I did this out of bored curiosity. I am happy to see my contributions range over so many subreddits. I really only hang out in a specific few, so this is surprising. I know it means legitimately nothing (more…)
A defense of the inevitability of Equalitarianism: on a road with no map since the year of our Lord, 1215; *OR* an essay about isms.
So when I think about equalitarianism as a political doctrine, I typically immediately think about three things. This video: Explanation of who is killing who: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/ Second, (more…)
Big Sur’s Old Coast Road, endings, awareness, inequality, obsession, and humility.
Big Sur was a special place in my upbringing, but so was it in my life, at all stages. So I take my ex-wife’s family (first wife… we’re fine, not sure what’s wrong with her she still adores me) down (more…)
Robocop and The Wire aren’t too different, you and I: How each deals with the dark side of The American Dream, and the collapse of city governance.
Dan Harmon is right. A film lazily titled “Robocop” should be a disaster. A forgettable B-film that is best for Mystery Science Theatre 3000. But that’s not what happened, and here we are. Re-watching (more…)
Going from sanity to being locked into the subjectivity of existence, a note from the movie Annihilation.
In researching Annihilation, Alex Garland’s (yes) masterpiece (and one of my favorite films of all time), I am also taken with how the film could hit different now vs its release, simply because so much (more…)
Top 10 video games in Uncle Fishbits’ history, no particular order with some nice honorable mention nostalgia
1) Half-Life:Alyx (VR) 2) Alien: Isolation (VR) 3) Metroid (NES) 4) Goldeneye (N64) 5) Mariokart (Super Nintendo, N64) 6) Zelda (NES) & Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) 7) (more…)
A fantastic list of movies that earned a 0% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and some real “so bad they’re good” gems in here.
https://www.looper.com/1145/movies-earned-0-rating-rotten-tomatoes/ It’s a long list, but some take me back to that golden age of seeing films. I must have gone to the theatre weekly, for sure, because (more…)
The Unpretentiousness of MumbleGore, and the Mandela Effect.
We’ve been watching a LOT of horror films. It seems like a tremendously useful and helpful way to challenge negative energy and anxiety during a pandemic… sort of like, “Oh it could be worse”. Something (more…)
June 2020 – overlooked or undervalued Ennio Morricone scores if you are just getting into him now!
I recently made a list of what I think to be some of his best or undervalued scores. So here we go! 1) For me, “Danger:Diabolik” is number one. Sad story that the Masters got destroyed in a fire and (more…)
A post about lots of manure.
I don’t typically swear, but people talk about a shit-ton. Well, what about 4 tons? I am posting this because it was a hell of a moment and memory in my life. This was after a massively freaky bomb scare. (more…)