Lazy Sunday CXLVI: Friends, Part IX

It’s been fun going back through the old Supporting Friends Friday posts (well, for me, at least; it seems to be a bit of a dud with readers, but Sunday is always a slow day for traffic), but I’m particularly excited for this weekend’s ninth (!) retrospective.  It includes three of my favorite Internet friends, all on one compact disc:

Cheers to these good friends.

Happy Sunday!

—TPP

Other Lazy Sunday Installments:

Monday Morning Movie Review: Ponty’s Top Ten Worst Films: Dead Snow 2 (Død snø 2; 2014)

Good old Ponty is keeping the lights on at this blog with his submissions.  They are welcome at a particularly busy season for yours portly, and especially after traveling to Indiana this past weekend for my older brother’s wedding.

Ponty and I share a love of horror movies, but especially a love of bad movies generally.  I tend to be much more forgiving of bad movies, as many of them possess entertainment value in their own right (a premise so crazy the film is interesting, even if the parts don’t fit together; or a film that is “so-bad-it’s-good”).  I’m also just not that discerning—or, perhaps, I just like trash.

Whatever the case might be, Ponty doesn’t share my ecumenical approach to films.  He calls a spade a spade—and a pile of crap a pile of crap.

As such, he’s submitted the first of a list of ten films he regards as the worst films of all time.  I’m dubbing this gloriously long miniseries Ponty’s Top Ten Worst Films.  The tentative plan is to post these alternating Mondays in lieu of the usual Monday Morning Movie Review from yours portly.  The non-Ponty weeks will be my list of the worst films of all time.l

I’ve kept all of Ponty’s colorful commentary intact; I’ve just added in years for the films, and italicized the titles.  I’ve also provided some useful hyperlinks for those looking to learn more about the subject of his ire.

With that, here is Ponty’s review of Dead Snow 2 (Død snø 2, 2014).  I don’t know if this is his tenth worst film or his first worst film; either way, he makes it sound pretty bad:

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Lazy Sunday CLVIII: Ponty’s Posts, Part II

This Lazy Sunday I’m wrapping up a two-Sunday retrospective of the works of Michael Fahey/39 Pontiac Dream/Always a Kid for Today, or “Ponty” for short.  After his early photographic submissions, Ponty branched out into the world of reviews.  This weekend, it’s my pleasure to feature three of them:

Happy Sunday!

—TPP

Other Lazy Sunday Installments:

Lazy Sunday CLVII: Ponty’s Posts, Part I

I dedicated the most recent installment of Supporting Friends Friday to my English buddy and semi-regular contributor Michael Fahey, better known to readers here as 39 Pontiac Dream or, more recently, Always a Kid for Today.  I still prefer to call him “Ponty,” and and that’s what I’m sticking to for the next two Sundays of Ponty’s Posts.

In looking back at Ponty’s contributions to the blog, there’s a great variety since his first submission on 1 September 2021 (“The Seasons in England“): photographs, movie reviews, and even a review of an entire video game publisher.

The posts this Lazy Sunday consist of his first three submissions, all of which are photographic in nature.  I hope you enjoy revisiting these pictures as much as I have:

  • The Seasons in England” – These charming photographs of England were a welcome respite from the South Carolina heat!
  • Halloween in England” – Americans took Halloween and made it into an awesome holiday (thanks to our Irish immigrants).  Now we’ve exported yet another commercialized bit of sugar-coated fun to our Anglo brethren.  Ponty repaid the favor with pictures of his and Tina’s Jack O’Lanterns, and their Halloween decorations in general.  Glad to see Halloween spreading its spooky tendrils around the globe!
  • English Sunrise” – Some gorgeous sunrise shots care of Ponty.  I believe he contributed these photographs because we’d been talking about how morning is such a great time to get things done.  And, besides—what beats a sunset?

That’s all for this week.  Stay tuned for Part II of Ponty’s Posts next Lazy Sunday!

Happy Sunday!

—TPP

Other Lazy Sunday Installments:

Supporting Friends Friday: Michael Fahey

The subject of this week’s Supporting Friends Friday is long overdue for some recognition:  writer and mental health carer Michael Fahey.

Regular readers will recognize Michael by one or two different names:  either 39 Pontiac Dream or Always a Kid for Today.  He’s a frequent commenter on this blog, and an increasingly frequent contributor.

Michael also writes extensively at the British conservative blog The Conservative Woman (TCW for short).  That blog is a bit more focused on politics, with an overwhelming focus, at least in recent years, on The Virus.  His writing there is quite good, and it’s not all politics and highway codes that he writes about:  he wrote a great piece about the appeal of what in America would think of as Hallmark Channel Christmas movies.

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