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Myersvision: The Last of Us (TV Series)

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Dear old Audre Myers e-mailed Ponty and me a couple of Sundays ago recommending the HBO Max series The Last of Us, based (albeit, I suspect, somewhat loosely) on the video game of the same name.  I’ve never played either of the two TLoU games, but I am quite familiar with the controversy surrounding the sequel, which went fully woke.  It is a classic scenario:  a hugely successful cultural phenomenon gets hijacked—willingly or otherwise—by the Cultural Marxists and becomes a pitiful version of its former self.  The Cult Marxists hope to trade on the popularity of the intellectual property or franchise by shoehorning their bizarre beliefs into it, thereby reaching a massive audience before everyone sours on it.

It’s a fundamentally vampiric, parasitic relationship:  the healthy host rapidly loses whatever cultural cache it enjoyed, becoming an insufferable, withered husk of its former self.

I was not surprised in the slightest that Ponty reacted so negatively to Audre’s request that one of us review the show.  As an avid gamer who (it seems) enjoyed The Last of Us video game and despised its woke sequel, I knew the suggestion would touch a nerve.  Poor Audre had no idea; I hope Ponty wasn’t too hard on her!

So, I proposed that Audre write a review.  I’ll check out the show when I’m able, but she is the queen of television reviews around here.

With that, here is Audre Myers’s review of the television series The Last of Us:

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Myersvision: The Face of Bigfoot?

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Audre’s convalescence has coincided with a revival in her bigfoot scribblings, and I couldn’t be happier.  I’m chiefly pleased because Audre is doing better, but I’m also thrilled she’s sending along Bigfoot content (“Footent?”) again.

This week’s submission involves a very lifelike—but, I would argue, clearly manipulated—image that purports to be a close-up photo of the big lug.  The picture looks very much like a person—indeed, I have worked with and seen people who look like the creature in the photo (no offense intended).

Audre has more to say on the matter, and dips into the often discouraging world of online Bigfoot investigating.

With that, here is Audre on the face of Bigfoot:

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Myersvision: Bigfoot Attack

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Our dear Audre Myers is back after a medical hiatus.  I won’t go into details—that’s for Audre to do, if she decides to do so—but she’s endured some harrowing experiences with those parts of the medical system that operate outside of the good hospitals and doctors.  It’s a shame that there are so many incompetent fools given charge over our elderly.  There’s a special place in Hell for them.

Regardless, she made it out alive, as did the young man in this video.  The title of this post is my own sensationalist invention—gotta get those clicks!—but I’m sure it felt like an attack to the man recording it.

I’m always skeptical of Bigfoot talk.  As I’ve written many times before, I want Bigfoot to be real, but the alleged “evidence” is frequently suspect, and I think there’s a high degree of seeing what we want to see in Bigfoot footage.  It doesn’t help that the “field” of cryptozoology is full of charlatans and conmen.

I trust and respect Audre, however.  She’s not trying to con anyone.  That said, her language in this post suggests the strong desire for Bigfoot to be real.  I don’t doubt that we can “know [things] in a special kind of way,” as Audre writes, but that doesn’t necessarily hold up to scientific scrutiny.

For what it’s worth, I think the footage is intriguing.  I also think it’s a bear.

Watch for yourself and let me know what you think.

With that, here’s Audre:

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Lazy Sunday CXXXV: Best Myersvision Posts of 2023

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After giving Ponty some love last week, I decided to do one more edition of Lazy Sunday highlighting the best-performing guest posts of 2023.  This time around, it is our dear Audre Myers, author of the Myersvision series of posts, enjoying the limelight.

Again, the usual notes:  these are not necessarily the best posts qualitatively—although they are quite excellent, as is all of Audre’s writing—but merely the Myersvision posts with the highest views.  Note that all of Audre’s writing deserves more clicks and views, so get to it!

  • “Myersvision: Hoarders” (55 views) – Audre’s review of the A&E series Hoarders, which is such a sad but fascinating show.
  • “Myersvision: ‘Ode to the PB&J’” (51 views) – Ponty somehow does not like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, so I asked Audre to set our boy straight with this bit of whimsical doggerel.
  • “Myersvision: Theme Music” (35 views) – When she’s not waxing lyrical about sandwiches, Audre praises the great television theme music of our age.

Happy Sunday!

—TPP

Other Lazy Sunday Installments:

Myersvision: Open Your Eyes

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Senior correspondent and cryptid expert Audre Myers sends me a lot of Bigfoot footage, almost all of which I can find some hole to poke my skeptic’s waggling finger through with good-natured vigor.  I suspect that as eagle-eyed as she is, Audre sees with the eyes of a true believer, and sometimes sees what she wants to see.  Thus it is for all of us, for different things.

But this time, I think she might be onto something.  I think she vastly underestimates how good (and cheap) practical effects work is these days, and how a truly committed hoaxster could put together a pretty convincing Bigfoot outfit if he wanted to do so.

But, again, something about this video really is compelling.  Naturally, it has all the shortcomings of the typical Bigfoot footage—blurry, for example—but it makes sense in this context.

I’ll let you decide for yourself.  With that, here’s Audre, encouraging you to “Open Your Eyes”:

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Myersvision: Audre’s Exorcism

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Last Thursday Audre Myers e-mailed me a comment for my post “TBT^4: Things That Go Bump in the Night” (she’s having some issues logging into WordPress to comment—d’oh!).  I asked if I could post it on the blog as its own post, and she agreed.

The title I’ve given her comment-post is a bit of artistic license; I’m sure Audre would not call it an “exorcism,” but she definitely cast something out in the Name of Jesus Christ.

It’s become a trope in horror films, especially of the demonic possession variety, that messing around with fortune telling, Ouija boards, etc., opens one up to demonic influence.  I suspect that our habitual sins open us up far more frequently, but I also strongly believe we shouldn’t mess around with the occult, even in a supposedly playful manner.  I know Ouija boards are mass-produced by Milton Bradley, which somehow takes away some of the demonic mysticism of them; still, I imagine Satan loves the Industrial Revolution and mass production.

We have victory in Jesus.  Praise the Lord!

With there, here is Audre’s fascinating tale of victory in Christ:

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Myersvision: The Great British Baking Show

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We all have our comfort foods.  Mine are probably mashed potatoes and my Mom’s meatloaf, or perhaps her barbecue chicken.  She also makes an incredible chicken casserole.  Pretty much anything she cooks or bakes is comfort food, I suppose.

But what happens when comfort foods collide with comfort television?  That’s the case with Audre Myers‘s review of a beloved Netflix series.

I won’t spoil the scones any further.  Here’s Audre on The Great British Baking Show:

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Lazy Sunday CXXII: Myersvision, Part IX

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I’m hosting a FREE listening party for my latest release, Spooky Season, tonight, Sunday, 1 October 2023, at 7 PM.  RSVP here.  —TPP

It’s another Sunday of posts from TPP’s favorite (and only) senior correspondent, Audre Myers!

  • “Myersvision: ‘Ode to the PB&J’” – Audre’s poetic apologia for America’s favorite sandwich.
  • “Myersvision: Alexander Scourby” – A honey-throated English actor reads the Bible.
  • “Myersvision: Why?” – I made two mistakes with this post.  First, I posted it on a Thursday on accident, instead of a Wednesday, which meant two consecutive Myersvision posts.  Second, I put a “-” instead of a “:” in the title.  What a fool!  But the post is good—it’s why people dedicate their lives to trying to find Bigfoot.

Happy Sunday!

—TPP

Other Lazy Sunday Installments:

Lazy Sunday CXXI: Myersvision, Part VIII

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Our senior correspondent Audre Myers has been a source of encouragement for yours portly lately, so it seemed appropriate to return to retrospectives of her contributions to this site.  She’s been delivering the goods lately:

Happy Sunday!

—TPP

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Myersvision: How Big is Big?

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Earlier this week our senior cryptid correspondent Audre Myers sent me an intriguing video that seems to depict a Bigfoot sauntering along the side of a Canadian lake near Toronto.  If anyone’s going to be hanging out in Canada, it’s Bigfoot!

Audre makes an interesting point:  could every sighting of the hairy lug really be a guy in a gorilla costume?  That does stretch credulity—except that it’s entirely possible, albeit a tad implausible, that everyone filming is in cahoots with a fellow hoaxer.  The Spiritualist Movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced more charlatans than ghosts.

Regardless, we simply can’t know.  As with everything with Bigfoot, we’re always talking in possibilities, probabilities, likelihoods, etc.  This footage is intriguing, but it’s so easy to doctor video footage, how can we be sure?  Until we have a Bigfoot in captivity or dead on a lab table, we really can’t.

With that, here is Audre with a little note on perspective:

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