Nostalgia Over the Ages with Professor Rachel Fulton Brown

As if this is a good thing...

From that SJW website Twitch Film, a review of the new SJWars movie:

To twist words famously sung by Mick Jagger, sometimes you don't get what you need, you get what you want. The Force Awakens, from its opening crawl through the final notes, feels like a film that's trying to give people what they want. It feels at times like a greatest hits package, name-checking elements from the past, bringing elements out of retirement and dusting them off afresh. What makes the process effective is that the filmmakers know full well that this is what they're doing, even calling attention to it throughout (note the line about C-3P0's red arm for one of the most overt moments).

A New Star Wars for a New Generation

Adam Driver’s and Lupita Nyong’o’s Characters Revealed in Exclusive Star Wars: The Force Awakens Photos

Insert obligatory critical comment here about JJ Abrams and the Disney franchise.

Playing on... White Nostalgia?

Saw something from this campaign for the first time tonight, the commercial for the Charger.

Industrial America in its adolescence... that Uhmerica is dead and gone.

CGI Ruins It

A (Sorta But Not Really) New Trailer For The PEANUTS Movie!!

Your Favorite Historical Period?

And after the age of cheap carbon-based energy is over?

28 Days of Christmas Music

That's the programming for at least two local radio channels. After Christmas Day it all stops.

Pertinacious Papist: Chesterton: "There is no more dangerous or disgusting habit than celebrating Christmas before it comes. - Fr. Rutler's Weekly Message (his new parish)

Profiting from Nostalgia

How a New York Agency Made the Most Irish Whiskey Commercial of the Year by Christine Champagne

Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey

Moody Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey Ad Is A Glass Act (VIDEO)



Liam Clancy:


The High Kings:


The Wailin' Jennys:


Celtic Woman

Christmas in San Francisco

I've heard this version on the radio (KOIT), but also an updated version as well, in which some of the lyrics are updated ("Jazz in the Fillmore"). As soon as I heard it for the first time (which was this month), I was annoyed. My reaction hasn't really mellowed since then. It's a sappy 'holiday' song trading on nostalgia, and sounds exactly like cheap lounge music - a Christmas song, like many others, which is focused on us and glorifying our mundane experiences, instead of Christ. Some may think of it is a "golden oldie," but it's another isntance of our cultural and civilization decline.