Robinson L maintains a dreamwidth journal under the handle irreverent intellectual, although he hasn't been active in a few years. Reportedly crashed into an asteroid in late 2004 and died a fiery death. He got better. He aspires to be (in no particular order) a successful author, an activist, and a parent.
- 2018-06-20 20:30 - Jim Jarmusch Via Germany, Part 2 - link @Raymond: Huh. I've only ever read it once, in the le Guin translation, and I was under the impression that she, also, regarded it as a pacifist text. That's about the extent of my knowledge, though.
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2018-06-18 18:00 - Jim Jarmusch Via Germany, Part 3 -
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finally, we have Don’s return home, with few questions answered but still, perhaps, changed a little by the journey.
You describe all the movies as idiosyncratic takes on genre films, but this article brought up for me tw... - 2018-06-18 15:30 - Jim Jarmusch Via Germany, Part 2 - link Not much to add to this series: I'm only familiar with Jarmusch's filmography through Brows Held High, which covered both Dead Man and Ghost Dog. (Incidentally, the same guy also did both a vlog and a review of <a href="http://ferretbrain.com...
- 2018-06-04 22:30 - A Few Non-Spoilery Things I Can Tell You About Solo (and One Minor Spoiler) - link I think I read somewhere that the filmmakers were basically throwing the thing together up until practically the last minute, to make up for all the time lost when they switched directors. That's why they didn't release a trailer until only a couple of mon...
- 2018-06-04 20:30 - A Few Non-Spoilery Things I Can Tell You About Solo (and One Minor Spoiler) - link I saw an article the other day which described Solo having "flopped" at the box office - not knowing the technical terminology of the industry, I suppose that may just be a more conversational way of saying it underperformed, but to this lay person'...
- 2018-05-31 03:30 - A Few Non-Spoilery Things I Can Tell You About Solo (and One Minor Spoiler) - link Sure, the door is open for L3 to show up again, but I don't expect her to - or if she does, no more than a cameo role, like Yoda in The Last Jedi. He even took action in that movie (burning down the ancient tree), and L3 could too, but it still coun...
- 2018-05-30 22:00 - A Few Non-Spoilery Things I Can Tell You About Solo (and One Minor Spoiler) - link Solo is a good movie, and I enjoyed it. I have mixed feelings about this, because it's still a bad idea in principle, and a movie this good and this fun is going to be successful, which means Disney and LucasFilm are almost certainly going to repeat...
- 2018-01-19 22:02 - Kickstopper: Turning the Lights Out On Those Who Most Need Them - link Okay. In the article you tossed that information out as if it was already established, but then the way you talked about it later made it clear this mandate to play up be endings was specific to the Cthulhu Dark module (though I'm aware the baseline...
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2018-01-18 20:36 - Kickstopper: Turning the Lights Out On Those Who Most Need Them -
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It feels to me that in the age of austerity “Bad shit happens to those not in power because those in power don’t give a shit and aren’t paying attention” is an important and useful premise for this sort of social comment...
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2018-01-18 20:00 - Cakes on a Train -
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Great to see you back in action, Sonia. I’d like to comment on the article, but I haven’t seen the movie, and while I wouldn’t be against it, I have no particular desire to see it.
Murder on the Orient Express is one ...
- 2018-01-09 15:30 - Funny, Complex, Imbalanced. - link Sounds like more than good enough for me. I'll be sure to make a report once I've read it, though but that'll probably take a while.
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in its worst it is just another adventure plot wanting to have its glory and deconstruct it at the same time
To me, personally, that doesn’t sound like an actively off-putting read; and not necessarily all that annoying. ... - 2018-01-01 20:36 - Ferretnibble 3 - Two Different Frontiers, One Class, and Four Text Adventures - link Extremely belated, but I feel I should point out that Class was not renewed for a second season, and at this point, it looks like the program is finished. I admit to being mildly disappointed, as the first series ended on a couple cliffhang...
- 2018-01-01 20:30 - Funny, Complex, Imbalanced. - link You know, your description does make the book sound awfully appealing, even if it isn’t as good as it could’ve been. I probably will try to check it out someday, although it looks like it’s not available through my standard book-acquiring...
- 2018-01-01 20:00 - The Sequel of Shannara - link On the strength of Cheriola’s recommendation, I introduced the show to my mom and my sister Noria recently when we were casting about for something to watch. My sister quickly moved away from it, but my mom and I finished the first season on Netflix ...
- 2017-12-15 20:30 - The Inner Sadness of a Nazi Murder Machine - link Sorry to hear the new game is such a disappointment, Alasdair. I remember a friend enthusing over some preview material for the game a little while ago, basically because it defies the myth, which is gaining an alarming amount of traction in the national d...
