State of the Blog Address – November, 2025

George W. Bush and his chief of staff Andrew Card, leaning in for a kiss.

Long overdue, here’s another State of the Blog Address that you can print out for leisurely reading and then shove up your narrow rectum.

Sorry, I’m a little crabby lately. You see, this installment can be treated more as a State of My Life Address, because man is my life the pits. Work. Home. You name it. I wake up at 6am every morning dead tired, I get my kids ready for school, I take one of them via bus to kindergarten, and then I have to take another bus, then a train, then another bus to get to work! It’s ludicrous! Why would I do that to myself for $8,000 per hour? What am I trying to do, squeeze blood from a turnip over here? By the time I actually show up for work, I’m dead exhausted! More often than not, I’m taking a nap during my lunch break. That’s when I usually write! Now I have to try writing during working hours, because evenings are reserved for reading, playing Cyberpunk 2077 (with the Phantom Liberty DLC!), and watching episodes of Stargate SG-1. What a life, right?

So, the blog is suffering a bit, I’ll admit it. Writing is tough to do these days when I’m tired to the bone and I’d rather spend my free time doing something mindless instead of solo roleplaying games or writing capsulated album reviews. Granted, I have over 100 finished articles ready to post, but proofreading has become a chore and I often don’t want to take the five-to-ten minutes it would take to re-read something before posting it. I know, isn’t that sad? This is supposed to be a fun hobby and, after over four years of nearly constant upkeep, I’m starting to get burnt out on most of it. And all the new ideas I have ain’t cutting it right now. Chick Tracts! 1930s pulp sci-fi stories! wikiHow! Earthbound! I’m trying to write about all these new, fresh angles and I can’t get excited about any of it right now!

So what’s going on?

Comics

The only thing I haven’t slacked on lately are the comics. Even in the worst of times, writing these up is a blast and I love that there are literally tens of thousands of comic books to choose from. What’s gonna be next to read?? Oooooh, I can’t wait to find out! I’ve read a few graphic novels that I want to post about, but I keep forgetting about them. Ever read Blankets? It’s amazing.

Music

Yeah right. 2025 is an incredibly weak year for music and I’m going to struggle to find five albums that I liked for my annual write-up. I used to write about 25 albums, then I got exhausted with that shit. Hopefully 2026 will be a better year, and my New Year’s resolution is to pick Newer Release Roundup back up. For one thing, this feature got me excited about music at its peak in 2021/2022. For another, this was originally supposed to be a music blog! How am I supposed to maintain my hipster cred when I’m spending all my time complaining about how stupid Captain America is? Look forward to me trying and failing to write up new albums on a weekly basis. Bi-weekly? Monthly? Ugh, I don’t know yet. We’ll see how that pans out.

Movies/TV

2025 did not see me watching a lot of movies. What happened was I got back into a nerdy sci-fi kick and I spent most of my evenings watching Farscape, Stargate SG-1, and various Star Treks. Not wasted time though, as each season of these shitty episodic TV shows from 30+ years ago got a write-up comprising capsulated episode reviews, which was pretty fun in its own right. All like “Geordi LaForge fucked a motherboard”, which is every episode, honestly. I spent very little time watching actual good TV, and I think it’s because my brain needs a break from anything too heavy. I watched Servant on AppleTV and it’s about dead babies. Sometimes a little Jean-Luc Picard is needed as a palate cleanser! But, yeah, I have a ton of posts about movies and TV shows almost ready to post, but I’m not feeling it on a regular basis. Sometimes I just don’t want to re-read my own writing. Totally cringe. Skibidi.

Other Stuff

I started a feature called People Who Suck (kicked off with Charlie Kirk!) that I hope will get those creative juices flowing. It’s going to mostly be criminals and Republicans — often both at the same time — and it will be fun to make fun of all sorts of awful, awful pieces of shit.

More than a lot of other content on this blog, I’d love to continue Sucky Funnies Sunday on a regular basis. The problem here is that, these days, I’d much rather sleep in until noon on Sunday than sift through the wacky antics of Mary Worth and Mallard Fillmore. It’s a shame, because these are really fun to do.

Did I mention Chick Tracts! 1930s pulp sci-fi stories! wikiHow! Earthbound! Yeah, someday.