RATING: 2 beers Out of the myriad movies I have seen this year, The End of Oak Street is the only one that prompted me to actually sit down and write a damned review. Here's the spoiler-free (and there are a lot of things to spoil here, especially if you haven't seen the trailer).

I like movies. I like movies a lot. So, for the longest time, I have made a policy of watching movies on the First Day, First Show. (TBH I didn't know of this name until about a decade or two ago. I just did it.) I even used to cut school for movies that I was particularly looking forward to. Admittedly, back in Ye Olden Dayes when we had to fight dinosaurs on our way to the theatre, the movies that showed up were old and out of date. But I still loved them. And I made a point of going to see them. It was a thing for me.

Sri Lankans SinhalaBuddhists (as opposed to Sinhala and Buddhist) have a massive wet spot for Colonel Henry Steel Olcott. Part of it is because he promoted and supported Anagarika Dharmapala the famous Buddhist revivalist, chauvinist, and racist. Part of it is probably because he was a White Man saying good things about us poor darkies.

I was 10 years old when I watched people being burned alive in Black July. I saw houses burned, cars burned, people burned. Tends to leave a mark.

I love Colombo. I love the nightlife. I love the daylife. I love the food, the beaches, the expensive places, and the dive-ass bars. I love it all, and I love showing it off to my friends. Let's go!

Everyone agrees, gaming on Linux isn't easy. You are basically trying to use a translator to play something that hasn't been written for Linux, and hoping it all works perfectly. Not always an easy task. And here we go again.

Sit down, you little buggers, and I will tell you a story . A story that needs to be told, and remembered.

For a long time I have been trying to type in Sinhala. On Windows 95 I used the transliterated typing system crated by Chrismal Panditharatne, and when I moved to Linux, I had to find a new system. Mainly because I was not used to touch-typing, I was also not used to typing on the Wijesekara Keyboard Layout. So, with all of that, I had to find another way.

A few days ago a Facebook friend shared a post by a gun-rights page about why gun owners are not coming to save the protesters in Portland and other places being targeted by the police and federal agencies. Namely, because the gun-owners have been insulted by the political left as racist, bigoted, misogynist, and many other things.

No one in the USA seems to have heard of Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion, but out here in Asia-land, where we grew up on the tales of Asterix, Obelix, and the rest of the mad, mad inhabitants of that little Gaulish village that withstood the might of Caesar and all his legions, the movie was greeted with loud cheers.