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Space Jesus is Dead

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Justice League trailer? Yeah, I'll pass. Looks like more of the same. I loathe the whole Snyderverse aesthetic. There's no sunshine or color. Everything has that fascist state feel: enormous and symmetric with sharp edges. The people all look depressed. The heroes all look jacked, cut, and/or mean. And while it's supposed to be a joke, there's no more appropriate response to "what are your super powers again" from the Snyderverse Batman than "I'm rich." This is the world of the Ayn Rand dude-bro hero after all. Space Jesus is dead.

Pug in a Box

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We suspect that Frankie grew up with cats.

Truth # 442

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It's Happening Again...

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It's happening again....

Buckaroo Banzai

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is currently available to stream on Hulu. I haven't watched it in years, so I gave it a viewing over the weekend...only to promptly remember why it had been years since I've seen it. I know this film has a cult following and I know a lot of geeks love it but I just don't get it. I really do not understand it at all. In fact, not only do I not get it, but I think it might be one of the few movies that I actively dislike. The film has a great cast and promises to be the adventures of this 80's-version of Doc Savage where the Man of Bronze and his Fabulous Five fight aliens when they're not rocking out in a band. Instead, the film delivers something dull, boring, frustrating, and all-together unfunny. Honestly, it's probably also one of the few movies I wish they would actually remake. Or that they'd just hand the property over entirely to someone else.

Deutschland '83

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If you like spy fiction and don't mind subtitles, Deutschland 83 is very good. It's about about a young border patrol guard pulled from his post by the Stasi and set to the West Germany to discover intel about new nuclear missile deployments by NATO. And it has a great 80s soundtrack.

Into The Badlands

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Into The Badlands is now on Netflix and it's awesome. Season Two is currently airing on AMC. This is the post-apocalyptic martial arts epic that I always wanted.

A Dog Named Grasmsci

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Been reading Gramsci (thanks to SPACED!). While I’m still parsing everything in his Prison Notebooks, what I understand about his theories of the hegemony and the intellectual (traditional and organic) make a ridiculous amount of sense to me. Can you call yourself a Gramscist? A Gramscian?

Mask versus mask

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Another older story of mine is now available to read for free on Wattpad. This one has luchadores! Check it out here: MÁSCARA CONTRA MÁSCARA

You Can't Inspire A Construct

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Look at the headline: “Trump Inspires The Dow to 21,000”. This is what’s wrong in America. We treat anything to do with the free market like it’s a person or a force of nature to be appeased with blood sacrifice and rain dances or, hell, like it’s fucking magic that’s going to fix everything ( “Dear Free Market, bless Mommy and Daddy and… ) But it’s not. It’s simply a construct. And you can’t “inspire” a construct. I mean, think about it. Seriously, now. And since it’s a construct, it functions however it’s set up to function and that’s in a way that’s not mutually beneficial or even fair to everyone. Notice too when the free market functions well, it’s always framed in those kinds of terms: inspired , encouraged , invigorated , fueled by hope . Like the Dow was just really sad and disheartened and all it needed was a little encouragement to do what we always knew it could do it, to work at it’s potential. But when the free market goes badly it’s back to being talked abou