NoJoMo 8 & Such in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

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How would/do you feel if/about a remake of your favorite childhood movie/cartoon?

This is all too real for me. My favorite cartoon shows when I was a kid? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and X-Men. Both of which have been remade, turned into movies, ruined all over the place, and repackaged to go through all of it all over again. With X-Men, I gave them a try. I mean… the comics are a continuing venture so why not check out new cartoons and movies. Except… that was kind of a burn. While there were some interesting episodes in the newer cartoon shows; they played A LOT with cannon and characterization. Example: Turning Nightcrawler into a kind of emo teenager? That’s bullshit. Especially as Nightcrawler was on the second X-Men Team (making him the same age, and giving him a similar history, to Storm). And the movies? X-Men 1 was okay… FAR from perfect but tolerable. X-Men 2 was okay. They made some choices I didn’t support but it was still a decent addition to the cinematic universe. Then X-Men 3 was a dumpster fire. Wolverine Origins was a dumpster fire if the dumpster was filled with soiled diapers. And X-Men first class, while an okay film, was mostly evidence that the Script Writers had completely given up.

How would/do you feel if/about a remake of your favorite childhood movie/cartoon?

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Yesterday was insanely productive. I did a lot of work at the office, I went to the grocery store, I worked out, I rinsed dishes (and put them in the dishwasher and ran the dishwasher and then emptied the dishwasher), I cleaned both the upstairs and downstairs toilets… I did a lot really. So of course today rolls around and I don’t wanna do anything. I take that back. I do want to do stuff. I want to spend time writing for me. I want to spend time voting and making food with my Wife. I want to spend time playing video games and reading. I don’t want to spend all day on the phone. I don’t want to go through a metric half ton of paper work. I don’t want to deal with the fact that the Board hasn’t contacted Boss or I about the hiring process. Ultimately… largely… I have to trick myself and go into a Superstitious place to motivate. I tell myself that “This is when you can prove to The Powers That Be that you are capable of doing whatever they throw at you. If you prove that, maybe they’ll let you move on from this awful place.” And that is my motivator. To somehow convince the powers of the universe that I really don’t need to stay here and that they are more than welcome to intervene on my behalf in Cyclone City.

Because that is still one of the key things in my mind. I know that (for my sake and Wife’s sake) we need to get out of here. It is just the truth. The place is too small, too isolated, and too far away from friends and family. But leaving here without something to move TO really is the worst option.