Sorry, Couldn't Find Anything Closer To "Alabama"
Earlier this afternoon Your Humble Scribe was scrolling through various Netflix options on The Mansion's lounge monitor, because it's a great big model that delivers a whole lot more Ooomph than my laptop's much smaller screen. In my vain search for Season Two of "Doom Patrol" I encountered a television series which called itself "Sweet Home", not to be confused with "Sweet Tooth" or "Enola Homes", which appeared to be a post-apocalyptic series from Korea. Art!
Surprise! It's neither sweet nor homely.
It begins promisingly enough, with a teenager staggering through a snowstorm into the gunsights of dozens of soldiers, ignoring various stirring monsters hidden under the snow as they sniff the air - And it gets a rating of 7.3 on IMDB, which is pretty good. Conrad has never heard of it before; it's based on a webcomic that did astoundingly well. I confess <the shame! the shame!> to listening to a version dubbed into South Canadian; well if it's that good I'll go back and play it in the original Klingon Korean.
Take it for granted that, when we talk about Korean films or television programs on the blog, we are talking of SOUTH Korea. The Western world is not yet ready for the North Korean epic ten-hour long miniseries "Tractor Ploughing Potato Field" nor the eighteen hour sequel "Glorious Patriotic Victory Success Of Peasants Planting Rice". One day, perhaps. Art!
Now we know some Korean. Lucky us!
Conrad really must go back and finish watching "My Love From The Star" if it's still available.
And yes, I know I mis-spelled "Homes". It's funnier that way.
Motley! Wrap yourself in this lead-weave fabric. We're going to do a Home test. That is, a Homing All the Way Killer missile test. Better get running.
Does This Bug You, Vince?
Okay, here's a name to roll around your mouth: Vincent Bugliosi. Conrad had heard the name in vague connections to Something Relevant and left it at that.
However! Vinnie's name came up in a mention on 'Skeptoid' when they were analysing why people believe conspiranoid loonwaffle nonsense rather than the plain and obvious truth. Vince had a notable career as a prosecuting attorney in South Canada, winning something like 104 cases out of 105. One of those was against the feral bloodthirsty numpties of the murderous Manson mob, which he later wrote about (as co-author) in a work titled "Helter Skelter". Art!
I had not realised how insanely successful this work was; it has sold over 7 million copies since it's publication back in 1974 and is the best-selling true crime book ever. That's quite a title to hold for 47 years. Art!
Vinnie.
What interested Conrad was a later work, which, if Art will put down his plate of anthracite -
Vinnie had a high-minded conceit for this work; to demolish the enormous array of conspiracy theories that have evolved about the assassination of JFK. He laid waste to something like 815 different conspiracy theories which required a total of 83 gunmen, although I am not sure if these are all different or are combinations of same. Don't forget, most of these conspiranoid swivel-eyed rantings are totally incompatible with each other.
Dog Buns! Another book I am going to HAVE to buy <wallet squeaks in anguish> - in the same way as - Art!
David Irving looking verrrrry shifty there
We may come back to more on Vinnie, as he was at least as interesting as the cases he first prosecuted and then later defended.
Progress To Date
If you know Conrad at all then you know he tends to get a bit <ahem> involved in whatever has caught his attention and focussed his fancy, and my Crossword Jigsaw Puzzle is just one of those things. Art!
"The Expanse: Season Five"
Holy heck! I finished watching this season last night, thanks to my purchase of a book via Amazon. Without going into detail, we see a major supporting character killed, and a major character full stop get killed, both in ways that were not present in the novels. Art!
Amos tries to bring his cuddly teddy-bear aboard
At the very end of the last episode, the appallingly powerful and vindictive entities that finished off the Ring Builders have awoken, and they consume one of the rebel warships as it tries to make transit to Laconia. This is more of a background issue in the novels, where there is a gap of decades between Volume 6 and Volume 7. In fact, this gap might be the reason that Amazon want to end with Season 6, because they can finish off without the whole Laconian imperial invasion of Volume 7, tying things off without needing more time and money invested.
Well, perhaps. On the other hand, if Jeff Bezos can come in and finance this series at the last minute for another three seasons after Season Three, who's to say Richard Branson or Elon Musk won't step in and rescue it likewise?
Hmmm perhaps they already have ...*
Finally -
Apologies if you were expecting a continuation of the Cock Robin murder trial, as we now need to wait for a psychiatric report, and also the undertakers need to get busy with their carpentry. Not only that, I've not perused my "Greece And Rome At War" yet, which I shall have to undertake** before making any bold pronouncements about zombies versus the gladius. Or, if you like, "Mortui Viventes" versus the gladius. How howlingy ironic, using a zombie language to describe zombies!
* This may be complete horse-puckey, even if - Dammit! - a man can dream.
** Do you see what - O you do.
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