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Dead of Winter: The Donner Party (2015)
CHILLING
Ghastly tale of real event.
Important doc.
Wish I knew who narrated it.
Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014)
A Labor of Love...Lost!
Ya, right...Lovecraft would have really dug this 'homage' being a secret T&A guy back in the day. He especially would have been surprised to see so many of his hidden meanings and dark texts rife with macabre images suddenly illuminated and realized as a bunch of naked women with all their attributes! As if that were not enough, the casting of non-pro actors would sublimate his troubled eldritch inner forces that would normally demand much better performers into a simmering rage at the unseen director of this nonsense. The usage of New England surnames familiar to us all seems unkind to those family members who may still exist in the dark tarns of the hidden blasted heaths and valleys therein. All in all very entertaining for those of us trapped deep below the surface of the Earth with the Old Ones!
Yrs...
Charles Dexter Ward and my new friend... Yog Sothoth -
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe: The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street (1980)
Timothy Carey & Michael C. Gwynne shine in this episode
A madcap sprawl with memorable characters surrounding Ben Vereen. Guest stars Timothy Carey and Michael C. Gwynne steal the show. Couldn't find Jeff Goldblum.
This show needs to run again.
I particularly like the feel the director allowed of Carey and Gwynne being on the edges of mania at all times. The idea of Gwynne's character, "Tokar the Great" had many great possibilities none of which were allowed due to time constraints no doubt and perhaps the writer's limitation for the length of this program
Ben Vereen brings his innate musical sense and warm personality to the occasion with restrained brilliance thus setting off the madcap- characters very nicely.
Check this one out for the scene in which Vereen, Carey and Gwynne bust into a house where the money is supposed to be. The back story from someone on the set at the time was that Carey let go with one of his legendary farts just before 'action' was called so that the characters enter the room like a blast out of a cannon...hilarious!
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Environmentalists as the new Priests and Oracles
Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it's a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths.
There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe.
Eden, the fall of man, the loss of grace, the coming doomsday---these are deeply held mythic structures. They are profoundly conservative beliefs. They may even be hard-wired in the brain, for all I know. I certainly don't want to talk anybody out of them, as I don't want to talk anybody out of a belief that Jesus Christ is the son of God who rose from the dead. But the reason I don't want to talk anybody out of these beliefs is that I know that I can't talk anybody out of them. These are not facts that can be argued. These are issues of faith.
And so it is, sadly, with environmentalism. Increasingly it seems facts aren't necessary, because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief. It's about whether you are going to be a sinner, or saved. Whether you are going to be one of the people on the side of salvation, or on the side of doom. Whether you are going to be one of us, or one of them.