Yearly Archives - 2021

09Dec

This Thing Looks So Cheap

In case the unofficially official rumors of a big shake-up at LucasFilm had given you reason to hope..."As part of the ongoing “Star Wars Bring Home The Bounty” campaign, Lucasfilm Consumer Products is partnering with Walt Disney World Resort and Lucasfilm Publishing to give one lucky winner the ultimate adventure: a chance to win a 2-night experience on the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser before it opens in March 2022, and an exclusive meet and greet with the authors of “Star Wars:...

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06Dec

The Dark Herald Recommends Ghostbusters Afterlife

Ivan Reitman’s early years in Hollywood are something he would like swept as far under the carpet as possible.    His salad days body of work includes such titles as Columbus of Sex, Cannibal Girls, Rabid (starring Marilyn Chambers in her only non-pornographic role), Shivers, and that groundbreaking classic, Ilsa the Tigress of Siberia.  All of these movies were all slightly better than they had any right to be, but it looked like he was never going to find his way out of...

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04Dec

Friday Night Open Thread

Post what you want but...Rule 1: It has to be related to pop culture.Rule 2: Rule 1 is pretty much it, I'll nuke any post that doesn't conform to it.UPDATE: Flash! The new trailer for the Star Wars hotel has been STRUCK! And it was Disney that nuked it. A Disney pixie-duster influencer of my acquaintance had been trying to get an early reservation to do a review. And she wasn't able to secure one. None...

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01Dec

How Relevant is Ayn Rand to Christian Nationalism?

How relevant is Ayn Rand's Objectivism to Christian Nationalism?An important question for the elders of the movement considering how many of us were some species of Randite when we were young.Sixty years ago, when it was first published the question would have been what relevance does her philosophy have at all.  The answer at that time, according to the National Review was none whatsoever.... Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other book in which a tone...

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29Nov

Disney Deathwatch-The Christmas Edition

I had ignored some of the things that were going on at Disney World because there is so much bad to cover, I really can't keep track of it all anymore.Bob Cheapek is destroying such vast tracks of Disney heritage and doing it so casually, you'd think he wouldn't be surprised when the pixie-dusters get after him. Yet, he honestly seems to be shocked when he gets booed at public events. Or else he's just a wuss about it. I'm beginning to...

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27Nov

Book Discussion: Starborn and Godsons

I wanted to like this book.  I really did.Collaborations in fiction writing are an unnatural act.  I tried that lifestyle myself once and it ended in shame, anger, recriminations, and writer’s block.  Never again. However, there are authors more successful at it than I am.   Usually, a collaboration involves a well-known, successful writer digging an old outline out of the back of his filing cabinet (hard drive) and throwing it at a young hopeful scribbler.  “I couldn’t make that thing work. You do something with it.”  The...

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24Nov

Was I Too Hard on the Last Jedi?

I have come to  what is for me an absolutely shocking conclusion.  There are people who like The Last Jedi that aren’t being paid by Disney to say they do.Most of these, unsurprisingly, weren’t Star Wars fans.  I know it seems odd but you have to remember, while there are Millennial fans of the franchise, it’s not as universal to them as Harry Potter is. And I had also underestimated the rabid fascination of the Reylo fanbase. Although I sure as...

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22Nov

Streaming Popculture Holocaust

I was expecting Black Friday to come after Thanksgiving.   The only show that I wanted to see last weekend was Ghostbusters Afterlife.  But between a suddenly dead freezer and ¼ of steer that just finished getting processed, which absolutely had to be picked up because firearm season had started and the slaughterhouse needed the space for Deer, my weekend was sunk.I did get however get to watch a little TV, and wished that I had read in a book instead.Three new shows...

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