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In an effort to spend less time in my office and more time connecting with my family, I have ended up watching more movies. Just as last week I ended up thinking about existential horror, this week I wondered about expectations. And a few failures, honestly. But the expectations were the big one, and that’s where we will start, with 2024’s Winter Island. Spoilers for the entire movie are contained, if you wish to watch first. As well as spoilers for the 2023 The Boogeyman and 2020’s Behind You, although those are pretty minor. All are free on TubiTV, which is my primary go-to for viewing pleasure. Sorry about the ads, if you’re watching on a TV, tablet, or phone app.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “What We Can Learn from Winter Island, and some other horror movies”

Paige Francis He/him

I have spent a lot of the last few weeks “being a parent.” I have also spent about half of that time extremely sick with, the best I can tell, a bad cold. Everyone but me complained of flu symptoms (body aches, etc) although that only hit me very briefly. Not to brag, although saying that is inherently bragging, but I handled this about as well as I could handle an illness. It was clear everyone had been/was/was getting sick, so as soon as I felt it coming I started taking NyQuil every six hours. I slept for about 2 1/2 days straight (not in one sitting…the most I’ve ever done from sickness in one sitting was 18 or 21 hours). Following the sleeping, I would take one DayQuil (my spellcheck says I should replace this word with Gayquill, or something like that, which is funny) during the waking hours then one or two NyQuil appropriately. After a couple days of that, I was down to, and currently am, taking DayQuil only if the congestion gets bad…which it hasn’t (gotten worse than it normally is…we live in an *extremely* dusty area.) Along with getting meds for a few other people and making sure they take the medicine, the last few days has primarily been focused on horror movies, house cleaning, and YouTube. And being a parent.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Doin’ Some Life the last few days”

Paige Francis He/him