Recent content by an0maly

I say this as a guilty sometimes binger, but the ability we now have to watch episode after episode of a great series--is a bad thing. With the best ones it is something like drinking from a firehose. The best series always need some time and contemplation about what you saw in each episode...

This seems to be about The Wire, and I'll write about that. The Wire is from my perspective quite a bit different from the other top TV series that have emerged in this kind of "New Renaissance" period of high quality television (somewhat begins with Oz, but the hydrogen bomb explosion of...

chrissteel, I would be interested to read, in your own words (not from the paper or anyone else) how you explain the details of this projection issue, the local aspect, and what it means in the bigger context of the entire subject.

The two finest multi-season shows I have seen are The Sopranos and Succession. The latter has the best writing I have ever encountered, and the former the most truthful and artistic examination of the human condition and all its flaws, and then also the best large ensemble of acting (a highpoint...

(The Studio)... I have some problems with Seth Greenberg--to me a kind of clunky actor always trying too hard, but he was okay in this. Finally finished it and there were certainly a whole lot of laughs, but the show had trouble maintaining the high water slapstick and silliness it started with...

This is the aspect that can make this thread interesting (to me, anyway). In the eighties the right wing in America began to make use of what I would call the "useful anecdote" news story (sometimes distorted or even false, and increasingly false over time and the success of the tactic). Dozens...

One episode into The Studio, and looks like I am going to stick with it a while. Lots of movies have skewered the Hollywood studio system before (the best being Robert Altman's The Player), so this is not very original so far, but the writing is funny, and the acting is quite good. High energy...

One of the things that polling of this variety obscures is the inherent discontinuity between what Americans want and the tribalism lanes they are guided into by money in politics, that being profoundly related to disinformation in the uptake of various media. Then there is the larger chasm...

This is an amazing post, and one of the best this young board has produced so far. Most any sentence here is worth vastly more than all the dull sentences in all the dull posts Zen has come up with. Just a thanks, here.

We have been over this. Democratic voters savage their party in polls for not fighting back. I agree with the sentiment. ~ ‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats think their party is weak, AP-NORC poll finds WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective,”...

One of many instructive and funny scenes in Monty Python's Life of Brian is when the new cult (the proper name for a new religion) of Brian splits into two factions: "Follow the gourd!" and "No! Follow the shoe!" Any cult begins to angrily fractionate soon after it forms, reason being, cults and...

No, there's enough in my post for now, and I think UNCatTech should not read anything on the film before seeing it. Just sit down in the theater seat and buckle your mental seatbelt for quite a ride. The metaphor I mention is not prominent, and gets lost until you ponder it later on.

Just as a courtesy if needed, this film has violence and body horror that younger kids should almost certainly not see.

Weapons is... something. Just wow. One of the most bizarre story contraptions I have ever seen to tell a horror story. Starts as a mystery and slow burns into character studies and, boom, freakish horror. Fine acting performances, and a giant story subtext metaphor for a major problem in...

Funding for research in mRNA led to the creation of the SARS Cov 1 vaccine, which then later hugely fast-tracked the creation of the Covid-19 vaccine (SARS Cov 2), which saved many millions of lives throughout the world. Cutting this funding is almost certainly killing people in future...