“Didactylos shrugged. “The Turtle exists. The world is a flat disc. The sun turns round it once every day, dragging its light behind it. And this will go on happening, whether you believe it is true or not. It is real. I don’t know about truth. Truth is a lot more complicated than that. I […]
Read More Top 5 Discworld Screen AdaptationsI’ve been dreading the BBC’s The Watch for a while. It had the words “A bold reimagining by the BBC” in front of it, so I knew it would be bad but… Oh, my fucking fuckity fuck!!! This is much more horrible than I could have ever imagined it to be. This isn’t a just […]
Read More I NEED EYE BLEEEEEECH!!Biden’s lead in the polls is a comfortable one and has been that way for months. In fact, he has maintained that lead over Trump since before he had been chosen as the Democrats candidate. * Going back to October of 2019, that substantial lead over Trump was there. Back before COVID when the economy […]
Read More Cataline’s Take on the PollsI admit it. I laughed out loud at this one.
Read More What Trump’s Recovery Really MeansMy ban on spoilers for Peace Talks is now lifted. If you haven’t read that book yet and intend to, stop reading now. There will also be one major spoiler for Battleground. ***SPOILER ALERT*** ***SPOILER ALERT*** ***SPOILER ALERT*** ***SPOILER ALERT*** ***SPOILER ALERT*** ***SPOILER ALERT*** ***SPOILER ALERT*** Battleground is a drastically stronger work than Peace Talks. […]
Read More Battleground: First ImpressionsNot today. Not Tomorrow. Not next year. But COVID is a wound from which Disney will never recover. Disney is simply too big to recover. Before the Fox purchase, they MIGHT have had enough liquidity to ride it out in the short term without taking on debt but regardless, that wasn’t the case after Iger’s […]
Read More The End of Disney?This is a bit of an l’esprit de l’escalier post. From my piece on Kolchak the Night Stalker. “Horror, began appropriately enough during the Reign of Terror. Religion was officially outlawed in France. The Catholic Church had been forced out of the country and if you were going to worship anything at all, it had […]
Read More Horror: A ThoughtNetflix is doing a Conan TV series. The days when I would get excited over a new reboot are long over. These days my reaction is more along the lines of, “No Daddy! Please NO!!!” The guys from Midnight’s Edge are optimistic about it but I just don’t see Netflix doing it right. They are […]
Read More Popculture Deathcart: The Kalends of OctoberFrom the National Post: “Google searches in the U.S. for the terms “move to Canada” and “how to move to Canada” skyrocketed last night, hitting their peak at around 10 p.m. Eastern time, right as the two candidates were locked in their grim battle.” You know damn good and well nobody on the Right ever […]
Read More Proof That Trump Won the DebateWhen my wife looked over my piece on Enola Holmes there was something at the end that caught her attention: “But if they (the writers) had let her first love die… If they had allowed Enola to fail. I would have had to have given it a higher rating. It would have made this a much […]
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