Time to watch our fourth production of "Company" in as many weeks. This one is British.

Like not using the turn signal.

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I did it, gang. I lifted so many weights I had to fully shift my focus from the TV to my dinner to successfully consume nutrients. I'm becoming Stupid.

Time to watch our third production of "Company" in as many weeks. I'm hoping this one is Bad®. You know. For variety.

Three episodes deep in "Heated Rivalry" and so far my only complaint is that Kip, as described by the show, shouldn't have time to be a hunk. He should be a squirrelly art twink who only has abdominal definition because most of his diet is free work smoothies.

I'm sure the young man doing unassisted pullups on the assisted pullup machine needs to use it more than me, a man who cannot do unassisted pullups. How am I so sure? Because this is the only pullup bar in the gym with stairs, making it the only bar he can probably reach.

Coworker gave me a very on brand Valentine.

On the one hand, I'm sad my cheating football men lost. On the other, get fucked, everyone else who likes the Patriots!

The gals at work paid me the ultimate compliment someone with my relationship to masculinity can receive: They asked if I could teach them some self defense because A) I seem like the kind of person who could and B) they all trust me implicitly with their safety. Be riding that high for a bit.

Been spending a lot of time working out lately. Not to get stronger, though that is happening. No. My goal is to get Dumber.

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We are watching "The Cutting Edge" (1992, dir. Paul Michael Glaser), mostly as a bit. I've never seen it before, but @reenamccarty.bsky.social has fond memories. I will say, the direction of this movie makes me feel like I spun around too much and took a career ending blow to the head. So...

In my defense, Raúl Esparza is reading the audiobook.

I gotta level with the team: Thinking "transhumanism and posthumanism" are useful frameworks for modern LLMs and similar seems Not Great.

Birthday party may or may not have devolved into declaiming epics. No way to know.

There's a fox in my neighborhood. Well, there was a fox. It left. But maybe it will come back. Pretty cool.

Sometimes Taskmaster looks a lot like a window into hell and that worries me , like, theologically.

Ah. Okay.

Fuck off.

I don't know why the cover preview didn't work here, but look! This is the last day of the preorder sale, here is a book you could preorder!

So, @reenamccarty.bsky.social got me a little cross-stitch set for Christmas. To quote her: "It seems like the kind of fiddly, tedious bullshit you'd enjoy."

Well. I'm now being served ads for a service that provides slutty little AI furry boyfriends. There's barking up the wrong tree, but they're in the wrong damn forest.

A gal I know once commented on another person in our orbits confidence-to-competence imbalance: "I'll bet that guy fucks like he's got a slightly bigger than average dick." I've never heard someone put that much scorn in a sentence.

"Chess" needs to close early because thinking about that musical is making me literally insane.

Tonight's movie is "Jingle Bell Heist" (2025, dir. Michael Fimognari). While the title makes it clear this IS a Christmas movie and it IS a Netflix direct program, I regret to inform you it is an actual, honest to god filum. They got, like, color correction and competent lighting and everything.

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I feel like my Boy, JoJo Christo, had something extremely specific to say about what to do if your eye offends you or your hand leads you to sin, but sure.

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Because I can't say my favorite part of PALADIN'S FAITH by @tkingfisher.com was "everything", I'll have to say it was deeply refreshing for a crew of bandits to realize they were up against a party with class levels and just... Surrender. You don't see that enough in fiction.

"...And they, since they "Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs." That hasn't left me alone since I bumbled into it in 11th grade.

More videos out from the "Chess" revival and I am sad. There's so little texture and energy. Like, if you can't get ME with a stand-and-sing, technically competent rendition of "Anthem"? You are COOKED, gang.

First Saturday in December, so you know what that means! Time to watch a Christmas romance from a production company no one has ever heard of before or will hear from again until next Christmas.

The more I see of this new production of "Chess" the more convinced I am that the show is some kind of cursed amulet or monkey's paw and people need to STOP PICKING IT UP TO WISH ON

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Shout out to my uncle. I don't know what I would do in a similar situation, but loudly eating Cheetos while facetiming into a deathbed WHILE driving sure was a series of choices.

Just dropped some new Dano Lore on Reena.

There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.

Somebody left half a turkey sandwich in this ICU room and I've been left here alone long enough that I'm seriously considering it as a dinner option.

A fun bit I'm considering doing is telling @reenamccarty.bsky.social that every white man on a television show is Paul Dano and see how long it takes for her to call me on it.

Ahem. Sorry. I got a bit overwrought. I meant to say, we must demand the show return for a long-delayed season 4 simply so that I can see an in-universe rendition of Cell Block Tango, as I have some questions.

Cinnamon raisin bread loaf looking ass.

Someday I'm going to learn that I'm not going to accomplish anything before noon on holidays from work. I'll learn that, stop making big plans for getting stuff done, and stop feeling like a failure about it. Someday. But not today.

There are TWO people in this house. She cooks for, like, two dozen.

No Marcus for this year's Thanksgiving Classic, so I get this beautiful view all to myself... Ah, nuts.

I don't know if "Interview With the Vampire" is the best show currently on television. But it sure is the MOST show on television.

This isn't your house.

We are finally getting around to watching the Fallout show and you KNOW I started chanting "Dogmeat, Dogmeat, Dogmeat" at the start of episode two.