All posts by James DeVol

Oscar nominees….

Well…need to write about something different after all of the pollution from trump so I think I’ll talk about movies for a change. It was always a goal of mine in the past to try to see all of the best picture nominees before the Oscars…that used to be much more difficult before the advent of streaming videos, when I used to have to actually go out to theaters to see them…and that was sometimes a crapshoot to have them all still playing after the nominations were announced. And it cost money…but, back then, I had it so no big deal…this year, I have 6 of the 7 movies that were nominated on my son’s server and I have already seen 3 of them. Okay, one of the ones I saw, Kubo and the two strings, was not a best picture nominee but is up for some technical ones but I wanted to see it anyway. That’s one of them that I watched last night…an animated film but definitely not for kids…a pretty seamless combination of stop action, CGI, and live action and it told a pretty good story, too…probably not to everyone’s taste but I like to be challenged by film sometimes. The second one I saw last night was LaLaLand….a modern take on the old style musical/romance that I thought was done very well…it looks gorgeous but Ryan Gosling can only sing about as well as I can and that is not saying much….the lead in number on a stalled freeway is pretty cool to look at and the whole movie didn’t disappoint me…got through the whole thing and that is saying something these days.

January 27th

Well…think I’m getting some kind of a bug since I have been coughing all morning…don’t feel too bad but the coughing is annoying….didn’t get a lot done yesterday so that will have to change today…one of my sons is coming into town tomorrow so I’ll have to have this place cleaned up by then…don’t have a lot to do but need to do it….got a nice bike ride in yesterday and I am going to try to do that again today but it took me a long time to get warmed up after yesterday’s ride so I’m not sure it would be a good thing to go today….I do have to try to eat more today since the legs were really flat yesterday and that is normally from a calorie deficit from the day before….didn’t even get through an entire chicken breast yesterday so I know I need more….not much to do today…pool, but nothing else….more later…

Thank you, Netherlands…

Well…as you remember from an earlier post here, the idiot trump has re-instituted the gag order for family planning organizations around the world that receive federal funding…not allowing them to even talk about abortion…putting millions of women at risk. But, today, the president of the Netherlands has come out and told all of the organizations that will be affected to come to the Netherlands and they will make up for any funding they lose…basically sticking a sharp stick in the idiot trump’s eye and saving women across the world from the death and destruction the gag order would have resulted in. So, to the Netherlands and it’s president, I say thank you….and I am so ashamed of our country right now…

Carl Edwards can go to hell, too…

Well…I knew in the back of my mind that most of the people that run nascar and drive for them were repub assholes but I still watched since I was a race fan and could suppress that fact…but, not any more. After this mornings news that Carl Edwards is going to challenge Claire McCaskill for a senate seat in Missouri as a repub….and that reveals that he is a trump lover and has no shred of decency in him for just that fact….so Carl, I’ll ask you the same question I asked Brad K. and Clint B. a few days back…could you point to the idiot trump and tell your kids you’d like them to be just like that lying, racist, delusional asshole? If you can, and probably have, then all I have to say to you and the rest of the racist repub assholes….you can go to hell…that good guy persona you put on for the past 15 years was all just an act…what a piece of crap…geez…

January 26th

Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I had a nice lunch with T…and she brought me gifts…soap from the Bahamas and two potholders that she made for me…now, that is perfectly T and they are still making me grin….didn’t get on the bike yesterday since I just didn’t feel like it…will probably get out today but not for a while….need coffee first….not too sore today so it should be okay on the ride…my lower back was really stiff the other day but it seems to be okay today…we’ll see…..don’t have a lot to do today but watch Man U…I should clean some and probably will but, I’ll think about that after the coffee…more later….

Trumps’ private e-mail server…

Well…if we didn’t already know that the endless harping on Clinton’s private e-mail server was just a bunch of partisan repub bullshit, just take a look at what trump’s entire staff is doing…yep, they are all on a private server at the RNC…every damn one of them…the very servers that were hacked by the Russians a few months back and that are still vulnerable…where’s the outcry repubs? Bill O’Reilly, where’s your outrage? Sean Hannity, where is an entire network dedicated to this scandal? Republican house members…where are the endless investigations? Yeah….I thought so…all of the breathless shit that came out of Fox was just that…shit…and now we have trump even keeping his unsecured phone that he uses daily and that most 7 year olds could probably hack….hey idiots that voted for trump because of the incessant e-mail bullshit: you’ve be had…how does it feel?

RIP Mary Tyler Moore…

Well…one bad thing that came from ending the news blackout was having to read about actors that I have enjoyed over the years dying…and today that list was added to by the death of Mary Tyler Moore….it is going to really age me but I have enjoyed her comedic work from all the way back to the Dick Van Dyke show in the days of black and white television through to her guest shots on “That 70′s show”….her own shows consistently made me laugh and I thank her for that….RIP Mary…..

January 25th

Well….feeling a little run down today and I do really need some coffee….did get out to run some errands yesterday and it was nice to get out for a while….and got a good bike ride in but today I’m not sure about today….don’t want to go back to full thermasuit but I guess I’ll have to since it won’t be warm enough this morning….and it is supposed to rain in a while and I don’t want to get wet….my back has been stiff lately and it is okay until I get on the bike…then I pay for it the rest of the day….but, it’s still not as bad as it used to be so I can deal with it….don’t have a lot to do today….might have lunch with T but haven’t heard from her so I’m not going to count on it….more later….

Trump’s hands on the country’s throat…

Well….welcome to the new USA…that looks a lot like Putin’s Russia…as of today, Trump has put a total blackout on all government communications unless he approves of them…yep, the FDA can’t report on foodborne illness anymore…so folks, you are on your own if Chipotle decides to poison thousands again…you’ll never find out about it…if any company decides to poison the air or water, the EPA can no longer report it…so goodbye to clean air and water….you get my drift…after all all of Trump’s promises of “transparency in government” he has just dropped a cone of silence on every scientist and every department in the federal government…if you want a hurricane report from the NWS…too damn bad, you’re not going to get it….this is how democracy dies…thanks a lot all of you assholes who thought trump would “drain the swamp”….you have killed our country…..

January 24th

Well….I did get a few things done yesterday so that was not a total waste….and I got a good bike ride in but my lower back is hurting again…went over a hundred miles and that didn’t happen until into April last year and I still almost made 3K miles….so maybe this year will be better….didn’t sleep well last night and I am feeling it today….forgot to take the allergy stuff so I couldn’t breathe too well and that had something to do with it….but, I was good last night so that should help today….really don’t have a lot to do today so I think I’ll take it a little easy and just clean some….more later…..