psychology

In Which I Get the Cartoon/Toy Remake Thing

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Adaptions of Transformers?  A source of jokes.  GI Joe?  A film stunning in its mediocrity.  If it's not equine and friendly and little, it seems most re-adaptions of cartoons aren't too good, and of course I snootily turn my nose up at them.  Hell, we have one blogger here whose entire goal is to dissect adaptions, leaving me more time to be self-righteous if charming and personable.

Today I heard about J.J. Abrams and a Micronaut movies and I suddenly felt a visceral "yes!" echo in me head, and I understood just why people would be interested in these seemingly majority-terrible adaptions.

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Frustration Friday: Another Reason People Hate The Unemployed

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Yep, it's back to one of my Favorite Frustration Friday's (triple F) subjects – people who hate the unemployed.  For those of you who haven't followed my previous rants, I'm very annoyed that some people are down on the unemployed.  So now and then I take time to sound off on it for both personal reasons and to stimulate conversation.

It annoys me.  It galls me.  People need our help in these tough times, and yet many folks that are more mouth than brain seem to spend their time dissing them, not helping them.  Having seen a lot of good people unemployed for bad reasons, this annoys me.

And this time I think I came up with another reason people seem to hate the unemployed – the unemployed are reminders that Things Are Not Well.

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