Sibyllist/Synchromystic/Spellbreaker/Popcult Snarkmaster. GenX and loving it.
Chapel Perilous
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This Jared Subway-looking freak has a problem with people hunting down child molesters?
I think Jared Subway-looking freak needs a forensic hard-drive check, stat.
I think any sentient human agrees.
What does the movie Primetime really say about Hollywood? @JesseBWatters wanted to know.
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Good Lord.
Ozempic is starting to remind me of something out of a horror movie, like Thinner or The Substance.
Something of that nature.
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Wow, being a celebrity is powerful dangerous business. Randos just taking swings at you, and whatnot.
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I know the Burners and Rog-bros will shriek in protest, but Clown World demons didn't completely take over until DMT started getting big.
DMT and cellphones were what ultimately allowed the interdimensional klowns to conquer this realm.
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Don't ask me how, but this guy was simultaneously present at every single independent record store from 1982 to 2010.
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So how did all the Watcher symbolism start showing up in mass occult rituals?
Here's how...
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"They will say that the Sibyl is mad, and deceitful:
But when all things shall come to pass,
Then ye will remember me;
And no one will any longer,
Say that I, the prophetess of the great god, am mad."
QUID OPUS ERIT UT CREDAS?
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Hey, I got an idea: why don't you celebrate the X-Files' birthday by giving yourself a gift? By which I mean, the only X-Files book that really matters...
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The real story of how the Council of Nine UFO/drug cult captured Star Trek, which turns 60 today.
piped.video/KKUE8MLAbVg?si=Y_T8…
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Here's what the Socialists currently seizing control of the Democratic Party actually believe:
•Beauty is Fascist
•Fitness is Fascist
•Law and Order is Fascist
•Marketable skills are Fascist
•Punctuality is Racist
•Politeness is Racist
•Intact families are Racist
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The spirits of the Lilitu now stalk the land, demanding offerings.
Spoiler Alert: None of this will end pleasantly.
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A Crypto-Mason can't be a Communist?
Really?
Check out these logos for old East German GDR and the British Communist Party and get back to me on that, OK?
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So not only is Brann one of the greatest drummers ever to pick up sticks, he is a Sibyl serbant.
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Any Millennium fans out there?
Because if you are, some of the claims that the murder fangirls are making about the Lindsay Clancy are probably all too familiar from the episode "Covenant"...
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I do like to know. Thank you, squire. In return, here's the Crimvid I've been playing over and over today. piped.video/moN8lwydfQI?si=Kmdx…
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I dreamt I was trying to fix some ham and leek stew for Thanksgiving while A., trying to keep a Halo armor-wearing werewolf and his goth vampire girlfriend from killing each other in a cavernous alleyway, and B., bringing Feargal Sharkey through a time portal from 1980 to help convince my kids that not all rock singers are plants. When he appeared, I shouted “Faith and Begorrah!” in a mock brogue, which got big laughs.
Then more monsters- my family was being chased by cartoon versions of Frankenstein, Dracula, Mummy etc and we escaped into a bunker protected by a giant stone slab. Its hallways were so slippery you could skate on them wearing socks. My dearly departed Linda appeared, with her summer haircut.
In one of the rooms a New Age hippie from the old SSFB group was sleeping in an oxygen tent, not realizing there were all kinds of stinging insects inside it because he never cleaned it out.
Incidentally, I felt the werewolf was totally in the right in that particular argument.
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I dreamt last night we'd rented a vacation home where Hannibal Lecter was held prisoner in the basement. Random people I didn't recognize were wandering around when all the phones and cable equipment suddenly burst into flames.
Lecter escaped as I was trying to extinguish the fires, only it was Tom Noonan as Francis Dolarhyde from Manhunter. He grabbed one of my granddaughters and my eldest took a power drill and drove it into the side of Noonan/ Dolarhyde's head, instantly killing him.
Don't ask me what the heck any of that means. Other than maybe I wish it were still 1986.
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Yes, I've had many visions of God as an Infinite Field of Living Information, including two extremely powerful visions in the past few months.
No, I will not apologize for, or deny the truth of, these visions.
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Curiously for a self-proclaimed Marxist like Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven is an essentially conservative and cautionary tale, if not an outwardly reactionary one.
The utopian and egalitarian dreams of the story’s villain seem perfectly reasonable on their face, but all soon lead to real world nightmares.
In this, the Portland setting is all too appropriate, seeing that the city has become a major hub for broken idealists, all desperately looking to the failed collectivist and utilitarian fantasies of the past for some kind of roadmap to a golden future.
The Lathe of Heaven is also profoundly anti-futuristic and anti-technocratic. That theme feels more relevant to us than ever, with tech bros striving to digitally colonize the unconscious mind in much the same horrific way we see onscreen.
There’s even a subplot where an alien invasion unites a world on the brink of nuclear conflagration.
Even with all of that thematic meat on its bones, The Lathe of Heaven is both a human and humane fable, something all too rare in this day and age. I was hoping that my rewatch wouldn’t be hampered by nostalgic expectation, but I can honestly say I enjoyed it more than ever before.
It was one of those films where you just let go of the world and fall into the story, the way I remember so many films did when I was young.
Which just goes to show that my problem with new movies is the problem with new movies, not me being "old and jaded" or some such nonsense...
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Reboots suck.
I’m sitting here now, struggling to think of a reboot that I don’t in fact hate like poison — outside of a handful of eps in the 2016-2018 X-Files reboot, of course — but I might grudgingly admit there might be one or two others, here or there.
But still; back off to Hell with reboots, remakes, endless sequels, and knockoffs, and all the rest of it. I’m sick beyond sanity of it all. (Twin Peaks: The Return can't really be called a "reboot").
So, as you’ve probably heard, writer/director Ryan Coogler was press-ganged by the House of Louse to spread some woke-stench over the Mighty X, which I might find offensive and egregious had I not seen the X-Saga as done and dusted during the Dubya Administration.
Now I simply see this reboot (just a pilot, as of this writing) as just another tired exercise in neo-Maoist cultural vandalism that does no real damage to the X-Legacy.
No one really seems to care about this dog one way or the other, discounting X-Fan accounts on social media trying in vain to gin up support. There’s been some (justified) fan pushback against the potential desecration, but the overall reaction has been near-total indifference.
Even the new male lead (who appears in The Odyssey with our Samantha) seems rather apathetic about the whole thing.
Remember that I’ve been telling you Hollywood is over, dead by its own hand, for years now. And finally the message is sinking in with the normies.
Sure, you’ll have your summer theme-park rides like The Odyssey and Spider-Man, but their reported grosses start to look a lot less impressive when you factor the grotesquely-inflated price of admission, not to mention dollar inflation.
As you all know, The House of Louse has destroyed nearly every single franchise it has touched, so I’m not remotely surprised they’re trying to squeeze a few more bucks out of their X-Files acquisition again.
I just think it’s a lost cause: The X-Files was a phenomenon that grabbed the zeitgeist of its time by the throat, and rapidly faded when its time had passed.
Disney even threw some dosh at Chris Carter for a “director’s cut” of I Want to Believe, an opportunity he took to further torment the tiny, terminally-toxic ‘Shipper cult by apparently stripping out all the ‘shippy bits in the original.
And why not? Carter wrote in all the Mulder/Scully relationship stuff in for their benefit, only to earn a collective spit in his face for his troubles. Who can really blame a fella?
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