go on to make up his team in the future: Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper) and Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel). Over the course of prison sequence, Rocket was something of a standout, with Cooper adopting a not-hugely-recognisable drawl for the cute-but-deadly trouble-maker. He’s the one who’s scheming up a plan to get the gang out of prison, although he’s not averse to winging it or throwing a curveball as and when the situation dictates. There’s also a hint at what makes Rocket such an angry little fella. As the gang are being processed into the prison, Quill is stripped down to his briefs and blasted with red gunk (showing off the six-pack that got so much attention after it was glimpsed in the trailer). He spies Rocket, also clothesless (but, y’know, covered in fur) and sees metal nodes that are attached to the little guy’s back, a reminder of the genetic experimentation he’s been subjected too.

Also standing out was Groot, a tree-being who can grow and alter his shape at will, as the situation requires (at one point an arm is puffed into a bunch of twigs to use as protection against machine-gun fire, and he can also extend his height to reach important items). He also steps up to defend Quill from the attention of a hulking space-brute, lifting the aggressor skyward via his nostrils. And, even in the limited footage we saw, there was a good sense of the range that Groot gets out of the only three words he can speak: ‘I am Groot.’

And while Zoe Saldana’s emerald-skinned badass wasn’t at the forefront of the footage, Gamora felt like the straight-up badass of the group. Though, even she still gets a few scathing one-liners – “I’m going to die surrounded by the biggest idiots on the planet!” During the prison escape, Gamora demonstrated her superhuman ass-kicking abilities as the quintet pulled off their haphazard plan.”

Also in Guardians of the Galaxy news- Here are the Guardians of the Galaxy themed covers for Empire Magazine, separated by heroes and villains.

Into the Woods-  This segment contains SPOILERS for the musical Into the Woods, which may or may not be SPOILERS for the movie Into the Woods.

There was quite an uproar last week when word got out that there would be significant alterations to the shows adult themes in the film version; the song about hooking up in the woods “Any Moment” was reported as gone from the film and replaced with something else, the Wolf character (play in the film by Johnny Depp) would be less of a pedophile and Rapunzel would not get crushed to death by a gigantic foot. The internet had a collective temper tantrum, myself included, and now The Incarnate Form of Musical Theater Made Flesh, Stephen Sondhaim, has released a statement via Playbill stating that his comments as reported by The New Yorker regarding the changes made to the beloved musical were misconstrued and that when he said what he said he had not yet seen the final cut of the film.

An article in The New Yorker misreporting my “Master Class” conversation about censorship in our schools with seventeen teachers from the Academy for Teachers a couple of weeks ago has created some false impressions about my collaboration with the Disney Studio on the film version of Into the Woods. The fact is that James (Lapine, who wrote both the show and the movie) and I worked out every change from stage to screen with the producers and with Rob Marshall, the director. Despite what the New Yorker article may convey, the collaboration was genuinely collaborative and always productive.

When the conversation with the teachers occurred, I had not yet seen a full rough cut of the movie. Coincidentally, I saw it immediately after leaving the meeting and, having now seen it a couple of times, I can happily report that it is not only a faithful adaptation of the show, it is a first-rate movie.

And for those who care, as the teachers did, the Prince’s dalliance is still in the movie, and so is “Any Moment.”

I am glad that Mr. Sondhaim is happy with the adaption, that he and his partner did not feel ill used, and more than thrilled that I get to watch Chris Pine’s (Star Trek, The Princess Diaries 2) Prince Charming d bag it up in the forest with the bakers wife to the musical accompaniment of “Any Moment”, that said I still feel this does not address my concerns about the adult nature of the film being compromised for the sake of Disney’s core audience of kids and families. Them keeping one song will not matter if the tragedy of Rapunzel is not told as it should be or if the more problematic aspects of the Wolfs nature are not addressed, one song is just that- one song. Who sings what will not matter if the spirit of the story falls victim to the need to make it all ages appropriate. This is a dark show, far darker than I would be comfortable taking a kid in Disney’s target demographic for their fairy tale based movies to and the theme is predicated on the idea that there are no real traditional happy endings for anyone. So, I am going to put this one in the pile marked wait and see.

The Justice League–  The Wrap reporter Jeff Sneinder, aka TheInSneider, has tweeted a picture of a agency grid that not only indicates that the lord of Apokolips himself, Darkseid, will be the big bad but also includes the Martian Manhunter and Max Lord in the cast of the film. This raises several interesting possibilities if it pans out. I for one wonder if DC/Waner Bros intend to use the Anti Life Equation as their “MacGuffin” of choice to tie the ongoing story they are crafting together in a larger ongoing story arc much they way Marvel Studios is pulling together the Infinity Gauntlet piece by piece as the story progresses, both literally and thematically. Or they could just be throwing everything they have at us a once in hopes of a shock and awe effect.

Marvel Cinematic Universe– As mentioned previously in this very column, The God King of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige recently took part in a Q&A session at the CineEurope convention about many things, including the ongoing plans currently in play for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)and his own personal plans for our immortal souls once their assimilation via utter devotion to Marvel has been achieved and he is ready to harvest them (Just kidding… or am I?).

There was some talk about Guardians of the Galaxy, not unexpected as it opens on August 1st, as well as it’s place within the inter-connectivity of the MCU, and the potential for the story to continue if it finds an audience.

“Every time we make a movie, we focus on the single movie, the importance of doing the best version we can to introduce a new audience to the characters. So we don’t have, necessarily, two or three or four movies planned because if we have a good idea – a fun idea for a scene or a cool character – we put it in this movie because we know if the first movie doesn’t work, there won’t be any movies after that. That being said, there are dozens and dozens of Guardians of the Galaxy storylines – there’s a group that came about in the ’60s, they were revamped again in the ’80s and they changed into this incarnation that you see in this movie about eight or nine years ago – so there are a lot of other characters and worlds and stories. So should this film work, should the audience come out for this one, there are definitely places we can take it and we have ideas of where we’d like to go with it, but really all the energy goes into the first movie first.”

“If you remember we had a tag scene in Thor: The Dark World where Benicio Del Toro showed up for the first time as The Collector, so that was our way of saying the Guardians and the other Marvel characters inhabit the same reality and the same universe. In particular, there’s a villain in this film, that comic fans know as Thanos, that moviegoers will begin to learn more and more about in the coming years. He appeared at the very end of the first Avengers film, when he turned into camera and smirked, and we realized he was the person behind the alien army that Loki teamed up with to terrorize New York City, and that the Avengers had to fight. We see him again in this movie [Guardians], we learn a little bit more about him in this movie, and he – and his band of followers – is the biggest piece of connective tissue that will eventually lead us back into Avengers films in the future.”

He also spoke about the small screen incarcerations of the MCU and how they will fit together.

“I think the television division first and foremost need to make great TV shows that stand on their own. But because it is Marvel, we do think they will all fall under the umbrella of the Cinematic Universe, the way Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. does now, the way the Agent Carter series will, so I do think that Daredevil and Jessica Jones and the other ones [Iron Fist and Luke Cage] will have a loose connection to the overall storyline. But, just like the most important thing for us with each film is that each film works independently and stands alone as a great movie, and then the fun part is it connecting to the other world; I think the TV group is doing the exact same thing with each series.”

He also addressed any lingering hopes for getting all of Marvel under one roof again, which is sadly looking unlikely any time soon.

“It would be great, I think, to be able to have all of the Marvel characters interact one day, in a single movie with Marvel Studios, [but] I don’t think that’ll happen anytime soon. Fox is doing very well – Days of Future Past just came out, was a big hit, was a very, very good movie. As long as they keep doing that they’ll be able to keep those rights. Sony – same thing – has very long term plans for Spidey, and I think as long as they keep doing that and as long as they keep succeeding, Sony will have Spidey for a long time. So I wouldn’t say anything’s impossible, I’ve been at Marvel for almost 14 years now, and it’s a very different company today than when it was a near bankrupt company just trying to get a foothold in movies when I started. So I always say nothing is impossible but I’m not sure that’s going to happen any time soon.”

Star Wars: Episode VII- Deadline is on top of this, as they are with most things, and are reporting that Lucasfilms has found their guy for Episode VII and IX and that guy is writer-director Rian Johnson (Looper). Deadline is reporting that right now they are mid deal making, whatever that involves (I am thinking either animal sacrifice atop a pyramid of fire or possibly a slumber party with painted toenails and hair braiding to cement the studio/artist emotional bonding… That’s the way these things work, right?) and Deadline’s update says that Johnson has not officially commented on his potential awesome, and probably pants wetting-ly terrifying, new gig. Though he did post this on his twitter, so yeah.

Good luck dude, don’t worry I won’t tell you the odds.

Also in Star Wars: Episode VII news- If your head is spinning with all the director announcements for the many films slated for development by LucasFilms and their dark Disney Overlords First Showing has a great editorial here breaking down who the men who hold our precious childhood memories in their hands are and what the reasoning behind their selection by the powers that be to sit in the big chair might be.

In way less awesome Star Wars: Episode VII Related news- Metro is reporting that there was an emergency meeting at Pinewood studios this morning about Harrison Ford and his broken leg. The news was not good. If “good news” is the bright shining center of the universe, than this news would reside in the spot that it’s farthest from.

“…the upshot being that with Ford returning to the States to convalesce, the film could have little option but to either cease production, rewrite the script to remove Ford from the film altogether or at the very least make significant changes to accommodate Ford’s recovery schedule.

If true – and as ever, until confirmed by Lucasfilm, Bad Robot or Disney this is merely a rumour – it could deal a crushing blow to the production. Ford is thought to be THE lead actor of the movie, with the plot centered around him. Beyond that little is known, but if it is the case then there is some heavy work to be done to keep the huge production rolling along.”

Nothing is confirmed by anyone in charge, so no panicking just yet, I will keep on top of things and see where this goes.

And this brings us to the end of another Rampant Speculation, I hope my gif use was particularly blatant and egregious because I am a terrible human being. Keep an eye out for the mid week update of Rampant Speculation, which I am not going to lie is going to probably be late and made of 90% gifs because I will have people in town and have not yet figured out the whole cloning thing. Thus far all I have managed to create in my attempts to clone myself some backup has been a pound cake, which was delicious but total pants at writing a column. Goodnight and until next time I leave you with this parting thought.

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