I had to postpone my trip to see “Iron Lung” with my grandson. We got another six inches of snow between yesterday and today and had to spend the day clearing it. And I really think the meteorological profession is retrogressing. A couple of days ago they said we would get a “dusting.” Some dusting! And unfortunately for me the wind was wild. I ended up with an ice beard and a frozen face. But it’s done and tomorrow morning we’ll see what cosmic horror lurks at the bottom of an ocean of human blood! I’ve read a bunch of reviews and what I’ve gleaned is that this is an homage to the video game of the same name and anyone who isn’t a fan of the game will find it a bit long (maybe quite a bit too long). But that’s okay. It will give me a chance to hang out with my grandson afterward and find out what he especially liked about it.
Basically, this movie is sort of the “Star Wars” of his generation. Because it’s for them. It’s a nerdy touchstone that they bond over. So, I want to show deference to their choice of insider totem. I want to get a sense of what they enjoy. Should be interesting.
Going through the news is becoming goofier every day. Apparently, Trump called the Obamas monkeys in some kind of video meme. I think CBS was angry that Trump hadn’t apologized. Well, calling Obama a monkey is kind of insensitive to monkeys. As far as I know monkeys treat all humans equally. Whereas the Obamas are anti-white racists, which I consider much worse than monkeys. They’re awful human beings. I hope Trump apologizes to monkeys for comparing them to the Obamas.
There was another article stating that Starlink has been shut off in Ukraine and now the Russians can’t control their drones. The article made it sound like the Russians were cut off because they didn’t have legitimate accounts with Starlink. So, does that mean that Putin was doing what most people’s young adult children do when they use their parents’ Netflix and Disney Plus accounts? The idea that this war in which hundreds of thousands of men have been killed is being run on pirated GPS usage just seems a bridge too far. Is this really what’s going on? What’s next? Will we find out that ChatGPT has been drafted by Putin and is running the battlefield strategy?
And of course, tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday. I guess it must be at least seven years since I’ve watched a Super Bowl. And honestly, I can’t imagine why I’ll ever bother watching it again. And that goes for all of professional sports. All the virtue signaling over race and homosexual identity have made all of it nauseating and I’d rather watch a test pattern than endure their nonsense. I did see that Anheuser-Bush has put together some commercial for the Super Bowl that involves a Clydesdale horse befriending a bald eagle. Well, the only thing I could think of was, “Which one is a stand-in for Dylan Mulvaney?” I don’t think horses and eagles are going to get Bud Light their customer base back. Enjoy your Sunday.
The last Super Bowl I saw was XL5, and that was because my Vermont National Guard unit was assisting security. I did get to watch urban Texans try to drive on ice. Very entertaining. At least the Winter Olympics are providing an alternative. Keep warm, keep dry, and PLEASE, keep the snow up THERE!
It seems like nothing can contain Old Man Winter this year. But as sore as my old bones are, it’s almost comforting to see that all that global warming blather was nonsense.
Addendum:
When you retired to the south to get away from the White Hell!
Kermit’s gonna hafta make up his mind which is harder: being green or being white.
Indeed that was a rather vigorous dusting from that storm. Here on the other side of Massachusetts (nearer the prototype of the Arkham Asylum and the Witch trials) we got almost 8″ (after nearly 2′ a couple weeks ago). That was a rather atypical snow storm, not really a classic Noreaster, nor moisture forced down from the Great Lakes and Champlain. It baffled the models which are very dependent on historical behavior. Some of the older retired meteorologists (Todd Gross I think) thought it could be a heftier dose of snow. So I spent part of Saturday digging things out… Read more »
Misery loves company. Also where I am the wind piled up the snow up against my side of a hill!
I haven’t watched broadcast TV since the day after the 2012 elections when Obummer was reelected and that includes sports. I catch stuff though on youtube and the like. We’re back into the 70’s here but this has been an a** kicker of a winter by local standards with those seemingly constant polar vortexes. You’ll laugh at my angst at the near constant weeks of lows around freezing and highs in the 40’s. We had a couple of in the 20’s and one in the teens. I’ve lived here since moving from Atlanta metro about 15 years ago and this… Read more »
As you say, it’s so far out of the ordinary that you’re outraged by the deviance from normal expectations. Whereas, as tired as I am of moving snow. I look at this as a return to the normal situation. We’re creatures of habit.
Trump liked a 2 min video that had the Obamas as monkeys in the last second. Likely due to poor editing on the part of the person who posted the video.
That translated into “Trump calls the Obamas monkeys!”
Meh. What do you expect from a media that claimed Musk fored off a Nazi salute.
Anything that angers the New York Times and CBS is music to my ears.
I unfortunately saw the halftime show last night; it was a disgrace to America, and it’s convinced me that Puerto Rico should be cut loose: https://theportlypolitico.com/2026/02/09/monday-morning-movie-review-superbowl-halftime-show/
Well Tyler. It sounds like giving it a pass was a good move on my part. Did Senor Bunny don a dress as he earlier claimed he would?
He just wore some kind of all-white outfit with gloves.