Dave "The Knave" White"

Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:14 UTC

TWENTY-SIXTH BOOK OF 2024: "The Golden Spoon" by Jessa Maxwell (2023). A real page-turner, in the best possible sense.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:41 UTC

Surely Pennsic can just make its own damn flag.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:22 UTC

This is a prequel, though, so there's some latitude there, and it's not just following the pattern of the first novel. Also Baldree doesn't seem like he buys his own hype the way Cline does.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:19 UTC

Sometimes when a writer's sophomore outing gives you exactly the same thing it's a bad sign. ARMADA proved Ernest Cline was a one-trick pony with nothing in the bank.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

I am constantly befuddled by people who want to redesign state and city flags based on some weird made-up flag rules. Folks, these flags are purely decorative. No ship or military unit is flying the flag of Pennsylvania or Pittsburgh. Who cares if they're legible from a quarter mile away?

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:58 UTC

This isn't a map of of an underground Turkish City. It's a map of Castle Greyhawk from Dungeons & Dragons. One of the ruins is even labeled "The Tower of Zagyg", for Pelor's sake.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:20 UTC

TWENTY-SIXTH FILM OF 2024: "The Muppets Take Manhattan" (1984). Honestly the only two things I remembered about this movie was the Muppet Babies sequence and Kermit getting amnesia.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:44 UTC

TWENTY-FIFTH BOOK OF 2024: "Bookshops & Bonedust" by Travis Baldree" (2023). I liked the vibe of the first book, and this is more of that, so yay! Still not sure if there's more to this than just vibes. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 03:27 UTC

Audiences don't care about fictional politics. You have to make them care by making the characters involved interesting; making the politics situations analogous to real life; or engaging with the philosophical principles at stake. If you're not going to do that, don't foreground the politics!

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 00:38 UTC

TWENTY-FIFTH FILM OF 2024: "Dune Part 2" (2024). I thought Part 1 was beautiful and dull, and Part 2 did nothing to change that opinion.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:15 UTC

TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF 2024: "How to Sell a Haunted House" by Grady Hendrix. The thing I love about Hendrix's books is that sure, maybe this is a manifestation of childhood trauma and undiagnosed mental illness, but maybe it might also just be an evil puppet, or maybe both?

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 02:15 UTC

TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF 2024: "Dark Wire" by Joseph Cox. An interesting story, told uninterestingly.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:30 UTC

I hate that. Recently I had to turn off a podcast I actually like because they kept saying "Angelican" instead of "Anglican." And they said it a lot.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 21:27 UTC

If you're in the Pittsburgh area: tomorrow night the Mt. Lebanon Public Library is hosting Dr. Edda Fields-Black to talk about Harriet Tubman's adventures during the Civil War. Be there or be square!

mtlebanon.librarycalendar.com/event/combee...

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

These spinoffs from THE BOYS are getting weird.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 16:03 UTC

"Does this have elderberries in it? Because they really aggravate my globant gut and my doctor says I can't have them any more."

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 16:00 UTC

"Globant GUT" is such a terrible name. It sounds like a serious gastrointestinal problem.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 13:55 UTC

Eh, at least they're closer to the actual meaning than chefs are.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 12:26 UTC

TWENTY-FOURTH FILM OF 2024: "The Great Muppet Caper" (1981). My memory had reduced this to disjointed fragments -- Kermit and Fozzie being twins, Gonzo in an overcoat, Charles Grodin being skeevy, Miss Piggy crashing through a window on a motorcycle. The actual movie isn't much more coherent.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 12:23 UTC

TWENTY-SECOND BOOK OF 2024: "Apostles of Mercy" by Lindsay Ellis (2024). These books have never been afraid to go dark, but yikes on a bike.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 00:28 UTC

TWENTY-THIRD FILM OF 2024: "Hundreds of Beavers" (2022). Proof positive that total commitment to a bit can elevate even the sweatiest premise. 10/10, no notes.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 01:58 UTC

TWENTY-SECOND FILM OF 2024: "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964). Because the local rep theater was doing "Spaghetti and a Western" and I love me a good pun. And Clint Eastwood. And meatballs.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 01:00 UTC

TWENTY-FIRST FILM OF 2024: "Suspicion" (1941). Now I want a nice cold glass of milk.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 15:05 UTC

Having an ice cream flavor named for you is the greatest honor the art world can bestow, even greater than winning a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 01:11 UTC

How do you get a license to make money by producing limited edition ranch-flavored Fritos, then fumble the ball by not calling the flavor "Dutton Ranch"?

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 01:14 UTC

TWENTIETH FILM OF 2024: "The Muppet Movie" (1979). A classic as always.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 23:22 UTC

Also, someone finally landed on the space that would give them ownership of Vanna White's soul but then immediately landed on bankrupt and had to give it up. Sorry, Vanna! Guess it's trapped in the wheel for another fifty years.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 23:09 UTC

It was nice that in the prize round some sweet old lady from Skokie won an all-expenses paid trip to "the end of all reason and the death of human sentiment" though I thought it would have been worth a lot more than $8000.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 23:07 UTC

Wow. Was not expecting Pat Sajak's last episode of WHEEL OF FORTUNE to end with daughter Maggie killing him, using body to create the Earth and his head to create the heavens, then hurling his severed genitals into the boiling ocean to birth a new race of gods.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 16:05 UTC

Spaaaace Blazer! #lego

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 22:24 UTC

TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF 2024: "Logan's Run" by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson (1967). The movie is weird and the book is weirder -- but it makes more sense when you place it in the proper context of alarmist works about contemporary youth culture like "Wild in the Streets."

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 18:00 UTC

Unexpected "Death Dealer" sighting at the American Helicopter Museum, West Chester, PA.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 22:19 UTC

TWENTIETH BOOK OF 2024: "A Man Lay Dead" by Ngaio Marsh (1934). A classic.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 11:42 UTC

How is Pittsburgh Regional Transit so bad at every aspect of its job?

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 21:20 UTC

Some days I fear that I am so white I shouldn't even be invited to my own cookouts.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 12:07 UTC

Has it really been five years? Jeebs I'm old.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 18:14 UTC

NINETEENTH BOOK OF 2024: "The Deor Hord" by Hana Videen (2023). Informative, but in a weird area where I wish it was either dryer, or more playful. Probably more playful TBH

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 00:03 UTC

EIGHTEENTH BOOK OF 2024: "The Manicurist's Daughter" by Susan Lieu (2024). Memoirs rarely connect with me. This one just utterly baffled me in a few places. Which, fine, it's someone's real life, you can't expect it to get wrapped up nice and neat but maybe it could be wrapped up neater than this?

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 19, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

I just made a great joke about Linda Ronstadt, but it just blew by you.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 19, 2024 at 02:10 UTC

SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF 2024: "Every Drop Is A Man's Nightmare" by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto (2023). Eleven short stories from a Hawaiian perspective, that walk the line between horror and magical realism. Some really powerful and evocative writing here.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 18, 2024 at 23:54 UTC

Also the digitally de-aged Harrison Ford is rubbery and unconvincing, especially when his face has to interact with anything else.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 18, 2024 at 23:53 UTC

NINETEENTH FILM OF 2024: "Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 3" (2023). Oh hey, I guess Marvel can still make movies that don't completely suck when they get out of their own way.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 18, 2024 at 00:52 UTC

EIGHTEENTH FILM OF 2024: "Ivanhoe" (1952). A rewarch, because @dorothycyborg.bsky.social didn't remember seeing it. Strays from the book a lot but more than makes up for it with a healthy dose of Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Fontaine.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 23:48 UTC

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could..."

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 00:55 UTC

Kwisatz Daderach

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 12:17 UTC

Some of the comedy bits aren't as impactful as they could be. The big swing for the fences scene, where one character strips down in a panic, is the only time we see the character overreact to that extent. As a result it feels like it was dropped in from another script.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 11:57 UTC

SEVENTEENTH FILM OF 2024: "Anyone But You" (2023). Pretty people doing silly things. Never going to be an all-time great but a fun watch.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 11:55 UTC

SIXTEENTH FILM OF 2024: "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" (2023). Pretty good, but it could have easily come in at two hours if you cut some of the action scenes. Because let's face it, after a while they get wearying and the eels add nothing to the plot.

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Dave "The Knave" White" @mrdestructicity.bsky.social [ View ] May 10, 2024 at 17:56 UTC

New techniques in child rearing.

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