Monthly Archive: October 2022
SCOTUS and Moore v Harper: To Be Democratic Or To Seem Democratic
Burt Likko previews Moore v. Harper, the SCOTUS case about the subtle and obscure but potentially explosive Independent State Legislature doctrine.
Mindless Diversions Extra: Gotham Knights First Impressions
The Arkham games were nigh-perfect. This game isn’t just different…First off, let me say explicitly that Gotham Knights is *NOT* a sequel to the Arkham games.
Sunday Morning! Leonora Carrington, the Complete Stories
Like fairy tales for mad children, the stories of Leonora Carrington are as packed with strangeness and complete imaginative freedom as her paintings.
A Halloween Revelation: Samuel L Wilson, RIP
Ten years after The Event I can finally tell the simulation that I was with him at his end, the damn fool. So many upgrades, bugfixes, and hardware changes have come and gone that...
Saturday Morning Gaming: Advice for Elden Ring
“If you have advice for the first dozen hours of Elden Ring, I would LOVE to read them. Hell, make it an essay and I’ll post it on the site.”
POETS Day! Cecil Day-Lewis
Evidently Daniel Day-Lewis, who was only fifteen when Cecil Day-Lewis died, claimed to have seen the ghost of his father while playing Hamlet at the National Theatre in London.
From Danny Freeman of NBC Philadelphia: A Philadelphia Deputy has been arrested by the feds for illegally selling guns on the street.
Two of the guns Deputy Samir Ahmad sold were used in the Roxborough High School shooting two weeks earlier, according to court filings.
Video Throughput: The Madness of Multiverses
In this video, I look at multiverses, which have become the big thing in movies and TV shows. Is there any science meat on that bone? Let’s take a look:
Ordinary Times’ First Annual Halloween Watchlist: Week 3
This week marks the halfway point in our Halloween Watchlist series, so it’s only appropriate that we get into some of the big name films.
Playing God of War As A Grieving Parent
I deliberately avoided playing God of War during this time because I knew the story features the relationship between a father and a son.
Avatar Has No “Hasta la Vista, Baby”
What Avatar was *NOT*, however, was particularly memorable. Which seems odd for one of the movies to have held the “highest grossing movie *EVER*” record for a while.
A Scottish Vision of America
The cultural ties between the US and Scotland, including the love of freedom and liberty which manifests in the political realm, are long-lasting and omnipresent.
