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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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…
Leave a CommentLast 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,…
Leave a CommentThis 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.…
Leave a CommentRecently, 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…
Leave a CommentIt’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…
Leave a CommentIn 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…
Leave a CommentWhen 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…
Leave a CommentI’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…
1 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…
Leave a CommentIn the summer of 2004, I got my first and only tattoo. I was twenty-one years old, and excited about the new Punisher movie. The marketing…
Leave a CommentI have a problem. Sometimes, I’ll see an event like a comic con, a concert, or even a movie, and without thinking I’ll buy tickets. There…
Leave a CommentI’ve been all over the spectrum of living with less/minimalism my adult life. I started off with a huge burden of things and then I cut…
Leave a CommentWhen the television show Resident Alien debuted, I found myself adoring the small town of quirky characters. I spent some time seeking out other similar TV…
Leave a Comment(I’ve changed the name used in this post because the real name was unique and it was the respectable thing to do.) My grandmother was an…
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