I’m nearly done with the review for my pick for #3 best film, but it’s quite late and I need to turn in after a very long day of magical fun.
As such, in case I don’t get up early enough to write, know that my excellent #3 pick is coming soon!
—TPP
Tag: delay
Arizona and Christmas Travels Preview
My (perhaps disappointed) readers will know that I fell woefully behind on posts earlier this week, delaying both my Monday Morning Movie Review of 1946’s It’s a Wonderful Life (which should be live by the time you read this post) and my Tuesday post. My intent Tuesday was to write a bit of an overview of my travels the week before Christmas into the Christmas weekend. Ironically, those travels, as well as family get-togethers and being a hardworking (if grumpy—from lack of rest, I promise!) uncle created delays in my writing.
That said, I want to make good on my daily posting commitment, so consider this short preview of my recent travels a make-up post for Tuesday. After starving earlier this week for portly content, you might find yourselves soon o’er-engorged with the meaty, chubby goodness of my self-indulgent, navel-gazing posts.
Before launching into the preview, I’ll note that I’ll be dedicating the next two or three editions of SubscribeStar Saturday to more extensive overviews of my travels, complete with loads of pictures and other goodies. If you want to read all about my adventures in Arizona and beyond, subscribe today!
Delayed Monday Morning Movie Review: A Very Portly Christmas: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
My sincerest apologies again to readers: I am extremely delayed with this review (as readers will note, this Monday review is going up on a Thursday—d’oh!). Like a good little port, I re-watched 1946’s It’s a Wonderful Life two or three weeks ago, when Audre, Ponty, and I agreed to review it and the 1951 Alistair Sim version of A Christmas Carol earlier in December. I was writing and editing like the wind to get most everything done before departing for a pre-Christmas trip to Arizona (more on that in a separate post), but didn’t quite manage to get it all done.
As I’ll detail in another post, I spent the first quarter of Christmas Day driving from western Kentucky down through Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Augusta, before finally reaching my parents’ home in western South Carolina. I’d managed to get posts done through Christmas, thanks to a delayed connecting flight in Minneapolis, but was unable to get much more writing done beyond that. Christmas Eve saw me convoying to Kentucky from my older brother’s home in Indianapolis; I spent a frosty Christmas Eve with his in-laws on their farm, before setting out early Christmas morn along the route delineated above.
That’s all to say that, despite my chubbiest efforts, I was not able to get everything done. Facing the prospect of writing this review late on Christmas night, I put it off, hoping I’d knock it out Monday evening—to no avail.
But I digress—enough excuses. What about the film?
SubscribeStar Saturday is Delayed
Hi Readers,
Today’s SubscribeStar Saturday is delayed. I am still recovering from yesterday’s Christmas Concert and a brutal week at work, and my heart and mind are not in it this morning.
I’ll get it up later today or possibly tomorrow.
Apologies to my subscribers.
Sincerely,
TPP
SubscribeStar Saturday: The Ministry of Truth
Today’s post is a SubscribeStar Saturday exclusive. To read the full post, subscribe to my SubscribeStar page for $1 a month or more.
Apologies to subscribers for not getting this piece posted last week as promised. After celebrating a lady friend’s graduation most of the weekend, I was scrambling Saturday and Sunday to take care of other posts and putting together exams. I also overindulged in Civilization VI on Sunday night, so there’s that.
About a month ago, the Biden Administration announced the creation of the Disinformation Governance Board, an Orwellian appendage to the already Orwellian Department of Homeland Security. After a wave of backlash, DHS is backing down temporarily, putting a “pause” on its plans to create the board.
That’s reason to celebrate, but it’s cold comfort. I have little doubt that the Biden Administration will attempt to impanel this board as soon as it thinks it can get away with it.
The very fact that Biden’s puppeteers think they could create such an organization—which, I think we all understand, will almost exclusively target conservatives and others with views contrary to the ruling regime—suggests their overconfidence in the security of their position, as well as their utter contempt for the rest of us.
If the situation were reversed, the Left would cry foul—and rightly so. A government that actively proclaims certain language, speech, opinions, or news as “disinformation” is playing a very dangerous game with free speech. Even if we knew the people in charge of such an organization were striving towards complete impartiality—if such a thing were even possible—the temptation would be incredibly strong for a corrupt or compromised president to bend the board to his will.
Of course, we know the board will be used as yet another bludgeon—a brutal pretext—with which to smash conservative and dissident voices in as many venues as possible. Sure, there will be the “controlled opposition” voices, but the rest of us will find ourselves in a bad spot, indeed.
That’s why it’s imperative we continue to ridicule the government for even dreaming up such an institution.
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SubscribeStar Saturday Coming Soon: Disinformation Governance Board
My intent for this weekend’s SubscribeStar Saturday is to examine the chilling ramifications of Biden the Usurper’s new Disinformation Governance Board, a recent addition to the onerous Department of Homeland Security. Talk about a coolly clinical name for a thoroughly totalitarian institution (I’ll let readers decide if I am referring to the DGB, the DHS, or both).
Unfortunately, my schedule is super tight, between an out-of-town graduation ceremony and a jam-packed Friday (when I typically write these posts), so I’ll be posting about DGB—notice how its abbreviation is spookily similar to the KGB, the secret police of the Soviet Union?—soon. It could be later today; it might be Sunday.
Thank you for your patience, and for subscribing.
—TPP
SubscribeStar Saturday Coming This Afternoon
Hi TPP Readers,
It’s a big family weekend—and the last weekend of my glorious Spring Break—and after a very long Friday of “funcling,” I’ve fallen behind—yet again—on today’s edition of SubscribeStar Saturday.
I’ll be writing about the current state of education, and looking a bit at the ideas of “unschooling” advocate John Taylor Gatto.
Thank you for your patience, especially to my paying subscribers; you’ve had to endure too many late SSSs lately.
Happy Saturday!
—TPP
Yet Another Delayed SubscribeStar Saturday
My sincerest apologies to subscribers: yet again, I am running late with posting today’s edition of SubscribeStar Saturday. My excuse, as always, is general busyness. Indeed, I am currently proctoring the SAT to a roomful of thirty-seven sleepy, slightly soggy teenagers (we had heavy rains this morning).
That said, I’ll be returning to more serious fare with today’s post, which will probably go up this afternoon. I’m going to talk about the war in the Ukraine. I’ll be honest: I don’t know much about it, at least not nearly as much as I should. But I do think there’s far more nuance to the situation than the knee-jerk media portrays.
Here’s the short preview: we should stay out of it.
More coming soon!
—TPP
SubscribeStar Saturday is Coming Soon!
I had a late night Friday playing a gig, so today’s SubscribeStar Saturday will be a bit delayed. Look for it to pop later this morning.
Happy Saturday!
—TPP
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