Christmas feels strange this year. There’s no gift exchange with my Mom’s family, meaning I’m not searching Amazon for a $35-50 present based on their wishlist or what I know about them, for one thing. For another, my brother and sister-in-law aren’t traveling up here because they have to take care of their baby. Also, a war broke out a little over two months ago, meaning we’re all playing “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” in the hopes that Israel will stop bombing Gaza and Hamas will stop killing Israeli civilians. Since both groups are blinded by rage and aggression, it’s only to make us feel like we’re doing something, because otherwise we do nothing and feel worse. However, this has apparently caused more people to lash out.
I’m seeing complaints at sports teams especially, which I haven’t typically seen around this time of year (other than the fact that teams and free agents have seemed unwilling to make deals with the Seattle Mariners without likely being unreasonable last year as well as this year). This is troubling for me, because I want to dive into entertainment to ignore the pains of the world, especially since I can’t fix the war-torn areas of the world. The SAG strike made that really hard, it was “resolved” with effectively SAG being screwed over by the corporations, CEOs and producers. I am hopeful that as the years pass, nothing truly horrible happens to the actors I enjoy, but it’s difficult to think that. This is part of the reason why I’m soured on the film industry right now, another is that WB is phasing out DVDs for BluRays, also, unscrupulous people succeed and relatively innocent people lose everything and generic action schlock is seeming to win out over well-crafted love letters.
Due to that, I’m mostly hoping my Nintendo Switch will have some good entertainment going forward. I am hoping to get Super Mario RPG and Super Mario Bros. Wonder for Christmas. After those, I plan on getting Princess Peach Showtime next year, and I’m not sure beyond that, to be honest. I do have several games I hope to finish, so hopefully I will do that over the next several years. I also have plans to see 2 concerts at the Mt. Baker Theatre next year, Petty or Not and a Pride Anthems show. I also have tickets to see the Seattle Kraken play the San Jose Sharks and the Seattle Mariners play the Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Royals and Philadelphia Phillies. I also have a ticket to the Anime Washington convention in Tacoma, where there will be several voice actors and actresses who have played important and memorable characters in my life, notably Tara Platt, Brittney Karbowski, Arryn Zech with Barbara Dunkelman and Ruby and Weiss' actresses, Yuri Lowenthal, Kate Higgins, Erika Harlacher, Elizabeth Maxwell and more.
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