Hey howdy everybody. Today, I will try to stay positive. My last few articles have been … well, kinda heavy. So I can almost promise this one will be just a bunch of brainless fluff that you will get nothing from except possibly, slightly entertained.
Let’s start with a joke: Why are gay men so mean? Because they are fucking assholes.
Horrible … just awful! But I literally laughed out loud when I heard it!
I do love a good one-liner or short joke. I think Dad jokes are great — the cringier the better. If the joke doesn’t get a solid eyeroll, then I have failed as a human being.
It always surprises me what other people think I will think is funny. People send me so much shit through social media. People I don’t actually know will send me memes, jokes or “funny” videos — all day, all night; it doesn’t matter.
Most of the time it’s no big deal, but every once in a while someone will send me something that makes me think, “WTF?! How messed up do they think I am that they would send me something that stupid or unfunny?!”
What vibe was I putting out that made that person think, “Oh, Cassie definitely needs to see this!”
My close friends know me, and, 99 percent of the time, I know exactly why they sent me a joke or meme. And it’s mostly because they are as fucked up as I am and have a dark, twisted sense of humor. When I die, I hope nobody ever sees the stupid shit we send each other. Delete everything.
Speaking of being mildly entertained, I just saw the movie Eddington with Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal. It was so very meh — great actors stuck in a mediocre story.
I will have to give it credit for showing how ridiculous people can be on both sides of an issue, though. Eddington takes place during the COVID pandemic: Maskers vs. anti-maskers. Pro-police vs. F the police.
It is two hours and 20 minutes of unlikeable characters that had me rooting for the closing credits.
I’ve said this before, but I don’t usually pick a movie to pieces. I mostly rate movies on how much I enjoyed watching them. I try not to overthink it.
I liked the new Jurassic Park movie. It was a fun ride. More of the same shit, but it was still enjoyable. I don’t let myself pick it apart to much, or I will talk myself into hating it.
Like, why the fuck was there another entire experimental lab on an entirely different island?
Why would any parent take their kid anywhere near that part of the world?
I don’t know, maybe don’t go anywhere near a place if there is even the smallest chance of your kid getting eaten?
(Spoiler alert: No kids got eaten. If Stephen King had written the script for the movie, the kids would have been eaten first.)
I really liked the new Superman movie. I loved that I didn’t have to sit through yet another version of his origin story. We never need to see that again, and that goes double for Spiderman and Batman.
I am really looking forward to the movie Weapons. I hope it is as good and as disturbing as I hope it will be. “Entertaining and disturbing” is my sweet spot.
I’ve been mildly entertained by a few television shows lately. The ending of Squid Games was okay; I didn’t love it. It is supposedly getting a spin-off, Squid Games: America.
Hopefully that fills the squid-sized hole in my psyche.
The Sandman on Netflix is so good. The Gilded Age on HBO Max is scratching my Downton Abby itch. Dexter: Resurrection is good so far. The original Dexter series had the worst series finale of all time, so I’m relieved that we are getting more of his stories.
Big Brother is my summer soap opera, and I have been sucked into their “real world,” but if they keep voting off the eye candy, I’m gonna stop watching … No, I won’t.
Then there is Foundation on Apple TV. It is so fucking good! What Game of Thrones did for fantasy, Foundation is doing for science fiction. The production values of this show are better than most big budget movies. The costumes, the special effects, the locations, the acting — all are perfection, in my opinion.
Random nerd trivia for those that watch the show: The guy that plays Brother Dusk was Ug the Bounty Hunter in the Critter movies from the ’80s and early ’90s.
I cannot do math, but my mind is full of random bullshit like that.
See, mildly entertained! Tolja.
Remember to always love more, bitch less and be fabulous! XOXO, Cassie Nova