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'You mean', said Enin, 'that money, like a mirror, flattens everything out, even though it looks, at first, like a perfect copy, moving when things move, holding shape when they're still.'

Samuel Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979) "The Tale of Old Venn"

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The big white whale. It sailed already. What am I to write? How do others go on? If you already have a “career” and they see you, good for you. Go on. Me? I’m invisible. My own doing. This is what I wanted. Also not. This . Even writing this is sad and pathetic. It always is. I feel like I have been writing it for years now.

Mostly I was just scared

I had no talent. No drive.

I just am not very good. At anything. 

So, here we are. 

I am no longer young. And I have done nothing. And I probably wont ever do nothing. And then it will end.

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The Jersey Devil (S01E05)

Seems like the first episode they filmed. Lighting, clothes, acting everything feels more raw than the previous episodes.

The story is kinda dull. The “devil” is a naked modern looking person who stopped combing their hair for a while. And has some soot on their face. (in the last picture, is that a ring or the mark of a ring on her finger?)

But the local police being horrible is interesting. So is the theme of family, with Scully and the “devil.” Apparently a professional career (and a pantsuit) is what separates us from the beast.

But the best parts are Scully and Mulder, as always. And Mulder's face as he says he has a life. Just perfect.  

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Fox. Cause. Whatever.

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X Files S01E04 Conduit

Mulder as Jesus?! He is 33 and we see him, crying, against a stained glass depiction of the crucifixion. Yet another symbolic image in a show full of symbolism going nowhere or canceling itself out. (they really are way too young for what their careers are at the beginning of season 1)

I just watched the episode where Samantha's fate is finally explained in season 7, and again as always I don’t really remember what it was. She's … dead? I think. But why? When? How? And how does that relate to all the other many contradictory things we have learned over six-seven seasons? 

Nothing much happens. No suspense or scares. But we get to see Scully care about Mulder. And the episode is very cute with the concern for little details like Mulder trading tickets for help with analysis, or the superior wanting to deny permission to travel, and a few seasons later they travel the globe with no mention of paying or even permission… 

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Barbara Steele in The Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968).

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Trivia for Aliens (1986) dir. James Cameron

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LKAB Mines, Kiruna

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the idea of protists is really funny. Ah yes, the kingdoms of life: Animals, Plants, Fungi, and Don't worry about it:)

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funny animal comic

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angels

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Nazi Germany lasted for ~10 years. the US' genocide of indigenous people inspired the Nazis, and we've been at it for ~500 years. 55 MILLION indigenous turtle Islanders were killed by American colonialists. Tell me again why we're arguing over whether or not these bourgeois politicians are 99% Hitler? This country is far worse than the Nazis were even remotely capable of. There are nearly 1.8 MILLION people in Slavery in the United States right now. This country is cartoon levels of evil, and beyond that! it's beyond parody! it's worse than you can possibly imagine. and that's just two examples over the 500 years they've been at this, and they only domestically! Do you have any idea what the ruling class has done in other countries? the war and famine they've intentionally induced from profits? The millions they've bombed? The only country to ever use nuclear bombs! and it was on civilians!

So yes, of course we cry out death to [US]America. Do you seriously not understand how deeply deeply evil this country is? Again:

Death to the USA

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"… Joker: Folie à Deux does an exceptional job at following up with an imaginative comic book film unlike any other." I read.

So… what is a “comic book film”? Joker: Folie à Deux is not based on any comic book. What is comic book here? Characters and events are vaguely related to some IP. Harley Quinn was invented for an animated TV show. Who cares? If it wasn´t "based on" this shit I might see the thing, but it feels so boring to see some “joker” movie that is just some screenwriter using a name and the idea of clown makeup. Make your own damn thing!

It is, quite literally, as if the latest Bond movie was referred to as a "novel-film", because Bond originated in novels... Also, half a century ago, and which have nothing to do with current films beyond the most vague of “secret agent” ideas. What is comic book here?

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Happy Birthday, Aleister!!