I recently discovered a new channel in our DirecTV Stream lineup called Horror by ALTER. I'd never heard of it and they never told us it was being added. But, hey, horror movies!

I’m not sure exactly when it started, but, at some point in the past, Spotify decided to venture into the audiobook frontier. As I was always a user of either Audible or Libby, I paid no attention to it.

This weekend, I’m gonna start and finish the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. I’ve watched it many times before. Heck, it was just last year that I watched it previously.

I’m a fan of 80s and early 90s hard rock and heavy metal. It’s my jam. Always has been and I cannot foresee a situation in which that would ever cease being the case.

Did I ever tell you about the time that Dave2 and I accidentally stumbled upon a movie set that was actively filming?

This is post #2 of the Jay-Mike-Fred: A Horror Compendium franchise examination posts, complete with guest reviewer, Nate (my son)!

I’m gonna take what might seem like an unpopular stance… I really liked Captain America: Brave New World.

Are you watching Paradise on Hulu? I’d heard about it because it stars Sterling K. Brown and James Marsden, both of whom I like as actors. And I knew it was a political thriller where Brown is a Secret Service agent on President Marsden’s detail. And there is a murder.

I just realized that it’s been two years since I’ve done a bulk horror movie review post. In that time, my son has started watching with me. So why not write a series of posts based on each franchise we’ve watched together? Maybe even let Nate chime in on these Jay-Mike-Fred: A Horror Compendium posts.

As has been the case for many years, Katie and I have watched very few of the Best Picture nominated films for the Oscars and other awards shows. There was a point in our lives where we used to try to watch most, if not all, of them.

Should I? Shouldn’t I? The books, that is.

David Tennant is a multinational treasure. You have to know him, even if you don’t realize that you know him. He’s widely considered to be one of the greatest Scottish actors in history.

…and heartbreak.

Wow. That was a totally underwhelming Super Bowl despite the weak attempt at a comeback really late in the game.

One thing that makes me very very different than many of my friends and coworkers who work remotely is that I very rarely play music aloud when I’m working.

I joined an online group of horror fans. Not just movies but anything horror related. It’s been a lot of fun talking to them and getting ideas for new books and movies and whatnot.

The Super Bowl matchup has been set! It is…

I’m tellin’ y’all, I love the withdraw rack at our library.

The Unrivaled women’s basketball 3-on-3 league is here, folks! Games start tonight and continue throughout the weekend and I am stoked!

Rough day in entertainment today.

Do you remember Steve Guttenberg? Carey Mahoney from the Police Academy series of films. Three Men and a Baby/Little Lady. Short Circuit. Cocoon. Diner. From 1982 to 1990, you couldn’t escape the dude.

As the NFL post season comes to a close in the next few weeks, I’ve reviewed my attention span as it relates to football this past season. I don’t much like what I’m seeing.

The newest book, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, from my current favorite author, Clay McLeod Chapman, arrived today. I’m excited to read it!

He’s talking to me! Coop’s talking to me!

I was watching Ridley Scott’s original Gladiator the other night and, when it wrapped, Paramount+ recommended a few other movies. Among them was one I’d never seen and never truly considered watching before, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.

The following were created by a coworker presumably using AI image generation in response to requests from coworkers in Slack on how best to deal with the holidays.

As a kid, I loved the original Superman and Superman II movies starring Christopher Reeve. He is and will always be Superman to me. I don’t care who else plays him, no one compares to Chris and nothing compares to those first two films.

For the last 20 days, I’ve been taking part in a book challenge on Bluesky. In it, you “Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.”

I discovered a prompt in Bluesky the other day that read, “What were the four albums that dropped when you were in high school that defined your music taste forever?” 

I love getting those “a-ha” moments when it comes to entertainment meaning I realize that one person I see doing something is the same as another person I know from somewhere else.

Katie, Nate, and I celebrated my 50th birthday yesterday by doing something we never thought we would do to celebrate a birthday… we went to a concert.

This is what happens when you don’t pay extra for additional accounts in Spotify.

We’re a Libby household. That’s an app that is used by many libraries for sharing electronic materials like ebooks and audiobooks with patrons.

Why do I soooooo want to do this? Buy a replica Jonathon Moxon jersey from the movie Varsity Blues direct from “Mox” himself James Van Der Beek. And 100% of the proceeds go to helping those suffering from cancer to pay for their treatment, including James.

They always say to “never judge a book by its cover.” I say that’s crap! I always judge books by their cover. But this applies to literal books, not figurative ones.