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SPOTLIGHT: Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (1961; 1970, Faber & Faber) & Andrei Tarkovsky (1972, Mosfilm)

April 28, 2025 Merri
Artificial Society
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society II

March 28, 2025 Merri
Labatut Neumann Maniac
BooksReviews

REVIEW: The MANIAC – Benjamin Labatut (Penguin, 2023)

February 22, 2025 Merri
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BooksClassicCommentary

Art, Tolkien, and Consumer Media Part III: Art as Sub-Creation and Communication

January 21, 2025 Merri
Artificial Society
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society II

March 28, 2025 Merri
Tolkien art literature
BooksClassicCommentary

Art, Tolkien, and Consumer Media Part III: Art as Sub-Creation and Communication

January 21, 2025 Merri
AI NPC machine learning
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society

December 16, 2023 Merri
COVID conspiracy theory
ClassicCommentary

The Inverted Conspiracy Theory

August 7, 2021 Merri
Old Stuff
April 21, 2017 Merri

Not So Bad After All, Pres

This is a couple weeks late, given how close we came to ending the Korean War over Easter, but no

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Old Stuff
April 17, 2017 Merri

Star Wars Needs to Die

Look, another Star Wars post!  Gee, what could possibly have sparked this one?   Oh right, that miserable trailer dropped.

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Old StuffReviews
March 21, 2017 Merri

Wolverine, the MCU, and What Comic Book Movies Have Become

Marvel’s Cinematic Universe is dog shit.  I’ve been working intermittently on a series of posts about it for about a

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Old StuffReviews
March 8, 2017 Merri

A Manly Film About Adolescent Trash – Logan (James Mangold, 2017)

In a time when the movie industry seems to stay afloat according to two extremes and very little middle ground,

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Old Stuff
January 2, 2017 Merri

The 2016 Death List

It’s over.  Liberals can, at last, breathe out a sigh of relief.  2016 can’t kill any more of their decadent

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Old Stuff
November 11, 2016 Merri

Trump 2017

It’s the first Friday since the election.  What a week! While far from being a Trump supporter, I admit that

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Old Stuff
November 4, 2016 Merri

It’s Almost Over.

It’s 2016.  Trump is, at this point, slated to win the election.  He seems like a bigot and a blowhard,

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Old Stuff
October 28, 2016 Merri

One of These Two Disasters Is Going to be President

Election day draws nearer for those fortunate enough to have an iota of faux-political power in these great United States,

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Old Stuff
October 21, 2016 Merri

A Drink for the Final Days of the Republic

I jest.  The republic of the United States ended some time ago, replaced instead with the bureaucratic monster of suffrage

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Old Stuff
October 14, 2016 Merri

The Nobel Prize for Literature: Prestigious Award, or Complicated Edifice of Irony?

Ah, it’s that time of year again, when the literature fanatics squirm from their holes in the dusty backrooms of

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