What I watched: Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 3. Probably still the most functional franchise in the Marvel universe right now. Characters are still well written and story lines are still interesting. I’d probably mark this as the 2nd best of the three films.
What I read: An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation, by Tom Brokaw. I’ve read the other two books he’d written about this generation and I enjoyed this one a lot. About 90% of the content in the book are letters that were written to him by people who were either members of the generation or their descendants. They had enclosed artifacts like photographs and documents from the time period, which really helped everyone come alive. This was done very much in the style of the 400-page volume of my grandparent’s letters that I compiled for the family many moons ago, so it was easy for me to get into it.
What I listened to: I think it was maybe @Loveshaq who turned me on to The Karma Effect. I’ve been listening to the album.
Whatchoo got?
Do any of Brokaw’s Greatest Generation books explain how they gave birth to arguably the worst generation?
I always thought Catch 22 was onto something in terms of an explanation in the way it showed how for every Yossarian who went into danger there were a lot more venal types safely back on the base like Milo Minderbinder and the colonels. You can see a straight line from people like that to their Boomer children.
I mentioned this before… My friend the aviation historian/ex Hollywood script writer said that those who met Heller said that he was the angriest man they ever met. He and those that met him suspect that unlike Yossarian, Heller took the quick trip home instead of doing what Yossarian did and resented the hell out of the choice (hence writing the book Catch 22 to atone for his “sin.”)
Many of the noble/scared ones who stood up, came home partially broken from wounds or the things they saw/did or didn’t come back at all.
I don’t know…I think the millennial/gen z penchant for shitting on boomers is misplaced. Boomers were the ones protesting Jim Crow and the Vietnam War. They fought for women’s rights and were the tip of the spear for the gay liberation movement. The environmental movement was started by boomers. If not for them I’m not sure how long it would have taken for those changes to come into effect. I can promise you that gen x wouldn’t have had the stones to do it.
The ones born in 1945 may have been on the tail end of the protests against Jim Crow and Vietnam, but most of them were too young for things like Freedom Summer and the March on Washington, and most were too young for Vietnam protests too.
The serious organizers almost always came from the earlier generations, and by the time the boomers born in the late 40s came into young adulthood, their attempts to protest devolved into stuff like trying to levitate the Pentagon. They had the reputation for being liberal, but once the risk of the draft ended in 1973, activism collapsed.
The market penetration by Fox news of Boomers is over 50%, and going back to the Reagan era they’ve voted more heavily GOP than preceding and following generations throughout the years.
It’s not that every single Boomer is a conservative, but on the whole they’ve been a conservative and disengaged generation.
Saw Ford Vs Ferrari.
I enjoyed the movie and I can imagine Ford Jr Jr or Ford Jr shitting his pants while being driven around by Carol Shelby in that GT40. I’d be screaming my head off too (more in joy… that car is “what I feel the need the need for speed” dreams are made of.)
The funny thing for me was the movie seemed more like Designer/Engineer Vs Bureaucrat than Edsel vs Enzo. I liked Jon Bernanthal’s Lee Iacoca (he would definitely be a man I’d enjoy working for), but the rest of the Ford Execubots were the kind of stale shitheads I don’t enjoy working for or currently work for. The wrench throwing Bummie played by Batman Christian Bale reminds me of some of my favorite coworkers. Yeah, lacking in social skills and graces but smart as fuck and sometimes fun to be around.
I drank approximately 6 gallons of ayahuasca and watched this:
Getting ready for Easter entertaining. 🐣
*watches road house*
holy shit post malone does movies now?
How was the new Road House? I couldn’t tell if it would be good or terrible.
dont know yet….am watching…and getting distracted by stupid oppo shit
2 hours later….im less than a third thru the film
its odd
the violence is good….but the whole thing is odd
so far anyways
theres some fucking gems in the soundtrack tho
gotta give it that at least
yup/// is not very good
Thanks @honeysmacks for recommending the Mead Mishaps series by Kimberly Lemming. I’m laughing my way through the books!
wow umm seems i kinda pissed us oppo off with a comment about bag checks
apparently in the us of a when asked for a bag check you have the option to say nope and go on your merry way?
i mean we kinda have that option here….we get to say nope and then wait for the police turn up to check the bags
unless you feel like beating up the teenagers trying to stop you leaving the shop
which carries a much heavier sentence than shoplifting….
the fuck is so bad about getting a bag check?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone refuse a bag check. However, I don’t typically shop at Walmart, which is the most strict about bag checks in my area. Most people just stop and wait without comment.
I will say as an older white middle-class male I’ve walked past bag checks without stopping or being stopped. At Christmas or other big shopping holidays a line forms, and I won’t put up with that shit. I already stood in line once. I suspect there’s a good bit of selective enforcement going on.
Typically once I blow past the bag check, several people follow me and the line breaks up. I doubt the employee minds that too much or honestly cares about shoplifting.
Farmwork and basketball. That is all.
The Karma Effect is awesome! We had an early start of the day & went up to the Skagit Tulip festival. Not all the flowers are out yet but the daffodils are out in full force and the early tulips. Saw a ton of snow geese in a daffodil field so pics to be shared soon.