I am extremely wary of any content creator who incorporates as part of their name words like "courage", "heroic", "freedom", and so on -- words implying some sort of heroic virtue attached to whatever content they're pushing, particularly if said content has nothing to do with the virtues indicated ( Read more... )

I realise that, as a man, I probably am not going to get all the nuances of feminism. I have been told that feminism is primarily about equality -- equal rights and equal treatment -- and that's something I can easily get behind. I am all for treating people fairly. To my mind, fairplay is the hallmark of being a gentleman, which implies that a ( Read more... )

It is now mid-August. Two weeks ago, I submitted my video of the talk I cooked up for the Agatha Christie thing, and I have to assume that the festival organiser considers it Good Enough, since the last I heard from him was that he was going to look at it later but that he was sure it would be fine. Tickets for the thing are on sale at The ( Read more... )

It is currently too hot to think ( Read more... )

Ever since J.K. Rowling took up a stance against recognising transwomen as women, I've felt a little hesitant about making references to Harry Potter. But then, Harry Potter was such a phenomenon that I don't think there's any escape from it. Those Hogwarts Houses, now. They're practically horoscopes for people who don't believe in horoscopes ( Read more... )

I have somehow managed to miss that Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of "Death on the Nile", framed as follow-up to his production of "Murder on the Orient Express", is a thing that is actually being done. The trailer came out last August, apparently, and I completely missed it. So of course I had to go see it ( Read more... )

Here's a thought that came to me while I was in the shower yesterday ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like anti-Asian sentiments in the US are spiking. I assume something similar but more low-key is happening here in Canada, though I personally haven't experienced anything of the sort. And why would I, given that I never go out? But two weeks ago, eight people were killed in a series of shootings in Atlanta; six of them were Asian, ( Read more... )

One of the more entertaining moments of this past year in seclusion was the watching of multiple Youtube videos explaining why the new live-action remake of Disney's "Mulan" sucked so very much. I've not seen the actual movie, of course: just watching the criticism has been quite enough, and I'd just like to put a few of my thoughts down here ( Read more... )

Has it really been over four years? It has. A few things have happened since then ( Read more... )