The skies are mottled and full of omens and these swatches invade as if they were the manifestations of these omens foretold.
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" The royal dad of two then replied, "Good omens!
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Good Omens is coming to Amazon Prime Video in 2019.
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Good Omens is putting a fun spin on the armageddon.
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Good Omens comes to Amazon Prime Video sometime in 2019.
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She was amassing as many good omens as she could.
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The omens for a wider deal, however, are not promising.
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These commercial adornments can be understood as omens of gentrification.
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These are good omens for those trying to catch up.
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But if you are looking for omens, consider another drought.
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A recent protest from a Christian group asking Netflix to remove Good Omens from its library is a perfect example — except that Good Omens isn't part of Netflix's library, because it's an Amazon show.
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And yet, Good Omens still makes for a generally spectacular watch.
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Good Omens debuts on Amazon Prime Video on May 31st, 2019.
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THE omens for the Chinese yuan seemed bad heading into 2017.
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Which brings us to "Good Omens", a book published in 1990.
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Kyle wondered how many omens he was missing every single day.
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For what it's worth, Good Omens isn't going to leave Amazon.
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And Amazon's "Good Omens" returned to the list after a hiatus.
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Like a rolling Sword of Omens, that Model X is. 4.
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And what omens might they offer for a post-Mugabe era?
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Sure enough, "Good Omens" earned rave reviews across the board — almost.
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But as omens go, the Twins might as well take it.
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It was a perfect storm of travel stress and bad omens.
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The President has no doubt he can buck the ill omens.
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Good Omens is set to premiere on May 31st on Amazon Prime.
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Eclipses were omens usually, auspices occasionally, but always signs of great import.
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Caption: Good Omens doesn't take itself too seriously—and neither should viewers.
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Yes, ancient cultures often connected eclipses with fear, dread and bad omens.
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These people hate women like Omar because they see them as omens.
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The omens of severe challenges to the industry are more numerous, however.
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They are neither helped nor hindered by "The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch", which is the name of a book of predictions in "Good Omens" and also the subtitle of "Good Omens", the book, itself.
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But the omens for Mr Ortega's fourth term as president are not encouraging.
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But the omens have seldom been as favourable, nor the stakes as high.
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Good Omens isn't out yet, but this will make the wait hurt less.
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And take it from my boss upstairs, Good Omens has it all. Drama?
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The omens are not good for those who step into the top job.
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"Hey @netflix, we'll cancel Stranger Things if you cancel Good Omens," it said.
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Maine and Kansas start to look less like omens and more like aberrations.
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"Good Omens," Amazon Prime's next original British show, is being produced by BBC Studios.
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Good Omens is one of those books you either love or haven't read yet.
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But when neither of them are on-screen, Good Omens grinds to a halt.
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Warning for Clinton But there's also a warning for Clinton in looking for omens.
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But the association of eclipses with bad omens or religious signs continued for centuries.
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It's especially great for fans of Good Omens and Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series.
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Since then, divine omens have played an important role in his life, Nelson says.
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These omens were meant to enlighten the solitary walker about marriage, conflict or death.
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Check out the trailer: Good Omens: Season 53 begins streaming on Prime Video 5/31.
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Now, at long last, Amazon has brought us a proper screen adaptation of Good Omens.
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All these good omens, however, may not mean China's banks have really turned the corner.
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That's a shame, because Good Omens has some strong themes, even if they're minimally developed.
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Most international summits are flops, and there were certainly some bad omens for this one.
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Like everything Terry makes, it's a thematically bleak affair, full of death and dark omens.
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Along with the rubble, roads and trucks served as omens of the excavation to come.
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"People really didn't understand what was going on and just took [eclipses] as omens,"Pasachoff said.
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But Good Omens, which he scripted and produced, represented a new level of commitment for him.
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Good Omens is Gaiman's extremely faithful adaptation of the apocalyptic tale he and Pratchett wrote together.
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The first trailer for Neil Gaiman's Good Omens dropped at New York Comic Con on Saturday.
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The brass elected to push ahead with the farm bill vote amid omens they shouldn't have.
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Armageddon is upon us — at least, it is in the newly released trailer for Good Omens.
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Isn't it comforting to know you're not the only one looking to bathe in bad omens?
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When all this started, it wasn't about good luck or bad omens or anything like that.
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The omens are good, and Democrats have reason to hope that 2016 was just an aberration.
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I'm all about signs and omens, but in this capacity, it's too vague and too weird.
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I don't see that in the future for the Jennings children, but the omens aren't good.
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Ominous times live on omens, and if you are looking for them you will find them.
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Splashy ads from Louis Vuitton, Cadillac and Gucci seemed like good omens for a prosperous future.
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For thousands of years, man has looked to the heavens for omens of doom, victory and joy.
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Beware if thee hath not yet read or seen Good Omens, as the endings shall be spoilt.
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It is too soon to say what all this means, but the omens in Ethiopia are good.
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The angels actually showed up in a first draft of the Good Omens film script we did.
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Neil Gaiman only had one rule for his Good Omens adaptation The film's antagonists feel similarly flat.
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"Good Omens" is available on Amazon now and will be broadcast on the BBC later this year.
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"Hey @netflix, we'll cancel Stranger Things if you cancel Good Omens," Amazon Prime Video cheekily tweeted back.
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Dirk Maggs, who adapted BBC Radio's adaptations of Stardust, Neverwhere and Good Omens, will helm this adaptation.
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While Good Omens winks at the subject of Crowley and Aziraphale's attraction, it won't outright admit it.
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If the omens had appeared to be conspiring against Osaka, she did herself no favors on court.
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Watson is ranked No. 4 in the world, and for those who love omens, that's great karma.
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Good Omens is landing in a world that has the end of the world on its mind.
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This is understandable, as solar eclipses used to be interpreted as omens of the end or whatever.
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He is the author of City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands.
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While comets have historically been seen as bad omens, Comet 45P doesn't pose a threat to Earth.
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The Good Omens star, 50, and girlfriend Anna Lundberg have welcomed their first child together, PEOPLE confirms.
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The reason: Inversions are seen as bad omens because they can forecast slower economic growth and precede recessions.
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Good Omens is being scripted by Gaiman himself, who agreed to create the show at Prachett's posthumous request.
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Amazon Studios announced this morning that it has greenlit a limited series based on Gaiman's novel Good Omens.
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That's nothing new for Neil Gaiman, co-author of the book and writer of the script Good Omens.
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"Stranger Things" season three continues to dominate streaming TV and Amazon's "Good Omens" is back on people's radar.
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This week includes Amazon Prime Video's "Carnival Row" and sees the return of "Good Omens" to the list.
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Although she goes to school, she abides by the curses, bad omens and taboos of her local culture.
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For millennia, eclipses were little-understood phenomena that many saw as bad omens or signs of heavenly displeasure.
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How can anyone say vultures bring bad omens when looking at such tenderness in this griffon vulture's eyes?
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AMLO will be inaugurated on December 1st (see article); the omens for his six-year term already look worrying.
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Good Omens provides more than enough evidence to cobble together a robust Tumblr devoted to shipping Crowley and Aziraphale.
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Though as writer Peter Rubin notes, the petition was initially directed at Netflix, which wasn't involved with Good Omens.
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As omens go, it was akin to opening an umbrella in the Red Sox clubhouse and shattering a mirror.
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He becomes obsessed with a guesthouse owner's daughter and begins to see very creepy omens, like a hanged sparrow.
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How long: ~5.5 hours over 6 episodes How to watch: Good Omens is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
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They've been seen as death omens, symbols of wisdom and good fortune, portents of witchcraft or Harry Potter references.
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Good Omens features a large ensemble cast of angels, demons, and humans all squabbling over the end of the world.
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" —Hayley Starshak "I'm about to reread Good Omens to get ready for the Amazon Prime show that's coming out soon.
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In the original Good Omens, celestial beings intercede to avoid the coming of the Antichrist, to hilarious and apocalyptic results.
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It's a nice cherry on this sundae because so much of Good Omens is built around people you already knew.
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These are worrying omens for Mr Maduro, whose survival in office probably depends on the success of his economic plan.
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For those looking for omens, travel disruption then caused much of London's financial centre to close on October 16th 1987.
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A heavenly duo dressed as the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley of 'Good Omens' posing in front of protestors.
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FOR those who worry that a repeat of the crisis of 2007-08 is imminent, this week brought fresh omens.
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Good Omens is a whimsical, joyous show about the least whimsical and joyous of subjects: The end of the world.
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The Dosh Khaleen are a kind of religious council that interprets omens and guides the fate of the Dothraki people.
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Mr. Poersch suggested the outcome in at least one historically Republican state could hold omens for the 2020 presidential election.
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Stocks are priced as if there's no risk despite omens of trade war, consumer confidence similarly seems to discount dangers.
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"December's data delivered some unpleasant omens for this year," said Martin Beck, senior economic adviser to consultancy EY ITEM Club.
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Psephologists and journalists treat these creatures as ancient Romans treated birds, studying their flight paths to see what the omens are.
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Image: Screen Shot via CraigslistA sign of warImage: Screen Shot via End Times HeadlinesThroughout history, eclipses have been interpreted as omens.
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Based on the best-selling novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens is a buddy comedy of biblical proportions.
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The book has come close several times to being turned into a movie over the three decades since Good Omens' publication.
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But we're still ultimately left with a screenplay that faithfully emphasizes Good Omens' plot rather than its profundities or literary flourishes.
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With Amazon's Good Omens premiering this week, the Scottish actor adds another subgenre to his resume — let's call it Biblical fantasy.
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He drawls about animals as omens: hound dogs in the road, a scorpion, a white wolf, a goblin in his bed.
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According to Variety, he's just been tapped to joined the show Good Omens, which will be premiering on Amazon in 2019.
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Omens If Trump and Clinton were seeking an omen from Wednesday night's thrilling showdown, there was something for both of them.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 1): 83%What critics said: "Good Omens is, at its heart, a cosmic gay rom-com.
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The shooting began after a fight broke out during an anniversary party hosted by the Omens Motorcycle Club, the authorities said.
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If you're looking for a comedic take on supernatural beings living in our world, there's no better book than Good Omens.
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"Good Omens" establishes that Aziraphale and Crowley have been on Earth for millenniums, luring its inhabitants toward salvation and damnation, respectively.
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If you're into omens, the Yankees have won the World Series every 20 years, on the 113s, for a while now.
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With new original shows like Good Omens and Carnival Row coming out this year, the obsession-worthy content is only getting started!
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Fires and hurricanes feel less like symbols than signals, evidence of a disaster that's already here rather than omens of impending catastrophe.
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Though it's officially spring, the snowfall and thunderstorms plaguing the country aren't the only bad omens that winter is far from over.
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Finding a cache of adorable pups days before you tie the knot has to be one of the best wedding omens around.
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If there's such a thing as a fantasy counterpart to A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, then that counterpart is Good Omens.
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"The peculiarity of making Good Omens now, 30 years later... it feels more apt than it did then," Neil Gaiman told Mashable.
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The omens are there: In 2007, India lost an early match to New Zealand in this tournament, but went on to win.
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And among its copious jokes, "Good Omens" has the wit and good taste to mock "The Sound of Music" on multiple occasions.
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Filled with casual omens — a snake tumbling from a ceiling; a gun-store clerk warning of danger — Heidi's search grows increasingly fanciful.
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The opulent, sterile rooms are visited by some of the birds alluded to in the film's title, omens of change and catastrophe.
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When Artaud traveled to Mexico, he saw omens everywhere and was sure they were pursuing him, and this drove him deeper into madness.
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Other highlights for this month: the adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's beloved novel Good Omens is coming to Amazon Prime Video.
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Next year, Amazon will release Good Omens, its 6-episode series based on the classic fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
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She didn't need her therapist to tell her she was seeing bad omens where there weren't any because disruptions in routine unsettled her.
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Neil Gaiman has announced that he is adapting Good Omens — the novel he wrote with Terry Pratchett — into a six-part TV series.
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The original post even got a shoutout from the Twitter of Amazon Prime's Good Omens, promoting their own show's (excellent) grump/sunshine trope.
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Mr Barnes, a Seventh-Day Adventist, often prayed with his visitors beside the road, and his rare absences were taken as bad omens.
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It took nearly 30 years of misfires, false starts and tragedy, including Pratchett's death in 2015, for "Good Omens" to reach the screen.
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Yet if you're looking for omens, no team has ever won the World Series with a 10-game losing streak, according to Elias.
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So the effect of his non-singing presence makes the song into a sort of funhouse-mirror Johnny Cash ballad—all omens and portents delivered with grave urgency and simmering anger, except that these omens and portents are about a plague of gangly twerps who can't even be used as fish bait because their tainted presence would kill all the marine life.
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The early omens were not good for Uruguay who stood stunned before kickoff when the Chilean national anthem was played instead of their own.
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He opened his textbook on omens and tried to read, but was too distracted by worrying to actually absorb what he was looking at.
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At New York Comic Con this weekend, Amazon released the first look at its upcoming miniseries, Good Omens, based on the classic fantasy novel.
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Good Omens centers on the angel Aziraphale (a buttoned-up, white-haired Michael Sheen) and the demon Crowley (a sleazy, snake-eyed David Tennant).
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Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.
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"He says he's not a superstitious guy, but the San Francisco native also admits: "I've always believed in the power of signs and omens.
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Law and Justice maintained a lead in provincial assemblies, prompting Kaczyński to gas about "omens" and hopes of a "better atmosphere" for the future.
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It may even give us a reason to believe that bad omens can be overcome, once and for all, by the ways of magic.
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The evils, the omens, the Americans working on secret weapons and the K.G.B. looking for traitors were all part of the same malevolent atmosphere.
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"We do note that the Hindenburg Omens have appeared near many market tops, but not every Omen turns into a market top," O'Hara said.
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But were eclipses just reflections—or omens—associated with random goings-on in the heavens, perhaps in some kind of soap opera among the gods?
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In the land of Hindenburg Omens, January Barometers and Super Bowl Effects, few supposed indicators get investors' toes tapping as much as the Golden Cross.
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A religious group is calling for Netflix to cancel the new series Good Omens — the only problem is, the show streams on Amazon Prime Video.
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Good Omens, the novel he co-wrote with the late Terry Pratchett, is also slated to begin streaming on Amazon Prime sometime in early 2019.
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Prime Video features classic and current TV shows and films, as well as original content like Good Omens, Jack Ryan and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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All the omens had seemed in place for a Spanish victory with Garcia starting the day perched atop the leaderboard alongside Rose on Ballesteros' birthday.
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Critic's Notebook 16 Photos View Slide Show ' Lately, the Chicken Littles of fashion are reading dire omens into a cluster of design world shake-ups.
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This is not here because of ancient understandings of solar eclipses as the work of Jesus returning to Earth or ill omens of Satanic doom.
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I see connections between things that other people do not see: poetry in the flight of birds and omens in the garbage on the street.
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Image: Jeff Kowalsky (AP)It looks like this week is dead set on proving that old superstition about bad omens: They always come in threes.
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Though there are troubles and omens, Fitz and Joanie remain committed and enthusiastic trippers throughout the move to idyllic Mexico and then to rural Millbrook.
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The omens for this series finally seemed good for the Capitals: The Blue Jackets have not won a playoff series in their 18-year history.
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Grimes finds herself by losing herself: in concepts and characters and costumes, in surreally larger-than-life music, in overarching ideas and omens of apocalypse.
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I will, indeed, be monitoring my kid closely this year, both for signs of blooming and omens of disaster, but not on the grading portal.
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It will take years for these startups to transform the system, but the omens are positive, and the impact will be felt across all segments.
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Along with his companion, a stray dog fittingly named Dante, he treks through the underworld while facing obstacles and bad omens that pop up constantly.
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"Good Omens" would benefit from a bit more forward momentum during its midsection, but its underlying appeal relies upon making even the biggest issues somehow mundane.
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I've read Neil Gaiman's American Gods, his Anansi Boys, Coraline, Smoke & Mirrors, Sandman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Good Omens - I'm a fan.
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If you want to get an idea for how it plays, there's a digital version available for PC, Mac, iOS and Android called Elder Sign Omens.
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He's also thanked people who have taken the petition as a way to share their own stories about personal connections to Good Omens and various religions.
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"Terry and I had a deal that we would only work on Good Omens things together," said Gaiman of an initial proposal to adapt the work.
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Like the upcoming Good Omens TV show, the Discworld series will be co-produced by Narrativia (which owns the exclusive rights to all of Pratchett's works).
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Pratchett is known for his comic fantasy work including Discworld, Good Omens, and Nation, and died at the age of 66 in 2015 after fighting Alzheimer's disease.
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Just this week in Pretoria, the capital, buses were set on fire in political feuding that offered grim, pyrotechnic omens for critical local elections on Aug. 3.
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Bad omens, but not surprising, as nuclear war has been on our minds since the first, the iconic mushroom cloud (surely, the singular symbol of our era).
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He said even though "the omens aren't great" on getting the EU to agree to Johnson's deal, the bloc still appeared to be open to further negotiations.
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Still, Conservatives' win -- and the Democratic presidential race and omens for Trump's reelection -- are not a perfect comparison for the primary race of the 2020 US election.
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Due to centuries of superstitions and unfounded prejudice, black cats are often associated with bad omens, not the positive fluffy feelings that are usually associated with cute kitties.
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" And so I wrote an email to Jon Hamm and said, "Jon, you told me once that Good Omens was one of your favorite books 20 years ago.
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Good Omens has been adapted before: the BBC broadcast a six-part radio play based on the book in 2014, in which Gaiman and Pratchett recorded cameo roles.
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Image: AmazonA Christian group known as Return to Order has been running a campaign to urge Netflix to remove the show Good Omens, which was released on Amazon.
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And then write some of those symbols down, and go to a book, like Ted Andrews' Animal Speak, which is an amazing book about interpreting signs and omens.
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We asked the star-studded cast of Good Omens for their apocalypse predictions and how they process the existential dread that comes with living in the year 2019.
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In 2016, a new law allowed the BBC to collaborate with commercial competitors for the first time, enabling Amazon to cover 70 percent of the "Good Omens" budget.
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"Because I'm old, now 94, I recognize these omens of doom," wrote Harry Leslie Smith, a Royal Air Force veteran, in an essay this week in The Guardian.
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Finding an eyeball in the harvest cake in Drag Me To Hell (19933) Bank loan officer Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) begins seeing bad omens everywhere—or are they hallucinations?
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Every nerdy person seems to love Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's jovial novel about an angel and a demon joining together to stop the world from ending.
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Nor is that lack of doubt rhetorical, for monitoring activity in the nether parts of the web can, and in this case did, offer omens of trouble to come.
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The Kennedys have experienced so much tragedy and a new book by one of their own reveals that two of the family's most shattering tragedies were foreshadowed by omens.
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A mere two months later, the screen version of Gaiman's apocalyptic comedy book co-written with Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, is unleashed on an unsuspecting world via Amazon Prime.
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Crowley (David Tennant) and Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), the demon and angel duo in the delightfully whimsical Amazon Prime show Good Omens, do, indeed, give each other rom-com eyes.
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To promote its Prime Original "Good Omens," Amazon took over a city block with a "land of earthly delights," featuring beer and wine, sushi, free manicures and even puppies.
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Amazon Studios The new Amazon series Good Omens, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, presents a lighthearted take on the idea of angels and demons.
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One of Neil Gaiman's most beloved stories, Stardust, will make its radio debut this December, following the model of the earlier BBC Radio adaptions of Neverwhere and Good Omens.
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So great and looming is the unlucky black cat in public imagination that we tend to overlook the points in history when black cats were viewed as good omens.
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"Illusions" and "Omens" offer excellent examples of the band's control over tempo and mood, and lengthy album closer, "Equilibrium," makes a solid argument for saving the best for last.
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Some people saw omens of impending doom, connections with the increasingly apocalyptic feel of the current news cycle: Brexit, the rise of the far right, the changing global climate.
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They'll make the case that what happened in Pennsylvania was peculiar to Pennsylvania and that there are few omens to be seen in it or lessons to be gleaned.
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Instead to get your yes-or-no answer, you were meant to tally the number of good or bad omens—and in this case, the numbers came up Trump.
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Carlson says people often have trouble attributing which streamer carries which show, as when people protested the show Good Omens at Netflix even though it ran on Amazon Prime.
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It's appropriate that clouds, so long associated with both omens and obscurity, would be the locus of so much that's unknown about the changes we are setting in motion.
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The omens are good that 2012 will be an excellent year, a druid said today, after the sun shone on Stonehenge during a dawn ceremony to mark the winter solstice.
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But now that the omens regarding 2020 seem less favorable to Republicans, countries that banked on Trump might have to start hedging their bets by endearing themselves to the Democrats.
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"Good Omens" revolves around an angel, Aziraphale (Michael Sheen, combining twee with camp), a demon, Crowley (David Tennant channelling Bill Nighy in "Love Actually"), and the end of the world.
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"We've seen tremendous growth in our equity index and energy products during the past few years," said Mark Omens, executive director and head of retail sales at the CME Group.
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Twitter's overwhelming reaction, as well as the many works of Good Omens erotic fan-fic would have you leaning toward the latter (and imagining their intergalactic romps in graphic detail).
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The Good Omens actor, 50, who is expecting a baby with his girlfriend Anna Lundberg, cleared up the speculation about his relationship timeline with the 25-year-old Swedish actress.
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Tali Edut, one half of the Astrotwins, tells Refinery29 that no reading, even one that foretells of an extremely challenging cycle like a Mercury retrograde, consists exclusively of ill omens.
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After that, we went home and worked (there is no such word as "weekend" in freelancer-land) until dinner — at home, for once — before watching "Good Omens" on Amazon Prime.
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Indeed, most of the other omens were not good: the Indian monsoon season in 2015 was among the driest in decades, and Chhota Shigri appears to have received less snow.
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Rich with enchanting visual descriptions and dialogue that practically begs to be read aloud, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's 1990 fantasy novel Good Omens is one book that belongs on-screen.
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Given that Trump has made his presidency an exercise in self-flattery and has rarely striven for national unity, the omens are not looking great for a heartwarming non-partisan evening.
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"Good Omens" follows an angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and demon Crowley (David Tennant) as they attempt to save the world from apocalypse and the coming of Antichrist, an 11-year-old.
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This, he said, was one of many consequences of insecurity that "are less headline-grabbing, but are still evil omens for the future of a desperately poor and largely illiterate country."
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This devastation was presaged by numerous omens, including one that foretold the coming of conquerors from distant lands riding on the backs of animals, who would vanquish and rule the Aztecs.
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And while the White House may bristle at coverage of Obama's friendship with Merkel, the history of the ex-President and the German Chancellor may contain some good omens for Trump.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 1): 83%What critics said: "Among its copious jokes, 'Good Omens' has the wit and good taste to mock 'The Sound of Music' on multiple occasions.
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But what makes the diverting and mostly pleasurable "Good Omens" especially timely is something that hasn't much changed: Armageddon seems as real a possibility now as it did three decades ago.
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Most of Good Omens' magic does come from the truly collaborative joy emanating from Pratchett and Gaiman, both authors who like to shift between ebullient whimsy and profound rumination on the cosmos.
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With Gaiman at the helm, and with an ample amount of time to do the book's nuances justice, Good Omens succeeds much better than any recent Gaiman (or Pratchett) adaptation in memory.
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He was panting and damp from arousal and very close to coming, though not close enough to come from five light strokes alone, when she began to quiz him on the omens.
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During a Comic Con panel, Gaiman said it took three decades and multiple failed movie attempts to adapt Good Omens for the screen, until Pratchett suggested Gaiman adapt it for television himself.
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But although it was a relationship that would alter the course of history, the author of Colour Bar, Susan Williams, tells PEOPLE there were early omens of the struggle that lay ahead.
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For anyone who didn't get the chance to sign the Good Omens petition before it was taken down, you still have the opportunity to sign a protest of Walmart selling satanic products.
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While it only recently hit Twitter in full force, the subject of Aziraphale and Crowley's obvious (romantic?) attraction has long been discussed among Good Omens fans, hence the plethora of fan-fic.
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For those who love omens, McIlroy aced the par-3 313th hole in his Monday practice round, so maybe the Shamrock Slam has a chance of being fulfilled this week after all.
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He knew the milk foaming at the whirlpool's edge was bad medicine and chose the lesser of two omens— a prophecy where the weak get plucked and you sail on home fine.
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It's worth asking whether August's profoundly negative atmospherics — the deepening anxiety over trade-war escalation and purported omens of recession — have left Wall Street pretty well-braced for what September might hold.
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It's taken a long time for "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch," Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's 1990 end-of-days fantasy novel, to reach the screen.
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Then came one of the most extraordinary and underappreciated chapters in urban design history — a chapter that, though 175 years in the past, contains many omens and warnings for Barcelona's current efforts.
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So, it seems only fitting that Amazon, a long ago bookstore, be the company to finally pull it off — releasing all six parts of its impeccable Good Omens miniseries to subscribers on Friday.
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At its press brief before the Television Critics Association today, Amazon announced that its adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's classic fantasy novel Good Omens will begin streaming on May 31st, 2019.
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Amazon and BBC Studios' upcoming adaptation of the Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman novel Good Omens has cast its lead roles of Aziraphale and Crowley with actors Michael Sheen and David Tennant, respectively.
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Yes, that Good News: the television adaptation of Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman's beloved book Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch will premiere soon on Amazon Prime Video!
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The plot gets a little muddled at the end, but I like that it plays with traditional Nollywood tropes (a Shakespearean visit from a ghost and ill omens) while avoiding simplistic moral lessons.
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The omens were bad from the start: a plane flew overhead bearing the sign: "YOU BROKE DEMOCRACY," courtesy of the anti-monopoly activist group Freedom From Facebook, who want the network broken up.
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" Paul Kaye (Thoros of Myr) will bear witness to more magic when his character finds a nuclear power plant's uranium displaced by a mysterious force on the upcoming Amazon mini-series "Good Omens.
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We've had the latest seasons of the author's American Gods and Lucifer, the recent Good Omens adaptation, and now there are even rumours of Sandman — Gaiman's comic book series — being adapted by Netflix.
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In an apropos bit of news, Amazon announced today that author Neil Gaiman will be adapting his novel Good Omens into a "comedic apocalyptic" miniseries, set to be released on Prime Video next year.
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It's kind of astonishing that it took this long to get an adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens, which I swear every remotely geeky person I know has read and loves.
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Kamel Daoud Oran, Algeria — IT might have been an occasion for collectors of omens to rejoice: For the first time in nearly five centuries, in 2015 the Prophet Muhammad's birthday coincided with Jesus' birthday.
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They were found on Day 10 and their extraction from the cave was completed on July 10 — two omens suggesting that the Thai people might be saved at the dawn of the 10th reign.
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Her monthly horoscopes can clock in at 40,000-plus words, organized into long, winding essays that offer her readers encouragement and advice pegged to the good or bad omens she sees in the planets.
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Sourikoff's work has involved wacky stunts, from a months-long traveling street team of Satanic nuns to promote Amazon Prime Video's show "Good Omens" to a cosmic interactive AR and audio installation for Dolby.
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An extended pre-credits sequence in one episode of Amazon's Good Omens displays the best part of the six-episode miniseries based on the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
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It is, therefore, a simple decision for any viewer: regardless of the actual plot, acting, set design, or any other aspect of the content of "Good Omens", those who like twee will like the show.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The omens were starting to look rather promising for Simona Halep as she skipped into the Wimbledon fourth round with a 6-4 6-3 win over Dutch dangerwoman Kiki Bertens on Saturday.
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Omens look poor for Republicans, since Trump's approval rating sits between 40% and 45% in most polls and history suggests that first-term presidents who are that unpopular typically lead their parties to heavy losses.
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Netflix jokingly promised "not to make any more" episodes of "Good Omens," a show that streams on Amazon Prime, after thousands of people signed on to a Christian petition asking Netflix to drop the program.
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At least 99 of the clay tablets recovered from Mesopotamian dig sites deal with the omens to be found in livers—one of them, covered in esoteric, mystical annotations, is actually shaped like a liver.
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He recently finished writing the scripts for "Good Omens," a six-part series based on the novel he wrote with Terry Pratchett; the series is to appear on Amazon Prime and the BBC next year.
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The Amazon Prime adaptation of Good Omens, the cult-favorite novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, is nearing its release, and a new trailer has given us the best look yet at the upcoming series.
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This magical bundle of black clay and bad omens may look like the cat of your nightmares, but in reality he's just trying to save Dakota Fanning's dumb ass from getting buttons sewn into her face.
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Bravely, I pressed on, willfully ignoring the oozy omens of impending doom now chilling out in the bubbling goodness, and asking the guy in Sutton if they had any other chocolate things I could deep fry.
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The film also brings back Val Kilmer, and it stars Jon Hamm (Good Omens, Mad Men), Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Alita: Battle Angel), Ed Harris (Westworld, Apollo 13), and Miles Teller (Fantastic Four, Only the Brave).
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The online petition seeks to have "Good Omens," a show on Amazon Prime that tells the story of a demon and an angel who team up to defeat the Antichrist and prevent the apocalypse, removed from Netflix.
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Analysts and diplomats in Kabul, the Afghan capital, worry that the messy parliamentary elections and the dispute over the speakership are omens for what is to come in September's presidential election, when the stakes are much higher.
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Starz will release a third season of the show based on his novel American Gods next year, while Amazon Prime Video just released its adaptation of Good Omens, a novel that he wrote with the late Terry Pratchett.
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Audible has put together a big Harry Potter experience in advance of the upcoming Fantastic Beasts film, while Amazon is putting on its own slate of activations for shows like Good Omens, The Tick, Lore, and Jack Ryan.
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Along with the news, TheWrap reports that the studio has signed fantasy author Neil Gaiman for an overall TV deal, coming after his work on Amazon's forthcoming adaptation of Good Omens and his work on Starz's American Gods.
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The highly anticipated series, based on the novel Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett, centers on two otherworldly beings determined to save the earth from Armageddon.
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But that being said, Prime Video has much to offer and has quietly evolved into a premiere streaming service in and of itself, with top-notch originals such as Fleabag, Good Omens, and an impressive library of films.
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Starz's television take on American Gods is set to release in 2017, as well as a planned six-part TV series of Good Omens, the novel he co-wrote with late fantasy author and longtime friend Terry Prachett.
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Poor omens When Trump and then-House Minority Leader Pelosi last met, earlier this week at the White House, things headed south when the President ordered his homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, to brief lawmakers on border security.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 83%What critics said: "What makes the diverting and mostly pleasurable "Good Omens" especially timely is something that hasn't much changed: Armageddon seems as real a possibility now as it did three decades ago.
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At her lifestyle hub The Midheaven, she works with horoscopes, spells and omens for spiritual seekers; when I reached out to her, she replied with the sort of warm, bright professional compassion one might associate with a therapist.
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When he lost all three of his matches at the inaugural ATP Cup in the lead-up to the season's opening slam, the omens did not look good for his chances of doing well at the Australian Open.
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Sometimes, like with Forever and Comrade Detective, this works out, and other times we get stuck with Good Omens or whatever Too Old to Die Young was supposed to be—but even the failures are interesting, at least.
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Good omens are aplenty: Jake Arrieta looks sharp this spring after throwing a troubling number of high-leverage innings last year, Jon Lester is practicing his pickoff moves, and the Cubs haven't even given up the farm yet.
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Starring Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale and David Tennant as the demon Crowley, Good Omens chronicles the misadventures of a biblically opposed duo searching for the "misplaced" son of Satan before he can bring about the world's end.
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While other screen adaptations of Gaiman's works have been hit-or-miss (Coraline, Stardust), Good Omens maintains a sunny, Pratchett-like disposition that keeps it from feeling too self-important, which Gaiman's works unfortunately tend to do when adapted.
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Good Omens is, at its heart, a cosmic gay rom-com, with bad-boy Crowley tempting Aziraphale to get out of his comfort zone and enjoy life, while Aziraphale simultaneously lures him into being a better, less selfish person.
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SYDNEY, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Australian business investment hit its highest in over a year last quarter while approvals to build new homes climbed to the strongest in eight months, promising omens for a pick up in broader economic activity.
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Dirk Maggs — who co-directed the Neverwhere and Good Omens adaptations — is set to direct the Stardust radio play, which will feature Matthew Beard (The Imitation Game) as Tristran alongside Sophie Rundle (Peaky Blinders) as the falling star, Yvaine.
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" Geomancy is an ancient means of divination involving throwing soil and rocks and interpreting their omens; Grahm, in the Northern California way, is an agreeable mixture of tough-minded agricultural science and what he calls "Santa Cruz woo-woo.
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But there is a dark side to those promising omens: Democrats have also fallen short in several special elections that were teed up as the kind of race they would need to win to take back the House majority.
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Trump is becoming increasingly nervous that the end of an 11-year expansion could scupper his hopes of a second term and is going on the attack as ill omens and recent stock market slumps haunt the global economy.
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Another group that I'd say has a relatively healthy approach to their subject matter and their creators is the recently revived Good Omens fandom, which is basically just beautiful fanart of its OTP and lots of Michael Sheen love.
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Just look at the aforementioned authors: Neil Gaiman collaborated with the late, great Terry Pratchett on Good Omens; Douglas Adams beat his deadline and shared the glory on his non-fiction environmental travelogue Last Chance to See with zoologist Mark Carwardine.
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And for viewers who figure out quickly that the fun of Good Omens is in watching the drama around the world ending, rather than fussing too much over the actual end of the world, this is a series that won't disappoint.
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Its intentionally hyperbolic, breathless text presented details like the fact that Obama "woke up late … and went for a haircut with his pal Marty Nesbitt" the way an ancient monarch's courtiers used to examine his every sigh for divine omens.
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Omens of menacing times could also be gleaned from Metaphysical Masterpieces 1916–1920: Morandi, Sironi, and Carrà at the Center for Italian Modern Art, an exhibition of paintings completed just before the Fascist takeover of the Italian government in 1922.
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More than 123 years later in Battersea Park, Gaiman can still quote from memory Joe Queenan's review in The New York Times, which argued that "Good Omens" was more than unfunny — it was proof that the British are intrinsically humorless.
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Trilobites Nearly six centuries ago, Korean astronomers scanning the night sky for omens of the future spotted a new star in the cluster of stars they called Wei, and what today's star watchers consider the tail of the Scorpius constellation.
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Midterm elections typically turn on which party is more enthusiastic about sending a message; in the past special elections have served as political omens, like when former Senator Scott Brown's upset win in Massachusetts in 2010 foreshadowed a building conservative wave.
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Above all, Trump is hardening his line on immigration, the explosive issue that is usually a winner for him, in a strategy designed to drive his loyalists to the polls to defy ominous midterm omens that haunt every first-term president.
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If you want, Success Studies can be read as the rituals of a culture that outlasted or outgrew its values and declined into the worship of omens and signs, ultimately elevating the rituals themselves over whatever purpose or notional godhead they once served.
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Ignoring the rain on Thursday and Friday and the omens of Woodstock reunions past, they held hands in a circle around a peace sign on the lawn, smoked blunts while singing along to Arlo Guthrie, and swayed to the rhythm of their generation.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 83%What critics said: "Good Omens' biggest thrill is found in the pitch-perfect pairing of David Tennant and Michael Sheen as a millennia-old odd couple who find themselves increasingly attached to our flawed selves — and each other.
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The first and most important question -- one Trump frequently raises during his travels -- is whether he can defy historic omens and re-create robust turnout from his most loyal supporters that would mirror his stunning 2016 race and help lift Republican candidates.
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But these are willed thoughts, a hedge against an atavistic instinct to read omens and signs into a giant black vulture that has staked out my home on a day when the federal government has announced its intention to claim my child.
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"We are not seeing the kind of broadly shared growth overall that a lot of the proponents of the law were hoping for," Alison Omens, the managing director at Just Capital, a nonprofit that measures and ranks American companies on social responsibility, said.
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We still don't know exactly what happened to Tim Bergling, known as Avicii, who was found dead in Muscat, Oman last week, but the loss has inspired people to look back at everything he contributed to music, and they've stumbled upon some heartbreaking omens.
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Stardust, Coraline and American Gods are all the progeny of his frankly obscenely rich imagination, but the upcoming Good Omens will be the first adaptation for screen of his and the late Sir Terry Pratchett's cult hit (although there is a cracking BBC radio version).
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The big show, the men's 100 meters featuring Usain Bolt, begins on Saturday when Bolt will hope the omens of his double world record on the blue of Berlin in 2009 will bring more glory in Rio, the first Olympics to boast a blue track.
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"We're seeing a trend away from the Milton Friedman/the only expectation is you make money, attitude toward seeing business as leaders in the community," said Alison Omens, managing director at Just Capital, a nonprofit that measures and ranks American companies on social responsibility.
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Forget comic books; somehow, SF/F novels have become Hollywood's hottest IP. Some highlights of what may be on its way: Amazon is making Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and Larry Niven's Ringworld, and a show based on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens is in production.
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While the Amazon / BBC Studios series is the first time Good Omens is being adapted for the screen, Tennant and Sheen aren't the first actors to take on the roles: Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap played Crowley and Aziraphale, respectively, in a 2014 BBC radio adaptation.
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On Saturday, the 6th of October at 9:00pm, the good people of Mashable and IGN will co-host a Good Omens soiree at Lightbox on 248 West 37th Street, a quick walk from the Jacob Javits Center, which can be stimulating on a brisk autumn evening.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 83%What critics said: "With an engaging cast, a wonderful sense of style, and a story that feels both timeless and tailor-made to today, Good Omens crafts a very binge-worthy fantasy tale that audiences will likely fall in love with.
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Now his fantasy classic Good Omens is coming to screens, and the odd-couple tale of a demon and an angel who are (kind of) friends and are trying to thwart the apocalypse looks to be one of the highlights of 2019's new TV lineup.
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It's easy to imagine a big-budget feature version of "Good Omens" that would lean into the sentimentality while also giving more striking visual treatment to Adam's accidental reorderings of the world, like the sudden emergence of Atlantis and the appearance of tunneling Tibetans in Lower Tadfield.
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Adapted by Neil Gaiman from his and co-author Terry Pratchett's fantasy novel of the same name, Good Omens tells the spellbinding epic of the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), the demon Crowley (David Tennant), and the pair's race against time to stop the Antichrist from destroying Earth.
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As you might have guessed by seeing a few episodes, or even just the poster for the Amazon series, Good Omens authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett relied heavily on well-known Biblical tales for their novel about the coming of the antichrist and the end of the world.
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Amid these omens of an economy decelerating, traders fully expect Fed officials would agree to lower U.S. interest rates by at least a quarter point at the end of July to preserve the longest economic expansion on record, based on CME Group's calculation of interest rates futures prices.
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Amid these omens of a decelerating economy, traders fully expect Fed officials will agree to lower U.S. interest rates by at least a quarter point at the end of July to preserve the longest economic expansion on record, based on CME Group's calculation of interest rates futures prices.
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Dan Werb is the author of "City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands," an assistant professor in the division of infectious diseases and global public health at the University of California, San Diego, and the director of the Center on Drug Policy Evaluation.
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In particular, if you've seen any of Tennant's work as the Tenth Doctor, you'll already know how he's perfected the casual "clever than everyone else in the room" attitude that's such an integral part of Crowley's character, while also displaying both the comedic and dramatic chops that Good Omens would require.
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The Dream Book was a long list of dreams that were believed to be either auspicious or bad omens, and they'd gotten a kick out of reading examples, one of which Danielle remembered: auspicious—if a man sees himself sawing wood in a dream, it is a sign that his enemies are dead .
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Beyond the perfectly matched leads, "Good Omens" is populated by an impressive cast, including Jon Hamm as the Angel Gabriel (a typically officious boss), Miranda Richardson and Michael McKean as two mortals in way over their heads, Mireille Enos as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and Frances McDormand as the voice of the Almighty.
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You've got fan favorites salvaged from the cancellation pile at other networks (The Expanse), buzzy podcast adapations (Homecoming, starring Julia Roberts and helmed by Mr. Robot's Sam Esmail), Neil Gaiman miniseries (Good Omens, based on Gaiman's collaboration with Terry Pritchard), and pricey action reboots (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, with John Krasinksi in the starring role and Carlton Cuse showrunning).
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Yet the omens of a blood-speckled creativity are there: An alcoholic father who stopped drinking away the family's few coins only when he was sent to live out his remaining days in a sanitarium; the teenage street brawls after which Arthur would boast not of winning but of having done the most damage to his opponent.
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That's both a blessing and a curse for Amazon's Good Omens, which is at its best whenever Aziraphale and Crowley share the screen, but which tends to feel aimless whenever the narrative switches to focus on the other cast members: the meddling demons, the officious angel Gabriel (Jon Hamm in purple contacts), a prophetic witch and her descendent, Anathema Device (Adria Arjona).
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Now, before joining the cast of Amazon's Good Omens in 2019, he's bursting back onto our screens alongside Gone Girl's Rosamund Pike in Beirut, a sweaty drama that follows Mason Skiles (Hamm) as he returns to Lebanon with CIA operative Sandy Crowder (Pike) to bargain for the life of the friend he left behind when he fled the country back in 1972.
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But if my recommendation and the name brands of two of fantasy's best authors in Prachett and Gaiman teaming up isn't enough to get you on board, Good Omens is basically the story of the aforementioned Crowley and Aziraphale and their efforts to prevent the apocalypse and protect the world from judgement day, largely due to the fact that the two of them prefer the luxuries of life more than fighting in some heavenly war.
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Four days after its premiere, "The Mandalorian" was:58.7% ahead of Amazon Prime Video's "Good Omens"35.8% ahead of Netflix's "The Umbrella Academy"15% ahead of Netflix's "When They See Us"11.5% ahead of Netflix's "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance""Given Disney Plus' episodic release strategy, we expect demand for 'The Mandalorian' to continue to grow further as new episodes become available to stream over the next several weeks," a Parrot Analytics representative told Business Insider.
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That said, if fantasizing about Donald having a crap time makes you feel better, than yes, remember that eclipses are bad omens for rulers, and both eclipses this month stimulate his chart in an intense way: Today's will activate his Pluto, which is the planet of power (and the abuse of it!), and the one on August 21 will activate his ascendant, which is a crucial point in the birth chart symbolizing ourselves and our standing.
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Everyone knows that this is how October works, that it's all omens and vibes and luck and holy ghosts from here on out, but it's hard to talk about the way randomness rules the playoffs that way without sounding ... well, you've read this column to this point, so you know that I at least am incapable of talking about it without sounding like a man in a stained Paul Lo Duca shirsey drunkenly drawing a map of the universe on a cocktail napkin.
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