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!GREETINGS,

GOOD PEOPLE!

 

!HOPE ALL IS WELL

SO FAR

IN

2026,

AND

WELCOME BACK

TO THE

ENLIGHTENED SITE

THAT 

UNPLUGS

THE

PEOPLE

OF THE WORLD

FROM

THE MATRIX,

AND

GETS THEM

SKYROCKING

WITH

LIBERATED

AND

EXULTANT ABANDON

IN

THE REAL WORLD!

 

!!To get

2026

off to a

good start,

please

drop by

the

slightly revised

Gia (GC) Coppola

and

Sir Peter Jackson

essays,

and

the

Walt Disney

essay

for a

revised

and

insightful look

at

the allegorical

Richard Fleischer

indie animaction feature film

20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA [1954],

the eerily and presciently twilit,

allegorical, CGI enhanced,

and Ozian themed

Gary Nelson

indie animaction film

THE BLACK HOLE [1979],

the daylit, allegorical,

and Ozian themed

Matthew Robbins

indie animaction film DRAGONSLAYER [1981],

the ambitious

 but eerily and presciently twilit,

allegorical, CGI enhanced

and Ozian themed

Steven Lisberger

indie animaction film

TRON [1982],

and

the daylit, allegorical, CGI enhanced,

and Ozian themed

Gil Junger

indie docufeature film

10 things I hate about you [1999],

the

latter of which

which has

necessitated

a

slightly revised

look

at

the Matrix Trilogy

in

Chapters 9 and 10

of

THE WIZARD OF FORCE!!

 

!!!WELCOME BACK TO

THE REAL WORLD!!!

 

 

 

!AND

 

THOSE

 

STILL EAGER

 

FOR

 

TWO TASTY

 

NEW YEAR'S

 

TREATS,

 

DROP BY

 

THE

 

TIM W. BURTON

 

AND

 

SIR RIDLEY SCOTT

 

ESSAYS

 

FOR

 

THE FIRST

 

SLIGHTLY REVISED

 

THOUGHTS

 

ON

 

THE DAYLIT, ALLEGORICAL,

 

CGI ENHANCED, AND OZIAN THEMED,

 

NOAH HAWLEY

 

INDIE DOCUFEATURE

 

ARTBUSTER TELEFILM SERIES

 

ALIEN: EARTH [2025]!

 

 

!HAPPY

 

BELATED

 

40TH ANNIVERSARY

 

GOING OUT

 

TO

 

TERRY GILLIAM,

 

JONATHAN PRYCE, KIM GREIST,

 

KATHERINE HELMOND,

 

MICHAEL PALIN,

 

IAN HOLM, PETER VAUGHAN,

 

BOBBY DE NIRO

 

AND

 

THE REST OF THE

 

TALENTED CAST AND CREW

 

OF

 

THE

 

TWILIT, ALLEGORICAL,

 

CGI ENHANCED,

 

OZIAN THEMED,

 

AND

 

IMPLICITLY JOHN D. LANDIS

 

ADDRESSING

 

INDIE ANIMACTION ARTBUSTER

 

BRAZIL [1985]!

 

 

!!WELL DONE!!

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

There can be

no more exceptions

or privileges.

Everybody must be equal...

 

The power of peace

must be dominant.

 

- Ukrainian President

Volodymyr Zelensky

 

 

!'Nuck said,

Brother Vol!

 

 

!!!!Mir

SalaamShalom

Peace!!!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

And remember,

when in

the Greater Toronto Area [GTA],

always visit

Image Collections,

the

finest emporium

of

collectibles, games

and

narrative art

in Streetsville,

the "Village in the City"

of

Mississauga.

 

!Stay super!

 

!And

when in the Brighton area,

always drop by

Lola's,

the finest cafe

in town!

 

!!Everybody luvs Lola's!!

 

 

!!'Nuck said!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

RIP

 

DAVID LYNCH

 

1946 - 2025

 

 

!THANKS AGAIN

 

ON THE

 

FIRST ANNIVERSARY

 

OF

 

YOUR PASSING

 

FOR ALWAYS BEING

 

WEIRD ON TOP

 

AND

 

WILD AT HEART,

 

DAVID!

 

 

!!MAY THE ETERNAL DREAM

 

NOW BLISSFULLY UNFOLD!!

 

 

!!!YOUR LIFE

 

WILL BE COMMEMORATED

 

EACH MONTH

 

WITH A LINE

 

FROM ONE OF YOUR

 

MOVING PAINTINGS

 

OR

 

TELEMOVING PAINTINGS

 

IN THE TITLE

 

OF THIS SITE!!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

!Started off 2025 right

 

by sitting down

 

on New Year's night

 

to experience

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed,

 

and

 

implicitly Lucas addressing

 

Kathryn Bigelow

 

indie docufeature artbuster

 

STRANGE DAYS [1995],

 

still one of the greatest films

 

ever made,

 

and still the greatest film

 

ever made

 

by a female film artist!

 

 

 

!!BRAVO

 

and

 

HAPPY

 

30th ANNIVERSARY

 

to Bigs,

 

James Cameron, Jay Cocks,

 

Ralph Fiennes, Tom Sizemore,

 

Juliette Lewis, Angela Bassett,

 

Michael Wincott, Brigitte Bako,

 

Richard Edson, Glenn Plummer,

 

Vincent D'onofrio, William Fichtner,

 

and 

 

the rest of

 

the talented cast of crew

 

of

 

STRANGE DAYS

 

on a brave film

 

well done!!

 

 

!!!BRAVO,

 

AND ENCORE!!!

 

!!!!ENCORE!!!!

 

 

 

!And

 

don't forget

 

to

 

check out

 

the latest

 

mysterious misadventures

 

of

 

the implicitly Gardevil linked

 

private eye Holly Gibney

 

in

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

and implicitly

 

Donald Trump

 

and

 

Tim Burton

 

roastin'

 

Screamin' Stephen King

 

docufiction novel

 

NEVER FLINCH [May 2025]

 

in the

 

Gary W. Wright essay!!

 

 

!!!!HaW!!!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

THE SMART PHONE

HAS BECOME THE NEW RETINA

OF THE MIND'S I.

 

THUS,

THE MEDIUM

IS THE TEXT MESSAGE

THAT CONVEYS

THE PERMANENCE OF TRANSIENCE.

 

- Doctor Brian O'Blivion

 

 

 

****

 

 

"I often say

that there are two languages:

the words that I wrote-

the words you can understand-

and behind that,

there's a silent language."

 

- Jon Fosse,

winner of the

2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

 

 

 

****

 

 

"It sounds silly,

but when people talk about

Jane and Finch

or Downsview,

certain images

come to mind,

and a lot of those images

don't have the beauty...

There's so much history

and impact

that comes out of our community

that gets overlooked

because of media narratives

that have been there

for decades."

 

- Kayode Brown,

CEO of BGRAPHIC,

TORONTO STAR,

Together section,

Sunday, January, 21, 2024,

p. A16.

 

 

 

****

 

 

SRV

 

FVR

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...Quite the movie fan

is Holly Gibney

(although she hasn't been in

an actual theater

since the previous spring),

and she enjoys

Hollywood tentpole movies

every bit as much as art films.

One of her faves

from the eighties

is Conan the Barbarian,

and her favorite line

from that film

is spoken by a minor character.

"Two or three years ago",

the peddler says of Set

and his followers,

"they were just another snake cult.

Now they're everywhere.""

 

- a paragraph from p. 17,

 

and another misquote from p. 326

 

"...Holly channels The Empire

Strikes Back.  "Everything

means something, it does.""

 

and still another quote from

 

the all too fittingly

 

and

 

ominously twilit p. 382

 

"..."Excuse my husband, " Emily says.

"He's upset and it makes him

garrulous.""

 

and

 

this Fourceful and final one

 

from p. 389

 

"...I have a bad feeling about this,

 

Ba."

 

from

the allegorical

and

implicitly Stan and Joan Lee roasting

Stephen King

indie docufiction novel

Holly [2023]

that affirmed

the implicit link

of

lonely, eccentric,

indie, solitary,

STAR WARS luvin',

and mystery solvin'

Holly Gibney

to

equally lonely, eccentric,

indie, solitary,

STAR WARS luvin',

and allegory crackin'

Gary Wright.

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"Very few critics

 

work carefully,

 

thoughtfully enough.

 

To see a film once

 

and

 

write a review

 

is an absurdity."

 

- Stanley Kubrick

 

from p. 106

 

of

 

STANLEY KUBRICK: interviews,

 

ed. by Gene D. Phillips

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...The truth is always the best,

 

the only trouble is-

 

what is the truth?"

 

- Rockie

 

from

 

OUT IN THE OPEN:

 

life on the street [1997]

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...Then

when we in turn

write, speak

or do things,

we release our ideas

out into the environment,

where they can infect

new brains.

Ideas,

like viruses,

thus proliferate

at prodigious rates,

changing at prodigious rates,

as they do so."

 

- George P. Smith

 

 

 

****

 

 

"...Received opinion

is

often wrong

and

usually boring;

the text is yours

to interpret...

This ability

to read symbolically,

to view

the very world around us

symbolically,

is at the heart

of

the whole literary

[and cinema games].

To accept things

at first glance

to be

as they appear

on the surface

is to be trapped

in the literal.

To be able

to see

symbolic possibilities

allows one

to begin to make

connections

between things

that at first

seem to have

little to do

with each other."

 

- Doctor David R. Williams, PhD

 

from pp. 88 and 136

of

SIN BOLDLY:

Dr. Dave's guide to writing

the college paper [2004]

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...The Evil

running rampant

around the world

shows no sign

of disappearing.

It hasn't changed

since I became

a Hero for fun.

In other words,

I am having no effect

on society.

I'm not sad about that.

I do this for fun,

so I just need

to satisfy myself."

 

- from

the intriguingly garish,

twilit, allegorical

and

CGI enhanced

One and Murata Yusuke

indie manga

ONE-PUNCH MAN:

volume one,

p.92.

 

For some equally garish thoughts

on

ONE-PUNCH MAN,

with

"...his lifeless expression

to his bald head

to his unimpressive physique"

[from the Chapters/Indigo Books website],

check out

the

Wright "essay"

in

the Zone Warriors section.

 

!Wright on!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

...life is the same as death

but the soul continues

in the same blinding light

 

- Ti Jean Kerouac

from

the 123rd Chorus

of

MEXICO CITY BLUES

 

 

 

 

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RIP

 

2026

 

Kirsty Duncan

Gunner Sebastian Halmagean

Charlie Hebdo victims ten years on

Piper James

Catherine O'Hara

Kianna Underwood

 

 

 

2025

 

 

Luz M.B. Agaton

Humaira A. Ali

Apu Apu festival attack victims

Betsy Arakawa

Jeff Baena

Brigitte Bardot

Sarah Beckstrom

Emma, Greg, and Ryder Biffle

Bondi Beach terror attack victims

Mark Bonokoski

Serenity Brown

Cartelo

Christina Chambers

Los Angeles Hell Fire Victims,

including Rory Sykes

Magdeburg Market Attack Victims

Malibu and Pacific Palisades homes

of Billy Crystal, Anna Faris,

Mel Gibson, John Goodman,

Paris Hilton, Sir Anthony Hopkins,

Dan & Eugene Levy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus,

Cobie Smulders, and Carel Struycken

 

 

 

 

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