Voenix Rising

Hey, I’m already going to Hell, so I figured why the fuck not?

April 15, 2022

I Was Young in the 80s…

…and I’m not confused. Stop painting all boomers with the same brush, children.

April 15, 2022

Despite my continued social distancing and mask-wearing-in-public, I have somehow managed to come down with pneumonia. Again. Second time within the last twelve months…and it sucks. At least this time the symptoms were much less severe and there wasn’t any pain, unlike the bout last spring that landed me in the hospital for four days.

Still, it’s not fun. Thanks to a regimen of modern pharmaceuticals and a knowlegeable (and I must say, cute, gay) doctor at urgent care earlier this week, I do seem to be on the mend. Now before you scold me for not getting the vaccine this year, I will accept full responsibility for that. With everything else that’s been going on, it completely slipped under my radar and I going forward I will not make that mistake again.

I’m cleared to return to work Monday if symptoms continue to improve. Not looking forward to that, but thankfully next week is my two-days-in-the-office with the other three working from home.

April 15, 2022

A Valid Question!

April 15, 2022

“What Does God Need With a Starship?”

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Freaks

I stumbled across Freaks on YouTube yesterday. It had a slow start and I almost gave up on it several times, but I’m glad I stuck with it. And it’s obvious why I chose this particular screen shot to post, isn’t it?

This review from IMDB rings true, at least for me:

Now THIS is true Science Fiction… A slow-burning Mystery, but for serious Sci Fi fans it is worth it!

My title pretty much says it all. For those of you who grew up reading ‘serious’ Science Fiction, you will appreciate this movie. It is very rare to find a Sci Fi film that would be what I would personally call ‘serious’, but this is it. Not exactly ‘Hard’ Science Fiction in the sense of it being real technical, but serious in the sense of it being in my lowly and wretched opinion, a DAMN good story!

I have no bloody idea who this little actress is, but if hopefully she can survive the dangerous rigors of Hollywood, she is going to be a PHENOMENAL actor… IS a phenomenal actor. Quite impressive. Most child actors usually I feel come across as either somewhat artificial or overdone, but definitely not this little lady. Restrained, controlled, and VERY believable.

Also, I got to hand it to ol’ Bruce Dern… The dude was frigg’n MADE for this part. There were some very nice, but subtle touches of dry humour in just a few well placed areas too that gave the film a nice rounded emotional anchor. And, I loved the way the writers / director really did an excellent job keeping the audience truly guessing about what the HELL is going on, playing out the story and clues at just the right pace that I personally found quite riveting.

If you do enjoy serious Science Fiction and don’t mind forgoing the big technological effects of your usual blockbuster Marvel film (not that there’s anything wrong with that either : ) and you appreciate just a really well done story and a pretty darn good mystery if you go in cold, not knowing anything about it beforehand, then I think you will really find this movie not only very entertaining and involving, but also rather powerfully moving as well.

A nice find…

April 15, 2022

I Think I’ve Commented on This Before

April 15, 2022

Why Does He Still Hold a Death Grip on the Republican Party?

April 15, 2022

Spill the Tea, Boys

Where was the most inappropriate place you rubbed one out?

The most inappropriate place I can think of was in the back seat of my grandparents’ car one summer while we were heading back to their house after doing grocery shopping. My mom and grandmother were in the front seat and—as far as I could tell—totally oblivious to what I was doing in the back. In the interest of complete disclosure, I seem to remember it involving the infamous nude centerfold of Burt Reynolds, but the date of that publication doesn’t coincide with the time frame of our last summer in Massachusetts when I recall this happening. (That was 1968, and that particular issue of Cosmo—which I can’t imagine either my grandmother or mother purchasing, BTW—came out in 1972.) So it’s either my memory at fault or more broadly another incidence of the infamous Mandela Effect.

April 15, 2022