Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Yes, those MAGA/March for life kids were acting like shitheads and were probably waaaaay out of line. Yes, the Native elder and his group were probably not totally blameless in escalating the situation. Yes, it's probably wrong for an internet mob to jump to conclusions based on incomplete information. All of those things can be true at the same time. I hope everyone's learned something. Of course...they probably haven't because people are the worst.



Saturday, January 12, 2019

I remember being 10 or 11 and was playing ice hockey at a local rink. I was never on a team or in a league or anything, I think it was just group of other kids that happened to ask me to play because I was there and they needed another person. I was not a very good skater at all, but I somehow managed to score a goal against these other kids that were obviously good skaters and definitely knew how play hockey better than me (who was not very athletic). It was a very proud moment for me, but in the process of scoring the goal I had fallen on my back onto the ice. For anyone else this wouldn't have been a big deal. They'd have just gotten back up off their ass and high-fived their teammates. Not being a good skater I couldn't get back up on my own. I kept reaching out to the other kids to give me hand getting up, but they just kept high fiving me. Luckily to ease the embarrassment in my moment of victory my mother called out to me that it was time to go so I scooted over to the side boards, pulled myself up and shuffled off the ice. The lesson here is that just because someone succeeds doesn't mean they have their shit totally together.

Wednesday, January 02, 2019

Favorite Albums of 2018 in no Particular Order

  • SaintSeneca - Pillar of Na
  • Kurt Vile - Bottle it in
  • Foxwarren - Foxwarren
  • MGMT - Little Dark Age
  • Dodos - Certainty Waves
  • Gorillaz - The Now Now
  • Killiam Shakespeare - A Town Called Elsewhere
  • Ought - Room Inside the World
  • Soft Kill - Savior
  • Still Corners - Slow Air
  • Wild Nothing - Indigo
  • Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, the Faster it Runs
  • Interpol - Marauder
  • Broncho - Bad Behavior
  • Twin Peaks - Sweet 17 Singles
  • Nothing - Dance on the Blacktop

Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Movies Seen for the First Time in 2018 (Out of 4 Stars)


1. John Wick: Chapter 2 (***)
2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (****)
3. Black Panther (****)
4. Hail Caesar (***)
5. Annihilation (****)
6. The Shape of Water (****)
7. Murder on the Orient Express (***)
8. Lucky (***)
9. Grand Budapest Hotel (***)
10. Coco (***)
11. The Florida Project (***)
12. Ghostbusters (2016) (***)
13. Avengers: Infinity War (***½)
14. Miss Congeniality (***)
15. Deadpool 2 (***½)
16. Inherent Vice (****)
17.Phantom Thread (****)
18. Solo: A Star Wars Story (**½)
19. Pacific Rim: Uprising (***)
20. Last Flag Flying (***)
21. Thief (****)
22. Logan Lucky (**)
23. Sicario: Day of the Soldado (***½)
24. The Commuter (***)
25. The Station Agent (****)
26. Ant Man and the Wasp (***½)
27. All the Money in the World (****)
28. The Incredibles 2 (****)
29. Final Portrait (****)
30. Mission Impossible: Fallout (****)
31.First Reformed (****)
32. Valerian (****)
33. Smokey and the Bandit (***)
34. A Simple Favor (***½)
35. Tully (****)
36. Colette (****)
37. Moana (**)
38. Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot (****)
39. Beautiful Boy (***½)
40. Black Klansman (****)
41. Silence (***)
42. Sorry to Bother You (**)
43. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (***)
44. Crimes of Grindlewald (**½)
45. The Green Book (****)
46. Being There (****)
47. The Intouchables (****)
48. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (***)
49. Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (****)
50. Peppermint (**)
51. Welcome to Marwen (***)
52. Death of Superman (***)