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Halloween Ends

I doubt this is the end, but I’m still kinda psyched.

 

Clerks III

Clerks III, the 8th film in the View Askew series, has finally been released!

 

9/11 photos you will never forget

The 9/11 photos we will never forgetWe look back at some of the most unforgettable photos from the September 11 attacks — and tell the stories behind them.

Racists & bad TV

But of course…the same racists & Trumpers who attacked Star Wars for having people of color in the cast are back because they don’t like a Black elf.

And don’t tell me it’s because Professor Tolkien described them as FAIR and wise.
Because this sad excuse for a “Middle-Earth” series is nothing more than Amazon’s attempt to create their own Game of Thrones using Tolkien’s legendarium as its base. Tolkien fanatics beware. This mildly entertaining program is as disrespectful and blasphemous as Peter Jackson’s Hobbit cash cow. You don’t have to be respectful of every word. Directors and screenwriters are artists too. Jackson created masterpieces with his Lord of the Rings films. (This was before Jackson & Warner Bros. got greedy with The Hobbit, turning a roughly 300 page book into 3 three hour movies…just like they did for LOTR, but that book is almost 1,200 pages.) But Amazon shouldn’t pretend that they’re making a TV series about the astounding world that Tolkien created. They just came up with their own characters and situations, as if there weren’t enough already there. Yes, yes, they only had the rights to the LOTR and its appendices. (Thank god the Tolkien family would never sell the film rights to The Silmarillion!) But they could have easily just started their own fantasy TV series. It’s all about the almighty buck. The sad thing is that some younger viewers who haven’t read the books will think this is what Tolkien’s work is all about.

Original ‘LOTR’ hobbits show support for ‘The Rings of Power’ cast after racist attacks‘Lord of the Rings’ stars Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, and Dominic Monaghan are denouncing racist trolls and showing their support for the ‘Rings of Power’ cast.

Mr. Stern

RIP Mr. Ben Stern

Howard Stern Announces His Father Ben Recently Died at Age 99To honor his father’s life, Howard Stern revealed that he is planning to create a “big painting” of Corwith Barns

The book wars

Schools and libraries, take note: the crazies (the Trumpers) are trying to indoctrinate your children…

#woke
#blacklivesmatter
#metoomovement

A Conservative Publisher Wants to Be the Answer to Liberal Children’s Books. There’s Just One Problem.The books aren’t bad, necessarily. They’re just not for kids.

False prophets

Unbelievably, the fight for the separation of church and state continues. These people want our democratic republic to be a theocracy.

Not on my watch.

#woke
#blacklivesmatter
#metoomovement

Meet the Apostle of Right-Wing Christian NationalismThe new Republican fringe is done with the separation of church and state. William “Dutch” Sheets has been trying to tear down that wall for decades

Jupiter

Jupiter up close…

Even scientists didn’t expect Webb telescope images of Jupiter to be this good | CNNData has traveled across the solar system to make it into the James Webb Space Telescope, and now we get a better look at the planet Jupiter. NASA shared images of the gas giant’s colorful auroras, giant storms and faint rings.

A new galaxy!

Fascinating…

Rare type of galaxy dazzles in new Webb telescope imageThe James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a mysterious and rare cosmic treat called the Carthweel galaxy. This slowly transforming galaxy, created by a collision, is located 500 million light-years away.

Rushdie and book banning

Rushdie has fought censorship since 1988. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania has banned 456 books. Let that sink in for a second: book banning is real.

#woke
#blacklivesmatter
#metoomovement

Opinion: Salman Rushdie has risked his life for decades; US must stand up against censorship, tooThe horrendous attack on Salman Rushdie, an author who has been a champion for free speech and intellectual freedom by putting his life on the line, should be a lesson to the people of his chosen country, writes Rafia Zakaria.