It'll be terrible to go back to having free time and lots of energy for things I enjoy

If you have been reading for the duration, thank you, and if I do not return to the blog, have a Merry Christmas and a fine New Year - it can only be better than the one we leave behind.

Cairde - go dtí go gcasfar le chéile sinn arís...

I'm not cynical, I just know that people are terrible

Been out to watch that there Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, aka "Harry Notter", and like the tail end of the Potter movie series, this wasn't for me.  The world it inhabits makes no sense, and yes, I do know I am talking about a fictional reality wherein literally everything is the result of the actions of a wizard - but even so, when the film tells you that wizards hid themselves from humans by creating living stormclouds of rampaging murderous destruction "that would occasionally get out and cause havok", it's not unreasonable to ask how or why they thought this would aid them in their endeavors.  When one character - supposed to be evil - asks whom their magical apartheid serves, it's actually a pretty reasonable question that's never really answered by the film/franchise's own internal logic, and eventually I just had to accept that whoever this was aimed at, it wasn't me.

You're what my teacher calls "the crackpot vote"

Today America goes to the polls - tomorrow, America goes to the dogs.  Basically, right now it's like that bit at the end of The Day The Earth Caught Fire with SPOILERS FOR THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE the two different newspaper headlines, one saying "Earth Saved" and the other saying "Earth Doomed" and the slobs in the newspaper office are sitting around waiting to hear which one to send to print, only in the real world, both headlines currently say "America Fucked."
It's not the far right who's to blame, though, nor is it the fault of the far left - it's the fault of the "moderates" who believed that nothing bad would come of creating a mythical center ground of politics defined by monied elites with an apathetic paid-for political commentariat barking along from the sidelines.  Nothing changes, no-one has the power to truly change things, and corporations and bankers get a free pass to foreclose on everyone's homes and businesses - yeah, people were going to just sit back and take that, they were never going to go to the fringe parties and candidates you fucking arseholes.

You tell one story where an uncle marries his daughter and suddenly you're the incest guy

I had to take a brief hiatus from the blog to finish up a wee Halloween comic with Lee Robson, which can be found HERE, HERE, or HERE for free - though you can also make a token payment of the amount of your choosing if you so wish.  You won't end up supporting my creative endeavors as I think my downward trajectory has me fast approaching the twin towers of Failure and Regret at terminal velocity, but Lee might enjoy having British pounds in his pocket while they're still worth at least four fifths of  what a Euro is - yes, THOSE Euros.

His wife went into premature labor and blah, blah, blah

Just in case any among the 14 regular weekend visitors who seem to be reading War Cars when I can be bothered to post it are interested, here's some old War Cars line art I found in my travels because yes I am still doing this.
Eagle-eyed readers will spot where the art that appeared in the actual comic was changed from the original linework you see here, presumably because the editors at the time didn't think anyone would really believe an artist from 1983 would have been quite so technically incompetent and it might be an idea to have another pass at it so it appeared more convincing...ly the work of someone from that era.
No, I don't know why I still bother, either, but here we are.

I spent so long looking the other way my neck got tired

Star Command is faintly embarrassing but enjoyable bunkum, which can be viewed on Youtube alongside the similar Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy, a failed tv pilot from Joe Dante of a similar bent,.about spaceship people fighting off a rising menace and the Coming Storm blah de blah de blah - you know the sort of thing, they were like a televisual pox in the late 1990s and somehow of all of them, Star Trek Voyager managed to stick around.
Anyhoo, while there's a ton of this stuff available on Youtube, I wouldn't go so far as to say the people who own the rights to it are "okay" with it being there so much as they've given up trying to track it down and get it deleted, but I suspect there's also an element of their selling their catalogue of old tosh on to streaming content providers like Netflix or Hulu or Chumbawumba or whatever as a big batch and figure they've made what they're like to make out of it and now it's someone else's problem.  Whatever the case may be, I bring it up to both fill a few paragraphs, and because it's interesting to see it alongside fan productions and short movies of often-higher quality, particularly Star Trek Continues and the odd Star Wars effort.
The idea that there's an even playing field between professional and fan-produced content is fascinating to someone like me, seeing as how I am throwing content at the internet like a crazy person and never placing any value on it or even trying to promote it.

It's Wednesday - don't you have some intercourse to do?

I blame Spartacus for making me think "oh good, John Hannah is in this" when his name pops up in the credits of something or other, but his presence couldn't save the movie Alleycats - at least, I assume he couldn't save it as I could only manage eleven minutes and ten seconds of it before the cast became unbearable to watch.  When they start whooping and driving their bicycles like a bunch of twats around London streets I just thought "no" and turned it off.  To put some perspective on how unlikable they are, I am actually a cyclist myself, but the young actors in this did just too good a job of playing a bunch of cunts.
To be fair, the makers work hard to make you turn the film off, as one of the characters is a smoker, and given the rarity of smoking onscreen these days to reflect the real world, you know this is an aesthetic choice, and that the makers think this will make their character an edgy outlaw from the off rather than simply letting the audience know that the character is smelly and doesn't care much for the concept of personal space.
Basically, Alleycats is a movie for people who hate cyclists and don't want their worldview challenged.