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Lyn Perry's avatar

Thanks for the HT!

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Christian Lindke's avatar

Always.

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J.Q. Graziano's avatar

Man, that's some fascinating history trivia about Flying Buffalo, thanks!

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LYT's avatar

Speaking of losing history, most of my reviews are lost that way. I haven't ever really tried to preserve them. It is what it is.

When I assess LA's Worst Critic, whom I'm not going to name right here, it's less an assessment of his critical prowess as it is his existence as a human being. He's literally a hateful bigot, and one who often disrupts screenings by yelling right-wing slogans at the screen, who should not be getting credentialed for anything by just about any objective standard cited by studios and corporations. Yet I suspect the moment they shut him out, if they ever do, he will proclaim it anti-christian bigotry, as he writes for a conservative nonprofit. The man tried to pick an argument with my wife out of thin air over Black Panther's "left-wing bias."

I used to find his bad reviews funny, but these days, I think he's actively part of a dangerous larger movement.

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Christian Lindke's avatar

Did you archive your old website?

I know that I can archive my Blogger site, which I have done and need to do again, but I don't know about other sites.

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LYT's avatar

I did, and it had all my old New Times reviews. Everything else, though, I consider that I write for a paycheck, not posterity.

I do save all the toy photos.

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LYT's avatar

Not, the original version of this comment specified his hatreds, but every time I tried to post it, it said "something went wrong." I wasn't sure if that's a glitch or substack rule, but suffice it to say they are specific prejudices, and most of the ones you can imagine.

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