They’re against immigration generally but politicians are not for economic reasons so the politicians manufacture outrage against a smaller subset of vulnerable people who they can get away with targeting.

The ideal would be to be rediscovered after I am dead. There are precedents.

I’m working on a novel, some blog pieces and an essay for a competition. I will always write but for me this is spiritual. It isn’t a good way to make money and those few who do hit it big end up ruining their lives.

When I was 18 I contacted the army about employment. They got back to me in 15 minutes inviting me to do some psychological testing. It spooked me that the response was so fast, I felt I’d fallen into a trap.

For many people literature is just a pastime or hobby and they don’t have the sense that I have that there’s books they ought to read. I didn’t like Animal Farm or 1984 when I read them in high school but I feel like reading them was important general knowledge.

I like fantasy when it’s immersive and integrated, but here it’s something else. I think it’s a great novel of its type it’s just not what I seek from fiction. Still I feel like it’s something I should have read.

I would like to have read One Hundred Years of Solitude. I have had a few false starts and have read enough of it to see the point and also to see why I don’t connect with it. The magic elements of magic realism are like the cartoony asides in the Simpsons; they have no consequence for the story.

My problem is probably the opposite. It takes too much for me to give up. I still hold out hopes of finishing a book even when I have functionally abandoned it and when I inevitably forget enough of it that I can’t pick up where I left off.

I see a lot of people encouraging people to quit. I don’t think that’s something people need encouraging to do. That’s just the regular flow of current.

Chuck Norris fight scene delivers but I forgot how it keeps cutting to reaction shots from a kitten. Why is the kitten there? Do we need a kitten here?

There’s an effeminate gay villain in this movie that is such a caricature I’d call it homophobic. Though Bruce Lee ripping off Chuck Norris’s chest hair is possibly homoerotic (?) In any event this movie is extremely bad.

I’m bored. Don’t bore us get to the Chuck Norris.

Nunchucks are good it’s just that everything else is just a frame story for the fight scenes and it’s kind of awful.

I like this film but I need to correct for my initial over enthusiasm. I think I just wanted more films like this.

The characters are all cardboard thin too. As much as I loved this in 2006 it’s not beyond criticism. With its scenes of torture juxtaposed with childhood fairy tales, who exactly is this for? You’d be reluctant to show it to those it would most appeal to.