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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete – “3 Kings” ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Okay so now Solomon’s in charge and there’s no war so things are good? Except he’s going around murdering enemies Godfather-style. And now a parade of kings as we run down the list and deeds of the rest of David’s successors.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete – “4 Kings” ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

I think Eliseus is the star here? But the details of the chapters are more scattered. Perhaps due to winding down the chronicle of the kings. Hazael, Jezrahel, Jezabel, oh my. Oh shit Jehu will not stand for Baal worship. Dang, and Jerusalem has fallen!

Tales of the Dominion War – “What Dreams May Come” by Michael Jan Friedman (2004)

The complacency of fools something something.

Tales of the Dominion War – “Night of the Vulture” by Greg Cox (2004)

As close to Cannibal Holocaust as Star Trek gets.

Tales of the Dominion War – “The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned” by Keith R.A. DeCandido (2004)

Put up your walls and a gun for every good citizen.

Tales of the Dominion War – “Blood Sacrifice” by Josepha Sherman & Susan Schwartz (2004)

Impatience is a sign of having lived too long.

Tales of the Dominion War – “Mirror Eyes” by Heather Jarman & Jeffrey Lang (2004)

If your place is compromised, that’s your new place.

Tales of the Dominion War – “Twilight’s Wrath” by David Mack (2004)

Slash the throat of your master to serve you and yours.

Tales of the Dominion War – “Eleven Hours Out” by Dave Galanter (2004)

The only place to go is the way ahead.

Tales of the Dominion War – “Safe Harbors” by Howard Weinstein (2004)

Call them all in, we’re alone.

Tales of the Dominion War – “Field Expediency” by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore (2004)

Desperation will keep you from seeing it all.

Tales of the Dominion War – “A Song Well Sung” by Robert Greenberger (2004)

When your enemy leaves you bare.

Tales of the Dominion War – “Stone Cold Truths” by Peter David (2004)

The children only know what they see and hear.

Tales of the Dominion War – “Requital” by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels (2004)

What will you do, when you find it?

Dracula Daily – “June” by Bram Stoker & ed. Matt Kirkland (1897)

A slow and obvious realization that your friend is not your friend.

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1990)

The lecture-style of story-telling wears just a bit too thin for my tastes.

“Aquarium” by NoneToon (2022) 

It’s hard to make friends, wouldn’t you agree?

“Making art in America. 👁👄👁” dir. Angie Wang (2022)

Please find a way.

Montana Story dir. Scott McGehee (2022)

Leave when you have to leave. Your place is where you choose to be.

Crimes of the Future dir. David Cronenberg (2022)

The subtle ways in which we fall apart.

Watcher dir. Chloe Okuno (2022)

👍👍👍

Jurassic World Dominion dir. Colin Trevorrow (2022)

Give DeWanda Wise her own adventure movie/series.

Top Gun: Maverick dir. Joseph Kosinski (2022)

Get your planes, get your guns, step right up.

G.I. Joe: The Movie dir. Don Jurwich (1987)

Better with no context whatsoever.

Elvis dir. Baz Luhrmann (2022)

That new Elvis biopic is more entertainment than history, but it still
helped me get why Elvis was a big deal after growing up on 90s media
made by 70s kids who treated him as a joke. And Austin Butler’s portrayal of Elvis is :chefskiss:.

The Black Phone dir. Scott Derrickson (2022)

It sets up all the pieces perfectly.

Lightyear dir. Angus MacLane (2022)

I like space and I like adventures but when you’re Pixar there’s a burden to deliver on a certain level of charm that is missing here.

The Cat Returns dir. Hiroyuki Morita (2004)

A neat little fantasy, and you know, I didn’t realize how much I missed whimsical fantasy adventures with some small measure of risk.

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On dir. Dean Fleischer-Camp (2022)

Marcel’s got the improv quips and a lovely story about what it means to stick to family or to let them go.

Goosebumps – “My Hairiest Adventure” (1996)

Body hair and its many wonders.

Goosebumps – “It Came from Beneath the Sink” (1996)

Stick to the book, although it’s neat seeing the beginnings of an actor who went on to success in the horror genre.

Goosebumps – “The Barking Ghost” (1997)

Woof.

Goosebumps – “Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes” (1996)

Sometimes I see that a given book has been adapted for television and try to imagine how they would’ve pulled it off on a low TV budget of the 90s. And with this one, I fretted over the fact that unless they chose to use expensive stop-motion animation, they’d probably find a way to have little people dressed up as lawn gnomes. Sure enough…

Goosebumps – “Shocker on Shock Street” (1997)

Love the book, not the TV episode. Gonna fret any time a fucked up book ending gets swapped for a more tame TV-friendly version.

Goosebumps – “Haunted Mask II” (1996)

You didn’t have to redo everything from the first one. The book knew that.

Goosebumps – “The Headless Ghost” (1996)

Oh. You know, you had something there at the end. A comeuppance would’ve been good.

Goosebumps – “How I Got My Shrunken Head” (1998)

The book was vague in its exact location and cultural references but the TV episode makes it much more specific about which backward people the white westerners have decided to enslave.