Big Daddy's Belated B-day.

Sorry I didn't send a card, Bossman. I tried to call to say Yom Ha-shoah but...

Oh, wait? You were updating your cell phone message?

Well, that explains it.

Yom Ha-shoah anyway. :)

Long time no Luftwaffle.

Not that the dead have been rising much lately. All in all, it's been quiet. Peaceful. Calm and sedate even...

Wait whut, there were elections recently? Oh darn, I don't do TV. Shame I missed out on all those scintillating political ads that would have made excellent fodder for yon k-blog.

I should make it up to you. Both of you.

Have some hipster hitler.

And don't say I never did nothin' for ya.

~K.

Do you know?

Do you know why we do this here? Do you know what we mean?

THIS IS IT:



This is the best thing ever, of all time. This guy is all that is made of Win.

L'chiam sir, L'chaim.

Stranger Than Fiction

But then there are some shows that go completely beyond the pale of enjoyability, until they become nothing more than overwritten collections of tropes impossible to watch without groaning.

I think the worst offender here is the History Channel and all their programs on the so-called "World War II".

Let's start with the bad guys. Battalions of stormtroopers dressed in all black, check. Secret police, check. Determination to brutally kill everyone who doesn't look like them, check. Leader with a tiny villain mustache and a tendency to go into apopleptic rage when he doesn't get his way, check. All this from a country that was ordinary, believable, and dare I say it sometimes even sympathetic in previous seasons.

I wouldn't even mind the lack of originality if they weren't so heavy-handed about it. Apparently we're supposed to believe that in the middle of the war the Germans attacked their allies the Russians, starting an unwinnable conflict on two fronts, just to show how sneaky and untrustworthy they could be?

Yeah, especially when they ran the EXACT SAME PLOT in their Napoleon Arc a few seasons ago. And then they expect us to root for the French this season.

Srsly, folx.

~K.H.

The Gates of Doom.

Hee hee hee!

Yom haShoah to all of you out there, and here.