Yup, these ones were good!
I finished them off December 8th, but a bunch of stuff happened.
Storms, Christmas, appliance breakdowns, stuff.
Russell Crowe On Why “Gladiator II” ‘Failed’
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Monday, December 29, 2025
Thursday, December 25, 2025
Christmas 2025.
Whelp, last year, I didn't know if the mailman was gonna pull off Christmas.
He did this time! So...at least that's something.
Last couple years, I bullshitted what I was reading into a Christmas theme.
So, let's keep the new tradition.
From left to right: Pan is in Christmas colors, mutant Klansman is an evil Santa, and demonic monkey is a toy. And I guess Pan can kinda sorta count as an elf. A horny omnisexual shapeshifting elf.
This year's stuff...
-Ma passed away. She's not here for Christmas for really-real, and not cuz she's at the hospital.😔
-Saw "Superman" (2025).
-Re-got the Earthsea books.
-Now I'm on a Poe/Machen/Lovecraft/King/Etc rabbit hole.
Keeping my nose in books keeps the pain at bay. Slightly.
I'll leave a link for my present haul here.
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Sunday, December 14, 2025
RIP Rob Reiner
Like I just said in the Ozzy one, I was still reeling from the loss of my mother, so I didn't keep up on these. Almost a year later, I can finally tackle 'em now.
Jesus, stabbed by your son. It's literally as tragic as the shit that happens to the grownup versions of the boys from "Stand By Me".
They did a really wonderful tribute for him at the Oscars.
That said it all best.
Here's all his stuff I reviewed.
Saturday, November 29, 2025
RIP Tom Stoppard
Like I said in the Terence Stamp, Graham Greene, and Diane Keaton ones, I had too much grief over my mother to do any of these.
I can tackle them now.
I found Stoppard's politics icky. You have to be full-on fascist to be full-on disgusting.
He was just...icky.
He was a pro-capitalist, pro-Christian, bourgeois elitist diet-Republican style liberal.
I don't know or care what the political labels would be in the UK; I just know I'm as sick to death of these "establishment libs" as the fascists.
I piss on the Clintons; I don't see Clinton-ism as some golden age; I don't see "The West Wing" as their Camelot legend that I get fucking misty and weepy over; and I think James Carville needs to be put out on a fucking ice floe instead of being treated like Yoda by our liberal pundit class.
I've fucking had it with these fucking people.
BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stoppard will always be the guy who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead".
And Margaret and I got to share in that.
And he didn't groom and diddle any kids. Unlike Michael Jackson or Woody Allen.
So, I can grit my teeth for Tom Stoppard on this one case.
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Friday, November 7, 2025
Star Wars adjacent antidote movies.
Watched some Youtubes.
Had this thing in recommends picking apart Joseph Campbell.
I always intuitively found Campbell's theories reductive and constrictive.
Felt good to have that confirmed by somebody, and that I'm not crazy.
Interesting to know what a dick and a shithead he was about WWII.
Anyway!! I needed a Star Wars antidote after that, and...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Voter ID: UPDATE!!!
My original rant on the subject.
Along with my explanation, I related my bad experience of walking past the petition to get it on the ballot, and some sneering witchy hag gave me a hard time about it.
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Friday, October 31, 2025
Halloween 2025!
Well, in real-world horror, the pumpkin-headed despot got re-elected by the morons of America.
Because of course he was, and of course they did.
I could feel it in the air that it was going to happen.
You can check last year, the gloom I had going.
Every year I live will be a miracle, since Carrot Caligula has declared liberals, atheists, anti-racists, anti-pedos (release the files!!), and LGBT allies terrorists.
Y'know, because that's what Jesus would want. 🙄🤦♂️
Anyway! Like I said last time, I'm gonna do this for as long as I can, and not change my tone.
The alternative is kissing the ring, and no thanks to that bullshit.
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Thursday, October 30, 2025
RIP Drew Struzan
Like I said yesterday in the Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Reiner ones, I was still reeling from the loss of my mother, so I didn't keep up on these. Almost a year later, I can finally tackle 'em now.
Struzan did more movie posters than you can shake a stick at.
The protagonist in "The Mist" was a poster artist, so they got Struzan to do the poster, and had David be the Struzan of the King-verse, and have his art up in his studio. Including the ones for "Shawshank" and "Green Mile".
I'll always love that weird little meta-tribute.
It made me smile when I re-watched "The Mist" for my latest read-a-thon of King books.
Off the top of my head....
He did the 9 Star Wars saga films.
He did the Indiana Jones-es.
He did The Harry Potters. (Yeah, I know, JK sucks)
He did a honking shitload of the Star Wars novels without anyone blowing the trumpet
Yeah, he got around.
Do a Google deep-dive yourself, you'll have a great time.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Poe 3: Poe/Pym spinoff-a-thon (Part 3).
Read/watched these during "Lovecraft Country" cuz they were quickies.
Putting them after. Could have just lied by omission, and pretend I just did 'em. Nah.
Anyway, here they are.
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Saturday, October 25, 2025
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Birthday loot 2025, Part 7.
Ordered these from Bullmoose the day before "Helen's Story" came in the mail.
Two of them were already in-store. The one that had to be ordered was the 10-day slowpoke.
Just picked them up.
Saturday, October 11, 2025
RIP Diane Keaton
Like I said in the Terence Stamp and Graham Greene ones, I had too much grief over my mother to do any of these.
I can tackle them now.
*Skimming her filmography*
Jesus, none of this is my bag.
She's in the whole Godfather trilogy, but I can't say I'm a fan of those.
I saw "Annie Hall" in high school film history class, and I didn't love it, but it really skeeves me out now that Woody Allan is outed as a pedo.
Which is a bummer, cuz, "Annie Hall" is for her what "Superman" is for Christopher Reeve.
It's her signature role.
Oh!! Wait!! She directed an episode of "Twin Peaks"!!
Good enough!
Margaret Bonanno hated her everliving guts.
That tickled me for some reason.
I told her to avoid "Because I Said So" unless she wanted to jump in a vat of acid afterward.
She laughed.
That is a miserable movie, as the link title says. I did find Keaton...esthetically pleasing though.
I....put it more crudely at the time. 😏
You know what? Screw it, I'm gonna consider it an honorable tribute.
😆
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
So, Punisher...(Part 2)
Dammit, Disney. You haven't made me exactly love this character, but you've made it complicated.
Friday, October 3, 2025
"The Stand" revisited.
Way back in "Oh-Em-Gee-Too!" I shredded the shit out of the theology of "The Stand" such as it was.
I'm fine with it now, and here's why.
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Thursday, October 2, 2025
RIP Patricia Routledge
From my future self in 6/9/26.
We got hit with a lot of celebrity deaths leading up to and after my mother's passing.
It was really a numbing beat-down.
Routledge was Hyacinth Bucket on "Keeping Up Appearances".
My mother, grandmother, and father were really into that show.
I thought it was cute, but I didn't love it like they did.
My dad named one of his chickens after Hyacinth.
Chicken-Hyacinth died a hero saving her sister Violet from getting chomped by a fox.
I didn't know human-Hyacinth was alive, but she was friggin' 96.
Needless to say, her passing stirred up a lot of memories.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
RIP Jane Goodall
We got hit with a lot of celebrity deaths leading up to and after my mother's passing.
It was really a helluva beat-down.
So, Goodall was part of a triumvirate of soothing PBS good-guys along with Mister Rogers, and Bob Ross.
And she was part of the popular science communicator triumvirate with Carl Sagan, and Jacques Cousteau.
We never get a new one of these kinds of people.
They're always irreplaceable.
Like Phil Donahue.
In the case of Donahue and Goodall, they took an irreplaceable institution with them.
Like 60 Minutes.
We're not gonna get another one of those.
Thanks, Bari Weiss. 😡
There are evil people in this world who delight and revel in the loss of these people and institutions.
I have a hard time considering people that cruel human.
I'm ashamed of my anger, and try to be like Rogers, Ross, and Goodall.
It's go damned hard without them here.
So hard. 😔😩
New tag for 2025.
"Weird-fiction-verse" which covers this whole Poe/Machen/Lovecraft/King quest I've been on.
Lovecraft coined the term, and fan-authors still use it. Even saw an anthology called "Never Again: Weird Fiction Against Racism and Fascism" that came out in the 2010's.
Hmm, might grab that someday...
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Friday, September 26, 2025
Monday, September 22, 2025
The lost "Arthur Gordon Pym" sequels.
I almost mentioned these in the "Poe-read-a-thon 2" post, but I was fried, and said "fuck it".
Then I've struggled back and forth whether to do a separate post for them.
Yeah, I wanna now.
Let's do it.
So, there are actually two more Arthur Pym sequels, but I don't have access to them.
They are as follows.
Friday, September 19, 2025
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Poe 3: Poe/Pym spinoff-a-thon (Part 1).
Poe 1: Big-book-of-Poe.
Poe 2: Poe/Pym sequel-thon.
-ATMOM physical copy review. (and setup to this one)
Okay!! Gonna do this one in chunks.
Here's chunk one!
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Finally acknowledging Section 31.
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.
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Monday, September 1, 2025
RIP Graham Greene
Like I said in the Terence Stamp one, I had too much grief over my mother to do any of these.
I can tackle them now.
Shit, the only thing of his I ever reviewed was "The Green Mile".
I've seen him in a million other things, especially "Dances With Wolves" but I never reviewed that here either.
Well, I'll do a quickie now. It's visually beautiful, everyone performs their everloving guts out, and its heart is in the right place.
But, I don't love it.
It's not a movie I would choose to watch even once a year, much less every week. If it is that movie for you, bless your heart. Enjoy. I won't pee on your parade.
Now, my mother, she had a big dripping bleeding heart for the plight of the American natives, and I do too, but unlike me, she lapped up stuff like "Dances.." so she got all excited when she saw Graham in anything else.
She was the fangirl.
I do this memorial for more for her.
RIP, Graham Greene. You seemed like a cool guy.
Monday, August 25, 2025
Who's in "Avengers: Doomsday".
Or, Post-Deadpool 3 Marvel, Part 7.
Who's in that we know for sure.
So far.
Old news, but, y'know, shit's been going on.
Possible spoilers, proceed with caution...
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Saturday, August 23, 2025
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Monday, August 18, 2025
Prelude to "The Fantastic Four: First Steps".
AKA: Prelude to the Disney-Fox crossovers (vol. 3)
Previously with these crossover preludes...
Superman (2025)
Holy shit, this is my first theater trip of 2025.
Been a little over a year since "Deadpool & Wolverine".
That all time-warped in my head....
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Sunday, August 17, 2025
RIP Terence Stamp
Like I said in the Ozzy, Drew Struzan, and Rob Reiner ones, I was still reeling from the loss of my mother, so I didn't keep up on these. Almost a year later, I can finally tackle 'em now.
Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, the cast of Superman '78 are slowly being wiped out. It's a drag.
Here's all his stuff I reviewed.
Saturday, August 16, 2025
MCU Phase 5 compilation.
Previously-
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I didn't bother with the fucking TV shows this time.
Fuck that shit.
Meeting content quotas with the goddamned shows is what fucked up Phase 4.
Fucking corporate suits.
ANYWAY!!
MCU phase 5 wrap-up.
Acquired these last time here.
Watched them that day, but haven't had time to post my thoughts here until now.
Again, they are...
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Monday, August 11, 2025
Birthday loot 2025, Part 3.
Well!! I'll be goddamned!! After letting me down with Le Guin, Bullmoose pulled through for me this time!! And with a not-usual book too!
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Second Thriftbooks order of 2025.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Birthday loot 2025.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Happy 50th birthday to myself!
Can't say it better than I just did on Facebook...
Thanks for the birthday well wishes everyone! Had...an okay time. Had the family over, and we gorged and laughed. Ma's absence didn't catch up to me until the very end when everyone was leaving. Got a little tingle-eyed. Ma's gone, I'm 50, Trump's president. All of this feels like a weird fucking dream.
Yup, we lost Ma. Here's that.
Yeah, that about says it all.
I'll put the link HERE for the loot.
Already got a couple things.
Monday, July 28, 2025
Tea!! Tea!! Tea!!
The promised side-sequel to "Poe-read-a-thon 2".
My mother and grandmother were big time Stephen King fangirls.
And big time tea drinkers.
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Sunday, July 27, 2025
Poe-read-a-thon 2!!!
Added a special surprise bonus book.
Finished all the reading on June 29th.
These were hard to boil down, so the review fought with me to begin with.
It all seemed rather pointless to keep going with it; but, I came up with a sequel idea that ties it into a memorial for Ma, so that gave me strength again.
But! Before I can get to that, I have to do this one! So, here we go!
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
RIP Ozzy Osbourne
Ma passed on the 10th, and the wind was knocked out of me, and I just couldn't deal with keeping up on these.
Ozzy was one of of my faves, but my uncles worshipped him.
I didn't even mention him at the wake after-party.
His songs popped up on the radio, and we were kinda silent about it.
There's always been this weird tension in our culture over whether weird nerds like me should "be allowed" to listen to metal.
I dunno, I'm a horror guy, and horror and metal go together like peanut butter and jelly.
And Stephen King is a fellow geek. He ain't sleeping with a million groupies.
Although...he did do the coke.
Well, if I stuck to things that didn't have gatekeepers, I'd literally have nothing.
And I'm not fucking doing that.
So, fuck you, I liked Ozzy.
And I fucking miss him.
A world without Ozzy and my mother sucks.
Saturday, July 19, 2025
RIP Malcolm-Jamal Warner
We got hit with a lot of celebrity deaths leading up to and after my mother's passing.
It was really a merciless beat-down.
So, he was best the human being to come out of the retroactive train-wreck of "The Cosby Show".
The thing that sucks hardest about these shows that have a monster for a star is the other cast members who didn't do anything wrong, and that their legacy gets tarred and/or erased along with the asshole.
Warner did a lot of good for the world, and he's the one that dies.
Cosby's still fucking breathing.
And there's no one you can blame.
Mother nature killed him. A stupid fucking wave sucked him up.
Kee-rist.
For every sunrise and lilac, there's a hurricane or a Venus flytrap.
Nature has its pointy side.
I'm aware of it after every Maine winter I live through.
And looking back at all the winters I helped Ma live through.
Fucking 15 of 'em. It really felt like locking down in a zombie invasion every time.
Warner got gotten in summer in Costa Rica.
Frigging paradise. You never know when your number's up.
A good lesson to live without fear.
Hiding under the bed won't save you, so you might as well go for it.
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Yhep, Spidey 4 got a title.
Title's been out for awhile, but it got backlogged with the long delay on my Edgar Allan Poe sequel review post.
Still chipping away at that. It'll get done someday.
The books are all read, its just the review part that's arm wrestling me.
Losing a parent didn't help.
Stuff like this is easier. Maybe this will unclog my brain faucet.
Anyhoo!
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Whelp....
Even before Ma passed, I had depressions bad enough I had to logically reason myself out of bed with "if I stay here all day, I'll eventually piss and shit the bed, and that'll create another fucking bill, so I may as well get up and empty my fluids, and if I'm gonna do that, then I'm up and around, and may as well proceed with my day".
That would get me to the kitchen to eat, and to the computer.
And then part of keeping alive and healthy is keeping sane, so I gotta do my hobbies.
And that includes posting about stupid movie shit.
But it seems so dumb now.
But, Ma kept up her hobbies after Gram & Gramp passed, so....
Guess I'm doing a dumb movie post...sigh...
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Dawn Meggison (1952-2025)
Next to the Joshua Chamberlain statue, cuz fuck you, Confederacy. 😏
She passed Thursday. Miss ya, Ma. Always will. 😢
Update: The better memorial.
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Monday, June 30, 2025
RIP Jim Shooter
Too depressed to keep up on these deaths. I'm recovered enough now.
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Stan Lee used to be hands on writer and editor of Marvel, but by the time I was born, he had already been promoted to company mascot, and then later, Jim Shooter was "the Stan Lee" of my childhood to tweenage years.
He was "my" Marvel guy.
So, here's all he had influence over and connection to.
He doesn't get enough credit.
He was an acerbic character to put it mildly, and that put a lot of people off.
His tenure speaks for itself. I consider it the golden age of the Marvel company.
Today's kiddies would consider it the MCU age in dollar figures, but the books were way better in the Shooter age; and without those books, you don't get the movies.
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Seventeen years of Shmegalamonga!!!
Year 17.
Saw "Deadpool & Wolverine".
And, got it on Blu-ray.
Trump got-re-elected, and we're basically all just waiting to die. 😔😓
Hence the book reading to fill the hole.
I said last year...
There's a bunch of drama in my social media life that I don't want to talk about.
Maybe in hindsight next year after I see where it all ends up.
Whelp, short version, one of my three former friends was a transphobic piece of shit pretending to be "just asking questions", and the other two fell for his sealioning gaslighting bullshit, and jumped off the cliff with him. He's probably still dragging them down into the alt-right quicksand was we speak.
Disgusting, and depressing. They to this day think they're the victims and I'm the villain for calling that shit out.
Probably will to the day they die.
World burning down around us, and they have to get into that stupid reactionary pseudo-science trash.
Whatever. 🙄
Fucking pitiful. 😒
So!! That's that! That's what that was about!
I was hoping I could snap them out of it, but Mister Sealion is too fucking diabolical.
He ain't letting go.
He's barnacled right onto them.
Fine, enjoy each other's company. I'm out. See yah!
I fucking tried.
I'm sticking with last year's logo forever.
Good enough.
Saturday, June 14, 2025
First Thriftbooks order of 2025.
Yep, Bullmoose and Barnes & Noble failed me.
And I'm boycotting Amazon forever cuz of their Trump donations, and Bezos shitfucking the Washington Post.
Anyway!!
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RIP Melissa Hortman
So! I had a "good riddance" one written for a certain ugly-faced fascist podcaster, and it was good for what it was; and it was lengthy and thorough, but amongst my rants about this person, I found it cruelly unjust they got all the glory, and not other victims of political violence.
So, I realized I didn't even want this other person's ugly face on my blog, and I did this one instead.
99 times out of 100, the assassins take out one of ours.
Then that 1 time out of 100, the world has to stop.
Fuck off. I've had it.
*Reads up on her assassin, and his beliefs exactly match the fan club of the aforementioned podcaster*
Shocker. 🙄
I'll just link to her memorial stuff on her wiki page.
Does a better job than I could.
Friday, June 13, 2025
Thursday, June 12, 2025
"The worst of the worst" revisited.
So, my thing on The Soska Sisters made me go down a rabbit hole of old links, and I found this old rant that made me cringe at the front of "The Worst Of The Worst".
It made me cringe in exactly the same way as my one for "Dogma" so I really have to tackle it, and make it the sequel.
So, here we go....
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
The Soska Sisters suck now.
There were red flags, but I tuned them out.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2025
So, Troma...
So!!! Remember a whole fucking year ago now that the Toxie remake/reboot was cancelled and shelved by chickenshit distributors?
Remember how it's been two fucking years ago since it was supposed to go right out the door?
Well!! Someone picked it up, and it's back on!!!
And....I've been abused too much. I don't care anymore.
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Monday, June 9, 2025
So, Ghostbusters...
I've got 5 movies, 100+ cartoon episodes, and a pile of comics. I'm good.
Same way I feel about Star Wars.
And I feel the same away about all these Ghostbusters anniversaries as I do about May The 4th.
I'm out. I'm done.
Sick of the cycle of 5 years, movie, 5 years, movie, and the 4 years between being awkward thumb twiddling.
And for what?
And for who?
Who reads this shit and cares?
I thought I was defying Trump and his CHUD-boys keeping the ATC ones going, but the CHUD boys have their hate-boners out for female Silver Surfer, and then next year, it'll be some other bullshit.
It's not even about the movie they pick on, it's their mental disease.
The movies just get caught in the crossfire of the thrown rattles from the manbaby meltdowns.
Meltdowns over....NOTHING!
Rage-farmers rile them up over shit that ain't real.
For...money. It's the new televangelism.
And speaking of man-baby tantrums over imaginary boogeymen, Trump might be slaughtering protestors by tomorrow morning (writing this at 1:23 AM on 6/9/25).
So, y'know, puts it all in perspective.
Hey!! Whether it's troops in the streets, or measles epidemics, Trump's gonna make a whole lotta ghosts! There's a Ghostbusters plot for ya, Sony!
..and it's too depressing to make funny. 😓😔
Anyway!
If another movie comes out, I'll see it, and talk about it, but I'm not gonna cover every anal little detail.
"Thank baby Jesus!!!" some of you are no doubt saying.
Yes, you're free.
I'll torture you no longer. *Head pat*. I absolve you!
I might do one of these for 45 and 50.
We'll see. But next year? Nope.
Sequels? Nope.
Exhale, everyone who was sick of this. 😏
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Happy 41st anniversary, Ghostbusters!!
Previous years-
What's happened since last year....
What's happened this year....
Nothin. 😩
Piles and piles of toys. All of them first-movie based. 🤦♂️
Yawn. 😴
They're really obsessing on the fuckin' trap. 🙄
They've got a million variations on the fuckin' trap. 🙄
Frozen Empire still isn't on Starz yet. 🤨
They just keep replaying 1,2, ATC, and Afterlife forever.
I dunno, there was initial excitement for Frozen Empire, and then it just kinda fizzled and got forgotten about. I still love it. 🤷♂️ It's leaps and bounds better than 2, and people like 2 now. 🤷♂️
It's weird; these telepathic-seeming group-mind-moods will sweep through everyone but me, and there's no accounting for it. Heh, maybe it's the mood-slime. 😏
No word on Ghostbusters 5, or the animated one. Like, all fucking year. Total silence. 😒
News on those might drop tomorrow, so here's room for that...
Ghostbusters day news drops. (Nevermind, it was nothing 😒)
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Big-book-of-Poe review.
Phew!! Took me a month and a week to chew through it all!
1020 pages!! But, I did it, and here we go!!
Friday, May 30, 2025
RIP Loretta Swit
Like I said in the Gene Hackman and George Wendt ones, Ma was sick (and as it turned out, in her final days), and I couldn't keep up with these emotionally.
I covered the evolution of her character in my big MASH review.
I thought I did a pretty good job on that.
That can say it all.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
RIP George Wendt
As with the Gene Hackman one, this one happened before Ma passed, but she was sick, and I was still pretty fucking depressed.
Yeah, this one hurt.
Not only was he Norm on "Cheers", he was in "House" which I worship from childhood, and still triple-feature with "An American Werewolf In London" and "Fright Night".
And he was always a hilarious guest on early Conan O'Brien.
And!! He spoke to all the talk shows on the passing of George Carlin.
He was a cool fucking guy.
Monday, May 19, 2025
Happy 20th Anniversary, Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith!!
Previously-
And there it is! This is the one! The favorite of the prequels, and the new favorite period among many millennials, zoomers, and alphas.
Well, I moaned and groaned about toxic fandom enough in the other ones, so let's just avoid that topic this time, and look at the extended life this one has had in continuity.
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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Happy eighteenth (and (possibly) final) Star Wars day!
Stuff since last time-
-I finally realized I'm as sick of Star Wars as Carrie Fisher probably was.
-Newest thing out is "Andor" season 2, and the fans are already having doggie-paddle slap-fights about it, and I'm even more committed to checking out on that fandom.
-20th anniversary of "Revenge Of The Sith" is coming up this month. I'll have some things to say about that, and retro link it here. And that'll really be it.
Saturday, April 26, 2025
First Barnes & Noble run of....EVER!
Yep, B&N moved into the husk of Target, and I needed a reason to check it out.
Checking websites, Bullmoose didn't have the thing I sought, but B&N did.
So, I raced over, and finally got....
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Friday, April 25, 2025
Maus review.
I said last time...
So, that's those!
Stay tuned for my full review of Maus.
Well, here we are!
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
First post-holiday Bullmoose run of 2025.
I didn't do nothin' but that, and neglected my shopping.
So! Here's the first burst of that!
Got these on the 10th.
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Sunday, April 13, 2025
RIP Jean Marsh
So, yeah, we got hit with a lot of celebrity deaths leading up to and after my mother's passing.
It was really a numbing beat-down.
Anyhoozlebies. Jean Marsh was Rose on "Upstairs Downstairs" she did a couple Doctor Whos, she was Mombi in "Return To Oz" and she was Bavmorda in "Willow".
I've always joked " I liked 'Downton Abbey' the first time it was on when it was called 'Upstairs Downstairs' 😏".
Yes, I've seen "Upstairs Downstairs".
My mother and grandmother got me into it.
A track record like that, you friggin' listen.
I miss "Upstairs Downstairs". I wish it were still on in reruns somewhere.
I mean, free reruns. I'm pretty sure it's on Britbox behind a paywall.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
TIL: Serling-verse.
Things keep Kevin Baconing to Twilight Zone, so I ought to have a final decisive landing pad post for Twilight Zone.
So, here we go....
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Friday, April 4, 2025
TIL: Bunker-verse.
I did the Norman Lear memorial, but I felt bad I didn't do something better.
So, this is that.
I'll retro link this one to that post when I'm done.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
TIL: Little House On The Prairie.
So!! I said here...
That "rugged individualist" shit's been screaming howling bullshit since "Little House On The Prairie".
But I've got a whole separate post brewing about that. 😉😏
Well, here it is.
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Retroactive post #14.
Some slight cosmetic cyber-surgery.
Gave "Coward Of The County" its own split off (slightly) expanded review, and then linked it back into "Hooray for Hollyweird".
Now the thought-train of the latter flows a little better.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Third crack at Guardians 3. -or- So, superheroes....
AKA: So, Marvel...Part 3. (Part 1, Part 2)
AKA: I love the 30's 2. (Part 1)
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I felt after part 2 that maybe I might have gotten it wrong like after "Dogma" so I thought I'd give it one more whirl to make sure.
RIP Val Kilmer
Another dead celeb I was too depressed to keep track of at the time, cuz Ma was sick, and in her last days.
He was Madmartigan in "Willow" and that was one of Ma's favorite fantasy films ever.
Probably because she thought he was hot. 😏😆
He was in "Real Genius" which I consider the superior substitute to "Revenge of the Nerds" because "Revenge" is rapey and gross, and "Genius" is sweet, and kind, and anti-war.
The real 90's tech-sector nerds ended up like the "Revenge" nerds.
Bill Gates even went to Epstein island. Fuck.
Be like the "Real Genuis" nerds, kids.
He was Iceman in both "Top Gun" flicks.
And, he was the second least-loved Batman.
I thought he was comic accurate to 90's comic Batman.
Adam West Batman was a crazy person who took himself dead seriously, and all of Gotham played along. That had crept back in by the 90's, but not in the parody way like Adam did it.
90's Batman was starting to unravel a little, and in "Forever" you've even got him going to a sexy shrink.
Val Kilmer Batman is Robert Pattinson Batman, but everyone in Gotham loves him, and treats him like Santa in the Macy's parade.
Pattinson-Bats, the cops are still skeptical, and sneer with revulsion when he shows up.
I've always dimly suspected Adam West, Val Kilmer, and George Clooney used some stolen super-villain's mind control drug or ray to make Gotham love them.
And tested it on Robin.
😏
Give "Forever" another look. It's still not the greatest, but it's better than people give it credit for.
It's weird, but that's why I like it.
Anyway, 65 is too young to die.
Fuck cancer.
Sunday, March 30, 2025
The final quest is completed!!!!!!!!!!
From here.
11 fucking years ago!!!!!
But now, I have everything.
Except....but I don't think I can ever find this...but I didn't think I'd find the other things, so here goes.
I swear this exists, and given I've proved all the rest, you'd better just fucking believe me already....
One of the big three networks, my memory screams CBS, but it could've been any of 'em, had a special adult cartoons special, and this was like, between 1980 to 1982, because we didn't have cable yet.
It was on at like 9:00 so kids would be in bed, it was an anthology of shorts, and I only caught the last one.
It was about a tiny little boy standing on the rim of a giant toilet, and he falls in, and gets flushed.
Yeah, that was about the sophistication level of these "adult", cartoons.
They trumpeted the thing for the whole week prior, and I could SWEAR the thing was called "The Comic Strip".
I've looked for it under that name with Google, and IMDB, and nothing.
Tried key words, tried finding just the toilet cartoon, everything I can think of.
Zilch.
Early TV is kind of in a netherworld.
If it wasn't a hit that stood the test of time, or connected to a big star, it's lost.
They could have just burned the thing.
I dunno.
I mean, look at "Twice Upon A Time".
If a whole feature length film produced by George-fucking-Lucas can fall down the memory hole, nothing is safe.
No one else remembers it, people think I'm crazy.
But, they were like that about all the other things I've since found, so fuck y'all.
Anyway, that's it, this is the last thing.
I could live without it, but....I'd really like to know what it was too.
I didn't imagine it.
So, that's it, unless I find that cartoon, that's the end of all of these.
Bubye!!
I fucking found it!!!!!!
It wasn't comic strip; it was "Jokebook". I was in the ballpark.
It was 1982.
It was Hanna Barbera.
It lasted 3 episodes. 7 were produced; 4 are lost.
The kid-in-the-toilet short is called "Jerome".
Time index for "Jerome" = 16:33
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Saturday, March 22, 2025
Friday, March 21, 2025
Christmas loot 2024, Part 5.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Christmas loot 2024, Part 4.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Christmas loot 2024, Part 3.5.
There. The last one was long enough; I didn't think it would be fair to squoosh this in as an afterthought. So, it gets its own post.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
RIP Gene Hackman
From my future self in 6/7/26.
Like I said in the David Lynch and Jim Shooter ones, my mother was alive, but she was on the wane, and I was depressed.
Too depressed to keep up on these deaths. I'm recovered enough now
Jim Shooter on his blog told a story about how when Superman '78 came out, he bought tickets for all the Marvel artists and writers to go see it.
He forgot to invite Stan Lee.
Stan was such an idol to him, he didn't know how to approach it, so his mind just blocked it out.
He heard Stan was hurt, and he felt like an asshole.
Jesus, I'm always making fuckups like that. I can relate, Jim!
So!! That links Jim Shooter to Gene Hackman, and Marvel to DC.
Kinda-sorta.
Here's all his stuff I reviewed.
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