I'm flattered, but I wouldn't go that far. And I will touch on this when I get to your post in the round-up. But anger is a sword. It doesn't care who it cuts; the guilty and the innocent bleed the same red as easily as the other. Even when I cut the guilty, innocent people still suffer because even the most egregious assholes still manage to have people who love them. And it's a hiltless blade that cuts me when I grasp it, too, so I'm hesitant to draw that sword without good cause. Fortunately, simply having it on my hip is usually enough.

I'm still working on it. I hope to have it done tomorrow. If not then, then possibly Monday.

Here's the Power Underneath Despair roundup post

It might have been less than 5,000 words if not for the excerpts.

Thanks. Now I need a break before I write another effortpost about my 20 year marriage.

I've been going to the movies lately, and writing about it.

https://starbreaker.org/blog/entertainment/joker-folie-a-deux-2024/index.html

https://starbreaker.org/blog/entertainment/dracula-1931/index.html

I just finished this as well. I use a terminal as my file manager because graphical file managers don't always do what I need them to do.

https://starbreaker.org/blog/tech/recursive-bulk-file-renaming/index.html

I don't think Dracula was slow; the story moved along at a reasonable clip and the movie was about 80 minutes long at most. But it probably works best in a theater with an audience of virgins, people who haven't seen a vampire movie before and thus don't realize that the OG has become a cliche because it's been imitated or parodied so many times. If I was seeing it at the cinema for the first time as a little boy, I'd probably have a different opinion of the movie than I do as a middle-aged man.

As for Twilight, I never got the appeal or the appeal of hating these books. I read the first 50 pages of Twilight, decided it was marginally better than the first 50 pages of Eragon, and then put it back on the shelf. A lot of YA fiction just seems insipid to me, but that's what I get for reading Clive Barker as a teenager.

I just figure I'm lucky that my wife hadn't gotten into that stuff, though she was into Harry Potter when we got married, though she did get into Fifty Shades when that was trendy.

Maybe, but in fairness to you the 1930s Universal horror movies are pretty tame compared to 1970s offerings like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, let alone horror movies coming out this decade. Abigail, for example, makes Dracula look like the Count in Sesame Street.

I figure there are two possible reasons for Stewart's mediocre acting:

1. She was putting all her acting chops into pretending she liked dick.

2. The script was shit, she knew it, and she was putting all of her acting chops into not laughing her ass off the entire film.

From what I read, the plot wasn't good for print, either. Stephanie Meyer is one of the three reasons I avoid genre fiction written by Mormons. (The other reasons are Orson Scott Card and Brandon Sanderson.)

It would have made a good alternate video for Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" if somebody had taken a machete to it and trimmed it down some.