Great Blue Heron Has A Tasty Snack!
And now Mr. Rat, your trip on this planet has come to an end!It took the Great Blue Heron only a few seconds to lift the rat, once killed, out of the water and swallow it—this morning at the Central...
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Movie Reviews: Outside The Wire
Outside The Wiredirected by Mikael HafstromThis sci-fi action film was a mishmash of Training Day and Chappie. It was entertaining but it lacked a really compelling Big Bad. It was at its core a war...
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Movie Reviews: The Clay Pigeon
The Clay Pigeondirected by Richard FleischerThis is a film noir but very much at the lighter end of that cinematic spectrum. With a running time of just over an hour it's really very short and doesn't...
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California Recall: It Must Be The Fault of Black Men
As you may have heard the petition to recall Democratic California governor Gavin Newsom and replace him with noted nutjob Republican Larry Elder failed spectacularly. About 64% of the electorate voted...
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Book Reviews: Ride or Die
Ride or Dieby James NewmanDo you remember where you were, what you were doing, or your age when you first realized that your parents weren't perfect? Perhaps one day you discovered that your parents'...
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Movie Reviews: Bodyguard (1948)
Bodyguarddirected by Richard FleischerThis 1948 film was helmed by Richard Fleischer who also directed the somewhat lighter in tone The Clay Pigeon. Bodyguard is not the darkest noir either though it...
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Harassing Senator Sinema in the Bathroom
With many people today it seems that the point is less to convince political opponents of the rightness of your beliefs than to bully them into being quiet about their opposition or failing that, to...
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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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