Was this a banned Nike ad?

I have no idea if this was a legit proposal for a Nike commercial, but I have to say it is pretty ballsy to make it.  The sound and visuals make you think of something darker.  However, it turns out it is just someone trying harder to lose weight. 

The Young Guns Series : Two Classic Westerns That Need More Love

Remember that scene where Charley Bowdre stayed with that hooker?  There was an extra scene where we would have discovered that the prostitute was Charley’s mother.  He knew she was his mother and just wanted her to hold him, given that he had never seen her.  He believes he is going to die and wants to maintain his long-lost mother one first and final time.  I think they should have kept this scene in and would have added a darker element to the movie.  

From TV Tropes, ((Deleted Scene: In the DVD Commentary Casey Siemaszko reveals the prostitute Charlie goes to see was actually a longer scene, and the end of the scene he tells the guys the woman was his mother.))

It is a real shame they never bothered adding this scene because it shows the growth.   

Mr. Short Term Memory Visits the Hospital - SNL: A short essay

Given this skit happened in 1990, I believe I was in middle school.  

I love how memories work, pun intended.  Certain pop culture moments are connected to your past. I was a super geek, guaranteed that girls would never talk to me.  I hated attending school because I didn't fit in with the “cool kids”. At one point in my life, I decided to go my path.  I dressed and acted the way I wanted to.  I collected a few nerdy outsider friends as well.  We’d talk about VGs and Star Trek.  One of the nerdier things we’d discuss was the episodes of SNL.  From 10 to 21, SNL was in my life.  

Anyway, there was a rather butch girl named Betty.  She was tall, chunky, and unattractive.  She and I had a few clashes because she was a low-effort bully.  Because her life wasn't great, she found pleasure in being an asshole to everyone that didn’t fit the norm.  I think she hated me the most because I refused to change.  She never touched me or beat me up, but she used to make fun of me all the time.  

I sat in the bus seat with my friend Joey and we’d talk about the various geeky shows we watched on the weekend.  Furthermore, I talked about this skit “The Short Term Memory Guy”.  I remember acting it out, even doing the Tom Hanks voice. 

Behind me, I heard Betty asking one of the cool kids what I was talking about.  So, he mockingly repeated my nerdy story. So, Tom Hanks did a skit, mockingly doing a silly voice, on a show.  In return, I mocked Tom Hanks's mocking voice retelling the skit.  From there, one of the cool kids mocked me, mocking Tom Hanks's mocking voice.  We have a mocking inception here.  

I heard the whole thing.  At the time, I was a little hurt by this and got a little angry.  Why did they care about the geeky shit Joey and I discussed? Why would they intently listen to our conversation? Who cares?   

What was the point of this story? 

One of the things I’ve been known for today is telling good stories, both written and verbal.  I get into the story with voices and gestures, kind of like that skit. I give zero f’s if people mock them.  I am more comfortable in my skin to care what the “cool kids” think.  

This all came about due to this not-so-funny skit. 

High Anxiety- Window Scene Breaking the 4th wall or window.

This is simply the best scene in the movie.  I love that the camera is zooming in too fast and crashing through the window.  The characters look back in shock as the camera quietly backs out, embarrassed.  As someone was work stated, it is an actual fourth wall break. 

Deep Blue Sea False or Decoy protagonist

When people saw this in the theater, they laughed, cheered, and clapped. This was the moment after Samuel Jackson's rousing speech when people were supposed to come together and work out a solution to a problem.  Even the score and camera pretend this was that heroic moment.  As we zoom in, the shark shows up right on cue to dash our hopes.  Even the characters in the scene are destroyed by the misdirection.  Brilliant.  

That shark read the script and waited for the right moment to make its own reshoots.  

There is a growing trend of movies setting up heroes only for the movie to knock them down for greater impact.  So, what is this trope?

One of the famous tropes, of recent times, is the guy or girl we believe is the hero, but ends up dying midway through the story.  This subverts the hero we’re supposed to cheer for.  One of the best examples of this trope is Samuel Jackson making that heroic speech in Deep Blue Sea.  

Looking through the TV tropes, one can see that it is either the decoy or the false protagonist.  

From the wiki, ((In fiction, a false protagonist is a literary technique, often used to make the plot more jarring or more memorable by fooling the audience's preconceptions, that constructs a character who the audience assumes is the protagonist but is later revealed not to be.))

Scream is another movie with this trope.  Drew Barrymore was promoted as the main character in the movie only to be killed in the first ten minutes, They snatched her away from us.  Remember, Barrymore was on the movie cover and promoted it as if she was the main character.  

Metal Gear Solid 2 is another story where the game misdirects us that we're going to be playing as Snake the whole time. Nope, we only play him in the first chapter.

The other story I remember this happening was in the delightful Cabin in the Woods. Remember, Chris Hemsworth has the moment when he was supposed to "get help" only to die senselessly...by accident.

Terms to talk about (Rizz Remix)

In the olden times of this blog, I used to go through new terms from the Internet and make fun of them.  I stopped doing it because blogs change and evolve.  However, I got bored and decided to dig this old corpse up again.  Some of the terms I looked up come from Google’s AI, while others come from the Urban Dictionary.  Just like old times.  

Doomscrolling: Doomscrolling is the act of spending too much time reading negative news or other content online that makes you feel sad, anxious, or angry. It can be harmful to your mental health.

In the past, I used to do a lot of Doomscrolling, but I don’t do it as much.  When things are too gloomy, I just go elsewhere on the Internet.  I move on.  As I have gotten older, I tend not to waste my time with harsh depressing news.  I didn’t Doomscroll the news about Trump and I simply will just move on with my life. I do more Pornscrolling…

Chillax:  "Chillax" is a slang term that means to relax or calm down. It's a combination of the words "chill" and "relax". Here are some examples of "chilax" in a sentence:

I hate this word.  I can’t stand it, but it is a proper term today.  It is a hipster term.  

Rizz:  “Rizz” is a slang term that describes someone's ability to attract people, often romantically or sexually. It can be used as a noun or a verb, for example, “to rizz up” means to attract, seduce, or chat up someone.

Rizz is the one word that perplexes me the most.  I kept hearing about it until I asked some 20-somethings.  So, it comes from the word charisma.  Are we so lazy that we can't even say the “Char” at the beginning of a word?  Is there a shortage of syllables for young people that they must chop it down to four letters?  I thought my generation was into adding “Z”s to words.  The more rizz you have the more ladies you can get.  I, for one, have NO rizz.  Never will.  

Echo Bunker: An "echo bunker" refers to an extremely isolated echo chamber, where information and viewpoints that contradict the dominant opinion within the group are completely blocked out, making it impossible for any opposing truths to penetrate or be considered, essentially creating a completely sealed off space for a single perspective.

This is what the Internet has become.  Think of Twitter where people block away one that has a different opinion than yours.  Discord is another site just like it. Discord might be worse.    

Jim Rauch has passed on.

Jim was one of those legendary TCAP predators. He worked for the University of Cincinnati. He was into music and liked to talk a lot—I mean, he loved to talk!  Jim had a lot of history and honors, but he threw it all away.  

When you watch his two-hour integration, he experiences a wide range of emotions and stories. The arrest happened in Highland Heights, Kentucky, near the Cincinnati border. Chris Hansen never interviewed him, though the cameras caught him being handcuffed. Remember that Jim rolled around Ohio and Kentucky drunk, looking for the decoy. He said and showed some nasty things to the decoy, too.  

Jim was an angry blowhard who thought he was smarter than the detectives interviewing him.  However, he dug his grave by talking to the cops without a lawyer.  The entire interview is an amusing journey through his life.  Due to most of his police footage being released, he became an Internet legend.  There are prank calls and analysts of this guy out there.  Since he was a boomer, he wasn’t aware of his Internet fame.  We know this because Jim had someone called his house and talked to him.  

He succumbed to his long-term illnesses and passed away in October. He’s brought many laughs, but time has passed, and I can’t feel bad for him.