I just realized that if Trump loses, all the Democrats and their media will suddenly announce that a cure has been found for the disease and will unlock most of the people.  See, it was Trump's fault they hadn't found it earlier and they'd go back to ignoring any virus deaths just as they all the years previous.

□ [“Colorado Removes Trump Letter From Millions Of Food Shipments"]

Well, it's not like their workers have anything else to do.  There's lots of time to sit around taking stuff from the shipments.  It's not like people are hungry.

□ [“Biden: You Can 'Keep Your Private Insurance if You Like It'"]

Really?  I mean, obviously he has no idea what life is like for private citizens but...  Well, the people working for him probably don't know either.  They're either too young, too rich or just always worked for the government anyway.  But anybody who actually knows something will remember when Obama claimed "If you like your insurance, you can keep it" without adding the obvious true statement "unless it's against my law, in that case I'm taking it away and there's nothing you can do to stop me.  If you like anything that's against my law, you're out of luck."

Ricky Martin: 'It's Really Scary,' 'Super Sad' That Latinos Would Vote For Trump
October 30, 2020

Well just be like Biden and say they aren't Latinos if they do that.

Voting Fraud Plot Uncovered in Major Florida County to Register Dead Voters for Democrats
October 31, 2020

Sean Connery – the Original James Bond Actor – Passes Away at Age 90
October 31, 2020

Obviously this was news anyway - he's Sean frickin Connery - but yesterday I ran into this article which is odd timing (although it's dated October 24 but I doubt Connery just keeled over one day.)
□ [“James Bond Film ‘No Time to Die’ Explored $600 Million Sale to Streaming Services"]
It seems MGM has reportedly lost at least $30 million or up to twice that much since delaying the release of this movie.  There's no explanation of where that money is going although there's enough speculation that I suspect studios just take immense loans to make movies and keep everything for themselves.  If the movie's a hit, it can pay the loan, the interest and pay for other movies that aren't hits.

Usually they can make it work every year, but 2020 has made it pointless to do that since no one's going to the theaters anymore.  They had enough problems when people would rather watch movies on their computers or phones.  It sounded like they were trying to make theaters events in and of themselves, but that obviously doesn't apply now.  I don't pretend to understand what standard the "James Bond" movies would make - I've only seen three in my life, all of them in theaters early in my life - but if there is something for a franchise beyond just being one movie after another, or even if they can pretend there's something more in a franchise, that probably complicates the economic strategies for the loans.

This would explain why the people involved in movies have to work in another reality than normal people, they have to present themselves as capable of understanding these complicated maneuvers to just make it through a day and they're in an industry where surface image is much more important.  It just becomes even more complicated by the number of people who have to be involved just to put together any generic love comedy or action flick.  Hell, even porno movies probably have a few dozen people involved just to handle the filming and administration and those are 100% based on the attractiveness of the lead females.

I suspect that's why people don't just film their own movies, or even ongoing tv shows.  I've always wondered about that, why doesn't a theater group just put out work like that?  One would think a half-dozen actors could crank out enough of a script to put together scenes they thought worth filming, whoever's not on screen at the moment is the one behind the camera or the lights, and that could be entertaining to someone.  Yet in all these decades, they never make them, or at least never release them after someone gets famous.

And obviously they can't do stuff like that after becoming famous although it's not clear why.  I guess they have to form a company and that is such a complicated task that almost no-one's willing to even try, much less succeed at it for years.  I suppose you can't point to George Lucas as a big example, he was totally devoted to making movies and he's only made seven movies as writer and/or director and another eight where he came up with the basic story and then let others make the actual movie.  There's also nine short films he made back in the 1960s but nobody pays any attention them.  Yet he's run an incredibly successful company for decades.

[One of those movies was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade which is one of my absolute favorites and seems to be the only movie I've with Sean Connery as more than a cameo.  I've also seen Connery in The Rock which I totally hated and don't remember how he was.  The only other was his appearance at the end of Kevin Costner's Robin Hood and he was magnificent as the King of England.]

I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but it was interesting to get a clue of how this works.  I think that's one of the main-if-unconscious reasons why some people generally don't like tv or movies, there's just too much required to make one, much less enjoy them.  I've been completely surprised to see myself focused on the Avengers movies this year but I can at least say it's a life-long love of the superhero genre that doesn't even rely on these specific characters.  And even that fixation has been running low in the last month or two.  It's probably not totally gone but it is what it is.  Anyway, I have noticed that there hasn't been any big increase in internet movies since people have stayed home so much more during this virus.  Ok, maybe there was and I just haven't heard of it, but still...

France: Gunman Shoots Priest in Lyon Church - No word on the gunman yet
October 31, 2020