The Introverted Detective

 Today I'm finally getting to more Disney stuff, which is quite okay with me. Today I review Lonesome Ghosts, made in 1937. Let's dive in.  Courtesy of IMDB.com Lonesome Ghosts is a Disney cartoon featuring a group of ghosts, Mickey, Goofy, and Donald Duck. Some ghosts get bored, call the main trio (Goofy, Mickey, and Donald) to come so they can mess with someone, and then run off after they get scared of our trio covered in flour and molasses. It's so much fun. I loved it. The sound quality had also gone up and it was in technicolor.  What I liked There was nothing to dislike here. Mickey, Goofy, and Donald all come to get chased around by bored ghosts At the end they run into Molasses, get covered in flour, and scare the ghosts out on accident. It's so funny. It really doesn't have much to comment on, except that shotguns, axes, and your fists probably don't help you hunt ghosts. It just adds to the comedic element.  There is one thing I'll say. Goofy says...

 I watched another Oswald. It was not the most cursed one. I prefer to watch Hell's Heels (another Oswald), but not the most cursed. Honestly, it's an 7 out of 10. Stars are missing because it is still a little cursed. Courtesy of intanibase.com This is remarkably similar to another cartoon I watched - the one that Betty Boop was debuted in. This is not Fleischer, though, it is universal. We have some cursed images in this one. A tin of milk with udders, Oswald being shoved into a cow through his mouth, a hippo that definitely can't sing...I don't love that.  I'm not commenting too much on sound quality. 1930 was not known for high sound quality or excellent voice acting. We're looking at the early years of cartoons and sound combined. We're looking at the start of a journey, not the high quality we're used to in our 2025 entertainment. Let's be real. I couldn't understand most of the hippo's song and I'm not too surprised.  What wasn...

 i, Robot (autocorrected a lot of times to I, Robot despite the i being correct) is a book of short stories about robots and the three laws of robotics. It inspired the movie with Will Smith and is also a series of four books. Let's talk about it.  These short stories are in timeline order, have reoccurring characters, and are all easy sci-fi reads. My Mom is not too into sci-fi and she loved this one. I read this in a week, if you take out the time of working and doing other stuff in between. It was compelling, not intimidating.  Seeing that this is a series of short stories, I'm putting the short stories in their own sections. Each story has unique themes. I need to honor that. From this point on, I'll explore the themes and plot in each section, titled with the short story. I'll put the reviews in timeline order.  Robbie This one shows off a delightful scene of a little girl playing with her robot nurse maid, Robbie, an early model sold to the public. After this, ...