What to blog about this week? For once there is no shortage of news tags. Last Sunday was International Women's Day—I did start writing another post on feminism, but put it to one side so I could finish my entry for the write-off. It is now the start of British Science Week, which surely calls for more ponies and science; and it's pi day, so we should have some mathematics from Pinkie. But all this is eclipsed—oh and there will be an eclipse next Friday, mustn't forget that—by the sad news of

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Sir Terry Pratchett

I just spent the last half an hour, explaining to a friend of mine, why he should go read Sir Terry Pratchett’s, Discworld books.

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I was sure I'd mentioned the Long Earth sequence in a blog at some point, but a quick search says nope.

Odd.

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Gathered all together in one post, here is some art I've had done of some of the principal Mistral supporting characters:
Terri-Belle Thrax, Warden of the White Tower, by Ridd-Li

Juturna Rutulus, by Miku

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If you're watching the new Animaniacs 2020, you'll see that they're pretty self-depracating of their own position as a reboot and playing at the rage common in social media nowadays against every remake, reboot and whatnot.
I'm actually quite interested because it seems like a show that will actually challenge not only the remaking genre of today but our own perceptions of it.

But, recently, I found a joke quite like it about how cheap it can be to do a remake...

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You know, for as overly dramatic as Rarity is with her relationships, she's had it pretty easy in some respects. Oh sure, she's had her heart broken a few times. Dates or stallions haven't lived up to her expectations (Blueblood and Trenderhoof) and yet pretty much after a gallon of ice cream and a day or two of moping or crazy antics she gets over it. One hoof in front of the other she buries herself in her work and helping out her friends.

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If you've been missing it or missed it the first time, folks, here's a seasonal treat, just in time for the holidays: A Very Grim Hearth's Warming, Chapter TWO! (And only 364 days later, how about that! )

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold…”

And with those lines, so begins Terry Gilliam’s nightmarish and incomprehensible (and ultimately meaningless) orgy of hallucinatory, nightmare inducing imagery and meandering monologuing haze of a film that refuses to follow any semblance of normalcy or logic, instead existing in its own disturbing two hour drug induced haze of paranoia and madness.

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Just a quick announcement that "Reaping Rainbow: A Very Grim Hearth's Warming" will be the next story I give some attention to. The story had a very warm reception and some great enthusiasm, and the only reason I wasn't able to give it some love was because Passing Familiarity was still being finished and needed more of my creative energy. Now that I'm getting back into things, you can look forward to seeing more Pratchett-style hijinks with Rainbow and her buddy Death in the near

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Yo, what’s up everybody?

It’s me with another film review, only this film...isn’t a very well-known film.

The film I’m reviewing today is “Help! I’m a Fish”.

Here's the rundown of it:

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There's an animated version of Terry Prattchett's Soul Music. Seems Pratchett was doing crossovers of Discworld with MLP before it was cool. (Also, holy crap, that's Christopher Lee as Death!) (Also, for reference, Binky is the name of Death's horse in the Discworld.)

Just under the wire before the Series Finale (sniff ), here it is! Enjoy!

Aloha, my good friends.

This is your friendly as always film, TV show, and episode reporter here once again with another review.

And today, I’m gonna be giving you my 104th film analysis by reviewing Denzel Washington’s “Deja Vu”.

Here's the summary of this film:

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How Pinkie managed to travel to Dodge Junction, fall into a ravine, join the Beatles, shoot John Lennon for leaving the band for Tree Hugger, and travel to Yakyakistan in one afternoon? Well, accidentally I read Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time recently. Pinkie is simply a very good History Monk... (which also explains the level of schizotech in Equestria – someone apparently put its history back together).

And the tradition lives on! That's right, it's a story suddenly conceived in a moment of holiday inspiration and a pseudo-sequel to one of my favorite stories I've done on this site: Reaping Rainbow! It's a holiday miracle indeed!

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Bᴜᴛᴛᴇʀғʟʏ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ sᴋʏ, I ᴄᴀɴ ɢᴏ ᴛᴡɪᴄᴇ ᴀs ʜɪɢʜ...

Hey there reader wanna be as popular as me? Of course you don't. Aim higher for God's sake. That said there are two pieces of wisdom I want to pass on to you. That's right, a guy who in any writing contest is a permanent resident in the cellar (actually I don't mind it down here because typically I just send in rough drafts and at least I didn't get first place) has writing advice.

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Arrrgh!

Ahoy, mateys! This be yer friendly film and television reviewing buccaneer here, digging up for ye another film review that has been long buried under the sands.

And today, I bring to all of ye scalawags my review of “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl”.

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