Where I live, I’d feel a little more comfortable going to a movie. Audience sizes are limited and the seat reservation systems automatically put at least one seat between groups. If anyone around me were to defy regulations and take off their masks during the movie, at least they wouldn’t be breathing on me.

I’d guess that the set of people who want to crowd into a stadium overlaps significantly with the set of people who don’t take this whole “deadly pandemic” thing seriously.

At my high school, we definitely had bigger things to worry about than cliques. Over half the students were recent immigrants, mostly from countries it wasn’t safe to be in anymore, and a lot of them were dealing with PTSD on top of trying to adjust to a new country. Half the students I knew either worked to help…

I don’t know that I was seeing this guy long enough to count him as an ex, but he texted me to apologize for calling it off over the phone.

The first time I saw Heathers was in a mall with a couple of friends. None of us were technically old enough to see an R-rated movie without a parent or guardian, but the bored teenager at the window just took our money and waved us in. We throughly enjoyed the movie and walked out of there saying, “that was like…

I’m wearing my mask out until I hear local, state and national officials say it’s OK - and even then, I’m keeping it on until I see numbers that confirm we’ve reached herd immunity.

My workplace is just sorting to sort it out, but it sounds likely that people working out of the office will need to be - or at least be as strongly encouraged as legally possible to be - fully vaccinated.

They’re also trying to take into account how many people even feel ready to come back into the office. I’d go…

Good luck!

I hear you on the BMI. By every other measure I’m pretty damn healthy; it’s just that my body likes hanging out at a weight that puts me in an undesirable zone of a flawed metric.

My parents got their second doses this week. It’s SUCH a relief. They had to deal with some beaurocratic run-around to get their first shots, despite being in their 70s with conditions that put them at high risk. Fortunately, they’re tenacious - and as my dad pointed out, it’s not like he had much else to do but sit…

Yes. In the past few years, the Oscars folks have tried to make nominated movies cut way back on all that - though it’s a pretty weak measure when you take into account contenders’ overall marketing budgets. Still, they’ve made the appearance of trying.

The Globes haven’t, because why would they? It’s 87 people looking…

Lil BUB got me, too. I’m as cynical as they come, but BUB was such a force for goodness that even my shriveled little heart couldn’t help but love her. I allowed myself one celebrity cat obsession, and she was it.

Kurt Cobain hit me hard, too.

Those college football games have big TV deals, and they’re going to do what they need to do to keep the money coming in. They've decided that means pretending everything is fine, and if that means putting on a whole show for an empty stadium - well, at least it'll look like an actual game on TV. Ignore the empty…

It’s because the Golden Globes are decided by about 90 foreign correspondents whose top priority is celebrity access. Nominating Music gets them access to actors, a high-profile musician, and a teen influencer in one go.

They are okay with getting covid right up to the point someone close to them either dies or turns up with lifelong complications, because “survival” doesn’t equal “all better forever”.

Once it personally affects them, they’ll be wailing, “Why didn’t anyone tell me it was serious?” Within two weeks, they’ll be doing…

The key here is that he’s on record breaking a state law. I don’t have much faith in him being prosecuted federally - either he’ll pre-emptively pardon himself and his family across the board (while maintaining he’s done nothing wrong, and he’s just doing it because there are mean lying peopke out there, etc. etc.) or…

Mark it: Hawley is positioning himself to take Senate Republican leadership from McConnell. He doesn’t have any seniority yet, but he’ll get a lot of mileage out of this down the line if he can manage to get stay in office.

They’re probably thinking that any fines they’d get or payoffs they’d have to make would be a pittance compared to how much their clientele would be willing to spend to feel like they’re getting away with something, combined with a healthy dose of “The police must have something better to do check on little ol’ us.”…

It’s in theaters on 12/25. I can’t find a date for streaming, but I can make an educated guess of mid-late January.

(Showing my work: It’s a Focus movie. Focus is part of Universal, which has started putting movies on on-demand services about 2.5-3 weeks after the theatrical release.)