“I’m just an old chunk of coal now Lord, but I’m gonna be a diamond someday.”
My great grandfather was a coal miner by the name of Ernest “Ernie” Shoemaker. Dropping out of school in the 5th grade, Pawpaw Ernie left and became a coal miner in the hills of West Virginia, a job which he worked until retirement. Although my Pawpaw Ernie was only my grandfather by marriage and not by blood, his legacy, life, and love made him…
Seung-Hui Cho was a South Korean mass murderer responsible for perpetrating the Virginia Tech shooting. Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, making it the deadliest school shooting in US history.
If you're wondering why I'm opening with this it's because this fucking movie that Netflix greenlit is a loose adaptation of "Richard McBeef" the one act play written by Cho…
Noirvember:
My final noirvember watch for 2023, and how appropriate that it takes place on Christmas to transition me seamlessly into the next month. An incredibly cruel, and darkly humorous movie with a narrator who couldn’t hate anything more than he hates the protagonist. What a perfect way to end the month.
I do not ever want to think about Pinocchio 3000 ever again. I am genuinely struggling to write anything else about this because my brain has already begun repressing memories of it in the less than 24 hours since I watched it. I hated this so so much. It's ugly, awful, and boring. Don't watch this.
