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We finished Stranger Things season 2 in 2017.  Super fans were created.

I've been reading my calendar, which tells me it is now 2018. 

time for a new 2018 thread to document the apocalypse.

I fell asleep and missed the Yoda scene, which everyone is telling me was unbelievably awesome.  

Otherwise, I thought the movie was fine.  It dragged during the middle third (thus my somnolence) but I thought it ended well.  I have a MAD CRUSH on Rey, so that helps a lot. 

I started shopping for Christmas gifts today.  One down, 18 bazillion to go!

Whoooah, we're half-way there-er.

WHOOOA-OH! LIVIN' ON A PRAY-ER!!!

TAKE MY HANDS AND WE'LL MAKE IT I SWEAR-ER!

WHOOOA-OH! LIVIN' ON A PRAY-ER!!!!!!!!

Trumps tweets tomorrow should be interesting.

I can't wait.  He clearly wasn't the author of this one:  https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/940795587733151744

Frankin to resign "in the coming weeks" -- sounds like he's waiting for Moore to win and then will try to leverage his departure as a means to get Moore ousted.

Sad to see him go, but the right thing to do.

Was listening to the Slicing up Eyeballs mix over lunch today and it's definitely worth checking out. Enough variants of traditional songs to get you in the mood, enough quirky originals to keep you guessing.

When it was one or two incidents, I was a lot more willing to give him a pass given that he admitted to it and apologized. But now that the claims keep coming, his future as a politician is toast. Which is unfortunate, because he was just starting to move into more of a national party leader.

I just wish there was 1/10th of this pressure being put on Trump to also resign due to his past.

Slicing Up Eyeballs' Christmas Megamix:

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2017/12/04/alternative-christmas-mix/

Jealous!

The tax deal is terrible but pretty much what I would expect from any GOP administration when they have both houses of congress. If it passes then it's incumbent upon all of us to speak out as loudly as those anti-Obamacare people have done.

As for the Flynn Russia thing, I'm cautiously optimistic that this is step 2 of 100(0) as the net tightens around Trump.

Just realized I didn't get many new albums in 2017, but my faves were:

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound

Bash & Pop - Anything Could Happen

The Replacements - For Sale, Live at Maxwell's (1986)

Deer Tick - Vol1 / Vol2

Very sad. I only learned about him when he played with Westerberg in the 90s, but in discovering his solo catalog I could hear his talent. Way too young.

My new oven cooked an 18lb turkey in 90 mins and it was freaking PERFECT!

And oh yeah, thankful we're all healthy and yadda-yadda.

Nonetheless, I think Franken should resign.  Admit to wrong doing, and let everyone know that this is unacceptable behavior and not fitting of someone who holds public office.  It would suck and we would lose a pretty good senator, but it has to be done.  Show the American people that Democrats stand for something and are the honest politicians this country needs.  Then the moral equivalency and whataboutism (on this issue) will be cut off at the knees.

 

After Franken resigns the Governor of MN should appoint Keith Ellison, a Somali-American Muslim to his seat. 

Very interesting idea.  I like it on many levels.

Not as icky as Louie's but still disappointing... but like CK, at least he admitted to it and has apologized.

Today my company went public.

Sendgrid?

Perfect timing.  Johnstown, PA is where many of my relatives live (and the cousin who I mentioned debating above is from).  This article is 100% correct based on what I see.  https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/08/donald-trump-johnstown-pennsylvania-supporters-215800

A friend of mine had to get his hip replaced in his early 40's -- had an old tennis injury that kept getting worse.  He was at the point where he was barely able to walk before he went in for surgery. 

Post-surgery, it's like he's an entirely new person.  Works out all the time, super active, goes on a lot of vacations, seems to be loving life. (also divorced his wife and is dating someone 10-15 yrs younger than him now... coincidence? lol)

Just finished the 2nd season of Stranger Things. Now we have Black Mirror on the horizon.

We just started season 1. Got the kids into it, too. The first episode definitely has us hooked!

and this is exactly why nothing will ever be done about gun control, ever.  Those who fetishize guns will never see them as the problem and always point to something else.  And by pointing to something else, all they are doing is just taking the focus off of the guns.  Your cousin, the President, Congress, will offer no solution they just want to deflect from the real problem.  

 

I would ask you cousin, to see if since he does not see guns as the problem, what his solutions are and if he plans to vote for people who have those solutions.  

fuck it.  I engaged.  Yee haw.

My idiot cousin (who I love) just posted another insipid "it's not the guns, the problem is evil in society" article with examples of some knife attacks in China as evidence and I'm doing everything I can to bite my tongue and resist firing off a salvo that will do nothing but piss everyone off. These fucking guns...

Hey it is too early to talk about this.  So is it time to talk about Las Vegas?

No, it's time to move on and heal from that one.  And don't forget to   about it, too.  That'll make everything better.