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My daughter has gotten into horror and I find myself explaining to her, to the horror (ha ha) of my internal 80's horror kid, that Friday the 13th is really not a good series. I think the 4th and 6th are the best but aside from those, oof is it rough. We already experienced the 80s horror movie law of diminishing returns when she was so disappointed with Elm Street 4 and I was like, "yep, this is what they did back then. Keep making worse sequels until the franchise dies." YES! So glad you liked it. For my local AMC, we just plan to get there the time it says the movie starts. Because now that's when the trailers start. If you don't much care for trailers, you can seriously get there 20 minutes after the posted showtime and have 5 minutes to spare. AMC absolutely has one PREMIUM~! commercial right now, and has been for quite a while, between trailers and Nicole Kidman looking like AI art Nicole Kidman telling us how heartbreak feels good in a place like this. It's been a spot for Coke since I've been going to my local AMC.

This week's Hey! (ew), with Josh Alexander, was really good.

My reviews can't touch Dean's. I'm more like "it tasted good" or "it was not good" or "it was okay." Then again, which of us could hold a candle to the great one? At the same time, at least I'm not going on about "mouthfeel" or "lacing" or telling you what kind of glass I decanted my swill from like some Beeradvocate douchebag. Beers of the last two weeks: Dogfish Head Summer Doppio Imperial Pilsner: really tasty Pils but I wouldn't consider it "imperial" at only 7%. To me, imperial is like 8 or higher, the kind of thing I'll look at and say, "I plan on drinking 4 beers while grilling dinner on Saturday, so this is not the best idea." So 7% is a nice spot where it's strong but it won't knock you on your ass and ruin movie night with the family. Definitely recommended. Sierra Nevada Summerfest (shout out to Jeremy Piven!) Lager. I don't know what I was expecting. It's a lager. It was okay, a little malty but kind of bland. Better than a macro lager but that's not saying much. Maybe I'll pick up some limes and make the best of the handful I have left. Modela Negra: drank one at a Mexican restaurant, as one does. "Large" size on tap, served in a chilled mug with a big ol' slice of lime. Really nothing better with a nice plate of Mexican food in a shopping center. I could hear the "Ecstasy of Gold" playing as a narrator described how I am a "fighter" at life. Strongly recommend, but only under these exact circumstances.

1) There are those trailers you feel like you’ve seen forever, until you’re just like “when is this shitty film finally coming out?” How to Train Your Dragon is that for me. I swear I’ve seen the trailer before every kid’s movie for a year. 2) These studios can just rotate animated —> live action & CG remake —> back to the animated —-> repeat forever and just print money. The greed and cynicism is actually impressive.

I somehow found Moon Knight to be worse than Secret Invasion. I think it’s because Moon Knight felt like a bait and switch. All the promo stuff looked badass. Look at the main screen promo art right now of Moon Knight looking menacing, pulling on that glove, shit’s about to go down. Then we got Poe from Star Wars doing a cringeworthy, OTT, borderline shameful portrayal of mental illness I guess, and he’s only badass Moon Knight once in a while. It’s like Ang Lee’s Hulk, a tone deaf joyless misfire that misunderstood the assignment and only reached comic book joy in brief spots. But hey, it had a talking hippo, so all the OMG SO RANDOM LOL folks gave it a pass.

You waited so long to see Pulp Fiction that $5 is now a decent price for a milkshake. (It’ll make sense later)

Massive lol for “Nelling it up.” Thanks for that!

First sign your pet has dementia: is a cat (the joke is cats are dumb and also insane, no offense intended to anyone...I have two dumbass cats)

Congrats and best of luck to both you guys!

So a company could arbitrarily split itself into smaller companies, saddle one company with all the original entity’s debt, and then let it die on the vine to dodge creditors? 1) allowing business to write laws via “lobbying” really fucked this country and 2) I need to incorporate myself.

Martel’s size was my takeaway from that, too! It’s funny how massive dudes in the 80s like Hogan, Road Warriors, etc ruined our perception of size to the point where Martel wasn’t considered a big man. He looks like Lesnar in that video!

I just switched to half an edible twice per day until the alcohol cravings subsided. . Drinking less actually made me want liquor less when I do have it. Now, just drinking on Saturdays (cheat day), I drink less on that day than I used to.

Is that supposed to be Reverend Kane and Carol-Ann? Loooooooooool amazing

Johnny Depp as a world weary veteran boxer is ridiculous. The best critique of Christian Slater I ever read was, “when we first saw him, we thought we’d found this generation’s Jack Nicholson. Then we realized he was just impersonating Jack Nicholson 24/7.”

As of this past weekend, I’m finally below my initial goal weight, 76ish pounds down from two years ago. I feel like I probably have 10-20 to go, we’ll see. The biggest difference maker for the last 15-20 pounds was cutting out alcohol. I was convinced hard liquor and diet soda drinks were fine since they had no macros. Turns out hard liquor actually has calories anyway! So I was at or under my food calorie goal every day, but then drinking like 600-1000 calories. So now I only drink on Saturdays. Anyway, thanks for letting my skinnier ass brag here.

I just hope this moves all the Discovery+ reality shit off HBO, as I hate scrolling through all that trash trying to see if there are any new movies or shows.

As a Baltimore transplant to suburban DC, it weirded me out that people in this area use “DMV” to refer to the DC, MD, & VA area instead of that part of the eastern shore. So you have people in two states using the same term to describe two different geographic areas. Not confusing at all.

The book it was based on is a gimmicky fun read, too. Each chapter is a month because it started as a calendar but King just kept writing. And the Bernie Wrightson art is incredible.

Also, as @Curt McGirt alluded to, he was “raised” by a massive piece of shit and probably felt he had to always prove himself.

It’s pretty good right now (Friday, 8:30ish am Eastern) but it was too slow to use yesterday.

Don’t Sweat the Thekkla? I just can’t believe I went decades not understanding Licensed to Ill was meant to be tongue in cheek. For fuck’s sake, Rhymin’ & Stealin’ is a track about being a pirate! I chalk it up to the album coming out when I was 12 and not understanding nuance at that point.

Oh you know you’re taking that jpeg to Kinko’s and getting an actual yard sign made!

I was going to make an Andrew Martin joke... Anyway, I couldn't get the board to load at all earlier today. About an hour ago it was working pretty well. Now it's really slow.

This past weekend's beer was Hometown Crew Pilsner from the aforementioned local brewery Loan Oak Farm. It's a Czech style pilsner and I enjoyed it more than their west coast style IPA I had last week. Very flavorful and, as a guy who dislikes wheat beers, it went right up to my line for maltiness, but not over. Really good. Try it if you're in Maryland.

I usually turn off movies after that, too