Now I have a dartboard. Ho Ho Ho.

#StrangerThings stuck the damn landing in the most impressive of ways. With so many characters and so many moving parts and such a huge story, it would be so easy for any number of things to fall by the wayside, but everyone really gets their moment and it ends with a few great surprises.

I wrote exactly 2,025 words about the year that was 2025, which was both great and terrible, often simultaneously. Read it. Or don't. I'm still not your dad. medium.com/@briangallag...

Great, grand, wonderful. I randomly check the @suncountryair app to see my flight time tomorrow and see my flight is canceled. No email or text heads up. Its not even supposed to snow tomorrow so WTF? Hopefully i can fly out Tuesday.

There's what appears to be a full-on Amish family on this train. Isn't this... kinda cheating, for them?

Good morning, St. Paul! Aboard my train to La Crosse to meet up with some old friends for a new holiday tradition we call "Holler Days." Looking forward to a fun day and night then back home tomorrow sometime. See you in a few hours, La Crosse!

Doing an early breakfast with mom and my brother tomorrow morning before my train to La Crosse, so figured now is finally a good time to watch my friendo @stevencmiller movie #UnderFire!

Chucking rocks on a Friday night with the fam.

Finally finished my #StrangerThings catch-up today. Now waiting for the new episodes!

My brothers' cat Felix loves me har har har har

A Christmas Eve tradition, probably 20-some years in the making. Every Christmas Eve i watch The Ref, and this year I wrote about why I do for ScreenRant - screenrant.com/why-i-watch-...

Still have not started boarding yet, but the plane is finally here. See you soon, Minnesota!

What I think about every time they mention the deity in Pandora in the Avatar movies...

Avatar: Fire & Ash - 4 stars out of 5 The Odyssey prologue that played before the film - 587 stars out of 5 The Avengers: Doomsday "preview" that's just one stupid fucking shot of Chris Evans holding a fucking baby - Negative infinity stars out of fuck you.

I'm going (going) back to (back to) Pandora (Pandora). Rewatched the first last night and the second this morning. Let's see what you got Jimmy!

When it comes to biopics that came to fruition almost solely due to the lead actor's physical similarities to the subject, both directed solo by a brother from an acclaimed directorial tandem, I'd definitely have to go with #MartySupreme over #TheSmashingMachine. I'd go with practically anything

Ah, The Powerhouse. This was the last stop of any given drinking night when I lived on Whitley. Then the building owners decided to turn it into an upscale bougie-ass place in like 2012. My old roommate at the time went once and never went back. I recently heard that it was brought back to its roots

Seeing this early IMAX screening of No Other Choice tonight, then Marty Supreme on Thursday and Avatar: Fire & Ash on Friday then hopefully getting caught up on Stranger Things for the rest of the weekend before heading home. Hopefully they're all good as I hear they are.

I watched #JayKelly on Netflix. Then I wrote this. Give it a read. Or don't. screenrant.com/jay-kelly-pr...

Back at the @academymuseum for the 35th anniversary screening of Home Alone with Macaulay Culkin and Chris Columbus.

Back at the @academymuseum for a screening of Back to the Future with a Q&A with writer Bob Gale and VFX camera operator Scott Farrar.

Back home, realized there's another reason I need a new NHL PopChart besides the scratch off quality: it's out-dated. I got this when the Arizona Coyotes played at the Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona. Now they're the Utah Mammoth playing at Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Crazy. So here

I mean, how could I NOT get this magnet...

Killing time before heading to the airport.

Good morning, SLC! I found a better puck with the date and both teams on it after the second period so I snagged that and gave my other puck to a kid in my row. And the girl who sold me the puck was from SoCal and went to school there! Super nice fan base. A guy I met on the way in told me to find

Greetings from Section 107 of the Delta Center in downtown Salt Lake City, where im watching my #LAKings take on the #UtahMammoth. Pretty cool arena! They do this thing where they bring a cave opening down and they all skate through it. Really lively crowd. Stay tuned for whatever!

Good morning, Los Angeles! Taking my last sports trip of the year that I can't really afford but I booked it before things happened when I thought I could afford it but its only for a night so so screw it. Flying to Salt Lake City to cross State #44 (Utah) and NHL arena #20 (Delta

"Oh my God, kill him! Throw your stick at him!" - me alone in my apartment yelling at the TV when Connor Bedard races in on another breakaway #LAKings

Fallon continuing his tradition of making some of the worst people in the world seem self deprecating, lovable, and harmless

Decided to write this about the terrible spot in life I've found myself in. Give it a read. Or don't. medium.com/@briangallag...

When you catch someone watching Lawrence of Arabia on their phone

I've spent a lot of holidays on my own. And I've definitely been the guy who had to work while all my fellow employees have been off with their families. So if you're working or alone this holiday, much love to you. May the day treat you well, pass quickly, and be devoid of assholes. Love you guys.

Back at the @academymuseum to cross another film off the somehow-havent-seen list: David Lynch's debut #Eraserhead.

So #AHouseOfDynamite just doesn't end, huh? Cool cool cool #NotCool

So im glad I saw both #Wicked and #WickedForGood in theaters. Some really great stuff in both of them. Then whole Defying Gravity part was astonishing in the first, and many of the final-ish numbers stick the landing in the second. But I just can't fathom how a two and a half hour stage musical

Last night, I finally saw #Wicked (aka the longest half of a movie of all time, probably) for the first time at the Alamo Drafthouse, because tonight I am at an early screening of #WickedForGood at the Chinese Theatre. I am admittedly not a big musical theater person but I know this is going tp be a

Updated counts as of today (11/11/25): States visited: 43 (14th of 2025) NHL arenas visited: 19 (Im gonna have to get a new PopChart when im done because this is just too messy) Pins acquired: 69 (natch) Shot glasses acquired: 108 (would have liked to get one that said Morgantown but my options

Dodged a huge bullet. My American flight to Pittsburgh was non-stop, but my original return flight was not, connecting through Chicago. Since O'Hare was one of the 40 airports affected by the government shutdown, and American offered free flight changes, I booked a slightly earlier non-stop flight

So long, West Virginia! My bus to the Pittsburgh airport was about 10 minutes late but my flight back to LAX was delayed about 45 minutes so it all works out. Hopefully that's the only delay, but we shall see!

Good morning, Morgantown, WV, my 43rd state visited! Got up, showered, got packed up and out of the room just minutes before 11 and check out on the app, only to learn check out is actually noon haha. Whatever. Got some time to kill before my bus to the Pittsburgh airport, so looking around for a

So I put my hoodie on and walked down the street to this place called Mountain Mama's Tavern & Sports Bar. Google said it was open till 2 AM. I got one (1) beer and the bartender said they were done, just after midnight. Whatever. So I went to the gas station and got a Yuengling tallboy and a bag

Greetings from the Hampton Inn in Morgantown, West Virginia, my abode for the night in my 43rd state visited! Now to make it official and head up the street for a beer!

Later PA! See you soon WV!

Greetings from Section 224 of PPG Paints Arena in downtown Pittsburgh! They gave away this cool hat for Military Appreciation Day, so I'll give this to my buddy Phil when I get home. NHL Arena #19 is officially official! Hoping for a fun game!

Let the pre-gaming begin! Because its before the game. That im going to. #LAKINGS #GoKingsGo

Good morning, Pittsburgh! Had a blast at Proper Brick Oven and Tap Room and Redbeard's Sports Bar last night. Then had a few more at the hotel bar upstairs with a wasted father who was in some rock band I never heard of in the early 2000s and his equally wasted sons. All packed up, just gonna check

Pizza and beer at Proper Brick Oven & Tap Room in downtown PGH.

Greetings from my abode for the night at Embassy Suites in downtown Pittsburgh! Pretty pretty good! Now to find somewhere to eat! Stay tuned for whatever!

What's a trip without an airport breakfast beer? Enjoying a Blue Moon in Terminal B, for some reason. I checked in through Terminal 4 but my flight is in Terminal B. Security was no worse than a typical LAX Saturday, and the flight to PIT is still on time, so that's good. Stay tuned for whatever!