Go stick your head in a goat!That is a...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Today is Veterans Day
My father, Robert Knight, circa 1958. He was 19 years old, serving in the United States Navy aboard the Seventh Fleet flagship U.S.S. Northampton. Thinking of all members of the United States armed forces on this Veterans Day. Thank you for your servi...
Sunday, November 08, 2020
This game show host brought dignity, class, and an astounding intellect into millions of homes for almost forty years
"Who is Alex Trebek?"Rest in peace, good s...
Friday, November 06, 2020
Want some commentary about this presidential election?
No? I don't care. You're getting it anyway...The
more I am finding out ("voters" born in 1850, 160,000+ ballots going
for ONE candidate in a single dump, software "glitches" etc.) the more I
am of the persuasion that this presidential election needs a nationwide
do-over. This time with NO mail-in ballots and paper only.But
realistically, I don't see that happening.We are hurtling headlong into a very
dark and chaotic tim...
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Happy Halloween!
Hey gang, there's a new app for mobile devices called ReFace and it is amazing! You shoot a selfie of your face and from there it places your mug practically seamlessly into footage from television or movies or whatever. Thought for Halloween that I'd share this one of me channeling Jack Nicholson from The Shining. All work and no play makes Chris a dull...
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Richard "The Carpenter": Twelve generations of Knights
Dad used to tell me that he didn't want to study our family tree too much. "There's going to be someone there who wore a rope for a necktie", he would say. In most part Dad was content with knowing his grandfather, Samuel Knight - born in 1887 - and not much further.(Samuel's wife, Maggie Warren, was born in 1880 and died in 1979. I'm old enough to...
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Censored by Twitter
Well, it happened. But from the looks of things I am in plenty of good company.Last night I made a tweet on Twitter. The now much-beleagured company that along with Facebook (is that a possible RICO charge?) has been censoring any mention of yesterday's New York Post story about Joe Biden and his son Hunter and their dealings with Burisma. Among other things.There is a photograph of Hunter Biden using a crack pipe. Or maybe...
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Star Wars: Squadrons has Chris feeling like he's 20 years old all over again
For the vastest part I have moved on past video games. These days if I play any game at all it's going to be something like a rewarding round of Go against a human opponent, or the miniatures game Warhammer 40,000 (either of which provides for keen exercise of the tactical mind). You know, something physical with tactile sensation. A few months ago I reviewed...
Wednesday, October 07, 2020
Want to run for office? Here's how!
At the moment the vice presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris is going on. I'm sort-of listening to it, and for whatever reason tonight has me thinking back to the "debates" we had as school board candidates when sixteen of us were running for Rockingham County (North Carolina) Board of Education. Though I did not win a seat, I have always been proud of my campaign and there hasn't been a...
Saturday, October 03, 2020
Review, kinda, of TENET
There is likely no disputing that Christopher Nolan is king of high-concept cinema. With Tenet I am wondering if maybe he went for TOO high-concept. It was ten years ago this summer that Nolan gave us Inception: a movie that I have watched many times since and continues to enthrall.Tenet however, I might watch once or twice again. Three times tops. ...
Thomas Sowell's take on Black Lives Matter
Twice in the past week, during the course of conversation with other individuals the situation with Black Lives Matter came up. There was a lot that I tried - and failed - to convey, for various reasons.But as it turns out, I really didn't have to try, because a mind far better than my own accomplished it with more weight and consideration than I could muster.I have...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
I rarely watch episodic television, but...
...Transplant, a Canadian-produced medical drama that's found a domestic home on NBC, has reeled me in as hard as any show has. Ignoring that many American folks will have a time translating from the metric system (the patient's temperatures aren't really THAT chilly) Transplant has a unique premise, intrepid plot, and a fine ensemble to carry it out.Heading the cast...
Monday, September 14, 2020
And this is why I can't and won't support Black Lives Matter
Just one of the reasons why I have not and can not jump on the big bandwagon issue these past several months. There were a LOT of organizations of various sorts that came out with broad statements of support. I knew all along that it was foolish to make a statement about ANY political issue. Due legal process has not run its full course. Many have yielded to the moral...
Sunday, September 13, 2020
I am a bad Star Wars fan (for abandoning the sequel trilogy)
There is a rumor... rumor mind ya so take this with an industrial sized salt lick... that somewhere in the Disney Vault there rests a cut of Star War Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker that is drastically different and better than what was released theatrically last Christmas. This cut was allegedly assembled by George Lucas: the Maker himself. This edit supposedly...
Wednesday, September 09, 2020
First trailer for DUNE is epic!
Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Dune just dropped its first trailer. And it looks insane!! The film itself is due in December and here's hoping that the theaters (and everything else) will finally be wide open because this looks to be a movie screaming for the big screen experience. Love the reveal of the sandworm!Turn your peepers toward this, ladies and...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
To this blog's friends in Texas and Louisiana:
Thoughts and prayers going out to you as Hurricane Laura approaches.Longtime readers know how much hurricanes and other tropical systems interest me. This one already rivals Katrina. I hope this blog won't be as busy with Laura as it was with Katrina fifteen years ago.(Has it REALLY been that long?)Hurricane Laura as of 06:44 pm EST on August 26 2...
Sunday, August 16, 2020
A scenario
Something put together during the hour of the wolf: that time between 2 and 3 in the morning when you can't sleep and your mind is running through a myriad of thoughts all at once...It goes like this: America is thrown into turmoil as a result of a
November election that sees no clearly declared winner and in fact is
endemic throughout the country's state and local elections. Factor in that the United States is still in the midst of COVID-19...
