I’m afraid The Mandalorian is post-ROTJ (seven years later, I believe), so no McGregor for multiple reasons.

Obligatory Let’s Say Something Positive About The Prequels Post:

Last night I had a grapefruit and vanilla ice cream for supper... but I guess that’s not really a ‘pop culture’ moment.

The Sixth Sense.

Yesterday I saw Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (worse than I’d imagined), The Kitchen (better than I’d imagined) and Spider-Man: Far From Home for the third time (it continues to improve upon re-watching, but I still don’t give a SHIT about Peter Parker’s love life, and [SPOILER] 1, I would HOPE Mysterio’s not…

Dateline: Noblesville, Indiana (8/9/2019)

Glow was great again. Between that & She-Ra, I like how Netflix is having a mini Geena Davis Renaissance. They need the rights to The Long Kiss Goodnight though.

I’m catching up on Invincible having stopped at the end of the second compendium a couple of years back. This weekend I finally read (controversial) issue #110. I did not like it.

I’ve been playing Marvel Future Fight since March of last year. The game’s latest update this past week added Silver Surfer, Namor, and Wave (billed as the first Filipina super-hero), and today and on Saturdays going forward Galactus shows up as an NPC in the game in a mode called Giant Boss Raid. He sticks around for…

So, there’s this Chantix commercial where an animated Turkey climbs out of his tent on a camping trip. All that’s well and good. Chantix helps you quit “Slow Turkey,” is a decent enough slogan. Yes, it’s slightly weird the turkey is wearing casual camping clothes and later goes bird watching. And it’s also slightly…

I just finished listening to the ‘Charles Manson’s Hollywood’ stretch of the You Must Remember This podcast, and the parallels between Manson and his followers and Trump and his are mind-boggling. The deeply paranoid race-baiting, the paranoid rants, the desperate desire to become powerful and influential, the…

My summer with Jean Cocteau concluded these last two weeks, with The Eternal Return, Thomas the Imposter, Testament of Orpheus, and Villa Santo Sospir. The last two are roughly the same thing, statements of artistic purpose, one professionally made, the other a home movie. Eternal Return is Tristan and Isolde, a big…

So yeah I’ve finished The Boys, She Ra Season 3 and Dark

Well, it’s a book with *a* Shaftoe, anyway. Much like Tarantino and his movies, Stephenson seems to be trying to force his novels into a coherent universe, and the 17th century Baroque cycle books (Quicksilver, et al) also feature a character of that name, presumably an ancestor.

Batman Beyond for me. I had never really gotten into BTAS, though I made some attempts to watch it. But Batman Beyond completely grabbed me. It wasn’t Terry that I cared about, it was old Bruce. For once in my life I was watching a Batman whose backstory I didn’t know, and that fascinated me. From there, I worked my…

I can’t agree with that. He didn’t learn to write a denouement until Quicksilver, in my opinion. At the end of Cryptomonicon a whole bunch of important stuff happened off-screen as it were, while our protagonist was unconscious.

Your brain is correct.

I remember partying as though it was that year. Technically, this was in 1982, but, like Prince, I didn’t obey things like causality or time.

StarCraft: Brood War pretty much ate my life for the later half of 1999.

It’s also the year Cryptonomicon was released, which sort of marked the evolution of Neal Stephenson from an author of smaller, more stylish, novels into an author of extremely long, more detailed novels. I was moderately disappointed in the book…

I hate to try to make sense of this, but years ago (2009? Yikes) IDW did a Cobra comic where Chuckles went undercover and did very bad things.