A Family of Killers

I’m a mishmash of thoughts today, and they might all be a bit jumbled, as more than anything, I feel overwhelmed by current events. I think one of the things I’m disappointed in most at the current point in American history is how gleefully so many Americans are jumping on the train to dehumanize people. Slap a label on someone (“Illegal immigrant”), and it suddenly seems a-okay by many for just about anything to happen…

If you’re not following BYU sports, you might not have heard of the current situation they’re in at the quarterback position. At the end of last year, everything looked peachy keen. Jake Retzlaff was doing great at quarterback and had another year of eligibility left. We were looking great for the next season. Then, a month or so ago, the news broke that Retzlaff was being sued for rape (but not criminally charged). Let me…

Ferris officially turned five years old yesterday, believe it or not. We celebrated by giving him a bone and a new crab chew toy. He was initially torn which he was more excited about, but ultimately decided the bone was the object that deserved the bulk of his attention. He saved the crab toy to bring up and chew during movie time to maximize the amount of noise and disturbance he could make. (Really, it’s…

I saw Disney+ had just put up a live recording of the West End production of Frozen, and I’m a huge sucker for live recordings of stage productions, so we watched it right away as a family. I wasn’t sure of what we would get. It wasn’t exactly up front that it was the actual West End production, so I was initially concerned this might just be something that was done at the theme parks….

Back on May 7th, I posted that I was trying to go to the gym regularly again. That day was my fourth time going, and I was celebrating having made it an entire week with the new goal of going three times a week. Well, it’s a month and a half later, and I thought it would be good to pop in and report how I’m doing. Great! I actually have continued to go three…

I watched the live action Snow White yesterday with the family, and I’m not entirely sure how I want to handle it. Look. I’ve got a goal not to write bad reviews about things. Life’s short enough that I don’t want to waste time telling people what not to watch (though there are some films that it might be considered a crime not to warn people away from, because . . . life is too…

After some frantic researching, Denisa, Tomas, and I went to Augusta on Saturday and bought a 2023 Honda Accord. As I noted last time I went through all of this, buying a car is far from a fun experience for me. Is it a fun experience for anyone? I guess maybe if you’ve just won the lottery or something, it would be a blast? I don’t know. For me, it presents a research question that’s…

Sometimes I forget that movies that I’m familiar with and are old news to me are very much new news to many other people. Today’s reminder? Shaolin Soccer. I was surprised to realize that it came out all the way back in 2001. It’s a Stephen Chow movie, which either means something to you or (more likely these days) doesn’t. Back in the early 2000s, he released a couple of comedy/martial arts movies that were…

Well, Friday didn’t quite go according to plan. Daniela got in an accident. It was big enough that the airbags deployed and EMTs came to the scene, but thankfully no one was injured. We did have Daniela taken to the hospital, as there was a bit of uncertainty about whether or not she blacked out. She had a CT scan and X-rays and they all came back clean, so that’s a huge relief. She woke…

Back when Chernobyl first aired on HBO in 2019, I was hooked right away. It’s a riveting historical look at what went wrong (and continued to go wrong) around the nuclear disaster, and it’s a must watch in my book. Yes, it’s got some language (and a whole lot of very grisly looks at what happens when humans get too much radiation), but it’s so well put together. I started watching it again last night,…