Good morning all! Hope everyone is doing well. I just wanted to do a quick update on things here with me and what’s going on with the blog. My output has not been what I wanted it to be when I started this thing back up. I still don’t really have a focus as to what I want to say. It will come, it is just taking longer than I planned.

I do intend to do movie reviews. I posted on Twitter a set of horror movies I bought. Pic right below. I will be doing reviews and trying to put a spin of the traditional review. We will see. Also I will still be talking about issue in the world that concern me. There is so much out there. Also, I want to have fun. It’s not all gloom and doom. I ask you to please have some patience with me as I find my way. Thanks!!

Good morning all. Hope everyone had a nice weekend! Now it’s Monday and all the fun is gone, just like Godzilla: King of the Monsters! I went to see that Sunday. I was trying to really put my finger on why I didn’t enjoy it. There are a lot of technical things: bad casting, horrible dialog, insane plot. My biggest complaint, however, was that the movie just wasn’t fun. It was over the top, but it was played very straight and serious, up to the point where there is just unintentional moments of comedy. The actual moments when jokes are used, they fall flat. Very flat. Maybe I’m just too big of a fan of the Japanese movies and the guy running around in a rubber suit. There is a campiness to that and the material is not taken too seriously and they are fun. This one is taken WAY too seriously. Every scene is just over the top. For me, it was just a bland movie with good CGI. Nothing new to offer.

Take care!

Hello there all. Hope everyone is doing well and I hope everyone is safe in Dayton Ohio. They were hit with tornadoes this weekend and they had a lot of storm damage. I know a handful of people there and thankfully everyone is doing well.

So this weekend was a testament to me doing absolutely nothing productive. After watching John Wick III Saturday, the rest of my weekend was spent between watching movies and playing Tomb Raider. I didn’t watch anything remarkable movie wise, but I have to say I had a lot of fun with Tomb Raider. To be specific I played Shadow of the Tomb Raider. I think by now most people have played Tomb Raider in some form, so I won’t go into details, but needless to say it was very addicting to me. The funny thing is, it’s not even the best game I’ve ever played, but I was compelled to keep moving forward to see what happens next.

Other than that, didn’t do a lot. Had a bad night Sunday where I could not sleep. Not sure what happened there. Watched YouTube and putzed around all night.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Good morning all! Saw John Wick 3 today. I have to say it’s fun. I enjoyed it a lot! Not a lot of plot to get in way of the action. That’s the best way to describe it. It’s fun, violent and a tad gory. I do think it was a little too long. A couple of the action scenes dragged a little too much, but overall it works. This is not a high brow movie at all. If you want to see a lot of action, this is definitely the movie for you!

Take care!

Good evening all. It has been a couple of days hiatus for me. Saturday was spent bumming around and today was spent running errands and Mother’s Day stuff. Not my mom, but my godkid’s mom. It was a nice day and I wish all of you moms a happy mother’s day!

On to the topic at hand: love. This is the second part of my peace love and understanding write up. I think Mother’s Day is an appropriate day to talk about love. What’s more beautiful and pure than a mother’s love? Sometimes however, a mother’s love can be twisted and have dire consequences for the rest of us. Of course I’m talking about those wonderful mothers who don’t believe in vaccinating their children. I’m not gonna go into the research that basically prove vaccinations do not cause autism. (Thanks Jenny McCarthy for bringing so much misinformation that we have fucking measles breaking out throughout the country). These mothers who believe in this anti-vaccination nonsense say they love their children and don’t want to being harm to them. Well despite tons of evidence to the contrary, your love for your child is making other kids sick. IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU!!! Just take a second and re-read that last statement. Let it sink in. I really don’t think I have to hammer that point in any harder. Get your fucking kids vaccinated.

Now that I’m through with that rant, let’s focus on love and how there seems to be some much less of it these days. I suppose every generation has said that at one point in time, but with social media and 24 hour news, we can just flip a switch and see how little love is in the world. What has caused love for your fellow human to be such a passive and unimportant emotion? Why is it laughed at in certain circles in this country. (I could be referencing Republicans and “Christians”).

I wonder if we are quickly becoming a world of sociopaths. There is so little emphaty out there anymore. I don’t want to bleed over into understanding, but it’s hard to talk about love without mentioning understanding. They go hand in hand. Murder, rape, poverty, hunger, pick your topic. They are glossed over on the news. These are buzz words now. We might weep for a day, but then we go the next day and concentrate on what the Kardashians are doing. If we could somehow focus the love and keep the fires burning tomorrow and not just as it happens I believe we could start and make things better.

That’s all I have for tonight. I hope you take this to heart and bring some love into the world.

Take care!

Good evening all! I hope everyone is well! As promised, I am back with some thoughts about Peace, Love and Understanding or the lack there of. I thought it would be good to break these down over three separate posts, each focusing on one word. Heading into this, I wasn’t really sure what I was looking to do. Did I want to state the obvious? Did I want to point out specific situations showing how war seems to be a constant state of affairs? It’s all pretty overwhelming. Just think about it. Everyone out there, regardless of age, has seen the world in some form of conflict or another since they have been on this planet. The USA doesn’t necessarily have to be involved, although I will say that we have been in way too many wars or “police actions” or “peacekeeping” actions than I care to remember. Whatever sanitized word you use, the end result is bodies no longer alive. Children no longer able to play, parents no longer able to care for those children. What is it all for? Land? Oil? Religion? Pride? Hate? Yes there is evil in this world and yes it should be stopped. within that, however, there has to be a cost that is assessed. A real human cost.

Some people might say that America should be leading the way in this endeavor since we are still considered the world’s police force. My argument against that is that we have our hand down in the cookie jar too deep. Our history is too filled with dirty deeds to be claiming righteousness. There are too many atrocities that we have overlooked because it doesn’t serve our self interest. Trust me, if Iraq’s main export was paper clips, they would have been left alone and Saddam would have been left running his regime.

Now I am not trying to throw the blame solely on the USA. There is plenty of blood to go around that will never be able to be washed off by many countries. The world is a cesspool when it comes to what it will fight for. People’s lives are in the balance and decisions are being made by people with no expectations of ever being hurt by these decisions. News footage of babies dead, people with limbs being blown off, “friendly fire” incidents all of these images can be seen at any time by just turning on the news. Why do we do all of this? Why are ideas or religious beliefs worth dying for? Isn’t life sacred? I mean I know I am talking in broad terms but these are terms that need to be talked about. Our leaders talk all about the specifics of strategics and the political reasons we are in an area. They can point on a map and give us body counts, but can’t tell us why innocents have to die so we can keep gas under $3.00 a gallon. Maybe I sound like a hippy out of time, but I believe the world can use more of that. We should be working towards Utopia. Our goals as a human race need to trump the petty and hateful policies that the world have developed.

This is a roundabout way to lead me back to my blog title today. Peace..The Final Frontier. Please bear with me with this next paragraph. It might sound silly, but I think there is a good idea here. In the world of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, the world had finally somehow managed to get past its squabbles and was working to the betterment of humankind. Poverty had been eradicated, science, art and enlightenment has reached the world. It was working together under the command of the Federation to reach new worlds. Logic and science and freedom were the key concepts. I understand this was a TV show and is make believe, but it is a vision of what could be if we could just let go. Let go of the hate, let go of the greed and all of the negative ideas that consume us. Peace should be the goal not just a dream that seems unattainable. There is nothing wrong with feeling this way. Why is it considered weakness not to want people to die? In the end we all end up the same. Why spend all of these precious days we have fighting and speeding along the inevitable? The war machine needs to be dismantled. We need more peace. We need more people to speak out for it. Let’s hope that the future will treat us better than the past and present has.

Live long and prosper my friends