All's well here at The Dispatch. The snails are in the walls. We were doing some work on one of the air vents in the living room and some snails got back inside the wall under the vent when we had the cover taken off. They promptly became lost and we sent some other snails in with strings tied to them to try and go find them. But the strings fell off and those snails are now lost two. There are only a handful left outside who aren't interested in helping us find their friends. They keep saying that the are getting what they deserve and we're picking up some weird tension there.

Game Boy 👾

• Magic: The Gathering
  • Played Arena and went 0 and 3 on the first time drafting the new set, which was discouraging

Albums 🎧

• "Javelin" by Sufjan Stevens
  • Listened to this on the road
• "Jenny from Thebes" by The Mountain Goats
  • Also on the road, more direct references to All Hail West Texas that I first realized

Podcasts 🎙️

• Strike Force Five
  • Pretty funny podcast with Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Fallon together raising money for their staffs during the writer's strike
  • Fun to just listen to them riff off of each other
• Armchair Expert
  • A guest who was a psychologist with a new parenting book, who distinguished between psychotherapy and and behavioral therapy, saying that behavioral is more prevalent, but psychotherapy has its place
  • Another guest who was the host of The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling and a former Westboro Baptist church member
• The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling
  • Super interesting dive into the background of the recent controversy around J.K. Rowling's comments on feminism and trans rights
  • My worldview is probably shaped more from the morals of Harry Potter than I realized

TV Shows & Movies🍿

• Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  • Watched another episode on Hulu
  • Still funny, some of it is starting to feel a bit forced though