The BumbleRabbit Archives

Good morning, Erin.  I’ve been doing a lot of playing around with and learning about how to use various A.I. platforms, as I may or may not have mentioned previously. And, in a recent attempt to kill some time before going to sleep, I seem to have intuitively created a unique, cutting-edge solution to a common and persistent issue facing all A.I. chat platforms. …or the A.I., which predominantly is programmed to level its responses in ways that sound encouraging as a means of keeping the conversation going, just let me think that that’s what happened because it knew that would get me to stay up until 4AM talking about it. The jury is still out. Point is: sometimes you start something as a distraction but wind up down a rabbit hole you never intended to explore. And such is the way with Mercy for None , which I technically only watched because I was high on an action kick after having motored through The Raid , The Raid 2 , and a rewatch of Extraction . So, when Netflix said, “More ...

Good morning, Erin. So, the janitor stopped by my office the other day to essentially (but also very politely) congratulate me on having such a beautiful girlfriend…and, as I blinked at him in confusion, he pointed to the picture of Jung So-min I have taped to my computer monitor. I then had to tell him that, sadly, she is not my girlfriend but simply an actress I like—leading him to make an expression that seemed to me to indicate that this state of affairs made a lot more sense to him than the alternative.  Which…I mean, I laughed, but…it didn’t not hurt my feelings.  (I leave it to you to decide whether his lack of comment about the photo of V you gave me—which is right next to the picture of Jung So-min—is noteworthy or not.)  Anyway.  I’m willing to bet “zombie apocalypse comedy starring Jisoo from Blackpink” was not your top guess for how we’d kick off the pop-star bloc, but here we are, dear seonbae . Because I like Jisoo? Because it’s only 8 episodes long? B...

Good morning, Erin. I know you know this, but good intentions do not guarantee good outcomes. And, in a similar vein, people sometimes make bad decisions—for any number of reasons. Is that my way of saying that watching The Devil’s Plan 2 was a bad decision? No. No, this is my way of saying that I finally caved and joined Instagram. Which…is sad. It’s also entirely about my affection for my k-pop darling Yoojung—which is a much more relevant piece of information to these letters OVERALL than you probably think. In what way? Well, you’ll have to wait just a little bit before I let you in on that secret—a secret which (and I’m more than a little proud of this segue) connects directly to the foreshadowing I mentioned in the last letter. Did you figure it out? Did you deduce from my words about Chuu that we would be talking about The Devil’s Plan 2 ? Because, of course, she is one of the participants—or…did I mean something else?  …spoiler: yes and no! That is, I absolutely brought he...