Archive for October, 2022

A Few Thoughts on Girl vs. Monster

Sunday, October 30th, 2022

Hmmmmmmnnnnnn…..

Hmmn hmmn hmmn.

Hhm.

Mmmmmmmhmn.

Mmmmmmmmm….

Muhm humn.

Ahmmmmnnnn…. Hmm.

Well then.

Halloween 2022

Saturday, October 22nd, 2022

So I’ve been watching that music channel that features holiday songs, Sounds of the Seasons.

And oh man it’s just so good.

All Halloween, every day! Oh how I’ve missed that stuff! I can just feel myself slipping into some of my old ways here and it just feels so comfortable and awesome.

IDK, I guess I’ve been missing some stuff.

I’ve written down the names of all the songs I’ve been seeing there that are interesting, I guess to make my own playlists in the future, IDK. But I’ve also been combing the depths of my own mp3 collection for all of the old goth / death rock / gothic metal songs that I used to spin all the time, and my god, them’s some good music.

I need to look for more of this stuff, seriously. Newer stuff. It must be out there, I just need to find it.

I haven’t played an Alien Sex Fiend song in what feels like aeons. Misfits, Christian Death, Die Laughing, Birthday Massacre, Theatre of Tragedy, Athamay, Virgin Black, Seraphim Shock, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Lacrimosa, Lacuna Coil, Darkwell, Wumpscut, I mean… oh yes, I need this shit in my life, and I’ve been missing it.

So many other bands that I used to listen to, too. Too many to list.

Lordy, have I changed.

I’ve been spending my evenings lately watching Halloween episodes on Disney+, and swooning over my girlfriends, and… jeebus, is that really me? lol.

I mean… seriously, though.

What… happened?

When did I go from being the person I was twenty years ago to spending my evenings watching episodes of Austin and Ally? And actually enjoying them?

The mind boggles.

But, yeah, well. I watched a Halloween episode of Doug and saw my old bike, which is… actually very cool. I was searching the other day for pictures of it on google images and came up empty, so that was a pleasant surprise.

But I mean…

Yeah. Well.

I guess that people change, and the relationships they gain can led them into new places. And that can be a pretty great thing.

I’m not criticizing the person I am now. Really, I’m not. I’m just… wondering, I guess.

But I’ve resolved to watching a bunch of other Halloweeny stuff on Disney+ this year, including Girl vs. Monster, finally.

That one outa be reeeeeeal interesting.

Well, I also have my old Gothabilly and industrial compilations to spin yet. Will get to those.

Those were some fun days that I spent learning about all of this and listening to this music.

I also have an obscure compilation of death rock demo tapes that I’ll find. It has an early version of Romeo’s Distress on it that I find much better and more raw than the album version, if you can believe that. Good shit.

I might also reread Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee. And maybe the other slave labor comics I have. IDK. But Johnny is important, as it’s… a part of me, that no longer… seems to exist? Kinda. Maybe.

Well… maybe that’s wishful thinking.

But of all the stuff that I inspired, that work seems to exist almost within it’s own realm. It’s an idiosyncrasy even within a culture of people that prize their individuality.

Yeah.

Things to ponder.

…….

I’m not going to end up destroying all of the stuff I set out to destroy, am I?

I guess not.

And I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

Time will tell.

A Few Thoughts on the Direness of Mobile Gaming

Friday, October 21st, 2022

Ok, let’s just cut to the chase here: mobile gaming fucking sucks. It’s awful, and the people who spend real money on this shit are stupid.

I’m seeing this post as a kind of PSA here; a warning to the youth. If you spend money on these games you are being duped. Don’t be a sucker.

Here’s the thing: the games themselves suck.

Many if not most of the games I’ve seen on mobile are ripoffs of old games that I played as a kid on consoles like the NES and Sega Genesis, or they are broken copies of old arcade games.

Broken, you say? Well, yes. What I think the developers of these games do is play a NES game, copy it, and then break it intentionally, with the intent of forcing players to spend lots of real money on the fix, so that they can climb over the “paywall”.

Seriously, some of the stuff I’ve seen in these games borders on the criminal. Like games stealing graphics, dialogue and actual music tracks from the games I played as a kid, perhaps with very minor changes to skirt copyright laws, with the only appreciable difference between the new games and the old ones being that the newer games are dumber, shallower and purposefully broken.

The mobile gaming ecosystem is really, really bad.

Over the years I’ve heard horror stories of people spending ungodly amounts of money on these stupid games. I mean like thousands, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands on dollars, on literally a single game.

I’m sorry but that is fucking stupid. I’ve seen people brag otherwise, but no, they are wrong. I’ve seen screenshots from people where you can see that they spent “X” thousands of dollars this month on a single fucking game, with the hopes of getting a item or a character.

People… Jesus Christ. Seriously.

Most of the problem here has to do with “casual gamers”, meaning people who have no idea as to what a good game actually looks and feels like, who have no idea how much they’re being fucked over.

Guys, don’t be a casual gamer. Learn what a good game is, and how to spot one. It will broaden and enhance your life.

Try playing some of the old Mario and Zelda games, or some of the old ID Software PC games. And then realize how cheap these games were in comparison to what is released today.

Games back then cost virtually nothing.

I know that some people these days claim otherwise, noting that a console game back then cost an average of $50, new.

What they fail to realize is that most games back then were bought used, for a fraction of the price. I had friends back in the day who bought a stack of games before every summer for something like 20 dollars, that lasted them all the way until next summer, when they would sell the old used ones to pay for new used ones.

Seriously, used games, especially the common (read: good) ones, were dirt cheap back then. I remember buying a few good games for actual pennies back in the day. I think I remember buying a final fantasy gameboy game, used, for a dime.

Used games could be so cheap that the retailers couldn’t charge sales tax on them.

So when I read stories about people, typically younger people, spending a thousand bucks on a single character in the new final fantasy mobile game, I just… cringe. Holy shit, guys.

I read a comment on zerohedge once where the poster said that he had a friend who spent a hundred grand on some dumb mobile game about Vikings. His family and friends staged an intervention, and his defense was that he could afford it, since he had a high paying job, something that paid like $400K a year, or something. The game was thus his “hobby”, and his friends and family, in his mind, were acting selfishly in criticizing him.

That is… really, really stupid. I see this argument crop up a lot with mobile whales (i.e. the big dupes). They can “afford it” so why not? It brings them happiness, right?

Little thought in these guy’s minds seems to be on the inevitable moment when the game’s servers are turned off and their “investment” disappears forever into the aether.

I have games I bought used 30+ years ago still in my possession. All of them work as well today as they did when I got them. Come to think of it, so do the old games I have that I bought new, too. Everything on them works, including battery backups, and those batteries are decades old at this point.

Seriously guys, don’t spend a cent on these fucking mobile games. They aren’t worth it.

Honestly, even the worst games on the SNES are better than 99% of the games in the apple app store. The SNES games, no matter their quality, just “work”. No commercials, no paywalls, and few if any bugs, and what bugs there are are never game-breaking. No data mining, no toxic cyberbullying, no unfathomably big “updates” that introduce new problems and imbalances to make people pay for the fixes, just… no bullshit, in general.

Modern games, no matter what they do, come with way too much… I don’t know, nonsense, and what’s unfortunate is that people, especially younger people, don’t seem to realize how shitty they are, and how much crap the developers pull. And this isn’t just mobile gaming, here. This is console as well.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t play them. If you do, fine, I do as well, but for god’s sake don’t spend actual money on them.

I know that people need hobbies, and sometimes these hobbies can get expensive, relatively speaking. I mean sometimes you can get something out of them that is worth the expense. I get it.

But this one is not worth the expense.

I had a hobby, once, of collecting gold coins. I mean, real ones, not video game ones. I still have them.

Today, I could sell back my entire collection and get what I paid for them, every single one. And in fact in some cases I could sell them back for much much more than I paid for them. At worst I would break even.

In my desk drawer I have a little plastic cup with a collection of coins and rounds in it. Gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and some rhodium. I probably spent $25K on all of it, and it’s probably worth $75K right now in melt value. It will be valuable the rest of my life, no doubt, and probably far beyond.

For a collection, why not try something like this instead of spending 25K on some shitty, temporary virtual “gold” in some shitty, broken, fourth rate video game?

Well, whatever. This post is done.

I need to start ending my posts better, lol.

A few Random and Critical Thoughts about Modern Advertising

Thursday, October 20th, 2022

Just to preface this: this is mostly going to be negative (I think), so feel free to check out here if you want. I just feel a need to blow off some steam, TBH.

Ads suck. I mean, seriously, they just really, really suck. And I know that everyone’s already like 99% on board with this but it bears repeating since it’s not like we can get away from them.

I still watch broadcast TV at dinner, mostly because my mom can’t peel herself away from trashy political TV “news”. Gods, the ads there are just… unbelievably repellant. There are three major types of ads on these shows that I see: 1) pharmaceuticals including vaccine ads, 2) junk food ads, and 3) during election times, political ads.

I find the combination of the first two to be amusing. Lots of junk food ads intermixed with lots of prescription drug ads. The two types of commercials compliment each other well, don’t you think?

I can hardly believe how yucky and unappetizing the food looks in those fast food ads. It looks horrible, like big piles of gooey sludge and mystery meat, piled up way, way too high. It looks gross.

Honestly, it’s baffling. I’m not a small man by any means, here. I’m 6 foot 3 and 195 pounds, and even I wonder how someone could eat the amount of food the people that make these ads want me to eat. It just looks… wayyyy too much. It looks gross. Too much calorie dense meats and carbohydrates. I mean… holy fuck, people.

Back in college I tried the whole college “thing” that many people do in university, and I tried out a bunch of fast foods and pizzas and such myself, I guess just to see what they were like. I didn’t like that much, though. I stopped after college and never returned to that stuff, unless it was given to me for free. It was just… gross, I guess. Too much, although I had to find that out for myself, which I think was a good idea just for the experience of it. It was worth it, I suppose, to find out what not to do.

But yeah I don’t get it. It’s all so horrible looking. And the pharma ads they show that accompany this stuff look even weirder and worse.

I truly hate those big pharma ads. They’re just… strange, and usually incomprehensible. The products and visuals in these commercials never ever match up.

If the product is about, I don’t know, heart burn, the commercial will show a bunch of people fishing, or something. Or playing charades, or… something else, something that has nothing at all to do with the drug itself.

Hair loss product? Show some people in a studio, making music. Blood pressure medication? Show people line dancing. What?

These ads are so freaking weird and strange. They always include a list of potential side effects, most of them ghastly sounding, and these are always played over a visual of smiling, happy people walking in the woods or something. The cognitive dissonance here is off the charts.

“Potential side effects include seizures, blood loss to the lower extremities and heart stoppage. Talk to your doctor if you experience problems while breathing. Never take this medication before bedtime if you want to live to see the morning.” Oh, and here are some scenes of an old woman hugging her cats! How cute.

Yeah, no thanks.

These ads play like some bottle messages from a parallel universe or something. Watching them, you would never believe that only 12% of the population here is black or part-black. I have seen commercial blocks here where every single fucking person in every commercial was black, and this was during news broadcasts that babbled on endlessly about “black oppression” or some such similar phantasm. The TV here is always tuned to MSNBC. Hilariously terrible, all of it.

It’s all gross and strange, and all very, very dumb. It’s comical how stupid and weird all of this shit really is, and it’s all getting dumber as time goes on. I’ve had to stifle my laughter more than once this week while watching this ridiculous drek.

It baffles me that the people that run and operate these news networks cannot seem to understand why they are failing so badly with the public.

Watching MSNBC and CNN, I’ve come to understand that their audience is delusional white women, aged 75+, who are ardently democrat and probably suffering from some undiagnosed case of bipolar, BPD or both. Which as you can imagine is a small percentage of the population, which is why these channels are only watched by a small percentage of the population. I think something like a quarter of one percent of the population here watches MSNBC on a given night.

Gods though is this shit retarded, and the rest of the programming on offer over broadcast TV is hardly better. Whatever the shows may be, they are always hamstrung and sabotaged by the stupid commercials that air during their run. I can hardly watch anything on cable TV anymore.

I saw the first episode of Kat McNamara’s new CW show, and it was good, but gods, those commercials. I muted the TV during the breaks, and I had to routinely fight to keep the TV on when the show wasn’t running.

I know that other fans of hers had similar problems, with some of them devising ways of seeing the show by other means, like through an app or such, just to avoid those damn commercials.

Ads just aren’t fun anymore. They used to try to be at least clever, but now they’re always so… similar that they just blend into some kind of mush.

I can clearly remember that old Rogaine commercial, with the woman in the hat, but I can’t for the life of me remember the names of the products in any of the new pharma ads. All the commercials are just… the same, now. It’s really weird. It’s like the same team of guys is making every commercial out there, or something. Which might in fact be the case, I don’t know.

But no commercials are funny anymore. And it’s odd but I can’t remember them, even. Years ago I saw some commercials from the 50’s on youtube and I actually remember those better than the ones I saw last night during the “news”. It’s really weird, TBH. Kinda inexplicable.

I hear the Netflix is adding commercials now, and that Disney+ is going to add them, too. Oof, gods, does that suck. What would be the point, then?

IDK. It sucks, tho. Sometimes I play mobile games- they’re a good thing to pass the time with while using my bike, or something, or while listening to some important health-related podcast. And even there the ads are getting worse. There are more of them, now, in the games I play, and they are longer, and uglier, more annoying, and more offensive. I wonder sometimes now how the ads I see on mobile games now could be considered acceptable for kids, since they are so filled with overt sexuality and violence.

There are games now that show ads while you are playing the game, which is a whole new level of ugly.

I use an apple tablet, and their ecosystem has turned to crap. Reports of problematic apps are everywhere. Apps stealing money, apps stealing content from other apps, apps that trick you into downloading apps you don’t want, apps forcing you to watch inappropriate ads that cannot be muted or turned off, apps that are broken on purpose, apps that are data mining the users, etc. It’s a real shitshow. What good is the technology if the apps that run it are all malicious garbage?

It’s a good thing that I have no data of value on my tablet, on purpose.

But that’s another essay for sure.

Well, I blew off some steam.

Good.

Health Stuff, Oct. 2022, Addendum

Tuesday, October 4th, 2022

A few closing thoughts, just to clear my mind.

What I’ve accomplished in this little arena would be out of reach for 99.99% of the population, for sure.

I honestly think that 90% of people in the US do not even get basic regular exercise, which is like the ground floor for taking care of yourself.

I don’t think that most people in this country even know they have lymphatic systems, let alone how they work or what they do, and of those, only a tiny percentage know how to make them work better.

In the essay below I didn’t mention ropeworms, which are also not an issue for me anymore, and for all that we know are some genetically engineered horror organism. They’re not technically worms, I know. They might not even be animals. Some kind of lab created monster, I guess.

I’m starting to think that most people here are probably doomed, and that that may in fact be what our overlords have in mind.

Ugly thoughts for an increasingly ugly world.

Health Stuff, Oct. 2022

Tuesday, October 4th, 2022

IDK what else to write about, but I feel the need to write about something, so here goes.

Before I get into this I want to preface it by saying that I’m really looking to put all of this stuff behind me, and I will, after I make sure that my hypothesis is correct regarding that weird illness/syndrome I was suffering from in the past.

If my theories are correct, then I have done what I’ve needed to do to fix myself so that I never experience that particular problem again. If my theories are correct.

For whatever reason, this particular disease/condition/whatever seems to be worst during the winter months. I’m not sure why, but that has been the routine. It might be something as simple as the dryness of the air, or something cybernetic, I’m not sure. But, history tells us that the winter months seem the worst of them.

But- I have no fear. I think I have everything sorted out.

Further research into all of this health… stuff has yielded some incredibly strange and bewildering facts. I mean… IDK what else to even say about this stuff, it’s all so dire and weird.

Honestly, WTF, lol. Seriously guys. What. The. FUCK. lol.

Uh, well, here goes.

The other day I backed up all of the youtube videos that I could find of my old naturopathic mentors. I wanted to get them before big pharma/google went full-tilt communist and nixed them, because many of them were critical of vaccines. Note that I didn’t say even that they were against them, but they were critical of them, for sure. And Lord knows that even questioning Pfizer is enough these days for banishment.

Adding to that is what I remember from the naturopaths I talked with in person, as well as the traditional doctors and physical therapists that I’ve worked with, etc.

I kinda came up with a working model of all of this nonsense that seems logical and to my bewildered eyes correct, but IDK.

So basically, 1) I killed the ugly things that I think were causing or contributing to the problems; 2) I prepped my body in case the issues return somehow, and 3) I’m in a better mental state to deal with this horror, if in fact it does come back.

So- my body is prepped and ready. I’m a fuckload stronger this time around, for sure. Much much stronger than the average guy my age, no doubt. Honestly I’m probably stronger than 99% of the middle aged men in this country. I don’t need to outline details, as I’ve done that before, but yes I am incredibly strong, no doubt.

It’s just the usual routine- a pilates routine with two sets of leg weights attached, pushup variations, dynamic stretches, isometrics, single leg squats (with awkwardness and difficulty, but still), and yeah, that’s enough. It should be enough.

This thing caused muscle weakness and tightness, so I’m ready.

I strengthened my lymphatic system and cleaned out everything inside. My lungs are clean, and… so is everything else. It’s alllll cleaned out, top to bottom.

Beyond this, I did identify all of the weird shit that I killed earlier. Those weird thin orange rod shaped things are called Echinoparyphium recurvatum. They’re a rare Asian parasite that exists mostly in birds and animals, and in a few pockets within the people in Korea. And, apparently, in me, in Gurnee, Illinois. Google tells me they’re extremely rare; practically nonexistent. A search for that name brings only 8350 results, total.

Somehow, I have my doubts about their rarity.

Yuck, seriously. Fucking gross, and I want to close the chapter on this part of my life, for sure.

But yeah I identified all of it, and have came to understand lately the ugly magnitude of all this. We are seriously fucked, lol. Well, maybe not me, but everyone else, possibly.

I’m 99% sure I killed all the tapeworms, which is for sure within the top ten most difficult things I have ever done. It took 15 years of dedicated work to get my body to the point where I could eliminate those fuckers for good. Seriously- 15 years.

Those fucking things literally don’t die. Few understand how horrible they really are. Their regenerative properties are supernatural. They can regrow their entire bodies if damaged. They live for decades. And even if they die, they will come back from the dead(!), yes literally reincarnate themselves. If they die they spit out their eggs and the eggs attach to your body alongside the dead parent, and actually eat the body of the dead parent to grow up in it’s place! Horrifying beyond belief!

Medical science cannot kill them. Mainstream medicine admits that they haven’t even identified most species of them, let alone devised ways to get rid of them.

They eat chemtrails. All the crap that is being sprayed down on us from above- the aluminum, the heavy metals, the weird dusts, all of it- they eat that crap and love it, and thus have an endless supply of food, and cannot be starved. They are immune to virtually everything mainstream science has to offer- antibiotics are actually food to them, not poison. Jesus Christ!

All of this shit must warp a person’s appetite- the worms alter your hormones and your brain to make you eat the stuff that favors them, not you. How many of those 600 pound people have undiagnosed tapeworm infections, I wonder?

Gods, how terrifying.

I think I’m over the whole “food” thing. I don’t care about using food for anything anymore besides basic sustenance. Fancy foods? Not for me. Holiday foods? I don’t care. Just give me the routine basics and I’m happy. I have no inclination at all to be “brave” or “inventive” with foods, and no interest in eating food to make others happy. Fuck that!

It seems like the only way to get rid of these things is to do a sneak attack and kill the vital parts of the head all at once, and then to have a strong enough immune system and a clean enough organ system to eliminate the body and all of the eggs before the worm can reincarnate itself, which it will do if it isn’t eliminated right away. And yes you do need to “sneak attack” these fucking things because they are animals and thus have intelligence, and can outthink a weaker approach. They have “escape plans” in case of attack. Gods!

I think it’s the chemtrails. I think that’s the problem, well, that, and the immigration. Some tribesmen from Africa or South America come here and come into contact with the locals and their parasites spread like wildfire, since we have no immunity or resistance to them. We don’t even know they exist or how they spread.

I saw a video today from one of my old mentors who during a lecture said that she had been monitoring ambient and human radioactivity since the 50’s, and that it have been growing steadily, year by year, since. The lecture was from the mid 90’s.

We’re being baked in radioactivity and now with 5G/6G massive amounts of microwave radiation, all of which promotes fungal, bacterial and parasite growth.

Is there any wonder why the life expectancy of people is declining?

For the record, the worms I had I identified as “Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus”. Google tells me they are extremely rare, in fact almost unheard of, in humans. A search yields only about 56,000 results, which is small for google. Again I have my doubts about their rarity.

Well, I’m prioritizing health for sure from here on out, even above and beyond what I have already done.

For the mental aspect I’m going to be incorporating meditative practices into my routines. That will become a strong priority next year. I already know what to do, I think, I just need to put in my typical 10000 hours of practice to make it “click”.

Anyhow I want to be “normal”. I want to put this nightmarish crap behind me, so that I can live a normal life, as much as a cyborg demon-wizard can have one, I guess. I’m bored of all this, bored of… everything I talked about, here. I want this chapter of my life to be over already, and I think it is.

Well, this post is done. I hope that what I’ve done will be enough to fix whatever caused the problem, if not; back to the drawing board, I guess.

Disney+ Stuff, Part VI

Sunday, October 2nd, 2022

So, I’ve been plowing through more Disney+ stuff lately. Like, a lot of stuff.

There is a lot that’s good here.

The docuseries, for example. Love the nature footage. It’s awesome. There are these documentaries of undersea animals and wildlife that are just so good and interesting. The visuals are absolutely spectacular.

I love stuff like this when I watch TV. It’s great, and very “real”. And it’s uplifting.

Some of the animal content was made for kids, but I don’t mind. I actually prefer that sometimes. I would rather see the animals than the scientists, honestly. It’s just… something I don’t see. I’ve seen plenty of scientists in real life, including myself, my parents, and many coworkers, college professors, etc. and they’re just… people, lol.

The animals though are interesting and not a part of the world that I’ve seen, and I love seeing them.

I’ve been watching kid’s TV shows, too… and I guess I don’t need to say it but it’s nice to see that so much of my childhood has been immortalized, and so well. I really love those moments when I see something in a TV show that I’ve forgotten about my own past. I’ve kinda weird, it gives me a kinda comfortably fuzzy feeling, I guess.

I suppose that if I’m ever feeling nostalgic in the future and want to revisit my past at any point all I really need is a Disney+ subscription, lol. It’s pretty mindblowing, even now. I’m always finding new series that contain bits and pieces of me, or that spin my childhood in different ways.

Recess is a fun one. It’s really cool to see my grade school self again and my old friends. It’s like looking into a magic mirror of sorts. The kids in that show do so many things that I remember, albeit not exactly as I did them. Not exactly. Teacher’s Pet is another fun series, this one based on my college exploits, even though it is ostensibly about a middle schooler.

Rolie Polie Olie is another series centered around my childhood, with yet again the same backyard with the same sandbox and tree, etc. This one is particularly interesting since it’s about a robot family. In this series the cybernetic nature of all of this is made explicit. In that sense it kinda reminds me of Whatever Happened to… Robot Jones?, a forgotten but very good Cartoon Network production about my junior high years.

I’ve also been rewatching the old classics, and will continue until I’m finished with all of them. And then I might cap that off with a showing of my own copy of Song of the South.

I watched Sleeping Beauty the other day. Great film, truly. And underrated for sure. Sleeping Beauty was more influential than people realize. Watching it I saw so much that was taken from it by other properties. I saw things that inspired parts of Jackson’s LOTR. There were parts in it that inspired scenes and visuals in Naruto, Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons, the Zelda franchise, a couple dozen RPG video games that I played as a kid, and… hell, pretty much any fantasy property in the last 50 years, lol.

The people who don’t think Sleeping Beauty is a masterpiece are not understanding how widespread it’s influence has been, methinks.

Even as a kid I remember seeing the opening of Zelda II and immediately thinking “Hey, isn’t that Sleeping Beauty?”, lol.

But for sure, it’s defo a great film. No question.

I think honestly that many of the films on offer here are underrated or even misunderstood.

People tend to dock Disney films more than they should I think because they’re regarded as “kid’s stuff”.

I watched The Tigger Movie the other day and had a blast. It was wonderful.

The best part about it were the backgrounds. The gorgeous, lush backgrounds. The film featured a gallery of some of the prettiest looking backgrounds I’ve ever seen in a movie, and they were presented in such a wonderful variety of styles. I saw some really nice watercolor paintings used as backdrops in a few scenes. I can’t recall the last time I’ve seen watercolors used as backdrops in a film before, even in an animated one. It was a pleasant surprise.

Right off the bat, I got serious Calvin and Hobbes vibes from the flick, and I’m sure that that was intentional.

I read a handful of reviews of The Tigger Movie online, and honestly not one critic or audience review I read seemed to get the point of the movie. It’s not about the plot, guys! The movie tells you in more than one scene to pay attention to the backgrounds- I remember piglet rearranging a gallery of pictures in one scene, off the top of my head.

In several places the animation actually stops so that the audience can drink in the pretty images in the background.

A common complaint about the movie was that it felt “slow” or the plot was too thin, etc. Most people, including professionals, seemed to agree that the movie had nothing at all for adults. Guys… you didn’t get it.

But yeah, very good movie, and I will be watching the other Winnie the Pooh flicks for sure. Here’s hoping the rest of them are as good as that one.

I will be looking forward to the 1977 version the most. We’ll see what I think of that one now, after not having seen it for 35 years.

Other stuff… well, there’s a lot here for sure. Kinda too much to get into, again.

Will be watching everything, it looks like. Or at least… not Marvel, or Star Wars, unless it’s Lego, or something. Then maybe.

We’ll see.

At any rate, thank God I’m watching “kid’s stuff” these days, as opposed to “adult” entertainment like some dumb police procedural, some editorial drek on the “news networks”, or “reality TV” like The Kardashians or Family By the Ton.

Thank GOD.

lol.