The Skolney Blog

Trump won. Fuck America.  Every horror that is in our future is richly deserved.  I wish I could leave. 

So I begin this post at about 11:30 PM on election night, and it hasn't been an encouraging night. Thinking Harris was going to win in some huge landslide may have just been a fun fantasy anyway. And who cares? Just win is all that matters. But she might not win. It is all coming down to the swing states, and while we could very well have that late blue surge that we had in 2020, it shouldn't be this close.  I'm not sure we can ever have an election in which the scum of this country get crushed again. There are simply too many horrible people in America. Too many for the country to survive. You can't have a country in which tens of millions of people are this gleefully stupid, proudly racist and sexist and xenophobic, and clearly perfectly okay with women being raped. Trump is a rapist. And tens of millions support him for it. This isn't 2016. Trump has shown everyone in the world what he is for years now. And it is just accepted. This is what America is. Harris may...

I will always remember the moment I found out that Joe Biden, relentlessly badgered by a garbage media, had decided to drop out of the race for re-election. It was stunning, and frightening. In that moment, it felt like Donald Trump had just been handed back control of America. But then I saw what a rush of energy this brought to everybody. The polls, for whatever they're worth, massively swung towards Kamala Harris. When she picked Tim Walz as VP, the roll continued. Harris crushed Trump in the debate so thoroughly that the rapist felon chickened out and never did a 2nd debate. Walz spanked the couch fucker in the VP debate. Trump kept on with his grievance tour, faking a couple assassination attempts along the way to try to gin up sympathy.  The corporate media, embarrassingly still in love with the Trump circus, did the same thing they did in 16 and 20, jumping on any excuse to trash Harris (and still trash Biden whenever possible) while always whitewashing every insane thing Tr...

VIKINGS 21 COLTS 13 I'm not gonna lie. Things were looking pretty bleak.  Coming off two frustrating losses, the Vikings went out there on Sunday night and proceeded to play another stumbling, bumbling first half against the Colts.  They only trailed 7-0 due to the defense having a big bounceback game. But there were points left out there on nearly every drive. The Vikings appeared to be proving themselves an unserious team. But hey...we've been here before, right? Just two years ago, we played a bad first half against the Colts...so bad that it took a historic comeback to win. What's a measly 7 points compared to that?  But anyway, that first half. The Colts botched a handoff on their opening drive, giving us the ball. And the Vikings opening drive in response looked good. The ball was spread around to 5 different receivers, including TJ Hockenson in his season debut, and they methodically drove into the redzone. But then Sam Darnold made one of his worst decisions of th...

In theaters: MY OLD ASS I figured that the movie where Aubrey Plaza talks to her younger self would be pretty good. Plaza is a fun actress who mostly does good stuff. What I did not expect was that this movie would hit me in the feels like this, and be one of my absolute favorite movies of the year. This film is fantastic, using a loosely explained time travel premise as an excuse to craft one of the very best, most nostalgic, coming of age style comedies I have seen. Plaza is terrific, but she isn't even the real star. That would be the wonderful Maisy Stella, who plays that younger self and is a dazzler of effortless charm and likability (she's crazy cute, too). This movie really got to me, but it is very funny too. JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX Well, let me first say that Joker 2 is bad, but I don't quite think it is AS BAD as many are saying. I did find a handful of scenes effective, Phoenix again commits, and Lady Gaga has never been so hot. However, the film is also horribly st...

1984: Four decades ago, a film came out that both established its star as a movie star, and announced the arrival of a filmmaker who would become one of the greatest showmen in film history. Obviously, The Terminator pre-dated my movie fandom, but I started to know about when T2 was coming out. It was this big, hyped movie, but I didn't even know the original movie was a thing.  I'm even pretty sure that I saw the sequel first, and it's kind of jarring to watch the original after that. The original film was not made to push forward grand new special effects technology. You watch it even in the early 90s, and you can see how fake some of the model work is. But for its time, this was still pretty good. Arnold Schwarzenegger was already a rising action star before this film. But this was the film that really cemented him as an action icon. Humorously, he was originally going to okay Kyle Reese (the Michael Biehn human character), which would have made no sense. And...

RAMS 30 VIKINGS 20 No. This can't be. It can't be happening again...can it? Is it 2016 all over again, when the Vikings surprisingly started 5-0, with a couple impressive wins over good teams, only to then have their bye and come out of said bye as a terrible team that plummeted to a 3-8 finish?  Well, these Vikings are following those steps. They started 5-0, and with some of those wins really good ones. Then they had the bye...and have exited the bye not looking at all like the team they were.  What a horrible week.  The Sunday loss to the Lions was more annoying and unfortunate than worrisome. But what happened Thursday night was something much more alarming. And yeah, it's looking like we may really be in for another collapse. The Vikings loss to the Rams was the kind of loss that forever alters seasons, in more ways than one. Following their usual pattern, the Vikings offense did start fast. Darnold fed JJ, Jones ran well, and the OL was a wall. The first two drives ...