SW: The High Republic (double-confirmed!)

Meedyah Morsels #214.
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So, Lucasfilm finally officially dropped the news...

So, it's not a movie thing, it's a novels, comics, and video games thing.
The timeline is 200 years before TPM.
They hint it may be a proving ground for movies down the line, although the word "movies", never escapes their lips, the term "future of the saga", comes up a lot.

Here's the video commercial/preview thingy-> Link.

Wish they'd do a big writer's room to plot out the movies like that.

For the movies, it looks like they're still using the "you wanna do one? Okay, here you go!", formula that's been such a mess behind the scenes so far.



Previously with Star Wars-

SW: The High Republic (confirmed!)

Previously with MM-

Ghostbusters: Afterlife toys! (MM #213) 


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RIP Dieter Laser.

Damn. He brought me much joy. He will be missed.

Especially by the horror community.

Wikipedia page.

My reviews of the HC trilogy-

-Human Centipede 1

-Human Centipede 2

-Human Centipede 3

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife toys!

Meedyah Morsels #213.
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New York Toy Fair was yesterday, but I waited 'til today to make sure every little trickle dropped, so I wouldn't have to keep updating.


Previously with Ghostbusters toys...

Classic GB merch, 2016.

GB:ATC merch, 2016

Okay, now the new stuff...

The "Fright Features", line.
Basically, the movie versions of the original guys stylized, and in the proportions of the old classic Kenner figures of the animated series guys.

How is this "Ghostbusters: Afterlife"?
I think their loophole is, the original guys are flashed back to in news footage.
Plus, there'll probably be other types of flashback.

Worth mentioning, cuz I don't think I brought it up here before, Kenner got bought by Hasbro, and Hasbro just got the Ghostbusters license last year from Mattel, so Hasbro getting it is basically Kenner getting it back.
Remember that, it'l be important later.

From the same line, Stay-Puft, Slimer, and Muncher.

Muncher being the ghost from the trailer.

As some mystery lurker person in comments pointed out, I called him "an inanimate matter muncher", so I nailed the name by accident.

In this close up, you can see he has a window in his belly, and in that window, you can see a stop sign, and a fire hydrant, so yes, I was also right about him eating the objects from the set photos.

So, that's 100% Afterlife related.

And here's Stay-Puft's secret "fright feature".
That being his guts turn into a sort of mouth.

Stay Puft and Slimer splitting open at the belly and the mouth imitates "haunted human", figures from the old Kenner line.
I'm not gonna go digging for which ones. If you're an 80's kid, you'll remember.

Here's a larger doll-sized Stay-Puft with a changeable face like Man-E-Faces from He-Man.

And here's the Ecto-1 that goes with the guys up top, and it has a gunner seat like from the trailer.
Its pretty much in almost identical proportion to the old 80's Ecto toy.

That makes me think, even though they didn't drop figures of Phoebe, Trevor, Callie, and Mr. Grooberson, that they probably will this summer in time for the movie, and that it'll be under this line.

Probably to prevent spoiler stuff.
Even though any old-time fan worth his/her salt will have already guessed the family are Spenglers.

So, stay tuned for those reveals.
When those drop, I'll cover it.

And now....*drumroll*..

The Kenner figures!!!!!
They're back!!

See here way back in 2011 for my old memories of those.
I arranged them in the new graphic here in the order I bought them when I was a kid.
The story behind that order is also in the link above.

So, yeah, you can get the Kenner guys, and put them in the new/old Ecto, and have it all back.
All that's missing is the firehouse, but I bet that comes back too.

Or, you can get them, and the new classic movie guys, and mix them together, and re-enact "Ghostbusters Get Real".

And here's Slimer and Stay-Puft off the old Kenner line, also back.
The 4 guys, and these two ghosts, that was the original series-one run.
Before they started adding all kinds of weird variants, and weirder ghosts.
This is where it all started.

Speaking of weird ghosts...

Ghost-Gushers.
They puke slime when you squeeze them.
And there's a collectible mini-ghost buried in the slime.
Yep, you always need slime toys in the line when you do Ghostbusters.
It's required.

Come in Slimer, Muncher, Stay-Puft, and Terror-Dog.
Muncher is all through these, I'm thinking he's gonna be a big deal in the flick.
Just a hunch.

Here's the refill slime/ectoplasm.

Comes in classic green, GB2 pink, orange, and blue, like the upcoming Twinkies.
Which convinces me even more we're getting blue slime in the film.
And maybe orange.

The Slime Lab playset, which you can see unfolds from a classic ghost trap, so it's a role-play toy too.
Kinda like what they did with the ATC trap playset.

Comes with slime, and a mini Muncher that pukes slime.
Again, I'm thinking he's important.

And here's key-chain plushies of Terror-Dog, Slimer, Stay-Puft, and you guessed it, Muncher.

That's all the cute versions.
Now the fancy-shmancy for collectors ones.

Here's movie accurate versions of the guys with meticulous detail on the packs, and tons of articulation points.
I've put them in the same order as the Kenner guys, because...just because.
They're called "Plasma Series".

And here's possessed Dana  and Gozer from the same line.

No idea if the Afterlife characters will come out in this style.
They should.

Oh, yeah, and just like the Mattel fancy figures came with a build-a-figure of the logo ghost, and the Mattel ATC girls came with one of Rowan, these come with pieces to build a Terror Dog.

I think that's got it for figures.
Now for the role-play stuff...

Here's the new proton pack.
Pretty much accurate in scale and colors to the old Kenner pack, but accurate in details to the original movie.
The pack and the wand/gun are sold separately, which is dumb.

Here's the wand/gun. They're calling it a "proton blaster", for Afterlife, I guess.
You can get it in generic, and with add-ons.

Here it is with all the add-ons.
Dunno if this is gonna happen in the movie, or if it's purely from the imaginations of the toy designers.

Finally, after 36 fucking years, a movie accurate toy PKE meter!
Not only was the Kenner one not movie accurate, it wasn't even cartoon accurate!
I dunno what the fuck it was!

A...*scratches head*...ghost whistle?
Apparently, you can attract ghosts like a duck call.
Again, dunno if this is something in the movie, or not.

And then, like mentioned above, the slime lab is your trap.

And finally, a proton blaster from the plasma series, so it's in meticulous movie accurate detail.

That's all the stuff normal humans get to buy.
The convention wrapped up with Ivan and Jason Reitman being given these..

Figures of themselves in the plasma series style in boxes that look like Tobin's Spirit Guide.
Neat.
Shame we didn't get a better look at the boxes.


And that was all of that.
Again, no Afterlife characters except Muncher.
I was waiting for that, and didn't get it.
Ah, well.
Next time.
Stay tuned.


Previously with GBA-

Return of Ghostbusters Twinkies!!


Previously with MM-

Venom-verse timeline. (MM #212) 


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Venom-verse timeline.

Meedyah Morsels #212.
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Spidey-verse 10.
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Well, if the Sony Universe of Marvel Characters (SUMC) is going to hitch its continuity wagon to the MCU, let's sort out where it all goes! What say?


Well, the MCU left off with "Far From Home".
Next up is "Black Widow", which is actually a prequel that goes somewhere between "Civil War", and "Infinity War".
So, that's out of the way.
Next up is "Eternals", which takes place over thousands of years, so that's a cosmic prequel, so that goes before "Captain America: The First Avenger".
So, that's out of the way.
Next up is "Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness", and finally, that's the first one to happen in chronological order.
MCU sequels tend to happen in real time, and it comes out next year, so we've got some slack to play with now.

So, starting with the one we know is connected, Morbius, picks up shortly after "Far From Home".

There's a rumor that Woody Harrelson as Cletus Cassidey (AKA Carnage) also pops up.

So, this sets it just after "Venom", so that connects.

The after-credits to "Venom", says "meanwhile, in an alternate universe", and then shows a clip of "Into The Spider-verse", so that connects, and happens immediately after.

And then, coming next after "Morbius", is "Venom 2", where Cletus Cassidy finally becomes Carnage.

Then comes "Multiverse Of Madness", then Homecoming 3, whatever that's going to be called, then SUMC/Venom-verse will probably give shout-outs to that one, because face it, they're building towards re-absorbing Tom Holland to fight Venom and Carnage.
Which will probably happen in Homecoming 4, which they'll own outright.

SO!!
It goes...

• Spider-Man: Far From Home
• Venom
• Spider-Man: Into The Spider-verse.
• Morbius
• Venom 2 
• Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
• Spider-Man: Homecoming 3 
• Spider-Woman (probably)

So, not only does Sony get to play in the playground, they pretty much get to own the place until 2021.
Well played, Amy Pascal, well played.

I'll probably have to re-adjust this as the flicks come out, and new twist surprises drop.
But with the data available now, I think this is pretty good as a baseline.


Previously with Spidey-verse-

Sam Raimi for Dr Strange 2! (MM #211) (SV #9)

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Ditto.


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Sam Raimi for Dr Strange 2!

Meedyah Morsels #211.
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Spidey-verse 9.
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Post 56 away from 3000 posts!

I was going to wait for this to be 100% confirmed before running with it, but screw it, I just posted the Jessica Drew thing on less info, and I posted that because the Sony rumors almost always come true.

So yeah, Scott Derrickson bailed out over "creative differences", and now Marvel is talking to Sam Raimi for "Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness".

"In talks", usually leads to being hired.
Not always, Jonah Hill didn't get The Penguin for "The Batman", but 8 times out of 10, you can kind of count on it.

So, I count this as "Spidey-verse", because, hey, it's the Spider-Man director in the MCU.

And the MCU is connected to the Venom-verse now.

And you just know Sony is gonna connect Venom-verse to the Spider-verse-verse, and the Spider-verse-verse to the Raimi and Webb movies.

Hell, they actually shot that scene for "Into The Spider-verse", but cut it at the 11th hour.
So, you know that its something they're chomping at the bit to do.

And when they inevitably do it, Raimi trilogy becomes part of the MCU.

AND, there's a Doctor Strange Easter egg in Spider-Man 1.

Jonah Jameson says something like "Doctor Strange!...no, that's taken..".

AND Spider-Man and Dr. Strange were both co-created by Steve Ditko.

So, Raimi is a fan of both characters, they're both Ditko creations, and he'll have directed them both.
And if all the Sony multiverse thingies pan out, he'll have directed in the MCU four times, and it'll all come full circle.

Plus, the plot of this flick is multiverse, and they might integrate some other old pre-MCU movies with that.
Oooh! What if they lift some stuff from "Hulk: Crossroads"?
So many possibilities!!
*Rubs hands*

Anyway, stay tuned for this!

Previously with Spidey-verse-

Jessica Drew Spider-Woman standalone. (MM #210) (SV #8)

Previously with MM-

Ditto.


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More for the pile!!

Revisits #51.
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Yet another sequel to "The pervert pile".

Adding Prince Andrew, Michael Bloomberg, and what the Hell, why not, Roy Cohn.

Andrew went to Epstein's Rape Island.

Bloomberg's got as many accusers as Trump, if not more.

And Cohn, come on.

And, we're up to date!
I think...
So hard to keep current on this thing.


Previously with revisits-

Yet another "I told you so!". (R #50)


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Jessica Drew Spider-Woman standalone.

Meedyah Morsels #210.
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Spidey-verse 8.
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Post 58 away from 3000 posts!

Yep, looks like Sony is slowly re-constructing all of their pre-MCU plans.

On top of being animated in the upcoming Spider-Gwen spinoff movie, Jessica is getting her own live-action movie in the Venom-verse.

Maybe she'll be what crosses the Venom-verse with the Spider-verse-verse.

Sony wants Alicia Vikander to play Jessica, and Michelle MacLaren to direct.
Doesn't mean they'll get them, but that's who they're looking for.

A lot of geek pundits are saying Jessica rightly belongs in the MCU for her Hydra backstory, and as a member of A-Force.

Maybe Sony knows that, and wants her as a bargaining chip.
Wouldn't put it past 'em.
I don't take a side, I just want the movies to be cool.

Venom was fun, Spider-verse was awesome, Morbius looks good, I stopped seeing Sony as a villain.
They're making good stuff again.
That's all that makes Marvel/Disney "the good guys", is the quality of their product.
It sure isn't their business practices.
If you hate Sony for playing hardball with Spidey, then cry just as hard about how Disney treats Universal over Hulk, or shut the fuck up.

If the Sony-verse is gonna be good, then it deserves to be MCU-adjacent.
And legally, as long as they use the characters they own, and don't mention Marvel/Disney characters, there's fuck-all Disney can do about it.

As fans, it just means we get more MCU movies.
And ones Disney would never make, cuz they refuse to go R.
With Fox absorbed, we need that studio that does something Disney doesn't.
Bring it on!

Heh, this was supposed to be a just a Jessica Drew update, and ended up being a whole rant on the state of Sony-Marvel.

Anyway, stay tuned for Jessica casting.

This, and Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk are the two biggies I'm keeping my eye on, because those are the two big female (Marvel) superheroes of my childhood that have never been live-action adapted.

Sue Storm from Fantastic Four we've had three versions of.
We finally got Wasp and Captain Marvel.
Black Widow's solo movie is finally coming in a couple months.
We've had all the X-Men girls since the 00's.

Jennifer and Jessica will solidify the whole thing.
We gotta get them on the game board.
C'mon, Hollywood, hurry up.



Previously with Spidey-verse-

Morbius merges Spidey-verse!! (MM #193) (SV #7)

Previously with MM-

"The Batman", Batsuit reveal!! (MM #209)

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"The Batman", Batsuit reveal!!

Meedyah Morsels #209.
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Post 59 away from 3000 posts!

Here we go!!!
Battinson!!

Best screen-grabs I could get.
The full reveal is in video form complete with a theme song.
Kinda like the makeup test for "Joker".
Check it out...

Here.


Previously with batsuits-

Batfleck.

Previously with "The Batman"-

• Batman.
• Commissioner.
• Catwoman.
• Riddler.
• Alfred & Penguin.

Previously with MM-

Picard ship & character updates. (MM #208)


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Tilapia- Update!

Munchies & Crunchies #22
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Updated from my tilapia rant in "Gorge-athon (Part 9)".

I had some last Sunday.

Eh, not bad.
Not quite as clean as Haddock, a little bit on the fishy side, but it was faint.

When Haddock goes extinct, I guess I'll be okay.

Still annoyed at the marketing dishonesty though.
Aren't there literally bigger fish to fry in the lie department?


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Return of Ghostbusters Twinkies!! (MC #21)


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Birds Of Prey/Harley Quinn (2020)

Big 2020 Movies Part 1.

-OR-

Birds Of Prey: 
And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn.

Loved it.
I was enjoying myself continuously through the whole thing.
I was never bored.

I said after seeing the trailer that it feels like a cross between Deadpool, and Tank Girl.

After seeing the whole flick, I was right, but I'd also add in 5 spoonfuls of "The Warriors", and one spoonful of "9 To 5".

Is it the best DCEU so far?
No.
That goes to Wonder Woman.

Is it better than Suicide Squad?
Oh, Hell yes.

Is it as good as Deadpool?
Ehh, no.
It's not as good as Deadpool at being like Deadpool.
But the other ingredients I listed above balance it out.

If I had to give it a number rating, 7 out of 10.

There's an after-credits, but it's not the greatest thing ever, and you won't miss anything if you go pee.
I mean, it's cute, but it doesn't reveal the next movie or anything.
I'll spoil this much, it's Harley talking over the WB logo, you don't even see video.
And it's seconds long.
Again, it's cute, but if your bladder is busting, just go.

Margot Robbie and Ewan McGragor are the best actors of the bunch.
Every time either one of them is on the screen, you're having fun.

I wanted way more of Huntress.
We don't get much of her, but what we do get is great.

We don't actually get the Birds Of Prey until near the freakin' end.
So, yeah, it's Harley's movie, totally.

Put it this way, if you've kept up with all the other DC movies, there's no worthy excuse not to see this one.
*Cough* incels *cough*

I dunno why people aren't going to see it.
Some movie pundits are blaming it on the trailers.
It's hard for the trailers to do an R rated action-comedy justice.
They should have done a red band one for the internet.
Something!

Had the theater to myself.
I hate people, so I wasn't bothered.
Plus, I smuggled outside candy.
Hee hee!


Previously with the DCEU-

The retroactive DCEU.

Previously with movies-

All The Movies!! 2010-2019

Next time-

New Mutants!


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Picard ship & character updates.

Meedyah Morsels #208.

Its been awhile for updating this one too!

Okay, first, the ship is the La Sirena.
Which translates to either Mermaid's Tail, or The Siren.

Damn, it took 3 episodes to get to the hero ship of the goddamned show!
Well, it took a couple for Discovery to get ON the Discovery, so this is nuTrek's thing now, is to drag out the backstory before getting down to business.

So, our ships are..

ENT = Enterprise
DIS = Discovery
TOS = Enterprise
TNG = Enterprise
DS9 = Defiant
VOY = Voyager
PIC = La Sirena
LD = Cerritos


Now, the character stuff...

Remember when I said to take the leaked character sheet, and throw it away?
Well, it wasn't so wrong after all!
Time to pull it out of the wastebasket, un-crumple it, and smooth it out.

Santiago Cabrera as Cristobal ‘Chris’ Rios.
Captain of the La Sirena.

Remember when I predicted he'd be "Dr Smith"?
Here's the description..

Dr. Smith: a male in his 30s or 40s of any ethnicity. From the description, it sounds like he’s an upgraded or wholly new version of the EMH. He’s described as a hologram who helps the crew through emergencies encompassing engineering, tactical, science investigation, and medical issues. He was programmed to learn but not become too self-aware. He’s calm, efficient, and empathic, but he sometimes has difficulties sorting out others emotional reactions to get at the facts.

Well, guess what? I wasn't wrong!
Rios bases his EMH on himself, so he plays both roles!

Rios himself more closely resembles "Lawrence".

Lawrence: a handsome man in his 30’s of any ethnicity. . . who has a dodgy moral compass. He’s the pilot of the ship Picard takes on his mission. Being a capable (and enthusiastic) thief, his loyalties are questionable.

Evan Evangora as Elnor.

Hasn't shown up yet, but I'm guessing he's "K'Bar".

K’Bar: the youngest of the leads. He’s a 17-year-old Romulan and the only child of what’s a mainly female Spiritual Order. A martial artist and considered a lethal weapon, he’s prone to mood swings and is committed to living in the moment with as much transparency as possible. He takes his devotion to Picard and his mission EXTREMELY seriously. . . obviously, they’re looking to find someone with Martial Arts experience, but also note that fencing is a plus as well.

Michelle Hurd as Raffi Musiker.
Captain/Admiral Picard's second in command after Riker left to be Captain of the Titan.

*Spoilers*

Picard tried to assemble an armada to evacuate Romulus when it blew up in Star Trek '09.
Starfleet wouldn't let him.
He said let him, or accept his resignation, thinking they'd blink, but they let him resign.
Musiker went down with him, and ended up destitute, and a smoker of alien-space-pot.

Picard convinces her to join him on this new mission.
She needs a lot of prodding though, cuz she's bitter.

SO, she resembles "Alana", and I predicted that one right!

Alana: a female in her mid-40s to mid-50s and is of any ethnicity. She’s a brilliant analyst and has a great memory despite abusing drugs and alcohol. Often times she gets irritated with her own vulnerability and is certain of herself, even when she’s wrong. A former intelligence officer, she sees conspiracies everywhere. Her professional and personal losses weigh heavily on her.

Isa Briones as Dahj.

*Spoilers*

Data's daughter!
Kinda.

Data painted a painting of an imaginary daughter who popped up in his mind, then Maddox (from "Measure Of a Man") made Dahj based on the painting.

Data's dead.
He died in Nemesis.
B-4 didn't become a resurrected Data after all.
The download didn't take, and B-4 had a cascade failure, and died.

Dahj dies in episode 1, but she has a twin named Soji.
She doesn't know she's an android.

Maddox invented tech that lets you grow a whole positronic brain from a single neuron.
No more slapping the chips together, and crossing your fingers that you don't get a cascade collapse.
Also, Dahj and Soji are android brains in cloned human bodies.
And they have fake human memories.
So they're more like the replicants from Bladerunner.

SO, Dahj most closely resembles "Connie".

Connie: a female who is also in her early 30s. She’s African-American and has a quick temper, but is also quick to forgive. In addition to dealing with the loss of her husband, she is also avoiding a death sentence on her home planet. She’s a mercenary pilot who uses her ship to transport people to and from an artifact of some kind, though the ship is massively overqualified for that job.

And Soji resembles "Indira".

Indira: a female in her early 20s of any Ethnicity. She’s extremely smart and physically agile . . . but maybe not so mature and a bit socially challenged because she tries too hard. Her intelligence often gets in the way of her manners. She’s cut off from home and her difficult mission puts a strain on her maturity. She’s still “finding her way in the wider world".

I got Connie wrong, but I matched Isa Briones to Indira, and got that one right.

Harry Treadaway as Narek.

A bad-guy Romulan spy who's seducing and manipulating Soji.
He might pull a face-turn.
He's not on the character sheet.
This threw me off the scent for the rest.

Alison Pill as Dr. Agnes Jurati.
A cybernetics scientist who's out of a job after simulants (androids) were banned by Starfleet.

Clearly, a gender-swapped version of "Starton".

Starton: a male of any ethnicity in his early 30s. He specializes in positronic brains and is terrified of space. He’s charming in a self-deprecating way and is excited about the research opportunities on Picard’s mission. It goes on to say that his demeanor will evolve over the series, but it does not say in what way.

The gender-flip threw me off.
As did Narek not being there, as did Cabrera and Briones both playing dual roles.
Actually, triple roles for Cabrera.
He's Rios, the EMH, and the ENH, an Emerency Navigational Hologram.

Hey, I can be forgiven for fucking up when they went out of their way to blind me!!

Gotta say though, the changes make the show better.


Previously with MM-

Picard TV Guide cover! (MM #207)


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Stuff from Facebook #1-40 compilation.

There we go.
There's all of these.
And now, the social media tag retroactively wraps around all of those.
So, going forward, searches will be easier.
Bada-boom, bada-bing!

• Stuff From Facebook! (SFF #1)
• A rant that lost me some friends. (SFF #2)
• Abortion and Nazis. (SFF #3)
• Guns, idiots, and lost love. (SFF #4)
• Resurrection! (SFF #5)
• "Classical Liberals". (SFF #6)
• Equality bashing religions. (SFF #7)
• Grandma. (SFF #8)
• The upside of a gloomy life. (SFF #9)
• On worth. (SFF #10)
• Keep it to yourself, it's my life! (SFF #11)
• 80's cartoons were fucked. (SFF #12)
• On voting. (SFF #13)
• My thing on country music. (SFF #14)
• In defense of Terminator Salvation. (SFF #15)
• Erec-Shawn. (SFF #16)
• Stupid people really do suck. (SFF #17)
• Culture snobbery. (SFF #18)
• Parenting tips. (SFF #19)
• Marketplace, advertising, and selling out. (SFF #20)
• Rudolph & Santa! (SFF #21)
• Bootstrap this! (SFF #22)
• When the rich are done fucking us.... (SFF #23)
• Asshole during Justice League. (SFF #24)
• How the gamergate crypto-fascists got under my radar. (SFF #25)
• Hypocrites, Part 1. (SFF #26)
• Hypocrites, Part 2. (SFF #27)
• Hypocrites, Part 3. (SFF #28)
• Hypocrites, Part 4. (SFF #29)
• Greedy swine, Part 1. (SFF #30)
• Greedy swine, Part 2. (SFF #31)
• Liars and cowards, Part 1. (SFF #32)
• Liars and cowards, Part 2. (SFF #33)
• Liars and cowards, Part 3. (SFF #34)
• Liars and cowards, Part 4. (SFF #35)
• Weird/humor/musing stuff, Part 1. (SFF #36)
• Weird/humor/musing stuff, Part 2. (SFF #37)
• Weird/humor/musing stuff, Part 3. (SFF #38)
• Index/compilation of my SFF backlog. (SFF #39)
• Crockett and Murdock. (SFF #40)

Now, to link this to archives.


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Crockett and Murdock.

Stuff from Facebook #40.

"Has he always been like this?".

Yeah, pretty much.


February 10th, 2020

How my goofy ass would ruin games as a kid...

Rob- Let's play Miami Vice! I'll be Crockett, you be Tubbs!

Me- (Doesn't watch the show) Is Tubbs funny?

Rob- He's...kinda funny.

Me- Okay then!! Whoohoo!! Boing boing! Bleaarrgh!

Rob- Um...that's actually more like Murdock from A-Team.

Me- Then lat's play A-Team!

Rob- We don't have enough guys for A-Team.

Me- Well...then I guess we're playing Crockett and Murdock.


And, that's 40.
Up next, compilation of 1-40.


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Index/compilation of my SFF backlog. (SFF #39)


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Index/compilation of my SFF backlog.

Stuff from Facebook #39.

And, here's all of those as they looked in my backlog notepad.
If I, or you, dear reader, want to find an individual one someday, here's the map.


Hypocrites, Part 1.
-Conservative Christians and pedophilia.
-80's patriotism meant nothing.
-Hipster-Nazis.
Hypocrites, Part 2.
-Creationists on the internet.
-Sapient wolves.
-Tea Party.
Hypocrites, Part 3.
-Bigots demanding civility.
-Pussy sandwich.
-Rush.
Hypocrites, Part 4.
-The Meryl Streep speech.
-Stupid people think everyone's arrogant.
-Southerners.
Greedy swine, Part 1.
-Billionaires are hoarders.
-Religions are Pacman.
-The NRA are fucking ghouls.
Greedy swine, Part 2.
-People are vain and gross.
-Cogs.
-Capitalism vs democracy.
Liars and cowards, Part 1.
-9/11 gung-ho, and the hangover.
-"Support the troops!!"
-Atheism as a disease.
-Southern Swastika.
-Growing up/eating the rich.
Liars and cowards, Part 2.
-Wishy-washy spirituality.
-Pedos.
-Chopra on PBS
-Evil daddies and the sunk cost fallacy.
-Religion and the sunk cost fallacy.
Liars and cowards, Part 3.
-Nazis refuse to see themselves.
-Trump's/MAGA's racism.
-Bigotry potion.
-Folksy wisdom.
-Low IQs.
Liars and cowards, Part 4.
-Making you hate unions.
-"Democrats are too liberal".
-Judge Judy.
-Fox.
-Anti-vaxxers have to go.
Weird/humor/musing stuff, Part 1.
-Politics in comedy.
-History of television.
-Emotional Devastator (sequel to Soundwave!!).
-Death stands victorious.
Weird/humor/musing stuff, Part 2.
-Evil thoughts.
-Watchmen is Soylent Green.
-WebMD is spreading lies about my cock.
-Anal beads.
Weird/humor/musing stuff, Part 3.
-Harry Hembock as a business.
-Mere existence.
-Republicans are aliens.
-Racial mix.


And that gets me up to 39.
I've got one set aside for 40, and then I'll compile 1-40.


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Weird/humor/musing stuff, Part 3. (SFF #38)


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Stuff from Facebook #38.

The last of these!


Harry Hembock as a business.

December 19, 2019 

Facebook just nagged me into updating business hours and location for Harry Hembock. 
I never thought of Harry Hembock as a business. 
I hate business. 
The only business I ever wanted was a video store. 
And even then, I'd rather be the employee, so someone else has to put up with the fucking paperwork, and the mafia truck drivers, while I get to play with the tapes. 
BUT...there is that line in "The Falcon and The Snowman". 
"As soon as you took money, you became a professional". 
It may have just been DVD money, but I got money for those books. 
I guess I'm a professional author. 
A failed one, with an empty storefront with broken windows, and a family of raccoons in the ceiling. 
But still...


Mere existence.

December 15, 2008

Is going back to the normal level of just sorta existing.

And the update...

December 15, 2019

Don't knock it. 
Mere existence can be quite the adventure. 
Even if you lay completely still, at a metabolic and cellular level, you're doing all kinds of crazy shit. 
Plus, the planet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, it's revolving at 67 thousand miles an hour, and the solar system is whipping around the galaxy at 143 miles a second. 
And that's at an alleged standstill. 
Add in all the chemistry and physics of cooking, eating, pooping, using technology, then add in the ripple effect impact you've had on people's lives, there's a lot of cool shit going on there.


Republicans are aliens.

January 28, 2014 

Wait! I think I finally get it! 
Republicans are extraterrestrials who have taken old Pat Benatar songs literally! 
They think love actually is a battlefield, which is why they keep drone attacking weddings, and they really think Hell is for children, which is why they're against welfare, head start, and food stamps. 
Well, that's an easy fix, we just have to change the cassette in the slots in their backs. 
I wish the rest of the world's problems were this easy. 
You're welcome.


Racial mix.

February 8, 2015

Idea: make a bunch of little molded cookie men, and you make them in gingerbread, dark chocolate, and vanilla, and you put them all in the same bag, and sell it as "racial mix", and sell it down south, and cause a riot, and disrupt a couple news cycles. 
Best part, the news does your ad campaign for your cookie company for you for free.


And that's the end!!

Next up, an index of all these rants/rambles to make them easier to find.


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Part 2 of 3 of these.


Evil thoughts.

December 5, 2013 

You know what I think I enjoy most about atheism? 
Thinking evil thoughts. 
Just radioactive fucking evil. 
With no guilt or paranoia about it. 
It blows off so much mental pressure. 
I recommend it to everyone. 
Pissed at your spouse? 
Picture them engulfed in fire, blackened, shrieking, gurgling, falling down a flight of stairs, and busting open into pieces at the bottom. 
Try to even imagine smelling the porky goodness. 
You'll feel better. You really will. 
Christians don't get to have that. 
They have all this fucking guilt. 
If they wish ill on someone, and it really happens, they think GAAWWD read their mind, and MADE it happen. 
There are really people saddled with this shit on their conscience you know. 
These people can't be paying too close attention on world affairs. 
Let's pretend there's a God, and he watches over everything. 
Let's look at the real world results. 
Serial killers skinning people, and dancing in the skin. 
He sat right by, and let that happen. 
All these kids that get raped by the clergy. 
He hasn't sent a single lightning bolt down to blast these pathetic old men's dicks off. 
You've never heard that story. 
You would have heard it. 
Everyone hates these pedos, everyone would LOVE that story. 
It would be the story of the decade. 
You wouldn't miss it. 
Even if you avoid TV and internet, someone would pass it along. 
Nope, hasn't happened, not once. 
This is a God that either doesn't give a shit, or, hey, maybe he LIKES pedos, rapists, and serial killers!
There's a thought! 
And here you are, nervous little white person, with your nervous little white sins. 
"Ohh, I stole my sister's chap-stick". 
"Ohhh, I read my daughter's diary to make sure she wasn't doing drugs, now she hates me!". 
"Ohhh, I got angry, and raised my voice to my mother at breakfast!". 
And God saw it ALL! 
Noooo!! 
Ease up on yourself, and let the hate out. 
The universe is careless, and that's the good news.


Watchmen is Soylent Green.

January 22, 2013 

Y'know, I think maybe "Watchmen", lifted its structure off of "Soylent Green". 
It kicks off with someone's murder, the victim expects his death, then, it's all a murder investigation from there, there's a weird conspiracy covering up morally creepy sci-fi villainy, there's urban decay, the protagonist has an old mentor figure who dies, and, there's a similar "lady or the tiger?", ending.
Does Brock Peters tell the exchange about Soylent Green being people? 
Does Seymour print the revelations from Rorschach's journal? 
Ayep, think I cracked this one.


WebMD is spreading lies about my cock.

November 18, 2019

So, I got a WebMD ad in my feed, and they seem to think I have a crooked dick. 
Nope.
I would have mentioned it by now. 
I could've blamed my failures with relationships on that instead of my defective personality. 
It would have come in handy. 
Almost frustratingly, my downstairs plumbing is pretty damned reliable. 
Except for that one stone a couple years back. 
Why no stone ad, WebMD? 
Call tech support, you're broken, WebMD.


Anal beads.

December 3, 2013

One thing that seems to bring a conversation to a screeching halt, is the words "anal beads". 
You can gauge how much of a fun-less uptight bunch you're stuck with by how much the faces crinkle up after uttering it. 
Oddly, if you can get a friend who has a thick Georgia accent to say it, then it becomes charming, and laughs are had by all. 
I'll never figure people out.

And the update...

December 3, 2016

As true now as ever. Merry Christmas.


Next up, the last of these! Hooray!


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Stuff from Facebook #36.

The last of the backlog.
In three parts.
This being the first.

The backlog accumulated while I was doing all the movie news stuff, and Krazyfool, and the food stuff.
And the food stuff was its own backlog!

Anyhoo, let's get to it....


Politics in comedy.

November 19, 2018

Whenever I hear someone whine about "too much politics", in comedy, it's always someone who's fucking dumb on politics. 
Here's a hint, dumbasses, everything is political. 
Even the seemingly innocuous hacky "you ever notice when they hand out the airplane peanuts...", jokes can be traced back to Reagan fucking over the airline unions. 
Everything in our crummy little mundane lives is because of some shitty choice some leader made.
"A-hyuck!! Pop-Tarts are a goofy food!!". 
Oh, I'll say, let me tell you the horror story of the palm oil that goes into those.... 
Oh, why are you leaving, do facts hurt your little walnut brain? 
Bye! 
*Waves*


History of television.

January 5, 2014

So, here's a summary of the 80 year history of television. 
So, they invent television, and the eggheads are all excited, because this could be the greatest teaching tool mankind has ever seen. 
BUT, then the robber-baron capitalist scum walked into the meeting, and were immediately like "Oboy! Oboy! We've gotta shove our dicks into this, and pump it full of our lies and bullshit!". 
And so they did. 
For the next 80 years, they made horrible programs full of twisted delusions, and lame superficial values, and loathsome advertisements for products nobody needed, and were oftentimes flat out harmful to the public health. 
And none of it with any apology, or indeed reflection of any kind. 
The people in charge were as shallow as the shows they put on. 
And it kept going like this, and some good stuff got on, but it was a thin trickle, and it got on virtually by accident. 
Then, some other eggheads had to bypass this, by taking 40 years to invent the internet, get it into everyone's house, improve it until it could display shows, and then make devices to put the internet into your TV. 
All because the greedy Jabba swine wouldn't just get out of the way. 
But the real reason it was like steering an iceberg, was because you and I wouldn't nut up, and shoot some people.


Emotional Devastator (sequel to Soundwave!!).

November 21, 2019 

When I was a kid, there were these Transformers called Constructicons, they were construction vehicles that turned into robots, and then assembled into a bigger robot called Devastator. 
Devastator is in the '86 animated movie, you can't miss him. 
Anyhoo, it took me three goddamned months to collect all his individual pieces with my crap allowance. 
Then, as soon as I fucking had him, there was a bootleg set of Constructicons pre-assembled as Devastator for 10 bucks at this ratty discount store my grandmother went to. 
The only difference was the bootlegs were red with orange highlights while the originals were lime green with purple highlights. 
Stupid idiot brand loyalty kept me from getting the cheap Devastator. 
In hindsight, brand loyalty to Hasbro's Transformers was total bullshit, given that they just bought the rights from a Japanese company, so the "bootlegs", were probably MORE authentic if they were shipped from Japan. 
Anyhoo, I still regret not getting Orange-Devastator. 
I could have pretended he was Devastator's twin brother, Emotional Devastator. 
Instead of using his fists, and his gun, he uses cutting insults, brutal truths, and bad family news to collapse his enemies into heaps of tears.


Death stands victorious.

November 30, 2015 

If you absolutely must have a God, I recommend Death. 
When you really think about it, in the hierarchy of nature, Death truly stands victorious. 
Death has claimed 98% of all species. 
Death will claim everyone you know, and everyone who will come after you. 
Death kicked over all the annoying lousy rotten ego driven empires. 
And best of all, Death even kills all the other Gods. 
There are hundreds of thousands of dead Gods of dead religions that no one worships anymore. 
Death got them, and in a couple hundred to a thousand years, Death is gonna get Jehovah and Allah.
It's gonna happen. 
Oh, stop your indignant whining, sissy-babies. 
The followers of the dead Gods thought their religion was gonna be forever too. 
Death is gonna get you, your family, your God, and your little dog too. 
Death is the true ruler of this universe. 
And it's a pitiless God. 
It can't be appealed to, it can't be bargained with. 
And it's a good thing. 
A universe that could be bent and twisted by the magical wishes of humans would look like a fucking Twilight Zone episode. 
And a world where things didn't die would be a cluttered clusterfuck. 
Death is nature's cleansing broom. 
And in the end, Death is your friend. 
But see, that makes you value life all the MORE to my way of thinking. 
Death is the default state that wins out in the end. 
Life is the freak anomaly. 
That makes it precious. 
Not sacred though, that' s a whole other bag of subjective bullshit people try to turn into a rule, then an ideology. 
Let's not get bogged down in that horseshit. 
Anyway, long way of saying, people like Al-Qaeda and ISIS who claim they worship death are liars or delusional. 
Or at the very least, doing it all ass-backwards. 
I think it's that "afterlife", bullshit that fucks it up. 
No, death isn't more life, death is death. 
That's why it's called Death. 
If there were an afterlife, Death would have killed it, and you'd have seen the wreckage on the news.
And good riddance too.


Next up, part 2 of these.


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Picard TV Guide cover!

Meedyah Morsels #207.

Man, haven't been able to update this sucker since way back in MM #44!

Boom!
The poster is cool, but you haven't really made it until you're TV Guided.
Yep, you read that right, TV Guide, not Entertainment Weekly.

Last time, I had to swap out to EW cuz TV Guide ceased to exist when Discovery came out, now TV Guide is back, and there's no EW cover story, cuz EW's shitty critic tore Picard to shreds even though everyone else loves it.
So, guess I'm swapping back!

Anyhoo, here's those all together again...

Next up, Lower Decks, Section 31, and whatever that mystery Nickelodeon show is called!
Plus, now there's rumors of a Pike show spun off from the Pike season of Discovery.

Stay tuned!


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