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All Things End

The past couple of weeks have been interesting as several pop-culture phenomenon have concluded all at the same time. We have seen the end of stories about a fantasy world, political satire, superheroes, and some nerds who eat together, that have captured the collective hearts and imaginations of millions of people around the world in… […]

Weird words we use everyday

To tell you the truth I think all words are weird. Language in general is a very peculiar thing. It is just grunts and sounds arranged in a particular pattern or sequence that we have all collectively agreed has some sort of meaning. English in particular is complex and hard to learn as in it’s… […]

MET Gala 2019

I know this is a little late but I had to do a post about this year’s MET Gala. Every year the beautiful and the rich get together in an extravagant display of excess and wealth for…some reason. They choose a theme, people prepare, they make a scene, and stop for lots and lots of […]

Some Stuff

As you know, I stopped posting for over a year and started again just recently. But during that time it wasn’t that I was not writing, I just didn’t complete anything that I wrote. Currently I have 18 draft posts just sitting there waiting to be re-examined and maybe posted. Well this is one of […]

Bad Trek

The last post I wrote for this blog before I went on a ridiculously long break was about Star Trek Discovery. The show had just started, airing the first 2 episodes which created and destroyed the world I thought this story was to take place in. I had enjoyed the episodes but because I hadn’t… […]

Product placement

I still have friends that complain about product placement in movies. It used to be something that got to me as well but many years ago I kinda just got over it. Why? Because it properly reflects a realistic version of the world we live in. Look down at your clothes, look at your desk, […]

Until

Music is a strange thing. It is a series of strung together sounds that are pleasing to the listener. Unless of course you are an old crotchety man waving his stick at the damned youth of today. But music has a way of instilling emotions, making you move fast, or slowing you down for just… […]

Get untethered

I don’t like horror movies. As a young child I was afflicted with night terrors and that combined with an over active imagination did not bode well for an evening’s slumber. As I grew older the terrors waned but my dislike for horror persisted. But every once in a while a horror movie catches my… […]

If you liked the Manga…

Every once in a while I have the audacity to let someone else pick the movie I am going to watch. That is just crazy! But the other day my friend begged me to go see Alita: Battle Angel. Despite my reservations and due to him offering to pay, I said yes. This was a movie I… […]

Stop Living in the Past

Nostalgianoun a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal association something done or presented in order to evoke feelings of nostalgia I get why nostalgia sells. For the most part it just makes people feel good. It is a familiarity taking you back to a […]

Once may be enough

OMG did you notice that Cory is writing posts again? Shocker I know. He just apparently had some sort of need to write and there you go. It was just in time too cuz I was so happy not to have to write last week. It is not that I don’t love doing stuff for… […]

Blood, Blood everywhere let’s all take a drink … Or not

A pointed tooth here, a hypnotizing eye there and you had me at I want to suck … well let us leave it at that. Perfect bodies and chiseled features – who needs mind control or  hypnotism anymore when just a good set of teeth , a nice smile and those bodies are… …more

What’s so Joyful about it?

Ugh … don’t you hate it when you get a song stuck in your head for some unknown reason? With no logical explanation it just pops into action and you unwillingly find yourself humming a tune. Today that tune is Ode to Joy part of Beethoven’s 9th symphony.  Even now it’s running rampant through my… […]

40 winks

Well … here we are another day and I still feel tired from yesterday. It seems that oh I don’t know maybe half, more than half, adults don’t get enough sleep; from what I’ve read we should be getting about 8-9 hrs of sleep a day but in reality many of us probably average… …more

Push the Button – Don’t push the Button

As I was driving in this morning I was listening to talk radio – they were discussing the priest (I don’t even want to mention his name) in Florida who, on the anniversary of 9/11, has decided to burn not only one, but as many copies of the Qur’an  that have been sent in… …more

Through the Petals

One of the reasons why the long weekend was particularly relaxing was because I got to do something creative. On Monday I set the day aside and did a little painting. It all started a couple days before when Cory gave me a disc of photographs. It was just of an excursion we took… …more

The border crossed us

Ah the long weekend, I am so happy I can appreciate it once more. Because of all that time off I had before I could not enjoy them. I was home and it was just another day. But now, having that extra day to relax is such a blessing. Apparently I was feeling a little… […]

Again? Yes.

This just happens to be a coincidence I swear. It isn’t my fault that exactly one week apart I get a new video for the Cee-Lo song “Fuck You”. This one is even better. I know last week’s video was simple and fun but now that you know the lyrics you can sing a long… […]

Geekfest ’10

I had such a bad morning today. I hate it when it starts early it throws off the whole rest of the day. Now I feel like I should have just stayed under the covers and pretended today doesn’t exist. Of course that is impossible since I am still on probation at work but that… […]

And I’m like…

I love Gnarls Barkley. Their sound is unique, vibrant, and an excellent alternative to the mainstream. “The Odd Couple” and “St. Elsewhere” are still on regular rotation on my play list but they haven’t released anything new since 2008. I found out this morning, via Pajiba, that Cee Lo Green, one half of… …more