A Moment To Blow Your Mind

The original Karate Kid’s total running time: 126 minutes.

The new Karate Kid’s running time: 140 minutes.

Difference between both: 14 minutes.

So people shouldn’t really complain about the length of it.

[only reason I bothered looking it up was due to Vadim [KR’86] and Prigge’s [KR II] live-slogs.]

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The series featured Gary Coleman as the voice of Andy LeBeau, an apprentice angel, who was dispatched back to Earth to earn his wings by helping others. The half-hour series was based on Coleman’s 1982 made-for-TV movie The Kid with the Broken Halo.



In each episode, Andy was dispatched to help a child in need and resolve his problem. The antagonist in each episode was Hornswoggle, who tried to make Andy’s mission more difficult, usually by getting him to make the wrong mistake or by otherwise complicating the mission. It was up to Andy to correct whatever mistakes he made and foil Hornswoggle’s plans. Oddly enough, Angelica, couldn’t perceive Hornswoggle; this had a tendency to complicate things and get Andy in trouble.

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— Oh, exploitable.

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Because that’s what Tumblr comes down to. There’s a vile sub-section of Tumblr-istas who I’m not going to name because they’re crazily vigilant about monitoring themselves and prone to throwing long, maudlin fits about “people being mean on the internet” and so on and I don’t need the trouble, but here’s what they do: 90% of their posts will contain some kind of image (frequently animal based), LOLCATS-speak and/or songs that are “meaningful” that they have a lot of “feelings” about. (The fact that the word “feelings” has been rebooted as something inherently positive is completely insane, but let that pass.) Or they’ll talk about “The Hills.” Or whatever. But then — like an ’80s sitcom in sweeps season — there will be A Very Special Post occasionally, about something that’s clearly emotionally important to the person writing, generally concerned with a) a past relationship in its failing stages b) childhood traumas and fears remembered, frequently family-related c) getting drunk and experiencing a mental breakthrough. The prose will often emerge like a groggy, hungover New Yorker refugee: the prose will be “terse” (or someone’s idea of terse), frequently in the present tense, laced with heavy doses of the maudlin and faux life lessons wisdom. We are then supposed to applaud the Tumblr person, who has proven that they can skim the tides of crap pop culture without losing their intellectual/moral seriousness; they’re just saving themselves for the big moment, when they can speak for a generation.



It’s all pretty terrible.

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In Which Vadim Accurately Determines How “Gawker-Style" Ruined The Written Form on The Internet.

Do try to read. It’s a bit more than the usual four paragraphs, so some people may have trouble with the sentence structure.

“It also rained Tuesday, meaning that the more liberal, enthusiastic activists who supported Mr. Sestak were more likely to go to the polls.”
— Liberals love the rain, mainly in the plain.