Quantumehnia

19 May 2023

Now that it’s on Disney+ I’ve watched Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and, yeah, it has problems. But I think it didn’t deserve to be slammed as hard as it was. In fact I’d call it middle of the road for Phase 4/5 movies: (Favorite to least favorite, as of at the moment) The bottom … More Quantumehnia

GotGv3

16 May 2023

I was not that hopeful about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Not after Vol. 2 was, I thought, a big step down from the first movie. And not after some real misfires lately from Marvel — Eternals and Multiverse of Madness and Love and Thunder all rank toward the bottom of the MCU in … More GotGv3

We@happy.few

11 May 2023

After decades of fighting the temptation to own any stupid domain names, I finally could not hold back from acquiring a very Shakespearean, very Branaghian one. I now hold manhoods.cheap.

Checking instances

17 February 2023

A couple of concerning incidents in the Fediverse lately: On mastodon.lol, as I understand it (and I’ve only heard about it third hand), there was an uproar over the new Hogwarts game. People saying J. K. Rowland is a TERF. (She is.) People saying the game designers are TERFs and antisemites. People saying the people … More Checking instances

Speaker failure

5 January 2023

Kevin McCarthy has now lost nine consecutive votes for Speaker of the House. Okay, granted, so has Hakeem Jeffries. But at least Jeffries’s support is holding steady at 212 votes. McCarthy’s has slipped from 203 to 200. McCarthy has lost more times than Elizabeth Taylor was divorced. More times than Lyndon LaRouche lost the Presidency. … More Speaker failure

Movin’ day

3 January 2023

I’ve changed Mastodon instances. Again. Yes, I know, there’s really not much point in trying to collect them all. I hope this will be a lasting home, but you never know. At least it’s just Mastodon servers and not houses, which I also changed way too many times for what seemed like good reasons at … More Movin’ day