tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329147092024-03-17T15:53:07.859-04:00Kopfy's KrecheA Laggotropic Kopfination Blog ThingTom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-80071112577083678602024-03-16T14:40:00.018-04:002024-03-16T15:20:56.864-04:00So Dune, the Newest As "franchises" go, this has been a rewarding one. I read the book in 1981. I watched the David Lynch production in 1984. I caught the Sci-Fi Channel's take in Aughts. I read all of the Herbert Dune books then. I tried the professionally published fan fiction afterwards and dropped it quickly. Now I have Denis Villeneuve's two movies. Watched the most recent of the iterations last night. I Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-24303006994477054402024-03-01T01:19:00.003-04:002024-03-01T01:58:35.366-04:00Flash Gordon: New Takes Don't HurtA great take!Science fiction movies are not stagnating. It's not the reboot that is turning movies into tripe.
Reproducing these works is like new takes on Shakespeare, the artistic
vision and thematic direction of each production allows the artists
involved to get comfortable with epic scope without becoming Tolstoy or
an abject failure. I bring this up after seeing so many YouTube Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-13192103551225473562022-03-14T06:35:00.002-04:002022-03-14T06:35:53.517-04:00The Batman 2022: About Time Okay I am turning into an old chimpanzee. For all thoughts and musings about this or that, when it's new and shiny I just love it. For all my love of Zach Snyder's Batman, over the years after rewatching them over and over again, I couldn't help thinking, 'There is just too much going on.' Stop trying to get three storyarcs into each movie to show that the film producers got Batman. This Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-32001209916113076912021-12-06T17:17:00.001-04:002021-12-06T17:17:53.584-04:00Hard Core ArtistsAh those days. Those days of before being Left or Right were already decided. I mean the right had such nice things as nice uniforms and nicely choreographed dance steps that could be called marches. While the left limped off into sympathy trips. I would go on to get my uniform, but I knew it was lie.There is the abortion issue. So far removed from the knowledge that folks with a lot of hormones Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-60069994782251764042021-11-09T08:42:00.004-04:002021-11-09T09:01:50.533-04:00Eternals: Kirby was Kewl Before it was Hip While I had an encyclopedia of Batman since like 2nd Grade, I never bought a comic book until I came across Jack Kirby's The Eternals in the fall of 1976. I don't even think it was a first issue. As a side note, the second I bought was Kamandi which was being written by Gerry Conway and Chic Stone, not the title's original creator a certain Jacob Kurtzberg (Jack fukking Kirby). These two Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-55320814680873705202021-10-25T11:55:00.003-04:002021-10-25T12:23:28.998-04:00Dune '21: New Tale with Old Eyes As a guy that read Dune from 6th to 7th grade in the late 70s, I have been lucky enough to have witnessed three takes on the tale. When I say lucky I actually mean it. From David Lynch's take in the 80s, then the Sy-Fy Channel's (then called Sci-Fi) production, with some Jodorowsky's audio/visual scribblings, and finally this latest take by Dennis Villeneuve; it's been great fun. I have Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-30994565108372808112021-08-07T12:35:00.002-04:002021-08-07T12:35:30.296-04:00The Deep South The really deep south is about being owed. Somehow folks working at convenience stores are subject to the temperamental whims of folks needing lottery tickets regardless of the labor demands for the industry-- at least in the minds of the lottery ticket buyers. But somehow, saying "Sir" or "Mam" in every sentence makes everything okay. Because those assholes are "southern" and that is Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-22364096455518370402021-07-17T15:42:00.005-04:002021-07-17T15:59:27.370-04:00Only Spot of Disney Marvel TV Worth Mentioning I wish froggies would stop spouting stuff like "heritage" about shows the Marvel Comics Universe when they obviously haven't read enough of the comic books to know who the characters are supposed to be. Instead focusing on who they think should be skinny, white, and/or male.Case in point, Loki. Not great, but even I, who's read four to six Thor stories in 40 years, glancing at the "female" Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-61295054153465844822021-01-31T17:09:00.006-04:002021-01-31T17:15:57.499-04:00The Rise of the Neo-ModerateMy views have not changed since 1984, the politics around me has though. While I have been moving further left from the center of policy done by the Feds and growing amounts of State legislatures, what I want has not changed slightly. Okay, I want single-payer healthcare and decent National Men's Team in international soccer. On top of those two things, getting immigrants that have a job a SocialTom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-26438233940381657792021-01-29T13:22:00.006-04:002021-01-31T15:10:32.634-04:00Road Song 21Road Poem Jan '21Crows along the roadsidePick at something's last bad decision,Or was it fate?I was awake too early. The sun slipped behind my head in Memphis,No longer needing amber,I slipped off the glassesTo watch noon-shewn felons pick up litter.Sleep dragged my eyes towards the firs,A place to stop and refresh,I ate like a Mexican,But drank like a priest in Mississippi.Sneaky gas pumps,Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-38272029568564318282020-12-31T04:59:00.001-04:002020-12-31T07:47:25.872-04:002020 is Hindsight It hasn't been that bad of a year for me or mine. The Viddo shut downs did not affect my work at the milkshake factory, because transportation for sick people remains even during plague days. Indeed, my job itself became a lot more fun for me because my company started sending us to various small towns throughout the Midwest (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin)-- one thingTom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-18499056085089406362020-11-30T12:52:00.000-04:002020-11-30T12:52:02.607-04:00What Kind of Fantasy Freak Am I Anymore? From 1999 until now, my tastes have been evolving as a fantasist. So much of what I thought was awesome when I was unable to spend much time delving into it has turned out to be so average if not bad. So much of the good stuff re-reads as rote compared to the works that came before it. And so many people just don't care unless it comes from Japan and has pedophile overtones done in cartoon. Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-7444811239567850842020-10-13T19:56:00.003-04:002020-10-13T19:59:01.135-04:00The "Golden Age of TV" Lasted a Season The bad writing in the TV and Hollywood movies that we are seeing these days are due to producer decisions not a culture trying to represent its various ethnic segments in stories that sell to those various ethnic segments of any given population basis. Likewise, the bad writing in the TV and Hollywood movies that we are
seeing these days are directly addressing social injustices are
Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-80865815577499662122020-09-25T07:30:00.002-04:002020-09-25T12:47:17.308-04:00Should've Been Written By Manatees. I just watched a movie totally cobbled together by an algorithm though three people are credited with typing it out after they read what a machine told them to. The process must’ve been: “So like what do 30-50 y/o male comic book buyers like? According to sales of 40K per release Batman and Justice League. Then the whole supernatural caboodle with freshens things up for the younger crowd and Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-81185550485124432512020-08-03T14:21:00.005-04:002020-08-03T18:07:42.614-04:00NoGenCon Hoot 2020: When Cometh the Moth?So with GenCon being cancelled this year, our gaming clique, the serious ones at least, got serious about doing the Mothman trip that we've been planning since like 'o7. Peryton and I started out a day earlier than everybody planning on attending. So on Wednesday afternoon we pulled off I-77 in New Philadelphia, Ohio for lunch."Hey look the Towpath Tavern." Robin noticed. "But we don't have time Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-63848789761492477662020-04-01T11:57:00.000-04:002020-04-01T11:57:11.090-04:00The Comic Book Movie of the Decade
In case you haven’t noticed over the past decades since 1997 when I first came on-line, I am a Batman fan. Any of the comic book scholars that I debate with nearly weekly, know that I believe that comic books are supposed to express something other than pornography and nihilism without being self-righteous and an organ of any would-be State Propaganda Department. Okay the pornography is Frank Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-52941744126737614242017-11-29T09:18:00.000-04:002017-11-29T13:26:19.965-04:00The Justice League Movie 2017Well the film that every DC fan has been both waiting for and kind of dreading has come out. Luckily it wasn't that hard to both like it and think of defenses for the predictable onslaught of bad reviews as its predecessors (Batman Versus Superman, Man of Steel, and Suicide Squad) had. My celebratory mood moved from "At least they didn't step on their dicks this time" to "Well, that was a good Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-60850219169834122422016-09-29T10:47:00.000-04:002016-09-29T10:47:11.904-04:00And into Halloween SeasonSo this Halloween isn't going to be about dedicating myself to watching a list of movies this year. I can't think of any right now because I have been watching a slough of horror flix from various release dates throughout the year already. I have been reading and writing a lot over the Summer months, so maybe I'll celebrate in that mode.
I hope to publish the now six year-old scenario "The Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-6654611185746361262016-08-11T10:30:00.001-04:002016-08-11T11:02:06.314-04:00Suicide SquadA couple of days ago I was able to remove my FacetuBe photo of an outtake of the Joker and Harlequin from the Suicide Squad movie. I had put it up when I first heard about the movie from supernatural comic book aficionado Ben Lathrop over a year ago. I promised myself I wouldn't take the shot down until after I had seen the movie. Considering I have been wanting some "street level Batman" since Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-8980134631290482322016-03-30T00:32:00.003-04:002016-04-07T08:21:27.028-04:00Batman Versus Superman: Dawn of JusticeI have been dreading the arrival of this movie since I first heard about it. Zach Snyder did 300 which I hear is done frame by frame like the comic book by Frank Miller. As a movie, despite all the Homeric-eroticism, it is just a pathetic film. The trailers that I watched did not inspire me with confidence. Dudes in riot gear were bowing down to Superman and Batman was sneering at him through a Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-85202017789651521732015-12-23T19:12:00.001-04:002015-12-23T19:38:30.190-04:00Star Wars: the Force Awakens Well I saw it. The cultural phenomenon known as Star Wars: the Force Awakens, which the build-up to over the last couple of years has been a lot fun. Everybody I know has been waiting for it. George Lucas got to go see it first and be passively-aggressive and everyone got to be snarky right back at him. Folks I know have missed work to go see it on the midnight of the day that it publicly aired. Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-56388077270515770802015-10-14T12:59:00.002-04:002015-10-14T13:46:42.576-04:00Dystopian Omlette: Chris Kelso's Slave Stories: Scenes From the Slave StateOne of my more intimate local friends Beckett Warren told me that he had been published in Chris Kelso's Slave Stories: Scenes from the Slave State so I picked it up a couple of months ago. As you already know I have been delving into dystopian-visioned works for a few decades already, so it wasn't a stretch for me to get into and this collection of short stories has many authors tied to Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-72659066344602424542015-09-29T09:49:00.000-04:002015-09-29T12:54:36.451-04:00T.J. BassAs a kid of the seventies, I caught many of the best parts of over-population and ecological disaster and their warped futures science fiction ever. Whether we're talking the rather gritty and practical Soylet Green, to the rather stylish and fantastic Logan's Run. I actually read the novels years before I ever saw their movie presentation. Oddly enough, I saw Walking Tall, the Exorcist, The Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-12430053267142754312015-09-15T16:14:00.000-04:002015-09-15T18:04:35.556-04:00Halloween-y!!! 2015Let us never forget that September 15, Nine-One-Five-Whatever, is a good time to start getting ready to make the year's Halloween season awesome. Since Friday evening, that was 9-11 folks, my partner got me into the mood for this year's celebration of phantasmagorical horror and supernatural flights of fancy. You see, we were bringing a patient out of our vehicle into the hospital. It was rainingTom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914709.post-53770433623172746082015-08-23T03:20:00.001-04:002015-08-23T03:53:17.211-04:00Pasty, Fat Fuck that I amYesterday I head that if I "Want to improve (my) game mastering? Get up off the chair." This struck a cord with me. I was reminded of days when I was spry and had so much energy that I couldn't sit down while running a game. I felt young again. But I also know now that while I was a good GM back then, but as I am not good as I am now. Game-mastering that has the GM feel good and connected with Tom K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14089720729784290270noreply@blogger.com0