- First things first.
- Happy birthday, Steph!
- Here’s to many more!
- (You say that for birthdays, right?)
- We went out for sushi on Saturday because 1) we figured the place would be ridiculously busy on Sunday because obvious reasons, and 2) “No one celebrates their birthday on a Monday.”
- She said it, not me.
- So here we are.
- I have a dinner plan for tonight.
- Does not involve leaving the house.
- But there’s a plan.
- Anyway.
- Tell her happy birthday if you haven’t.
- Hell, most of you are on her friends list anyway.
- Social how it was meant to be.
- Not this algorithmic bullshit.
- That’s why we’re here, remember?
- The List exists to harken back to those early internet days, when we all had blogs.
- There were a bunch of us in my friend group who had blogs.
- We called it The Bloop.
- Miss those days, really.
- Though honestly, I think the Internet has (combined with my own internal issues) has held me back.
- Digital time theft.
- Which pairs with my constant pondering of time.
- I feel, in every moment, I’m running out.
- That it is too late to accomplish a bunch of the things I wanted to accomplish.
- It isn’t.
- Well, some.
- But that’s another internal war I fight.
- I get, btw, you’re not supposed to start all these sentences with conjunctions.
- But, and, etc.
- I don’t care, really.
- That’s how we talk.
- That’s how the words flow.
- Flow’s part of the way you get better at writing.
- Do it enough, you can feel what should come next.
- And you know when it doesn’t work.
- I could’ve written that without the and.
- The exclusion of the word would make the sentence hit differently.
- …
- Was the first weekend I didn’t write a list since the surgery.
- Sleep impacted that.
- All these medicines are wrecking me.
- Small price, but still.
- Itching.
- Sleep.
- Destroyed internals.
- Why haven’t I gone back to work?
- My skull isn’t done.
- I still can’t really get away from the bathroom in the mornings.
- Sleep sucks.
- And then there’s that gd IV in my arm.
- And another couple of upcoming MRIs.
- (One here, one in Minnesota.)
- (You didn’t think we were finished with that sojourn, did you?)
- That’s all the update you’re getting.
- I’m over it.
- Anyway, Father’s Day was great.
- You saw the card.
- We had a great dinner.
- Went to see “The Life of Chuck,” which is spectacular.
- There’s so much good in it, I don’t have enough bullets to do it justice.
- It’s asking for a proper film review, and I don’t do that anymore.
- Like Steph said elsewhere on the Internet, she’d go see it again, and she doesn’t do that.
- We need more films like it.
- Also watched “Cleaner” over the weekend.
- Wasn’t bad.
- Daisy Ridley in a remake of “Die Hard,” really.
- Was not badly done.
- Had some great lines.
- The whole cast was uneven, but she’s great.
- Was not bad to watch from the couch on a Saturday night.
- Would’ve made some money if they’d, you know, marketed it.
- Hollywood is biting its nose to spite its face these days.
- And here we go …
- Hollywood needs to stop being chickenshit if it wants movies to survive.
- You have all these worthless voices on the internet trashing Marvel films, but Marvel’s one of the few outfits putting in the money and effort to keep making spectacles.
- Them and Tom Cruise.
- Everything else is a remake.
- Or some low-budget crap.
- And I’m sorry, but all these horror films getting lauded … yeah, when I bother to watch, I’m rarely impressed.
- It’s like there’s been so much crap for so long, standards dropped.
- The Frame of Reference got smashed.
- Tornado of Unfortunate Coincidences destroyed a historically great medium.
- Don’t get me wrong.
- I love all these fantastic series made for streaming.
- There have been a ton of them.
- Lot of crap there, too.
- But again, there are thousands of books in all genres that would make great films.
- You know, provided you can get the filmmakers to stick to the soul of the source material.
- If you want to create your own story, then do that, but don’t do it to an IP someone else thought up.
- Monday Madness!!
- I surf Reddit more than any other “social” media, because it’s the closest thing we have left to forums from the old days.
- There’s a ton of crap on there, however, and plenty of it meant to stoke political fires.
- Make everyone reactionary.
- Most the time, I read a title, think “Huh,” and move on.
- I don’t give it real inflammatory space because I don’t want to go research it most the time.
- If I know a thing might not be true, or might not be true in the way it’s presented, then I don’t give it weight.
- But today, I saw Trump’s post on Truth Social about targeting major cities because they’re seats of Democrat power …
- I tossed out almost 300 words of political rant.
- Aaaannnd another 200.
- Then deleted more.
- (Took a breath.)
- You’re going to have to show me this “radical Left.”
- With sources.
- Pretty sure millions of people across the country rolled out in protest of this orange goon, and nothing got burnt down or destroyed.
- Radical.
- Smfh
- Yeah, 700 words tossed in the trash doc because … it’s exhausting.
- Which, you know, is what they want.
- I’m taking the off ramp.
- Sitting here listening to the “Moody Mix” Spotify made for me.
- Lots of good stuff.
- Weird though.
- Billie Eilish, Lana Del Ray, Slipknot, gd Limp Bizkit, Paris Paloma, Phantogram, Nine Inch Nails, Megadeth, Alice in Chains …
- I would not have made this on my own, is what I’m saying, but I’m digging it.
- I’ll throw the link in the comments for you Spotifiers.
- While the Kiddo and I ran some errands, I told her I’ve had that Royal and the Serpent song (“Carry Me Home”) stuck in my head for … weeks.
- I don’t mind. It’s a good song.
- She said, “I think I’ve only listened to it three times.”
- “You sent me a song you only listened to once?”
- “Yes. I knew you’d like it.”
- Happy father’s day.
- Happy birthday.
- Happy Monday.
Flow Conjunction
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