Day Seventeen: The Nice Guys (MotM 2020)

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The Nice Guys features two actors that I’m very intimately familiar with. Russell Crowe was the lead in Cinderella Man, which I used to consider my favorite film of all time. Ryan Gosling in the lead in Blade Runner 2049, which I consider my current favorite film of all time. With good reviews attached to this film around the time of its release, I made it a point to watch it… eventually. Some time (just less than a year) after I asked my mother to record it with our fancy smart TV, I got to it. Ended up being a decent choice. Continue reading “Day Seventeen: The Nice Guys (MotM 2020)”

An Ode to shoe0nhead

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lowercase letters because a e s t h e t i c.

some history:

i first discovered shoe upon reading an encyclopedia dramatica article on boxxy, with whom shoe has been compared to heavily upon establishing herself within the internet world. (there is no longer any connection to shoe on boxxy’s article.) at that point she only had a few youtube videos up, the latest (from what i recall) being “the social justice league vs. gamers.” “oppression olympics,” which would become her rise to internet stardom, along with the aforementioned video, were poignant among the then rise of the gamergate controversy, which caused an internet shitstorm decrying journalist corruption on one side and misogyny on the other. seeing as i was passionately for the side of journalistic reform, it was nice to have someone to latch onto to reaffirm my own opinion, as the only place that did otherwise (from my list of follows at the time) was the aforementioned encyclopedia dramatica (but its hard to take them seriously in most cases). Continue reading “An Ode to shoe0nhead”