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Cake day: January 5th, 2024

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  • Typically I prefer if sex scenes tell us something about the narrative, themes, or characters. It feels dated to just have a scene that only serves to titillate the audience. Like from a generation that was averse to porn consumption or access.

    I absolutely don’t mind if a couple of actors can tell us something about their characters though sex and nudity. It’s part of being human, it’s part of storytelling. But the show should be about something or I’m just gonna get bored.

    That being said, some older movies were spectacle first, light on plot, heavy on nudity and sex, and were meant as light entertainment. They often crossed lines of taste, so not for everyone. Kind of a dead genre, exploitation. I’m an age where I can still appreciate it but often hit a wall of ick and discomfort over badly aged tropes.


















  • It’s funny looking back and thinking about how I used to assume that the opposing party would rain down hellfire on a President that abused his office, thus decorum would keep power in check.

    It wasn’t ever actually true when I was a kid and it’s extremely obvious now that was always theater. There’s almost no one in office with morals, ethics, or courage. It’s a generally craven career full of spineless sycophants and opportunists.

    There are a few decent people who aren’t just pretending to care about the people they work for. But in general it’s a scam, an orphan crushing machine operated by corrupted weirdos.

    I know they have their little justifications behind the scenes. No one will remember them. They’ll just say “Democrats failed to vote in favor of impeachment against the most transparently corrupt President in U.S. history.”