I don’t understand the right’s war on fat people.
Sure, morbid obesity isn’t healthy. One can argue that it is against somewhat universal beauty standards. But constantly belaboring the point?
No, just leave people alone.
I believe we have only scratched the surface of weight loss and what it all means and there is so much info out there, some helpful some totally fake, that it is not easy for people.
Overweight people should never be praised or ridiculed. Just relax.
The Northman was an entertaining movie. Maybe a little slow, but good action, and sets, and all that. It was kinda stylized and dreamlike, like an Ingmar Bergman film, and I say that having never watched a Bergman film.
In this movie the Northman is played by Alexander Skarsgard. His mother is played by Nicole Kidman.
But.
In Big Little Lies, the hit show on HBO, Nicole Kidman plays Alexander Skarsgard’s wife.
And that’s my takeaway.
I was having lunch at work with some colleagues. One smart the other not so much. I’m always amazed at how dumb people can be. Like life has to way easier than I thought. Anyway we wind up on the subject of bad people.
I said, “I recently read something that shows how awful this world is because that by comparison, Hitler is really not that bad of a guy.
To make it clear, look up the statistics of people killed and over what span of time. Hitler is very low on that list. That’s all I was saying. I was not saying literarily that Hitler was not bad but rather that, “Hey, you think Hitler’s bad, check out these other guys.”
The smart guy just stared at me.
The not so smart one said “Don’t say that.” Don’t say that is the classic response of the stupid person.
It doesn’t even matter what you say. Only what they think you said, what they say you said.
It just reinforces the idea that you shouldn’t talk to anyone at work.
I woke up with the song Metal Storm/ Face the Slayer stuck in my head. I used Apple Music to play that song on my way to the gym. After the song was over Apple Music continued to play related songs. This is a great feature. You can set your vibe or mood. Almost an hour later, on my way back from the gym, Apple Music played Metal Storm/ Face the Slayer again. You would think there would be something preventing them from repeating the same song in the same hour.
The only thing I can think of is maybe they are different versions of the song most likely the original and the remastered, or something like that.
Still a good song, and not the worst thing that could happen.
I’ve been wearing headphones in public since the birth of the original walkman. At some point between then and now, Apple, or maybe somebody else, added controls to the wire on the headphone. I have never adapted to these controls. Every time someone tries to speak to me while I’m wearing headphones, my immediate response is to rip them off my head rather than just simply turning the music off with the remote.
Yeah, not very fascinating post, but haven’t posted much.
There’s a lot on deck, so we’ll see how the rest of the year ends up.
God damnit this is an easy one!
During the Academy Awards ceremony last night, an actor named Will Smith struck an actor named Chris Rock.
Chris Rock had just made a joke about Will Smith’s wife’s bald head.
Turns out the wife, has a condition where hair loss is an issue. I didn’t know this. I bet Chris Rock didn’t know this. If he did know, he made a really bad joke. It is my rule to not make fun of things that people can’t help.
Either way there is only one person in the wrong.
Just one.
Will Smith.
Why?
Easy?
The initiation of force is always wrong.
I just watched The King with Timothee Chalamet on Netflix. It was great! I don’t understand why it didn’t have a bigger theatrical release. Maybe I missed it? It debuted before Covid 19 struck. My only guess is it lacked romance, until the very very end. So maybe it didn’t get the female votes.
If you like historical films with a lot of fighting, though, you’re gonna love this one.
As you may be aware, there is a point when a man grows out his facial hair that it becomes very itchy. This lasts a day or two.
Imagine a guy who either through masochism or ignorance manages to keep his facial har at that length indefinitely.
And imagine all the other things like this he could do.
The Reader
Directed by Stephen Dalbry
Please enjoy another one of my way late to the party reviews, this time about The Reader. Kate Winslet actually won an Oscar. See the following yanked straight out of Wikipedia.
The film tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a 15-year-old in 1958, has a sexual relationship with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz. She disappears only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past – a secret which, if revealed, could help her at the trial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment
I find it incredibly unlikely that somebody could be admitted to the SS without proving literacy. The SS was the elite service of the National Socialists. Hanna joined well before the end of the war, when they’d let anyone in. As we see in the trial, she can’t even write her name. How did she fill out the SS application?
Two, she’s too pretty. Nobody’s gonna see a movie with an ugly woman, but she doesn’t look like any SS guard I’ve ever seen.
Also are we supposed to feel sorry for her? Poor girl can’t read, so forget about the people she burned up?
Enjoyable to watch, but pretty stupid.
This is the list. I think readers can focus too much on volume, and this year was not a good year for reading volume. It was It was a good year for learning about new authors. Six of the nine books read were by authors I have not read before.
Technically I haven’t finished My Heart Is A Chainsaw, but I got covid, so I’m cutting myself a break.
And that’s it. See ya next year!
