The photo fronting the article reminds me of a recent Bob’s Burgers episode where the limo driver tells Louise no standing in the sun roof because of all of the recent decapitations.

Decisions decisions. To buy a new phone or buy a used car.

“...we are connected to it constantly, and we hate it.”

The tune ‘nothing is ever anyone’s fault’ reminded me of a song from Bloom’s favorite musical, ‘Assassins’. The duet by Squeaky Fromme and John Hinkley “I am unworthy of your love.”

I’ve seen ‘Trojan horse’ used as a term for bringing in *viewers* to a story before pulling the old narrative switcheroo to something more substantive. Usually the studio is entirely aware of what’s going on. Remember the pilot of ‘Glow’ started up front with an Allison Brie sex scene before moving to the actual…

‘Trojan horse’ has become a popular term these days in Hollywood. I’ve seen that phrase  used to describe the series pitches for Orange Is The New Black, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Glow.

One thing bothers me. The world is full of empty houses and in every house you will find a closet and dresser with nice clean clothes in it. But they persist in wearing the same grimy stained rags all the time.

Good luck with that ‘image rejuvenation’ tour, Trump supporter.

I don’t usually get like this but I’m a bit offended by the ‘Annihilation’ movie poster. It looks like a paid advertisement for AR-15 rifles. The gun is the most prominent, detailed thing in the picture. Portman is merely the model holding the product.

I posted elsewhere, the movie poster gives me the creeps. It looks like a paid advertisement for AR-15 assault rifles. The gun’s in the foreground as plain as day, Portman is merely the model holding it. I don’t much like the concept of assault gun toting civilian scientists. I stopped going to films whose posters…

This is simply bad timing on the movie’s part, but I recoiled at the film’s promo pict that features the assault rifle on the foreground more than the actress. It’s bad enough when movie posters show pretty women cradling handguns, but assault rifles?

Rebecca was probably fated from the beginning to go to jail and lose everything the end of season 3. The writers’ task was to ‘reverse-engineer’ a plausible story to get her to that point. The court scene was so slapdash that it was as though the writer’s room said ‘Fuck it, its the final scene and we’re all…

Computer games appear to be different from other entertainment media. You’re placed into an obvious alternate reality with very different world rules to follow. Nobody’s going to mistake Wolfenstein for reality. TV and films, by contrast, are all about fooling the viewer into thinking this is how the world works. In a…

The right wing are trying to argue ‘its the media, not the guns’. But the right wing has always had difficulty discerning cause-and-effect. What it is is the guns coupled with the media’s incessant fetishization of guns as a not-so-subtle phallic object. The two together are a toxic blend. Then you get violence…

The media does not ‘cause violence’ but it does put forward a subconscious worldview where violence becomes an acceptable option. I recall back a dozen or more years ago the Pentagon was compelled to visit the set of ‘24' and ask the show runners to please tone down the frickin’ torture. Because they were having to…

I’ve seen so many Limbaugh wannabes come and go, its so tiring. No, not Limbaugh, further back to Morton Downey Jr. Or before him the 1976 movie ‘Network’ - the insane Howard Beale screaming at the camera.

I get the impression her career has been revived by the ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ lampoon song “We should Definitely Not Have Sex Right Now.”

Word-up, a news story yesterday reported that 600 Russian disinformation troll accounts have suddenly been reactivated after lying dormant since the election. I’ve already seen them swarming comment boards related to the Russian indictments.

Yiannopoulos is walking proof that the American far right is entirely ego driven. Its a clubhouse for personality-stunted narcissist sociopaths. Their ‘political philosophy’ is merely a facade they put on to give themselves an air of respectability. At heart their all Patrick Bateman from ‘American Psycho’.

The site is like ‘Ashley Madison’, nothing on it but sad sack guys and the employees who troll them.