The artificial tree prepares for lift off, and T.V. series reviews. in The Big, Blue, House. Year two.

We’re switching the tree that I just leave up from summer to fall, and for a few minutes I had both sets of lights on, just for funzies. Prepare for lift off:

I think next year I’ll move it to the porch or the top floor. Don wants real trees for Yule, but personally I’ve always hated cut flowers, or in this case an entire cut tree. Just watching something gradually die in your living room would be depressing, I would think. But we can get a lifelike tree, anyway. The current one is a Vickerman “twig tree”. Don sings, “Oh tweezle tree”. It looks half dead, with hundreds of brown “twigs”. I dig it, but he’s suffered long enough.

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I have been thoroughly unproductive lately. I want a couple of the illustrations from the Frog And Toad series for the second floor bathroom. I’m thinking little vintage style 5x7” oval frames. So I wound up reading two children’s books to Don. I can’t tell if he actually enjoyed it, or just tolerated it. I loved those books when I was five. Now everyone seems obsessed with the sexuality of the author, which strikes me as strange. It’s tragic that both he and his partner died with AIDS, long before LGBT rights became mainstream, but whether kids should read the books should be more about the stories than the person who wrote them. I mean it’s not like kids are even going to know he was gay, unless someone tells them. And they’re great little stories.

Then we attacked the aforementioned tree, and watched more of The
Last Of Us. Explain to me how the fungus is supposed to be surviving the northern US winter? I’m reminded of The Walking Dead. Magical antagonists, like in From, work well because they defy explanation. But a story even loosely based on science should have a modicum of rationality behind it.

I enjoyed the last season of Disenchantment quite a bit. It’s unfortunate they had to cut it down to just the one, but I’m glad it had some kind of finale. We watched that over several days, three episodes at a time. In fact I liked it so much, I may rewatch it all at some point. I’m disappointed there isn’t more merch. I don’t care for bobbleheads, why not some tee shirts, people?

Edit: There are tee shirts! Most awesome.
https://www.amazon.com/Disenchantment-Officially-Licensed-Luci-XX-Large/dp/B09P1TCDC7

From was fun. Dumb, but fun. Victor might be the best autistic character I’ve ever seen. I love that he’s bullied, he’s an outsider, but he manages just fine on his own. Here’s hoping it keeps getting renewed, so the story can have a conclusion.

Elizabeth snoozing: