My liephone is getting so wonky. It crapped out on me last Friday when I was resigning ybe get to a store to pick up a sample before it closed, freezjf my maps and giving me a major panic attack trying to make it jn time. And it’s spelchuk is out of control as y’all are so keen tonpojnt out on my late nite spelchuk reimagined posts (as a professional writer, Im cool woth it tho because it’s nice to let my hair down woth the weird spelchuk permutations). 

Just now I printed out a bunch of maps and passes for the next two days because I can’t trust my phone. Cant have it crapping out on me again like Friday. I am jn the market for a new one - leaning towards the iPhone Air because it has a titanium case and I can lighten up on the military grade cases I’ve been using for so long given mynlifestyle) 

So I’m starting this thread to complain (which is what the D00M4M is all about really, amirite?) and post some uncorrected posts just to see if my dying liephone comes up worth anything creative.

Miao Xie’s first film and he steals the show from Jet Li. Bald Eagle plays the burn scarred villain - Gigi got to interview him. Sun Jiankai is another villain, an evil monk, and I’ve interacted with him a few times. The important thing to note is it’s directed by Wong Jing & Corey Yuen. Wong is always goofy making films on his own terms. Yuen’s fight choreo is crazy, always warping physics with wire tricks.

There’s this side story about a mother & daughter scamming team. It’s played for laughs. There’s a whole sctick about how the mom loves to eat chicken ass (the literal translation). I remember seeing this with ED and him being amused at these antics but they fell flat on me. Chingmay Yau is cute as Red Bean but the romance arc doesn’t work. There’s also 6 Shaolin kids that are annoying, although their fight choreo isn’t bad for kids. Their costumes are heavily padded and thst looked like it works like foam sparring gear.  There’s an ass joke when one of the kids is pantsed in a fight and his nekkid ass winds up right in someone’s face which was uncalled for. And there’s a scene where the mom scammer tries to pour an aphrodisiac drop down a string from the ceiling, but here Jet blow it back into her mouth and she gets all horny and winds up raping the master of the hoise (he’s a heavy sleeper and believes it’s a dream). 

Then there’s Bald Eagle’s (Ji Chunhua) chrome tank. WTH? That’s so Wong Jing.

Not overly D00M reccomended but worth the review for Xie. He even does his signature move where he rolls down off his adversary’s back.

Seen here:

Went back for this to revisit Miao Xie. I remember liking Xie and Jet in this but it’s a mediocre film overall. There’s the scene when Jet kills a pack of police shepherds which is clearly fake but disturbing. I remembered that scene quite well - it stuck out. Jet smokes a lot. Hong Kong and China are peripherally captured as smoky too, which reinforces my memory of it. Jet & Xie have good chemistry and Xie’s martial & acting chops are firm already. Where this film fails iz the middle when Anita Mui comes in. The action drops and there’s a drawn out death scene that’s way too long and melodramatic. Jet’s character is a hero but a bad dad with a great son.

I watched a version on YouTube where the English dub was a few minutes abead the scenes. That was super annoying but it clued me into when the next fight would break out. I mightve had a better experience if I had just muted the sound. The dub was confusing too because I couldn’t pin the rubber voices to the characters. But it was amusing in a surreal way. I can’t say it completely ruin it because I watched it through despite this issue.

Not that D00M recommended.

I don't really know him but he was scheduled to play the Quarry in August (when I'll be in Japan with Tara) and JM was tapped to provide for that show, which they thought would sell out. He's from the Cruz, allegedly from c-brite (my hood) and from little research I did on him when this first came up, he was quite odd. He played OSL in '22 but we didn't see him. His roots are in dubstep & ska. He died in a horrific helicopter crash in Brazil on his first world tour. Footage of the crash is on the web. A lot of my socials lit up with his passing - all the Cruz music platforms are in grief, including some of my reggae feeds. 

Yesterday, one of my Quarry crew shared the news and we reached out to the rest of the crew. It's shocking, even though none of us followed him. I was a bit worried for that show because it was the only Quarry show I wouldn't be at in person. Sadly I don't have to worry now.

https://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFo...0#pid82970

It was hot, so I figured I'd hide out in an air conditioned theater after work until things cooled a bit. 

This was a mind f*ck a movie. A thriller about inter-dimensional architecture. Chiwetel Ejiofor is a troubled furniture salesman, set in the 80's/90's. He's not unlike Ed Barbara of Furniture USA...in fact, it's set in Santa Clara Valley (though shot in BC) and mentions that the store is off McKee, near 680...Ejiofor talks with his therapist, but isn't making progress and is constantly focused on trying to keep the business going. 

At one point, he discovers a portal to another part of the building. Hilarity ensues. It's very twisted and creepy and tries to have a lot of jump scares. A little Alice Through the Looking Glass, and maybe a little Tideland, but also Castaway as there are so few characters and much of the time is spent wandering around the maze...

You are in a maze of twisty little passages that are all different...you have been eaten by a grue!! There's definitely a video game feel to the movie, like Wolfenstein and other first person shooters.

I found the 80's furniture, decor, and fashion off-putting and it was hard to watch just that for an entire film, but even so, I think it was generally OK. I wanted more explanation than the few hints that were given.

Lightly recommended. No need to see on the big screen. Much of the beginning is being watched on an era-appropriate recording with scanlines. 

--tg

Such a trip to be back in this house. RM’s set up is odd but it’ll work.

I'm stopping in Saratoga on my to Oracle Park on Saturday. I will be sitting in a booth at Jakes at 12pm (maybe a table) with at least my sister and Cindi.

Srsly? We’re a Feckin Disney cartoon? Oh how the mighty have fallen…

(04-30-2026, 02:51 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote:

(03-24-2026, 09:38 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: The Furious

This one is getting great buzz. It's got a stacked fight team. Looking forward to it.

Because of solar power, I have only paid one electrical bill the entire time I've lived at the Lair. I had to pay a bill because I switched meters with the neighbor so he could pay for the well which was on his property. I usually carry a credit balance because of the electricity I sell back to PG&E. Not a lot but there has always been a balance.

About the time I bought the back-up battery I noticed a change. My balance was starting to decline rather than gradually increase. I was also notified that I would have a bill come August called the True-up bill. I'm not exactly sure what that means. I guess I'm signed up for a minimum charge and what accrues over that is all paid in August. My True-up has always been zero. 

I was thinking the new charges might have to do with the new battery back-up. Maybe when those were installed, some switch was thrown that didn't send juice to the grid. But according to my control panel on the batteries, it showed I was sending plenty of juice to the grid.

I went online and looked at my yearly bill and all it showed was me buying energy from the grid for the last six months. Blue bars mean I buy from the grid.



Now, that can't be right. According to my app for the batteries, I sent 789KwH to the grid and I bought 183KwH from the grid. I bit the bullet and called PG&E in order to get to the bottom of the mystery. I talked to a young lady and she had me go to myPage on the PG&E website that gives really granular detail on my bill. We looked at the month of March and this is what I saw.(Pic Below) Green is what I sold. Blue is what I bought. Just looking at the chart all I could think was how was it possible I owed PG&E money. There are way more green bars than blue bars. And the green bars are big. I was raising my voice to the girl, not yelling but more agro, for her to explain to me how I owed if the green was so much bigger than the blue. If you hover your cursor over the bars on the website, you are given the actual amount of energy for each day. Each bar corresponds to a single day. Naturally I added them all up and I got 466 KwH sent to the grid and 29.2 KwH used from the grid. Like I said. I felt like I'm on crazy pills. 466 is much bigger than 29, right?




The young lady put me on hold for a minute to go ask a question. That's when I did the addition while she was gone to show I had sold more energy than I bought according to the chart on her website. She came back to say I can't really go by the monthly chart. I needed to go to the hourly chart and look at the hourly numbers. Fine. Let's go to the daily. For reference I pulled up Mar 15 as an average day.



Once again, I saw a lot of big green bars and a bunch of small blue bars. I did the hover. I got the numbers. According to PG&E's own chart, I sold 25 KwH and I purchased 6 KwH. I asked her to explain. She sent me to the bill where it said I only sent 192 KwH to the grid and purchased 249 KwH from the grid, which is why my bill showed a deficit to which I owed money. I needed to pay for those 57 KwH. The next chart is another day that shows green but in a smaller amount.


Again, I did the math and it says I sold 19 KwH and bought 15 KwH. All the green bars showed this. Every day I was selling more than I was buying except for those three days. The crazy pills were really starting to kick in. What wasn't I seeing?  The woman from PG&E kept to the company line that their numbers showed I owed. I felt like I was uncovering some weird conspiracy. It's starting to look to ease my mind, I might have to go through every day and show the actual discrepancy between bought and sold, which is a completely crazy idea. But I am leaning towards it.

Regardless, I do believe the charts on the page are misleading. On the monthly bar graph, each day should show blue and green on each bar and the pop up should both bought and sold amounts, because that is how they are doing their calculations. At the moment, the numbers shown on the monthly don't accurately reflect what is going on.

Another problem is one my representative briefly mentioned but we never focused on and that I think that is where the big discrepancy lies. When I sell my money to the grid, PG&E uses the wholesale price. When I buy from the grid, I get the retail price. I can only assume I am paying much more for energy than I am buying. It would be better if the price for buy and sell were the same.

Still feeling crazed. Still feel like a mistake is happening somewhere and I just can't find it. Probably time to get a cork board, a bunch of yarn, some thumbtacks, and make a design to connect all the clues.