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Jul. 30th, 2025 12:14 amI've been trying to turn the frown upside down and dragging a little joy back in my life.
Yesterday I decided to get a strawberry milkshake with my burger. The milkshake was delicious, but somehow when I was walking out of the joint the half cup I had left managed to leap from my hand and spread itself all over the pavement. I don't usually do this sort of clumsy thing. As I was looking down at the mess thinking what the fuck come on, a guy passing by into the same shop was like I got you for a free one, which was very kind of him and lifted my mood back up. I told him it was all good and the thing was almost done anyway (it wasn't really but there was still some left in the cup) and anyway I was full enough.
The place I've moved to is not bad but it doesn't have air conditioning, and we've been in the middle of a pretty brutal heat wave. So today I figured instead of suffering in my room I would suffer in a theater and see Superman, since I was seeing good things about it.
The theater was actually not nearly as cold as I anticipated, which was great, it was just comfortable for once instead of frigid, and I enjoyed Superman a lot! There are elements of the Superman mythos that seem impossible to extricate from the American mythos, and I am currently even more sensitive than usual to this for obvious reasons, but at the same time I think there's value in going for something aspirational rather than cynical. I did not like the Snyder Supes at all, so at the bare minimum it was so refreshing to see a good, kind, earnest Superman again. It felt a bit like I was watching a particularly long episode of the old cartoon in ways and that was exactly what I wanted.
Yesterday I decided to get a strawberry milkshake with my burger. The milkshake was delicious, but somehow when I was walking out of the joint the half cup I had left managed to leap from my hand and spread itself all over the pavement. I don't usually do this sort of clumsy thing. As I was looking down at the mess thinking what the fuck come on, a guy passing by into the same shop was like I got you for a free one, which was very kind of him and lifted my mood back up. I told him it was all good and the thing was almost done anyway (it wasn't really but there was still some left in the cup) and anyway I was full enough.
The place I've moved to is not bad but it doesn't have air conditioning, and we've been in the middle of a pretty brutal heat wave. So today I figured instead of suffering in my room I would suffer in a theater and see Superman, since I was seeing good things about it.
The theater was actually not nearly as cold as I anticipated, which was great, it was just comfortable for once instead of frigid, and I enjoyed Superman a lot! There are elements of the Superman mythos that seem impossible to extricate from the American mythos, and I am currently even more sensitive than usual to this for obvious reasons, but at the same time I think there's value in going for something aspirational rather than cynical. I did not like the Snyder Supes at all, so at the bare minimum it was so refreshing to see a good, kind, earnest Superman again. It felt a bit like I was watching a particularly long episode of the old cartoon in ways and that was exactly what I wanted.
