Man, I watched this video and I really, really wanted to like it, because Weird Al is such a good-hearted, talented person, but it just got me anxious and a little depressed. No amount of goofy pitch-correcting can make me get over the fact that Trump couldn’t summon the smallest shred of decency and give a…

I’m going to watch Kamala Harris destroy Pence because I need some joy in my life, but after that, I think I refuse until 1) networks agree to cut the feed if anyone incites violence like Trump did last night and 2) they agree to cut the mics of the candidate who doesn’t have the floor.

I do enjoy a good black licorice, but it is one of those foods that you have to eat last unless you want everything else you eat after it to also taste like black licorice.

Fair enough. I didn’t mean to shame on that front. If I wasn’t clear enough, I’m referring to customers who tend to get agitated over mask mandates. They’ll usually start with some weak-ass mea culpa about forgetting their mask at home with a promise that they’ll remember next time and they just have a few things to…

Huh? No, it isn’t. Are you operating under the assumption that everyone has N95 masks?!? Cloth masks/disposable masks are meant to mitigate the spread to others, not to mitigate your chance of getting it...

The biggest problem with any customer-dependent business demanding that customers comply with the simplest CDC protocol is that staff don’t really have any power to enforce it. If a customer decides to walk into a grocery store without a mask*, the wage-slave employee has to take initiative and confront the offending…

In contrast to the Greatest Generation, I’m starting to think we’re the Weakest Generation. This maybe verges on “Old Man Yells at Cloud” territory, but, c’mon, people, you can’t sacrifice going out to a restaurant?!? Where did all that plucky can-do spirit from the early days of the pandemic go? There’s self-care and…

I am definitely do not live in a Democrat-majority place, but I have, at the very least, been happy to see a nearly-total compliance with the mask mandate...except for restaurants and social gatherings. You would think the cognitive dissonance—this is fun but, you know, very deadly—would be enough to put people off…

It was also an issue with Doctor Who, at times

The night watchman taps “No Whistling in Graveyard! This Means You!” sign menacingly...

Like usual with entertainment-press hype cycles, I imagine they wanted to gauge fan response.  

I learned much the same lesson ages with Marvel Unlimited ages ago. I had a Kindle Fire at the time that I had to sideload Marvel Unlimited onto because they just stopped supporting it. It was a slow and buggy stopgap solution; eventually, it stopped working on my Fire entirely.

This afternoon the curses pack for the 7th Continent will be delivered to my doorstep, yay. We haven’t finished an Offering to the Guardians yet but I think we’ll start with the next curses and maybe revisit it later.

The shit he did when he was young is genuinely awful, but that was a long time ago, unless there’s some more recent travesty that I am unaware of. There’s probably some restitution and good works he could be doing to make up for his asshole youth, but I’m not sure it warrants all this hand-wringing.

I have *some* hope that younger voters are shifting the Overton window to the left (though not all of them) and all the people still hanging out on the far-right will seem like “fossilized bigots”. But that’s a long-term solution...

There’s a quote from Roger Ebert’s review of Freddy Got Fingered that could easily be talking about these Trump-supporting idiots:

Stupid question: That $30 Mulan deal...that’s priced with the assumption that several people will be watching it (making it comparable/possibly more favorable to buying movie tickets for a bunch of people), right? Do they have a way to legally share a simultaneous viewing between people in different locations? I mean,…

I think now, along with virtually everyone else I know who is a Caucasian actor—when a character comes across my desk that has a distinctive national origin, I take a pass.

I presume they’re aiming to make Kang the new Thanos, a villain they can hang the next phase of their franchise on.  I’m not sure I’m crazy about that idea because it really seems...formulaic.  Then again, it is possible that I’m wrong.  Very possible.