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I'm off until 2025 (which sounds good but is all of, what, 10 days?) but I'm part-time so of course I don't get paid, either. I'm not complaining, though. I did tell them I'd work if they needed me to, and I did my time working weekends and holidays when I first had this job.

UT just beat Clemson, and they're going to the Peach Bowl against Arizona State. This playoff thing feels a little weird to me, but the old bowl system, where all the high-ranked teams played one bowl game each and then some guys voted on who was #1 - that was pretty weird too.

I'm re-reading the Expanse series, mostly because I was reading my old journal entries from when I was reading it before. But I checked and I haven't re-read it since 2021 - was that when the last book came out? It may have been. So it's been three years, and I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm almost to the end of the second book. I don't know if I'm really going to read the whole nine books right now though.

I'm not doing so great at writing daily. Maybe now that I'm home for the duration I'll do better!

(Possible mild spoilers, of course!)

I always feel like I should read something appropriate for the season, every year. Last year, all I think I ended up doing was re-reading The Christmas Bookshop. This year, I actually read the one Thanksgiving book I happened to have, which was Penelope In Retrograde, and which it turned out I really liked. I thought it was going to be a romance novel - I bought it a couple of years ago, I think - and I figured out at some point that it was set at Thanksgiving, which is not something you see all that much, so I decided to save it for seasonal reading. It actually was not really a romance novel - there was a romance there, but it was more like a comedic reconnecting-with-family kind of thing in the end. Much more fun than I was expecting. (I don't know if it's a nearly-senior-citizen thing or what, but I don't have much use for romance novels any more. Suddenly they bore me.)

And then it turned out that Amazon had what they called a short story (and I would call a novella, it was around 100 pages, I think) by the author of said Christmas Bookshop, Jenny Colgan. It's called The Christmas Book Hunt, and it is right up my alley: a little romance, a little family drama, a lot of poking around in bookshops looking for what turns out to be an extremely rare book. I enjoyed it, you might can tell. It's the librarian in me.

I don't know if I'm done with holiday-related reading; it's still two weeks til Christmas, after all. I have a couple more unread books that I think are actually that kind of thing - meaning holiday-themed - but I also think I've already tried reading them before and didn't get into either one. I'm probably more likely to end up re-reading some old favorites, really!

Current Music: singing "Dancing Through Life" to myself

(written earlier today)
So it's 4 in the afternoon and I'm at work and I just realized I completely forgot about writing a Holidailies entry when I got home last night. Never thought about it once. I remember being distracted by something-or-other - probably a game, but I barely remember. So I pulled a page out of my work notebook and I'll write an entry here, I guess, to post later.

I guess I can talk about work! I don't really know that I have talked about that here in a while, and while we're a small group at Holidailies so far, I assume that at least some of the people reading don't know/don't remember all my job history. My job is not terribly exciting, by any means, but I mostly enjoy it. I work at a university gym part-time, and I have for a good many years now - 12 or 13 years, maybe? I got laid off from this same university back in 2008 after the big hurricane hit here - that was Ike, and I think a few of y'all probably do remember that at least vaguely because it was kind of big drama at the time!. I tried picking up another career and that never really worked out, but while all that was playing out I took this little part-time job where my husband worked, and I'm still here and so is he. He's full-time and can retire at some point before too long. Actually, I can too, I worked full-time long enough to be retirement-eligible, but I don't know how much money I'll actually get. I'm not even thinking about that yet. Maybe when Rob retires.

Whoa, I just went down a rabbit hole (it's pretty slow here today) and started reading my Dreamwidth/Livejournal entries tagged "work" all the way to back before Ike - I certainly talked quite a lot about my old job! and some about this one, too. (And some about the other part-time job I had for a while in there, which I practically forget about now.)

All the hurricane stuff reminds me that in the car going to see Wicked the other day with my sister and her friend, we started comparing hurricane stories. We were talking about how it's easy to remember the big storms like Ike, for the most part, but it gets hard to remember all the little ones - they all tend to blend together. When you've lived on the Gulf Coast for years like all three of us have, there are a lot of the little ones (and a good many medium-size ones) - you go, now wait, which one was that? Beryl? Harvey? (Those are just the first two that popped into my head. Beryl was the most recent one around here. Harvey was the one that dropped a shitload of water on most of greater Houston and made a huge mess, back a few years ago. It wasn't that strong of a storm, but it sat over our heads and rained for days and days.) (I really remember Harvey pretty well because where we live has creeks all around and we couldn't get out to get to work for several days.)

(possible spoilers because I'm talking about the book vs. the movie - excluding the Broadway version only because I never actually saw it, although I know about the twist ending)

OK, Wicked is turning out to be my obsession of the moment. But anyway, now I've picked up the Wicked book again - I had re-read a good bit of it before I went to see the movie the first time, and I was already to the part where Elphaba is a wanna-be insurrectionist and is having an affair with Fiyero. (I like the actor who plays Fiyero in the movie, but aren't Winkies supposed to be painted warriors? Couldn't they have given him some tattoos or something, enough to at least suggest that?) Anyway, I got past the part where Elphaba is in Kiamo Ko* with his widow, some years later - honestly, I had completely forgotten the existence of that part. It's been quite a few years since I first read this book. But now she is back in Munchkinland with her father and Nessa, and Nessa is now the Eminent Thropp which I guess makes her effectively the Witch of the East, right? I really remembered much more about the first half of this book than the second, and I'm still not done, so whatever else I've forgotten, I'll have to talk about later, but really the spoilery thing that I'd forgotten that I wanted to talk about now was that Fiyero was dead at all. That had definitely gone right out of my mind. I remembered that Elphie was dead, in the Maguire book as in the Baum story - of course she's not Elphaba in the Baum story, but she's still the same character - but I didn't remember that Fiyero was too. So it's two characters that the musical had to resurrect, not just the one.

(And I confused things by bringing up Baum, because Fiyero doesn't exist there, although the Winkies do. The musical we're talking about is the one based on Maguire's book, not Baum's, though!)

* I had to check the wiki to see if I actually spelled that place-name right, but I did! (Also I just realized that I was looking at the "Wicked Wiki" which strikes me as funny. Although what else would you call it, at this point?)

So I have now been to see "Wicked" twice - last week with Rob and this afternoon with my sister and her best-friend-since-childhood (who I hadn't seen in years and years, so that part was fun too). I enjoyed the movie as much the second time as I did the first, 2 hr 40 min running time and all. I dunno, it just works. (Hollywood Reporter says it's starting to get Oscar buzz, and I think it ought to, really.) My companions both loved it, too. The theater was pretty full for a matinee show, and it was almost all women around our age group, although there were younger people there too. Apparently Monday is Senior Day at Cinemark, which I didn't know because I almost always go on weekends with Rob.

We did actually watch "The Wizard of Oz" on Disney+ (I think that's where it was) over the weekend. We hadn't seen it in ages. I've been watching Disney a good bit lately - we are watching the series version of "What We Do in the Shadows" (and we watched the movie too, but we had to pay a few dollars for that one) and I've watched "Deadpool and Wolverine" at least twice since it's been on D+ and there's an Assembled (making-of) episode for it, too. Plus a month or so ago I went on a Disney Sing-Along tear with Encanto and Little Mermaid and maybe something else that I've forgotten. So yeah, lotsa Disney, and none of it Star Wars, amazingly. (Isn't Andor season 2 supposed to finally be along in the spring?)

I signed up early for Holidailies because I happened to think of it, and then I almost forgot - well, actually, I did forget, since it's already after midnight - that December 1st is when I'm supposed to actually post something! Not that it's the end of the world to wait until 1am on the 2nd to post, but I'm just so flaky that I get aggravated with myself.

I started to say that I'm flaky "these days" but actually I've always been flaky - in particular, I don't have much of a sense of time, so unless I'm going to start setting alarms for myself constantly like one of my co-workers does, the flakiness is just going to happen. Plus well, y'know, we're all getting older, aren't we? All of us people who have been on the internet more or less since it existed, in particular. I am in denial about it, but I'm about to start looking at Medicare options - I turn 65 in the spring so I can sign up in a month or two, I think. Ugh. (Although I've also been griping about what I'm paying for my numerous prescriptions lately, so hopefully Medicare will be a bit cheaper in the end, assuming Trump doesn't go and cancel it.) (But I'm trying not to talk too much about the Orange One, it just raises my blood pressure. Speaking of medicine.)

We went to Moody Gardens in Galveston for Thanksgiving - they had a lovely buffet. It was expensive but I enjoyed it. I would never have thought of doing that, it was my brother-in-law's idea. Since we work in Galveston it seemed sort of silly to drive back down there on a day we're not working, but they picked us up and so it wasn't like it was actually any trouble.

I said I was trying not to shop this weekend and I did stay out of the mall (and Target, etc.) but I still ended up buying assorted stuff on the internet, of course. That's really my weakness, these days. I guess just the fact that I didn't go completely hog-wild makes it a win, though!

Oh, I am a Texas Ex so I feel like I'm contractually obligated (or something) to talk about the A&M game. Hey, Hook 'em Horns, and all that. I saw some Aggies say that we only won because all of the calls went our way, and that's actually true, but I don't think they unfairly went our way, just because both of our touchdowns weren't called that way in the first place. Now we have to play Georgia next week, that's our reward, and that didn't go so well the first time this year. We'll see.

Somebody was talking about New Year traditions, and the only one my family really had was black-eyed peas on New Year's Day, and I never remember in time. We went out to an early dinner at Cheddar's and they might have had them if I had thought to ask, but I didn't.

And I completely forgot about football until we got home. It's almost 8:00 (Central time) and Michigan just beat Alabama, we got to see the end of that, and so either Texas or Washington - whose game is just starting - will play them (in Houston!) next Monday. I had one smallish Longhorn sticker (I'm sure most people know vaguely what I mean, but like this) and I did remember to go put that on the new car. That's sort of a superstition, really, too, right? I feel like I would be being a bad Longhorn if I forgot that!

I almost decided to do a meme, but nah, I'll stop here. See y'all next year, Holidailies!

Whee, I have a car - it's a used car so I guess it doesn't literally have the new-car smell, but you get the idea. ~~It's~~ ~~this one~~ (nope, the pictures went away sometime overnight. '21 Kia Forte in black, a nice little sedan that from the inside feels just like my Corolla did except it has more bells & whistles.)

So we spent the whole afternoon at the dealer, but they were very nice and we had our pre-approved loan so it could have taken way longer. We watched some of the Orange Bowl while we were waiting, which, wow, Florida State can't really complain any more about getting screwed by the bowl committee, can they? (Maybe Georgia can, though.)

We pretty much deliberately stay home on NYE because I'm afraid of running into drunk drivers ("amateur drinkers," somebody said), and anyway, Rob drinks one glass of wine a day and I rarely drink at all any more, so we're not big partiers these days. We're going to out to eat with my sister and BIL on Monday, that's our celebration.

I may do some year-end wrap-up entries between now and Monday. We'll see if I get my shit together on that.

We went to see Poor Things tonight, and wow, is that a batshit-crazy movie. (But we still liked it. We liked it kind of a lot, in fact.) It doesn't really seem to have gotten a lot of publicity unless you're somebody who looks at the award nominations. I do usually look at those, but I'm not sure if that's where I got the idea that it was something we might want to see. Actually I think I saw somewhere that it was a sort of a Lady-Frankenstein plot (with Emma Stone in that role) - which I knew would appeal to Rob - and also Willem Dafoe is in it and he's always fun. One thing you should know if you're going to see it is that it's definitely an R-rated movie - not one to take the kids to. It's a HARD R. There's nudity and a hella lot of simulated sex, and it's pretty violent off and on as well. (Genre-wise, Rob and I agreed that we'd call it sort of a horror-comedy, although it's hard to pin down. It's not at all scary.)

So, I have to work the next two days, which I'm not super-happy about, but it's a short shift (like, 5 hours) so I can't complain too much. And we have to go car shopping at some point - I'm getting a new (used) car, finally! I don't know that I've mentioned this but Rob and I have been ride-sharing for several months, because my poor Toyota has 178,000 miles on it and I finally got where I was afraid to drive it around by myself at night - and since we work the evening shift that's kind of a deal-breaker. The ride-sharing worked well enough that we haven't had serious problems with it, but sooner or later there's going to be a point when we must be at different places at the same time, so car-shopping it is. We went to the credit union Tuesday and got a pre-approval so we're all set, we just have to decide on a car.

My sister texted me over the weekend, wanting to go to Cheesecake Factory one night this week. I'm like, "Um, no, sorry, we have to work all week!" and she just couldn't believe that. I'm thinking, Christmas isn't actually next week (well, it is now but it wasn't then) and it's not unreasonable that we have to work this week. We're state employees - actually we're university employees, but the bulk of our funding comes from the state, so we get the number of holidays that the state legislature says we get. The university has been trying to spread them out over the year more recently, I've noticed, meaning we don't get as many in December as we used to. But I'm fine with that. And actually I noticed that the local schools still seem to be in session this week also, so it's not just us. (And we're going to try to go to Cheesecake Factory on Saturday.)

Honestly, our Christmas celebrations have gotten very minimalist these days and I'm fine with that, too. We're going over to my sister's house and having hamburgers, I think she said! Frankly, I associate Christmas the old way with a heck of a lot of stress and I guess she does too. We do mostly small gifts and eat something that's simple to prepare. I'm much happier with it that way.

Oh, we do have a tree, a tiny one. (I think we may still have a somewhat bigger one boxed up somewhere but we don't usually bother to get it out.) I went in Target several weeks ago and they had these little tabletop trees in a bunch of colors, not just the usual green; they were on sale, and I bought a red one, and gold ornaments. (Then I ended up buying more tiny-scaled ornaments - apparently even a tiny tree can hold more than I would have guessed!) It's cute, I like it.

I was poking around on Prime looking for, I don't know, a Christmas movie or something, and I ended up watching The Spiderwick Chronicles - which I know we saw back in the day, but nobody else we knew ever seemed to have seen. I didn't actually know I was hitting play on the movie at all just now, I thought maybe they made a TV series or something (they are, see below), but no, this is the movie.

We really liked it at the time, I remembered that, but it was one of those movies that vanished into the ether, as movies that don't make money tend to, and I almost forgot it existed. But, y'know, kids' movies have a way of persisting, if they find an audience, and here it is. (It's funny that I was talking yesterday about the Johnny Depp Wonka movie - which I couldn't honestly have told you the name of even though it's the name of the book - and here's Freddie Highmore, the same kid who played Charlie in that.) The animation shows its age, but it's not bad for something made 15 years ago.

(Later) Ah, ok, I knew I'd heard something about a series. Disney+ ditched it just recently and now it's going to be on Roku. I'm glad to know I wasn't imagining that.

I am still trying to figure out what font I am using here - this one looks awfully big but on the other hand it sure is easier on my aging eyes. Rob and I were talking earlier about Texas Chainsaw Massacre and he said that they are planning a re-release next year for the 50th anniversary. It had already occurred to me that I was in high school 50 years ago this fall ('73-74 would have been my freshman year in high school) but man, that still makes me feel really old.

I'm pretty sure that my mother said when TCM (or TCSM, depending if you count "chainsaw" as one word or two) became a big hit the next year that she was never ever going to let us go see it - but honestly I had no desire to see it anyway. I've seen bits and pieces of it but not the whole thing, to this day. (But as I've talked about before, I'm married to a serious horror afficionado, and we read the Wikipedia article together earlier tonight. I won't go see most horror movies but I'm okay with talking about them.)

Wikipedia said that the movie was filmed where La Frontera is now (in Round Rock, just north of Austin). Round Rock was a tiny little town when I lived in Austin in the late 70s/first half of the 80s, but now it's all suburbs, as far as I've seen. (The actual house from the movie was moved somewhere else in Central Texas and is a restaurant.)

Speaking of my aging eyes, I have new bifocals which cost a small fortune, but they are mostly quite effective (as they should be!) - I still have trouble with tiny tiny print, though.

I can't make up my mind whether this is an entry about Austin stuff or about aging, so I guess you're gonna get some of both. (When I lived in Austin was long ago now, after all, so it makes me feel my age, I guess!)

I have been following UT football pretty closely, this year - for the first time in some years - and the conference championship game is in, like, 9 hours. I'm pretty sure I will not be getting up that early but it should tape. Next year UT is moving to the SEC and I imagine getting into the conference championship game might be a mite harder. (UT is 10-1 and is ranked like #7 in the country. Improving further is not going to be an easy thing.) (CORRECTION: apparently I had lost count and it was actually 11-1 when I posted this, now 12-1!)

I'm thinking I like this font, so I'll probably stick with it. It looks bigger on the composition screen than it does on the display, for me. (This is what Dreamwidth calls "medium".)

I was watching a YouTube video kind of randomly last night (as one does) - I had no idea what song the video was talking about when I clicked on it, but it turned out to be one of my old favorites, and while I've written a ton of stuff about 80s music over the years, I don't remember talking about this one specifically. (There's an "80s music" tag that goes all the way back into my old Livejournal entries, if you care!) Anyway, the song, in case you don't want to follow the link, is "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This" (I think that is supposed to have some punctuation in there but I'm tired and I don't feel like looking it up!) I have really vivid memories about freaking out about that song back when it came out, because it was just so unlike anything else that was around at the time. Annie Lennox in a suit with a guys' haircut was just mind-blowing in 1983, not to mention the rest of the video, and that synthesizer track! Awesome.

(That video linked above is actually really interesting - I didn't know any of that backstory the guy tells.)

I haven't posted since last December 31st, apparently, but interestingly, we were watching The Batman then, and we watched it again today. (Presumably the first time since then, it's not something we'd really watch all that often!) We also watched the Dr Who special (man, I've missed David Tennant!), part of Aquaman (because we'd watched the 1st half of it last night) and part of Green Lantern, which was just as bad as everybody always says it is. I know that's an awful lot of TV, but what can I say, it's the end of the holiday weekend and we didn't really have anything else to do today.

Anyway, it suddenly occurred to me that I haven't posted here at all in 2023, and that it was almost time for Holidailies, which I have been doing for approximately a million years. So I thought I might update a couple of times this week to warm up, as it were.

The Washington Post published a list of all the major investigations going on concerning the ex-president, sometime in the last week, and somehow seeing it in neat list form made me really happy. So I thought I would pass it along in case somebody else felt the same way.

The first two are most obvious, the ones being overseen by the independent prosecutor.

1. Mar-a-Lago documents
2. Justice Department probe of January 6 (separate from the January 6 select committee, of course, but that one is now more or less disbanded, anyway)
3. Georgia elections probe (at the state & county level)
4. Trump business practices, in NY state, both civil and criminal
5. Investigations of Trump's Westchester golf club (also in NY, at the county level)

(And of course these are only the ones going forward at some level - there is practically no end to the list of more minor stuff.)

Merry Christmas!

I seem to be a bit obsessed with Miss Marple now. Well, I haven't even made much of a dent in the novels yet - there are nine more, so I'll have much more to obsess about.

When last heard from I was re-reading the first three books, and I've finished that now. The three that I read all seem quite different. In the third one Miss M doesn't even turn up until way at the end. In the first and second ones she's around all the time, but often just in the background.

The first and third books are first person. In The Murder at the Vicarage it's the vicar who tells the story - he's Miss Marple's next-door neighbor so she has a bird's eye view of things. In the other two she gets called in by somebody who knows her, and I'm sort of assuming that's how it's going to continue to be since the odds are that murders won't keep happening right next door (no matter what various TV mysteries may tell you). The second book is The Body in the Library and it's told in third person, although occasionally it sort of zooms in and tells you how a certain character feels about things. In The Moving Finger, book 3, it's told from the POV of a young man who has been sent to the country to convalesce - is that the right word? - after an accident. This is the one where Miss M doesn't turn up until late, like three-quarters in.

(When I saw the name The Body in the Library I went, aha! that's where that phrase comes from! - but there's a foreword where Christie says it was already a familiar phrase to her from previous mysteries she had read.)

We are going to see Wakanda Forever again this weekend, and we have already negotiated with sister & B-I-L about a Christmas movie - I think we decided on The Fabelmans. (If the reviews of Babylon had been a bit better I might have lobbied for that, but 60-some % on RT? Nah. And nobody was very interested in Avatar 2!)

(Warning for the delicate, some very minor girl-talk coming below!)

So I went to the cardiologist a couple of weeks ago - just a checkup, I was born with a heart murmur so I've been going to cardiologists all my life! But my BP has been high, and I'm over 60 now and they finally put me on a blood thinner. I don't know whether to blame it on Eliquis or not but I've felt pretty cruddy all week, although of course it's the time of year when everybody is sick even in a normal year. (We are lucky, apparently RSV & this-season's-covid have not spread as badly in Greater Houston as they seem to have other places. That's not to say it still couldn't change!)

(But on the other hand... is Eliquis supposed to make your face break out? Because I have the first zit I've had in quite a few years and I'm really ridiculously indignant about it - that fucker is HUGE. That's supposed to be the good thing about postmenopause, right? a nice clear complexion, and I've had it most of the time. I don't think my mother ever stopped breaking out completely, though, so I guess I've just been lucky!)

I'm watching Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them - I just got to the part where it mentions "the wilds of Arizona" in passing (that's where the thunderbird came from, that may ring a bell for some of you). I have a nail polish that's from a set called The Wilds of Arizona (here) - it's from an indie polish brand and those tend to be very geek-centered but it never occurred to me until another re-watch of this movie that it might be a reference to the Harry Potter universe. Anyway, I've always loved this movie. I just wish the ones that came after it had been anywhere near as good.

I was doing really well on daily entries but all of a sudden I hit a wall or something. Writing is giving me a headache. I'm having allergy issues so that may have something to do with it. (First I phrased it that I was having trouble coming up with stuff to write, but it's not really topics that's the problem.)

Oh! I will add that Rob had another try at going to Violent Night and he reported back that he liked it. "Sort of like Die Hard, but much more violent," is more or less what he said. (I had seen the trailer and realized that they meant the violence part seriously, that was why I didn't want to go.)

So, Warnock got reelected - whew. The idea of That Man (i.e., his opponent the football player) being in the Senate just made me shudder. (Plenty of football players are perfectly nice people. It's the part where some people presumably voted for him because of that - and despite his other issues - that bothers me.)

I haven't talked about reading yet, and I'm certainly capable of running on about that at some length. For now I'll just say that I have been reading Miss Marple, which I had never read before - I had read some Christie years ago but that was mostly the Poirot books. I guess I wasn't interested in reading about old people when I was young myself, but that's no longer the case and I'm enjoying Miss Marple. I read the first book a while back - that's The Murder at the Vicarage and I liked it but I had this sense I was missing something. I went on and read the second and third books, but what I finally figured out is that there are a bunch of short stories that were written first, which I guess accounts for my feeling that I was expected to know some of the characters ahead of time! And so I've gone back and I'm reading those, now.

(I don't know that Poirot is supposed to be all that young, either, but Miss Marple was always portrayed as a slightly-batty old lady, at least until Murder, She Wrote made her into a sort of icon. Now that I've read (some of) the books I see that that's just supposed to be people making assumptions.)

(I was the first person to post on Holidailies this year, not because I was dying to be first but because I wrote my post ahead of time, as I said, so at midnight I was like, well, might as well post it!!)

OK, so, movies. The last movie we've seen is She Said, which is practically the same movie as Spotlight, except here the it's the Times instead of the Globe and the evildoer is Harvey Weinstein rather than priests. (OK, not exactly the same....) I really liked it, but then I always like these movies about newspapers (Spotlight, The Post, All the President's Men...). One thing - we noticed that Rob was possibly the only man in the theater, and there were quite a few people there. I read that this movie was basically considered to be a bomb - the reviews are good, but it's not making money. My guess about that is that the subject is something a lot of men don't want to go to a movie about. (I developed that theory even before we went to see it, but I still suspect I'm basically correct.)

(I would also like to point out, in case the very thought of him puts you off, that Mr Weinstein himself barely appears in the movie. You hear his voice a couple of times and there's one scene toward the end where he - or rather an actor who looks vaguely like him - comes in and yells briefly at the editors before stomping out, as I recall.)

Before that, the last movie *I* saw, anyway - because, y'know, my husband and his horror movies, more on which below - was Wakanda Forever. It wasn't as good as the first one, because how could it possibly be? but it was still pretty good. I think we'll probably go back to that one sometime this month.

Every movie I saw in a theater in fall 2022:

She Said
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Woman King

Honestly, this just tells you the state of the movie industry (i.e., still recovering from covid, I guess?) that I couldn't find a damn thing I wanted to see for over a month at a time in here. (But on the bright side, look at how female-focused all three of those movies are! You used to be lucky if you got one movie like that a year.)

And I said it before: horror movies got made during the pandemic, at least the low-budget ones (Terrifier 2) did, when not much else did. Although that particular one was released on such a microscopic number of screens that if I hadn't poked around the movie release list and said, "hey, this sounds like something you'd like" and then got online and found a place where it was actually showing, Rob might have never seen that one. But that's an outlier, really. (It was unrated and I think they said it cost $300,000 to make, or something absurdly low like that.) Things like X - still small-budget but not that small - are more like the norm, I think. But I'm not an expert on this subject, I'm just married to a really big fan.

Anyway... in addition to the movies I saw above, Rob also saw:

Bones and All
The Menu
Terrifier 2
Halloween Ends (twice)

Sometimes getting Rob's opinions is a chore. I know he liked Terrifier 2 and he seemed to like Bones and All pretty well. The Menu, I'm not so sure about, although he did try to explain the plot to me at more length than I was really interested in hearing. And he said Halloween Ends was not that great, but he still liked it enough to go see it twice!

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In case you really want to know, here's the whole list:

Movies I saw in a theater so far in 2022, newest to oldest:

She Said
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Woman King
Nope
Kiki's Delivery Service (Ghiblifest)
Thor: Love & Thunder
Dr Strange & the Multiverse of Madness
The Northman
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Batman (twice)
Cyrano
Belfast
Spider-Man: No Way Home (our third time seeing it)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (our second time seeing it)

And Rob also saw:

Bones and All
The Menu
Terrifier 2
Halloween Ends (twice)
Smile
Pearl (which is a prequel to X, below - and is also super-low-budget)
Barbarian
Orphan: First Kill (twice)
Beast
Nope (without me, then later on with me!)
The Black Phone
The Thing (40th anniversary re-release)
Men
X
The Cursed
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Entries tagged with holidailies

On "vacation"

Annual holiday-themed reading

Did I say "flaky"?

More Wickedness (and spoilers)

Are we Wicked?

"These days"

Football and black-eyed peas

That new-car smell

Poor Things

Work and holidays

Spiderwick Chronicles

Recovering Austinite

Holidailies time

Still here

The gift of possible Trump prosecutions

More about Marple

Movies and medical stuff

The Wilds of Arizona

Campaigns and Christie

2022 so far (movie edition)