Same with Futurama. Season 4 specifically is insanely good. Roswell, Two Santas, and then Buggalo, Pharaoh, Godfellas, Future Stock, A Leela of Her Own, and 30% Iron Chef back to back to back to back. Might be the best consecutive 5 episodes of any animated TV show ever.

It's pretty widely accepted that seasons 3 to 10 or so are the show's peak. I will say they still strike occasional gold but man those seasons 3-10...

I'm using Amazon for now until I find something better. Currently my 256 page novel is $13 for a paperback and $20 for hardcover, which seems like a lot until you go to Walmart and see how much THEY'RE charging. Part of me really wishes I was alive for the era of the Penny Dreadful.

(Also Colorado Springs has such a small town feel sometimes but I moved here from Kansas City, the 38th largest city in the US. Maybe it's just because I don't live downtown anymore like I did in KC for the past... 14 or 15 years?)

I've had two random people online go "holy crap you're THE Hazel E. Baumgartner? I read your book!" And both times it made my day. I hope it happens more and more often going forward.

I mean I definitely agree with Shaun of the Dead. It probably makes my top 10 too.

I always say the end of the world? No, the world will go on spinning for another 5 billion years until the sun swallows it up. What you should be worried about is the end of *humanity*. That's a coin flip in this century.

I mean, we could follow France's example a little further than that...

As a former Texan, by all counts Texas should be a swing state and the current regime is spending a LOT of money to keep that from happening. If Texas were the firm red state people think it is, the stupid illegal redistricting would be a non-issue.

Afaik the majority of fentanyl is manufactured in Oklahoma and Pennsylvania by big pharmaceutical companies that paid a lot of money to help Trump steal the 2024 election.

Truly, fuck cancer.

Desi Lydic said it's his "I hope nobody notices this is a women's jacket" face

Still reading:
"Small Gods" by Sir Terry Pratchett (he's my comfort author and we need as much comfort as we can get these days dammit)

DNF:
"Sitka" by Louis L'Amour because I lost my paperback

"Reaper Man" by STP
"Witches Abroad" by STP
"The Woods" by Hazel E. Baumgartner (I read back thru it so it counts)
"Mongrels" by Stephen Graham Jones
"Don't Get Blood In My House" by @matthewkingauthor.bsky.social
"My Heart Is A Chainsaw" by SGJ
"Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury

Read list so far this year (it's a lot of Pratchett, don't judge me):
"Mort" by Sir Terry Pratchett (started in '24)
"Sourcery" by STP
"Wyrd Sisters" by STP
"Pyramids" by STP
"Guards! Guards!" by STP
"Eric" by STP
"The Only Good Indians" by @sgj.bsky.social
"Moving Pictures" by STP

'Cause I don't *love* giving Lex Luthor money...