Once a legitimate blog. Now just a collection of memes 'n menz.
I've been watching the very trippy series Legion on FX since season one. It supposedly takes places in the Marvel X-Men universe, but I've given up trying to actually understand what's going on; I'm just enjoying the ride. The visuals are stunning. The cast is exemplary. The main character, David, played by Dan Stevens, simultaneously doesn't push any of my buttons and at the same time pushes all of them and I look at him and think, "Ew," followed immediately by, "Hot dirty monkeysex. NOW."
A humanly impoverished con-man, destitute of all decency and wielding a vocabulary of 77 words that is better called Jerkish than English." ~ Philip Roth on Donald Trump
"Bitch, for the hundredth time I told you the next number is Macho Man, not "YMCA!"
From Wil Wheaton's Tumblr:
The constitutional crisis is here
The Constitutional Crisis isn't just happening now. It's been happening since McConnell stole a SCOTUS seat from President Obama, and nullified the wishes of millions of Americans who voted for him.
The Constitutional Crisis is not just because Trump is a lawless wannabe autocrat. The Constitutional Crisis would not be happening if the Republicans in Congress were upholding their oaths of office, instead of taking their marching orders from the Kochs, the Mercers, Adelson, and too many clouded and shady Super PACS (including PACs that are funded illegally by non-Americans).
The Congressional GOP, lead by Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan – especially lame duck, feckless, incompetent Paul Ryan – is responsible for all the damage that Trump has wrought upon our nation. None of this would be possible if the leaders of both houses of Congress put their oaths of office ahead of their own narrow and corrupt influences.
It may be time to sharpen up some guillotines.
A lifelong fantasy that I—and I suspect more than just a few of us—have entertained is having the means, energy, and wherewithal to escape civilization and live in a cabin in the woods (hopefully not sitting on the entrance to where the Old Gods are sleeping).
Okay, maybe not totally removed from civilization. I'd still want access to things like medical care and grocery stores. And yes, I'd still want electricity, hot and cold running water, and a fast, reliable internet, but I long to be surrounded by nature and away from the constant din of modern life and the resultant stupidity that seems to be an integral part of it these days.
Currently there are several variations of home shows capitalizing on this theme. (Building Off The Grid is one that immediately comes to mind.) If nothing else, these programs have shown me what a monumental undertaking it would be and how woefully unprepared I am to adopt such a lifestyle. And now having spent four years in Denver, that's not even considering the utter inconvenience of getting from our cabin getaway to civilization and back in the winter. (Which would be much less of an issue if we all had flying cars by now like we'd been promised in the 1960s.) Maybe if I were half my current age I could consider it, but at this point it's just a dream.
Interestingly, when I was half my current age, such a thought was total anathema to me; I wanted nothing more than to live in a bustling, neon-infused always-on urban environment.
Of course the world seemed a bit saner back then and I didn't have any overwhelming need to escape it.
Okay, it wasn't this wild (or at least not this open), but the setting was identical and back in the day it was so popular the building owners eventually had to put locks on the door, effectively shutting it all down.
Am I really that big of a perv that I laughed out loud when I saw it?
This is just the tip of Shogun World's prick—an experience expressly designed for the guests who find Westworld too tame." ~ Lee Sizemore, Westworld Season 2, Episode 5, Akane No Mai
Because why not?
Born on this day: May 19, 1948 – Singer, songwriter, model and actress Grace Jones (born Beverly Grace Jones in Spanish Town, Jamaica). Happy 70th Birthday, Grace!!
Elton John: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975)
This was probably the most-anticipated album release of my youth, and has remained my all time favorite EJ album my entire life. The entire album is pure genius from beginning to end. My favorite song from the album, Better Off Dead, is posted above.
Produced by Gus Dudgeon, it was recorded at the Caribou Ranch in Nederland, CO from June – July 1974. After the successful Caribou album, the prolific musician returned to the Caribou Ranch recording studio in the Colorado Rockies to record his next release. The concept album is an autobiographical account of Elton John and Bernie Taupin and the struggles they faced at the beginning of their musical careers. The single Someone Saved My Life Tonight, is about John's half-hearted suicide attempt while he was engaged to a woman, faced with choosing her over his musical career (and still struggling with his sexual orientation at the time). His friend and former band mate Long John Baldry convinced him to break off the engagement (whom John's refers to in the song as "Sugar Bear"). The album also marks the last time that John recorded with drummer Nigel Olsson and bassist Dee Murray until the Too Low For Zero album in 1983. Captain Fantastic makes history when it becomes the first album to ever enter the Billboard Top 200 at number one. For the original LP release, a limited number of promotional copies are pressed on translucent brown vinyl, with each album jacket autographed by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The album is remastered and reissued on CD in 1995 with the stand alone singles Philadelphia Freedom, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, and Elton's cover of the John Lennon penned One Day A Time (B-side of Lucy), added as bonus tracks. Out of print on vinyl since 1989, the album is remastered and reissued in 2017. Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy spends seven weeks (non-consecutive) at number one on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified 3x Platinum in the US by the RIAA.
From Bill Palmer:
There has been yet another deadly school shooting, this time in Texas, and the specter of more dead children left me at a loss for words. I truly had no idea what to say or write about it, because it's all been said already. Then Donald Trump opened his mouth about the shooting, and let's just say that more than a few choice words have come to my mind in response.
Shortly after the shooting happened, Trump tweeted "School shooting in Texas. Early reports not looking good. God bless all!" As far as first responses go, this was pretty stupid, but it almost sounded well meaning. Alright, I thought, let's see what else this idiot is going to have to say on the matter. Then an hour later Trump posted a minute long speech about the shooting, vaguely promising to do everything he can to prevent this from happening again. That's when I thought of some words of my own.
"Bullshit" was the first word that came to mind. This guy is flat out lying. After the Stoneman Douglas shooting, Trump made the same vague promise, before ultimately cowering in the face of the Russia-funded NRA. Trump is going to pull the same thing here. He'll generically pretend to care about gun control for a day or two, then he'll go right back to letting terrorist groups like the NRA call the shots. But it's what Trump did after this video that truly angered me.
Just a few minutes after pretending to care about this school shooting, Donald Trump began posting a series of dishonest tweets touting his own (imaginary) accomplishments on unrelated issues. Children are needlessly dead on his watch, and he's beating his chest. By tonight or tomorrow, he'll be back to tweeting juvenile insults and falsely accusing his political opponents of crimes. When is this clown going to shut up?
…and it was too cute not to post.
Okay, I know the man is an actor, but this still seems pretty heartfelt.
Lucifer was one of those shows that I grew to love. But like Fox has done with countless other shows I've become emotionally invested in (I will never forgive them for Wonderfalls), they pulled the plug. At least this one made it three seasons.
I'm hoping it's picked up by Netflix or Hulu or Amazon, and we've heard some backchannel chatter from the cast members that we shouldn't give up hope just yet, so who knows?
The season ended with unanswered questions, but it was satisfying enough that if it truly must come to an end, it was a relatively good end.
Not his first time at the rodeo. And undoubtedly pretty damn popular in the barracks after the lights go out.
