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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 […]

Caricature of a Caricature

Before I start I just wanted to share a strange thing I saw this morning. I totally wish I had a camera with me so I could just show it to you because a picture is worth a thousand words and I doubt you want to read a thousand words about … the SKY!… …more

I will not yield

Today would make it 2 weeks since I started working. This after 8 months of sleeping in, doing whatever I want, when I want. Needless to say there is a transition period between this incredibly lax lifestyle and the structured existence of a working individual. I, of course, did something foolish. After work on… …more

What the…

When I started working last Monday one of the first things I noticed was a few odd things at my desk. Maybe it wasn’t the first thing; it was the first 5 things. 1. A wine glass that was being used as a vase. This is fine, when given flowers a person sometimes has… …more

I am in Lesbians with you

Last week I was so right. I went to the theater like an hour and a half early to make sure my movies wouldn’t be sold out. While I was standing in line at 8:45 pm the 10:30 show for The Expendables starts blinking red on the display, in other words it was sold… …more

I can go

So, you know how I got a job? Well I was happy when it happened and it was a very swift process. After all that long waiting and sending out resumes the whole process took a day. It really is about who you know. Anyways, after the initial shock of realizing i was part of […]

Then I go and spoil it all

I ruined it. I suppose it had to come to an end at some point. it was inevitable. I couldn’t go on living la diva loca the rest of my life even though that would have been fantastic. You know all those days that I have woken up late, lavished in slothfulness, and enjoy… …more

Long Weekend

This past weekend was the Civic Holiday weekend. The government wasn’t even polite enough to give it some false grounding in religion or praise of some long gone individual. They simple gave people and extra day off in summer and we are expected to accept it. If I was working I probably would be immensely… […]

It lives up to the hype

With a trailer like that I would expect Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure to be mind blowingly awesome. But because the movie is 21 years old and I have seen it many a time I know a lot better than that (Not to say I don’t like it, it is totally a classic… …more

Nice to See You

Ok. So I was supposed to take a short break, like a week or something, but that break turned into a hiatus and that hiatus turned into a sabbatical. It just kinda kept rolling and rolling into a longer period of time away from the site. I was also busy doing stuff. In the last… […]

2 movies one post

Ok I never got around to my second review last week and now I have a backlog. This is just not right. I have nothing to do yet I can’t get anything done. Say what? I know, it makes no sense, dollars and cents. See what I did there? Hilarious. It’s all me baby, all… […]