Monthly Archives: March 2026

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show your work; we at the TAP didn’t do our full job on last movies post

My Guests are pissed. But now that I’m posting again at a high rate? I am reminded that a lot of posts can be stream of thought. As in, nonsense. So, I’ll try and keep this brief (and likely somewhat fail).

We posted on the Oscar’s a few days ago. But two things. One, I should have provided some examples. Second, we did not properly give credit where credit is due.

First, the second. The quote, “Now everything sucks” I used is from Red Letter Media, specifically, Mike. If you’re into movies? This is a channel you cannot do without. Most, if not all, of current movie channels use their previous quotes. That’s how long they’ve been doing their excellent thing. I don’t even think a lot of channels realize they’re using the same words from the RLM guys from like a decade ago. It’s endemic. I realized I was using their quote a few days ago in my post, and should have credited them, but didn’t. Bad form. So here that is.

Second, the only reason people know the B movie Samurai Cop exists is because the RLM guys got into it years ago. Comparing this movie to Kurosawa’s’ Sanjuro is like asking anybody to step in front of a semi truck in motion and it’ll somehow all work out.

Samurai Cop is 1980’s/1990’s Southern California straight B garbage, but fun to laugh at. Sanjuro is pure art. If you want to know what I was talking about a few days ago? This is it. Here is an example I should have shown.

One is fun to laugh at. The other is pure art. You may disagree with me, but that’s for you to determine on your own. It’s great if you like superhero movies, or vampire movies, or Michael Bay laughing all the way to his mansion. I don’t mind either way. If you like something? Roll with it, joy is essential, especially in our stupid modern world. I guess I’m just telling you where my brain was at.

One is what Hollywood/(wider movie world; like Japan) used to be. The other is what Hollywood is today. Maybe I was a fool decades ago for not seeing it? The end start of the path that took decades to really happen? And it all fell off a cliff. Not sure?

Samurai Cop:

Samurai Cop Final Fight 🗡️

Sanjuro:

Sanjuro 1962 Ending fight scene 4K Akira Kurosawa

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when the idea of reality won’t last long; Iran style

The place I lived like over a decade ago (I’m “getting old”; everyone on The Internets says this all the time; I know this; I also know I’m not about to be devoured by scorpions tonight; please don’t judge me; I can’t sleep if you think scorpions are under my bed). Wait, uh, … what?

Basically I moved there back then to be closer to my relatives from another State. It’s been awesome.

If you’ve been a demented soul like me and are part squirrel, Albanian assassin, and the seven other people who have read this blog? You might remember I’ve written about that residence in the past. Then I left.

One of the reasons I had to leave was the target gunfire in the park that my second floor overlooked. They did it at about 11 or so. Not every night. I can’t remember how often it was; maybe about monthly. It drove me and my dogs nuts. Guess what? Nobody ever did anything about it. In Earth terms (even though it was not a rich USA place) it was essentially one of the richest counties on the planet.

Nobody cared.

It kinda creeps me out that I now live in one of the most rich counties in the world (this county is not the county mentioned above) and they can’t even get the street signs correctly. I’m not joking. One of the richest counties on Earth can’t produce intersections that make sense to a normal person.

This is how the planet works.

This is why everything that is wrong lately is happening. When your local or national government is so incompetent that they can’t be bothered to make the nearest traffic sign work? Why would you trust them with anything else.? Or get involved with anything else? You have to live your life, don’t you?

Iran has been front page news in the media for weeks. I myself dug into it, I kinda am ashamed about it. For what? Remember South Sudan, Syria, Burma, Central African Republic, Sudan today?

What about obscure stuff? How about continuous fighting (for decades) between the Indian government and those maoist insurgents? What about Mexico’s multi decade war against insanity, drugs, and anarchy? What happened to all the feelings about Tibet or Xinjiang?

Guess what folks, especially in the modern era of social media, nobody cares. Iran is top page news for now. In (let’s estimate) six months nobody will care. Oh, oh, … the media will tell you the war has increased your price at the gas pump this month? Hasn’t that been happening via inflation for an entire fucking half decade?

Remember Ukraine? Remember THAT? Iran is front page news. But! Every. Single. Day. At the moment, tens of thousands of Ukrainian Soldiers are under fire from Russia. Remember that?! But the media is like: Oh no, no that’s not important anymore, we need to report the current price of a barrel of oil like it’s a fresh killed deer at a medieval market.

Watch what you read, what you listen to, and what you look at on your blinky box of choice. Even if you can do nothing about it? Can you do anything, I mean anything of value to help the Iran situation? I can’t. But at least don’t let your brains be led by the media.

Reality will be changed soon. And the media will feed you clickbait of another kind till then. This is why everyone should volunteer and help their neighbors. This is why sports exist.

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watching the Oscar’s right now? bail

I got my love of movies from many sources. But a ton of it was from my Grandma. She had her VHS collection. I’ve got my Blu Ray collection.

I think on this degenerate loser blog we’ve posted about the Oscar’s probably about half a dozens times over the years.

I can’t remember the last time I went to a movie theater. Nor the last modern movie I’ve seen at all. As one of the most accurate video creators said a few years ago: “Now everything sucks.”

I think Sinners is supposed to win big? I’ve not seen it, or ever will. But I guess it’s a movie with vampires. Gee, nobody has ever done that before.

Hollywood is finished. The Oscars are nothing currently more than (forgive my language) a complete circle jerk. Where they all think they are important and matter. When they don’t.

I wish it was the other way around. If a good movie I wanted to see in the theater came out? I’d watch it opening weekend. It’s not gonna happen. Culture has moved on. It’s just that the Oscar’s and Hollywood either don’t realize it or accept it.

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laughter is eternal

I was having lunch at a bar between errands today. This nice lady, based on her behavior and look, probably almost in her 80’s steps up and asks the barkeep for a $150 gift card.

On a whim, I asked her who it was for. She kinda brushed off that question and I didn’t press it. Then she says to me on the side, with her wonderful smirk, “It’s a good gift. Everyone has to eat.”

Both of us just started cracking up.

Many times, even the briefest of human interactions can bring laughter into your heart. It’s enteral.

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Kenya – when travel shuts down your brain

You can see it in every part of the world. It’s just about walking around so your eyes can take it all in. But then your brain tends to shut down, because it can’t process what you’re seeing. This is the idea of seeing the most grinding poverty imageable, then within 15 minutes you can be drinking beer with your mates in a modern bar.

Every, single, part of humanity has this situation. Every country on Earth. In the West, the kindly term is ‘homeless’. Other places it’s ‘poverty’ or ‘destitution’. Either way, you get what I mean. And then these people can live this way literally one block away from the rich, modern world and they are essentially invisible.

Let me say this up front. I don’t have an answer for this. Apparently, since this concept still exists, none of us do. This post is about observation, not solutions. But if you have watched Star Trek you know the Federation has, somehow, removed this from Humanity. How did that happen in the show? Will it always be fiction? Maybe. But if it’s not, none of us will be alive to see it.

Kenya stops my brain on all this. One of Africa’s best economies where being in parts of Nairobi can seem like you’re in Singapore. And then drive a few hours in either direction and it’s South Sudan. The mind shuts down, it can’t process this is any normal way.

This is the way it works:

Leave apartment after you’ve read this degenerate blog post with the pinnacle of some form of human technology => walk to restaurant with friends => see homeless person along the way => acknowledge that they are homeless either through their own faults or the combined faults of others => ignore them => forget within 19 seconds you’ve seen them => eat at restaurant with friends => you are happy

As I wrote years ago on this stupid blog, I did a lot of soup kitchen volunteering. Essentially, one of my points was when you help people in situations like this, if you really think about it, you could be them.

I don’t give a shit what anybody says, in our own way, everybody is trying. Even suicide is an action, ultra negative, but still an action, chosen by said person. It’s horrible. But in a way, nobody ever truly gives up. It’s engrained to our human nature.

More than anywhere else, Kenya taught me this. Except maybe Vietnam too. Same thing. Absolute modern life you see, and in the same day, the most grinding poverty in the world. But it isn’t just on travel, it’s at our doorsteps everywhere. Wherever you live.

I had a great time in Kenya. But I guess I’ll wrap up these words with the simple statement: Help someone.

Love your neighbor(s). It doesn’t matter what you do. Volunteer; give money; research other unique ways you can make this crazy planet better. Kenya is a wonderful place. Go there. The people are so kind and awesome. It makes you understand who you are.

Where does the road lead?

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you own the sidewalk, never give it up

I’m walking back from errands tonight after a good burger. I’m walking back to me apartment. I’ve walked this route hundreds of times. But there was an anti-ICE protest in my way. For whatever reason.

Think what you will of Trump or ICE or whatever. But don’t get the fuck in my way when I’m just trying to walk home in peace.

I thought about going around them. But then, like, I’m an American. This is how I get home. I’m just going to walk on. So, I walked thru their formation keeping my eyes straight forward. Any time I was blocked I just stood there staring forward and said nothing. Not matter what they said to me. When a body window opened, I just walked on like I’ve done hundreds of times.

But then this kept happening. Eventually (to their credit) the protest organizers told the others to let me pass. Like they owned the sidewalk, as in a medieval castle gate. Even though I hadn’t said a word. Then I walked home.

On one of the crosswalk signals I saw later on the way home, somebody had written in sharpie, “FUCK ICE”. I chuckled a bit. The person who wrote that probably felt a bit of happy in their spine when they wrote that. I made them feel good. Even though what they wrote means essentially nothing.

Our modern Western culture is about words and outrage and cultural conquest. Actions are irrelevant. As long as you say and write what you think (on either “side”) that’s enough. Then they go home and feel happy about themselves. Even though they have accomplished absolutely nothing.

I was just trying to walk back to my apartment.