I confess up front that I’m going to face-plant on this post, because I can’t conceive that I will explain my thoughts well enough that I won’t set myself up (and provide the damning evidence) for all sorts of hounding, canceling, and general condemnation. I guess that, in knowing the consequences going in, I can…
Movies Seen Recently: Tampopo, Kate & Leopold, It’s a Disaster
Tampopo (1986) – Hadn’t watched that in probably twenty years. Still makes me hungry for some good ramen. (I probably need to watch this back-to-back with Eat Drink Man Woman (1994).) Kate & Leopold (2001) – For a time-travel movie, this has an unconscionable number of anachronisms and just plain simple mistakes. On the other…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
One sketch that’s for sale in my Etsy shop… …and the rest from my sketchbook:
Movies Seen Recently: The Legend of the Lone Ranger, Diary of a Madman, Gone With the Wind
The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) – The summer of 1981 was a very bad time to be a movie not titled Raiders of the Lost Ark. However, Indy can’t really bear much of the blame for this movie’s dismal flop; it’s a bad movie. There’s a long, almost interminable backstory that goes all…
ST:TNG Binge Watch Season 7, Part VIII
7:24 Preemptive Strike – Ensign Ro gets a wrap-up episode! (And a promotion to Lieutenant!) No, she hasn’t just been invisible in the background (Ro don’t DO “invisible”); she’s been away at Advanced Tactical Training. And now, because of the increasing activities of the Maquis — the guerrilla group of former Federation citizens now in…
ST:TNG Binge Watch Season 7, Part VII
7:21 Firstborn – Worf gets a character episode! Worf may stop being such a terrible father! (Seriously, the only two ongoing examples of parenthood we every get are Worf and Lwaxana Troi, and they’re in a contest to see which is a better argument for decanting.) Buncha talk about warriors and honor and the usual…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Two that I posted in my Etsy store… …and five direct from my sketchbook:
ST:TNG Binge Watch Season 7, Part VI
7:18 Eye of the Beholder – Troi gets a character episode! And TNG does their own sideways adaptation of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” Really only notable for two reasons: It’s another link in this season’s subtext of a Worf/Troi relationship — this time, it’s a non-real flowering of that relationship from Troi’s perspective…
The “true face” of racism.
[Post this on Facebook yesterday. Copied it here so I won’t lose it. It’s as close to profundity as I come.] Here’s what few people understand when looking at (or for) racism in America: Most of the “racist” content you find — the kind that peppers the threads on cesspools like 4chan, for instance —…
ST:TNG Binge Watch Season 7, Part V
7:15 Lower Decks – None of the main characters get a character episode! Instead, we get an intriguing look at four junior officers on the Enterprise bucking for a promotion to lieutenant and bridge crew, none of whom we’ll ever see again. It’s an interesting look at how things seem from the underside of the…