Been a student. Been a clerk. Been a salesperson. Been a manager. Been a teacher. Been an expatriate. Am a husband, father, and chronicle.
Yes, they wind it down.
Most of the world is destroyed and they iced Helo (Tahmoh Penikett) for no good reason but shock.
And the good guys pull off a very Pyrrhic victory. Closing the Dollhouse before they figured out how to make scenario: techno-nightmare happen would have made the series shorter. But, I’m pretty sick of the “we can’t put the tech genie back in the bottle” defense. Under this ideal, every tech needs to grow to Godzilla size or fade into obsolescence.
The Dollhouse.
A bunch of hyper-sexualized women held in coffins against their will in a state of childlike innocence. Intermittently, they have personalities downloaded into them, using computer technology, making them Alpha-powered super-assassins.
When one of them gets too woke, she is suppressed, coerced, and gaslit into buying back into the fascist agenda of the faceless corporation running the Dollhouse.
From my review:
"This is one of those rare books that changes what I think a book can be.
“A beautiful meditation on the human condition as coupled to the — so-called — “Overwatch Effect.” It took me a while to catch the rhythm of the book, but once I was in, I was in.”
I read it just after it won the Booker Prize. But, I didnt know it had won the Booker Prize when I read it.
Someone handed me Gravity’s Rainbow after finding out I’d read Blood Meridian. He said the words, “only you” after handing me the book as he was leaving the country.
I tried. Fuck me I goddam tried.
Character: Frank Underwood
Actor: Kevin Spacey
He really was just playing himself. Power is the only language they speak.
Character: Wonder Woman
Actor: Gal Godot
A cold, invulnerable, classic beauty whose persona screams “I’m better than everyone.” Not sure whether I’m talking about Diana Prince or Gal Godot.
Finally…
As much as Rogan annoys me, I encountered his character on NewsRadio before I encountered him on the podcast. He was supposed to be a blunt object to contrast the others’ as radio personalities, businesspeople, and reporters.
This is monstrous, but the first Europeans going to Western Africa to enslave people. It must have been clumsy, awkward, brutal, violent, and coercive. In short, one of humanity’s most callous, idiotic moves.
If I could interact (using modern tech), I’d sink every one of those ships with mines and drones. I’d monitor boats from space. I’d send a few of the slavers back knowing — and telling — only that enslavement will destroy them and Africa is not theirs to exploit.
The rest who survive would be taken care of, taught the strengths of diversity, other cultures, and West African ways of living. They would be the welcome wagon for any Europeans to return. Their tasks: stave off invasion, disrupt slaving activity, open negotiations with Europe. Undo the scourge of that institution and the attendant supremacy that followed.
Then, I’d set the same protections for the Americas. Unfortunately, Asia is accessible over land and contact predates my selected moment.
IDGAF if — as consequence — it sets human development back by 400 years of labour, resource exploitation, and “progress”. It’s worth it.
I’ll not give a source, but on good authority, they’re very fed up with the very stupid approach of this administration. They refuse to call it, “the Department of War.”
In the same conversation, my source said that they were happy in 2021 because, “the adults were back in charge.”
The Wrestler (2008)
Requiem For a Dream (2000)
Thank you Darren Aronofsky.
The Cell (2000)
Thank you Tarsem Dhandwar Singh
The state within a nation that permits execution her refuses medical assistance in dying. That would be a cop-out; too soft a punishment.
They want her to die the way God intended, using a specific cocktail of drugs that knock her out, paralyze her, and then suffocate her in her sleep as a form of revenge. The state assumes this is the appropriate punishment, the words are on the paper; so it is written, so it shall be done.
The alleged rapists at many Ivy-league universities may be able to provide another source for a cocktail of effective drugs.
And, I think someone else mentioned that if the execution fails or is not complete on the same day, they need to provide care until the next attempted execution.