Give this guy a cookie and make him go away!

 Ok, so I borrowed from the late Don Rickles.

However, it fits embattled, deranged MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to a T.

At a rally in Arizona, Prince Pillow claimed he was going to file a class action lawsuit against "all machines" because of the 2020 presidential election he still insists, 16 months after the fact, was rigged.

File photo courtesy Getty Images/Washington Post.

What Whinedell meant to say, of course, was that it was voting machines he was going after (of course). However, his latest gaffe had Twitter roasting him like a pig on a barbeque spit. One Twitter user went so far as to joke that his washer & dryer were hiring an attorney.

Bellevue is calling, though Whinedell would be better served going to a confessional first.

In Theatres: The Batman (2022)

 Each auteur, or, filmmaker, has his own vision when it comes to franchises such as DC's "The Batman".

Ten years after Christopher Nolan had completed his Bat-trilogy with "The Dark Knight Rises", and after Ben Affleck walked away from this project, Matt Reeves took over as co-author & director, with Robert Pattinson ("Twilight") stepping into the cape & cowl.

Set two years into the hero's career, "The Batman" is built around a demented serial killer, the Riddler (Paul Dano), but it's not really the Riddler we all knew. Of course not. Reeves used the real-life Zodiac case as an inspiration for turning Riddler into a psychopath far removed from previous iterations of the character. In truth, Riddler, as we see him in the movie, is actually a mash-up of the Prince of Puzzlers and a more recent add to the Batman's Rogues Gallery, Hush, subbing Hush's bandaged face covering with a mask & goggles, Whereas past screen Riddlers have been cunning, but not crazy, Dano's Riddler is both. His cover as a forensic accountant recalls a similar path taken in the Gotham series.

Because modern fandom and WarnerMedia suits practically demand it, Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman (Zoe Kravitz), is inserted as a waitress working at the Iceberg Lounge, currently under the management of one Oswald Cobblepot, aka Penguin (Colin Farrell). The romantic tension between Bat & Cat is there almost instantly. Cobblepot has a more pronounced limp than he had on Gotham, but the how & why of the limp has never been revealed. It's early enough in Batman's career where police Lt. James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright, What If?) is working hand in glove with the Caped Crusader, over the objections of his superiors.

Clocking in at a shade over 2 1/2 hours, "The Batman" does feel as though it was padded at the end with the flooding of Gotham Square Garden after Riddler had been captured. The fact that he has followers will lead some to suggest a political allegory involving a certain demagogue.

Let's check the trailer:

While the soundtrack is sleep inducing to some, I could recommend a retro soundtrack, a la Marvel's movies, to wit:

"I Love a Rainy Night", Eddie Rabbitt.

"November Rain", Guns & Roses (because most of the movie is in the rain).

"Are You Gonna Go My Way?", Lenny Kravitz.

And that's just for starters.

Rating: A-.

Musical Interlude: Bring Back The Time (2022)

 New Kids on The Block, or, NKOTB, are back, prepping for a tour that will launch in June. Of the 5 band members, Donnie Wahlberg has been the most visible in recent times, thanks to his transitioning to acting (i.e. "Saw", Blue Bloods).

The new single, "Bring Back The Time", is a time trip back to the 80's with the boys, along with Salt 'n' Pepa, En Vogue, and Rick Astley (blink, and you'll miss Rick), who will join NKOTB on the summer tour.

Visually, there are mock-ups of the following:

"Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)"--Journey, 1983.

"Whip It"--Devo, 1980.

"I Ran (So Far Away)"---A Flock of Seagulls, 1982-3.

"Flesh For Fantasy"---Billy Idol, 1983-4.

"We're Not Gonna Take It"--Twisted Sister, 1985.

"Rio"---Duran Duran, 1982.

"Addicted to Love"--Robert Palmer, 1986.

"Mickey"---Toni Basil, 1981.

"Once in a Lifetime"---Talking Heads, 1980 (they went overboard with the parody of David Byrne).

Salt 'n' Pepa even cribbed some lyrics from LL Cool J's 1987 hit, "Goin' Back to Cali". You'll know what I mean.

Of course, you'll pay through the nose for tickets (they're likely coming to SPAC), because that's the way they roll these days.

What defines a 21st century GOPer? No shame

 Just to illustrate how overexposed she is to the thin air in her home state of Colorado, Rep. Lauren Bow-Wow went on Laura Inkblot's Fox Shmooze propaganda show Wednesday, and essentially doubled down on her poor attempt at ruining President Biden's State of The Union message a night earlier, saying she'd do it again.

Do the people of Colorado, Georgia, Missouri, et al realize they elected immature children dressed as adults to office?

We attempted to get a comment from a GOPer spokesman:

"Sorry. I fell asleep, and missed it all."

Yeah, I'll bet.

Earlier Wednesday, Tabloid Carlson decided to demand that Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's LSAT scores be made public, something not demanded of anyone nominated by Donald Trump. Carlson played the racist card, to be sure, appealing to all the suburban Archie Bunker wanna-bes, and of course got roasted on Twitter. 

To continue to refer to his garbage hour as an opinion program is a joke in and of itself. We get it. It was a slow news day, other than Fox Shmooze misreading the situation in Ukraine........

A little of this and a little of that

 So Major League Baseball's owners have decided they're not ready to let the players back into camp and prep for the season. The fat cats are being petty, petulant children. One reporter for the NY Daily News went so far as to say the lockout is aimed at Mets owner Steve Cohen, who spent major cheddar to get ace pitcher Max Scherzer away from the Dodgers in the off-season. So the Mets will be on the hook for the luxury tax. Cohen isn't sweating. He feels he has to give the fans the best possible product on the field.

The other owners, on the other hand, are playing hardball, delaying the start of the season as long as they can. What they're forgetting, of course, are the people that actually help pay for the players' salaries, and that's the fans themselves. That's going to make it that much harder to win back the fans after this is over.

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Speaking of owners, word's come down that a group of the original owners of USFL franchises in the 80's are suing Fox over copyrights, one would guess. 70's icon Larry Csonka, who played with Miami and the Giants, with a stopover in the World Football League in between, is siding with the ex-owners. No word on whether a certain bloviator in Florida, who had a stake in one of the USFL franchises, is involved, as if he needs another lawsuit to worry about.

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During President Biden's State of The Union address Tuesday, two GOPer airheads decided to spoil the party, if ya will, by doing what they do best, make fools of themselves.

Of course, that would be Empty-G (Marjorie Taylor Greene) and Lauren Bow-Wow, whose sole goal was to call attention to themselves and overshadow the proceedings. The news media is certainly paying more attention to their juvenile stunt than the official GOPer response from Iowa governor Kim Reynolds, which was largely BS anyway.

This morning on The View, the panel, with guest Michele Tafoya (ex-Sunday Night Football), had plenty to say, and moderator Whoopi Goldberg put the two dimbulbs on blast.

Edit, 7/2/24: The video has been removed from YouTube.

Tafoya, in case you don't know, left NBC Sports after the Super Bowl last month to pursue a career in politics as a GOPer herself. Here, she's filling the vacant chair left behind by Meghan McCain as part of a continuing series of guest-co-hosts until they decide on a permanent co-host.

Musical Interlude: One in a Million (1983-4)

 "One in a Million" was the final single from the Romantics' 1983 CD, "In Heat", and peaked at #37 on the Hot 100, which is a shame, since it had such a good beat.

I envy the actor playing the clerk at the ice cream shop, and having those ladies dancing on the table in front of him.

Dunce Cap Award: Care to take a guess?

 "Dumb Donald is really dumb!"---Gene Rayburn, Match Game, many times between 1973-84.

Proving his ignorance of history once again, Donald Trump is trying to take credit for something he tried to effectively destroy while he was president, and that is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), which has been around almost as long as ol' Pecos Pampers himself.

Worse, he's got NATO, which has no membership fees, confused with one of his country clubs. Farron Cousins explains.

It's at the point now where Trump will say anything to distract attention from his myriad legal issues. Problem is, his act has long since past stale, even moldy. I'd say bacteria went on strike, but that happened when he was in the White House. Instead, Trump, who thinks Joe Isuzu was a real person, not a fictional character back in the 80's, gets another Dunce Cap, plus a set of Weasel ears. With the senior moments he's had of late, jail may be the least of his concerns. If I'm Melania, I'd start searching for a psychologist.........