Rant
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Review: The Matrix Resurrections
*sigh* That’s basically my review. That’s it.
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Chris Explains His Parents’ Music… to his parents. (Heart – Magic Man)
I don’t know why, but Magic Man has been getting a bit of airplay recently. It’s about time this 70s classic got it’s time in the sun. It reminded me of when I was a teenager. I liked 90s Alternative, because, well, it was the 90s. My parents were strict Roman Catholics, and hated my music because it was “evil”. Yet, they were perfectly fine if I liked music THEY liked. In some cases, it was fine. That’s how I found out about 10,000 Maniacs. Other times, it was… shall we say “hypofuckingcritical.” So let’s take a look at one of these instances. I remember getting Heart’s Greatest Hits, and…
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Chris Explains Rap Music to White People 2: Notorious B.I.G. Featuring Puff Daddy – Juicy (but just the Puff Daddy parts)
A few years ago, I explained Tupac’s Letter to the President to white people. Then I parodied that by explaining a country song to black people. It’s time I brought it back. Let’s go back in time to the mid 90s. A rap feud is breaking out between east coast and west coast rappers. The two biggest names in the feud were Tupac Shakur, and Biggie Smalls. Then producer, alleged murder, and possible mobster Suge Knight got on stage at an awards ceremony and encouraged rappers to come to his Death Row label, promising them that they wouldn’t be forced to have their producer on every song. This was a…
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The 2020 Election and Reconciliation
Depending on the success or failure of President Trump’s legal cases, Joe Biden is set to be the next president. During a speech recently, President Elect Biden mentioned that we need to consider the other side of the political spectrum as our opponents, not our enemies. This mirrors what I’ve been saying for years. We need to debate ideas, not people.
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Power Begets Power
I was raised in a very conservative family, in a very conservative town. I grew up listening to how the Republicans were the adults. The party of principles. The law and order party. My parents would say that the older I got, the more conservative I would become. Time, however, has shown that the older I get, the more I despise the Republican party.
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Review: Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Man, I loved this movie. This was Deadpool levels of entertaining, and there are more than a few similarities to Deadpool, but I’ll get into that later. Suicide Squad was a mess of a movie, but the one redeeming feature, was Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn. Now she’s gotten her own movie, and is joined by some new friends.
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Review: Captain Marvel
Ahead of Avengers: Endgame, it’s time to introduce the population to the most powerful superhero in the MCU, Captain Marvel. This movie has to show the people why Nick Fury paged her right before he turned into fairy dust. It had to do an origin story. It had to get the audience from “who?” to “OMG, I can’t wait to see her kick Thanos’ ass” in two hours. And it’s fucking boring.
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The Political Spectrum
Many people talk about the political spectrum. I’ve been meaning to address this for months, but never got around to it. Recently Bill Maher offered his thoughts, and pointed out that the “left is the same as the right” is a false equivalency. While I agree with him for the most part, I think he (and most pundits) have left out one important fact. We are far more alike than it seems.
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Biography: Emperor Norton I
This is one of my favorite stories. It’s a rags to riches to rags to insanity story. It’s what happens when the class clown is allowed to do whatever. Or it’s the story of how mental illness affects the homeless.
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Changing Definitions to Fit your Agenda
There’s something that has bothered me for a while. It isn’t a partisan issue. It’s a societal issue. It’s the idea that words should fit a narrative, instead of the narrative being built on language.
