The Tomorrow War is an Amazon Prime exclusive starring Chris Pratt, easily the third best Chris in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We open in media Res for no real reason, and then flash back to the start of it all, when Chris Pratt, playing a Chris Pratt type character, is…

The Future of the American Right is Deeply Stupid. I saw a brief story the other day that a young woman walking home alone in Portland, Oregon, was maced by a group of Proud Boys who had been out... Well, doing whatever brownshirt dickheads get up to of an evening…

Cult director Zack Snyder has made a fresh, inventive and genuinely scary zombie movie. Unfortunately, I say “has” because it was seventeen years ago and it was his “Dawn of the Dead” remake. In the interim, he’s basically followed the Peter Jackson career path of having lively and inventive early…

For a long time, I’ve been interested in the field of Nuclear Semiotics, which- Wait, come back. I know, I know, that sounds so nerdy that 30% of everyone’s virginity just grew back, but bear with me. Let’s ease into this, okay? How about a little on my day, first? …

Last week I posted about how my attempts to get rid of a fancy watch had led me into contact with an eBay user in Australia who wanted me to post the watch to Texas, to what Google showed as an empty lot, for the attention of a man with…

A while back, I got interested in watches. I do this, every so often. I get interested in something for six months or so, learn some stuff and then just kind of wander off. It’s why I can play passable guitar and do not-bad magic and pick locks to a…

I was dealt a pretty good hand in life, by being born a straight white man in a developed country. …

I noticed a stain on an ostensibly clean jumper, the other morning. Which isn’t surprising — I sell agricultural machinery. Maybe the stain was oil from a chainsaw or grease from the gears in the head of a strimmer. …

After years of dodging #MeToo allegations like a portly, ginger Neo in a sexual harrassment Matrix, Joss Whedon was trending on Twitter the other day. I assumed that his years of clinging to the “Buffy was feminist!” ledge above a roiling cauldron of accusations had finally worn him down and…