#Miscellaneous
‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ Empire Cover: Neon Nights In The Cosmos
New cover of Empire features the Galactic Squad in its newest iteration. Neat? Sure! I don’t know. I just really want this fucking movie.
Next ‘Terminator’ Movie Cancelled, Arnold Schwarzenegger Done With Franchise
Wait for it. The next Terminator movie has been…Wait. Wait. Wait. Terminated! Fuck, fuck I hate myself. And, should the franchise ever come back, it will be without Schwarzenegger.
‘Space Race’ Is ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Director Dan Trachtenberg’s Next Movie
Director Dan Trachtenberg has his next movie lined up, and it’s a big budget mofuckah’ titled Space Race. Little is known about the flick, but I’m down for anything the director is working on.
Last ‘Game of Thrones’ Season Will Be Only Six Episodes
Game of Thrones‘ eighth season will be its last. It’ll also be its shortest, by a considerable margin.
Nintendo Switch Fastest Two-Day Seller In Nintendo Console History
Many have wondered why Nintendo would rush out the broken-ass, under-supported, overly expensive Nintendo Switch. This is why. In case you were wondering.
‘Wonder Woman’ Villain Will Be Played By ‘Harry Potter’ Actor David Thewlis
Lupin is coming to the DCU! Hopping ship from one of the most beloved franchises in Hollywood history to one of its most renowned dumpster fires.
Microsoft Revealing Its Xbox Project Scorpio On June 11
As someone who buys every new console, and is the contradiction of being both a console gamer and a graphics whore, I’m sweating this news.
Joe Carnahan Directing ‘The Raid’ Remake Starring Frank Grillo
The Raid is getting remade by Joe Carnahan, and it’s starring Frank Grillo. I’m stoked by this news, as I’m a fan of the actor smashing skulls. Looking gruff and sexy. Smashing more skulls.
‘Han Solo’ Movie Adds ‘Westworld’ Fave Thandie Newton
Thandie Newton has joined the cast of the Han Solo movie. She…she gotta be playing Han Solo’s wife, right?
Monday Morning Commute: Remember the Bloodletting
It was the morning of the Harvest Festival. My thirteenth Harvest Festival. And as such, I was going to get to prove my Worth to the Tribe. I was going to sacrifice Demeter, the family ram, in front of the Great Altar, and in doing so I’d be acknowledged as a Member Whose Voice is Heard.
It was to be a bloody, gruesome, and glorious rite of passage.
But I woke up to Skinny Tina, my kid sister, screeching “He stoled it! He stoled Demeter!”
“Who stole Demeter?”
“Peter-Boy!”
Peter-Boy was my rival, and not in no friendly way, neither. His family’d provided more for him than they’d ever should have. And the Tribe’d provided more than it should have. But he just couldn’t get his shit together. So when he lost his family’s goat just a week before his thirteenth Harvest Festival, he found himself in the most unenviable position of not having a viable sacrifice for the Great Altar.
No sacrifice, no way to prove Worth to the Tribe. And let me tell you, the stink of trying to prove your Worth during your fourteenth Harvest? It don’t dissipate quick.
So when I gently instructed Peter-Boy to “Give me back the ram or I’ll tear your goddamn lungs outta yer chest” it shouldn’t’ve been no surprise that he’d flash a blade. But! It shouldn’t’ve been no surprise to him when I flashed my own. We darted and slashed and dashed, and when it was all over there was a clear victor.
That nite, I became a Member Whose Voice is Heard. And I did it by spilling blood for the second time that day. And it was bloody and gruesome and glorious.
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Welcome to the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE! Remember way back in kindergarten when you’d have to bring in something to show the class? And then you’d tell the class all `bout it? And everyone would get excited? And then you’d kinda forget that you were even in the Indoctrination Camp school in the first place?
Think of the MMC as the same idea, just amplified in importance. What sort of pop culture, subculture, and uncultured nonsense are you going to consume to stave off the Void this week?
I’ll get us started!