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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
Open Thread: You know the rules. UPDATE: Its name is what it is, a completely, 100% accurate title. It's a perfect 13th Doctor parody. He clearly got ahold of Jay Exci clearly and obviously got a hold of Chris Chibnall's playbook. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noaMIy_FWsA
"I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy. The ‘Life Force’, the worship of sex, and some aspects of Psychoanalysis, may here prove useful. If once we can produce our perfect work—the Materialist Magician, the man, not using,...
Under normal circumstances, the one-two punch of The Last Jedi and Solo would have sunk any executive's career. When John Carter failed at the box office, Iger fired the president of Disney Films. The guy who is above Kevin Feige and Kathleen Kennedy. However, the years of their releases changed things. Last Jedi came out in 2017, Solo in 2018. The films' performances were irrelevant. They both became inextricably tied to the #Resistance against the Orange...
