This song's a winner.

I listened to hours of Christmas music yesterday. Did I wake up with Christmas music in my head? Of course not. No, I listed to a minute of @tolkoto.com trying to sing Fast Car yesterday, and naturally, that's what stuck. Which is fine. Can't complain about one of the best songs ever recorded.

I'm glad this song is part of my stupid world.

Howlin' Pelle Almqvist is called Howlin' Pelle because he goes, "AAAAAAAAAH!!"

Oh! So the playing cards in the video game... They're kind of like playing cards that I know from real life, right?

Here's a paragraph you might not expect to find in a 1998 sci-fi/super hero paperback for babies. Unless you're familiar with Animorphs, in which case you would know that the series is routinely like this.

Does anyone know why is this Queens of the Stone Age song is in my head this morning?

If Congress is meant to represent us, they should vote like us: Hunched over a touchscreen in a makeshift booth before dropping a sheet of paper in a box and picking up a tiny sticker.

Wow. Okay, so the Zelda movie is just going to be about two actors in costumes posing in a field? They're just going to look at nothing and express nothing? How is that a movie? How is that a movie trilogy? I mean, wow. Seriously, Nintendo, don't do this. I will be holding off on buying my ticket.

I dreamed that I joined up with some activists to encourage people to wear teal for Teal Awareness Day, and then I woke up with Gogol Bordello in my head. Break this spell.

Dear Russia, This would be the funniest time to release the pee tape.

Someone woke up with a Shaggy song in his head? Wasn't Me.

Insane Bundle with 21 GAMES is currently $1.99 on the Nintendo Switch eShop. The per-game price suggests that this could be the stinkiest digital garbage on the planet. Imagine my horror when I started playing one and actually liked it! I've tried five games now, and they're all sorta nice. Eerie.

I never feel like garbage when I have Sparks in my head.

I do not come from a "bless you" family, so when I was very young and I sneezed in public, the phrase confused me. The actual meaning still confuses me, but at two or three years old, I couldn't even parse the words. "Bleshu" sounded like an onomatopoeic command: "Bleshu!" "I already did."

I love high-resolution promotional art from the early days of 3D video games. In-game, you're getting 13 triangles glued together in the vague shape of a guy, crunched down and interlaced on a screen that could fit in your JNCO pockets. And then the let loose, and wowww, those shadows and textures.

These images are from 1998! What a tragedy that Rockstar is now fully committed to photorealistic humans and union-busting. Imagine the last quarter century if management had believed in Space Station Silicon Valley the way they believe in Grand Theft Auto or abusing workers.

I watched the John Candy documentary I Like Me last night, and unsurprisingly, Ray Charles' Mess Around is in my head this morning. I think Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a bad movie, through no fault of Candy and Martin. That guy was taken much too soon.

Norah O'Donnell caught Trump saying some things he shouldn't have let slip, but let's be serious: You either have to call him on his lies, even at the risk of him walking out, or you let him control the 90-minute interview...and then simply refuse to air it. Just waste that stupid baby's time.

I'd planned to do better with my All Hallow's Eve costume, but I ended up feeling miserable for most of October. Whoops.

Man, I have been pushing myself to stream one more time this month. I've done loads of prep work to make it happen today, and chums, by body is just not having it. Chronic illness is a nasty trick, but I have Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids, so Halloween is still a treat.

Remember how Trump kept saying Mexico would pay for his wall, and the Mexican government just laughed at him? I finally understand why Trump tried to goad Canada into a war. I hate to admit it, but if you want a foreign nation to cover major White House renovations, war with Canada? Pretty clever.

I'm tired of seeing commercials like this on TV, but I am looking forward to seeing them played in The Hague.

I've been personally told by a reliable source that local schools, as of end-of-day today, have required teachers to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom. I knew this was going to happen eventually, but I didn't know the date. It's not mentioned on the district's site at all. Pretty sneaky!

Let him tear down the White House. Are you not familiar with the atrocities committed by the monsters who have lived there? Banish its image to museums and history books, with other symbols of hate from fallen empires. Let him tear down his disgraceful house, and let us bill him for the damages.

I play so much trash that this answer probably isn't accurate, but it's hard to believe I stuck with the America's Next Top Model Wii game to the very end. Hilarious for the first hour or so; contemptuously worthless beyond that.

Breakfast time! Start your day with Hot Cakes.

Updates on mild inconveniences: Two days ago: I declare my computer is fully operational once more. Yesterday: Error detected. Please reinstall Windows. Today: Just gotta pick up a prescription, and then I can stream! Oh, hey some vaccines are available. Sure, I'll take 'em all. I'll...oh...whoa.

Tomonobu Itagaki's tombstone should forgo the traditional epitaph and instead be connected to a motor so that he and his mourners need never be far from gratuitous jiggling.

Q: Is it too late to reinvent the bicycle? A: Never!

Right now: A little stream for little games! Today, Sega Game Gear is SCARY Game FEAR!!!! twitch.tv/HotLavy

What is going on with my computer? It ain't the hardware, man.

This call for solidarity is hard to believe coming from Morrissey. Good song, though.

My mind rejects the frequency, but it accepts this song.

I'm so sick of computer problems, though apparently, they're not yet sick of me. Speaking of "sick," I was already feeling rotten even before the tech stuff. No stream today. Assuming I can resolve this nonsense and still have any desire to look at a computer ever again, I'll be back on...Tuesday?

Starting now! These hidden objects aren't going to find themselves. Unless they're possessed by object-finding demons, but that hardly counts. twitch.tv/HotLavy

I ❤️ Feist.

After two days of streaming fast-paced shooters, I thought I'd try something more casual today. A nice hidden-object game, perhaps. Instead, I spent my day wrestling with bizarre tech issues and ran out of time for streaming. The good (?) news is that it's finally working. See ya tomorrow morning.

Today's stream—a grab bag of spooky first-person shooters— will begin as soon as I finish running my final tech checks. See ya soon! twitch.tv/HotLavy

Is this song currently being used in a commercial or something? I have no idea how it ended up in my head. Not that I'm complaining.

Now Streaming: Scaaaaaary first-person shooters, starting with BLOOD. twitch.tv/HotLavy

Are escape rooms still popular? I want to locate clues and solve puzzles to escape the spooky thrift store that's haunted by shelf after shelf of hidden-object games.

I'd never heard of Snatchers before scrolling through Tubi this morning. October is young, but I could see this going down as my best surprise of the season. letterboxd.com/jakespencer/...

Good news: I'm feeling less sick today. Bad news: Someone else in my house is feeling more sick today, which is going to interfere with my streaming plans. I'll try again tomorrow.

Vitsie lives right in your own TV.

I watched 28 Days Later a few days ago. It wasn't as good as I remembered, but this song is.

Felt pretty rotten yesterday, and I'm even worse this morning, so there will be no stream today. The weekend doesn't look likely, either, but hopefully Monday. You guys, chronic illnesses are so dumb.

Inside you are five wolves. One likes it in your face. Two like it on— One doesn't come for free; she's a real lady. And as for me, ha ha, you'll see.

What is Haunt the House: Terrortown? I don't know, but it's awfully cute, and it was developed by SFB Games (Snipperclips, Crow County, Detective Grimoire), so I have high hopes. Stream starts...any minute now! (Eep. I typed this 20 minutes ago and forgot to click Post!) twitch.tv/HotLavy

Every single night and every single morning for nearly two years now, I've experienced miserable, violent, full-body spasms called myoclonus. The only upside is that when it's particularly bad, as it is today, it sometimes makes me think about great songs.