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07NovNovember 7, 2024

Why Disney is the Biggest Loser of the Election

If not the biggest certainly the most high profile is The Walt Disney Company. Under Bob Iger's leadership, Disney has become the company that always and ever only ever only puts its money on one side of the table. Not a great idea for a high-profile business. Hollywood used to be smarter about it. The Moguls would back Republicans and the talent would back Democrats. It gave Tinsel Town a foot in each camp. Now it's only one side but since everyone...

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05NovNovember 5, 2024

Blogs and Ends: The Powell Group Update

I return to you now at the turn of the tide. I'll just be updating this post over the next couple of days as I suspect there is going to be minimal interest in a comics and pop culture blog before Wednesday. Just check in now and then. FIRST Oh, dear. It appears that as friends go the Powell Group is definitely of the fair-weather variety. Powell has deleted any and all references to Sweet Baby Inc. from their website and...

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05NovNovember 5, 2024

It Was Wiccan All Along?

Apparently so. I can’t really do a proper review of Agatha All Along because I didn’t watch the whole thing. Having learned more than I ever wanted to about Marvel TV’s storytelling I figured, (rightfully so as it turned out) that I could just skip everything between the premiere episode and the series finale because any and all in the middle would be utterly pointless filler. I was right by the way but it does mean I can not in all...

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01NovNovember 1, 2024

Sweet Baby Inc. Is Doing Just Fine

“Bowser is Bondage Daddy Sexy!” -Kim Belair: CEO and Co-founder of Sweet Baby Inc. That quote is from Kim Belair’s long-defunct (and as of today mostly erased) podcast, The Sexiest Podcast. It was one of several podcasts Belair was doing at the time. She was clearly throwing content at the wall to see what would stick. Sexiest Podcast completely failed to live up to its name. It was a podcast where Kim Belair and a friend discussed various things they wanted to have...

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01NovNovember 1, 2024

Emergency Announcement

https://twitter.com/Godzilla_Toho/status/1852356885871251798 I could use more announcements like this.

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31OctOctober 31, 2024

Analog Horror

Paraphrase Conversation Truncation Eldest Darkspawn: No, Dad they're being smart. Dark Herald: Putting Alien: Romulus out on something as completely obsolete as VHS is smart? Eldest Darkspawn: Analog Horror! You know, it's like analog energy. It's like giving horror. It slaps! Dark Herald: How does it... uh... slap? Eldest Dark: VHS is like our Gen Z thing. Dark Herald: I'm kind of sure it was a Gen X thing. I was there, at Blockbuster, most every Friday night. Eldest Dark Spawn: That is so...

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31OctOctober 31, 2024

Vampire Rules: (Part III) Netflix Woke Dracula

Back in Doctor Who's heyday, the weekly numbers in Britain and America were huge. Big enough to lift BBC America into Tier 1 cable status, Tennant had emo girls throwing their panties at the TV, and the best episode of the year, the one everyone looked forward to, was the one that would be written by Steven Moffat. When Russel Davies decided that five years was enough, fans were worried about who was going to run the series. And then they...

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30OctOctober 30, 2024

Teri Garr RIP

She was on the set of It Takes a Thief when she got the bad news. Her backdoor pilot hadn’t been picked up. It wasn’t really a surprise. Laugh-in always buried that show in the ratings. It would have been her big break but, ah well, that’s show biz, she thought to herself. Teri Garr had no way to know that Star Trek had delivered her big break after all. Sad but expected bad news. The final curtain has fallen on...

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29OctOctober 29, 2024

Hardriveby: Faith – The Unholy Trinity

We are currently living in a golden age of indie horror games. The last five years have seen an explosion in a genre that used to get one game a year back in the 1990s and one every three years during the double Os. Those AAA titles were good games, certainly better than what we get now from major studios but good horror? Well... Not so much really. They all had their moments to be sure. Clive Barker’s Undying was...

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29OctOctober 29, 2024

RE:Play Clive Barker’s Undying

"[Undying]'s a dark fantasy with lots of levels, lots of realities in it. It's not horror in the sense of Hellraiser. It's horror which is very bloody, very graphic, with plenty of monsters, no question; but also a big adventure level in it. There is the sense, as you are visiting different dimensions and alien cities, that a monster in an alien city is a different thing than a monster sitting in your kitchen sink!” – Clive Barker Clive Barker started...

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