Fred and Loathing on The Internet

After a little bit of retrospection, certain themes about this blog appear in the muck. From my current estimate, these published ramblings of mine are an oral biography of my brushes with the media. Media, as in the aggregate term for creative volumes of media. Anything that travels before a medium before it gets to my senses. It could be several volumes like a TV series. One single volume like a novel or a 90-180 minute cinematic feature. The media is not just TV news, as most MAGA voters would have you believe. I mean every single piece of information given to me that was mediated by the means it was delivered. AM radio, podcasts, paintings, opera. It’s all media.

I suppose I had written a few posts about some live music concerts I attended. Even though the ‘media’ of music I had mostly heard from recorded work is what brought me there, the actual experience of the concert is the closest thing to something I reviewed on here that is not a response to media. Boy, I bet Baudrillard would be proud to see that last sentence.

Sure, I refer to the blog posts as reviews or critiques, but that is a bit of a misnomer. What I get the most kick from when I write these blog posts is from talking about how I, the namesake of this web domain’s blog, learned to like whatever the blog post is about. The first half of any of my reviews are just talking about why I would bother to review it. The origin story for my likes and dislikes. I have not done a blog post yet...

Although I had a superb illustration of the Aqua Teen’s home ready in the chamber to go with a yet to be written post about the Aqua Teens, I went with another topic. Rushed the graphic material too to get this thing published before the end of the month. I know there is no score to be kept by turning these things in by some timely fashion. Be that as it may, I do not like to see the links on the left side of the blog page seeing a month with just one single blog post. There is so much opinion stuffed inside of me! There must be more than one 1000’ish word screed per month inside of me. Note: I did not make the end of the month deadline. Hopefully next month will be fat with blog posts.

I have more than a thousand words brimming inside me about the recent PC game Jagged Alliance 3. (Maybe the game is also available on video game consoles. Frankly I don’t care. PC gaming has been my modus operandi for quite some time.) The third volume of the turn-based strategy series Jagged Alliance was made by different developers than the original two, and was released more than twenty years after the release of the first two.

When you make a sequel to a movie who’s last iteration was decades ago, often you get dreck. You can still get the original gang of creators back and often you will still get a terrible movie. That is not the case for video games.

Fallout is a famous example of a bygone video game having new life breathed into it. Fallout is now a...

Since the last blog post dedicated to one particular actor is a well established precedent now on the fredlambuth.com blog- lo and behold let’s talk about George Lowe!

Amazing announcer turned voice actor best known for being the spirit behind Space Ghost. The only one for me. I did watch a few of the originals, but they did not leave any lasting impression. Any more than Birdman or The Meteor Men. If anything, I thought Space Ghost was lame until his talk show host reincarnation on Cartoon Network in the 1990s.

Sadly, Mr. Lowe is the subject of a blog post because he recently passed. A young man of sixty seven. I regret that there are not more years to enjoy that buttery smooth voice of his.

Might as well make it seem intentional, so let’s state it now. This will be a two-parter. How do I know that? Because I made the editorial decision to publish the graphic material I have available now as two blog posts. I have enough to put together my visual memorial for George Lowe. However, I do not have the right inspiration to finish it just now. Instead I wanna just talk about him and his impact on my life with cheap text. Later I’ll talk about the Aqua Teens as their own semi-related blog post. George Lowe playing himself on the Aqua Teens is how this actor penetrated into my psyche as himself and not just a pretty voice.

Of that graphic material I mentioned, I painted the foreground and the background separately, so they’re going to be...