What are you pondering this Christmas season? Are you pondering about what gifts to buy for someone? The craziness of an essential job? Normally we have a lot going on around us and in our lives this time of year. Events, honey-do lists, kids activities, needs at church, etc. Our American culture tends to be …
The last couple weeks have had ample time for me to catch up on the new Ducktales episodes, meaning season 2 and the Spring portion of season 3. Spoilers ahead! Episode 23 of season 2, titled “The Richest Duck in the World” showed us a danger in riches. In the previous episode Glomgold had managed …
Have you watched Transformers: War for Cybertron on Netflix? This is an anime adaptation of our favorite robots in disguise focused more directly on their home planet: Cybertron. They just released the first part of the trilogy and I watched all 6 episodes within a few days. This definitely has more of a wartime feel …
Shared universes. The new wave in movies and television which is, well, not so new. While the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) has re-popularized the concept, it has existed before. Not just in comic books. The old classic, Universal Monsters such as the Mummy and the Werewolf and such had their universe. Then we had Toho’s …
Tonight I sat down with my dinner and turned on Tom and Jerry. I was just looking for something for while I ate and this was great. This episode from 1962, entitled Landing Stripling, has them fight after Tom goes after a bird who landed on him. They go into many of the usual antics …