Silver lining? Maybe now we don’t have enough left to take Greenland?

My daughter was very stoked about her Half Price Books haul today.

I have to say I’m no longer pissed Robo got snubbed by the US Men’s hockey team.

My 10 year old daughter suddenly caught the filmmaking bug. And not like TikTok vids, but tiny little films in our backyard. This totally excites me! Going to have to dust off my old DVD of Emily Hagins’ Pathogen to show her.

To me, ever since I was a kid, Jason’s shack in the middle of the woods in Friday the 13th part 2 was the creepiest thing in the whole franchise.

Every time I come to the Costco food court I think “This has to be how COVID started.”

Forgetting every other batshit insane thing today, just her saying “Trump Derangement Syndrome” in a congressional hearing should have had her ran out of town.

It’s so weird occasionally realizing how long ago it’s been since Conan O’Brian’s In the Year 2000 bit.

I’m glad Seattle won, but to screen cap a commercial before the game….

Just forget about the movies for a second. It’s pretty goddamn crazy how many years ago Richard Bachman ( @stephenking.bsky.social ) absolutely nailed the future of reality TV and entertainment with The Running Man.

Expecting a long winded rant from the Orange bridge troll tonight about threatening to pull every US Olympian from the Olympics because the crowd bood the mascara faux hillbilly. Probably threaten some investigation into the IOC which he can’t really do.

Nothing screams Italian culture and history like Mariah Carey.

Right off the bat, peacock announcers talking over the opening ceremony. Seriously, just shut up.

Someone needs to put a stop to Mr. Beast before he runs for and wins the presidency.

Really wish Peacock would quit ruining this women’s hockey match by constantly cutting to JD Vance and Marco Rubio in the stands.

Me: I really wish people would stop using Amazon. Also me: Goddamn I can’t wait for the next season of Fallout! (Full disclosure: I’m using my sister’s account.)

Basically the foundation of SNL’s Celebrity Jeopardy. youtu.be/-dtr4Z0PllI?...

As a white man, I have to say we need to outlaw white men running the world.

As much as I’m enjoying the Second Amendment Schadenfreude going on right now, let’s not forget that Pretti legally carrying a gun is irrelevant to all this. He was disarmed by ICE BEFORE they shot him in the back. The gun issue is irrelevant.

Goddamn I’m slow. No wonder Cheeto wanted a new Rush Hour. I forgot those were directed by Brett Ratner, director of that new Melanie bomb.

Man, I am really, really enjoying Fallout. And I love how much the makers are staying true to the game world while also maintaining an entertaining story. It’s even got me playing Fallout 76 again.

I’m guessing TX Governor Abbott is begging Trump to send ICE in to Austin or Houston for the Minneapolis treatment. And promising he won’t let local law enforcement get in the way.

I don’t know if anyone is using AI to add fake film grain to things shot digital, but I’m watching a miniseries on Netflix, and at times the film grain looks to be not right. Like grain being static on some surfaces. That’s not how film grain works. It’s weird. Or maybe it’s just the wine.

This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index

I may actually watch football again to see the Seahawks beat the Pats in the SuperBowl.

Happy birthday to Dolly Parton, Edgar Allan Poe, and most importantly, my oldest child Beatrix who turns 10 today. Double digits!

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.