The Apollo 11 documentary that was made for IMAX will be available in a few days. That’s good. But then there’s this:
There are currently no plans for Universal to release the film in physical 4K Ultra HD.
That’s just mind-boggling.
Well, it’s about time:
My first thought was that “at least it will last as long as the original Star Trek.” but then I remembered that Star Trek was shot in the days when a season had more than 20 episodes, rather than the dozen or so that seem to be the standard today. The Orville has had 26 episodes total in the first two seasons, while Star Trek had 80. To get to 80 episodes, The Orville will need to be around for more than six seasons… or Fox will have to start bumping up the number of episodes per season. Preferably, both.
More.
This article makes fun of a company that is flacking makeup for men. But while the company and its products are mockworthy, the critical article is itself also mockworthy. Because the article mocks the advertising strategy of the company, but never asks the most important question: “Dude, why the frak are you wearing makeup? You’re a guy. Knock that crap off.”
The purpose of actual war paint is to intimidate the enemy, but that’s not what they’re selling. They are selling makeup for men. The purpose of makeup is to make you pretty (or prettier). And that’s not a man’s function. Men aren’t meant to be pretty. Men are meant to be *functional.*
That’s why the phrase “chicks dig scars” is well known. Not, necessarily, because chicks truly dig scars, but because chicks dig the *stories* behind scars, they dig that you’ve Done Some Stuff. “Foundation”and “concealer” and all that goop does not aid in this. It just makes a guy look like a weirdo.
A man wearing makeup is like a back hoe with a nice floral pattern or an oil rig with eyelash extensions.
What kind of man wears makeup? The kind of man who colors his hair purple:
Don’t be that guy.
Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Blue Origin and Drax Industries describes the Blue Moon lunar lander his company has been working on for three years (at a sufficient state of development that he thinks they can return humans to the moon by 2024), as well as showing somewhat longer-term goal for space development: O’Neill colonies.
Dreaming of space colonies measured in kilometers when you haven’t even orbited a golf ball yet? Perhaps rather a whole lot of hubris there. And yet…
The lightsaber duel between Obi Wan and Darth Vader in Star Wars is, by the standards of the later movies, pretty damn tame. The reasons for this are obvious: it was a small movie, not overloaded with martial arts training and certiainly no CGI, and Alec Guiness was certainly no spring chicken at the time. But it does stand out.
And so, leave it to talented fans to correct that. The below short film expands upon the short, stilted fight, making it much more in line with the sort of combat seen in later movies. It would have blown my tiny little mind had this been in the original Star Wars back int he day. Watch it fast and download if possible… wouldn’t surprise me if Disney decides to shut this down because it its few short minutes it has substantially more awesome than all the sequel movies put together.
So yesterday there was a school shooting in Highland Ranch, Colorado, not far from Columbine High School. The fact that there were two shooter should make this Big News, with every last detail about the shooters splashed all over the headlines, with political hay being made left and right. Were these guys white supremacists? Were they republicans? Alt right? Clearly this was due to their toxic masculinity and misogyny. The wage gap probably fits in there somewhere.
But a few things have come out that should make the discussion more interesting than usual:
On social media, Devon Erickson, a registered Democrat, expressed hatred for some Christians, and shared posts criticizing Donald Trump and praising Barack Obama…
The Denver Channel wrote that multiple sources say “the second suspect, who is a minor, is a transgender male who was in the midst of transitioning from female to male.”
Huh. This should prove an endless source of amusement. Unless, of course, it gets stuffed into the news media memory hole.
Equally likely: this gets used as a way to excuse the event. “Boo hoo they were bullied by the mean normies.”
Yes, anti-Semitism does seem to be on the rise. But it seems to be coming from the left, not from the Nazi boogeymen we’re forever being hysterically warned about.
There’s a lot to be irked about here. Seems to me that the video below produces a lot of opportunities for deportations. The kids may not be at fault, but their parents and the people who run this “society,” cranking out violent backwards propaganda and teaching these kids in an alien and unhelpful language, certainly seem like they would be a lot happier in Syria.
Enjoy.
Because of course he does.
Booker argued that just as a driver’s license demonstrates a person’s eligibility and proficiency to drive a car, “a gun license demonstrates that a person is eligible and can meet certain safety and training standards necessary to own a gun.”
Even though there is no such thing as a requirement to have a drivers license to own a car, or even operate a car on private property. You only need a drivers license if you plan on operating a car on government property (i.e. public roads).
And because of course:
Booker’s plan also includes… universal background checks for gun buyers; the reinstitution of a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity firearm magazines
In other words, criminalizing millions of currently law-abiding citizens by making them felons for owning bits of plastic.
