l.p. - luminous pondering - hmm...

  Ever wondered why the hell they started rewarding  cheap TV without much in the way of standards of any kind  -often employing the same thespians, over and over again-  AND WHY did they ever decide to call these things  "THE GOLDEN GLOBES"  as this clearly doesn't always involve the whole damn globe  and there's no real gold to be dug up - nowhere!!!  The most prestigious award they have to give out,  truth be told, probably would be the  CAROL BURNETT (ACHIEVEMENT) AWARD  and they've given a grand total of... THREE TIMES  (including the one given away tonight: to 98 year-old  Norman Lear! Good thing they didn't wait any longer - eh?  As they could have given it to him last year: instead, they  chose to give it to ELLEN...!!! That's the video above...  The inaugural one -below- was Carol Burnett herself - duh)  Yeah, yeah - alright, alright;  they've got the CECIL B. De MILLE AWARD, too...  ...

  So... We're hearing that Patty & Gal  didn't do so well in their redux...?  *WW84* isn't all that it  could have been/promised to be?  Maybe it is due to it  having only ONE song from 1984  in its entire soundtrack - and it isn't what it should have been: ...it is this:    WOW.  That was... underwhelming!  (In spite of the daring bits there,  for its day and prudish age;  such as the protruding ones  seen in this shot, screenshot  for your convenience  (since fickle YouTube might  take it down any second now!)   ...boobies? (Even if only side boob shots) in a MUSIC VIDEO from the Eighties?!?  And all staged in the midst of some kind of sado-maso lesbo scene...?!?  How did this get past the censors, back then?  How did it get uploaded to YT... NOW?  #ButThatIsAnotherStory No, really...  PATTY should have gone  WITH THIS SONG INSTEAD:  It tells the same basic ...

So maybe you're under quarantine right now  and feeling bummed out... blasé beyond belief...  irremediably bored to death?  (Bad choice of, ah, expression to use here;  at this particular time... Mea Culpa!  But hey - it's not like COVID-19  is an instant death sentence ~ it is not !  Odds are you'll get through it -  if you even get it; which you might not!  OKAY - let's move on ... )  You could sing the  INDOORS SONG,  for instance:  Think about it - no one will hear you sing along!  ... if you do not do anything stupid like video  capture it and share it on social media!  You may also want to go out for a walk -  oh yes, you can still do that!  As long as you remain distant and unreachable  at all times - from anyone you may encounter!  (Don't want to brag here... but *I* have  always been a Master at social distancing  ---...

WWWTF...?!?  YOU MEAN TO SAY...  This infernal, wretched thing  has been taking over our very lives,  all of our free time, all of our ability  to effectively communicate with one another  for three decades now...???  THAT'S AN ENTIRE LIFETIME - FOR SOME!!! ...yeah, yeah, yeah...  FELIZ ANIVERSARIO, INTERNET...!!!  MALVADO! 

Never mind that Asinine Americans forgot aaaaaaall about it - never mind it is said to be ''What History Forgot'' --- I, the Luminous Pundit should not have... normally would not have... simply ''forgotten'' anything - anything at all - just like... that! Naaaahh ...! Granted, I do have much more on my mind than just the less-than-300 years-old INFANT HISTORY of ''America'' --- I have TRUE HISTORY on my mind - always! The rich, millennia-old history of Europa --- all the way back to ancient history, ancient civilizations --- Atlantis! And more... much more! It is understandable, therefore, that one such as I -with a myriad of higher interests, facts and traditions to keep in mind, always- would tend to... forget certain mere... footnotes, or anecdotes of history - especially as it pertains to American history! That's what guys such as this AHC guy here (teacher for 18 years - isn't it at least twenty, by now? Duh!) are t...

La prise de la Bastille...  La Révolution!  LA GUILLOTINE!  A great day to celebrate... hein?  Vous pensez ça, vraiment... les Français?   VRAIMENT?!? NOT!  Certainly not when one remembers  what truly transpired on that day... And, when you truly think about it,  what was obtained that day?  Liberté? POUR QUI - POUR QUOI?  Égalité? HA! PAS DU TOUT!  FRATERNITÉ?!?  Don't make me laugh!!!  Maudits Français - hypocrites!!  Tous des têtes de Macrons - va!  Forget your old adage/maxime/slogan... GO WITH  THIS BLOODY ONE INSTEAD:

... I mean, REALLY?  Everything under the sun,  everyone and their most distant cousin;    ALL seem to have "their day" set in stone  --- i.e. on the social calendar, these days...  Haven't we gone too far now... Hmm?  For the record -and right off the bat-  the only "goths" that we will ever acknowledge  in these luminous parts here are  the Visigoths  and the Ostrogoths   --- capisce?  (This in spite of what they did to ROMA!  A barbaric twist on Veni, Vedi... Vinci, eh?  Well - we forgive... but we don't forget!  Don Luciano will *never* forget...!!!  But... Hmm... that is another story.)  Modern Goths are...  just not the same thing at all.  Whereas the Ostrogoth was rough and tough  (to the point of fighting off its brother barbarians!)   the Metrogoth (my invention - adore it) is weak.  Extremely weak, actual...