Lately I’ve been playing Civilization and Team Fortress, which are very different from each other and from the Nintendo games I’ve played. I guess I wanted to get back into that sort of thing.

Annie Lennox’s song Walking On Broken Glass was used on The Handmaid’s Tale a week and a half ago and it has been running through my head ever since. It stopped for a bit this morning and then I thought “Oh, that song stopped playing in my head... what was it called again?” and then it started up once more. It’s…

I was just listening to Marc Evan Jackson interview him on The Good Place: The Podcast. Most surprising revelation: He hated being a bartender and hitting on women as Sam Malone. More evidence of what a good actor he is.

Denn du bist was du isst ♫

Dammit, Walking On Broken Glass finally stopped running through my head and then I read this headline and now it’s back in full force. Thanks a lot, headline.

Now that I think about it, maybe it was a kind of revenge. He was a pretty unpleasant person. My step-grandmother didn’t seem like the kind of person who’d be petty like that, but I didn’t know her super well.

Well, I’m just going to be a total downer and talk about when my grandfather died. As he was lying in a hospital bed barely responsive, my step-grandmother had a radio playing just to give him something to listen to. She had it tuned to a classic rock station without thinking about how he’d always complained about rock…

Good episode. I’m glad for this reminder that the CIA has historically been awful. It seems like everyone on the left is in love with the intelligence community now that the president is pissed off at them.

Toads are Egyptians. Princess Peach is Cleopatra. Bowser is Julius Caesar. Mario is Marc Antony and Luigi is Octavian/Augustus. Soon, fratricide.

I wish we could focus on this instead of the ridiculous delusion that he’s a sleeper agent. I guess the actual news doesn’t get enough ratings; instead they have to distract us with fantasy that makes us unable to effectively oppose Trump’s second term, which will also be great for ratings.

♪ unfuck my peach ♫

That was cathartic. I used to watch all the late night comedy shows (especially The Daily Show, from whence all of this, including Michelle Wolf’s rise, sprung) but I, too, am getting tired of the whole thing. When mentions of Trump’s small hands started getting applause breaks, I wondered just what we were…

“I hope no-one is resting their hopes for 2020 or the midterms on the Trump-Russia relationship and the Mueller investigation.”

“he talks like Arnold Schwarzenegger”

I just watched Who Is America. I didn’t really like the NPR character because he seemed to be attacking liberals for the wrong things (but maybe I’d feel that way about the right-wing characters if I were conservative).

I finished watching Rick and Morty (at least, what there is of it so far) with my English friend. It’s a really good, really smart show. It makes a lot of sense that assholes are attracted to it, but I won’t hold that against it.

Why did they get in costume to go on the radio?

I’m referring to the joke construction where someone represents themselves as something, then reveals it’s something entirely different that has a similar name. “I went to Harvard... Harvard Driving School.”

Personally, I long ago got tired of jokes like “I was in the service - not military, but United Parcel.”

Laurie Metcalf’s nomination must be one of those things they do where they’re rewarding the actor but not the performance. She’s a great actor but her role as Jackie didn’t really give her much to work with.