What does masculinity even mean anymore in 2021? I think the term “be a man” means something much different to our sons than it did to our fathers and grandfathers, who lived in a society much more preoccupied with the appearance of manliness and attempting to desperately fulfill gender constructs than we are in this […]
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Personal Journals
Bo Burnham is alone inside
“I don’t know about you guys, but, um, you know, I’ve been thinking recently that…that you know, maybe, um, allowing giant digital media corporations to exploit the neurochemical drama of our children for profit …you know, maybe that was, uh…a bad call by us. Maybe…maybe the…the flattening of the entire subjective human experience into a…lifeless exchange […]
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Godzilla vs. Kong
Whoever wins, we also kinda win too, I guess.
Remember in “Lethal Weapon” how Mel Gibson would bet his co-workers he could get himself out of a straitjacket with no help? So then he would dislocate his shoulder and get out of the straitjacket, but then have to put the shoulder back into place by banging it into a filing cabinet or something? It’s […]
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The Hunt For B-Movie Perfection
”Shadow in the Cloud” is a ridiculous delight
I miss the communal experience of bad movies…maybe more than the communal experience of good ones. So, because I’m me, I went on a hunt for a brand new, January 2021 release on VOD that looked so bad that I might hopefully be able to recapture that lost feeling.