The Dark Knight monologue as read by Kevin Conroy

 Rest in peace, king.

 

Movie Notes: The Naked Gun (2025)

I take notes when I watch movies and after the movies, I post those notes on the internet. These are my notes for The Naked Gun (2025). Notes made after the movie are made in <<>>'s.  

This trailer is awful. They have a trailer for the trailer. They chop up the manslaughter joke. It's bafflingly incompetent.

I'm the only one in the theater. And it's the smallest theater. It's been out for…almost two weeks. Maybe that's bad. <<I'm enjoying it though.>>

Commercials throw to the "thanks for watching our commercials" then a hard cut, silence, then ads for the theater I'm already at.

More silence.

Then the movie pre-roll where they ask me to turn off my phone and enjoy the movie.

The lights are still up.

Bugonia - Emma Stone in a movie about bees and capitalism. October. Looks intriguing.

One Battle After Another - These have been some very interesting previews.

Mr. Nobody 2 - That's gotta be all the fights in the trailer, so why watch. Looks less compelling than the original and the original was bleeeeargh.

Freakier Friday - Love Manny Jacinto, but..deffo for families.

This is Spinal Tap II - Looks intriguing. The end continues. September.

Lights still haven't gone down.

Running Man - Still feels like a movie that came out recently <<Self-Reliance https://youtu.be/Ocw_fVdr4_g?si=nyDBvn9q9kafxETA>> Wasn't the original Running Man just a deadly gameshow with colorful characters?

Roofman - Looks like fun. I don't get the Channing Tatum hype. It's a fun thing. Every story beat is in the trailer though.

Lights are finally going down. Is that normal?

Spinal Tap commercial…again, but also its a theater promo. Charming commercial though. Wonder if it's green screened, but who else would cut a promo like this.

 

"I'm Han Solo" - "Ridin' Solo" - Jason Derulo

 

Greek Restaurant - A Bit of Fry & Laurie

 

Battlefields of the Midterms

It's all well and good to door the flavor of the week in the 2026 election. In less than a month, we all better drag our sorry carcasses into voting booths and take a solid, measurable step towards taking the united states–or maybe the Unites States--out of the massive credibility hole it's in.

And moral hole.

And military hole.

and economic hole.

There's a midterm election, and mid term elections generally have poor turnout. The votes of the people who do turn up for them are more important. The midterm with the highest turnout in recent history was 2018, when Democrats took the House of Representatives with enough power to impeach President Trump, but not enough seats in the Senate to remove him from power for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

So while we ponder that, let's look at the battlefield of the midterm elections in 2026. Where are the turning points? What are our goals, and where are the turning points? The media likes James Talarico and he seems nice, but the keys of a blue Texas have been dangled above reasonable people ever since reasonable people knew the dual act of Abbott & Paxton. As Bill Shatner once said, i"it hasn't happened yet."

So let's look beyond the faces, but keep our eyes on the handful of relevant races. First, there are a lot of sources for this, these will be at the end . Maybe just skip down and read some of those instead. The Guardian one is pretty good.

 

Look, Indivisible did 80% of this already.

538 was a good site with a lot of data, but it was bought by ABC for the power of the 538 brand and then ABC shut it down and directed that traffic to ABC's politics news page, which does not have that data.

The House

The house has 435 races. About 361 of those are classified as "safe" races, where one party is generally assumed to win (185 Democratic, 176 Republican). Another 74 are not safe.

"The Jester" by Badflower

 

Interrogating Two Hobgoblins in Community