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Movie Reviews: The Woman On The Beach
The Woman On The Beachdirected by Jean RenoirThis is a relatively short film noir although it feels a little longer than its seventy odd minutes. It lacks most of the violence associated with the...
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Michigan Deer Attack
If you happen to be in Northern Michigan minding your own business keep a watch out for an aggressive deer which apparently doesn't like humans and has no problem demonstrating its disdain.ARENAC...
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Music Reviews: Tarheel Slim -"I've Got You Covered/Wildcat Tamer"
Since the pandemic begun I've been listening to more old school original rock-n-roll, primarily though not exclusively created by Black people. There are many different iterations of this music. As...
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Movie Reviews: From Beyond
From Beyonddirected by Stuart Gordon This 80s low budget horror film was done by the same director who did Re-Animator and stars two of the same actors from that film, Barbara Crampton and Jeffrey...
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Book Reviews: The Hungry Earth
The Hungry Earthby Nicholas KaufmannThe Hungry Earth is a new thriller/body horror novel written by Nicholas Kaufmann whose work was previously reviewed here and here. As I get older I wonder if some...
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Movie Reviews: Changing Lanes
Changing Lanesdirected by Roger MichellThis smartly written older film had two leads, Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Affleck who each turned in powerful performances. Changing Lanes initially masquerades as...
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Right Winger Advocates Violence: When Do We Get To Use The Guns
As you may have noticed much of the Republican Party has accepted the big lie that a cabal of Democrats stole the 2020 Presidential election from Trump. As a result many conservatives and Republicans...
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Movie Reviews: Phone Booth
Phone Boothdirected by Joel SchumacherThis is another older film that is as much a noirish morality play as action/thriller movie. Like some aspects of the biblical Satan, the film's bad guy is an...
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Beverly Hills Police Harass Black People
I have never been to prison. My understanding is that some (many?) of the nation's worst large state men's prison systems are or were until very recently informally racially segregated. Each large...
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Bannon Indicted
As it turns out you can not be federally indicted for being a fat lying SOB in need of a shave. But you can be federally indicted for contempt of Congress. Ignoring Congressional subpoenas just because...
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Is Vice-President Kamala Harris Irrelevant?
Being the Vice-President can be a thankless job. Other than being a "break in the case of emergency" Presidential replacement and voting to break ties in the Senate the Vice-President doesn't have much...
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Movie Reviews: Kill Me Again
Kill Me Againdirected by John DahlIn the late eighties early nineties there was a brief revival of noir movies. Some of these films were just unapologetic vehicles for bosomy actresses such as Shannon...
View ArticleMichigan Deer Claims Sanctuary At Church
Sanctuary!!! Sanctuary!!Back in the day in Medieval Europe, churches would provide sanctuary to criminals, people seeking asylum, or political enemies of the ruling class. Theoretically the state was...
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Dumb Michigan Woman Hires Hitman
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic...
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House Censures Arizona Republican Gosar For Violent Video
I would like to think that I am a valued member of the organization at which I am currently employed. Maybe, maybe not. Different executives probably have had different takes on that question. But...
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Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty
I don't have much to write about the Rittenhouse not guilty verdict. I'm disgusted but not surprised. It was apparent from the beginning of the trial and its development that the judge was going out of...
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Democrats Fueling Inequality
If you listen to the partisans at MSNBC everything that's awful is the Republicans' fault. The voters need to give Senate Democrats a filibuster proof majority along with similar margins in the House....
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Movie Reviews: Motel Hell
Motel Helldirected by Kevin Connor This is another relatively low budget 80s horror movie that has become a cult movie in the years since its release. Motel Hell is obviously inspired by The Texas...
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Movie Reviews: The Holcroft Covenant
The Holcroft Covenantdirected by John FrankenheimerThe late John Frankenheimer made some gripping action, suspense and political thriller movies including but not limited to Ronin, The Manchurian...
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U-M Beats The Stuffing Out Of Ohio State
After what felt like forty years of wandering in the wilderness, bereft of friends and abandoned by God, the University of Michigan Wolverines finally beat that team down south, the Ohio State...
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Movie Reviews: Sheba Baby
Sheba Babydirected by William GirdlerWhen I was growing up there were only two reasons to watch a Pam Grier film. And those reasons usually weren't well written fast paced dialogue or state of the art...
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Fatty McFatterson
I've mentioned before that I am amused by how much cuteness/beauty matters to many humans when we look at animals. A squirrel is a rodent and thus cousin to the rat. I don't think many people consider...
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Black Man Insulted And Detained For Trying To Cash His Paycheck
Something that is ongoing in American culture is that people from just about every walk of life think and behave as if Black people, specifically Black men, are less intelligent lower forms of life...
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Movie Reviews: A Quiet Place Part II
A Quiet Place Part IIdirected by John KrasinskiThis 2021 film was the sequel to the earlier movie of the same name, reviewed here. Sequels are often funny business. Usually sequels let you know what...
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Movie Reviews: Pompeii (2014)
Pompeiidirected by Paul W.S. AndersonThis 2014 film was a throwback to classic disaster movies in many ways, some good, others bad. Unfortunately it took a wrong turn almost immediately by trying to...
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