January Sweeps - Day 710

My cousin and I got together, and we're very near to the end of the "Seinfeld" series.  We went back to that show "Evil" and there was an absolutely delightful episode about a YouTube video that was driving teenaged girls insane* and the viral video portion was eerily accurate to the amusing, stupid, effed-up, nonsensical shite that kids watch today.

I ought to post more about it, but it gets harder and harder to do these posts two years in.

Then it was "Book of Boba Fett" time.  After a so-so first episode and an excellent second one, we were back to the mediocre.  The last show brought us an intimidating and wonderful-looking Wookiee bounty hunter . . . and this episode defeated him.  Big Anklevich compared him to Captain Phasma in FORCE AWAKENS, but he's probably closer to a certain helmeted guy introduced in EMPIRE and dispatched handily in JEDI.  At least there was only seven days of speculation about what he would do and how cool it would be to see a fight scene with hi.

Much worse, however, this episode introduced a "biker" gang from the streets of Mos Espa that all looked like cyborg CW actors who drove pristine, brightly-colored, floating Vespas . . . and it was garbage right out of the Canto Bight scene in LAST JEDI, only it made less sense because it was on the dusty, poverty-stricken, corrupt and dangerous backwoods hellhole desert planet of Tatooine.

It absolutely didn't work, like when you find out there's a monthly drag queen parade in the 900-person town of Froglick, Arkansas.**  And then, a couple of days later, I read an article online about how other fans were complaining about it, and that they really didn't understand "Star Wars" (and its influences).

But there's a reason they cut out the guy wearing bluejeans in "The Mandalorian," dude.

Now don't get me wrong, I love me some "Power Rangers."  Just as much, in fact.

Sit-ups Today: 100
Sit-ups In January: 1111 (cool number)

I actually got pretty into the story today.  It's gonna be long, and I will be proud of myself if I actually finish it.  Heck, I'll be proud of you too.  Proud of the world.

Push-ups Today: 100
Push-ups In January: 1092

One more thing: I realized that on the last day of January, it will have been two years of blogging every single day (and two years of writing every day too, just one day fewer because of Leap Year), and that that is the PERFECT time to stop.  Can you imagine, two years of doing something every day, with the Sword of Damocles hanging over you, and no will of your own?  I'll have to ask Marshal Latham about what that's like.

Words Today: 822
Words In January: 6962

*Turned out that there was an audio track hidden in the video on a frequency that only people under sixteen could hear, that was telling them to kill themselves.  Love it.

**And it's been going on since 1871.