Ohhh, aaalll riiight!!
Okay, so here's the deal.
This came out in January, and life shit was going on, so I didn't even wanna deal with it.
Then I forgot it.
Then, in May, my computer died, and I had 80% of my shit backed up, but that last 20% had some important shit in there.
I "borrowed" my Ma's desktop computer she couldn't use any more, and hadn't in years, and did the brain/soul transplant.
Not knowing Ma had 2 months to live, and the loan would be a permanent inheritance.
So, just yesterday, I finally got an adapter kit to get into my old harddrive with USB and get my last 20% back. And in there was my "future blogs to do" list. And in that was "acknowledge Section 31".
I was like "oh, shit, yeah!".
Totally skipped my mind. A bunch of little old (and more important) memories like that came back to me through that transfer.
So, this thing has a category, and a tag, and everything, so may as well close off the tag, and finish it off.
Section 31 (2025)
Haven't seen it. Don't wanna see it. It's the one new-Trek I don't wanna buy on disk for the first time ever.
I've seen the ads, I've seen clips. I've read reviews from sources that normally hate each other.
Everyone agrees this is trash.
This is everyone's nightmare of what Trek would become if the anti-woke people accomplished their dream of fucking Trek up the ass with a swastika dildo.
We cannot let this happen.
No. Nuh-uh.
The one net positive is, we have this to point to as the bad example.
"If it were up to you CHUDs, it would all be Section 31. Go piss up a rope".
So I guess there's that.
And there!! The last list item unique to the dead computer.
Exorcism!
8 comments:
Watch out for fuckin' TB up there in Maine. Holy shit RFK Jr. is a fuckbrain.
http://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1na2k4n/the_kennedys_dead/
*Depressed sigh* And your post got spam bucketed again. Some RFK Jr fan must have got offended. Well, this blog hates RFK Jr, so suck it.
Just finished "The Shadow Out of Time". I liked it about as much as "Mountains Of Madness". Very sequel-y in that the structure was very similar. Dyer is barely in it. Doesn't even have lines or anything.
Oh, and the introduction to this collection covered the "Lovecraft hated cities" thing. Okay, for one, he hated black people because he was scared of them, because in his little bubble-world living with his auntie, he never encountered any, so it was that alien-other thing. Then, when he went to cities, and saw city black people, they were further ahead in life than him, because his parents dying made him have to quit his education, and that set him far back, and that really pissed him off. He self-educated himself "Good Will Hunting" style, but he still had to scrounge the rest of his days. We've still got that now with butt-hurt rednecks thinking Mexicans and welfare blacks are living on caviar and champagne somehow.
I watched some of RFK Jr getting blasted by a Senate committee the other day and his burnt face and "hack through 1000 cigarette butts in your throat" 95 year old man speaking voice just made me want to gag. I swear to God he's the worst of all of them after Trump.
I can't remember where I read the "Lovecraft hated cities" thing anyway, but I was well informed before reading the "Tales" Library of America collection that he was kind of a dumbass as a person. I kept that in mind, but I'm only a passing fan of some of the guy's work, and even then...oh, I liked eight or nine of the more popular stories he wrote. I guess I got most of my interest from thinking about people reading this stuff in the 1920s and 30s and trying to make sense of it.
Lovecraft's buddy Robert E. Howard was a weirdo too, grew up in rural Texas, wrote about the "Aryan warrior" as the supreme man of the Earth, killed himself at age 30 because his sick mother finally died of tuberculosis. I guess Thulsa Doom wasn't an ancient black guy in the old stories though he was some sort of skull face and they based James Earl Jones' character more off Thoth-Amon instead?
I haven't gone down the Rob E. Howard rabbit hole. I'm trying to follow the tree branches that straight-shoot me to King. Not always succeeding. I am getting yanked down some side paths anyway. Although, I did listen to a 6 hour Conan podcast some years ago. A chunk in there was Howard biography. I don't remember much, except that the movie "The Whole Wide World" got a lot wrong, and that wrong info came from L. Sprague De Camp who while he kept the Conan legacy alive, was a class snob who flat out filled in gaps of Howard's life with mean-spirited conjecture. It's like if your schoolyard bully wrote your obituary. The "Howard was a Norman Bates level mama's boy" comes solely from De Camp. Without that, I dunno if we really know why he killed himself. Clearly De Camp didn't like that ambiguity, and filled in the hole with a story.
Although, if he was hanging out with Lovecraft, his white supremacy count likely wasn't zero.
I have heard of that "Whole Wide World" movie but I never saw it and didn't know it was very popular or widely viewed. I've heard similar accusations lobbed at the movie "Cobb" starring Tommy Lee Jones, where people have claimed that a sportswriter named Al Stump needed a story, so he demonized Ty Cobb (probably not a very good guy to begin with, but it's not really disputed that Stump made him look worse) as a horrible bigoted bastard who hated everybody, and the predominant conception of Cobb people have today comes from Stump? Something like that?
By the way, 2022's Best Picture winner "Everything Everywhere All At Once" is sort of a Matrix/superhero parody, don't know if you were planning on seeing it but I'd say the effect of it started to wear off halfway through. Ke Huy Quan really can act though!
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