Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) – The fan-ficciest of the Next Generation movies! Shall we count the ways? Picard’s got a clone! Data’s got yet another double, but we’re not even gonna allude to the fact that Lore ever existed while discussing it! Remans, the sister civilization to the Romulans that we’ve never heard of! Picard…
Privilege: Two Bad Ideas in One.
As with too many of the words being weaponized by the tribal Left these days (like “racism,” “social justice,” “white supremacy,” etc.), part of the power of call-outs against “privilege” is the nebulous character of its definition when so used. Both an offensive rhetorical weapon and a semantic moving target? Tactical genius! I’ve realized recently…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Nothing for sale again, but I will have some this week, I promise. (Follow me on Facebook and/or Instagram to see when they’re posted.)
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Nothing for sale this week (I’ve been too busy to sit down and watch movies), but here are seven from my sketchbook:
Movies Seen Recently: Star Trek: Insurrection, Monster on the Campus, Spaceballs
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) – And now we’ve gone back to mining old episodes for under-explored ideas (or maybe just story concepts that they hope we won’t remember having seen before). In this case, take the premise of the 7th season “Journey’s End,” in which Picard is tasked with moving a colony of Native Americans…
Living in an Alternate Reality
A Facebook friend pointed to the violence over the weekend in Chicago with a wry comments about the “peacefulness,” to which I commented: Can you imagine how these people are going to seriously lose their dookies on November 4th when Trump wins a second term? I thought it was a pretty self-evident idea: That the…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post
One for sale on Etsy… …and the rest from my sketchbook:
Movies Seen Recently: Asoka, The Ballerina, The Angry Red Planet
Asoka (aka Ashoka the Great) (2001) – Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood’s answer to Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Will Smith all rolled into one, stars in a fictionalized historical epic as the title character, the Indian emperor who was instrumental in promoting Buddhism in the 3rd century B.C. However, people who have become non-violent Buddhists…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Two posted for sale in my Etsy shop (Ernie sold immediately): …and the rest from my sketchbook:
Movies Seen Recently: Bakeneko, In the Mouth of Madness, Mothra
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit (1968) – In medieval Japan, a usurping noble sets himself up for supernatural vengeance by (a) killing his lord, after which the distraught widow and her cat walk into the nearby marsh and drown; and (b) demanding that a young engaged woman “serve” him at the castle; when her fiance tries…