The level of hate has increasing - to the point where SNL even did a skit pissing on boomers and their narcissism. Owen Benjamin did a video talking about boomer dads - and then had to explain that no, if you were a decent dad and a boomer, then he wasn't talking about you. And if you were taking it personally, maybe you weren't the great dad you thought you were. Brian Neimeier over at Kairos also had a few things to say [https://www.brianniemeier.com/2019/03/quintessential-boomerism.html]:…
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Paul Joseph Watson brings up a recent study that shows that yes, hipsters, in attempting to "not conform", indeed do all look alike. The observation has been around for years, I first ran across it in the 80's in Christopher Stasheff's se/pre/quel in the Gramarye series, Escape Velocity, but until now it wasn't backed up by "science" (tm).…
First, Brian Neimeier discusses that "works of art last" [https://www.brianniemeier.com/2019/03/ars-longa.html] - the second half of an old saying many of us, including me until recently, only knew as "life is short." > The equivalent Greek word is techne. That's a big clue that everybody before the Modern era would have put Michelangelo and Steve Jobs in the same general category. Both made stuff according to a standard. That's really what writing is. A carpenter makes a birdhouse by putting…
Before I post this, I do have to note that I personally know some smaller - scale (not CAA, or similar) agents and agencies that take their duty to the people they represent seriously. Also, unlike music and movies, some industries still are enmeshed in this ages old system such that, without a representative, the opportunities are effectively nil. Even in such circumstances, be aware that the temptation to double deal when the money gets significant can be overwhelming for even better people, a…
For what it's worth, Cataline's review pf Alita [https://darkherald.net/2019/03/09/cataline-recommends-alita-battle-angel-with-reservations/] is pretty much spot on. That said, while the scene where she tries to rouse the hunters to fight together as soldiers as a groaner - I do not think it was misplaced. I am not sure if it was a deliberate piece of subversion, but it was deliberately awkward. Instead, I found the repeated line about being tossed aside as just a nothing girl, further in lig…