Saturday, January 29, 2022

Home Team

tags: comedy, Kevin James, little league sports, Netflix streaming, Sean Payton
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Home Team is the latest movie from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison productions for Netflix. Kevin James plays Sean Payton, the New Orleans Saints head coach who was suspended for the 2012 football season, went home to Texas and ended up coaching his preteen son's football team. Taylor Lautner, Rob Schneider, and Jackie Sandler (Adam's wife) co-star. Sean Payton has a cameo as a janitor near the end of the movie.

I'm not a sports fan but love watching little league sports movies, not the actual sports. One of my favorites is The Sandlot and I was hoping Home Team would be as enjoyable. It is but not as much as The Sandlot which has more of the boys' screen time and funny memorable quotes. Home Team even borrows the barfing scene which is overdone and too gross. I still loved the movie. Worth a re-watch.

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

I Am A Cat














tags: humor, Japanese, satire
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from GoodReads
Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, " I Am a Cat," satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him.
"The New Yorker" called it "a nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action..."
Reading this novel took me ages to finish which is unusual for me. The book is not bad at all, in fact it is very funny, engaging, and makes the reader wonder about and laugh out loud at people's absurd behavior. The nameless cat sometimes drones on and on but the stories it tells are interesting and sometimes, maybe most of the time, philosophical and political. A rest between reading portions is a must to fully enjoy the book. I like it enough to give it 4 stars.

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This video of cats reminds me of the time the kitty takes a bite of rice cake that gets stuck on its teeth. The nameless cat tries to remove it and fails miserably. The humans see him on hind legs spinning around like crazy. Poor kitty but it is hilarious.


Saturday, January 8, 2022

The Real Anthony Fauci














tags: Covid-19 hoax, Fauci, must read by sane people, nonfiction

Dr. Fauci, Bill Gates, and Big Pharma with the assist from WHO, democrats, main stream media, Big Tech, and social media have unleashed a virus plandemic that has resulted in millions of unnecessary deaths and hypnotizing the public resulting in a new disease that Dr. Robert Malone calls Mass Formation Psychosis.

The covid-19 virus, like other covid viruses before it, is easily treatable with cheap medications that have been around for decades - Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. Their efficacy are well known in Asian and African continents for decades. HCQ treats malaria and Ivermectin treats parasites.

I bought the Kindle book written by Robert Kennedy Jr. - THE REAL ANTHONY FAUCI: BILL GATES, BIG PHARMA, AND THE GLOBAL WAR ON DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC HEALTH. The atrocities that Fauci and the gang committed against humanity is pure evil all in the name of the mighty dollar.

Robert Kennedy Jr. is an author I would not normally read because he is a democrat and I believe all democrats are scum. But I was willing to spare $3.00 because it is described as thoroughly researched and documented. Although I already know a bit of the Fauci/Bill Gates/Big Pharma evil axis, I didn't know the extent of their criminal activities until I read the book. The unforgivable actions of Fauci and the gang shocked me to the core.

Covid-19 pandemic could have been prevented if HCQ and Ivermectin were given right away as soon as the patient shows symptoms. As of this time, Ivermectin has eliminated Covid-19 in some of the most populous states in India. Japan and Indonesia have also given Ivermectin to their citizens and Indonesia has seen 70% reduction in cases and even lower percentage of deaths.

Doctors have always practiced repurposing medications and found HCQ and Ivermectin both cured Covid-19, those who are in early stages of the flu and those without comorbidities. Fauci prevented the use of HCQ early in 2020 even before President Trump mentioned its efficacy. Fauci removed thousands of pills from manufacturers and dumped them in a warehouse so that nobody will benefit from them including Lupus patients who were in a panic when they were told there was a shortage in early 2020 and didn't know it was Fauci who caused it. He and his evil cohorts then performed fraudulent and questionable clinical studies on HCQ and Ivermectin and ordered their dogs WHO, MSM, democrat politicians and voters, Big Tech, and social networks to keep talking about the failed tests. Their evil dogs gave 1000x more than prescribed dosage to their clinical subjects and naturally the subjects, mostly elderly people, died. They murdered elderly people as if it was the most natural thing to do and without remorse. And so the public was hypnotized and duped that there is no other treatment and prevention but a vaccine.

According to experts in the book, the vaccine is loaded with millions of spike proteins and the vaxxed are now a ticking time bomb for cancer, blood clots, and whatever ailments come up in their bodies.The untested and toxic vaccine has killed more than protected unsuspecting people around the globe specially children, teens, and young adults who are not in danger of getting the flu. They have natural immunity and healthy and they recover quickly from the flu if they get it. Giving them the poison jab is equivalent to murder and many many teens and athletes have died "suddenly" a day, a week, or a few months after getting their first or second jabs. *See below for list of injuries and fatalities. Fauci, CDC,  and democrats try to hide the covid jab injuries and mortality numbers.

The most vaccinated countries in Europe have the highest new cases and only a halfwit will conclude the surge is from the unvaccinated. The new cases come from the vaccinated because the vaccine DOES NOT PREVENT NOR PROTECT from the flu virus. In fact it mutates and creates new viruses. The vaccinated therefore can infect the unvaccinated, not the other way around.

From the book and Dr. Tess Lawrie (MBBCh, PhD), Director of the Evidence-based Medicine Colsultancy Ltd. and CEO of EbMCSquared CIC, an independent not for profit, health focused think tank based in the United Kingdom. She is the founder of the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Initiative.
Had Ivermectin been employed in 2020 when medical colleagues around the world first alerted authorities to its efficacy, millions of lives could have been saved, and the pandemic with all its associated suffering and loss brought to a rapid and timely end.
HCQ and Ivermectin could have saved 500,000 American lives in 2020 had Fauci and his evil gang did not coordinately prevent their use. They are mass murderers in my eyes and the murderers include all thedemocrat politicians and voters. They can all burn in hell for all eternity.

The jab does not prevent nor cure covid-19 and the psychotics are happy to get a booster shot every 6 months. 90% of new cases in Germany are among the vaccinated, 4% are unjabbed. Do the math. The psychotics are more than happy to get another booster forever and ever and they want us unjabbed to get them too. They cannot fathom the words FREE WILL. Well, they are psychotic and beyond cure. The only thing to do is ignore them.

The one reason I can think of why Dr. Death Fauci and his demonic thugs have insisted on vaccine is $$$$. Big Pharma (Fauci, Bill Gates, MSM execs, Big Tech execs, social networks execss, democrat politicians and their voters all own stocks) earned billions of dollars from millions of people suffering from Mass Formation Psychosis and these psychotics are more than willing, in fact giddy at the prospect of their spouses, children, and parents being incarcerated in Non-Vaccinated internment camps all for their own health and safety. Yes, the unvaccinated are NOT SAFE LIVING WITH THEIR OWN FAMILY. Like the Nazis they will turn you in and cheer for your imprisonment because they have been hypnotized by satanic Fauci and Bill Gates. It is time for normal unvaccinated pure blood citizens around the globe to fight this evil that descended upon us.

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As of January 7, 2022
36,257 deaths and 3,244,052 injuries following Covid shots in European Database - Double Vaxxed 13 year old teen dies from heart attack.
Read the list here 

Friday, January 7, 2022

Inspector Hobbes and the Blood














tags: fantasy, humor, mystery-crime
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from GoodReads, emphasis mine
As a crime wave breaks in the quiet Cotswold streets, Andy Caplet, a failed reporter, is reluctantly immersed in Inspector Hobbes's investigation. Allergic to danger and exercise, Andy is thrown into grave confusion as he discovers not everyone is human. Not only must he come to terms with Hobbes's extreme oddness, and the tooth-collection of Hobbes's housekeeper, the indomitable Mrs. Goodfellow, but he must work out if a suicide, a murder, and several robberies are connected? And what is the connection? Hobbes goes missing. The cops decide he's big and bad enough to look after himself, but Andy, striving against deep-rooted incompetence and clumsiness, sets out to find him. With a big bad dog to assist, armed only with a leg of lamb, and despite losing his trousers, he discovers the key to the mystery is in the blood. But whose blood? Where is Hobbes? And can he catch vampirism off false teeth?

This is the first in Wilkie Martin's unhuman series of fast-paced, comic fantasy crime adventures, with lashings of great food.

'I ought to tell you, dear, he can get rather wild when he's hungry'
I loved the strangeness of both Inspector Hobbes and his housekeeper, Mrs. Goodfellow. Hobbes is a huge person and looks beastly but is very gentle, intelligent and polite, does not tolerate bad language, and he and Mrs. G never forget to say grace before having the delicious dinners she prepares. I laughed out loud several times regardless of the annoying narrator, Andy Caplet. Andy is extremely gullible, physically unfit, lazy, incompetent, naive, accident prone, jealous of his handsome co-worker, and obsessed with a girl co-worker (whom he describes as not pretty at all). I want to smack him upside the head and am wondering why the good Inspector keeps him around. He redeems himself toward the end of the book and I kinda forgive him. I'm looking forward to reading the next book.

Highly recommended for urban fantasy and mystery readers.


Friday, December 24, 2021

The Silent Sea

The Silent Sea 
Korean drama, mystery, sci-fi series 
Complete 8 Episodes, Netflix streaming 
With Bae Doona, Gong Yoo, Lee Joon 
December 24, 2021
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The series is brilliant tackling the subject of killing hundreds to save millions. The story borrows from a few sci-fi novels and movies specially Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Is it ethical to create clones for experiment that kills them in order to save humanity? The illegality of owning pets is borrowed from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?. The dialog-heavy style which many viewers find boring is similar to Danny Boyle's movie Sunshine and the Russian movie Solaris. IMHO, the story is complete and doesn't need a second season. You draw your own conclusion based on what happened.

Spoilers

Friday, December 17, 2021

Bad And Crazy

Wookie (Lee Dong-Wook) is back in Bad And Crazy 
Action, comedy, corruption in politics and police, Korean series starts December 17, 2021 Fridays and Saturdays


The first episode suggests that the 2 characters are one and the same person just like the characters in Fight Club. Ryu Soo Yeol (Lee Dong-Wook) is a competent police officer but with questionable work ethics kissing a politician's ass for fast promotion. But his activities are suddenly thwarted by the appearance of K (Wi Ha-Jun of Squid Game) who is rather crazy but righteous.


Lee Dong-Wook as Ryu Soo-Yeol and Wi Ha-Joon as K


Ryu Soo-Yeol was relaxing in the sauna when K suddenly appeared fully clothed wearing a bike helmet and shoes and tossed the poor guy around. He asked for CCTV footage but K appeared nowhere in the video.


At the end of Episode 2, newly promoted Bad Ryu Soo-Yeol realized he is Crazy K when he kicked the dirty politician right on his face. One of the best and funniest second episodes in KDramaland. 😁

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

The Man Who Died Twice














tags: MI5, murder mystery, septuagenarians
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From GoodReads
It's the following Thursday.
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life. As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus?
But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can The Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them?

From the first book, The Thursday Murder Club 

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

The Man Who Died Twice is the second book of a new mystery series, The Thursday Murder Club. I read it because the first book is not available yet from the library. The story is a stand alone but there are recurring characters aside from the 4 septuagenarians. 

The story-telling is straightforward without flowery language which I like and the story is full of surprises. I figured out who the murderer is about 2/3 into the book. Just a wild guess and I was right. 

Good read. I recommend for murder mystery fans.

Sunday, December 5, 2021

The Intangible














tags: broken people, soap opera

from GoodReads
Amanda Jackson has always longed to be a mother. The early weeks of her first pregnancy are a mixture of joy, anticipation, and uncertainty as she and her husband prepare for the journey ahead.
Then comes a devastating loss. Even though her doctors tell her otherwise, Amanda believes she’s still pregnant. Her diagnosis is a rare, mysterious condition called pseudocyesis. Betrayed by her mind and body and her marriage strained, Amanda turns to neuroscientist Patrick Davis for answers.
Patrick understands the strange twists and turns of the human mind better than anyone. But as he spirals ever deeper into Amanda’s illness, his own homelife crumbles as his wife, Marissa, struggles to cope with her own loss. Marissa’s unique and, some may think, macabre work is her salvation, but it’s pulling her further and further away from Patrick.
As the two couples confront the fraught intersection of science, death, and human emotion, they venture into the darkest corners of each other’s lives. What they find there could change them forever.
*Sigh* I never learn. Once again I got tricked by glowing comments on Amazon, and the science aspect convinced me to download the book from Amazon First Reads for January 2022. What a huge disappointment and complete waste of my time! The book, inhabited by broken people, is nothing more than soap opera disguised as science-y. There are extremely long paragraphs on science and mathematics that bored me to death. The math theory that Marissa is working on is supposed to discover parallel universes but it never came to fruition. Nothing. So what was the point? SMH

Spoilers

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Magdalena Bay

I'm liking the music of Magdalena Bay, an American synth pop duo. Their songs are catchy and they have their own style unlike someone pretending to be country singers *cough* Taylor Swift*cough*.

Their first album, A Little Rhythm and a Wicked Feeling, came out in 2020 and they have a new album, Mercurial World, released in October 2021. You can download both EP and album from Freegal.

Secrets (Your Fire) from Mercurial World


Killshot from A Little Rhythm and a Wicked Feeling


Her voice and their sound remind me of several Japanese female music performers for animes and of course the Danish pop music group Aqua. Who can forget their cute and fun Barbie Girl?