Nov 262021
 

This critter in some ways reminds me of Raedthinn… color, fuzziness, looks like size. But Raedthinn *never* got this stoned.

Nevertheless, this made me laugh *real* hard, one of the few TikTok videos that isn’t clearly part of the ChiCom plot to destroy the west.

@felinefunnies

Duncan says this is what it chews like to feel 5 gum on catnip! 😵‍💫😼🍃 #catnip #cats #5gum

♬ original sound – kohlmann

 Posted by at 5:38 pm
Nov 252021
 

Kyle Rittenhouse *should,* if this was a rational world, emerge as one of the richest men in America and a media mogul, owning several news outlets outright, after all the lawsuits are done. Of course this *isn’t* a rational world, so who knows. Celebrities, media corporations and politicians *should* be held financially to account for slander, libel and outright lies… but how about “lesser” folks who still have followers? For example, Bearing tears apart a doctor who repeats several lies about Kyle *after* the verdict came down. It’s an entertaining ripping apart of a man (there is some question about that; any man who feels the need to include his pronouns seems likely to be uncertain about it) who could benefit society by shutting the hell up, but would it be possible or practical for some lawyers to look at folk like this with a critical and lawsuit-happy eye?

Behold this little bit of “alternative facts:”

At the very least his license to practice medicine should be under serious question. A man who lies like that seems unlikely to make for a reliable and safer doctor.

 Posted by at 6:38 pm
Nov 242021
 

Where we watch a guy react to “Moonraker” for the first time:

By many metrics, “Moonraker” is a bad movie. By any metric it is the goofiest, most ludicrous Bond movie. And yet it’s my favorite Bond movie; I have watched it *many* times. First on HBO back in the day, then on laserdisk, then VHS, then DVD, then Blu Ray, then streaming and one of these days on 4K if it’s ever released on that format. It’s bonkers, it’s dumb, the physics is just *awful.* And yet it has some of the awesomest bits of Bond ever: Hugo Drax is far and away the best Bond villain ever; Jaws returns and steals every scene. And Jaws’ love interest Dolly? The two make the best couple in all of the Bond movies with a love story for the ages.

And the Space Marines? Stupid, but I love it.

I have a 1/72 “4D Vision” cutaway model of the Space Shuttle (purchased long, long ago when they were affordable) set aside for the specific purpose of turning it into Moonraker 5, complete with laser and ark cargo. Some day…

 

 Posted by at 4:44 pm
Nov 212021
 

Some series get cancelled on a cliffhanger. Such is the case here, where a road rage incident has a guy with a (very crappy, almost certainly fake) sword try to intimidate another guy… who seems wholly unimpressed and pulls a rifle from his trunk.

Road rage hierarchy – The sword is more mighty than the fist, but then there’s the AK15… from PublicFreakout

I get a serious Antifa vibe from the “swordsman.”

 Posted by at 1:40 am
Nov 182021
 

This couple, “Brad & Lex,” are “reactors,” generally reacting to songs that they claim they’ve not heard before or are basically unfamiliar with (they *seem* genuinely to be unfamiliar with most of the ones I’ve seen them react to. They are Millenials, so I guess it’s fair to assume that they might have somehow missed out on the best music from the 80’s and 90’s.). This is sort of the lowest common denominator of YouTube entertainment, but these two are more interesting and amusing that the majority of the youngun reactors I’ve seen. A lot of this is on Lex: she subverts expectations. She, a  young black woman, turns out to be an 80’s-style metalhead, and the way she goes kinda bonkers sometimes while Brad remains stoic is just friggen’ awesome to see. She displays unrestrained joy; he displays restraint and self control. The two very different approaches really seem to work together very well (it’s almost as if “feminine” and “masculine” actually complement each other. Weird, I know). For example:

They have a second channel where instead of reacting to music, they react to current news events and political doings. And once again… they subvert expectations by *not* being woke Millenials.

 Posted by at 2:06 pm
Nov 162021
 

“Don’t Look Up” is a forthcoming netflix movie where astronomers discover a comet on a direct impact course with Earth… and neither the government nor the media seem to care. In an era of “Russia collusion” and “mostly peaceful protests” and “wage gaps” and all the other bits of misinformation , propaganda and outright lies that people in the media and government just shrug at, I can see indifference being the response to the end of the world.

 

 Posted by at 11:10 pm