@SKleefeld Thank you, Sean.
@SKleefeld Thanks, Sean, and congratulations to you too! It is definitely an experience of working through pain.
@korpil Thank you, Mario.
I haven't posted about this before, but my mother died on her birthday a couple weeks ago. I was fortunate enough to give her eulogy and think she would have loved it. I'm holding up OK, and I'm thankful for all the good she experienced in her life (and believe I was part of that good).
Completed my 7th marathon on Sunday, despite storms and flood warnings. My phone got soaked and I had to find a hotel that would call me a taxi to the airport. I'm really proud of what I've accomplished athletically, especially as a bookish writerly guy who had no parental influence for doing anything physical.
While I don't give a shit about the Oscars, One Battle after Another was deserving of its awards. P. T. Anderson is a master of the art of filmmaking, and even his weaker works usually leave me staggered by how well-composed his work is, just on a different level than even many strong directors. One Battle after Another is weird, at times surreal, and not perfect, but it's gripping, moving, and brilliantly acted. It's a character-based story that involves politics, not the other way around.
I learned to keep my disdain for Bohemian Rhapsody (the movie) private, because I got so much shit for it, only to find out that's now an acceptable opinion. Everyone agrees with me in time.
I'm proud of the fact that I have no idea who "Bad Bunny" is. I assume she's a Playboy Playmate.
I'm still in her corner over Kids Rocks.
The Expanse > Battlestar Galactica? BSG is more fun, when it works, and has whole episodes that are bangers from start to finish. But it's wildly inconsistent, and it starts and ends incoherently. Both shows focus on realistic politics, discrimination, and a dark look at human nature. There are obvious differences: mysticism, alien life, our future vs. unspecified. But I think The Expanse is the better show, even though I'm more of an episodic (or episodic with arcs) structure guy myself.
I don't hate myself enough to make it through an episode of Friends. I mean, seriously, consider the black hole at the heart of your soul and your artistic taste that you'd need to make it through an episode of Friends. It's impossible to imagine, even for science.
