I’m way too tired to think about blogging, but it cannot be helped… because an all new Bullet Sunday starts…now…
• Solo Funtime Gaming! If you’ve taken a look at my game collection at Board Game Geek, you’ll have seen that there’s only one game which gets a perfect 10 (“Outstanding. Always want to play and expect this will never change”)… and it’s called Puzzle Dungeon. It’s essentially a more fun version of Solitaire. I originally had it as a “print-and-play” game, where you pay for a file that you can print out and play with. I fell in love with it immediately. Until my cards were lost and I couldn’t find the file to reprint them. I tried to buy a printed set but, wisely, there were none available on eBay because people don’t want to part with them. Except I recently found out that the designer, Brian Garber, has reprinted the game and is selling it on his Etsy shop…
And, let me tell you, I snapped up the Deluxe Box, the Expansion Set, and the Play Mat SO fast. I haven’t played in years, and October 19th (the ship date) can’t come soon enough. I really hope that his Puzzle Dungeon: Pets expansion gets printed one day. And that his other game, To The Death eventually gets reprinted, because I’d love to play that.
• Not Helping! One of the most classic of the classic BritComs is That Mitchell and Webb Look. There’s been a hit of controversy over this 20-year-old show lately because the BBC cut out some sketches which were deemed “insensitive to modern audiences” or something like that. But the situation is a bit more complicated than that. One of the sketches was cut because Mitchell and Webb were in blackface. But the sketch was pointing out that the white people were able to overlook that the blackface was racist until the situation escalated, and it was the escalation which convinced them to stop and not the actual blackface. The ignorance is the entire point of the sketch. So maybe it’s not that modern audiences are “sensitive” to it… it’s more likely that modern audiences wouldn’t understand it. I don’t know. Since I’m white, it’s really not my place to say whether it’s racist, so I trust that the BBC looked into it by consulting those who can make that call. But in any event, Mitchell and Webb have been back for a few months with a new YouTube series called Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping. I’ve been enjoying it…
I hope they keep going with the series, because their humor has had more than a few bits that were highly insightful and relevant even today, with this being their most famous…
Though there’s talk that the BBC wanted to cut that sketch as well, so maybe I’m completely out of the loop? I wonder if this one was considered…
AND THEN… the state of inoffensive comedy gets a comment…
A new classic.
• Perfect! Verbi can be brutal. But always hilarious…
I’ve used Verbi to try and expand my vocabulary, and the app is never completely happy with your performance.
• Cash! A dollar is a dollar…
LOL. As insane as it sounds, I’m sure there are plenty of people wearing a band shirt who can’t name any of their songs.
• The Mighty Thor! For the longest time, I’d see a guy named “Thoren Bradley” pop up on my social media. His entire deal was grabbing an axe and splitting big chunks of wood. And a lot of women shared his posts, which is why he was everywhere. But I never thought to follow him until he started sharing his thoughts on anything and everything. And it turns out he’s a very smart thinker who can enunciate his takes on things very well indeed. Which really seems to piss off the “alpha male” contingent…
@bradley.thor Replying to @jimmynorris1971 ♬ original sound – Thoren Bradley
Whatever his sexuality may be, he’s never going to stop having female fans, that’s for sure…
@bradley.thor
And about that…
• Feeeemales! It’s fucking incredible that this country is content to treat half the population as nothing more than birthing machines, undeserving of proper care when something goes terribly wrong…
This country hates women. Hates them.
• SERIOUSLY HATES THEM! A 20-year-old Cornell student says she was pressured into snorting ketamine at the Chi Phi house in Ithaca on the night of October 19, 2024. At 1:42am, according to her lawsuit, a fraternity member posted two words in the frat’s Snapchat group chat, Chi Phi Actives: “Free pussy.” The complaint says Johnathan Newell sent it. More men came upstairs after that. She says the assault went on until about 5:45 in the morning. More than four hours. These seven men are named in the lawsuit:
• Matthew Ingalls
• Johnathan Newell
• Winston Lee
• Gillio Lopes
• Diego Sarabia
• Scott Norris
• Scott Kretzschmar
She reported it to campus police on November 8, 2024. The fraternity was suspended, and so were those seven men, temporarily. Then, according to the lawsuit, Cornell offered them a way to “mitigate” what they’d done. Write an essay… yes, an essay. Those named deny any wrongdoing. This information was taken from a Facebook post, but reported in The Cornell Daily Sun.
And, on that entirely depressing note, I’m off to prepare for the busy week ahead.
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Back when I was trying my best to care for my ailing mother, my anxiety was at the highest it had ever been. In an attempt to try and manage it without medication, I bought a weighted blanket. Which was advertised as a help to anxiety (among other things), but was completely useless when it came to me. So I packed it away in my closet and didn’t give it another thought.
My favorite hot dog is a Chicago-style hot dog made vegetarian. It’s a plant-based dog on a poppy seed bun with yellow mustard, diced onions, neon relish, a dill pickle spear, tomato slices, pickled sport peppers, and topped with celery salt. A phenomenal culinary experience.
I was doom-scrolling YouTube videos last night, trying to escape from this sick, sad world.
I read a story from 2019 today that kinda hit different.
It’s gotten to the point where I must disconnect from the world for at least one waking hour each day. It’s just too much. The level of cruelty, ignorance, violence, and stupid that’s inundating all aspects of our lives day after day after day is simply not mentally sustainable.
When I was in high school, there was a pizza joint in town which had some of the best pizza I’ve ever had. The secret was in the sauce. It wasn’t just bland tomato sauce. It wasn’t loaded with Italian spices in a failed attempt to make it interesting. It had a unique flavor which straddled the line perfectly and also had this kinda wine note which wasn’t interfering, it was just there in the background keeping things delicious.
The cats are unhappy about the changing weather. No more lazy nights out in the catio because it’s starting to get chilly out there at night.
I woke up this morning to piles of the most stupid levels of willful ignorance I have ever encountered.
