this quick post plays through three short stages the third contains the Easter egg all three potentially contain SPOILERS Stage One: “Microreview” if you haven’t seen Ready Player One (or read Cline’s book), you really should; particularly if you’re the target demo: a “nerd,” “geek,” pop culture afficionado of a certain stripe (70s-80s gaming, sci-fi, etc.)… [Read More]
Sorry, Ricky Gervais: Humanity Still Needs a Cure
i genuinely dig Ricky Gervais plenty, and i’m thankful for The Office, like, for sure i appreciate his iconoclastic approach to comedy; i relate to his atheism, tho i’m not an atheist myself, as you’ll gather below however, i noticed him make a move in his recent Netflix comedy special, Ricky Gervais: Humanity, that i’d… [Read More]
seeing it coming [The Last Jedi SPOILERS]
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when old wineskins make way for new, who sees it coming? if one waits on royalty but receives rabble, will one still receive? and though death is obviously an end, isn’t it always also a beginning? even so . . . shred the Jedi texts and burn the sacred tree, for the force is the… [Read More]
Get Re-Enchanted: Stranger Things 2, Pop Culture & God
i am *so* psyched for Stranger Things 2 like, *psyched* psyched i want more mystery, more stylish 80s homage, more dope soundtrack, way more Eleven; i want #justiceforbarb, Eggos ate raw, Winona Ryder everything, coffee and contemplation honestly, who can deny that the whole Stranger Things thing – like much of what it lovingly calls back to… [Read More]
This Is Us / perfect title zen
words wind around us, obscuring, diffusing, piling atop each other like snowflakes on snowflakes, making seeing true meaning hard through the white, like moments in life thus does This Is Us succeed, not just as “quality entertainment” (important in its way), but more importantly, truly, as a light to help color through white, making meaning in moments in life and it… [Read More]
so i’m so sad after seeing Father John Misty sing on SNL
so i’m so sad after seeing Father John Misty sing on SNL he sang two songs, but the one he sung that so got. me. was “Pure Comedy” see here: ( for both performances, with lyrics (which i’ll refer to below) and editorializing, see “Father John Misty Questions Virtual Reality And Religion on ‘Saturday Night… [Read More]
See La La Land & Take Everybody Else With You
a while back (on another site), i wrote about how art begets art – in that case how love for the game Bloodborne led to a renewed dip into Lovecraft several whiles back (on a currently dead blog), i wrote about how faves lead to proselytizing – how when we love something (in that case, Bloodborne’s forebear, Dark Souls), we… [Read More]
Westworld & Trump, Optimism & Hope
i’m highly optimistic about HBO’s new hit show, Westworld (if you’ve not seen it, imagine a sort-of sci-fi, cyberpunk Western, steeped in J.J. Abrams style cerebralism and cliffhangery; a deliberately paced show full of sweeping panoramic shots, shootouts, sex, robots (rinse, recombine, repeat), acting clinics put on by a superb cast (Anthony Hopkins can do… [Read More]
The Witness (to God)
[Note 1: The following includes mild, implicit spoilers. Note 2: This is not an in-depth review of The Witness and assumes some prior knowledge of and interest in the game. For an excellent, straight piece that describes the game’s mechanics, contextualizes, etc., please see Jonathan Clauson’s article at Christ & Pop Culture here.] dots and lines intersect in the trees, asking: just what is the meaning of these?… [Read More]
not knee-jerking over Deadpool (or in general)
what do you think the “typical Christian review” of Deadpool is like? [Google if you wish . . go ahead, i’ll wait] perhaps you correctly predicted that many “Christian reviews” focus on its rating [UNNECESSARY SPOILER: Deadpool is unabashedly R-rated, prolifically profane, conspicuously sex-laden, intentionally irreverent, vehemently violent, et cetera, et cetera] in fact, maybe surprisingly, not only are “Christian… [Read More]
