From Vanity Fair:“The term woke is thrown around rather liberally,” Iger said. “I think a lot of people don’t really understand what it means.”I do, Bob! I do!Shall I tell you what it means? Given that you’ve a got a rich Boomers grasp of the social issues surrounding it, you probably do need some help. It seems like the least I could do after all the low hanging fruit you’ve fed me for years. Now to be clear, I do realize...
One of my earliest memories is the landing of Apollo 11. My parents woke me up for it and dragged me downstairs so that I could wobble bleary-eyed on my father’s lap as Eagle came down to rest at Tranquility Base. I couldn’t make out what Armstrong said. The interference was bad that morning. But even at that age, I knew that I had just watched something that was supposed to be important. Because everyone kept telling me it was. Apollo 11 was...
It's Friday night, the day is almost gone and I'm only now just getting a chance to write a post.This is going to be a fast one.I. If you need to take dive hit yourself with a stim first. It takes a few seconds to complete its cycle and that will usually negate fall damage. II. Some planets have those Pod Things That Go Boom. They will, depending on circumstances the loyal Sons of Super Earth are familiar with by now,...
I was too steamed over yesterday's news to notice that #TheDarkHeraldWasRight again.As I had guessed, Shari Redstone was just using David Zaslav to get David Ellison to see things her way. Skydance has entered into exclusive talks with Paramount with a view towards a merger. This is by no means a guarantee but Redstone is hot to sell and Skydance is hot to buy, so this is now just negotiating. Warner Brothers was never a serious contender, even though Zaslav is...
At about 9:00 AM Eastern someone at Disney broke the law.A leak from a source that was clearly viewed as reliable by the business press, claimed that Disney had enough votes to hold off giving Nelson Peltz a seat on the Walt Disney Company board of directors. The only reason to do this was to support the Iger slate. This is a felony offense.The SEC has always come down very hard on leaks like this in the past but I...
I’ll begin with the obvious, this film is no Godzilla Minus One. It’s not even close to that good but you knew that just looking at the trailers. However, this is a completely different kind of movie that’s meant for a different audience. If you watched Porky’s and were expecting Saving Private Ryan, that screw-up is all on you. Same thing applies here. If you went to an American Godzilla movie and expected something from Toho, you should have managed...
You would have to be Glob’s perfect retard to not recognize that this is easily the greatest Star Wars movie of all time. There is literally nothing that this film got wrong. I am left near to weeping just thinking about the perfection that is Ryan Johnson’s magnum opus. The closest thing to a problem is the opening score. John Williams's bombastic and overbearing Star Wars Main Title. This ridiculously overblown tone poem of a score has been assaulting the ears...
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)...
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...
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...
