March 2024 - Arkhaven Site

31MarMarch 31, 2024

Kong Vs. Godzilla (Part One)

BUMPED 3/31/2024In a pre-Star Wars universe, guys in silly rubber costumes tramping around flimsy sets were awesome.Give a kid a bunch of cardboard boxes and a crayon and within minutes there were would be a Tokyo skyline. All ready to be stomped flat by a hunched over boy, who occasionally interruppted the carnage to give his mighty Godzilla roar.When I was nine, my only sources of income were scouring parking lots for dropped change, returning pop bottles, and (for one summer)...

By The Dark HeraldUncategorizedComments Off

30MarMarch 30, 2024

Blogs and Ends: Disney the Dismal Update

Next week we will see if Nelson Peltz and Jay Rosulo get seats on the Disney board of directors. While this does not mean that Bob Iger will automatically leave the company if they win, it will be seen as a body blow to his prestige. Worse still he will not be leaving on his own terms, assuming he was ever planning to leave at all. He has an advisory contract that is slated to go into effect the moment he goes...

By The Dark HeraldUncategorized

28MarMarch 28, 2024

First Impressions: Netflix’s Three Body Problem

This is not a review of the whole series, it is just my first impressions of the first couple of episodes.Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu was the last Hugo-winning novel of the year that will ever enjoy any real broad spectrum respect from actual readers as opposed to the literary community. The translation of the first book of Liu’s Remembrance of Earth Past trilogy arrived in the middle of the Great Puppy War. It was so good it enjoyed...

By The Dark HeraldUncategorized

27MarMarch 27, 2024

Disney Folds to Florida

Disney's lawsuit was always about public relations. There wasn't the slightest hope in hell that the US judicial system would throw out the entire body of American property law for the benefit of Bob Iger. Not that there wasn't a lot of media retards predicting that would happen.Well, it didn't. I'll give this much to Mickey the Great and Terrible, the embarrassment of this stupidity was kept to a minimum. With the shareholder vote only days away, Iger apparently decided this one...

By The Dark HeraldUncategorized

27MarMarch 27, 2024

The Dark Herald Was Wrong, Iger Should Dump ESPN

On September 7, 1979, Lee Leanard said the first words ever heard on ESPN, "If you're a fan, if you're a fan, what you'll see in the next minutes, hours, and days to follow may convince you you've gone to sports heaven."Leanard had no way of knowing just how right he was. The Rasmussen family (not the famous one) had come up with the idea of a cable network for local sports events in Connecticut. It turned out it was...

By The Dark HeraldUncategorized

26MarMarch 26, 2024

Book Discussion: The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu

The Wandering Earth is an anthology of novellas by Cixin Liu, the (2015) Hugo Award-winning author of the Three-Body Problem. Which incidentally was the last time the Hugos reflected the voice of the entire fandom instead just 300-pound, purple-haired weirdos. I found this collection as intriguing as the Three Body for similar reasons. When I read his first novel, I was honestly rather surprised by what he was able to get away with in Communist China. That book began with an unflinching look...

By The Dark HeraldUncategorized

25MarMarch 25, 2024

The Dark Herald Recommends – Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Ivan Reitman’s early years in Hollywood are something he would have liked swept as far under the carpet as possible. His Salad Days body of work included 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. 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...

By The Dark HeraldUncategorized

23MarMarch 23, 2024

3D Realms Will Die Free

I’m trying to put this in a positive light but I’m having trouble lighting the candle. As is well known, Embracer Group put it all on the wrong horse..The Embracer bought up everything under the sun with the intention of selling itself to Amazon for well over a billion dollars. Except that Amazon sobered up, took a horrified look at the “sweeper” they had woken up next to, stole back the engagement ring on the nightstand, and jumped out of the nearest...

By The Dark HeraldUncategorized

21MarMarch 21, 2024

Top Ten FPS Shotguns (part 1)

The Coach Gun, the Trench Broom, the Boom Stick, the Brixton Typewriter? (Seriously?) Most commonly called the shotgun. All but harmless at a distance yet so terrifying at close quarters that the Kaiser’s Wehrmacht tried to get it banned by the Geneva Conventions, (Silly Germans, America has never signed the Geneva Convention). Still a staple of the military, police, and home defense. To say nothing of the First Person Shooter.It’s honestly close to impossible to picture this genre of game...

By The Dark HeraldUncategorized

21MarMarch 21, 2024

RE:View Terminator 2 – Judgment Day

Whatever Faustian bargain James Cameron seems to have made for his early mega successes with The Terminator and Aliens came due with The Abyss. Despite positive reviews and a pretty decent story, the film was an abject disaster at the box office. If there’s one thing that Hollywood loves more than overnight riches, it’s a meteoric fall. The wolves were scratching at James Cameron’s door. Everyone was wondering, was this guy just a one-hit-wonder? At that point in his career, Cameron needed...

By The Dark HeraldUncategorizedComments Off

Monthly Archives - March 2024