Today is the final day of WeblogPomo. For the past thirty-one days, myself along with seventy-one registered participants, and I’m sure quite a few who didn’t…
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Brandon’s Journal Posts
This time last year, I was eating clean, working out three-to-five times a week and was laser focused on being a healthier version of myself. Twelve…
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I’m an American and so I have a complex relationship with the sport the rest of the world calls football. Growing up in the 90’s, soccer…
Leave a CommentIt used to bother me that I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life, but I made peace with that sometime ago. Growing…
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I’m sick of subscriptions blah blah, we’ve all heard this rant before. So, I’ll skip the part you know, let’s just get to Spotify. I remember…
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Recently, we passed the five-year anniversary of Game of Thrones finale. There has been a lot of discussion over how it’s fallen out of the pop-culture…
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Last week, I watched Perfect Days, a German/Japanese film directed Wim Wenders and starring Koji Yakusho. The film takes place in Tokyo, Japan and follows Hirayama,…
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This will be my third post this month dealing with death, which is unusual for me. I don’t usually spend so much time discussing death, but…
1 CommentMy favorite part of visiting a video store was exploring the aisles. I had so many choices and they were all mine. The only marketing inside…
Leave a CommentWhen I started 2024, I was managing four websites: BrandonWrites/Brandon’s-Journal My main blog where I just write about stuff. Middle-Aged Fat Kids A pop-culture website Brandon’s…
Leave a CommentIn his week’s issue of stupid stuff I’m considering in some idiotic quest for perfectionism I keep thinking about changing email providers from Fastmail to Proton.…
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Recently, Steve has been discussing his relationship with his smart watch and it’s got me thinking about mine. I bought my Apple Watch SE about a…
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It’s the summer of 1999, I’m fifteen years old, and my father has just retired from the Navy. We left our home outside of Dallas, Texas…
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In the fall of 1996, my family moved to Cedar Hill, Texas, a small suburb outside of Dallas. My father’s military career had taken us from…
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When I was in the seventh grade, I had a strange interaction with my bus driver that has haunted me for the past twenty-five years. I…
Leave a CommentThere’s an old adage, “You are what you eat” and it’s pretty accurate. You eat junk and your body turns to junk. You eat clean, you…
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I’m not a fan of fantasy. I’ve never cared for Lord of the Rings or stories with magic. I think I struggle with it being a…
Leave a CommentA few days ago, Robert wrote a post called Why Write. I’ve actually tackled this subject a few times on blogs in the past, but I…
Leave a CommentDuring the pandemic, I wrote a post called Shame and Blogging (it will be posted beneath this post if you want to read it). I think…
Leave a CommentI’m not a fan of labels. I think the internet has skewed them for me, because everyone ends up listing off what they are and that…
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