…let alone seven. I tried to watch it, I really did. I wanted to like it. I like Guillermo del Toro. But, I’m sorry, it was a very silly movie. It was campier than Alan Cumming in a skirt. The costumes were ridiculous, the acting was hammy at best, especially Oscar Isaac who must have felt his job was to chew up every piece of scenery in the film. Speaking of scenery, that was silly too. From a laboratory that could not have been built in the time in which the movie was set, let alone long before it, since it was abandoned. That’s right, a seven story tall concrete and stone industrial building with massive amounts of ceramic time was so long abandoned that a veritable forest was growing on its walls. In early 1800’s England. How about an open air book market during a rain storm where the books are left out in the rain. Apparently del Toro doesn’t know that at that time it would be like leaving Playstations and Xboxes in the rain today.

Ah well. Hollywood has never been stocked with folks who know how to make a good film. That’s why so few of them are. I just hope it loses on everything. Especially costumes.

I just bought one of these on the recommendation of “Stumpy Nubs“. This thing is great! It pretty much eliminates the need for a drill press for 90% of things you would ever need a drill press for.

Milescraft 1318 DrillMate Portable Drillling Guide – Precision Drilling Jig Attachment for Drilling Angled or Straight Holes, Adjustable Drill Guide Attachment, Portable Drill Press with 3/8” Chuck

Bone is a graphic novel I’ve been aware of but never read. Recently I took the plunge and bought the Complete Bone Saga in the original black and white. 1400 pages of Good stuff! While I don’t think it’s as ground breaking as Watchmen, or The Dark Knight Returns, or as important as Maus, it’s an expansion of what the graphic novel format can be. Really Jeff Smith admits, he was trying to channel Walt Kelly’s Pogo and it shows.

It’s a good yarn, entertaining for adults or kids. Fone Bone and his cousins Smiley Bone and Phoncible P. “Phoney” Bone get lost escaping Boneville and the results of one of Phoney’s many scams. Large rat creatures, dragons, talking animals a major quest and a war of good versus evil follow. If you like stuff like that, and I do, I highly recommend it.

“The Good Place” is a sitcom that ran from 2016 to 2020 on NBC. I had heard good things about it when it started, and saw a few clips. I started watching it about a week ago and I’m in season two at this point. It certainly has my attention. It is rare to see anything original on broadcast T.V., but this is an example. So far, I highly recommend it. Currently streaming on Netflix.

Update! – I finally finished the series. Awesome! Funny and thought provoking for all four seasons. It’s almost “Firefly” good in my opinion. Great show!

From a new travel series in Ireland. First episode, Cleveland!

Nice review of our fair city!