Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Such large laughs, such small repetition

 I really appreciate a good laugh.  There's a lot of movies I could have over flooding living quarters with just out of gratitude for the laughs they provide.

Death At A Funeral 2005. If you haven't seen this, maybe give it a try.  It doesn't seem like it was very well received by audiences.  I thought it was a blast.  Ymmv

Spy 2016 I had fairly high hopes for GHOSTBUSTERS after seeing this feature from Paul Feig.  Unfortunately the GB remake recalled an earlier movie from Feig-- The Heat.  This movie was comedy dynamite tho.  

Vacation 2016 - Very raunchy, so my peeps from church might want to steer clear of it...  Funny is funny tho (imo).

Liar Liar 1997 it seems like just about everyone by now has seen this movie.  I've just about over-watched it despite it having been years since I last saw it.

Dirty Work 1997 I almost forgot about this one.  This is just all out gonzo funny.  

Drawing a blank.  There's probably at least a few more I could include here.  Groundhog Day is more of a philosophical feel-good movie than a riotous comedy.  What About Bob was similar even tho it was a little more eerie. 

I might update this in a few hours....or something... Might..


Sunday, November 23, 2025

AS-IS

I keep seeing people use this phrase to describe their merchandise on sites like eBay.  And I keep having to wonder WHAT the heck is the point in saying that?  How ELSE would you sell an item??  As it ISN'T?  ???

Friday, November 21, 2025

Mind your scrimulous cotton candy!

 https://genius.com/Nirvana-beeswax-lyrics#about


This song always cracks me up.  I can't make out half of what he sang, but the phrase "cotton candy" is intelligible enough...   It always sounds to my ears like he was referencing some kind of deranged anthromorphed cotton candy.  The actual lyrics are not much less disturbing...



Thursday, November 20, 2025

budgeting awaah!

 Really unfortunate that so many people who are actually dealing with the pressures of the labor market can barely if at all afford to live.

That being said, I have had some difficulty getting my financials straightened out.
I have a ton of debt I'm really hoping I can get straightened out in December.  And then, aside from the mountain of credit card debt I absent mindedly accumulated ---     ://        -----      I'll be on my way to a fresh start -- hopefully -- in January.  It's nice to have something tangible to look forward to as well.

Martin Scorsese's BRINGING OUT THE DEAD (1999) is being re-released on Blu ray this coming January.  It came out in a limited edition pack about a year ago, and boy was it limited.  It's like $100 to buy it used.  Thing is, I bought it, and the cover art just looks stupid.  I have it on DVD and the cover art is pitch perfect.  This time Paramount is using the original cover-art instead of this pink purply design they used with the first blu ray issuance.  So it'll be cool to have that.  It's one of my favorite movies, probably because it resonates with how I'd feel just working at Kroger or whatever....  Feeling like the life is being sucked out of me, just constantly approaching a black hole.  I don't know what the deal with that is.  I guess I'm just spoiled.  That small amount of time of being a 4y/o was too sweet to give up.  I guess.  I don't know how to explain it.

Anyway...
The Blu ray (it's actually a 4K disc, but whatever) is $33 with shipping.  And then I like to pay for Pandora because I can get access to full length albums that I don't actually have on CD yet/anymore....   And their custom radio feature is unparallelled.  Always good to show support for a job well done.  And it's only $11/mo.  1 CD costs more than that (!)  And I'd like to continue my HBO Max subscription.  It's a good time to be a subscriber.  They've got several things they've released recently and then there's more otw.
Beyond that, I'll have $30 that I don't have anything I specially NEED to do anything with, although I suppose I could start chipping away at the couple thousand dollars of debt I've amassed from my gelatinous mass of credit card usage.... :/  I think it'd be better spent giving to God's work.  Probably just give to Samaritan's Purse, because they do the work of The Salvation Army and Bible translators simultaneously in a variety of ways.


Friday, November 14, 2025

frrrr

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=6c980af49addddf3431148719fa2dc7bf889e4572d807098d1aa085d3200eb0aJmltdHM9MTc2MzA3ODQwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=17576d6e-2b11-6c93-278a-7bcf2a3c6de4&psq=what+does+it+mean+for+a+tongue+to+bid+someone+thence+depart%3f&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9ncmFjZWZvcnRoZW1hc3Nlcy5vcmcvMjAxNi8wOS8xMy9uby10b25ndWUtY2FuLWJpZC1tZS10aGVuY2UtZGVwYXJ0Lw

"Why is this important as we go through Mark’s gospel? I think this hymn especially, gives us a perspective on who Jesus is and why Mark has as an overriding theme, Jesus, The Son Of God."
How about just read Mark?  If you want a perspective of Jesus, wouldn't Jesus' words be sufficient?

I found this while looking up what "No tongue can bid me thence depart" means.  What the hell does "bid thence depart" mean?  There's nothing glorious about speaking gobbleygook. Doesn't mean squat that it USED TO NOT be gobblegook.  NO TONGUE SPEAKS LIKE THAT.  The past is dead.  Not even its' memories remain.  Nobody from 1863 is alive today.  That has been the case for over half a century.  Unless we're all going to be speaking gibberish in Heaven, speaking Secret Handshake English is in no way glorious, and, in fact, it is the exact opposite.  Someone who's never been to church walks in the door, he has to practically learn a new language, HOW is that necessary or beneficial???

This is actually a rather small issue for the church at large to address.  There's bigger ones.  But I don't think anything but The Holy Spirit Himself can change the bigger issues.  And I don't think I have enough of The Spirit indwelling in me to really say anything of note on the bigger issues.
  I don't have a problem with the hymns.  They are good reminders of the truths of Scripture.  
But this asinine attitude like we're desecrating a grave or something by tweaking the words so that a modern ear can actually understand it without taking up a second job as a linguistic archeologist is an impediment.  Of all the times people had to type out the words on a piece of paper, for people that understand this Dead speak and ALSO, just so happen, to know the way that people speak today, to at least propose some changes, by now we'd have something that was once just as glorious as "No tongue can bid me thence depart", and it probably wouldn't have taken that long to develop. We'd have had it a long time ago, probably by the time I was born if people had started undertaking it by the 1940s or somewhere around there.  Instead, it's now cemented by a somewhat popular worship band, in the year 1997 no less, when that phrase had already been antiquated for at least a third of a century.

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

interesting imo -----

 haven't posted on here in awhile.  I don't really know why.  I thought about posting on here a few times but then by the time it occurs to me, whatever prompted the notion fizzles out...

Anyway...  stumbled on this....I honestly don't recall the movie sounding this bad.  What's even more laughable is the "Hasbro Cinematic Universe"  For crying out loud....

15 Box Office Flops Everyone Saw Coming

'Battleship' (2012)

Who hasn’t played the game Battleship and thought, “What if this were a two-hour movie instead?” Universal Pictures heard those cries and gifted audiences everywhere with the sci-fi action extravaganza Battleship. In the film, war games for a naval fleet take on deadly stakes when an alien invasion interrupts the planned exhibition. After several ships are contained within an energy field, the trapped soldiers will need to fight for their lives.

A movie based on a board game was met with more than a few chuckles, even with the cult-classic Clue as proof it can be done. However, a bloated budget that came in somewhere at an estimated $220 million made turning a profit a near-impossible feat for Universal, especially with a $65 million take-home domestically. Battleship’s failure turned out more disastrous than even its critics were expecting, sinking Universal’s planned Hasbro Cinematic Universe. So, depending on your tastes, this story possibly has a happy ending. —Brad LaCour