Justin D. Miller
@jerseycajun.bsky.social
Voice over narrator.
Podcast host/editor/producer.
MST3K Information Club Member circa 1993
Podcast host/editor/producer.
MST3K Information Club Member circa 1993
For those who 'get it', there's nothing better!
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
For those who 'get it', there's nothing better!
Just in time for the holidays.
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just in time for the holidays.
Think of most successful screenwriters. The norm isn't Quentin Tarantino-style dialogue, it's mostly direct, and carefully chosen, simply-worded language.
August 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Think of most successful screenwriters. The norm isn't Quentin Tarantino-style dialogue, it's mostly direct, and carefully chosen, simply-worded language.
Successful communication bears with it an obligation to connect emotionally with your audience in a way complements the situation, when the emotion is key to the message.
August 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Successful communication bears with it an obligation to connect emotionally with your audience in a way complements the situation, when the emotion is key to the message.
I don't think its the words being insulted. Personally, I don't have anything against big words, but audience and circumstance matter. If we're talking about communicating with people, big words describing simple things *feel* weightless, lacking urgency and immediacy.
August 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I don't think its the words being insulted. Personally, I don't have anything against big words, but audience and circumstance matter. If we're talking about communicating with people, big words describing simple things *feel* weightless, lacking urgency and immediacy.
Sorry, meant this reply for Kronos.
July 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Sorry, meant this reply for Kronos.
The fact that this second group of people exists, however, is why you have to look deeper at the individual using it and what else they say to understand their true intention.
Because while the former use is foolish, (and often disingenuous), the latter contains wisdom that needs heeding.
Because while the former use is foolish, (and often disingenuous), the latter contains wisdom that needs heeding.
July 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The fact that this second group of people exists, however, is why you have to look deeper at the individual using it and what else they say to understand their true intention.
Because while the former use is foolish, (and often disingenuous), the latter contains wisdom that needs heeding.
Because while the former use is foolish, (and often disingenuous), the latter contains wisdom that needs heeding.
They use the stark-cold reality of the situation as a reason to retreat, instead of those who see the same complexity and difficulty as a challenge to be overcome with patience and steady forward pressure - even if they don't live to see its complete fulfillment.
July 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
They use the stark-cold reality of the situation as a reason to retreat, instead of those who see the same complexity and difficulty as a challenge to be overcome with patience and steady forward pressure - even if they don't live to see its complete fulfillment.
You're right. The context of how its used, matters. Many do indeed use it as a way to dismiss any change.
July 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
You're right. The context of how its used, matters. Many do indeed use it as a way to dismiss any change.
If the guy was going to backslide, don't you think there'd be some other sign of it by now? Glenn Beck's recanting only lasted long enough to see his viewership drop and immediately reverted. Personally, I don't see how Joe hasn't demonstrated sincere goodwill by now. But maybe it's just me.
June 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If the guy was going to backslide, don't you think there'd be some other sign of it by now? Glenn Beck's recanting only lasted long enough to see his viewership drop and immediately reverted. Personally, I don't see how Joe hasn't demonstrated sincere goodwill by now. But maybe it's just me.
I remember when people were saying they wouldn't trust him until he switched party affiliation to "D". Now that in itself, is apparently cause for suspicion. As long as this kind of goalpost-shifting persists, trust will only ever be something people say they want, but never mean.
June 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I remember when people were saying they wouldn't trust him until he switched party affiliation to "D". Now that in itself, is apparently cause for suspicion. As long as this kind of goalpost-shifting persists, trust will only ever be something people say they want, but never mean.
Where's my tiny violin when I need it?
June 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Where's my tiny violin when I need it?
Likewise a politician came to the place, and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side, yelling "So what, you're going to die anyway!"
I am truly distraught for the things some people say in the name of the Love incarnate.
I am truly distraught for the things some people say in the name of the Love incarnate.
June 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Likewise a politician came to the place, and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side, yelling "So what, you're going to die anyway!"
I am truly distraught for the things some people say in the name of the Love incarnate.
I am truly distraught for the things some people say in the name of the Love incarnate.
And as a cradle Catholic, still practicing, I'm very excited, joyful and hopeful about Leo XIV's election.
May 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
And as a cradle Catholic, still practicing, I'm very excited, joyful and hopeful about Leo XIV's election.
Saw this floating around this afternoon. Seems relevant.
May 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Saw this floating around this afternoon. Seems relevant.
Oh, and we have a ratings system themed around Indiana Jones, so there's that too :)
April 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Oh, and we have a ratings system themed around Indiana Jones, so there's that too :)
As a side note, I think our culture could benefit from more clear ways to separate and express feelings of righteous anger from the will to evil for the subjugation/domination of others. Sometimes its easy to intuit, but other times not so much, well, like I just failed to do!
April 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
As a side note, I think our culture could benefit from more clear ways to separate and express feelings of righteous anger from the will to evil for the subjugation/domination of others. Sometimes its easy to intuit, but other times not so much, well, like I just failed to do!
Full disclosure: I come at it from my Catholic faith that defines love a little more specifically (ie: to will the good of the other for the other's sake) which naturally informs the concept of its opposite.
April 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Full disclosure: I come at it from my Catholic faith that defines love a little more specifically (ie: to will the good of the other for the other's sake) which naturally informs the concept of its opposite.
I think you've got a point re: the cultural understanding, which I suppose is why I felt the need to clarify my operating definition, just to check. Though I think at least one accepted definition includes "hostility" as a component.
April 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I think you've got a point re: the cultural understanding, which I suppose is why I felt the need to clarify my operating definition, just to check. Though I think at least one accepted definition includes "hostility" as a component.
To sum up my personal thoughts, I do not hate America, but am righteously angry at America and what is being done in our name. It is my desire to channel that anger constructively, in my own small way.
April 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
To sum up my personal thoughts, I do not hate America, but am righteously angry at America and what is being done in our name. It is my desire to channel that anger constructively, in my own small way.