Browncoat

What is that?

This whole season was underwhelming. I thought it was scattered, aimless, and disjointed, but it also seemed really short. There were bright spots here and there, and I'm glad Tai saved the day in the end, but overall, it was lacking.

And follow through by escorting offenders to the exit.

I love Dev Patel, but I think he would have been terrible as Khan.

That would help. And if your eggs aren't fresh fresh, they'll peel easier, too.

And before it was TWoP, it was Mighty Big TV, which started as... um... something about Dawson's Creek, I think? Also a former TWoPPer here. In other, unrelated chit-chat, I got a text message in the middle of the night with an access code for my TikTok account. I don't have a TikTok account.

I was at a concert a few years back, and saw a woman with "Blessed" tattooed across the side of her forehead. It ran from about her temple to near the middle of her forehead, and was in a cursive-like script.

I recently watched Theater Camp. It was awesome. Of course, I may be a bit biased, having been involved in community theater, and having gone to a week-long theater camp back in the day. It's a little bit Waiting For Guffman mixed with a dash of Meatballs, but there's a fair amount of originality, too.

Because he was trying to make something of himself. He said so. And it's possible that they'll spend time both places -- winters in Alabama are warmer than winters in New York. I can't believe I'm defending the movie. It's so problematic!

I second this method. Perfect hard boiled eggs every time.

I had no idea! That does make it so much better.

Awww. 99 was a good run, but it still makes me sad.

It was a good hour drive for us to eat at pretty much any restaurant. We didn't even get McDonald's until I was about 16. I think we got Pizza Hut when I was around 12 or 13 -- and we got a Pizza Inn, too!. There was one fancy restaurant, but most people cooked. It's less bad now, but people still will drive an hour for a good sit-down meal. I had to go to college to find my people. and I made sure to choose one that was far away, and that no one from my high school considered.

Eh, I suspect everyone knew anyway. Secrets like that aren't truly secrets in a small town. I grew up in a small Southern town (in the 70s and 80s!) with a handful or so of gay kids, and we "knew" even though we didn't know. We didn't care. As one of the other characters said, "Are you still the same Bobby Ray from yesterday? Alright then." On the other hand, if they hadn't grown up with Bobby Ray, it would be a whole different story altogether. It's different when it's one of your own.

I hate It's a Wonderful Life.

It could be, but when I drilled down deeper on their website, they indicated no samples from those groups.

Exactly. That little picture of a stick figure in a skirt isn't going to keep someone out if they really want to go in.

Some of my known (through marriage records) ancestry didn't show up in my Ancestry sample because of the lack of data from those groups.

Probably cicadas -- the annual kind.

I know a woman who got married because she was of a certain age, and believed that that was what you did when you were of a certain age. The person she married was not a great option, but he just happened to be who she was dating at the time. We couldn't talk her out of it, even though she knew he was not a great option. They're divorced now, partly because he was directly responsible for the death of one of her dogs (he frightened the dog for a laugh, the dog then crashed through the screen door out of the house and into the street, where it was hit by a car). All that to say that people get married for a lot of reasons, and sometimes, to paraphrase Tina Turner, love doesn't have anything to do with it.

I can't decide if the time taxi was fine or if it should have been a DeLorean.

That's how I understood it.

I will always miss the original Ewok song, though.

I never rode a bus to school -- it was always carpools or riding with my parents who worked at my high school. First grade, I walked home, since the school was a couple of blocks away, but then they built a new school, so I rode the bus home until I got high-school aged. The high school was close enough to our house that there were no buses (if you lived within a certain radius of the school, buses were not an option), so I walked home throughout high school.

Thanks a lot. Now it's in mine, too.