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!
13 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!
I've seen bits of "Everything Everywhere All At Once". I liked what I saw. Lot of people called it "the better multiverse movie than Doctor Strange". I can't call them wrong. It's a tough call. "Everything..." certainly had raunchier humor. I might collect it someday. If I own the bad Fantastic Four, and Madame Web, I can get "Everything...".
Oh, and I guess I'll put my comments on Charlie Kirk in here. He was a sack of shit. The kind of sack of shit I normally used to do my red-x-eyes things on. But Nazis have elevated him to Jesus, so I have to watch out. And centrist outlets have capitulated to that narrative like good doggies. The righties wanted SOO fucking bad for the killer to be a Latino trans. Drooling over it like a starving man looking at a cookie. Disgusting fucking pigs. Setting aside the immorality, that must be such an exhausting way to fucking live. I can't fucking imagine.
Whelp, the news cycle has clearly squeezed the Charlie Kirk sponge dry, cuz Trump is blowing up imaginary drug dealers again. It was fascinating seeing the righties pretend to have normal human reactions to gun tragedy; but pretend it was. Literally one minute after Kirk got shot, another school shooting happened that the collective right didn't give a flying fuck about. Just like they haven't given a fuck for the last 26 years since Columbine. It was all just a handy political cudgel for them. Do they think we haven't been watching? Do they think we take amnesia pills every night before bed? Now Trump is playing jingly-keys with the new "drug boat" and they'll gravitate to that. Whatever the new shiny thing is. Next year, they'll forget who Charlie Kirk was.
The *news cycle* has squeezed Kirk dry, but the redneck crowd will be using him as a martyr for years to come. Kids today probably don't know who Randy Weaver (Ruby Ridge) was...unless they're raised right wing in which case I bet their families have definitely taught them about Weaver and what happened all the way back in 1992 when much of the country was forced to sympathize with a white nationalist. That whole thing is the redneck Wounded Knee/Stonewall/Tulsa Race Massacre. And they haven't stopped wanting to hunt down the FBI sniper who killed him (a guy named Lon Horiuchi...go try finding any picture of the guy that isn't his graduation photo, can't be done!)
I would stop to remind myself that when Columbine happened there was a fair deal of outcry at the NRA gun crowd afterwards once people stopped trying to blame the Trenchcoat Mafia, video games, and Marilyn Manson. There were a lot of Christian groups that vultured their way over to Colorado in 1999 too and one Columbine quote that I've never forgotten is someone saying they felt "beaten over the head with Christ."
I think the one people are most likely to forget is when there was that big "immigrant caravan" from south of the border that was all poised a few years back to spill over into this country and ruin everything, and then suddenly, poof, it disappeared.
Oh, shit, yeah, I had forgotten the mystical ghost-caravan. It's such an endless geyser of lies, I'd need clones to keep up. Yeah, the rednecks will certainly make him a religious figure. People are getting zapped on social media for just not bawling over Kirk's coffin properly. Guy even got a hate speech warning for QUOTING Kirk. It's not enough I'm sorry he was shot, I have to love the fucking guy and kiss his dead butt? No. Lock me up then. Fuck it. Like I said, 26 years of dead kids, but they lose one podcaster, and the world ends? Melissa Hortman was assassinated just in June. Where's her Airforce 2 coffin ride? Where's her half mast White house flag? Crickets. MAGA has always seen themselves as the only real people, and everyone else is a video game monster. Even before they were called MAGA.
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