Bottom-Feeding TV

Being a cable TV cord-cutter with an outdoor antenna, I see subchannels come and go. The Movies! channel appeared on one station, then it disappeared before reappearing on a different station.

A recent addition in greater Boston is Movie Sphere Gold.

https://deadline.com/2025/11/lionsgate-debmar-mercury-launch-moviesphere-gold-movie-diginet-1236623607/

Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair has been showing in theaters. That’s the ideal viewing experience for Tarantino fans to see his ultra-violent homage to several film genres.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 is showing on Movie Sphere Gold. Heavily censored, aired here with commercials in highly compressed, lowly 480i, it’s far from ideal viewing. But it’s good enough to appreciate the cinematic mayhem.

President Dry Drunk

Yesterday I said, “For someone who doesn’t drink, Trump’s late night rants are typical of someone with a substance abuse problem.”

Today, it’s reported that Trump’s Chief of Staff, Susie “Trump” Wiles, has said that DJT “has an alcoholic’s personality.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/trump-susie-wiles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E8.teuJ.gaT94mIxSO3M&smid=url-share