Chad Eagleton's Blog, page 21
June 29, 2016
June 27, 2016
Trending on Facebook
The most interesting thing about the TRENDING ticker along the side of your Facebook feed? Clicking a topic, pretty much any topic, and seeing how many people share and comment on an article while clearly never having read it. Pretty much sums up one of the biggest problems with how we process, share, and deal with information on the internet.
June 24, 2016
T.E.D. Klein's 13 Most Terrifying Stories
I came across this list by the extremely talented but woefully unprofilic T.E.D. Klein. I have not read a couple of these, so it looks like I have a lot of new stories to track down:
THE 13 MOST TERRIFYING HORROR STORIES
Casting the Runes by M.R. James The Novel of the Black Seal by Arthur MachenThe Willows by Algernon BlackwoodThe Dunwich Horror by HPLBird of Prey by John CollierWho Goes There? by Don A. Stuart (John W. Campbell) Antarctic horror, the genesis of The Thing.They Bite...
June 23, 2016
The Karen Problem
I was watching a show the other night and was just totally put off by one of the characters. Couldn't put my finger on it for the longest time. Then it hit me...the character reminds me of Karen from Californication who I absolutely positively hated.The problem with disliking Karen (and I’m not alone in this) is that you were supposed to like her. Her relationship with Hank was the big arc of the show. As much as you wanted it to resolve and Karen to just go away, she’d always come right bac...
June 21, 2016
Life
Think it's about time to rewatch Life. Alongside Terriers, it's probably one of my favorite recent shows that never got a fair shake thanks to the networks and some terrible marketing.
"I want to be the unwobbling pivot at the centre of an ever-revolving universe. I want to be still." --Charlie CrewsHonestly, too, it's a same that both shows didn't come along just a little bit later. I think one of the streaming services would have taken them over in a heartbeat.
June 17, 2016
King of Strong Style
Shinsuke Nakamura's acquisition by the WWE is probably the smartest move they've made in years. Let's hope they don't waste him or completely blow the opportunity.
June 3, 2016
Submission
Showtime finally remembered they used to air The Red Shoe Diaries and greenlit a show called Submission written and directed by the talented Jacky St. James.If you were intrigued by 50 Shades of Grey, Submission tackles similar material but is both far better written and far sexier.
If you were, rightly, put off by 50 Shades of Grey, Submission does NOT portray BDSM as something messed up and dark or attempt to pass off an abusive relationship as an “alternative lifestyle.”
Submission is also j...
June 2, 2016
Agent of Hydra Was A Business Decision
I have a lot of thoughts about the Captain America Agent of Hydra controversy (especially re: “fan entitlement” as an insult to blow off critique) that’ll I’ll get to later but for right now, there are a couple of things that are in the forefront of my mind. First, I think some of the conniption fits like this would just die down if the media wouldn’t turn them into a big deal. But unfortunately, real journalism is dead so things like Captain American secretly being an agent of Hydra get rep...
May 25, 2016
In My Heart Of Hearts
"I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor - even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns, I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero—that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants...
May 18, 2016
Bruce Wayne's Net Worth
I love stuff like this. Bruce Wayne holds the #7 spot on Forbes List of The 15 Wealthiest Fictional Characters:Police were ready to declare Gotham's most eligible bachelor dead after he disappeared from the social scene in 2009. But when the billionaire playboy suddenly reappeared last fall -literally crashing the gates of rapper Sean Combs's annual "White Party" in a Ferrari Enzo-- commissioner James Gordon admitted rumors of Wayne's death were "batty." Shares of Wayne Enterprises stoc...
