words and patterns

Watching mobland, and just enjoying the diverse character motivations, personalities and quirks. Tom Hardy's role, while excellently played and well written, unfortunately comes off almost the least dynamic character in the show due to him being basically typecast into these sorts of roles all the time. Paul, a bodyguard of the titular Mob family who is played by Emmet Scanlan, is a different story. He's oft used as a comedic reactionary, his character being a big killer but quiet and very soft behind his facade, and they allow his paradoxical nature to play out in small but interesting, almost quaint scenes. And this show has probably one of my favorite Pierce Brosnan characters I've seen him play since he was the scientist in The Lawnmower Man (I have low standards).

I love watching reruns of Malcom in the Middle now. Always reminds me of Walter, because of the They Might Be Giants intro, reinforced by the heavy 90's nostalgia that MitM delivers. 

I think what I originally wanted to say was about age And tonic water  I used to hate tonic water, and could not fathom a palate that could enjoy it, with the exception of a blasted out senior citizen. I guess between smoking cigars, post-covid, and age, I became that blasted out senior. I've been buying lots of different mixers and liqueurs for making cocktails, and only just began experimenting with tonic very recently. It's delicious. I wonder how long I would have identified it as tasting good.  Also sweet vermouth is delicious. I've been messing around with a lot of European aperitivo style drinks, good low abv kinds of stuff. 

When the show you're watching does a truncated version of the intro so you know the actual run time is longer and likely a more fun episode 

Making a text series, texts that I want to send to people irl, but they're either not alive anymore, or I just don't want to actually send the text to them for any number of reasons. Forgot the one I was going to start with, oh well I guess.