Friday, May 6, 2022

THE END OF THE QUEST: AN INSTANT STOP MOTION CLASSIC

Hey folks! One thing y'all might not know about me is that I am a patron of a small handful of online "creatives" whom I believe somehow bring extra value of some sort to my life. One of those people is the Lone Animator, also known as Bluworm, a very talented Scandinavian stop motion animator and Lovecraft fan who enjoys bringing Lovecraft's creations (among others) to life with his fingers, wires and clay. The video below is his latest, and the first to feature my nom-de-guerre in the "Special Thanks To" credit sequence at the end. 
 

In the above film, Bluworm manages to convey so much in such a short amount of time, and with such economy of elements, that one can't help but be impressed. With nothing but a hopper full of raw materials, brought to life by his own hands, powered by nothing but his breath and prodigious imagination... he has created a world entire, a world of beauty, of danger, of fearsome beasts and hidden wisdom waiting to be discovered and applied, in the hopes of changing that world for the better. It really is nothing less than a classic in miniature! And I suspect y'all might enjoy it as much as I did, so I'm sharing it here... ENJOY!

Saturday, January 8, 2022

FREE ONLINE DOCUMENTARY: DAY OF RAGE

 


Everyone should watch this excellent New York Times documentary, which was culled from thousands of hours of videos from protestors and police body cams, as well as archived audio, telling the story of the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Suffice it to say, America as a nation still has yet to begin the process of reckoning with exactly what happened on that fateful day.

Monday, January 3, 2022

THE NEXT BIG CONSPIRACY THEORY?

Now, after the Mud Flood Theory failed to gain much traction in the cultural zeitgeist and the Mandela Effect is pretty much done running its course, it seems as though the long-simmering Secret Space Program conspiracy theory is poised to be the Next Big Thing in the world of spectrum-dwelling sci-fi conspiranerds who make up, then back up, each other's increasingly ludicrous claims about what they've experienced, witnessed and done, here on Earth, on the Moon, on Mars and yes, even in far flung galaxies clear on the other side of the Universe! 


The nature of how these beliefs come to pass has always been one of the major issues of interest harbored by yer old pal Jerky in his ramblings for the Daily Dirt (circa 1999-2006 and beyond), so when I came across this mini-documentary on Youtube, I thought I might as well share it with y'all... because I liked it, and because it says a lot about the methodologies and mindsets in question. Enjoy!

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

DARK MONEY IN THE COURTS, A FREAK IN THE SHEETS!


In today's episode of Some More News, Cody and the gang (including a whacked-out alternative timeline version of Cody) do a deep dive on Brett Kavanaugh, The Federalist Society, and the rich, religious, conservatives who are taking over our courts. 

This is MUST WATCH material, and hopefully the basis for future much-needed reform, review, and - if we're lucky enough - recall.

Friday, April 2, 2021

THE TIME HAS COME TO RIGHT A WRONG


I think it's time every American who is interested in fairness, proportion, propriety and justice take a good hard look at what happened to Senator Al Franken, and begin thinking about how best to right that wrong. Click through to this story and you have the option not just of reading it, but of listening to it be read to you by the author. It's a compelling, in-depth history of a recent miscarriage of American justice.

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

PERHAPS THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING

You know your friends who just doesn't seem to get it? The ones who, even if they won't come out and say they support Trump, say stuff like "at least he's better than Clinton/Pelosi/AOC/Biden" or whoever the most recent Two Minute Hate has been directed towards in the media they consume? Do you find yourself struggling to understand how they got that way? 

Adopting a position of dismissive skepticism towards every single expert proclamation, yet infinitely gullible to the obvious lies and utterly transparent frauds of grifters, madmen, and bad faith radicalizers? 

Willing to believe any absurdity as long as it dovetails with their pre-existing beliefs? 

Absolutely inoculated against the truth, reason, and plain common sense? 

Well, maybe it's time you pinched your nose, held your breath, and exposed yourself to the media they consume. Even if only for a few short minutes. It may well be the first step towards understanding the five years we've just gone through together*...


*The whole story of the rise of the New Fascist International(e) is actually a LOT longer than that, but I've recently realized it's going to take a far better person than me to help bring that story to a mass audience.

Monday, December 14, 2020

THE ULTIMATE SUMMATION, BY GRUMPY GEEZER

DOWNFALL!
Bunker Boy starts his run for the Big House


By Grumpy Geezer (Nov. 17, 2020)


No grace, no dignity, no humility, no magnanimity, no class, no morals, no empathy, no soul.

He has no friends, not even a dog.

His wife can’t bear his touch, his daughter can’t avoid it.

Devoid of humour he doesn’t make jokes, he doesn’t laugh. Not ever. An occasional dismal rictus, a necrotic gash in his ochre-lacquered face-bladder signifies nothing more than his satisfaction in transacting another con.

He’s a loathsome coagulation of every human failing with no compensating virtues.

A craven coward.

A sociopath.

A serial rapist.

A racist.

A quisling.

An opportunistic grifter.

An inveterate cheat.

A deceitful toad.

A chronic liar.

A shameless braggart.

An ignoramus who lacks curiosity. He doesn’t read, he doesn’t care.

Trump is a ridiculous, combed-over cartoon villain, a deranged clown with a face sprayed the colour of hang-over piss and toilet paper stuck to his shoe whose wits are defeated by an open umbrella. Rake the forests, nuke the hurricanes, inject the bleach, waterbomb Notre Dame cathedral, trade Greenland for Puerto Rico. Trump’s pompous idiocies are exceeded only by his appalling ignorance.

Crediting the British with the foresight to build airstrips in the war of independence 110 years before the Wright Brothers first took flight, revealing the hitherto unknown Himalayan countries of Nipple and Button, accusing Baltic leaders of starting Balkans wars! This clueless buffoon brags that he was able to keep the crayon inside the lines on his dementia test. Accusing Trump of a lack of self-awareness is like accusing Myra Hindley of poor child care standards.

To read the rest of this magnificent rant (and trust me, it gets better), simply CLICK HERE.

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

TRAITOR SAYS WHAT?


Guilty-as-Hell traitor Michael Flynn, who just got a pardon from the Trump, is now calling for a SUSPENSION OF THE CONSTITUTION and MARTIAL LAW because of (nonexistent) election fraud. And this is just the tiniest portion of the absolute insanity that the Far Right have unleashed since their best efforts to steal yet another election out from under the Democrats failed less than a month ago. 

Of course, nobody in the GOP seems to have an issue with any of this. What in the name of highfalutin' HELL is going on with these Republicans?! They are pretty obviously terrified of something being exposed starting January 20th, and based on their behavior, it must be huge, and it must be REALLY fucking bad. 

Any of y'all got any guesses?

Monday, November 23, 2020

FEAST UPON THEIR FEAR. LET THEIR HATRED FOR YOU EMPOWER YOU.

 


Got any other videos showcasing MAGA morons suffering from mental breakdowns as their illusions shatter all around their heads? Send them my way and I'll try to post them for everyone to see!

Sunday, October 18, 2020

SENATOR WHITEHOUSE (D-RI) TRACKS FASCIST DARK MONEY TRAIL TO THE SUPREME COURT

...and what a magnificent job he does of it, too. 

Fully aware that he has a better chance of getting a public blowjob out of Amy Coney Barrett than he does of getting her to spill even 10cc of truth, he ignores her altogether during his time at bat, choosing instead to educate the American public on the specifics of the the dark money trail leading to the coterie of fascist activist billionaires and the organizations they have created and funded in order to, for all intents and purposes, enact a full-blown takeover of the nation's highest, most powerful, Court of Last Resort.

Furthermore, he explains exactly why and how the Republican party's credibility is dying in that room. No exaggeration, no joke. Watch the video, and share it with all your friends.

Monday, October 12, 2020

KEITH OLBERMANN IS BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER!

In this, his fourth video report since his much-appreciated surprise return to the New Fascist International(e) beat, Keith takes on Republican efforts at packing the Supreme Court with dangerous young Far Right activist lunatics. I strongly urge you all to subscribe to Keith's new Youtube channel, and to also go back and watch his first three videos. They're all excellent, information-rich slabs of justifiably outraged polemic.


 If you're still on the fence about whether or not you're ready to pick up the Olbermann habit, allow me to inform you that this particular edition has some hilariously ironic news about the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, which was announced last week, and which didn't really make big waves in the news cycle at the time. Obviously, it wasn't Trump. It would have been big news if he'd won. No, the winner this year is an altogether more modest organization called the World Food Program. 

The long-time board leader of the US branch of this charity?

Hunter Biden.