All properties purchased by Disney have suffered but I think it’s fair to say that the Muppets are the second to the worst. * My metrics for this are; loss of authorial intent, financial degradation, and metastization of the Critical Race Cult. Star Wars has had a loss of authorial intent and the CRC has […]

Read More Cataline Recommends: Muppets Now

Mellow greetings, fellow thought criminals!  The most devastating satire about life in 2020 was made nearly 30 years ago.  the year was 1993, and some very unfortunate long term problems were starting to make themselves felt. Bill Clinton was now president. Universities were creating program tracks specifically for illiterates And despite having college degrees ourselves, Generation […]

Read More RE:View Demolition Man

The somewhat miserable summer of a fairly miserable year is drawing to a close and then we get to look forward to election season, where we will be secretly biting our nails until Biden inevitably loses. I have a few things to get done this weekend that I won’t be able to next weekend, so […]

Read More Blogs and Ends: End of Summer Edition

REPOST: Call this prep work for my essay on the Silmarillion.  It was written in 1954, you can tell it was written in 1954 because it couldn’t be written today. This is a work of high tragedy that is strongly influenced by the Norse sagas.  If you like Game Thrones but would prefer that it […]

Read More Discussion: The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson

I once had evening chow with a guy who had survived the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut. For those of you too young to remember, this was a huge event in it’s day. It was the first of the Muslim suicide bombings (so far as we were concerned) and the biggest one day […]

Read More A Discussion – Monster Hunter Memoirs Sinners

Back in the dim mists of time. When Duran-Duran was on MTV and I was on campus, a new and profoundly bitter kind of undergrad was starting to appear at colleges across the country. The Non-Traditional Student. Also known as the returning drop-out. An odd creature that was and remains quite celebrated in pop-culture. I […]

Read More Don’t Go Back To College

You wouldn’t think it would be possible to make the Star Wars holiday special worse. I mean, some things just can’t be done right? Ostriches can’t fly. Water can’t be dry. John Scalzi will never write a decent book. And the Star Wars Holiday Special could not possibly get any worse.  And Mickey the Great […]

Read More Then They Came For the Holiday Special…

The Dragon Award ballot landed in my Email inbox recently, I put off opening it until tonight and now I wish to god that I hadn’t. The 2020 Dragon Award ballot is an SJW shit-fest. Look at these fucking nominees for best science fiction: The Last Emperox by John Scalzi (Tor) Network Effect by Martha […]

Read More The Dragons Have Fallen

As well the rest of Warner Brothers. AT&T recently detailed a roughly $830 million hit to second-quarter earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization from the novel coronavirus pandemic and a roughly $2.8 billion revenue impact after in the first quarter having mentioned a $433 million earnings and a $600 million revenue hit. This is […]

Read More The Executions Are Under Way At DC

FIRST Mulan Quite a few people wanted to know that if once Mulan is purchased on Disney Plus, it will be available on any other platform. The answer is no. You will have to maintain a subscription to Disney Plus in order to access your copy of it. I realize this seems more evil than […]

Read More Blogs and Ends: Various Updates