Reading more of Buffalo Hunter Hunter at the pub. I think Stephen Graham Jones is a cat guy. He describes them very eloquently and his writing has very cat dad vibes

Looking at another week of barely above freezing temperatures with sidewalks still iced over and more snow coming today. I take back what I said on Christmas, it's actually good to have 70F days in December

Also worth pointing out a SCOTUS 'Clerk' is a very high ranking position aligned closely with their judge. They write the first drafts of opinions, this guy wasn't like Alito's secretary or mail person

And it really shows in the high quality of their products and services

Watching a French movie where for no particular reason, a chase scene goes into a gay rave for a fictional gay holiday. I imagine this is the French equivalent of when a chase scene happens in a Chinese New Years parade with the dragon puppet.

Tired: Phrenology Wired: Craniology

Was it the Midwest ice storm of 2021 where people posted videos of snow not melting to bare flames and saying it was a conspiracy?

I was one of the few people to make it to the factory today. We have a lot of isopropanol in drums. Maybe I could get some buckets and use that as a de-icer. I wonder if our EHS guy would be cool with that

Oh hey, warrants. You know, that thing they're already supposed to need to make an arrest or search. Hey maybe next can we make them promise not to do cruel or excessive punishment?

"Boss I'm a little shook up after killing a guy. Can I have a day off?" "No, back to work, don't make me get the whip"

Oh no, I watched Sinners and thought the final act and overly long epilogue was kind of a mess :(

I was willing to be generous, that the Blue Sky Trending algorithm would always be a few hours behind. But it's been 32 hours since Pretti was killed, my entire feed is discussing it, and the trending tab says this shit?

Will Gregg Turkington be co-hosting with Bari?

After shaving my head I'm thinking about if I should keep the crazy puffy sideburns. Maybe it looks stupid now but if I also get really ripped I could look cool to gay men?

"If you think about it, Georgia was the Georgia of the Soviet Union"

At the pub listening to ladies at the table next to me discuss their experience with Ozempic. It delivered the advertised results but they stopped taking it because it left them feeling bad in general. Or at least for one of them.

My favorite bullion scam I ran across was a gold "bank" where you paid for the gold and then they promised to store it for you in their vault. Take a wild guess what happened next

Book club meeting went well. We had two new Black members which is good because it's otherwise a very white club. We were discussing Ringworld (1970) and someone said Niven is the HP Lovecraft of misogyny. Even compared to contemporaries he was exploring new frontiers in belittling women.

I'm nearly done with Ringworld for book club today. I think I hate it slightly less with 50 pages to go. The whole thing with Teela's luck is amusingly meta.

This is probably true for a lot of men my age but I know like three guys that are doppelgangers for Will. Median white millennial

His heart's in the right place but I would expect a 'contributing editor' at Harper's Magazine to know the difference between a Reddit mod and the official government of Greenland

I was intrigued by a truly bottom level trash kids animation movie featured on a free movie website. And I am drunk so I started watching. There's an amusing error where a black triangle is covering up the third character in a static shot.

Oh neat, Ms Kirk is inviting people to a mass suicide. Good for them.

*Seeing a news article about a teenager who skied to the South Pole "Damn, kid's parents much be rich as fuck"

It's not terribly important but it's worth pointing out the idea that the American legal system is based on the Ten Commandments is....ludicrously false. Like notice how only two of these are a crime? Our legal system is a mix of Germanic law and Roman law with Greek philosophy.

Oh my god, there was a 1999 3D animated tv show of Starship Troopers? With Verhoeven producing???? Why did nobody tell me? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6FI...

Watching Alien 3 at the pub on $4 wine night. The other drunks agree with me, the 90's cgi looks like ass compared to the practical suit. And Sigourney Weaver looks hot as hell with a shaved head.

Been training this week at work on how to test paint products for the new product line we're expecting. I'm leaving work everyday with my fingers stained different colors. I think I'll lean into this and tell chicks at bars that I'm an artist, I already have the facial hair for that.

Slogging through more of Ringworld (1970) for book club. I feel like I must be the millionth person reading it recently to describe it as "A physics simulation pretending to be a story". And the misogyny! It's been a long time since I've seen such classic undiluted misogyny!

"Third Way, in a memo first shared with NBCNews" Huh, do you ever think why Third Way does that? Like who is the memo really for?

I try to avoid buying things online both for lousy goods reasons and driver welfare reasons. But now I'm having the problem of needing a specific item and having no clue where I could buy this in-person. It's a physical map of NYC, preferably one that shows metro lines and bike infrastructure.

Battle of Algiers is an insane movie as an Italian production. Imagine there was a bloody war for Puerto Rican independence against the US. Then four years later the UK makes a movie about it where killing US marines or bombing a hotel full of Americans is portrayed as a morally good act.

Watching "Battle of Algiers" 1966. Now they were evil, but the French colonial police had some pretty nifty hats.

Inshallah, Muslim President Trump will ban usury.

Picked up a book about Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, two leftist groups active in 60's and 70's Detroit. Flipped open to a page at random and it tells the story of a Black auto worker who shot and killed two foremen.

A month ago she was the wife of a nobody. Now the media is tripping over their dicks to talk about a woman who dresses like a magician's assistant.

Watching "Cuties" the French movie about a Senegalese girl that was falsely accused of being pro-pedophilia. They were wrong but, it's not a very good movie and it's very French so.....

Watching a Dutch movie where they needed a 50's rock song but couldn't afford a license so it's some Dutch guy doing his best attempt at Jerry Lee Lewis lyrics. Worst music I've ever heard in my life.

Kilodeath

Now I believe that Men in Black is basically a perfect movie. But, I do have one quibble with the plot on rewatch. So K tells J before he joins up that they'll be erasing his identity and he'll cut ties with every person he knows so he can join MiB.

"Hey, that's an offensive stereotype that we're lazy and build everything really half assed!"

Oh no, I just remembered the last season of The Boys drops this year

Watching The Proposal with Sandra Bullock at the pub. A 2009 movie set in the distant past when being the editor at a publishing house was a powerful commanding person employing hundreds.

So for a laugh I was reading through the supplementary material for the new MAHA Food Triangle. At first I thought this paragraph was odd because it's twice as long as the previous detail-free paragraph about nutrition for pregnant women. 1/

Literally the most common dating advice available, this is The Rules and The Game. One book theory prevails.

Unlike most people I do have one fond memory of a Jan 6th. Not 2021, but 2023 I saw one of the best shows in my life when my favorite band played at a record store. Only show I've ever been at where the encore wasn't planned and felt earned.

Reading a book for book club that I thought sounded very schmaltzy. Oh god no, eye dialect for the Black characters! "My grandmama is sick, she got the 'sugar' Later Theo found out that meant Diabetes"

One thing I like to find in bookstores is self-published memoirs from local elderly folks. Not much literary value but they have unique historical interest. I'm reading one from a woman who was a nurse starting in the 60's.

Kind of weird how the administration is trying to speedrun us to the setting of the worst Call of Duty game, right down to it's dumbass cult of the operator ethos.

Oh noo, I finished a Hugo winning novel and I didn't like it very much. It has what I'm calling the "TV Problem" where a super futuristic society with no Mass Media. The author painstakingly details the foreign alphabet in a glossary but never mentions what fake popular movie people watch