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Most Anticipated Films of 2026

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:43:29 GMT

These are the 20 films I'm most looking forward to in 2026!

4 Kids walk into a Bank
A Magnificent Life
Coyote vs ACME
Flowervale Street
Glenrothan
Godzilla Minus Zero
Hamlet
Hexed
Masters of the Universe
Narnia
Remain
Scary Movie 6
Spider-man: Brand New Day
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
Supergirl
The Cat in the Hat
The Pout Pout Fish
The Sheep Detectives
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Wildwood

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Knocked Up 2025

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:16:00 GMT

Guess what?

I redid "Knocked Up". I never forgot how a friend wanted me to better integrate Doctor Who into the film and I realized I really wanted to write "This is 40".

https://archiveofourown.org/works/12558880/chapters/28602164

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My Favorite Films of 2025

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:51:43 GMT

Films must have been seen between January 1 at 12:01 AM and December 31 at 11:59 PM in 2025. Films must have been seen in a proper theatre setting; not my tv or phone. Films cannot have been included on a previous list. Ranking is biased by how much I enjoyed a film and how much I want to re-watch it.

1. Hamilton
2. Sinners
3. Frankenstein
4. Zootopia 2
5. Bad Guys 2
6. Superman
7. KPop Demon Hunters
8. Wicked: For Good
9. How to Train your Dragon
10. The Day the Earth Blew Up
11. Vertigo
12. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
13. The Phoenician Scheme
14. Thunderbolts
15. Freaky Tales
16. Now You See Me, Now You Don’t
17. Life of Chuck
18. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
19. A Complete Unknown
20. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

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Upcoming 2025 TV

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:47:12 GMT

In Alphabetical Order what I'm looking forward to

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip
All Creatures Great and Small
And Just Like That...
Andor
The Bondsman
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Conan O'Brien Must Go
Daredevil: Born Again
Doctor Who
Douglas is Cancelled
Holland
Ironheart
The Last of Us
Long Way Up
Ludwig
Mayfair Witches
Mid Century Modern
Miss Austen
Pee-Wee as Himself
Percy Jackson and the Oympians

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Upcoming 2025 Movies

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:40:45 GMT

2025 looks like a return to really good films on a regular basis. These are my picks.

Alphabetical Order

The Bad Guys
The Bride
Downton Abbey 3
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Good Fortune
Hurry Up Tomorrow
Jurassic World: Rebirth
The Life of Chuck
A Nice Indian Boy
Now You See Me 3
Opus
Paddington in Peru
The Phoenician Scheme
Sneaks
The Spongebob Movie: Search for Spongebob
Superman
Thunderbolts
The Wedding Banquet
Wicked: For Good

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Beauty and the Beast

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:45:38 GMT

I realized something when watching Beauty and the Beast. Gaston is basically the Prince before the Witch cursed him. The Prince was forced into body dysmorphia in order to empathize with others. His isolation made sure he was surrounded by those rightfully blaming him for their situation instead of being fawned over. However, by having Gaston be the villain and go after the Prince directly. It's like his past literally catches up with him instead of just running out of time with the rose. So often, we have this past sense of self haunting us or sabotaging us from moving forward and this was done in a literal way with the fight between the Prince and Gaston. The Prince even appears dead, but with his past lying dead below, and Belle's part in the curse fulfilled, he's able to finally move on to be a whole new person.

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My Favorite Films of 2025

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 03:02:21 GMT

My Favorite Films of 2024

Rules: The films are listed as my favorite because quality is measured along with how many times I'd like to see it or whether I'd want to watch it ever again. Films must have been seen in a proper theatre setting between 12:01 AM on January 1, 2024 and 11:59 PM on December 31, 2024. Films found on a previous list are disqualified.

1. Wicked
2. Deadpool & Wolverine
3. Inside Out 2
4. Moana 2
5. Monkey Man
6. Lisa Frankenstein
7. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
8. We Live in Time
9. The Wild Robot
10. Transformers One
11. Saturday Night
12. IF
13. The Fall Guy
14. Kraven
15. Fly Me to the Moon
16. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
17. Venom: The Last Dance
18. Kung Fu Panda 4
19. Madame Web
20. American Fiction

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Milton Part 2

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 15:23:01 GMT

The next day after that post, I went to work only to find all these cars lined up next to gas stations like it was lane to pick up their kid after school.

None of these stations actually had gas then. The cars would line up in the HOPE that gas would arrive at some point. They needed gas for the generators and because most people were charging their phones by running their cars. People no longer use radios to find out about the outside world, only their phones. The day after Milton, I immediately turned to the radio once I could find something that worked, but our local radio station; our record-winning radio station for playing 3 million songs in a row without a commercial and working on 4 million. Now it was just gone. The tower was collapsed on power lines and the power lines were wading in water over five feet deep. Around six weeks later, they're hoping to have it up by Thanksgiving.

I don't know if it's because everything is social media based and that was unreliable or just plain incompetence, but people didn't know where to go or who to call. Everyone felt so alone even as neighbors and strangers tried to help. On Saturday, the helicopters started. The sound is so uneasy as it is. Are they delivering someone dying or looking for a criminal on the loose? Now, they were heavy duty military birds, and they were plucking people from the water. At the parking lot of the park I'd walked to all my life, was World Central Kitchen. They go to War Zones and extreme catastrophes. The Daily Show had begged for donations for them while discussing Gaza, Ukraine, Haiti, and there they were, World Central Kitchen, just a mile from my house.

Another charity, Operation BBQ Relief, was here for weeks. If you donate, do them. The others are tight-fisted with lots of rules and personal bias. People are mostly back to normal, but some are still in their cars. There have been two Town Hall Meetings, but they were about navigating FEMA, not discussing what people want to discuss: that most of this flooding wasn't from the storm, but man-made from incompetence. Waterways that have existed for hundreds of years were ignored or filled in. Developers made their new construction flood-free at the expense of existing properties.

People just want reassurance that it'll be fixed, that it won't happen again, and the local government won't do that, probably because it knows they have no intention of fixing it and it will happen again. Nine days after Milton, we had a corporate visit at work. I thought they wanted to make sure we were okay, and whether we needed anything. They wanted to make sure we were all set for the holiday buying season...

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Hurricane Milton

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:36:45 GMT

It's not my first rodeo. I felt Irma was the storm to compare all others to...

But Milton was way worse. For one thing, he took down the tree that we'd been watching as problematic, but it was on the wrong side of the fence to do something about it. It made the loudest, most horrible noise as it snuggled with our roof and smacked our overhang out of place. As Milton continued, it ripped the tree apart further although the pieces still remain in our yard, mostly the backyard.

My town was cut off from the outside world. Every road connecting it to somewhere else was flooded, blocked by fallen trees, debris, or just plain destroyed. Our electricity flickered out. Our internet and cellphone coverage became non-existent or spotty. I know we were lucky. I have friends in Asheville where we didn't hear from them for about a week and were beginning to accept they may be dead before we heard from them.

It's still a weird feeling though. Every trip has to be carefully planned and made with the understanding that you will be turning around, going down alternate routes, and taking so much more time than before. Routes that used to take 10-15 minutes are now 30-50 minutes. Do you realize how hard it is to see your hometown in ruins? So much of the places tied with your childhood memories are now destroyed, flooded, or with trees down. There are so many businesses flooded or torn apart in the wind. The vast majority of older mobile homes are all destroyed. The carports and closed-in porches of the newer ones are all gone. I feel bad for all the businesses, but I feel worse for the homes, especially the ones that were barely hanging together before; their owners barely able to make it day by day.

And Milton wasn't even that close, he was 45 miles away! Supposedly, his most powerful winds wouldn't have even reached us. I can write this because those beautiful linemen just turned our power back on, but so many will still spend days without any power. Prayers or whatever you believe will be much appreciated for my town and everyone in it.

*Someone on a community page has claimed their wind monitor captured 123 mph.

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Florida

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:26:38 GMT

"Florida!!!
Is one hell of a drug
Florida!!!
Can I use you up?
The hurricane with my name when it came
I got drunk and I dare it to wash me away
Barricaded in the bathroom with a bottle of wine
Well me and my ghosts, we had a hell of a time
Yes I'm haunted, but I'm feeling just fine"

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Deadpool & Wolverine

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 05:06:12 GMT

M: What are your hobbies? What else do you do?

Me: Taco Bell and Deadpool & Wolverine

M: That's a MOVIE. That's not a hobby.

Me: It is when you go four times.

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War Games

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 18:52:22 GMT

Someone on TUMBLR suggested that George Lucas watched the War Games serial of Doctor Who and it influenced Star Wars. The argument was flimsy; basically, the glasses technology that works the same as the Jedi Mind Trick.

From a factual standpoint, War Games aired in Britain in 1969. Doctor Who was already airing in the United States. Tom Hanks has stated he was already a fan at this point, and Walt Disney died in 1966, but not before trying to make an American Doctor Who film. It's plausible although Steven Spielberg claims he was introduced to Doctor Who by Tom Hanks.

However...now that I've watched War Games, there are little things like the use of "Empire" and "Rebellion" and little things that make me wonder if they're right...

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2024 Theatrical Film Preview Post

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:01:06 GMT

This is the top 20 films I'm most looking forward to according to IMDB because Wiki was inaccurate last year...

Borderlands
Deadpool & Wolverine
Despicable Me 4
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
IF
Inside Out 2
Kraven the Hunter
Lee
Moana 2
Monkey Man
Mufasa: The Lion King
Nosferatu
Piece by Piece
Problemista
Red One
The Fall Guy
Thelma
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Wild Robot
Wicked

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My Favorite Films of 2023

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:51:12 GMT

My favorite films of 2023
Movies must be seen in a proper theatre between January 1, 2023 at 12:01 AM and December 31, 2023 at 12:00. Movies cannot have been included in a previous list. Thus, Jurassic Park was ineligible. Films are graded by merit and artistic triumphs as well as how much I desire to ever see it again.

1. Godzilla Minus One
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
3. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour / Renaissance; A Film by Beyonce
4. Haunted Mansion
5. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
6. Elemental
7. The Marvels
8. Barbie
9. Wonka
10. The Creator
11. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
12. Wish
13. The Amazing Maurice
14. Asteroid City
15. Five Nights at Freddy’s
16. Trolls: Band Together
17. The Color Purple
18. Blue Beetle
19. Oppenheimer
20. A Haunting in Venice

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Instagram

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 03:13:20 GMT

If you're ever curious...

erica.dawn16 on Instagram

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Austin Powers in Goldmember

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 01:58:40 GMT

Unanswered questions from Goldmember:

When Nigel know Dr Evil was his missing twin?

Did he purposely encourage the school to have Austin and Dr Evil be roommates?

Is MiniMe Austin's twin, brother or nephew?

Also, I finally finished Loki...

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Hi

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 06:23:50 GMT

I just wanted the date and time, lol.

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Nephew Post: Lok

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:52:57 GMT

I was just remembering the time that my nephews found out that Loki gave birth to Jörmungandr and other children.

hehe

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Flashback

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:36:12 GMT

Flashback to that time in 2020 when my mom was watching a marathon of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to avoid the State of the Union address:
If I have to watch something dumb, I'd rather that than the President talking.

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Preserving fabric work

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:18:45 GMT

Now, with our quilts, we just display them on furniture in the living room, but this is a whole different situation.

I'm the current custodian of a 50 year old band banner until a better place happens. It's hand sewn, including tassels and fringe. We haven't had any problems with moths in the house and we've lived here over 40 years.

However, how do I store to keep it in best condition? It was folded, but I noticed some edges of the letters were bent wrong so I have it rolled now.

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My Favorite Films of 2022

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 03:32:44 GMT

Movie Rules

Movies must have been seen in a proper theatre between 12:01 AM January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022. A proper theatre is defined as a screen at least 72 inches tall with surround sound. Movies are eligible if they weren't released this year BUT haven't been on a previous annual list.

1. Fantasia
2. Everything, Everywhere All at Once
3. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
4. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
5. Jurassic World: Dominion
6. Bullet Train
7. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
8. See How They Run
9. The Bob’s Burgers Movie
10. Downton Abbey: A New Era
11. The Bad Guys
12. Strange World
13. Bros
14. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
15. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
16. Top Gun: Maverick
17. Thor: Love and Thunder
18. Cyrano
19. Uncharted
20. The Fabelmans

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Nicole

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:30:29 GMT

"In the eye of a hurricane, there is quiet"

Well, there was until Nicole's eye disintegrated into a red band of mega-rain. The lack of pelting rain and banshee winds made me wake up, lol. Then, it all started again.

So, as you know, Facebook has a feature to Mark Yourself Safe from various dangerous events so not only close friends, neighbors, family knows, but people in other states and countries that care about your well-being. Today's event was called "Hurricane Nicole in Eastern Florida".

It became a thing, a thing of drama. Yes, if we're being precise, it wasn't a hurricane by the time it reached Pasco or even most or all of Polk County. Yes, Polk and Pasco aren't "Eastern Florida" but that was the only option, Mark Yourself Safe the way it was listed or not at all. It seemed better to twist the truth a little...

Well, that didn't work for some people. There were legitimate complaints about people nowhere close to the eye, and most destructive areas of her path, but there were also people complaining that a Tropical Storm didn't people freaking out or closures, just a normal day like it used to be.

That pisses me off. In the old days, we also played with mercury and ate with lead plates. Now, we know that shit was stupid, just like not using modern meteorological technology to prevent unnecessary deaths is also stupid. First of all, people drive horribly, and they do that when the weather is NICE! Add in rain and I have to be on constant guard to suddenly stop or have to swerve from a hydroplaning car like last night. The vehicles are different than they used to be, too. We used to have heavy metal cars that could double as tanks or demolition derby entries. Now, they're plastic/fiberglass/aluminum...lightweight and aerodynamic for better gas mileage, but also perfect for lifting up, being pushed over, etc. Apparently, there was even a bus crash around 1992 from high winds...which is about the time that the Crystal Springs bus crashed, but I can't remember exactly when that was or what caused it.

There's also the flooding issue. Of course, sources claim East Pasco's original name, Toadhaka, actually meant "muddy water" because of all the swamp. In times like these with a lot of rain, it even had a clear river of grass, going for miles to the Hillsborough River, but we fucked all that up. Now, there's flooding even in places they don't recall flooding before because the all the construction messed things up. I stayed home, but a friend confirmed rampant street flooding, like always.

The schools were closed, the government buildings closed, Universal Studios closed unless you were a hotel guest...
But I had to ask to be left off early last night so I could leave before the high winds started in. I wasn't scheduled today, but they were having a conference call at 8 am, but they wanted to open at 9:30 AM and it turns out Village Inn was open since 6 am...

Whatever, I really hate...I went through it and survived so everyone should have to, too...

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Ian

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 22:51:27 GMT

It was just about a week ago that Denis and Paul warned...there's this system in southern Caribbean you should be watching. Over the weekend, Denis is like...Rule #7 Don't freak out...but he's chugging Dr Pepper and it wasn't much later, that he was trying to say Don't freak out didn't mean nothing bad could happen...
Paul had that tone like don't freak out but we probably should be freaking out...
There was this lady on Monday with just sheer desperation in her eyes and voice as she said, "It could turn. It has plenty of time to turn."

I warned my mom that if NASA took Artemis off the launch pad that would be an extremely bad sign so when she told me they were...she said she almost cried.

Well, it's not as bad for us, but I hate how bad it is for friends and others down south. Ft Myers is under water up to the second floor. A friend riding out the storm in North Port had her roof collapse. I'm anxious and scared about what else is to come. Pasco was already at flood warning stage when Ian was just developing many miles away and Orlando...Orlando can be delicate.

We closed early at work yesterday. We're closed today and Thursday. I'm assuming Friday will only be open for management, but we'll see.

I hope it isn't as bad as it looks...

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Erica's 100 Things to Read before You Die

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 14:31:38 GMT

A lot of things do that 100 books everyone should read or whatever. A friend posted one and it got absolutely roasted which got me to wondering what mine would look like...

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr Seuss
Abarat by Clive Barker
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Arena by Fredric Brown
A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Beowulf by Tolkien
The Bible by Various
The Black Book of Secrets by FE Higgins
Black Hammer by Jeff Lemire
Black Science by Rik Remender, Matteo Scalera, Dean White
Blake, or the Huts of America by Martin R Delaney
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
The Cave of Time by Edward Packard or any Choose Your Own Adventure Book
Children will Listen by Stephen Sondheim
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang
Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac
Conscience for Change by Martin Luther King Jr
Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Curtis by Ray Billingsley
Daredevil by Ann Nocenti
Death of an Innocent by Jon Krakauer
Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germany by Hans J Massaquoi
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The end of policing by Alex S Vitale
Ernie Pook’s Comeek by Lynda Barry
The Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Potter
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
Georges by Alexandre Dumas
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
Gotham Academy by Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher, and Karl Kerschl
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Hawkeye: Rio Bravo by Matt Fraction and David Aja
Hotel California by the Eagles
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
If This is a Man by Primo Levi
Imagine by John Lennon
I Married Adventure by Osa Johnson
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In search of our mothers’ gardens by Alice Walker
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick
Kindred by Octavia E Butler
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Krapp’s Last tape by Samuel Beckett
The Last leaf by O henry
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Lost Stars by Claudia Gray
The Lost World by Michael Crichton
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman
Mean by Myriam Gurba
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
My Movie Business by John Irving
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
None of the Above by IW Gregorio
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by TS Elliot
OMAC: The One Man Army Corps by Jack Kirby
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Papa, Please get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
Queen’s Shadow by EK Johnston
The Quran by Various
Rainbow Revolutionaries by Sarah Prager
The Reason I jump by Naoki Higashida
Riders of the Suwannee by Lee Gramling
Shade, the Changing Girl by Cecil Castelluci, Marley Zarcone
Shipping Out by David Foster Wallace
Songs of the Gorilla Nation by Dawn Prince-Hughes
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin B Eastman and Peter Laird
Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly
The Tendrils of the Vine by Colette
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin
This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get you killed by Charles E Cobb Jr
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
The Time Machine by HG Wells
Transformers by Nick Roche, James Roberts, Guido Guidi, Various
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The Zero Meter Diving Team by Jim Shepard

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IT'S 2SDAY!!!

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:26:26 GMT

IT'S 2SDAY!!! 2/22/22 or 22/2/22

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