Ridiculous Opinions #208
Look, here’s the problem with Generation Z (or whatever the hell they’re called). I’m talking about any of you yahoos born AFTER 1995. We were in the car...
Ridiculous Opinions #207
I’m having a mental debate right now. I’ve had this debate for a few years, but it’s come to the forefront of my mind in the last couple of weeks. Basically,...
Ridiculous Opinions #206
Me, prior to boarding the Falcon for my mission. It was busy in Black Spire outpost the other morning, because we knew that we had work to do. You see, I was...
Ridiculous Opinions #205
This is my Threads feed. Who are these people? What are they doing here? WHO THE HELL TAKES THE TIME TO LIKE THESE THINGS? Like most perpetually online...
Ridiculous Opinions #204
De-aged on the left; real life on the right. Everyone who has been in my film classes knows that my favorite film is Raiders of the Lost Ark. I saw Raiders...
Ridiculous Opinions #203
So, we have been on the road since last week and have now arrived in Florida. We left Toronto on Monday and arrived in Blacksburg, Virginia on the same day;...
Ridiculous Opinions 202
My name is Randall P. Girdner and I play Fortnite. It’s tough for me to admit that, being a fifty-year old man. I mean, for real, I’m jumping on there and...
Ridiculous Opinions #201
Yesterday I wasn’t feeling too hot, so after school, I came home and laid on the bed, watching a documentary called The Director and the Jedi. The film is...
Ridiculous Opinions #200
The 2023 UAE Student Film Festival! Well, this is the 200th newsletter for Ridiculous Opinions. I’ve been doing this thing almost ten years now, off and on,...
Ridiculous Opinions #199
April 23rd, 2010 When I lived in Ghana, one of the teachers mentioned to me that there was a new course called IB Film that was getting started. Film as a...
Ridiculous Opinions #198
Me on Friday afternoon. I’ve been tired all week. On Tuesday, I came home and was looking through my phone, when I fell asleep at 6:00 PM. I woke up about...
Ridiculous Opinions #197
9th grade was my triumphant year as a person who "participated" in the game of school. It was also my last year of "participation", which is a story for...
Ridiculous Opinions #196
Long ago, I started this newsletter so that I could keep in touch with students over the years and today marks the first newsletter that my latest group of...
Ridiculous Opinions #195
Henry Holmes, Grade 9. I am reaching that age where the people I know are going to start dying. This is the way life goes and the way it has always been....
Ridiculous Opinions #194
Readership on my posts always varies depending on the subject matter, so I expect today’s numbers to be LOW, because today is about the final game of the...
Ridiculous Opinions #193
Are you ready for… Note: This is a promotional email. Read the author’s note at the bottom. It’s official! Book 2 of Maurice the Beaver is now live on...
Ridiculous Opinions #192
A feral hog. I’m all alone! Well, I’m not actually alone. It’s just me and the cats, but the cats don’t really care about me until it’s food time, and then...
Ridiculous Opinions #191
Lane Moore📕YouWillFindYourPeople @hellolanemooreOldest daughters on their way to solve everyone's problems yet again because no one else will do it 5:04 AM ∙...
Ridiculous Opinions #190
See that smile? It’s the smile of someone who knows that it won’t be long before her grand plan takes effect. Last night, Tracey and I went to see Tan Dun...
Ridiculous Opinions #189
Yes, I am writing about “Cheers” in this newsletter. It’s a testament to the poor readership of Ridiculous Opinions that I looked to see what number the...
Ridiculous Opinions #163
I am currently sitting in the Sandstorm Comics booth, where I have been planted for the day. Sandstorm Comics is the first UAE-based comic company. Last...
Ridiculous Opinions #162
Let me tell you about my favorite cat. I’m telling you this in confidence, because if the two cats that I actually own were to find out that they were not my...
Ridiculous Opinions #186
I’m sitting here at my desk this morning, enjoying a lovely breeze with the window open, when I hear a KRAK on the wall. I look out to see three little boys,...
Ridiculous Opinions #185
I am here. Notice that I have included my “flipper-like” foot to prove it. I’m currently sitting by the pool at Emirates Palace, feeling like I have fooled...
Ridiculous Opinions #184
It me. So, I am irrelevant when it comes to popular music. That is a clear statement. I have always wanted to be hip when it comes to music, but once I had...
Ridiculous Opinions #183
As I am writing this, our youngest cat, Mango, is sitting beside me, staring. Every once in a while, she will let loose with a rather pathetic “meow” that...
Ridiculous Opinions #182
The victim: Randall P. Girdner. Destined to suffer trauma, despite his innocence. I’m not really going to write this newsletter about things that annoy me. I...
Ridiculous Opinions #181!
Wednesday morning, I woke with a slight cough, but I went to work. I’ve been off and on sick since the beginning of December, which I blame on stupid masks...
Ridiculous Opinions #180
I’m a bit of a curmudgeon. This is probably not a complete surprise to most of you, because most of you have dealt with me in various forms over the years....
Ridiculous Opinions #179
What a year it’s been… The new year has always been a symbolic “new beginning” for most people, and I count myself as one of them. Though there is no...
Ridiculous Opinions #178
It’s Christmas Eve here in the Girdner/Ramsey household and I am sitting in a quiet house with two cats sleeping near me. Everyone else is sacked out because...
Ridiculous Opinions #177
And so we begin the season before Xmas… I have spent the week sick. Want to know why? Yes, dear readers, I have reached the stage in my life where I am...
Ridiculous Opinions #176
Quite a dramatic beginning there, eh? As many of you might know, I spend a lot of time on the internet. I read a lot. I examine a lot. I absorb knowledge...
Ridiculous Opinions #175
We made a film! Every year, our school does something called Viper Venture, where the whole school leaves to engage in various “outside of school”...
Ridiculous Opinions #174
Oh, I was cute. There was no Thanksgiving celebrated in the Girdner/Ramsey household this year. There are several reasons for this. One reason is that it’s...
Ridiculous Opinions #173
Not a ton to say this morning. It is that time of year where all teachers get so busy that they start to vibrate a little bit. On Monday, we have our fourth-...
Ridiculous Opinions #172
At long last, I can finally announce that the publication of the SECOND collection of Maurice cartoons will be hitting the stands at some point in the...
Ridiculous Opinions #171
I’ve been hard at work with various things over the last few months. Aside from my daytime teaching job, and my nighttime teaching job, I have also been...
Ridiculous Opinions #170
Yesterday, I quit Twitter. My account is not deleted. I just deleted the apps from my phone and removed it from my browser. Why? Elon Musk, of course. Not a...
Ridiculous Opinions #169
So, if you remember last year at this juncture, I published a book that I had been working on for a very long time, called, The Completely Unreliable Travel...
Ridiculous Opinions #168
I love this video. Some of you who have been around me enough know of my feelings around the fact that I believe that music videos are a perfect form of art....
Ridiculous Opinions #167
Today’s newsletter is a request. It should come as no surprise that I used to collect comics when I was a little kid. We were not a rich family, but despite...
Ridiculous Opinions #166
So, as many of you have heard a hundred billion times, I do a comic strip called Maurice the Beaver. I publish a new comic three to four times a week in...
Ridiculous Opinions #165
Did you know that you can tell your future by looking at the damage to your phone screen? I have nothing to say today. So, I will now present to you,...
Ridiculous Opinions #164
This morning, I woke up and our youngest cat, Mango, was sitting in between the two of us. I looked over and she was just staring at Tracey. She did this for...
Ridiculous Opinions #161
Hi nerds! It’s 6:49 AM on a Saturday and I am still experiencing jet lag. Ugh. In lieu of writing anything coherent, here’s a little mental exercise… You...
Ridiculous Opinions #160
I write this on a Saturday morning from a hotel in Cambridge, Ontario. In just about an hour, we will check out of the hotel and go see our daughters one...
Ridiculous Opinions #159
It is currently 15 degrees Celsius here in Canada right now. I am wearing my 100-year sweatshirt and listening to the Canadian geese on the lake outside of...
Ridiculous Opinions #158
This is my friend, the bullfrog, who occasionally visits the pool. He likes to stay in the pool filter because when he does, all of the meals come to him....
Ridiculous Opinions #157
So, the big thing on the internet at the moment (besides the Instagram meltdown) would be Dall-E. I shall try to explain this as simply as possible…Dall-E is...