by Dean | Nov 10, 2013 | General
So: Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender’s Game, is hated and insulted either primarily or exclusively because he opposes gay marriage.
Woe and damnation to someone with a different point of view!
“But Card doesn’t think gay marriage is a civil-rights issue!” someone might complain. If that’s true, he’s right. But, ah, again, we just can’t tolerate a different point of view!
Orson Scott Card at Life, the Universe, & Everything at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
by Dean | Nov 8, 2013 | General
The Internet can be a fairly good guide to which TV episodes of the Star Trek franchise are the worthiest to watch. Some that have been touted by web contributors I’ve seen on DVD and was glad I did.
Star Trek: Voyager‘s “The Omega Directive” (Season 4), for example, held up well on a second viewing and not just a first. Here, the starship’s crew are very much in the laboratory, with Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) working to destroy a particular molecule and the female Borg character (Jeri Ryan) working to stabilize it. The latter is making an error, desiring that the dangerous particle stay intact since it represents Perfection for her. In fact it seemingly represents a spiritual experience for a nonbelieving alien. Although limited in drama, the episode is not at all boring—and not at all stale either, but gleamingly fresh.
Another real fan-pleaser from Season 4 of Voyager is “Hope and Fear,” which presents duplicity and vengefulness in addition to hope and fear. (Get this: the fear belongs to Ryan’s Borg.) A phrase like “sophisticated fun” was invented for this episode. It’s not quite as intelligent as “The Omega Directive,” but it’s just as engaging. And better acted.
I’d like to write about a couple of other Voyager episodes in the future. The Internet has inspired me.
Star Trek: Voyager (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
by Dean | Nov 5, 2013 | General
The boneheaded Live Free or Die Hard (2007) glorifies the slacker computer geek, believes technological wizardry to be all-powerful, and proffers an indestructible bore of a hero who’s overprotective of his teenaged (?) daughter. There’s domestic terrorism too. Ho hum. . . It’s well-directed by Len Wiseman except for his allowing Kevin Smith to overact, but . . . ugh!
Cover of Live Free or Die Hard (Unrated Edition)
by DaveStuff | Oct 29, 2013 | General
Jack-o-lantern (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Halloween is in the air again… And, well… It’s The DEVILS HOLIDAY!
That about sum’s it up right? I could end this post right here and now and make my point beautifully.
But that’s no fun… You know how much this blogger enjoys talking about Satan.
What happens on Halloween?
Let’s see here… I read this description on a Christian Website that I googled:
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by Dean | Oct 28, 2013 | General
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) is simply a sequel looking for a reason to exist besides making money and not finding it. Along with having a no-account plot, this animated flick is so kooky and nonsensical it’s dumb.
Yes, the animation is splendid, but why do these movies always have to contain scatological humor? (Wedgie-proof underwear?) But that’s what kids like, the studios would say. True, but trendiness is trendiness.
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 (Photo credit: christianz1969)
by admin | Oct 25, 2013 | Conspiracy
Full Moon view from earth In Belgium (Hamois). Français : Pleine Lune vue de la Terre en Belgique à Hamois. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Let’s think about going to the moon shall we? Did we really have the technology to get to the moon way back in the 60’s?
Some say no….It’s been said that the footage was actually filmed in Stanley Kubrick”s Hollywood studio. The same one that 2001 a space Odyssey was filmed at. Stanley was part of the conspiracy… Or that’s my understanding….
2001 looks good doesn’t it? It looks REAL! 🙂
You can read all about the lunar landing hoax everywhere… How they did it and why. (more…)
by Dean | Oct 24, 2013 | General
On Flags Of Our Fathers (2006):
War and deception don’t go together. I mean, war is horrifying enough without deception coming to pass. Why, it’s so horrifying that your heroism nearly counts for nothing.
Here we have what Clint Eastwood’s movie about Americans at Iwo Jima is telling us, and the unsophisticated (though Republican) creator of 2004’s Million Dollar Baby again thinks he has made an important film. In fact it’s worthless. It’s tedious, often weakly acted, and its semi-pacifism over WWII is stupid. Besides that, it gives way to the usual phony sensitivity, complete with guitar chords, of Eastwood’s oeuvre.
Cover via Amazon
by admin | Oct 24, 2013 | Addiction, Beliefs
I have wondered plenty of time rather alcoholism or drug addiction is actually a disease. Like cancer is a disease. It sure does kill folks and destroy families and all that wacky stuff.
But is it a disease?
It’s a disease packaged in pretty bottles.
It’s a disease of choice, right? But wait!!
If you take a drink… Do you want another? And another?
Why would you want to keep doing something that could cause many problems for you and even kill you?
There’s no doubt about it. There is something up.
If you or somebody you love has ever dealt with (chances are you know somebody) addiction then you gotta think…. What the hell? That guy is sick!
Is he sick? Or perhaps –
He Can’t handle his liquor
What a way to be thought of — The dude that ‘can’t handle his liquor’
Now…What to do about it? Moderation???
It’s great to have so many resources these days…
The internet is a wonderful thing. What did we ever do without it?
You know we started crushing grapes a long time ago… This issue has been around a while huh?
by admin | Oct 23, 2013 | Sex
Do you get too much sex? We all have sex problems I suppose I could use an overhauling myself.
English: Fireworks (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Good or bad. Sex is here to stay. -It’s everywhere. Lets consider where it is..
- Movies – From chick flix to baseball films… Steamy
- Books – Romance novels to Stephen King
- TV – Ever watched Grey’s Anatomy?
- Music – Porn soundtracks are my favorite
- Internet – Chat rooms to Free dating sites
Should I continue?
Oversexed? Undersexed?
Is there such a thing? Or can you never get enough?
Perhaps it’s just not the right kind of sex. We are always hoping for more of what we cannot have. Or less of what we do have.
Check this bedroom chatter:
Honey you want to have sex tonight?
Well, Star Trek is coming on TV
So, that doesn’t answer my question
But…It’s a new episode honey
Well you can always record it.
That’s not quite the same babe
Damn it…I want SEX!
Well can we keep the TV on?
Hell, I guess. I’d prefer candles.
We can have those too
Alright but your giving me a headache.
Does that mean you changed your mind?
It’s hopeless
Of course it’s possible to fire up your sex life. But that discussion is for another day.
Happy times for all you lovers!
Get busy!!
🙂
by Dean | Oct 20, 2013 | General
It’s an expensive 2013 production, so naturally it’s the best-looking space movie I’ve seen.
The zero-gravity condition in various spacecraft spots in 2001: A Space Odyssey becomes dizzying zero-gravity spinning and ceaseless floating in Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity. The striking outer hardware of spaceships in 2001 becomes an ugly jumble of fascinating hardware, lengthy cables and all, in Gravity. It’s certainly a technical improvement on Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film. There is also a bit of Alien-style violence (a dead astronaut with a big hole in his face) and a shot of a space technician played by Sandra Bullock shedding her astro-suit a la Jane Fonda’s Barbarella (ugh), revealing a pair of shorts but without getting topless. Thus Cuaron was influenced by several other sci-fi pics, yet Gravity is indeed its own movie, a singular achievement.
I don’t know why so much goes wrong for Sandra as she struggles in the heavens, but it’s quite a spectacle when it does. And I saw the film in 2D, not 3D—surely even more enthralling. There are terrifically vivid closeups of Bullock, and blunt, beguiling cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki. Enjoy.
Weightlessness Tests (Photo credit: San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives)
