JamesSavik

It's frightening to watch moms and suburban housewives ransack the stores in these last weeks before Christmas.

Getting caught with paraphernalia will cost you a hundred bucks.

Paramount has done such a fine job with Star Trek, turning it over to the 10,000 Woke Monkey's Typing script shop, Gene Roddenberry wouldn't even recognize it and would be horribly embarrassed by it. Star Trek offered an optimistic, idealistic post-scarcity vision of the future. It offered insights into technology that inspired its child viewers to grow up, become engineers and invent the tech. What the hell were they thinking? They took something inspiring and wonderful, then shit all over it. As someone who actually tries when I write, I am enraged by low-energy efforts that will be published or produced anyway. Especially on established franchises with significant cultural importance and impact. There is fan-fiction better written and more thoughtful than the video diarrhea Paramount has excreted in its latest round of ABJECT FAILURE with this franchise. With such a rich heritage, telling a decent story and following cannon should be a labor of love. Instead, it's an F-ing labor to watch in its current state. After Pic-tard and Douche-covery, I doubt the whole franchise is worth more than about tree-fiddy max. It'll probably be sold out of the trunk of a meth dealer's car. God knows what sacrilege the next bunch of Hollywood fuk-wits will get up to with it. My hopes Trek's legacy will be treated with any respect are about ZERO because that optimism and hope is something the WOKE machine cannot tolerate in its serfs. It needs us hopeless and broken to tolerate its future vision.

The FTX Crypto Ponzi scheme is the largest of its kind and bilked billions of dollars from investors.

That's Billy Bob Thornton as Bad Santa.

When Santa drinks too much, his nose acquires a rutilant glow.

After taking my 95 and 88-year-old Aunties Christmas shopping, I'm a little further along than languid.

I want to deracinate the fire ants from my yard.

Speaking as a tekkie, there are times when you have a huge charlie-foxtrot on your hands and there's nothing you can do about it. A tiny little resistor, capacitor or transistor decided to commit suicide and takes your system with him. It's totally NOT your fault, but you are the TEKKIE on the spot and take the heat for it anyway. Having been there and done that, I suggest 1) have a thick skin and 2) a sense of humor. Murphy will visit you. It's going to take you x amount of time to figure out what's wrong and fix it. Depending on how fast you can perform that x will make you anything from a Tekkie Super-hero to that guy running from an angry mob with torches. Laugh about it. Take the joke. There's nothing for it but to embrace the suck. You really win when you can make your victims... opps, I mean customers laugh, you might survive. This guy's Technical Difficulties screensaver is the right idea.

Not to be confused with craptacular, often used to which describe the play of New York pro football teams and Disney movies.

According to Marine legend, a platoon assaulting Tarawa in 1943 created a tontine with a kitty of over two thousand dollars. That was cold comfort for the four survivors from the first wave to hit the pier. Of that group, they were awarded a Navy Cross, three Silver Stars, and four Purple Hearts.

All this can be found at any Walmart. You'll need: 2 X boxes of Uncle Ben's Original Wild Rice 1 pound of small peeled shrimp 1 onion diced 1 bell pepper diced 1 clove of garlic diced 1 cup cheese - your choice but I like medium cheddar Steps 1 Make the wild rice according to directions. 2 Dice the onion, bell pepper and garlic 3 Combine vegetables, wild rice and shrimp in a mixing bowl and stir evenly 4 Place shrimp and rice mixture in a 9 X 13 casserole pan 5 Cover the top with cheese 6 Cover the casserole pan with foil 7 cook at 350 degrees for 20 minutes 8 remove foil, cook an addition 5 minutes 9 Let stand for 20 minutes before you serve ______________________________________________________________ This is a recipe lost to our family years ago when the aunt who always made it passed away. I've been valiantly trying to reconstruct the recipe, and I think this iteration is probably as close as I will get. This is a good recipe to make a day or two before Thanksgiving or Christmas and throw it in the oven before the feast.

I glower at the gas pump. It does what it does to me and won't even buy me dinner.

“For the love of God, Montresor!” From Poe's The Cask of Amontillado

Didn't Velma say that when they pulled the mask off the villain, and it turned out to be REDACTED-BY-MANAGEMENT

Too many of today's movies are just plain awful. Many of the authors on this site can and have written much better than the absolute offal Hollyweird is excreting.

Sorry. I'm in a monogamous relationship with Stellaris. I think their next game pack will be toxic sewer-dwelling zombies who slay with their stench. The Stellaris AI doesn't like it when I play anything else.

In the martial arts, a tyro can expect bruises and lessons that will last a lifetime.

Geno Smith was a journeyman backup QB until this year, when he won the starting job in Seattle. Drafted by the New York Perpetual Dumpster Fire, err I mean the Jets, in the 2nd round of the 2013 draft, he was labeled a draft bust and left the Jets 3 seasons later after a knee injury. He spent time with the Giants, Chargers and finally Seattle as a backup. As a backup quarterback, he was able to gain experience and, more importantly, not rack up the sorts of injuries starters get. When he got the opportunity to start for Seattle this year, he is playing like a top-tier starter. The Seattle Seahawks are one of the biggest surprises in the league this season, leading the highly competitive NFC West division with a six and three record.

Let’s say that you have a side character who’s a total hot head. He can’t help it, he’s just cursed with an extremely short fuse and a very low tolerance for bullshit of any kind. I like him already. Kindred spirits we must be.

I like a good disaster movie, but skipped this one. When I was a kid, we had a pair of them that came out and set the standard for disaster movies: The Towering Inferno (1974) and Earthquake (1974). What made them both scary to me as a kid, they were plausible. A fire in a skyscraper or a big, nasty earthquake in Southern California are completely believable. What's NOT believable was the moon falling. That's just not going to happen. It may eventually fly out of earth orbit and leave us, but the law of conservation of momentum will not be repealed. Now, write a script for what would happen if we lost the moon, and that might be interesting. 2012 is another one where the "science" was so butchered, it ruined the movie (for me). If you remember the plot, the earth was going geologically rabid because neutrinos were heating the earth's core. Neutrinos just do not work that way. They are exceptionally difficult to detect because they are just so... neutral. Authors: it's one thing to take creative liberties. It's quite another to be so completely ignorant of the science in your sci-fi to actually be embarrassing.

Not really current, but Jim Morrison is always fun to look at. I was told I used to look like him.

Who might we find exculpated if cops ran the FBI and not political bag men? It would probably piss you off.

I had just turned thirteen the previous July, passed the NRA Hunter Safety Course, and was excited to join the hunt finally. Dad drove his truck, and Josiah Jamison and his sons followed in theirs. We left on a Friday night so that we could hunt on a cold Saturday morning in November. I knew Beau Porter would be there, and I didn’t want to see him. Jake Henderson and Dylan Johnson, two cousins my age, would be there. If I stayed close to my cousins, nothing terrible would happen.