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Jul. 8th, 2025 04:03 pm
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Add the 100+ dead in Texas to Trump's body count.

Unused image for Super Awards post

Jul. 8th, 2025 03:13 pm
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I stumbled across this image while putting 'Sinners' leads Best Horror Movie nominees at the Critics Choice Super Awards together. I already had an image to use.

Rejected video for supermarket post

Jul. 7th, 2025 11:26 am
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I had a spot for this video in 'Human Footprint' on PBS Terra explains 'How Supermarkets Rewired The Planet', but reached a natural conclusion before I could use it.

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Jul. 6th, 2025 02:18 pm
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Right now #MAGA believes it has a monopoly on violence, but that will change and quite unpleasantly.
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I was going to use this in 'Dune: Part Two' at the Critics Choice Super Awards, then realized I reached a natural stopping point before I would have. Later.

It's a Jungle Out There

Jul. 5th, 2025 02:31 pm
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Crazy Eddie's Motie News earned a record 492,163 page views thanks to my Vietnamese and Brazilian readers and 11 comments on 30 posts during the 30 days of June 2025.

Most read, commented on, shared, and liked posts of Crazy Eddie's Motie News last month behind the cut. )
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Flippin’ the pages, yo.

Introducing the New Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological SurveyIntroducing the New Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey by Mark Allan Powell

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It’s always strange to review a textbook, but I got a Goodreads Reading Challenge quota to meet, so why not? Anyway, this was for a class, of course. And as the name implies, it’s an academic introduction to the New Testament, though in this case “academic” doesn’t mean dense or inaccessible. Powell has a fairly breezy writing style, so as textbooks go, it’s actually an interesting and informative read.

What works even better is that Powell makes very good use of sidebars for handy reference when you need to look things up quickly (for example, to illustrate similarities and differences between the four gospels). Even better is the various artworks scattered throughout the book that illustrate various parts of the NT as seen from different cultures around the world, not just the usual Western European Christian art.

Anyway, Powell does a great job explaining the content and historical context of each book and letter, who (probably) did or didn’t write what, and the various theological interpretations and arguments that are still ongoing to this day. Some might find it a bit simplistic, but it IS meant as an introduction to a vastly complex and multi-faceted topic, so it worked great for me.


Rocket to the MorgueRocket to the Morgue by Anthony Boucher

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Never read Anthony Boucher before, but came across this 1942 novel as a Kindle deal that sounded interesting, as the central mystery (written under his pen name H.H. Holmes) revolves around the Mañana Literary Society, a real group of pulp science-fiction writers which Boucher was a member that held informal meetings hosted by Robert A. Heinlein. So the novel serves as both a murder mystery and a fictionalised snapshot of the community of pre-WW2 Golden Age SF when it was still relatively obscure. The book is also the second Boucher/Holmes novel to feature police detective Terry Marshall and Sister Ursula, a nun and amateur sleuth.

The premise: the murder of a drifter named Tarbell leads Marshall to Hilary Foulkes (son of the late great Fowler Foulkes, author of the popular Dr Derringer mysteries), who thinks someone is trying to kill him – Marshall thinks so too, not least because someone mails a bomb to Foulkes during their first meeting. It turns out Foulkes has a long list of enemies in the pulp publishing field due to being notoriously ruthless about his management of his father’s intellectual property. And one attempt on Foulkes’ life results in the arrest of Marshall’s friend (and aspiring SF pulp writer) Matt Duncan.

Boucher evidently intended this book in part as an attempt to capture the community of the early pre-WW2 Golden Age SF authors before SF became more of a mainstream pop culture staple. Supposedly this is one reason it’s one of the few Boucher novels still in print. The actual mystery is beside the point – which is as well, since it’s underwhelming as mysteries go, and the dialogue shoots for Hammett-style Nick and Nora banter and misses more often than not. That said, even the Golden Age SF only really works if you are obsessively familiar with even the most famous writers (Heinlein, Campbell, Hubbard, etc) outside of their actual stories. The target audience might like it, but the odds of me reading more Boucher seem pretty low.

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AMERICAN DREAMER

Jul. 4th, 2025 04:30 pm
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Hello, Teenage America.

Got a playlist for your 4th of July cookout?

If not, I got one for you right here.

It may not be exactly festive. But it’s two hours of pretty good music.




PARENTAL ADVISORY: Playing this loud in yr back yard could result in a visitation from your local ICE franchise.

Gasoline dreams,

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A late video for Pride Month

Jul. 3rd, 2025 07:18 pm
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I didn't bother to fit this into John Oliver dissects 'Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill'.

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Jul. 2nd, 2025 05:41 am
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The Pro-Palestinian Movement is a Russo-Iranian Hybrid Warfare Operation. It helped put Trump in The White House again.

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Jul. 1st, 2025 07:13 pm
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I left all my comments on my own blog last month. )

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Jun. 30th, 2025 10:20 pm
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The 900% increase in ICE's budget in this Big Bill goes toward the creation of a paramilitary force essentially controlled directly by Steven Miller.

Rebuilding journal search again

Jun. 30th, 2025 03:18 pm
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We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
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They see this rock in a museum that we visit on the first field trip.

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