One Drunk Redneck

Estimated read time: 7 minutes   Every once in awhile a movie comes along that leaves you scratching your head.  It has to be good because days later, you're still scratching your head trying to make sense of what you saw.  When I was a kid, two movies had me scratching my head and, over forty years later, I'm still scratching my head.  I don't care how much you might think you understand 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) or A Clockwork Orange (1971), I bet you still scratch your head over some parts of those movies.   Alien Code joins the ranks of these head scratching classics. If you like your science fiction movies with aliens made realistic with expert makeup or special effects pulled off with state of the art CGI, Alien Code  is not for you.  The aliens look like slimmed down aliens I've seen in Twilight Zone  (" To Serve Man ") and Lost in Space  (" Invaders from the Fifth Dimension ").  An explosion is depicted as a fre...

Over the last year, my TV has been flooded with Bell + Howell TAC products .  A buff warrior of the Paintball Dome tries to sell me something by the TAC people.   I think the TAC spokesmen are really auditioning for soldiers-only-dot-com or your local health store pushing muscle protein shakes.   They're hoping to get discovered in case the pretend warrior gig doesn't work out. "Normal sunglasses make things darker.   That could be dangerous in a tactical situation." "It collapses into full armor mode." Hey ladies.  You want something rugged...the glasses I mean?  ( More on Nick Bolton ) No lie.   Those are selling points for their TAC glasses and lanterns.   Should I worry about waking up one morning and finding myself in a tactical situation?   Is Trump going to order Homeland Security to invade my home?   Or maybe the Russians are coming through my computer and into my living room in a blitz attack?   Talk about...

Judge Milian of the People's Court issued a bonehead decision.  She wins Bonehead of the Month, which puts her in the running for Bonehead of the Year.  She can relax, though.  I'm sure Trump will win Bonehead of the Year hands down. The case she ruled on revolved around a cat that "accidentally got out of the house," as the sweet little old lady claimed, and jumped into the neighbor's fenced in yard.  The neighbor's dog attacked the intruding cat, killing it. The sweet little old lady, who wasn't so sweet once she began talking, claimed her neighbor owed her a new cat.  The dog owner countersued for the almost four hundred bucks he owed in vet bills after the attack. Judge Milian ruled against the plaintiff saying the neighbor's dog was in its fenced in yard and wasn't roaming free.  She then ruled against the neighbor's countersuit saying there are no cat leash laws so the cat was simply another animal in the yard.   The plaintiff can...

I admit it.   I didn't last ten minutes into the show.   I got up and began working on my blog trying to finish an article I started two years ago.   Three minutes into the show, I wanted a Dramamine pill, and I don't take pills for anything except as a last resort.   I held on for a few minutes longer, but couldn't take it any more.   I worked on my article with the show playing in the other room as some friends watched it. Let's start this review with the quote of the night after the two episodes aired: "I'm gay and I want to beat that kid up. Get rid of the little fairy fly and the show would be tolerable."   That quote isn't made up and, yes, the guy who said that really is gay. Gender creative or cultural misappropriation? He was referring to probably the most controversial character in the show - Darelene's ( Sara Gilbert ) son, Mark ( Ames McNamara ).   At first the audience is left guessing if her eight-year-old son is gay ...