This movie isn’t just about some dude going nuts with an axe. It’s a full-on roast of the 1980s yuppie culture. You’ve got Patrick Bateman, played by Christian Bale, living this double life as a slick Wall Street guy by day and a total psycho killer by night. It’s like the movie is saying, “Hey, you know that ultra-materialistic, superficial lifestyle? It’s kinda messed up.” It’s not just horror; it’s a dark, twisted comedy poking fun at how absurd that whole scene was.

What makes “American Psycho” a brain-tickler is how it gets you into the head of Bateman. This guy is all about appearances, right? Fancy suits, fancy dinners, but underneath, he’s completely unhinged. The film plays this game of “is he really doing all these crazy things or is it all in his head?” It messes with you because you start questioning what’s real and what’s not, which is pretty deep for a movie that also has a scene with a dude running around with a chainsaw.

The end of this flick is a real mind-bender. You’re left not knowing if Bateman actually did all those gruesome things or if he’s just lost it. It’s like the movie’s saying, “Does it even matter?” The whole thing could be a metaphor for how people can hide their true selves behind a mask of normalcy. Or maybe it’s about how society ignores the crazy stuff happening right under its nose. Either way, it’s deep because it doesn’t just hand you the answers on a silver platter.

So, “American Psycho” isn’t just about the blood and gore. It’s a deep dive into 80s excess, the human psyche, and the blurred lines between reality and fantasy. It’s like a horror movie with a philosophy degree.

It’s kind of like with the character Lisa Simpson, from the show The Simpsons. I’ve often seen Thunberg compared to this cartoon lady — a small child who has a lot of big opinions that somehow rub the grownups the wrong way.

It’s kind of jarring from a mental and physical point of view to be “schooled” and told what to do by someone very young. To be told what you do wrong, what you need to do instead, and informed of the fact that you ruined someone’s future with your lifestyle choices. Nobody likes to hear that. So we shoot the proverbial messenger. And when that messenger is someone quite easy to “shoot” because she isn’t likable… well, that’s kind of neat for whoever finds her message hard to stomach. And even with those who may be sympathetic, it’s not just that we don’t want to hear it — we don’t want to her it from her.

There’s also this general sense of “this is a narrative the media is pushing”. Nothing about Thunberg feels organic. Her rise to fame seems pre-planned, carefully orchestrated. That is not to say I disagree with her — climate change and pollution scare me, too —- it’s just to say that her being as famous as she is sometimes seems… odd. And while generating attention to her cause is great, having it spearheaded by someone less off-putting may be more productive.

The craziest Freddie story I ever heard came from Gary Numan.

Numan was on his first international tour in Japan, and was having a fairly miserable time dealing with the boredom and monotony of life on the road. On a night off, he discovered that Queen were playing at a larger venue in the same city as him so, being a big Queen fan, he set off alone to go to the gig. As he was only just starting to experience any significant success, Numan assumed he’d be able to watch Queen without being recognised, but there was apparently a significant overlap between Numan’s Japanese audience and Queen’s, and shortly after arriving at the concert venue he was recognised and mobbed in the crowd.

Gary Numan with Freddie

Queen’s security team spotted what was happening and escorted Numan backstage, where the band let him stay and watch the concert from the side of the stage. After the show, Freddie invited Numan to come with the band and their entourage for dinner at a Japanese restaurant.

Numan is autistic (although he has given conflicting information in interviews about when he was diagnosed), and one of the ways this manifests itself is in very limited food preferences, so he wasn’t coping well with the unfamiliar Japanese food. Freddie, being an attentive host, noticed that Numan wasn’t eating and went to check on him. He explained that he couldn’t eat the food, so Freddie asked what he’d prefer. Numan asks for McDonald’s. Freddie goes away to speak to the waiters, then a little while later a car pulls up outside with a takeaway McDonald’s meal in it.

What a class act.

The biography “Jackie: Public, Private, Secret” by J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals an alleged affair between Jackie Kennedy and architect Jack Warnecke, which started months after JFK’s assassination in 1963. Warnecke, interestingly, was the man Kennedy hired to design JFK’s gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery​​.

This relationship began when Warnecke asked Jackie out to dinner in May 1964. Despite a lack of clear affirmation from her, their relationship developed and lasted for about three years. They spent time together at the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port on Cape Cod and had significant emotional ties to each other​​.

Warnecke even considered proposing to Jackie during a trip to Hawaii in 1966, but financial strains related to his firm and their lifestyle led to the end of their relationship. Jackie later stopped taking his calls and moved on with her life​​.

Jackie Kennedy’s life after Warnecke involved marriage to Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis in 1968 and a later relationship with diamond merchant Maurice Tempelsman. However, in a poignant turn of events, when Jackie was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1994, she reconnected with Warnecke to reminisce over letters from her past, indicating the lasting impact of their relationship​​.

The scariest by far? The Samson Option. In the Bible, when Samson had his hair and beard cut off, he lost his strength… God returned to him one final burst of power, allowing the Israelite strongman to break the pillars of the temple the Philistines had him chained up in. The temple collapsed, and the Philistines died along with Samson.

Likewise, the Samson Option means for Israel to launch nukes when it badly loses a war to the point it stands to lose all territory. Like Samson and the Philistines, Israel would go down, but take down its enemies with it. It’s all, or nothing. Things would have to get pretty dire for Israel to consider the option, but still, the fact that it’s even on the table in the first place is… worth pondering.

Can’t really think of a more controversial doctrine than the Samson Option. It’s really something else entirely. Nuclear weapons truly are the world’s most terrifying thing and I dread the fact they even exist, as should any other sane person.