Thursday, July 21, 2016
Nothing makes sense anymore.
There will a partition in the history of civilization as momentous as the Common Era. The year 2017 will be the first year of PDP. Post Detective Pikachu. I swear I had a dream like this once...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Here's the opening to Stranger Things:
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Stranger Things is the best story Netflix has ever told.
This is a Goonies-Halloween-Close Encounters-ET smoothie. It's pretty tasty. |
What the hell, Nerds?!
Miss Jones, I am so sorry. |
The fact that the new Ghostbusters trailer is the most hated video on the internet is one thing. The fact that the brunt of the vitriol landed at the twitter account of Leslie Jones is a whole new circle of nerd hell. The fact she's had to quit twitter because of the non-stop siege from anonymous racist cowards is unacceptable. I have been so incredibly naive about nerds and gamer culture in general. They can be echo chambers of hate just as effective as tea party radio. I wish it wasn't so, but here we are. A talented comedian gave a critically lauded performance and all some nerds could think to do was call her a n***r.
That's just f***ing amazing, guys.
Saturday, July 16, 2016
I'm... busy.
Monday, July 11, 2016
Marco Polo: Mild Horses.
Cut out every scene he's not in and it becomes a better show. |
It's funny when people say game of thrones wouldn't be half as good if it weren't for it's budget. That's now scientifically not true. Marco Polo (which was clearly named "Khan" or something before a suit made them change it) is so maddeningly obsessed with being great that it becomes mediocre. Acting ability fluctuates wildly from character to character and too many of them are pitifully out of their league.
Not that the writing does them many favors but I can now see I'm becoming a bit of a dick. It gets a solid 7 out of 10 but that's only because you can close your eyes and imagine all these pieces fitting together better. The story of the great Kublai Khan should be, and almost is, much more compelling than this.
Sunday, July 10, 2016
Sometimes work is the best thing.
Breakups suck, but sweating like a razorback hog at work for 20 hours a weekend is oddly
therapeutic. The lunch rush broke the whole damn bakery today and work related mania is just the thing to keep me out of my head. Which, if done for long enough, means I won't remember what I was so screwed up about in the first place.
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