“Frozen”

Dear Friend,

The streets are quiet. Brief conversations with neighbors –at a safe distance– are in hushed tones as projecting your voice expels the contagion scouring the globe. The soothing drone of traffic gone and nothing fills the void.

If only that were true. Something has risen to fill the bleak silence. Jovial at first and almost enjoyable. But then it repeats. And repeats. And repeats. And repeats. And rep-

Frozen 2, months ahead of schedule, is available for streaming on Disney+. It has become the anthem of our impending doom.

The move was hailed as a rare, altruistic act in a time of suffering. A gift of comfort to millions of children stuck inside. But none of that scattered bullshit got in my eyes. Oh, no. I see clearly. Sadist!

The opening number, “Some Things Never Change,” issues a warning. It is a harbinger of the dark days ahead. Nothing will change. It will just be the same damn songs over and over and over and ov-

I envy the deaf.

J.S. Alvin

P.S. I haven’t much respected Weezer since Pinkerton, but with their cover song on the Frozen 2 album, what little I had remaining dissolved like Olaf in the waking nightmare that is this film.