[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/airplane.mp3] The year was 1980. It was a time when volcanos erupted, disco was dying, empires struck back and an actor became President of the United States. Comedy, satire and parody were nothing new to the people of this time, but when Airplane! premiered, it not only delivered the screwiest of screwball pictures to date,… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Airplane!
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IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! RoboCop
{Audio pending} Capitalism is, in its current form, a very Darwinian way of life. Only the wealthy survive, and if you want to make it you need to cleave yourself to someone with pockets much deeper than yours in exchange for the means to keep on living. Lately the cleaving has been to large corporations… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! RoboCop
Jotting in the Margins: On Toilet Paper & Pigeons
Storytellers are creative folk. They create something out of nothing. The entire world of Middle-Earth, for example, sprang from the notes jotted down by J.R.R. Tolkien in the trenches of the first World War. The magical world parallel to our own that seems to have a school called Hogwart’s at its center would not exist… Continue reading Jotting in the Margins: On Toilet Paper & Pigeons
