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Thursday, October 31, 2019

Snow. On Halloween

A - it's Halloween. B - its snowing. Those two items don't usually go together, and in anticipation of the event local meteorologists have been obnoxiously giddy - which explains why meteorologists are rarely invited to parties

Sunday, October 27, 2019

Anniversary Date

Dan is taking me to the circus for our anniversary date! Excited!! - Lisa

Saturday, October 26, 2019

Halloween

Happy Halloween.  Let the trick n treats begin!

Hmph

Color me shocked: no less than 3 firefighters shopping for groceries rn. #DoWhatYouAreBestAtIGuess

Friday, October 25, 2019

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Happy 18th!

This little bald wonder of mine turns *18* today, and cliche or not it seems like only yesterday that I first laid eyes on her. If I had to do it all over again, the good and the bad, I'd turn to God and thank him for letting me experience it all again. We love you more than lips can tell YaYa/Grace/Gracie/Caillou Andromeda. Sto lot, and 143 forever.

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Eli

This Netflix movie was lame, dull, unimaginative, and about as scary as a kitten calendar.  If you havent seen it - dont.

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Proof. But not of what they think.

People always hold discoveries like this up to be sad "proof" of global warming. In fact, they are proof humans once freely lived in lands that, in modern centuries, have been snow and ice covered - and only now are those lands returning to that "norm." Thus proving the Earth's climate ebbs and flows and doesn't give one tinker's dam about Al Gore and dear young Greta.

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Homemade Rubber Stamps

Smiley's new past time is creating his own stamps. I played with some tonight. In the collection so far is two types of fish, a heart, broken heart, and his monogram.

Yup

Sorry whiners. The ref got it right

Monday, October 14, 2019

Joker

I finally saw Joker. It's grim and hopeless and full of emotional pain and my word it was good. Joaquin Phoenix is a spectacular Joker. If you want me to rank them, I still prefer Heath, but it's no landslide victory.  

I'm no conspiracy nut but I felt a lot of the dire warnings that preceded Joker's release stemmed from Marvel/Disney using its media clout to try and bury a DC masterpiece. 

I saw nothing in the film that encouraged or condoned violence. Arthur was a damaged man, mentally and physically, and an unreliable narrator. His actions are fruit of that poisoned tree, and SPOILER the mob he inspires uses his image as an excuse for mayhem, not inspiration. END SPOILER

I dont even buy the film as an example of class struggle. It wasn't rich vs poor. It was chaos vs order. The chaos of a pre-Guilanni Gotham/NYC where crime was accepted as the norm, where filth and grime were the decor of the day, where hope was absent. The Joker is that chaos; his future enemy, young Mr Wayne, is the balm of order and respect.

It's a great film, certainly better than anything the MCU has or will create. Go see it.

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Welcome to the Midwest!

Huh. I guess climate change pushed Oklahoma into the Midwest.  #NewsToMe #TheMediaIsInfallible  #EitherLearnGeographyorGetAnEditorEitherOr

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Sisters

Sisters❤️ “we look nothing alike” lol ok! - Lisa

New Specs

LuLu i got her first ever pair of glasses yesterday evening.

Monday, September 30, 2019

Ad Astra

I saw this movie Sunday night and I left the theater in awe. The Heart of Darkness set in a realistic space industry of the near future, it is visually stunning, intellectually engaging, and not without some horror and action along the way. And Brad Pitt's performance: WOW.