I started watching Kiss of the Spider Woman last night and was naming all the musicals I've seen and my wife and I got on the topic of are Disney movies musicals. I say no.

Regime Change 101: make sure there isn't a son who has probably been groomed from birth to be the immediate successor.

Gased up my wife's car, dragged my feet on mine so guess I'll do it today. I swear if I see a "Pain At The Pump" news segment I'm gonna turn into the Joker. And not just any Joker, the shitty one from Dark Knight Strikes Again, which looks like something Frank Miller vomited out in five minutes.

Welp, might be a couple thou on a part for the AC unit. Lovely.

Watched a good movie and a shitty movie over the weekend, so I guess it balances out. The Bone Temple is just as good as people say. I really hope we get a third movie to close things out. Jurassic World Rebirth is the polar opposite, a movie that has no reason to exist other than because it can.

The whole Platner thing is so stupid, like anything less than someone straight-up saying "yes, I am a nazi" means there's reasonable doubt on the matter.

Yesterday, I accidentally ordered a stout, and by God, it was awful-tasting. Saloon Doors Tasty AF: combo of nitro milk, chocolate, and peanut butter. I can stomach the occasional porter, but stouts, ugh, cannot cross the bridge.

Tragedy on tragedy, and I hear there's an investigation into potential terrorism links. youtu.be/8gFijo8cr8k?...

Would love to go, if I ever get the time and energy later this year Texas to open first new state park in over 20 years share.google/oZpRHWAZ1qJk...

Went out yesterday to Waco for some fresh air. We ate at Kitok Restaurant, went to Golden's Book Exchange and got a ton of books, and I had a couple beers at Cricket's Drafthouse and Grill. It was nice.

Prison for everyone responsible for this

Donald the dove, etc etc etc. God am I so tired of us being a stupid, belligerent country that can only start wars.

Look, The Atlantic sucks, but don't do this sort of thing when you're a candidate. Gives the media a bad case of main character syndrome and they get all pissy. Also freedom of the press, blah, blah, blah etc.

I voted today, went with Talarico. His campaign has emphasized that billionaires are the problem, who I put quite a bit of blame for giving us Trump 2.0. They need to go down.

MAHA has come to ruin BBQ for all. Every BBQ joint this asshole visits, get ready to be looked down on like the men's hockey team for all eternity.

Got yet another recommendation for The Bone Temple, so maybe gonna check it out this weekend. But first, gawd, I am so damn squirrely I gotta get out for a bit. Maybe do a day in Waco, check out some museums and such and have lunch at the Piovar Czech place. Beer garden sounds like my thing.

One of the biggest fundamental differences between me and my wife is she has a policy of unearned forgiveness of others and while I try to let things roll of my back and grant it where earned, sorry, shit on me enough times and it ain't gonna happen.

Regular Hell won't do. I want to construct several deeper, worse circles for everyone in his administration

Speaking of old memes, he's basically this IRL, complete with awkward laughing

Guy at work told me yesterday he doesn't like Mexican food, like at all. Says it's bland. It's like sure you're going to the right places?

Watched Nightmare Alley in black and white instead of watching dipshit lie his face off about how everything is great, but if it weren't, then it was somebody else's fault. It's a movie where a grifter eventually gets their comeuppance. What a concept, pure fiction! Well, maybe some day.

Watched The Wild Robot last night. I know we're at peak AI and robot-hating (and rightly so), still, it was a cute flick that had a lotta heart. Had to have a palette cleaner after watching 1917. Catching up on a lotta movies lately.

Can't think of anything less I'd like to do tonight than hear a doped-up clown rant about his imaginary accomplishments and grievances all while the media sanewashes the ever-loving shit out of it. Anything would be better. Call somebody, read a book, do some cleaning, anything.

Guy at work is retiring next week, gonna have a little get-together after work. Almost 30 years at the warehouse. He's earned it. Dude pretty much put every dollar towards his 401k. Hopefully, I can do the same some day.

Regardless of what you think about Will Stancil, The Verge's article is the type of gossipy bullshit that makes people intentionally tune out any type of media or news and the wagon-circling just goes to show you are either someone in the club or not, which is always something that irks me.

Really hasn't even felt like the year has started, need that overtime to kick in. Got some concrete financial goals this year, not just keeping head above water.

Great midterms ad: Trump administration will fuck up your flight www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Finally watched Train Dreams, slowly working my way through the Oscar noms and winners of last year. Type of movie that made my wife cry. Worth the nom.

Ran out of beer this weekend, got two of my Pinters brewing. Doing a Bigmouth session IPA, and the Brewdog Punk IPA in the other one.

It's really sucks everybody is gonna suffer for his hissy fits youtu.be/cTezvy-6kY4?...

Cat is guarding a bunch of his toys like a furry dragon and his hoard.

I'd be very curious how much our family trip to Vegas in 2000 cost compared to now. youtu.be/lJcyDOjFLwQ?...

Heard we're doing super tariffs in a presidential hissy fit because the Supreme Court tried to protect him against himself. Not gonna happen.

Trump trying to finish the job after Atlantic City youtu.be/D_qbOU82InU?...

Donuts for Friday morning. Because I can, and my wife deserves them.

Bah, not thrilled...but as long as there's still a free area here and there and the revenue is used to help the community and such etc etc etc www.kcentv.com/article/news...

Oh boy, he's mulling it over. Can't wait for the start of another 20 year long quagmire.

Vacation time approved, I'm ecstatic

So I was looking at doing a hot air balloon ride at Lake Tahoe. It's $400...per person. Imagine if the hot air balloon finale in Police Academy 4 was filmed today. It would have broke the bank. Less inflation and more aviation, I say!

Weird ass dreams last night. A trilogy! Dreamt I was on a mission to space, then trying to sneak onto a plane to France through a McDonald's playpen somehow (when's the last time you saw one of those?), and finally back sweating through classes at community college.

Booked the hotels for the Lake Tahoe trip. It's all just wishing until you finally do something concrete, then planning the rest falls into place.

If my job situation wasn't difficult enough I thought I had another month left on my unemployment but it just ended. Please reach out if you have any paid work even just a short term project. Or consider supporting my work by subscribing to my substack miabrett.substack.com

Say what you want about the newer God of War games (I think positive masculinity Kratos is boring, and I called it after dealing with the janky combat system for about 45 minutes), but David Jaffe is the pinnacle of the guy who is bitter about anybody taking a crack at the series beside him.

Happy Mattress Sale Day, because let's face it, that's what Presidents Day is good for.

Planning the Lake Tahoe trip in earnest, and while it would be really cool to rent a rustic cabin or stay at a fancy resort, I'm OK with just doing a hotel. Deals through the Caesar Rewards app look pretty decent, actually. Sure it might be tackier, but it's still a Lake Tahoe trip.

Fun thing: I donated plasma for a long time over a decade ago and have a permanent scar on my right arm. The last 20 years or so has basically been like this for wide swaths of Americans. youtu.be/3QxKunPcirk?...

Celebrating the love between my wife and I today by doing absolutely jackshit. That's how you know you got somebody special.

I saw this play when we went out for a movie last weekend. It would have been right at home as a fake trailer during an episode of The Critic back in the day. Napoleon: we're gonna seize the means of production Pig voiced by Chris Rock: say whaaaaa? youtu.be/vHId9LeW3Bg?...

Jesus fuck, my wife's son workplace had like a second fatality there where somebody fell. I can definitely understand why he wants to get away from that shit.