Dad has pneumonia and will be kept overnight in the hospital. Surprisingly, he didn't have either COVID or flu.

My father has admitted to the hospital due to complications caused by avian flu. This leaves me the only one in my immediate family not ill.

Sometimes, dreams have offered me the best advice on who or what I shouldn't waste my time on anymore.

You know, in his defense, maybe it wasn’t a heil hitler salute. Maybe he was just waving. Like a friendly hello. To the other nazis in the room.

Current weather: Arctic base from "The Thing"

This has been a sad, cold, horrible day in America with plenty more ahead.

Take care of each other, and stay strong. ❤

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What happens when almost half the country fall for propaganda.

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him in so far as he efficiently serves the country."--Theodore Roosevelt, 1919

Nothing quite proves I have a prolific film collection than receiving a Blu-Ray haul consisting of "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians", a 1970 Ed Wood travesty ("Take It Out in Trade"), a compilation of retro anti-drug shorts, and a gay porn knockoff of "The Exorcist". 🤔

Still healing from my upper respiratory infection. Meanwhile, my sister is dealing with the flu.

Oh, all the big names hate Vic. Greg and Chris Ayers would go out of his way at uncensored panels to tear the shit out of the guy.

Whew. After watching all that in pieces, Kaylyn, I have to explain to my family why there is a hole in the cieling because my jaw dropped so many times. Lol Extremely great work. The amount of research put into this was crazy good.

The Entire Vic Mignogna Story - The Face of Anime's Dumbest Culture War YouTube video by MarzGurl

This Friday.

Trailer included.

This is it. Closest you'll get to a documentary on this. And aside from one single pre-arranged interview, this should be considered my final word. There is zero reason for me to interact with bad faith arguments at all ever again.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Yh...

Two cons had to get a special handler for him because no one could stand him.

I was GR and programming staffer at events Vic was at. I have staffer friends who also have their own sordid tales. I witnessed his shit first hand, including interrupting a panel I co-hosted. Several cons blacklisted him years ago. But sure, according to the Stan crowd we're allll lying.

kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

This is a beautiful tribute.

I'm all right, thank you. It was a crazy time. A lot of industry folks I associated faced much worse. I have my own tales of Vic

This whole saga negatively affected to the point that I felt unsafe going to cons due to being doxxed. I know you and several other associates had it 10x worse.❤

I tried out sparingly, finding a few creators I liked or see what my friends were doing. But the service itself was way too addicting for me, and a lot of the hot takes people had on there were very unresearched, regardless of political stance.

"If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.”

David Lynch
1946-2025

Joe Biden's tragic presidency He accomplished a lot — except the most important thing.

“He tried to ignore Trump after defeating him in 2020, which is normal behavior for a new president, but Trump was never a normal defeated president. Biden claimed he sought the presidency ‘to restore the soul of America,’ but American voters seemingly traded that soul for the idea of cheaper eggs.”

I have absolutely no desire to support the newest alternative to TikTok, called RedNote. It directly answers to China's govermental rules including limiting LGBTQ+ content and censorship of the CCP's history of atrocities.

Sick with some sort of throat illness and finding out my aunt on my Dad's side is dying.

It's been...tough.

There's a lot in my life I really want to change in the year ahead, a lot of it pertaining to letting go of things I once enjoyed but now feel draining.

I was looking into obtaining a remaining badge for this year's MAGFest, but given my financial status, that will unfortunately, not be possible.

I will try to be there next year to get the party on with my friends!

I'm back in Norfolk, gang!