By Andrea Menzies 09/30/2026
I did early voting today in Virginia. The political rants I have been on this week may be due to needing to know facts for the election. Political debates today are in fact very scary. Do not skip voting. #electionvote
Category: Art News
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Happy Star Trek Day
By Andrea Menzies 09/08/2026
Happy Star Trek Day to All!
Star Trek the TV show had the first episode aired on September 8, 1966. In El Paso, TX where I lived as a kid the show was on all the time. I didn’t know until later-on that Gene Roddenberry the creator was from El Paso and used to shop at the mall by my house. This is why I still have Star Trek dolls around my room to this day.
*Note: I was just rewatching the Heroes TV show and noticed how many Star Trek characters were in Heroes including George Takei. Strange how some people have the career of 50 people.
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Elysium Dead
By Andrea Menzies
I can’t believe they are destroying the Elysium in Austin, TX. Valhalla was bad but Elysium sucks more in comparison. The venue was highly rated as “The Best of Austin” by newspapers. I was a regular there for years before I moved to the horrible place that is Virginia. They are making having a social life unaffordable everywhere.
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Back to Better
By Andrea Menzies
My mom is feeling better, and has returned home. Many thanks to the friends and family that helped me watch her house and dogs while she was gone in the hospital. #feelinbetter
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Myspace Comeback
By A. Menzies 08/09/26
I really hope the real Myspace makes a comeback. ABC news said they were back in a story. In fact I never quit using Livejournal. Algorithm free online posting was a far better way to read people’s posts online. There is a Boondocks show episode where a musician wants to have fans over for a party, and a kid posts it to Myspace. A huge party packed with people afterwards results. People forget online posting was fun once. #myspacereturn
In theory algorithms were going to show you the top posts of your friends and family. They would weed out the spamming they claimed. Instead they doubled the spam posts, and hid the friends posts. Net trolls and hate mongers thrive in algorithms. Nothing has stepped up to fill the void of old Facebook as new FB is non-stop spam daily and Instagram is only a Facebook clone.
I remember that Myspace had issues as well. People would fight about friends in the top 8 list. Users would make a Myspace they never updated, and dead people still had profiles up. People married with 4 kids had a Myspace up that said single from high school. If Myspace makes a comeback it needs to delete inactive profiles this time around. #inactivedelete
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Black and Purple
By Andrea M. 08/02/2026
New Black and Purple House – how to make the beach spooky at Heartopia. Anyone can make a Halloween game dark and artsy, but it is a challenge to make the cutie games moody and dark! I am not the one person doing this task. I have seen 8 scary cathedral houses today, and they have the best prizes at the prize doors. I am glad I found a game as hypnotic as Heartopia right as my family is having issues so I can keep from dwelling on the stressful and negative.
P.S. My screen name is Poedaughter7 at user ID 2rky87n9 for chat.
#2026Heartopia
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Episode 6 Season 1 – The Unofficial Pokemon Go Field Guide vs Palworld
By Andrea Menzies 07/21/26
The Unofficial Pokemon Go Field Guide by Ivy St. Ive
Note: FH7 Publishing does not just do book reviews, but reviews of games based on books. Pokemon is a game that has books and comic books associated with the product.
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This month every person who plays video games has one soap opera question on their mind, and it is what the heck happened with Palworld and Pokemon’s Nintendo? Nintendo has beautiful art and games it has made, and it sued another company for making a game called Palworld like their games. Can they do this? There is a phrase that fits the issue at hand, and that is the legal phrase “fair use” in art. The famous author Immanuel Kant once famously said. “The dilemma of postmodernism is that all art is collage.” This means all art has a bit of other art in it, and we are all standing tall on the shoulders of giants. How much can one work of art look like another before it is just basic copying? Fair use is defined as the following idea. “Reasonable and limited use of copyrighted material so as not to infringe upon copyright.” (Dictionary.com, 2026). I find this interesting because when I first posted a few of my favorite pictures and drawings online in blogs, internet trolls said “that is not yours” if it looked anything like another drawing. If you make it with different paint and changes to it YES, it is your own work even if it is styled like another drawing. Art has stylized techniques used frequently, and very untalented people like to put artists down saying their art is basic copies. This month Palworld won the lawsuit against Nintendo, and video game fans rejoice at being free to play the version they like best.
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Season 1 Episode 5 – Campaign Against Facebook
By Andrea E. Menzies 07/14/26
Season 1 Episode 5 – Campaign Against Facebook
A podcast book review on The Campaign Against Facebook a book about the many huge lawsuits against the Internet giant. Here are just some of the Facebook lawsuits addressed inside.
- Facebook is giving con-artists the information to popular pages.
- Taking money to post advertisements, and shutting off accounts when there have been no violations. Never refunding the advertisement money.
- Doing experiments with false posts on Facebook with no authorization from users.
- Selling the information on underaged kids.
- Posting “by mistake” fake news information that wins elections.
This episode addresses the 2012 and 2014 Facebook Emotional Contagion Study and the related lawsuit.
Note that in my class this semester we studied the Facebook Emotional Contagion Study conducted in 2012. Facebook conducted a study on hundreds of thousands of people with no consent. It was found guilty of this in court. It claims fake news that changes election results is a mistake, but practiced manipulation willfully right before-hand of the same type.
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Shockoe Garbage Toilet
By Andrea Menzies 07/13/26
June and July mark my last trips in 2023 to downtown RVA near the entertainment district in Shockoe. I take screenshots of my last check-ins to remember it has been years. I used to go to the Fallout dance-club and clubs around in Shockoe Bottom area as it vaguely reminded me of far better music clubs in other states with good concerts, friends, poetry readings, and dancing. Going out used to make people friends. My phone was lit up like a tree with friend calls. Unfortunately, Shockoe is a garbage-toilet filled with human sewage con-artist identity theft robbery scumbags. It is not just occasionally filled with bad jerks in downtown Shockoe, VA it is ALL jerks there. My last night there I had to flee in terror from people trying to rob me and force me to buy garbage property, and stealing my information for fraud. I changed addresses from the first place I lived in Virginia, and they instantly knew and demanded I update my information. How did they know unless they were USING my information behind my back without permission? Oceans of credit cards I didn’t apply for kept asking me for contact information correction. A real problem of showing ID cards to get into clubs is everyone sees your card and can copy the information for fraud. I am so glad I used fake ID cards and addresses with them so all their scams would fail. I barely got away. I still love live music as I lived in far friendlier towns for years. I am careful to ONLY buy tickets for road-trips to shows in other states for music and friends as something horrific is happening with nightlife and making friends in the Virginia local areas. Since vowing to never talk to downtown Richmond people my life has improved massively, I am passing night school, and I wish I had never made the mistake of wasting time in Shockoe. I am saving my money to move forever to a less horrible area. My review is I desperately tried for years to find a place in Virginia that is not a garbage-toilet, but it is all a disgusting garbage-toilet. #HateVirginiaForever
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Happy 4th Of July To All
By Andrea Menzies 07/04/26
Happy 4th Of July To All.
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