Gerald So
@sogerald.bsky.social
I run THE FIVE-TWO #Crime #Poetry weekly: https://poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/ and FANS OF #RobertBParker: https://matrix.to/#/#rbp-fans:matrix.org Here for friends and to boost projects. Also https://masto.ai/@sogerald posting to writing hashtags.
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Gerald So
@sogerald.bsky.social
· Feb 6
Very Much So
Personal blog of Gerald So, poet, writer, editor, moderator, reviewer, stories, books, TV, film.
geraldso.blogspot.com
Previously on My Life Called So, in March '23, I quit Twitter and have been on Mastodon alone until today. Here, I'll chat w/ friends and promote projects. (I don't want to use Masto mods' limited resources for my BSP.) I also still blog, mainly at geraldso.blogspot.com.
Rest in peace, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa: RISING SUN, SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO, MORTAL KOMBAT, NASH BRIDGES...
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Rest in peace, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa: RISING SUN, SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO, MORTAL KOMBAT, NASH BRIDGES...
I doubt this will work as a movie, and possibly as a tactic to lure Will.
A new ‘MEN IN BLACK’ film is in the works.
Will Smith is being eyed to return with his character written into the script in the hope that he signs on
(Source: Deadline)
Will Smith is being eyed to return with his character written into the script in the hope that he signs on
(Source: Deadline)
December 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I doubt this will work as a movie, and possibly as a tactic to lure Will.
I don't have a favorite Christmas movie. I have favorite Christmas TV episodes, like The Big Bang Theory "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis" and JAG "Jaggle Bells." Christmas sometimes feels like we have to store up joy all year and release it Christmas Day. The idea of doing that feels phony.
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I don't have a favorite Christmas movie. I have favorite Christmas TV episodes, like The Big Bang Theory "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis" and JAG "Jaggle Bells." Christmas sometimes feels like we have to store up joy all year and release it Christmas Day. The idea of doing that feels phony.
Doesn't WB have the right to take the deal they want, so if they want to snub Paramount and go with Netflix, they can?
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Doesn't WB have the right to take the deal they want, so if they want to snub Paramount and go with Netflix, they can?
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My advance review of @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social 's 2nd Jesse Stone sequel, ROBERT B. PARKER'S BIG SHOT:
chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/12/robe...
chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/12/robe...
ROBERT B. PARKER'S BIG SHOT by Christopher Farnsworth
Gerald So interviews authors and reviews books, TV, and film.
chatterrific.blogspot.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
My advance review of @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social 's 2nd Jesse Stone sequel, ROBERT B. PARKER'S BIG SHOT:
chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/12/robe...
chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/12/robe...
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Dec. 1-7 at The Five-Two, "Bedding Enemies" by A.C. Perri
Text: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/2025/12/ac-p...
YouTube reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yK...
Submit your work: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/p/guidelines...
Text: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/2025/12/ac-p...
YouTube reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yK...
Submit your work: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/p/guidelines...
A.C. Perri
BEDDING ENEMIES You once led an army, bled them, Used them till they no longer served Your purpose. You once led a nation, spirited, ...
poemsoncrime.blogspot.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Dec. 1-7 at The Five-Two, "Bedding Enemies" by A.C. Perri
Text: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/2025/12/ac-p...
YouTube reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yK...
Submit your work: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/p/guidelines...
Text: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/2025/12/ac-p...
YouTube reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yK...
Submit your work: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/p/guidelines...
My advance review of @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social 's 2nd Jesse Stone sequel, ROBERT B. PARKER'S BIG SHOT:
chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/12/robe...
chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/12/robe...
ROBERT B. PARKER'S BIG SHOT by Christopher Farnsworth
Gerald So interviews authors and reviews books, TV, and film.
chatterrific.blogspot.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
My advance review of @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social 's 2nd Jesse Stone sequel, ROBERT B. PARKER'S BIG SHOT:
chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/12/robe...
chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/12/robe...
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I say Robert Parker's high-priced defense attorney character Rita Fiore can pull off a ponytail. Rita's eyes probably aren't gray, but they look good gray. A trick of the light, I'm calling it.
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I say Robert Parker's high-priced defense attorney character Rita Fiore can pull off a ponytail. Rita's eyes probably aren't gray, but they look good gray. A trick of the light, I'm calling it.
Bluesky describes emojis w/ anchor text when you mouseover them before you post them. Emojis should also have anchor text descriptions in the published post. Thank you.
December 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Bluesky describes emojis w/ anchor text when you mouseover them before you post them. Emojis should also have anchor text descriptions in the published post. Thank you.
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If you’re looking to cut back on paid streaming services, get in the habit of checking out the free movies on YouTube. They change frequently, but at the moment you can catch ‘The Host,’ ‘Into the Wild,’ ‘Bullitt’ and many others there. Just click on ‘free’ under ‘Movies and TV.’
December 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
If you’re looking to cut back on paid streaming services, get in the habit of checking out the free movies on YouTube. They change frequently, but at the moment you can catch ‘The Host,’ ‘Into the Wild,’ ‘Bullitt’ and many others there. Just click on ‘free’ under ‘Movies and TV.’
At one point in this quoted podcast, Patrick Labyorteaux discusses the JAG reunion on NCISLA, panning it. I agree. JAG ended uncertainly. NCISLA picked up but ultimately left Harm and Mac in a similar place of uncertainty. If you were going to do that, just leave them be.
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
At one point in this quoted podcast, Patrick Labyorteaux discusses the JAG reunion on NCISLA, panning it. I agree. JAG ended uncertainly. NCISLA picked up but ultimately left Harm and Mac in a similar place of uncertainty. If you were going to do that, just leave them be.
NYT headline: "Why Does A.I. Write Like...That?"
A.I. doesn't write. Writing is expressing yourself in documented form. A.I. has no self to express. It generates text based on what it's fed. I say again, not writing. If you know writing, you know that.
A.I. doesn't write. Writing is expressing yourself in documented form. A.I. has no self to express. It generates text based on what it's fed. I say again, not writing. If you know writing, you know that.
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
NYT headline: "Why Does A.I. Write Like...That?"
A.I. doesn't write. Writing is expressing yourself in documented form. A.I. has no self to express. It generates text based on what it's fed. I say again, not writing. If you know writing, you know that.
A.I. doesn't write. Writing is expressing yourself in documented form. A.I. has no self to express. It generates text based on what it's fed. I say again, not writing. If you know writing, you know that.
It says what you'd think: A lot of people are racist but would never think it of themselves. Add those to open racists and that's the enormity of the problem.
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It says what you'd think: A lot of people are racist but would never think it of themselves. Add those to open racists and that's the enormity of the problem.
Being plain, no one will be able to spin it if Trump dozes off and dies on live TV.
December 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Being plain, no one will be able to spin it if Trump dozes off and dies on live TV.
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Over and over, the NYT amplifies Trump's damaging and cruel propaganda. This was egregious, set in large type and plastered at the top of the website. I fixed it for them, but they should NOT be printing this, ahem, garbage.
December 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Over and over, the NYT amplifies Trump's damaging and cruel propaganda. This was egregious, set in large type and plastered at the top of the website. I fixed it for them, but they should NOT be printing this, ahem, garbage.
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Excited to announce my new story "Learn How to Dance the Salsa!" now up at THE ACENTOS REVIEW
A salsero remembers the crazy Christmas night his passion for dancing began. #puertoricanheritagemonth
acentosreview.squarespace.com/richie-narvaez
A salsero remembers the crazy Christmas night his passion for dancing began. #puertoricanheritagemonth
acentosreview.squarespace.com/richie-narvaez
December 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Excited to announce my new story "Learn How to Dance the Salsa!" now up at THE ACENTOS REVIEW
A salsero remembers the crazy Christmas night his passion for dancing began. #puertoricanheritagemonth
acentosreview.squarespace.com/richie-narvaez
A salsero remembers the crazy Christmas night his passion for dancing began. #puertoricanheritagemonth
acentosreview.squarespace.com/richie-narvaez
One of many things I don't believe about the aptly-named Incredible Hulk: That Banner grows into a humongous Hulk. I'd believe if he became enraged and grew muscles but didn't grow in stature.
December 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
One of many things I don't believe about the aptly-named Incredible Hulk: That Banner grows into a humongous Hulk. I'd believe if he became enraged and grew muscles but didn't grow in stature.
Defend a terrible film by picking something from it that saves it?
If terrible films could be saved, they wouldn't be terrible. I enjoyed Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman in The Avengers and I like Jeremiah Chechik as a director, but it's still a poor movie.
If terrible films could be saved, they wouldn't be terrible. I enjoyed Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman in The Avengers and I like Jeremiah Chechik as a director, but it's still a poor movie.
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Defend a terrible film by picking something from it that saves it?
If terrible films could be saved, they wouldn't be terrible. I enjoyed Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman in The Avengers and I like Jeremiah Chechik as a director, but it's still a poor movie.
If terrible films could be saved, they wouldn't be terrible. I enjoyed Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman in The Avengers and I like Jeremiah Chechik as a director, but it's still a poor movie.
Is it me or was it easier in the past to vote down or replace cabinet members who messed up?
December 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Is it me or was it easier in the past to vote down or replace cabinet members who messed up?
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The 10 best restaurants in Hell's Kitchen https://gothamist.com/food/the-10-best-restaurants-in-hells-kitchen
The 10 best restaurants in Hell's Kitchen
The pig in front of Rudy’s Bar & Grill is Hell’s Kitchen’s most durable landmark.
How to eat your way up Ninth Avenue [ more › ]
gothamist.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The 10 best restaurants in Hell's Kitchen https://gothamist.com/food/the-10-best-restaurants-in-hells-kitchen
The r-slur is not only used to denigrate the developmentally disabled; it's used to slam ppl of any ability level to whom you want to feel superior b/c deep down you know you're inferior.
It's the equivalent of calling anyone stupid or an idiot. None of the three should be tolerated.
It's the equivalent of calling anyone stupid or an idiot. None of the three should be tolerated.
December 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The r-slur is not only used to denigrate the developmentally disabled; it's used to slam ppl of any ability level to whom you want to feel superior b/c deep down you know you're inferior.
It's the equivalent of calling anyone stupid or an idiot. None of the three should be tolerated.
It's the equivalent of calling anyone stupid or an idiot. None of the three should be tolerated.
The Patriots beat the Giants, and fan channels are calling it humiliation. Can a heavy underdog be humiliated? If your coach is fired mid-season, it's a lost season. W/ your best players injured and out for the season, it's highly unlikely your interim coach will win, but you're a fan; you insist. 🤦♂️
Having watched sports team fan YouTube channels for play-by-play, I realize they're like political YouTube channels, hyping you up about your team's chances to beat the opponent, all the way till game day. If the team loses, the host rages at all the missed opportunities.
December 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The Patriots beat the Giants, and fan channels are calling it humiliation. Can a heavy underdog be humiliated? If your coach is fired mid-season, it's a lost season. W/ your best players injured and out for the season, it's highly unlikely your interim coach will win, but you're a fan; you insist. 🤦♂️
On sale today, Ace Atkins' Cold War spy thriller set in 1985 Atlanta, EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD, told primarily from the POV of 14-year-old Peter Bennett:
chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/09/ever...
chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/09/ever...
EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD by Ace Atkins
Gerald So interviews authors and reviews books, TV, and film.
chatterrific.blogspot.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
On sale today, Ace Atkins' Cold War spy thriller set in 1985 Atlanta, EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD, told primarily from the POV of 14-year-old Peter Bennett:
chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/09/ever...
chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/09/ever...
Another name used on multiple Bellisario shows: T.C. (Theodore Calvin, MAGNUM; Tobias C. Fornell, NCIS) Tired of this yet? I'm surprised DiNozzo never called McGee Big Mac. Then again, I haven't seen all 470-something episodes.
I like many Don Bellisario shows, including TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY, which I can no longer watch b/c Stephen Collins - who also ruined STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE just w/ his acting. However, Bellisario has a preference to reuse names albeit for different characters I could do w/o.
Examples next.
Examples next.
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Another name used on multiple Bellisario shows: T.C. (Theodore Calvin, MAGNUM; Tobias C. Fornell, NCIS) Tired of this yet? I'm surprised DiNozzo never called McGee Big Mac. Then again, I haven't seen all 470-something episodes.