WHY?!?

WHY DIDN'T I BUY MICHELIN TIRES?

Because I would 100% do this...

Maybe I'll just draw the Michelin Man on my tires anyway!

I did not get much sleep last night.

Which is nothing new to me, because my chronic insomnia makes this just another normal day. I fell asleep around 11:30, woke up at 2:10am. Unable to fall back asleep, I grabbed my phone to doom-scroll social media. At which point Jenny came running in and jumped on my bed so she could get pets.

Since all the social media sites know that I live in Washington State, they naturally assume that I'm hyped because the Seattle Seahawks made it to the Superb Owl to play the Patriots. Which is not the least bit true. Football isn't my game, and I'm more excited to see the ads and what Bad Bunny's half-time show is like than watching the game. The Puppy Bowl and the Kitten Bowl are more important to me.

Now, if a miracle ocurred and The Kraken somehow made it to the Stanley Cup? Count me in for that.

But anyway... back to Seahawk mania.

Some of the stuff coming out of Seattle's good fortune is worth watching. My favorite so far is this one, which made me laugh all four times I watched it...

Interestingly enough, the Seahawks are actually favored to win the big prize! Something they've only done once before in 2014 (though this is the fourth time Seattle has been to the been to the big game, and back in 2015 they lost to the Patriots by 4 points).

I am happy that once the Superb Owl is over we can turn our attention back to hockey where it belongs.

Preston Rakovsky does street interviews about love. The majority of the time, they're very much worth watching, and it's an account worth following.

But this time? It's so great that I am compelled to share it. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a video... just this series of photos. The original is on Instagram here.

Peyton nailed it. He's got it figured out.

I'm back home and ready to destroy the internet... because an all new Bullet Sunday starts... now...

   
• Like Sands Through The Hourglass... Deidre Hall invites Ryan Gosling onto Days of Our Lives after he praises her acting: 'Nobody will be possessed' — My mom was a massive Days of Our Lives fan and I fell in love with Deidre Hall because of it. When my mom started working, she wasn't home to watch and would record the show on VHS so she could watch after work...

I remember the show very well, and I hope this happens. I would definitely tune in!

   
• For God and Country! I love stuff like this...

I mean...

If you want to see some nice content to escape from the horrors of the world, BradyYourTutor is a good place to start.

   
• Wrongful Entertainment! Alan Ritchson Neighbor Fight: New Bodycam Video Released. I don't advocate violence... however... watching some asshole neighbor getting clocked by Alan Ritchson AFTER WALKING IN FRONT OF HIS MOVING MOTORCYCLE is the entertainment I needed. Fuck that guy. If you're stupid enough to square off with ALAN RITCHSON, you get what you get. And oooooh I cannot wait until the new season of Reacher is released! And now I want to re-watch The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare for the hundredth time. Dang is everybody great in that. Especially Ritchson. Or maybe I'll re-watch Playdate for the hundredth time, Another Ritchson flick that's beyond good.

   
• Goldie! I love both versions of "Overboard"... but the original is still the best. This is such a great story...

Goldie is great in every movie. No disagreeing with Kurt on that!

   
• NEWSFLASH: Veteran senator criticizes Tuberville’s “nobody more military than me” claim. You cannot make this shit up. The guy was a football coach who has never served in the military... let alone been in combat. But stolen valor is nothing new to these assholes, and I'm glad that they're finally being called out. What a repugnant piece of crap.

   
• Misinformation=Death! My heart truly goes out to those suckered by the anti-vax idiocy movement... they buy into it, and their child dies over something that might have been prevented had they been vaccinated. And the fact that the anti-vax idiocy movement decides to prey on them over a lie is disgusting...

And yet it happens ALL the time, because when you have a disingenuous movement, lies are all you have.

   
• NEWSFLASH: Televangelist Mark Barclay apologizes to child sex abuse survivors, victims of 3 pastors including son-in-law. Good Lord... THREE pastors at his church abused people, including children. So much for the "Preacher of Righteousness" when this crap goes on in his church. I would leave kids with a drag queen over a pastor 100 out of 100 times. Who still ignores the ACTUAL danger to kids any more? It's always "Not MY pastor!"... until it is.

   
Now it's time to vacuum up kitty litter. Amazing how much of it the cats throw around the entire house in a day when I'm gone.

In college I was in an astronomy class where the instructor invited people to take a stab at what the most valuable thing in the universe might be. Guesses started out with gold and platinum, which were wrong. Then the class moved on to diamonds and rubies, which were wrong. Then people started guessing oxygen or water, which were wrong. All of our guesses were wrong because metals, gemstones, and elements are incredibly abundant throughout the universe. Turns out what's not abundant are things like fruits, vegetables, plants, and woods. Because all of those require a system capable of supporting life. This is far, far more rare in the universe.

I was reminded of that when YouTube suggested this reel to me...

Depending on the nature of the universe, it could very well be that even if there are worlds with vegetation on them, they still may not have trees. Which is to say that the trees we enjoy in abundance may not exist in their exact form, or any form, anywhere else.

You'd think that this thought would inspire humans to take better care of our forests, jungles, and tree-supporting biomes.

But, alas...

We seem intent on making it so they can't survive here either.

Remember last Thursday when I stepped away from the non-stop news-cycle of horrors by watching animals eating? Remember that?

Well, Instagram remembers that.

Now whenever I pull up the site, I'm inundated with adorable animals eating stuff. And my favorite of the day is about as adorable as it gets. This is one angry-looking hedgehog who's demeanor changes entirely once he gets a smell of a piece of apple...

   
Yeah, whenever the shitty news starts to overwhelm you, I highly recommend curating an Instagram feed with something that makes you smile so you can escape reality for a little while.

Take for instance my recent scroll through YouTube, where one of my all-time favorite drag queens drops an amazing beat which I wasn't prepared for...

Now, Trixie is talking about being gay... but this is a very smart take for any aspect of your life, even if you're straight. Stop wasting energy trying to conform to what people expect and just be yourself. You can put all that energy to far better use just by being who you are.

Genius.

It makes me happy that Trixie Mattel understands X-Men so perfectly. And even happier that a film has such a great message given that Mystique and Magneto are the villains of the movie X-Men: First Class.

Or are they?

Kudos to director Matthew Vaughn and the writers for making First Class the only X-Men movie I've enjoyed to date. And moments like this are why.