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'The Hike' - Chapter Twenty-Two - Cringe

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Chapter 22: Night 11: The two beers and the whole lazy vibe after Kozia Stena pushed me back into the attic once more. The trauma from almost falling to my death after Echo Hut was almost gone. I started feeling sleepy. I went and took a quick shower—you can’t waste any water up here—and then up the ladder, back into my kingdom, where my body collapsed into oblivion in a second. Day 12: I woke up to someone hammering on the bathroom door, repeatedly. The sound went through my head like a hammer pounding a pumpkin. I felt the anger bubbling up inside me. The poor woman who passed by when I stuck my head out of the attic to see who dared disturb my dream took the full blast. I channeled it into a vomit of complaint. She nearly jumped out of her skin. The angry, high-pitched voice came from above, and when she looked up, all she saw was a floating head screaming at her. She quickly realized what I was yapping about—and disappeared. Later, the hut owner told me it was the wind slamming the...

Project Hail Mary Book Review - This Book Could Have Been a Movie

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Project Hail Mary Book Review - This Book Could Have Been a Movie You know that famous saying, “this meeting could have been an email” ? Well, there’s a new version of that. It’s unfortunate that it comes up, but if it exists, it has its meaning. The new saying is: “this book could have been a movie.” Lucky for you, who don’t want to sit through a 16-hour audiobook or read even longer, the movie is coming, and I bet it will do a better job with this overly blown-out short story about the end of the universe. It starts really funny—I laughed out loud many times in the first 4 or 5 chapters. (Spoilers ahead, of course.) But once we dipped our heads into the pool of science, for a guy who doesn’t have the knowledge to understand all the chemistry and physics—which I’m sure are carefully curated and researched—it just sounds like gibberish. “I’m smart enough to know that I’m stupid” is one of the best lines in the book, and it basically becomes the whole point of it. It felt like someone ...

Alien Earth: Episode 5 is complete TRASH.

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  Alien Earth: Episode 5 is complete TRASH. We are actually the test subjects of Disney, because I felt tested to my very core whether I would continue watching this show after this episode. This episode was painful to watch. How can you manage to turn such an interesting premise into this kindergarten bullshit? I’ll tell you how — whoever wrote this episode should be immediately fired. Immediately. Let me check who it was. Director: Noah Hawley. Screenplay: Noah Hawley, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett. FIRED, right on the spot. I feel like the director should go before season 2. People who do not know the difference between biology and geology are allowed on a spaceship? This smoking on the ship is really getting out of hand. I mean, Morrow literally dropped his cigar in a hole on a spaceship. Who wrote this shit? This should alarm whoever is on top of the show to start firing people. Operating on people without masks or any protection? Really? Who let the creep on that spaceship? H...