Guess what I did this evening?



Snap your fingers until you get it, and maybe you’ll say his name.

Also, it was nice to see the guy who wrote Don Quixote go all the way to Chicago to play one of America’s founding fathers.

Running around an agility course in RuneScape.

Dad went and talked about the accident I had at that traffic median last Thursday with the village. Apparently, the problem is being looked at, but not because I blew out a tire at a traffic median that was barely visible on a December night, but because the next day, two trucks from the village got injured by that same median. Unfortunately, fixing it will be an uphill battle because that little welt on Niles Center Road isn't under the jurisdiction of the village, but the State of Illinois.

Also, the Cinema Snob reviewed this movie, and it just gets more insane the more you look at it.





A Karate Christmas Miracle is a movie about a boy who believes that if he completes a "12 Days of Christmas" list of tasks before December 25, his father, who went missing after a mass shooting that's totally not based on the Aurora Dark Knight Rises massacre (note, he was apparently the sole survivor, but he just went MIA after the cops confirmed he didn't die for some reason), will return. One of those tasks is earning a black belt. This fact set off warning bells in my mind, because I remembered reading this Rationalwiki article that says "A ten-year-old boy is simply not physically or mentally capable of acquiring a legitimate Black Belt," although it admits that there are legitimate junior black belts (mostly from the first to third dan). I suspect that if I could find the whole thing, I'd find more red flags on the list.

Making it more bizarre is that, the subplot about the totally-not-Aurora-movie-theater-shooting is cannibalised from another movie by the same screenwriter called (depending on what release you're watching Joker's Wild, Joker's Poltergeist, American Poltergeist 4: Curse of the Joker, or even Curse of the Joker: The Aurora Massacre). Yes, they take a tasteless film about an actual mass murder, and to follow it up, the screenwriter for this movie FOLDS IT INTO A FAMILY CHRISTMAS MOVIE. And it's the original footage from the first movie, enough that the star of that movie gets top billing despite not shooting any new footage.

And that screenwriter, Ken Del Vecchio, he's a right-wing nutjob who created films like O.B.A.M. Nude, where the man himself, a fat and pasty 30-something white man, plays Obama as a college freshman who sells not only his soul, but those of millions of others, to the Devil, and The Life Zone, a piece of pro-life propaganda wrapped in a Saw-style horror movie with one of the most baffling twists in film since Mark Wahlberg saw the face of a chimpanzee on the Lincoln Memorial (namely that the forces that kidnap the three pregnant women and force them to carry their pregnancies to term, something the film treats as a good thing, are working for Satan. So, basically, the agenda these Evangelical right-wingers are trying to push is literally Satanic. And this movie is made by and for those Satanic evangelicals.) The only reason it's not in the Deep Hurting Project is because my library doesn't have a copy. I'm sure Richie Cusack has a few choice words for a film like that. Six, to be precise:




And speaking of the Deep Hurting Project, sometime in the next few days, expect me to take on A Christmas Story 2. At least there's no more Christmas movies in the Project after this.

I got my Stratocaster out, I haven't played it much in a few years, so I figured I'd maybe sell it. Restrung it and now I don't know if I will ever sell it.

(December 16, 2019 at 11:55 pm)Jackalope Wrote: I got my Stratocaster out, I haven't played it much in a few years, so I figured I'd maybe sell it.   Restrung it and now I don't know if I will ever sell it.

As a rule of thumb, if you're not sure if you'll sell a guitar, you almost certainly never will.

Boru

I expect you're right - I had forgotten what a joy it is to play.

Discovering that "TBH, Donald needs to die in a fire." is sufficient to get you banned from Twitter

Went to a sleep doctor. Got an appointment for a home sleep apnea test in about a month, and I found out I have a deviated septum and nasal polyps. That explains why I've been having trouble with my nose for so long.

Probably going to be offline for some time.

Possibly forever.

Catch you on the flipside.

(December 18, 2019 at 11:01 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Probably going to be offline for some time.

Possibly forever.

Catch you on the flipside.

Have you been arrested?