A dispatch from abroad
I'm on vacation back home in Canada, following 30 hours of transatlantic travel ending at 1:00 AM. If you ever need to completely reset your sleep schedule, I hightly recommend 30 hours of transatlantic travel ending at 1:00 AM.
Because I'm staying with my parents, who have more streaming subscriptions than I do, I've now seen Drive-Away Dolls. I missed seeing it in theatres, as I was reliably informed at the time that it wasn't very good. Now, having watched it, I can report that it isn't very good. It's not bad, but I don't think it achieves anything it sets out to do. Which is a shame, because it's exactly the kind of movie I'd like to see more of (low-rent crime comedy, but make it gay).
Podcast Appearance: I Will Fight You
In the latest episode of I Will Fight You, we discuss The Core. It's a movie about a train that goes to the center of the Earth. I'm not sure I need to sell it any harder than that.
You can listen to the episode here, or wherever podcasts are found.
This Week's Links
How Wall Street fleeces African countries coming and going
Inequitable resource extraction deals are one reason why Senegal struggles to raise enough revenue to run the country. When its coffers run dry, the government is driven to borrow from the international money markets. In a bitter irony, it often turns to the very same firms that are taking the lion’s share of the revenue from the Senegalese gold mining industry.
‘Ferrari in a junkyard’: Mules sold at auction are rare, endangered horses
Once extinct in the wild, around 2,500 Przewalski’s horses remained worldwide as of 2022. They’re native to Mongolia and in June, seven were reintroduced to nearby Kazakhstan as part of an effort to return them to their natural habitats. They are the only truly wild horse remaining (mustangs are feral horses).
Disney-obsessed couple lose lawsuit to get back into exclusive Club 33
At about 9:50 p.m. on Sept. 3, 2017, security guards found Scott Anderson near the entrance of California Adventure displaying signs of what they took to be intoxication, including slurred speech and trouble standing, according to trial testimony. ... The club swiftly ousted them.
The September 2017 incident was not the first time the Andersons had run afoul of Club 33 management. The year before, Diana had been briefly suspended for “using some salty language … a couple F-words,” as Macias put it.
$400 000 seems like a lot of money to spend on getting back into a club where you're not allowed to get drunk or swear.
Incidentally, if you also desire more gay crime fiction, check out my books.
-K
