Oct 302020
 

“Songbird” is a forthcoming movie set in a world where the American population has been under strict lockdown for something like four years due to COVID-23. It seems to be a major studio movie with a few known actors, but a lot of it seems to be set in a single apartment. So… it probably didn’t cost that much.  According to Wikipedia:

On May 19, 2020, it was reported that Michael Bay, Adam Goodman and Eben Davidson would produce a film about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, titled Songbird. Adam Mason, who co-wrote the screenplay with Simon Boyes, was set to direct.[1]

In June 2020, Demi Moore, Craig Robinson, Peter Stormare and Paul Walter Hauser were cast.[2] In July, Bradley Whitford, Jenna Ortega, KJ Apa and Sofia Carson joined the cast.[3][4]

The cast were remotely trained in preparation for the shoot.[1]

Filming
Principal production commenced on July 8, 2020, in Los Angeles.[3] Filming was initially halted by SAG-AFTRA, who granted the production permission to proceed a day later.[5] The film wrapped on August 3, 2020.[6]

 

I’ve no idea if it’ll be any good or not, but it would seem to show that a reasonably-major movie can be made quickly and probably inexpensively… thus not needing the Chinese Communist Party to fund it and censor it.

 Posted by at 8:17 pm
Oct 302020
 

The KING 5 news channel in Seattle looked at the records and named at least a *few* of the criminals who helped trash the city.

Many Seattle protesters arrested are white, from other cities, analysis finds

Now if you want some *fantastic* hypocrisy, read a bunch of the comments on the Twitter thread announcing the news piece:

Many of them boil down to “O Noes! Don’t name the people who came to commit acts of violence… they might be made to suffer the consequences of their actions!!!”

I only wish that the news station had published all the arrest records in an easy to consume – and easy to catalog for future HR “do not hire” lists – manner.

 

 Posted by at 12:59 am
Oct 302020
 

I never quite “got” religion… not until I started reading HP Lovecraft and finally grokked the concept of “Cosmic Horror.” With that understood, I could finally kinda understand religion, just not as most religious folks would prefer it. I read tales of some god or other flipping his marbles and wiping out a family, a city, a world, and I see it as not a miraculous wonder but a Grade-A Cosmic Horror. And then when you get to the idea of a soul that can exist forever… yeesh. Couple that with the concept of damnation, or even just a soul getting twisted up to serve as little more than an MP3 player spitting out “holy holy holy” for all of eternity, and the horror approached mind-snapping levels.

But you don’t even need to deal with “God” to get to horrifically terrifying madness inducement. The Bible, for example, speaks of angels. These are often depicted as men or women with wings, but the Biblical descriptions of at least the seraphim – the highest “order” of angels –  read like something Lovecraft would have dreamed up while tripping on an overdose of LSD.

 

HPL came up with some doozies. But nothing compares with the idea that you have an immortal soul and that you could spend an eternity being tortured because you did not follow rules that not only did you not understand, but were perhaps quite unaware of and perhaps they would have been impossible for you to follow (quick: don’t think of an elephant). In HPL’s world, for humans dead is dead, pretty much. But in religion, dead is just the start of an eternity of madness and agony. For HPL, the “gods” don’t care about you. In religion, the gods *do.* And chances are very high that they despise you. Wheeeeee.

 Posted by at 12:25 am
Oct 282020
 

Because can you honestly imagine anyone producing artwork as ridiculous, bombastic, hilarious and awesome as this featuring *Biden*? Or Harris?

https://www.aafnation.com/

Extra points for the US Space Force Colonial Vipers.

 

Doubtless there are those who oppose Trump who would see this sort of art as “fascistic” or “Trump worshipping” or whatever… completely missing the point that people who *don’t* hate Trump see this sort of stuff as *hilarious.*

 

 

 Posted by at 11:06 pm