Revisits #30.

• Parts 1-18.
• Part 19. (Kricfalusi)
• Part 20. (Lego Joker)
• Part 21. (Walkers)
• Part 22. (Eternity)
• Part 23. (AOC comic)
• Part 24. (Poem)
• Part 25. (Raunchy Hulk)
• Part 26. (Revisits)
• Part 27. (Meedyah Morsels)
• Part 28. (Crossovers/Comics)
• Part 29. (Good Stuff 1)

Part 2 of my "Fish From The Quantum Sea #5", recap.

Picking up with part 14...


Things that don't give me nightmares #14.
(Lindor truffles!!!)

Yep, Lindor is still awesome.
Too bad there's no Lindt store anymore. :-(


Things that don't give me nightmares #15.
(These two goofballs)

Wembley & Digby.
We lost Digby 3 years later. :-(

Wembley has gone on to be our oldest kitty ever at coming up on 11 this summer.
:-)


Things that don't give me nightmares #16.
(After some hemming and hawing, Romero's Dead cycle)

The "hemming and hawing", was the point.

I still fret and worry over family.
Even the relatives who piss me off.

I still suck at love.
Well....actually, I'm actually not too bad, where I trip up is the part of being good at capitalism.
Actually....I'm pretty smart with money if I ever get my hands on it, where I trip up is pleasing the corporate overlords.
Actually....I'm good at the JOB part of that, I'm just not good at being a smiling robot that thinks his duties matter, and that this is a good system.
Women don't like to hear that you want to burn it all down in a revolution, it's not....stable.
They don't think you'd make a good dad for their offspring if you think like a super villain.
So....okay, I guess I still suck at love.

Porn keeps being boring and lame, but it keeps pulling me back in.
I'm like a gamble-holic that thinks "this time for SURE!".
Nope, it's always a geek-show of weird and stupid kinks, and I end up watching it for comedy.

And finally, the Romero Dead cycle.
Did a better review of those here.


Things that don't give me nightmares #17.
(World War Z, upcoming (then) Marvel flicks, people helping in Haiti)

World War Z movie was "meh".
You gotta spend "Lord Of The Rings", level money to do it right, or don't bother.

The MCU.
It was just taking off back then.
Now it's been around a decade.
But, I said all this in part 12.

Aid workers in Haiti.
Well, it's like Fred Rogers said, when there's bad things going on in the world, look for the helpers, there are always people helping.


Things that don't give me nightmares #18.
(That there's enough sanity in society to loathe reality TV, and...my "utility belt")

Not enough to shut reality TV down forever.
Not enough to stop the first reality TV president.
Well...there ARE, Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million votes, it's just our system is fucking broken.
Get rid of the electoral college, install ranked choice, boom, the worst sleazeballs only appeal to a minority of halfwits.
Their influence over this planet ends overnight.
It's why they fight like the Tasmanian Devil on steroids and crack to keep the status quo in place.

The utility belt....I never used that.
I felt silly.
Ah well.
Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
You never know...


Things that don't give me nightmares #19.
(Conan's classy goodbye speech leaving NBC)

He was pissed off though.
In "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop", he got pretty candid.
Andy Richter held back even less.


Things that don't give me nightmares #21.
(The couple of hours when I thought Richard Dawkins was going to try to lock up Joey Ratz)

Ratzinger retired, and now we've got this new dimwit who stands for all the same bigoted, homophobic, misogynistic, pedophile-defending bullshit as the last asshole, but somehow, he's tricked liberals into thinking he's a reformer, in spite of doing fucking nothing.
Go figure.


Things that don't give me nightmares #22.
(Nobody Loves Harry Hembock!)

Said my goodbyes to the character here and here.
I've got a new thing brewing though.


Things that don't give me nightmares #23.
(Fucks angst. Eh, an addendum to 22, really)

I was back-pedaling from the philosophy rant.
I went back over that in a quick paragraph in revisits 9.
Dunno why that was such a shame drama.
Oh, yeah I do, see part 26.


Things that don't give me nightmares #24.
(The good stuff in Krazy For Decades)

Which grew into En-Mike-Lopedia, which whittled back down to movie reviews, and Meedya Morsels.


Things that don't give me nightmares #25.
(Song of the week! (A.K.A. SOWTHIFL))

Dead.
Obsolete.
Like I said here, I share songs on Facebook if ever now.
Blogging music as posts is just clumsy and cumbersome.
I mean, comments is fine, but posts?
Meh.


Things that don't give me nightmares #26.
(Fish From The Quantum Sea!!)

Dead.
Obsolete.
I needed a lot of self-reassurance to hold my marbles together in those early days.
Had a lot of demons to sort out, and a decade of WF trolls didn't help.

Fucking trolls almost made Ahmed Best kill himself.
Trolls ain't no joke.
I think we've all had our bad times with them to varying degrees.


Things the don't give me nightmares #27.
(En-Mike-lopedia!)

See part 24.


And that's the end.
Now to link these to the old post in comments.

Then, to compile Revisits 1-30.


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Meedyah Morsels #43.

• Parts #1-30.
• Parts #31-40.
• Part 41. (Stadia) 
• Part 42. (Doomsday Clock)

Larry Cohen (1941-2019)

Yep, we lost another Master Of Horror. :-(

Here's his entry.

Link.


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Revisits #29.

• Parts 1-18.
• Part 19. (Kricfalusi)
• Part 20. (Lego Joker)
• Part 21. (Walkers)
• Part 22. (Eternity)
• Part 23. (AOC comic)
• Part 24. (Poem)
• Part 25. (Raunchy Hulk)
• Part 26. (Revisits)
• Part 27. (Meedyah Morsels)
• Part 28. (Crossovers/Comics)

In "Fish From The Quantum Sea #5", I collected all the "things that don't give me nightmares".

I'd kinda like to walk down memory lane, and update those.
Been 8 years now.


Things that don't give me nightmares #1.
(Unwrapped with Marc Summers (and other industrial/nostalgia type shows))

I don't watch these anymore.
I guess their modern equivalent would be stuff like "The Toys That Made Us", and all the movie nostalgia docs I've been collecting.
And "Adam Ruins Everything".


Things that don't give me nightmares #2.
(Good books, toys, my favorite places)

The reading/viewing list still applies.

Most of those toys are broken now.
The gumstick MP3 player still works, but is obsolete.
Gotta find use for that gumstick camera, but last I checked, it didn't hold a charge very well.
Never could get the universal remote to work when I needed it to.
The lighter literally fell apart.
Eh, fun while it all lasted.

Westbook, sss, ouch, yep, dead to me.
Gorham can eat my ass.
Haven't gone to Nonesuch books in ages, dunno if they exist anymore.
Borders is dead.
Newberry, eh....haven't gone there in ages.
Lindt store is dead.
Weathervane is dead.
Westbrook Cinemagic is dead to me, but I still go to A Cinemagic.
1st Stop....well, I avoid Westbrook, so bye bye.
Full Belly Deli is dead.
Bullmoose is my movies/books place now.


Things that don't give me nightmares #3.
(Thinkgeek, Dealextreme, Shmegalamonga, my readers)

Hmm, I don't go to Thinkgeek anymore.
Don't know why.
Don't go to Dealextreme anymore.
Don't know why.
I think once I got the Dingoo, I was all set.

This blog.
Yep, it still makes me happy.
I don't care if blogs aren't "hip", anymore.
I'll work this thing until Google takes the whole service down.


Things that don't give me nightmares #4.
(Freddy movies)

Y'know, I haven't spun 'em in awhile.
I got so much shit now, I do them Halloween week if ever.


Things that don't give me nightmares #5.
(The good animated satire shows)

Y'know, I feel guilty, but I haven't made time for Family Guy, American Dad, Simpsons, Robot Chicken, or South Park in years.
Boondocks jumped the shark, and then ended.
And Venture Bros...shit, I lost track of that somewhere around season 5.

There's so many superhero shows now, and podcasts I enjoy, I'm kept busy.
Hell, I'm not even able to keep up with the superheroes anymore.
I haven't touched Umbrella Academy or Doom Patrol yet, and everyone's going bananas for those.


Things that don't give me nightmares #6.
(The good channels)

Ovation got deleted from basic analog cable.
Then I got it back when we went to digital basic.
But it's not the artsy-fartsy channel I fell in love with, it's all old Hollywood movies now, and not even the classy shit.
I can watch those movies anywhere.
Oh, and then "Spectrum", did away with analog cable, so there's ONLY digital HD now.

Youtube has grown enough, I can always find shit to stimulate my mind.
I'm all right.

PBS has Deepak Chopra shit on now, so fuck them.

C-Span 2 doesn't have cool authors on anymore.

History Channel got devoured by UFO and ghost shit.
They're ruined.
But, the spinoff channels on digital basic still have cool shit.


Things that don't give me nightmares #7.
(People that I'm glad exist)

Firefighters, rescue workers, EMTs, and chefs, yes.

Cops, soldiers, and doctors I'm a bit more distrustful of now.
Not enough to become an anarchist, or an alt-med loon, but I give 'em the side-eye.


Things that don't give me nightmares #8.
(The second tier of good channels)

Back then...
TCM, FX, Comedy Central, Bravo, E!, Food, Cartoon Network, TVLand/Nick @ Nite.

These days...
TCM, sometimes if I land on it and a good movie is on.
AMC for Walking Dead and Preacher
CW for the DC shows.
Fox for The Gifted, Gotham, and Orville.
TruTv for At Home With Amy Sedaris.
Sci-Fi for Krypton.
FX for Legion.
Comet, MeTV, BBCAmerica, and Elrey for the old reruns TVLand and Nick @ Nite used to have

E!, Food, Cartoon Network, TVLand/Nick @ Nite?
Never.
Never need them.

Again, Youtube and podcasts eat most of my TV time.
Or books.
Or my blu-ray collection.
Like I said for part 6, I'm all right.


Things that don't give me nightmares #9.
(Um...I guess that I'm not in a society of rape-cannibals..yet)

Covered this in "Corrections/updates Part 17".
Trump ruined this illusion for me.


Things that don't give me nightmares #10.
(That I'm not any of these people...)

Quark, Orcs, Cardassian, slack jawed yokel, Sneeches, Palpatine, Jim Jones.

Representing greed, blind mob violence, blind obedience to a militaristic state, proud ignorance, bigotry, totalitarianism, and messianic megalomania.

All of them boil down to exploitation, and/or a willingness to be exploited.
Or, boiled even further down, a MAGA hat wearer.

Yeah, I'm sticking by this.


Things that don't give me nightmares #11.
(The beauty of the universe)

I guess I stand by that.
Even in the time of Trump & Brexit, great advances are still being made, and we keep learning more and more about the universe and ourselves.
All this stuff in the news is ignorance taking its death spasms.


Things that don't give me nightmares #12.
(Geek culture, it's just better)

And I was saying all this before the MCU had really kicked in.

Now we've had the MCU for 10 years.
Bumblebee finally fixed the Transformers franchise.
Ready Player One is a thing.
Stranger Things is a thing.
Ghostbusters 3 is on its way.
Cobra Kai season 2 is on its way.
Star Wars came back in 2015 and is 4 movies in.
Aquaman made 1 billion dollars, so the DCEU has arrived.
And as mentioned in part 5, superheroes have gobbled up TV too.
Geeks won.
Culturally.
Now to get the troglodytes out of politics.


Things that don't give me nightmares #13.
(Dingoo, and that there's geeks on Youtube that loved all the shit I do)

The geek nostalgia community of Youtube overwhelmed my Dingoo collecting abilities, and I mostly just use Youtube without obsessing over hardrive-ing everything.

There's too much NEW stuff with a nostalgia spin that there's not enough time for wallowing in ACTUAL nostalgia!

It's a cool place to be.


1-13 is a good enough place to stop.
I'll do 14-27 as a part 2 either tonight, or tomorrow.
See you next time.



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Meedyah Morsels #42.

• Parts #1-30.
• Parts #31-40.
• Part 41. (Stadia) 

The first crossover since the big category merger.


Doomsday Clock (2018-2019)

I'm late on commenting on this.
It's 9 issues in.
3 to go.
I think I'll buy the trade.

It's a crossover sequel to Watchmen where the Watchmen characters meet the DC superheroes.

I was skeptical, but goddamned if it isn't frigging awesome.

Yep, that cover, while being a little deceptive, is correct in that it's where the heroes fight Dr. Manhattan.
He's fucking terrifying.
No one could really challenge him in Watchmen, but here, you get to see him test his limits.
His limits are "OH, SHIT!!!!".

While I'm at it, I ought to get the trade that collects the Minuteman prequel from "Before Watchmen".
That's the best part.

Minuteman prequel is awesome, Doomsday Clock is awesome, turns out tinkering with Watchmen isn't like blaspheming an art religion after all.
You just have to have talented people doing it.

And Alan Moore needs to get over himself, but sadly, he never will.

Damn, it would never happen, but I would so love it if the DC Extended Universe (movie universe) culminated in Kingdom Come and Doomsday Clock.
Ret-con the Watchmen movie into that shit.

Aw, yeah, I could die happy then.


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Revisits #28.

• Parts 1-18.
• Part 19. (Kricfalusi)
• Part 20. (Lego Joker)
• Part 21. (Walkers)
• Part 22. (Eternity)
• Part 23. (AOC comic)
• Part 24. (Poem)
• Part 25. (Raunchy Hulk)
• Part 26. (Revisits)
• Part 27. (Meedyah Morsels)

A little bit of anal retentive tweaking.

Added "Ash vs Bubba Ho-Tep", and Ghostbusters/Transformers to "Meedyah Morsels #35".

Added "The Great Graphic Novels Of Western Civilization", and the three GB:ATC sequels to the comics list in "Meedyah Morsels #38".

Can't believe I forgot those.
Well, fixed now.


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Meedyah Morsels #41.

• Parts #1-30.
• Parts #31-40.

So, Google just invented a thing we already had....

Google Stadia!!

You sign up for a membership, and you can play any game from any platform on any device, because their servers do all the heavy number-crunching, and you just get the video feed like a Youtube stream.

So, you could play, say, Grand Theft Auto on your phone.

And you could switch between X-Box and Playstation games.
Platform exclusivity would be a thing of the past.


Oh, but wait....I saw all this 9 years ago, when it was called...

Onlive!

Yep, I time capsuled this in 2010 in "The death of physical media".

Google just pulled a Ray Kroc on Onlive.

Do you think at their big presentation, they said "it's Onlive, but Google!".

Hell no, they pretended it never existed, and that they pulled it out of thin air.
I don't need to see video to know that's what they did.

Well, whatever gets people to adopt the tech, I guess.
Still...


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Meedyah Morsels #40.

• Parts #1-30.
• Part 31. (Holidays)
• Part 32. (Talisman)
• Part 33. (Gunn)
• Part 34. (BvTMNT)
• Part 35. (Crossovers)
• Part 36. (Walls)
• Part 37. (90's)
• Part 38. (Books)
• Part 39. (Disney/Fox 8)

More on the Toxie reboot...

Macon Blair has been hired as the director.

Okay, we're as far along as a director.
This is exactly where we were with it under New Line, and the "Sausage Party", guy.

I won't start really believing this thing is taking shape until casting starts to happen.

Stay tuned!


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