So, there’s this movie coming: It looks like your bog-standard Supernatural Entity Scary Horror Movie, with the twist being that the main characters are Indian immigrant and the Entity is something out of Indian folklore. OK, sure. We’ve all seen this before, with folk monsters from various ethnicities/nationalities/whatever pestering the appropriate people. Here’s my idea,…
A few years ago a lot of people were blown away to find out that a sizable fraction of the population has no inner monologue. Some people can’t “hear” themselves think or “hear” remembered music, movies, things loved ones said. Related, some people can’t envision things: they can’t see an apple in their minds eye,…
US citizens urged to leave Belarus immediately The State Department, in its warning, encouraged Americans still in Belarus to depart the country immediately and categorized the country as a Level 4 risk, the highest security warning. Two possibilities spring immediately to mind: 1) The US Government knows that something is about to happen 2) The…
A year ago I posted a reaction video for “Field of Dreams” where a coupla younguns watched the movie for the first time and reacted appropriately. Here’s one just posted today, where the reactor is hit *hard.* Perhaps it’s odd to be so entertained to see someone get emotionally tore up by something that tor…
This guy makes a number of good points about network TV being on its last legs, at least as far as scripted series. When was the last time a competent sci-fi network series aired? How many of the show you watch are on network TV, as opposed to cable channels or streaming? The Emmys this…
As all honest American recognize, for the past several generations cultural power has swung far left. Leftists shriek about how awful America is, yet they hold all the reins of power: they dominate the government, they control the educational system from kindergartens through universities, and they force the largest corporations to bend the knee to…
Thanks to ebay and my fabulously lean bank account, I have recently procured a number of items of potential interest: “NASA Earth Orbital Space Station,” a poster-sized lithograph from McDonnell Douglas depicting a space station that tumbles for artificial-G. “Re-Entry Payload Launch Vehicle,” A *brief* General Dynamics presentation on a vehicle to launch re-entry vehicles…
So a lone 23-year old decided to make a Scooby-Doo fan film. To do this, he used computer generated stop-motion to replicate the look of a Rankin-Bass holiday TV movie from back in the day… and an AI voice generator. This latter was due to the fact that this project had no budget to afford…
“Our heroes aircraft is falling from the sky! Will they pull out in time to avoid a firey crash and bring the episode, nay, the entire series, to a screeching and unexpected halt, requiring not only clever writing but also difficult actor contract negotiations with the attendant risk of turning off the existing fans?” Bah.…
Here’s something you don’t see too often… someone firing *numerous* rounds from a Gyrojet. Each of these .45 caliber rounds are solid propellant rocket units, last manufactured in the 70’s or so. They apparently run about $200 *each,* which makes me wonder if there might be a market for newly manufactured ammo. As a practical …
