The Abode of McThag

Stacy Keach has passed on. I lost track of the number roles he played that I enjoyed. Mike Hammer and Papa Titus loom largest.  It is of not...

I try to avoid Dancing Monkeys frothing at the mouth about politics because, invariably, the ones who do so are dumb as posts. Today's e...

Walter Koenig has passed the veil at the rip old age of 90. While I liked Chekov, his performance as Alfred Bester in Babylon 5 was his def...

Tom Skerritt, a steady and reliable dancing monkey, has shuffled off the mortal coil. I can't think of a truly bad performance. 

"Pitting together charismatic stars in an underpowered caper, Guy Ritchie's In the Grey is a slick action vehicle whose lack of fr...

Frank Beard, the only person in ZZ-Top without a beard, has shuffled off the mortal coil. I met him once. They'd ordered pizzas to their...

I am starting to see a divide in the YouTube pundits over Christopher Nolan's Odyssey. They either love it or hate it. I think I spotted...

Because I'm a gamer and because I have Amazon Prime, I get the animated productions from Critical Role. The most recent outing, "Th...

The Lovely Harvey reads true crime stories. We're watching "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood," which includes a fictionalized ve...

Drew Carey says Angelenos shouldn't vote for Spencer Pratt because he's a "serial scammer." He doesn't, however, say ...

There's so many creative people I've stopped watching since 2016...  November 2016 come to think of it. Europeans really don't g...

I just hit me why the sequels to The Curse of the Black Pearl fell flat for me. The complicated fight sequence is a pause in the plot.  The ...

I've been watching, and enjoying, the NBC show "The Blacklist." It's a bit formulaic, but lots of fun. James Spader is a j...

Way back when the Kevin Costner movie "The Highwaymen" came out, I mentioned that I enjoyed it, but something just stuck that didn...

Watching "Poker Face" and a character offers another some demerara sugar. He said it added an unami tone to the coffee. A bag of i...

Crazy man, commentator and cartoonist Scott Adams has succumbed to cancer. I've been missing Dilbert since the scolds went after him.

If you find yourself wondering how you should feel about any given issue, just find out what the dancing monkeys are saying about it. Do the...

Harvey  and I watched "Primitive War" tonight. The Vietnam War with dinosaurs! A couple of small things I noticed. It's set in...

Rob Reiner has died. Considering how often he lectured me about my politics, I will not miss him much. He made a lot of stuff I enjoyed watc...