Good morning hello hi how are you doing okay in this crazy world? Do you feel everything all at once, every emotion, love hope fear happiness dread helplessness rebellion empathy anger defiance and grace? Oh why am I asking? NO REASON. Is this a neurodivergence? The human condition? Maybe everyone I see staggering through life with dead eyes is going through the exact same thing maybe we’re all feeling too much.

Was watching a John Green vlogbrothers video to his brother Hank last night, who has Shingles, poor guy. Hank is under 50 I guess, and not conniving and genius like my wife who managed to get the Shingles vaccine while under 50. Wikipedia tells me he is 45. Cmon man give the shingles vaccine to everyone who wants it.

ANYWAY, the top comment on the video said:

Well okay. Man, now look. I have been profoundly, deeply afraid of dying since I became conscious of the idea of it. But maybe Youtube commenter @sanoraray just cured me of my fear of death. I mean yes, I have been pain-free in my life, through pharmacological means both legal and illicit, mmm… gonna say four? five times?

But not enough, not enough. And for such short amounts of time. And, alas, usually unconscious. Imagine being pain-free and conscious what a thrill that must be. Oh wait that might just be what being drunk is. Really drunk.

Got my stitches out yesterday in my left hand. Whole appointment was sixteen minutes. Painless. Now I am back on the scar tape trying to get scar/swelling/bruising down on my fat finger. Forgive the typos.

It has come to my attention that my current candidate for goto granola bar is from Clif’s — and this is a real thing — “Caffeinated Collection.” Come the hell on, man, I don’t need caffeine in my granola bar. ‘Twas pretty good otherwise, though I have not yet Googled Kagi’d Clif Bar Inc or whatever to see if they pass ethical muster, because of course they don’t, who does. Okay I Kagi’d it. Well shit. Mondelez. Wikipedia “Controversies” section a mile long. Man I am going to have to drive an extra ten minutes to the hippie store to get a fuckin Granola bar I can live with aren’t I.

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We are listening this morning to Anamanaguchi’s new soundtrack to Scott Pilgrim EX, whatever that is. I think it is that sequel cartoon? I watched one episode it was really good but then I thought “huh I should go re-watch Scott Pilgrim before this” because it was a direct sequel not a reboot or a spin-off. Seemed clever, though. Also Anamanaguchi’s been on a real run lately, if they ever weren’t on a run. Their last album was awesome. They came to Cat’s Cradle, I didn’t go, even though I bet it was a super fun show. Unlike most shows I don’t go to, however, I actually did not buy a ticket to that one, so that was smart of me.

Anamanaguchi makes me think of this girl I dated for a while in New York she was really into them, only time I saw them, some warehouse in, like, I don’t know. Hell’s Kitchen? That was a weird show weird crowd. Anyway would not be opposed to seeing them again these guys know how to make fun music.

I cannot for the life of me figure out this Kharg Island thing. So, like, the news and Herr Trump are going on about how Kharg island is somehow related to Iran’s ability to keep the Straits of Hormuz closed. But the island, which is Iran’s chief oil export facility, is way the hell up there in the armpit of the Persian Gulf, up (sorta) by Kuwait. It does not seem relevant to them being able to keep the Gulf constipated. But we are, I shit you not, currently sending a Marine battle group that way that seems to be planning on invading it? One senator said he didn’t think that invading islands counted as “boots on the ground.” Apparently he does not know about this photo:

NOT BOOTS, you woke loser:

So how does bombing (which we’ve already done) and invading (which, eh) Kharg island help open up the straight? All that seems to do is slow down Iran’s ability to export oil, which, I mean, I suppose a legitimate thing to do in a war, but also will definitely increase oil prices, piss of China, make Russia more money. Why is this…

I mean basically if someone else were president I would assume I’m missing something buuuuttttt… In this case? Who knows!

Kat lost, that is sad. Looks like it tightened up a bit since I checked in last night. Sad. She will go on to do great things, I hope and suspect. Though of course she’ll recon with the problem we all have: what the fuck can I even do? I am sorta jealous of people who live in districts with no or shitty congresspeople so they can “run” against them. Emma is horrified every time I talk about it but I think it would be fun to run for office against an absolute choad. Anyway, excellently run race, Kat, you inspired lots of people. And at least AIPAC still lost the race and the candidate who won seems to have decent politics, though someone did accuse him of having a consensual affair when she was an undergrad and he was a professor. Who knows. Too late to do anything about that now we need the seat, amirite?

Here is a picture of my new toy spaceship:

It is absolute bullshit that Disney is passing on the Buffy reboot what the fuck fuckin Disney if you are going to own every property ever and you’re not going to do anything with them, then let someone else do something? Jesus H. Buffy SMG said that it was apparently the decision of this single dude who never liked or got Buffy and,um, okay, maybe so but also maybe don’t turn down a pilot from Chloe fucking Zhao seems a little fucked to me to turn down the winner of the best Director Oscar? Only the second woman ever?

Speaking of which there is a new CEO of Disney today, so maybe we should all tell him to fix this. Of course if he does anything daddy Iger doesn’t like mean ole Bob will come back from the dead, AGAIN, and take over AGAIN, and oust his chosen successor AGAIN.

And as Emma points out this does not bode well for the other beloved property being developed as a pilot for a Disney network by an acclaimed Oscar-winning minority director, Ryan Coogler, who is rebooting The X-Files, which Disney also fucking owns now, which is such bullshit.

Also they seem to be passing on Nathan Fillion’s attempted Firefly reboot, though that was gonna be animated which makes me sad, but it was only gonna be animated because Disney sucks and isn’t giving Nathan Fillion all the money.

You could make a Film Studio from the unwanted dregs of Disney’s barrel that would rival the IP that Paramount fucking owns and sure, I mean, yes, they own Star Trek and all at Paramount — I am a dude that just posted a photo of his new toy Enterprise at 53 years old. But come on.

On top of Buffy, X-Files and Firefly, for abandoned IP at now-Disney, we have: 90210/Melrose/Models, Millennium, Sliders, Kindred the Embraced, Alien Nation, Dark Angel (!), Fantasy Island, The Orville (though I hear it might be coming back?), Wayward Pines, Minority Report, Dollhouse, Glee, Terminator, Johnny Zero, Prison Break, Bill and Ted (remix it with Sliders and have Bill and Ted’s kids travel through time fixing their parents’ mess), In Living Color, MadTV.

Jesus. What a network, right there.

Anyway I’ll be over here the rest of the day dreaming up a Kindred the Embraced reboot to get shitcanned. Fuck yeah 90’s vampires.

Jane is still brushing her teeth with her app, but giving Mommy some grief now. Not me. We are starting to wonder — well, I am — if Jane gives Emma grief at night because she wants big mean daddy to come up and help her do her teeth and drops because she just loves big mean daddy so much. That’s gotta be it, right? Right? She was a complete lunatic last night, got less sleep than me. Was borderline comatose on the way to dinner, had some lemonade and then freaked out the rest of the night. Was it the lemonade? Usually we water it way down but the server at the Mexican restaurant doesn’t do that. But it’s not like the girl doesn’t have sugar? I don’t know how to make this girl go to sleep earlier. Maybe it doesn’t matter. She.. seems fine this morning? But people tell me kids should sleep. It is all very disconcerting.

Maybe she’s up all night thinking of reboots of old Fox properties.

Morning drive-time mix for you this morning, though I admit I did edit it slightly and re-arrange things to have it flow a bit more. It made for a better playlist, honest. That Johnette Napolitano song is so good, her post Concrete Blonde stuff is so good, underrated. I was thinking how funny it would be if Nick Cave performed “The Nightwatchman” live sometime in the 21st century that would be a hoot. Also I like that we got Bobby Gentry and a Mercury Rev cover of Bobbie Gentry, that was nice. She’s still out there somewhere. Married to a car dealer in the south or something, last the world heard. Just bein’ a wife. Bobbie fuckin Gentry. Insane. On my list of people to travel for if she ever bothers to play a show oh my god can you imagine?

All right have a lovely day. I’m definitely going to whether I like it or not.