Category Archives: Cold War

There’s an Apkallu for That

Posted on June 20, 2022 by Nathan

Beth and I went to the Mermaid Parade in Coney Island on Saturday, and watched The Shape of Water last night, so it’s been a good weekend for fish-people. The rest of this paragraph will have some SPOILERS for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Babylonian, Cold War, Final Fantasy, Greek Philosophy, Hinduism, History, Humor, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Popeye, Relationships, Religion, Space Program, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies, Zelda | Tagged a link between worlds, apkallu, berossus, birds, captain james hook, cats, coney island, coney island mermaid parade, costumes, creature from the black lagoon, crocodiles, enki, epic of gilgamesh, fish, flood, guillermo del toro, lobsters, marduk, matsya, mermaids, mister ed, oannes, ocarina of time, octopuses, plato, princess ruto, queen oren, racism, sages, saptarishi, seven sages, sexism, sexuality, starfish, the shape of water, uanna, vishnu, zoras | 3 Comments

Three Period Pieces

Posted on January 2, 2022 by Nathan

For my first post of 2022, how about some movie reviews? Licorice Pizza – Beth and I saw this at the theater the other day, and she doesn’t even like licorice or pizza! No, this is a Paul Thomas Anderson … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Celtic, Cold War, Conspiracy Theories, Egyptian, History, Humor, Magic, Music, Mythology, Names, Philosophy, Relationships | Tagged alana haim, aliens, arnold schwarzenegger, cate blanchett, conan the barbarian, cooper hoffman, crystal skulls, gary goetzman, genghis khan, haim, harrison ford, hyborian age, indiana jones, indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull, james earl jones, joel wachs, licorice pizza, paul thomas anderson, pinball, robert e. howard, set, thulsa doom | Leave a comment

When the Plumbing Gets Tough, the Tough Get Plumbing

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Nathan

Here are sore Super Mario Bros. Super Show reviews, and I have to say this set of episodes was largely lackluster even for this show, although there’s one pretty significant episode in the mix. Quest for Pizza – Mario and … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, Cold War, History, Humor, Mario, Monsters, Music, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged alley oop, andy heyward, bob-ombs, calamity clem, california gold rush, caveboy, caveman land, cobrats, dinosaurs, elvin lives, elvin parsley, elvis presley, fire flowers, game show host, gary owens, glasnuts, goombas, half life malt shop, home radio, howard stevens, james brown, jim lange, king bowser koopa, leonardo da vinci, leonardo da vinci mahoney, leonardo da vinci rooney, lonesome mushroom, luigi mario, mario mario, martin garner, mikhail gorbachev, mouser, mousersaurus rex, mugga, piranha plants, pizza, plummers academy, president george h.w. bush, princess peach toadstool, pterodactyls, quest for fire, quest for pizza, robin leach, roy orbisoni mahoney, salvador drainado, sergeant kooperman, sockhop land, super mario 3d world, super mario world, the great gold coin rush, the painting, toad, toads, waluigi, wario, willy white | 2 Comments

Gotta Nuke Something

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Nathan

It seems that the Trump administration is determined to bring back the Cold War and its arms race, only this time they’re on the same side as Russia. Or are they? I’ve been trying to get through my old e-mail, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Cold War, Current Events, History, Japan, Politics, Popeye, Prejudice | Tagged adolf hitler, atomic bombs, donald trump, Iran, kim jong-un, north korea, nuclear weapons, president barack obama, surrender, vladimir putin, war, world war ii, you're a sap mr. jap | Leave a comment

Always Going Forward, ‘Cause We Can’t Find Reverse

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Nathan

My re-watch of the Star Trek movies has reached the end of the films starring the original cast. I’d seen these two before, but only once each a long time ago. For the most part, I think I have to … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cold War, History, Humor, Language, Prejudice, Religion, Star Trek, Technology, VoVat Goes to the Movies, William Shakespeare | Tagged caithlin dar, captain james t. kirk, christopher plummer, cynthia gouw, david warner, dr. leonard mccoy, general chang, hikaru sulu, kim cattrall, klingons, michael dorn, nyota uhura, pavel chekov, romulans, sha ka ree, spock, st john talbot, star trek the next generation, sybok, the final frontier, the undiscovered country, vulcans, william shatner | 4 Comments

The Math Behind the Mission

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Nathan

Hidden Figures – I didn’t know a whole lot about this movie prior to seeing it, but I enjoyed it. It’s the story of three black female mathematicians who worked for NASA during the early days of the space program, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cold War, Gender, History, Mathematics, Prejudice, Science, Space Program, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged dorothy vaughan, hidden figures, janelle monae, jim parsons, john glenn, katherine goble johnson, kevin costner, kirsten dunst, mary jackson, nasa, octavia spencer, taraji p. henson | 1 Comment

The Game That Wasn’t There

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Nathan

I don’t think I’d heard the legend of the video game Polybius until I came across a post about it on Tumblr earlier this week. All evidence points to the fact that the game never existed, for various reasons, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Cold War, Conspiracy Theories, History, Television, The Simpsons, Urban Legends, Video Games | Tagged asteroids, dave theurer, poly play, polybius, project mkultra, sennesloeschen, space invaders, tempest, the last starfighter, wreck-it ralph | 3 Comments

A Whole New World Order

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Nathan

Conspiracy theorists love to talk about something called the “New World Order,” leaving the rest of us to wonder what this actually means and why it’s a bad thing. After all, it’s not like the CURRENT world order is without … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Cold War, Communism, Conspiracy Theories, Economics, Fundamentalism, History, Politics, Religion | Tagged antisemitism, barry goldwater, fred koch, frederick hicks, futurism, h.g. wells, john birch, john birch society, koch brothers, new world order, one world government, president dwight eisenhower, president george h.w. bush, revelation, tea party, united nations | 2 Comments

Off the Marx

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Nathan

You know, I’m not a communist, but I have to admit the idea has a fair amount of appeal. Too bad it hasn’t worked, but then, it’s not like the form of capitalism we have in this country is really … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Christianity, Cold War, Communism, Corporations, Economics, Historical Personages, History, Marxism, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Socialism | Tagged communist manifesto, jesus, josef stalin, karl marx, middle ages, norman cohn, the pursuit of the millennium | 10 Comments

Category Archives: Cold War

There’s an Apkallu for That

Three Period Pieces

When the Plumbing Gets Tough, the Tough Get Plumbing

Gotta Nuke Something

Always Going Forward, ‘Cause We Can’t Find Reverse

The Math Behind the Mission

The Game That Wasn’t There

A Whole New World Order

Off the Marx

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