The Introverted Detective

 The Old Mill is about the animals living in an old mill during a thunderstorm, yet, it held my attention. As all the characters (all animals) get distressed at the storm itself, there are no words. The music tells the entire story. Let's get into it.  Courtesy of film.nu The Old Mill, made in 1937, is purely music and images. It was in Technicolor. This was a silly Symphony where the plot was a thunderstorm hitting an old building (the mill). It begins with you seeing the mill in daylight and the animals at peace, introducing all the characters in a few minutes. From here, we get bullfrogs singing with crickets. This peaceful symphony is interrupted by wind, wind that hits the mill's windmill.  This is where the animals begin to get distressed. You see a little blue bird (don't know the species, sorry) who had a nest on the mill cog in the opening scenes. The owl is also distressed as the cogs begin to move, but not as stressed as that poor sweet little bird on a nest. T...

I have way too many free romance novels in my digital collection. Some are probably good, but others are free for a reason. This challenge is exclusively reading and unhauling the digital romances I collected and might be afraid to pick up. Let's see how many of them are smut and how many have a plot. Let's dive in. I thought this would at least be a laugh. Frankly, I'm pretty sure I picked up some smut by accident. Today I'm telling you what is worth reading and what is not worth picking up. Let's wade into dangerous waters together and see what is good, bad, and just plain wrong.  I'm giving the spice rating in a 1-10 range, 1 being the suggestion of sex or less, 5 being a few sex scenes, and anything above 7 being mostly spice. 5 is the average Bridgerton and 1 is Christian romance, if that helps you understand my system.  The Agreement by S E Lund It starts with a young woman going to a fundraiser with a friend, who styled her to be a little sexy. In convers...

 I'm doing more research while I wait for beta readers to finish. Today I watched Bimbo's Initiation from 1931. It was something else and could have been a whole Cuphead level. Let's get into it.  Courtesy of intanibase.com The first thing I noticed watching this cartoon was the mouse that locked Bimbo below the street. It looked an awful lot like Mickey. Was this a dig at the joke animators used to make? The joke made, for reference, was that a tunnel led to Disney. This was because Fleischer Studios lost many animators to Disney. It crossed my mind that this might be a reference to Disney converting Fleischer's animators. I say this because it starts with Bimbo falling into a manhole and getting padlocked in by a mouse.  This whole cartoon is unhinged. The whole concept is Bimbo the dog being converted into a cult, saying no multiple times, and being effectively tortured into saying yes. He only says yes when Betty Boop performs an anatomically questionable dance, the...