1. I'm currently in the process of preparing to move, something I've been looking forward to and trying to achieve for several years now. I've been rather surprised at how disruptive the process really is, not just in terms of consuming time and energy, but in the way it creates the sense of 'no point … Continue reading Flotsam
Flotsam: Twenty Years Later
1. I try not to talk politics much here. I don’t have the background or knowledge as yet to say anything really worthwhile about it. So don’t ask me for a rundown of how the past twenty years have gone and what we as a nation have to show for it all, though I don’t … Continue reading Flotsam: Twenty Years Later
Flotsam: ‘Coco’ and Such
1. I missed seeing Coco when it came out in theaters, since I was by the disillusioned by Pixar's deteriorating quality. Last week, upon seeing it recommended, I pulled it up and gave it a watch. My goodness, that is one of the best films I've seen in a long time. Certainly one of the … Continue reading Flotsam: ‘Coco’ and Such
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1. I am continually amazed, not just at how stupid, incompetent, and immoral our current societal elites really are, but also at the fact that so many of us continue to take them seriously. "Dr. Fauci says so-and-so." Okay, and why do you care what that careerist moron says, exactly? To say "I heard it … Continue reading Flotsam
Feast of St. Louis
King Saint Louis'sLast Instructions to his Eldest Son, Philip III 1. To his dear first-born son, Philip, greeting, and his father's love.2. Dear son, since I desire with all my heart that you be well "instructed in all things, it is in my thought to give you some advice this writing. For I have heard … Continue reading Feast of St. Louis
Mauler vs. Black Widow
A melancholy step: I was really hoping this movie wouldn't be horrible. And I would say that it was still possible Mauler's being too harsh on it, except...the prison break scene. How the heck did that make it through production without anyone saying "wait, our heroine just condemned hundreds of people to horrible deaths..."? And … Continue reading Mauler vs. Black Widow
No Aspirational Heroes, Huh?
Apparently, the star of the latest Marvel film - Shang Chi and the Ten Rings (yeah, I forgot about that movie too) - claimed that this is something he "didn't have growing up," namely an aspirational Asian or Asian American hero. Ahem: "Three weeks top of the US Box Office. I doubt you will be … Continue reading No Aspirational Heroes, Huh?
Flotsam: Various Writing Observations
1. A few observations on different works: 2. When Uncle Walt adapted Alice in Wonderland, he and his writers ended up giving it a bit more of a plot than the book had. Not much, but a little. And if you notice, the plot they gave it was pretty much lifted directly from The Wizard … Continue reading Flotsam: Various Writing Observations
Proclamation of the Assumption
Found this on another site today: a window onto another world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJcSyaRU0kc
Flotsam: Slumming It
1. For one reason or another (none reflecting well on me), this is Sunday flotsam. And Sunday flotsam on the Feast of the Assumption at that, yet I currently have nothing edifying to say about Our Lady. 2. So instead, I'm just going to slum it and drop a few of my favorite riffs from … Continue reading Flotsam: Slumming It
Serpent's Den 