Black Mirror created by Charlie Brooker – here is the plug, which does not work really, except to indicate that people are not really interested in these lines, which is for the better, and to offer consolation when I feel I did not put in a spoiler alert, some warning, preposterous acts, when you have nobody to follow up this link https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html, well, maybe a few

 

Black Mirror created by Charlie Brooker – here is the plug, which does not work really, except to indicate that people are not really interested in these lines, which is for the better, and to offer consolation when I feel I did not put in a spoiler alert, some warning, preposterous acts, when you have nobody to follow up this link https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html, well, maybe a few

 

 

Here is another litmus test, to see if anybody takes in the very first line of the notes – how do I make the photo I insert at the top of my ‘review’ show in my Goodreads post, I can see it (and everybody else presumably) on the blog, though the one at the top has a huge size, and then the rest get normal, but not in the Goodreads post

 

-          There will not be an answer to the above, so let us move on:

 

Black Mirror has impressed the under signed quite a few years back, with the first episode of the first series, I was thinking to look up what year that was launched, but then I keep this mood of ‘who cares, who gives a damn’ – a line from Young Doctors in Love – since these lines are for nobody, why take the trouble?

Besides, if opinions on say The Karamazov Brothers https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-brothers-karamazov-by-fyodor.html are looked up, when it comes to a movie, even one of the most significant, then the audience is reduced to one, or just zero, and this is as it should be, again, and therefore

 

-          ‘There is nothing either good, or bad but thinking makes it so’ Hamlet

 

In the first episode of the initial series, a royal princess is kidnapped and the hostage takers have a very outré, memorable request, in order to release the royalty, they want the prime minster to have…sex with a pig, and this was to be recorded or aired, if I remember well, that was some shocking screenplay, I will be curious to see more

They have recently launched – well, maybe it has been a while, but I just found out – the latest, seventh series, and the first episode is remarkable – alas, this may have affected the second, according to the rule of lower your expectations, or else, you want the same elation, regression to the mean takes you down…

 

Amanda is a school teacher and she has a tumor, sometime in the future, when a company has the solution, they can take the part of the brain that is affected out and then replace the missing activity, capacity with their technology, which is what Mike, her spouse, signs up for and they think it will work so well

Only it does not – spoiler alert would be redundant, we have established at the start – in the sense that they try to get out of a 12 miles range – or something like that – only to see that they have no ‘coverage’, the teacher blacks out, and the representative explains that they have a Plus version of the program, with more included

 

The trouble is that in the future, like now, teachers have small salaries, and Mike is just a blue-collar worker, so he has to get on a sort of site for weirdoes, where he is asked to do disgusting things (unless, one is a BDSM adept) in exchange for money, and things reach a nadir when he takes off his mask for 500 dollars

Then his image is posted at the work place, presumably he has placed a dildo up his bottom for a sum to be able to pay for his wife’s brain activity ultimately, and the fellow who did it and laughed at the poor man is pushed, and then he is the victim of a terrible accident, Mike is fired and the whole thing is a terrible tragedy

 

The company with the technology to help the brain keeps asking for more, just to keep it at a minimum, if you do not pay the ever increasing rates, then you get to sleep 16 hours a day, and just like in those plans we know, there are ads, and Amanda keeps pushing all sorts of inappropriate products, without her knowledge, to the stage where she has to be fired, if she does not get out of this Catch 22 situation https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/catch-22-by-joseph-heller.html

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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