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I am thankful (or whatever) for…

• My wife, who makes me happy in more ways than I can possibly ever articulate
• Out cat, Lefty, who at the now-tender age of 16 is loyal and also driving me crazy
• Our dog, Riley, who is just such a good boy
• Aikido – which reminds me to try to be a better person every day
• Skateboarding – without which I’d be a very different person
• Libraries – which gave me a career I am proud of
• My gaming group – surely the best group ever and really my closest friends
• Growing up in a peaceful home that provided security and love
• Medical science for saving my wife’s life
• My community, which is diverse and wonderful
• My extended family
• My extended in-law family
• My situation in life, most of which was simply a matter of luck
• Music, which we enjoy seeing live and on the big stereo
• The fact there this is something, rather than nothing. It didn’t have to be that way.
• My other friends. I am lucky to have so many. They are all valued.
• Books and reading

Today we went and early voted in a Texas constitutional amendment election.

Voted against all the bad things and in favor of the good. Example: Vote in favor of funding for dementia research. Voted against the “parents rights” amendment what is essentially just a badly camouflaged anti-trans bill. We get stuff like here with the republiKKKans in charge of things in the state. Fucking lunatics.

We live in a world where there are second-generation scientologists.

Let that percolate in your brain a bit.

It’s a ripoff.

I have to admit I have enjoyed some of the Star Wars stuff that has come out over the last few years. A lot of the Marvel movies have been pretty horrible, as have the TV shows, since Disney bought Marvel.

I’ve cancelled Disney over the Kimmel thing and really don’t care that they are bringing him back.

​They are a scumbag capitalist company that just purchases creative franchises, extracts as much value from them as possible, and ruins them in the process. Cultural strip-miners.

I will not be watching any of their movies in the future. Seriously, I just don’t need any more Star Wars in my life, or Avengers.

The public library has DVDs. The public library has more great science fiction novels than I can possibly read in my remaining years of life, and their almost all better that Disney’s movies. I have tabletop roleplaying games with which my friends and I create our own entertainment together. I have skateboarding and Aikido. I have a beautiful intelligent wife to enjoy my Disney-free life with. We take our sweet little dog for long walks. We talk. We listen to music on the Big Stereo.

Sorry Disney, you are just one more slimy corporate whore at the consumerist orgy, and I just don’t need you.