In my last post, I mentioned that I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I do, however, set goals. Do I meet those goals? No, but that doesn’t mean I don’t make progress. And that’s another reason I set goals rather than make resolutions. The latter are basically pass/fail. You either do them or you don’t… Continue Reading
I’ve been musing about the end of the year and the beginning of the next. In the last post I wrote about it, I was just more musing about life and movies. Now, as I’m writing this, it’s the actual first of the new year. There has been snow, which makes my cold heart happy.… Continue Reading
Up to this point, I have been talking about the contents of the movie and the themes therein. For this post, I want to do something a bit different. I want to get a bit meta. The Daniels basically throw everything they want in their project and then winnow it down a bit afterwards. They… Continue Reading
We are rolling along to the end of 2023. This was my second bonus year, which means the end of my terrible twos. I’m going to be three, which means it’s time to pull myself up by my bootstraps. No more lolling around for me! I have an idea floating in my brain about pop… Continue Reading
Yesterday, I had my first post on Everything Everywhere All At Once–which I finally saw on Christmas night. In the last post, I mentioned that I did not like movies in general. Plus, Amazon makes it so fucking hard to rent a movie that I pushed it off for months. But. I made a commitment… Continue Reading
I hate movies. I have accepted this as true. I had a substitute teacher when I was in grad school who was stunned when I said this to her. I didn’t realize it was a controversial statement. She sputtered how it was like saying you didn’t like sandwiches. She said it as if that was… Continue Reading
It’s Christmas Day as I’m writing this. Night, really. It’s 5:45 p.m. I ‘m not doing much of anything, but I got two wonderful prezzies. A minifig of Vyke from Elden Ring from Ian and a worry (crystal) stone from Kathleen. The latter fits perfectly in my hand and feels really good. It has a… Continue Reading
More on Christmas. Here was yesterday’s post, and I’m going to continue my musing. I have hated Christmas and I have been studiedly indifferent to Christmas, but now, I’m feeling warmly about the holiday time. Not Christmas itself, but community. Atnd being alive. As I said in the last post, it’s been a long road… Continue Reading
As I am writing this, it ‘s the eve before the eve before Christmas. In other words, it’s December 23rd. We had our last Taiji class of the year at noon, and my teacher was the only one who showed up in person. There were six of us Zooming in, which was strange. It’s usually… Continue Reading
All right. This is (probably) going to be my last post on games for this year. Maybe. I will say that my Christmas game (the one I ‘m hoping to play over the holidays) is Sea of Stars (Sabotage Studios). I have it downloaded on Game Pass, and I have heard such good things about… Continue Reading