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[Movie] Mary Poppins Returns

Dec

30

2018

Look, Mary Poppins Returns is a Mary Poppins movie, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to you if you just read the fucking title of it. There’s a sequence where Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) and Jack (Lin-Manuel Miranda) dance with a bunch of animated characters. There’s silly, surreal sequences involving bathtubs and balloons. There’s a ...

Arbitrary Grades for Chocolate Biscuits

Dec

24

2018

From the Cadbury Chocolate Biscuit Selection: Simply Shortcake: It’s a little bar of shortbread covered in milk chocolate, so it basically tastes of nothing but the milk chocolate. Look, I’m not going to tell you how to live your life, but I think shortbread is a biscuit that’s just not trying hard enough to be ...

Hole 1

Dec

24

2018

I think I’m going to make seeing a play while I’m in the UK for Christmas a habit. I did it last year when I saw Belleville at the Donmar, and I’ve made the effort in previous years when I was around in London. I don’t get to see a lot of plays, so it’s good ...

At Last, New Who

Dec

19

2018

Thanks to my friend Zalia, I have at last gotten to start watching season 11 of Doctor Who. This is the first time in YEARS I’ve been excited about watching new Doctor Who, and it’s entirely because of Jodie Whittaker. I had so many hopes that the Doctor being a woman would signal a pivot away from ...

Christmas 2018 Airplane Movies, part 1 1

Dec

18

2018

I love international flights because they give me a reason to sit in one place for long enough to watch multiple movies. On the way over to the UK, I only watched two new ones because I made the attempt to sleep. With as much sleep as I got (about an hour and a half), ...

Awards Eligibility 2018 2

Dec

18

2018

I just realized I ought to do this for the reference of anyone who might care, and in a much more permanent form than on Twitter. Because I did do a thread on Twitter, you see, but that hardly counts when I can’t even manage to find it myself. So, what the fuck did I ...

[Movie] Anna and the Apocalypse 2

Dec

16

2018

The pitch is: Shaun of the Dead meets High School Musical. In Scotland. If you’re like, “FUCK YEAH GIVE ME THAT IN THE FACE” then you’re going to like this movie. If a zombie musical with Christmas visual jokes sounds awful to you, I’m not going to try to change your mind. This movie absolutely is what it ...

[Movie] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Dec

16

2018

Hopefully by now, you’ve had at least one friend shriek at you on Twitter or Facebook about how fucking GOOD this movie is. If not, consider me that friend. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is fucking amazing. It’s definitely the best Spider-Man movie I’ve ever seen. It’s quite possibly the best animated movie I’ve ever seen. It’s ...

Saint-14 Lives

Dec

13

2018

I’m really fucking tired of dead Guardians in Destiny. This is an in-game trope that has basically haunted us since vanilla D1. Basically every time you get sent to address some kind of distress call, you can rest assured that on the other end of it, the guy you’re helping out is either already dead, ...

“Normal” 5

Dec

12

2018

On advice of the workers comp doctor, I’ve been going to the pool, to try to do some walking without my full weight on my foot. My rec center has a little lazy river thing, and I walked with the current of it today. It felt almost normal. Except as soon as I thought that, ...

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