Blogs and Ends

Well, it’s August which means it’s Halloween Season. (*Cataline shakes head…wanders aimlessly in a circle as if hit by a brick*). So… Okay, Tower of Terror stars Steve Guttenberg so I’ll accept that. Haunted Mansion. Eddie Murphy. Same notation. Mister Toad’s Wild Ride. (?) Well maybe it terrifies Millennials, that’s possible. Also it might include […]

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An EV Truck?

Hrrm? Well here are the stats according to Rivian, the company that is building or rather claiming they will build this truck. Range: 400+ miles Zero to Sixty: 3 seconds HP: 750 Towing Capacity: 11,000 lbs Wading Depth: 3ft Price: $69,000 before rebate These are very impressive stats for a company that no one on […]

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Veggie Tales Returns

When Netflix axed the unloved and unfortuneate bastard child of Veggie Tales, Veggie Tales in the House, the view around Fortress Cataline was, well maybe this is for the best. It wasn’t a patch on the old DVD series and the market had shifted so that their old business model of one DVD every three […]

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Can Terminator be Saved?

The video below addresses the fundamental problem with the Terminator franchise. The Terminator franchise has four major tropes. One, time travel. Two, killer android hunting Namehere Connor Three, trying to prevent a robot apocalypse. Four, and nothing else. And those tropes are it’s major problem. Everyone is expecting them and no one is surprised by […]

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Red Flag Ivanka

Ivanka Trump is not one us. Given her life that’s hardly a surprise. She doesn’t really have an instinct for what is a Red Flag for the Red Staters. And she is gently… Oh so very gently guiding her father towards disaster. The GOP is about to blow it’s foot off courtesy of the Establishment […]

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The International Lord of Hate Banned On Facebook…You’ll Love the Reason Why

I present this as is from MonsterHunterNation: “So I just got a 24 hour ban from Facebook for Violating Community Standards, because I insulted the imaginary people of an imaginary country.  Which is kinda hilarious. Long version. About a year ago an author friend of mine was putting up snippets of his alternative history story, […]

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Dragon Awards: 2019

UPDATE: Voting for the Dragon Awards ends this week. So if your’re going to vote do it now. It’s only been three years and already the Dragon Awards have easily outstripped the disgraced and damn near forgotten Hugos as the award representing the best and brightest in science fiction and fantasy. Final Ballot for 2019 […]

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Netflix Deathwatch

Okay, that’s a little premature but honestly not by much. Not too long ago, Netflix was sitting at $400 a share as of this scribbling it has dropped to $308. This is not an aberration, if you’re into stocks this is not a bargain stock. There is very little reason to think it’s coming back. […]

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