This blog shall stop at nothing and stay there, bringing all undiscerning readers up to date information about significant items of interest and intrigue that will certainly be interesting to someone somewhere at sometime. I shall also try to avoid being vague.
Is there anything in the world better than getting to see live music? Well, for all intents and purposes, yes. Yes, there is. However, for the sake of being able to use the small slice of bandwidth that I’m allotted, I’m going to say in a printed robot voice that “there is nothing in the world better than …
Continue reading “Concerted Efforts Part 2: Fighting Foo and Fleeing Peppers”
***Author’s Note: Yes, this should have come out on May 4th, but due to my laziness, I missed the mark. Sounds like I would be perfect for a job at Lucasfilm! Oh, but I kid! Well, not really. But I do. Sorta. Anyway, here are some reedited reactions from my seeing the Episode IX in …
Continue reading “The Rise of Skywalker! And the Fall of Just About Everything Else Star Wars…”
***Author’s Note: This was originally composed in the dark days of April 2016. Yes, back when we could go anywhere we wanted and only surgeons and loonies wore surgical masks with any regularity. Now that things are opening ever so slightly, perhaps getting out of your germ-prevention bunker and seeing some art would do you …
Ah, can you smell the Spring in the air? I know it is rather hard to detect because of the snow, but gosh, what a wondrous time of the year! And it certainly makes one nostalgic. I am not immune to Spring’s charm and that has made me nostalgic for the Golden Age of Hollywood! …
Continue reading “Almost Equal Sequels Part VIII: After the Thin Man”
(Author’s Note) Given the always dazzling and simply fantastic state of this country at any given moment, I thought I would dive back into the well, bringing up a quenching bucket of a lovely and embracing film experience. With theaters almost/not really/kinda sorta opening back up if they are/aren’t already, now is the perfect time …
Continue reading “Is Shaft Still the Best Movie of 2019? You’re Damn Right!”
Yes, I know it isn’t even close to Christmas and no, I know that it is closer to Christmas today compared to yesterday. For these reasons and the fact that 2021 is getting to be a poorly produced sequel to 2020, Hallmark recently announced that they are going to be airing Christmas movies this April …
Continue reading “The 11 Days of Hallmark Christmas Movie Pitches In April”
Ah, movie franchises! The assured theatrical comfort food for the masses. And audiences eat them up accordingly. A franchise movie series brings along a comfy and familiar concept. If the formula for the follow-up sticks relatively close to the series predecessors, the worst the audience would say is “Well, that wasn’t too bad, right?” Oddly enough, …
Continue reading “Franchise the 13th Part XIII: Jason Is Not Your Way Right Away”
As we head into another year of these unprecedented, unusual, trying, uncertain, challenging, extraordinary, difficult, hard, and tough times in this virus-laden world, many have tried to assign blame on others for how we ended up in these circumstances. “It’s Trump’s/China’s/the Democrats’/the Republicans’/the governors’/Fauci’s/George Soros’/the CDC’s/Bill Gates’/Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s/O.J. Simpson’s/(insert other name here)’s fault!” The …
Continue reading “How We All Can Lick Hatred, COVID, and Everything”
With all the recent hoohah and flapdoodle surrounding everyone’s favorite non-royals, I thought I would go reflect to happier times, before lucrative Netflix deals and huge interviews with Oprah. Back before these plucky innocents were undoubtedly tormented by the trappings of incredible wealth and status and privilege through their being members of the British monarchy. …
With the holidays reasonably in our rearview mirrors and the possibility of summer concert tours mistily ahead of us, I would like to take a moment to halfheartedly exaggerate what I remember about some of the concerts that I have had the good fortune to see in person. Keep in mind that I am aging rapidly, …
Continue reading “Concerted Efforts Part 1: The Fifth Best Audience In The World!”
