As far as great shows with horrible theme songs, I’m not sure which is worse. Firefly or Slow Horses.

So had New York City turned into a hellscape yet?

Realizing there were like five seasons of Slow Horses in between seasons 4 and 5 of Stranger Things.

Goddamn, this Stranger Things finale has more endings than Return of the King.

I’m on the Stranger Things finale now. Vecna totally sounds like if they had cast Sean Connery as Candyman instead of Tony Todd.

Finally watching the last season of Stranger Things. It really feels like the costume person just said “ChatGPT, what did people look like in the 80’s?” It’s like they kind of got the general idea, but it’s still just totally off.

I’m not confident that if there is a blue wave this year and Dems take the House and Senate anything will change. Most of them will still be too chickenshit to do anything but send me text messages asking for money for their next campaign. They’re basically fundraising off of Trump shit. Why stop?

I really should listen more when everyone says something is good. Just finished The Pitt and it was phenomenal. It kills me but I think I’ll have to wait for season 2 to end before watching it. I can’t imagine having to wait a full week between episodes.

1 movie down on the 2026 Criterion Challenge. Only 52 to go.

Is he hoping that by starting a war he’ll be able to grant some sort of emergency power to stop mid terms?

Winter Classic under a full moon.

We finally started watching The Pitt. Halfway through the season and Jesus, as a parent this is killing me.

Kind of sad that I’ve finally been priced out of decent BBQ.

I think one of my regrets in life is never having a group of friends to play DnD with.

I’m so out of touch with this whole Tiny Tim thing.

Started playing Skyrim again after beating it almost 15 years ago as a stealth archer build. Try something new? Nope. Doing a stealth archer build again.

After

Before.

Got my wife the Galaxy Quest 4k. Hadn’t seen it in a while. I spent way too much time messing with my player settings because there were black bars running on all four sides. I finally said screw it because I couldn’t fix it. Forgot that they disappear about 20 minutes in. Total face palm moment.

The wife killed it this year!

Tonight’s movie is The Holdovers, which is so good it may wind up being an annual tradition movie.

Finally watched One Battle After Another. Thought it was really really good. However, the last five or so minutes of the movie are really bothering my brain. Also (micro-nitpick) that opening title card looked weird. Like DTV looking. Just looked very weird.

I feel like Charlie Brown is an origin story of Larry David.

Welp, it’s time for Rare Exports. I guess it being the fourth or fifth December in a row, it’s officially obtained tradition status.

Any time a kid says “Six Seven” to me. I’m making them play with a Slinkee for an hour.

Weird Pluribus nitpick. Last week dude was saying that they meet on Zoom like every Tuesday and Thursday, and voted not to include Carol, however this week we’re barely on day 12.

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Uh oh. Mariah Carey is on the loose.

This is shittiest Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park sequel.

It’s been kind of wild seeing my 9 year old daughter fall in love with The Beatles.

I’ve been sour on Tarantino for many many years. For many reasons I haven’t been a fan. At all. So all this recent shit about his various goofy opinions…It would be easy for me to pile on, instead I’m going to take a page from @crobertcargill.bsky.social playbook and go positive real quick (1).

@crobertcargill.bsky.social Could you exec produce my script “Man Can’t Find Tape”? It’s about me this time every year trying to wrap Christmas presents. Spoiler alert! It was my youngest daughter who stole it to hag K Pop Demon Hunter color pages on her wall.

Aw man. Scream/Shout Factory shop is now part of Gruv? Fucking lame. Already having to use Google to find some movies since their search engine sucks.

Next to the last day my mom is here, so grilling some fillets on the Weber.

Ugh. Feel like the Seattle Kraken are losing all momentum they had built up at the beginning of the season. Just slowly petering out.

We finished season 1 of Slow Horses. Tonight catching up on Old Cemetery Road. We obviously have a thing for British mysteries with a legacy Brit actor playing a sassy, cranky asshole who really deep down has a caring heart of gold.

Bought by 9 year old daughter a hockey stick, pucks, and street hockey balls for Christmas today. Got myself a stick also. I’m not sure who is going to be more excited Christmas morning.

Seriously, why do I keep opening Facebook? Why do I do this to myself. Now Facebook suddenly thinks I give a shit about which movies Tarantino likes. I don’t even like Tarantino movies, let alone his opinion of them. This is like that time Facebook kept throwing pro wrestling shit in my feed.

I know a lot of people frown upon Record Store Day, and for totally legit reasons. But I think I’m going to have to hit Piranha tomorrow morning for the Dead Milkmen Big Lizard 40th anniversary release.

Bob Clark does not get the credit he deserves. He directed three of the greatest movies of all time with Black Christmas, A Christmas Story, and Rhinestone (yeah, I said it!). However, it’s been way too long for me to tell if Porky’s holds up.

It annoys the hell out of me that you can get pretty much anything these days in the print of the carpet from the Overlook hotel, but the one place selling replicas of Olivia Hussey’s sweater from Black Christmas is shut down. My wife would kill for one.

Learning that I am one year older than the sorority house mother in Black Christmas by a year. Ugh.

After being out of town last Thanksgiving, we are back to our normal at home tradition. Wrapping the day with Bob Clark’s Black Christmas.

Holy crap what was this Mr. Fantasy thing dry-humping a pirate ship float?

I would not have been surprised if Michael Myers would have burst through the brick wall of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles float, only to be roundhouse kicked in the face by Busta Rhymes.

Seeing weird shit like Shaggy singing It Wasn’t Me on a Jenny-O’s turkey float is the content I come for.

Holy cow! They really weren’t kidding about all the inflation in New York. Thanks a lot, Mamdani!

Not sure I ever want to learn how Liverpool got its name.

My 9 year old daughter told me unprompted tha she wanted to just go hah out at Dragons Lair comics and watch people play games and pet the store cats.

Went to find a WPHL app, and found it weird that the score on the screen between Toronto and Minn to advertise the app is the same score in their game at this very moment. Spooky.