2025 Mar 02 - News Summary
Hollywood legend Gene Hackman died this week. He was famous for playing Lex Luther, or as he's now possibly known, Ex Luther. Either way, we're waiting the results of the autopsy but I think the body will be in the crypt tonight. Many people have discussed the supposed 'curse' of superman. Christopher Reeve spent his later years paralyzed, Richar Pryor got MS, Margot Kidder had mental health issues and Henry Cavill's recent career is a train wreck, but unfortunately not a train wreck where superman saves the day.
Westminster MP Mike Amesbury was back at parliament after serving a 10 week sentence for punching a man in Cheshire. Say what you will he stuck to his election promise to fight for his constituents.
Control of the James Bond franchise passed to Amazon, which is sad given that we know what will happen next. When they made that ghastly Rings of Power series, they showed less respect to JR Tolkien than they do to the Chinese slaves that make most of their products but I think it was best summed up by a cartoon in the New Yorker where Bond is strapped down and asks "do you expect me to talk" and Bezos replies, no I expect you to star in a series of increasingly bland tv shows, that all have significant viewership drops after the 1st episode.
And in the US, Ukraine president Zelenskyy showed up for talks and discovered that not only had rainbows disappeared with the end of DEI, they'd also gotten rid of all the pots of free gold at the end of them. The week or so prior, Elon Musk had asked all civil servants to list 5 things they'd done in their job the prior week so I was honestly waiting for him to write Zelenskyy an email asking "what did you do with the $350bn we gave you?" At this stage I expect that he maybe got back to the hotel to discover that Trump has also changed the password to the White House Netflix account so he'll have to stop mooching off that too. But then his fortunes turned when he flew back to Kiev via London and Prime Minister Starmer said he backed Ukraine. I said 'his fortunes turned' but I mean about how about Zelenskyy felt awkward and sorry in comparison to Kier Starmer. Ukraine is about to likely get vast amounts of foreign investment when peace finally comes, I know where I'd rather be in charge of. Of the 2 leaders, only one of them got invited to Washington with press enthusiasm, whereas literally nobody cares what comes out of Number 10, unless it's a resignation of course.
Westminster MP Mike Amesbury was back at parliament after serving a 10 week sentence for punching a man in Cheshire. Say what you will he stuck to his election promise to fight for his constituents.
Control of the James Bond franchise passed to Amazon, which is sad given that we know what will happen next. When they made that ghastly Rings of Power series, they showed less respect to JR Tolkien than they do to the Chinese slaves that make most of their products but I think it was best summed up by a cartoon in the New Yorker where Bond is strapped down and asks "do you expect me to talk" and Bezos replies, no I expect you to star in a series of increasingly bland tv shows, that all have significant viewership drops after the 1st episode.
And in the US, Ukraine president Zelenskyy showed up for talks and discovered that not only had rainbows disappeared with the end of DEI, they'd also gotten rid of all the pots of free gold at the end of them. The week or so prior, Elon Musk had asked all civil servants to list 5 things they'd done in their job the prior week so I was honestly waiting for him to write Zelenskyy an email asking "what did you do with the $350bn we gave you?" At this stage I expect that he maybe got back to the hotel to discover that Trump has also changed the password to the White House Netflix account so he'll have to stop mooching off that too. But then his fortunes turned when he flew back to Kiev via London and Prime Minister Starmer said he backed Ukraine. I said 'his fortunes turned' but I mean about how about Zelenskyy felt awkward and sorry in comparison to Kier Starmer. Ukraine is about to likely get vast amounts of foreign investment when peace finally comes, I know where I'd rather be in charge of. Of the 2 leaders, only one of them got invited to Washington with press enthusiasm, whereas literally nobody cares what comes out of Number 10, unless it's a resignation of course.
Hollywood legend Gene Hackman died this week. He was famous for playing Lex Luther, or as he's now possibly known, Ex Luther. Either way, we're waiting the results of the autopsy but I think the body will be in the crypt tonight. Many people have discussed the supposed 'curse' of superman. Christopher Reeve spent his later years paralyzed, Richar Pryor got MS, Margot Kidder had mental health issues and Henry Cavill's recent career is a train wreck, but unfortunately not a train wreck where super ......