Hurdles

I've been having computer problems again. Hard to log in and open my browser. Even opening the Private Browser clean of cookies was an ordeal. I thought I had a roof leak, but it appears to be a false alarm. However I do have an expensive car repair now. So much trouble lately.

Also I recently decided to upload my Private Life of Sherlock Holmes fic to AO3, so that it's all in one place. I'm gonna try and add more chapters. I was glad to see that other people have been writing fic for that movie too.

There's an upcoming scifi movie called Mickey 17, and the premise sounds eerily similar to the 2009 film Moon starring Sam Rockwell. The only difference seems to be that Mickey knowingly signed up to become an expendable series of clones, whereas Sam didn't discover he was a clone until later on. There may also be other differences in tone or plot, but we won't know until it opens in theaters. Moon felt very solitary and lonely, whereas Mickey 17 seems to be a comedy, with a larger group of characters in the space colony.

Blues

Stupid chilly weather keeps coming back despite one or two days of warmth. I'm so tired of it. Meanwhile deadly storms in other states make me wonder if FEMA's able to do anything now due to Musk's DOGE idiots gutting everything they can get their hands on.

Greg Abbott is in Washington lobbying for money for the border 'cause he wasted billions on Operation Lonestar. Now he wants to sell border land to the feds. Fuck him and all the GOP. Also, I saw that PBS closed their DEI office, and I was like Noooo!!!

As usual, Jasmine Crockett is our saving grace, showing that not all of Texas are GOP idiots. There's another national protest today at noon. Good luck to everbody who goes.

Also, I just read the story about Frances Thompson, a Black transwoman who bravely testified about her assault in a Memphis race massacre in 1866. This is the kind of American history that MAGA wants to suppress and erase with their anti-DEI crusade.

Getting By

Well it was hard, but I stopped shopping at Target due to them caving on DEI. I don't buy enough food to make a Costco membership worth it, but I went to the employee-owned Winco supermarket, and their prices aren't too bad. Every grocery store has the "egg shortage" notices though. I guess I can go to a different store for the clothing and home decor stuff that I used to get at Target too.

So what's there to say about Trump's insane ramblings about owning Gaza? And Netanyahu just lets him do it, not even trying to assert he wants that property too. These fucking racist dictators.

I tried to distract myself by seeing Love Hurts, but the movie wasn't as fun and camp as I thought it would be. Not as funny as One of Them Days, for instance, and they didn't use Marshawn Lynch for as much bonkers absurdity as I wanted. I liked the knife assassin who writes poetry, but the movie lingered a little too long on his awkward romance with Ashley from the realtor's office. And they had a silly cameo from one of the Property Brothers as a rival realtor. I mean, it was nice to see Sean Astin in this as Marvin's close friend and mentor, but I guess the action/fighting put a damper on some of the comedy. I read rumors that there's a Goonies sequel movie in the works, but I don't know if it will pan out at all.

Meanwhile, I found my boxset of the BBC Radio dramas of Sherlock Holmes, so I started listening to them again. They're much better than the annoying Sherlock & Co podcast in which Watson stammers and rambles so much, wasting valuable airtime on pointless filler scenes. I mean Watson is supposed to be an average guy, normal to contrast to Holmes, but why does this podcast think that means Watson is perpetually awkward and embarrassing himself? Stop making him the comic relief! If something happens that's only tangentially related to the case, then cut the damn scene and just narrate a summary of what's important. You are the narrator, John. Do your damn job!

Happy Black History Month

I thought someone had said that the White House wasn't going to celebrate Black History Month this year? But apparently there's an official proclamation on the whitehouse.gov website. Well, they're still choosing to "celebrate" by blaming DEI for the helicopter/plane crash, and making civil servants snitch on each other about DEI. Such racist assholes. I heard that there's some big protest planned on February 5th, but I'm not sure why they picked a Wednesday? I guess to avoid Superbowl weekend or something? I don't follow sports.

I didn't watch the Grammys, but congrats to Beyoncé for album of the year and country album of the year too.

Personally I have had a bad few days and really need my next paycheck for my bills. Replacing a broken crown blew out my budget this month. I haven't had a chance to do my tax return either, but I gotta get that refund too. I'm too exhausted to keep doomscrolling the news. 

I'm gonna try to see Love Hurts this weekend for some relief. There's just too many horror movies at the theaters year-round and you can't even avoid the trailers. I don't even see any romcoms out for Valentine's Day; apparently those all went to streaming. I might as well see the new Paddington movie that weekend I guess. I did finally see the first one on Peacock. I initially avoided that because the stupid trailer had the yucky bathroom scene, making me think it was going to be stupid and gross, not cutely English and twee. It's also a bit Wes Andersony with the dollhouse scenes. The beginning with the Darkest Peru documentary reminded me of the explorer in Up, though this guy is genuinely nice and doesn't care about collecting specimens.