Thursday Art Walk 246: Sketching Along

In Which I Done Did Drawings

It's snowing.

It's 33℉ (~0.5℃), so cloudy it's nearly too dark to see, and it's spitting snow.

I am not ready for winter. My fluffy Star Wars jim jams are on. My soft sweatshirt is on. My slipper socks are on. My blanket fort and my blanket nest are well-stocked with fluffy coverings and I have my shawl wrapped around Dedbert to keep him warm (Dedbert is my cute green owl son). Yet still, I am unprepared.

My cat refuses all attempts at cuddling, as that would mean leaving one of the many blanket nests we've set up for her in the living room, which she refuses to entertain if food is not involved.

What I'm saying is that it's the perfect day to stay inside if you can, curl up with cocoa, and sketch random stuff you see.

"Coffee, Cardinal, and Cat"; pencil and ink study on legal size printer paper; 2019

I'll be doing more art as the day progresses, but that's what I've taken a picture of so far, so there you go!

Also, the wrinkles are because my cat decided that the papers were the right place to stand while waiting for me to arrange her new blanket tent. Which she proceeded to fall asleep on top of. :| Cats.

Such a sleepy baby she didn't even notice the flash...

I have many things to do, and a limited window in which to do them, so that's all from me :)

Go Enjoy Something!
FC

Wednesdaymania 246: AEW Full Gear

In Which I Watched A Pay Per View!

I'm going to make this blog basically just my reactions to the matches for Full Gear, so if you're looking for a blow-by-blow, I'm afraid I just don't have that!

My partner, my Wrestling Friendos and I settled in and watched both the preshow and Full Gear together. These are my thoughts as I watched these great programs:

THE PRESHOW:

Excalibur, Taz, and I believe Goldenboy were on commentary, knocking it out of the park.

Match 0: Bea Priestly vs Britt Baker DMD

• Britt's strikes are yikes - she's not much of a striker
• Bea's stomps are terrifying, especially in contrast to Britt's 2000s Impact Knockout strikes...
• Darby Allin was seated in the crowd and looked... uh... intrigued.
• Britt gave a decent showing but was completely outclassed by Bea Priestly, yet Britt still won.
• After the match, Brandi Rhodes (in her new classy voodoo queen getup) and Awesome Kong (the Weave Hunter) show up to beat down Bea Priestly and neither my partner nor I are down with Kong bringing an honest-to-God knife to the ring, which she uses to cut a lock of Bea's hair to add to her hair belt.
• Are we really doing a scalping gimmick in 2019-2020?
• Or is this going into creepy magic territory?

At this point, JR came down to join the commentary desk because... I guess they only had a single match on the preshow? Okay...

THE SHOW PROPER:

Match 1: Young Bucks vs Proud and Powerful Santana and Ortiz

• Rock and Roll Express heckled Santana and Ortiz from the crowd
• We were all a bit distracted by the sheer volume of smoke that was appearing, despite the minimal (so far) pyro.
• The match began with blows, which was pretty fun
• RIP the guy in the front row who wound up getting kicked in the face by Ortiz when he went over the guard rail
• Ooh, they really enforced all of the Tag rules here - ref has to see you tag in!
• Ortiz and Santana performed possibly the most insane and indescribable submission I've ever seen on both of the Bucks!
• The stream started to falter here, so we kept losing image (though not always sound...)
• We came back to the Bucks in the crowd with Rock and Roll Express
• The Bucks came back like a house of fire with a shocking five suplexes in a row it was incredible!
• Lost connection again, then lost it entirely until we came back to learn (with minimal replay) that Santana and Ortiz had won.
• Sammy Guevara came down to heckle the Elite with his streaming nonsense
• Rock and Roll came to the Bucks' aid, somehow managing to dive more in three minutes than the Bucks had during the whole match.
• Wow.
• Absolutely watch this match if you get the chance.

My only concern is that the Elite have such bad records. I mean... Jericho and his guys are alright, but... I kinda showed up to AEW for the ELITE part of ALL ELITE WRESTLING, and it's not all that fun to have to wait for the single match where one of their guys wins in a Pay Per View. Especially if you're going to charge us fifty bucks here in the states. We cannot afford to pay that much money every 8-12 weeks just to watch our favorites lose, lose, lose.

Match 2: PAC vs Hangman Adam Page

• "COWBOY SH*T" and "HE'S A F**KING HORSE" signs in the crowd killed me
• This is an intensely violent match. In retrospect, it's even more violent than MOX/Omega...
• Both of these wrestlers are amazing
• PAC tried to crush Page's skull
• It was a gorgeous, agonizing match and I absolutely cannot describe it so if you can find this match, absolutely watch it. This was my pick for Match of the Night.
• YES! Chalk one up for the Hangman!!!

The Arena then blacked out after the match had concluded and everyone was backstage. At first I was confused, then spotlights shown on a lone man sitting in a folding chair on the ramp.

Ah.

It's Shawn Spears!

Match 3: Shawn Spears with Tully Blanchard vs Joey Janela

• This card was pretty wrestling-heavy and chatting-light, which I like.
• Also Joey Janela's weird, somersault entrance is hilarious and cracks me up every time.
• Joey spends this match taking a ton of punishment, including having his hair literally tied to the ring, which was great!
• I'm... not really feeling the "Joey Janela - Technical Wrestler" thing. I feel like he works best as a nutbar.
• Tully using Shawn to spike Joey was amazing.
• Shawn Spears wins.

One of the few backstage segments happens and we learn that Kip Sabian has stolen Joey Ryan's ex-wife, Penelope Ford!

Match 4: Private Party vs Lucha Bros vs SCU

• From the first entrance, we knew this match was going to be amazing
• And it did, though it was a bit messy (as multi-man tag matches tend to be)
• Fenix is a god of wrestling
• SCU managed to win, but only just barely
• Everyone looked strong
• well... until the Lucha Bros utterly punked out SCU after the bell.
• Arena lights went out, and when they came back, there was another, thinner Pentagon Jr in the ring!
• Mirror spot, where Penta looked pretty stoked to have a double until...
• New Penta beat down Real Penta!
• New Penta was secretly Christopher Daniels, back from his injury!
• Wonderful.

Match 5: RIHO vs Emi Sakura

• I wish they'd been able to add more to the history behind this match during Dynamite
• Student vs Teacher is always fantastic!
• Emi's emoting is awesome
• RIHO makes a fantastic ragdoll
• there's an apron spot that made my spine hurt
• JR cannot remember their names. He cannot remember "Emi", which sounds like a white person name, and he cannot remember "Riho", which is literally two simple syllables. It's distracting. He does the same thing with Sammy Guevara because he can't pronounce "Give Ara" (which isn't necessarily the correct pronunciation, but most of the time it's acceptable...)
• I enjoy the way the match feels like it's in actual slow-motion at times, but then a spot will happen that feels like time speeds up to 3x or something!
• RIHO wins, of course, but Emi was clearly the more experienced wrestler.

Main Event: Cody vs Jericho

• Can... can I just say that all of this feels like it's too soon? Cody forsaking any future attempts at the championship, Jericho being himself... it feels like something we should be getting halfway through next year, not right now.
• That being said, this is a spectacular match... if one that made me (temporarily) regret paying so much money to watch it. I get too emotionally involved. That's why I screamed at Bully Ray at the Lewiston ROH show last year...
• Dean Malenko, Arn Anderson, Keiji Mutoh (the Great Muta) are the judges.
• Cody rose through the floor to ALL PYRO EVERYTHING
• MJF is here
• Cody's mom is in the crowd and has a jacket with "MOM" embroidered on it awwwwwww
• Jericho has Hager and his stupid scarf.
• "WALLS OF CHOLESTEROL" sign lol
• "He is the grandson of a plumber, he is the father of a husky"..."From Undesirable to Undeniable" are both part of Cody's ring intro
• Oh boy, this match both wowed and infuriated me.
• Jericho's stupid weight belt was a constant distraction, and I should've known from the start what he'd do with it.
• Jericho tried to mess with Dean Malenko, who gives him nothing (which is the opposite of what they used to do - they had some unbelievable matches!)
• Cody targeting Jericho's stupid elbow was great!
• Cody faceplanting on the ring and having his face seem to explode into blood, however, was terrifying.
• Blood everywhere. Hager gave Jericho a steel chair, which Jericho uses to take a seat in the ring.
• Hager attacked Cody outside, which... uh... you'd think the Judges would have something to say about it, but as we'll see soon, they were an utterly pointless addition to this match, which ticks me off.
• Joey Janela had a safer match than this
• Cody is having a Joey Janela match.
• We GOT A BICYCLE kick from Cody
• Jericho tried to get into Mama Rhodes' face and got slapped for his trouble, then Cody speared him and Mom beat him some more.
• Aubrey finally had enough of Jericho and Hager's garbage and ejected Hager, who attacked MJF.
• The crowd was electric for the Crossroads and then Cody's Bionic Elbow
• Jericho whipped Cody with the weight belt, which Aubrey also yanked away.
• After some brutal (if a bit tubby) Lion Tamers, MJF... threw in a towel that literally never existed in this match until this moment.
• This is stupid.
• It's not a good finish.
• It destroys any momentum the Elite have gained.
• MJF also turns on Cody (way too early in my opinion)
• A fan threw their beer all over MJF, because of course they did.
• There was no payoff to the judges.
• It feels like they forgot 80% of this match.
• And it's not a short match.
• Meh. It's the first time a main event has left me cold.

I want to say this, however, that in the days since Full Gear, I have to stand by every ounce of my disappointment in this match. It feels like a tower of blocks that they tried to knock over in a spectacular fashion but only half-managed. It's messy. It's unsatisfying. And worst of all, it doesn't really leave any room for intrigue or development.

Because if anyone says they're surprised by MJF's betrayal, they're either lying or... maybe not that smart.

And it's just not satisfying to have someone the crowd us so behind suddenly... removed from the picture.

Because Cody has nowhere left to go.

And, to be honest, if he's going to step 100% into his XVP position, then his first move should be to fire MJF for assaulting talent (him). Because MJF wasn't booked to wrestle. He just beat an executive up.

So... it's messy and makes no sense.

I don't care that Cody lost, really. It's how and when.

And the lack of relevance for the judges in the context of the Pay Per View is infuriating. They were pointless. They were superfluous, and that's the worst thing you can have in a match.

But there's still one more match!

LIGHTS OUT MATCH: MOX vs Kenny Omega

• Mox entering through the crowd is fantastic, and the match started like a rocket
• "Unsanctioned, huh? Time for some ****ing garbage!" - Mox
• "At least it wasn't Dippindots!" - JR on Kenny hitting Mox with a beer in the crowd after they brawl into the stadium.
• Omega stomping Mox into the garbage was great!
• Mox brought in his barbed wire bat and began bloodying Kenny up, grinding the wire into Kenny's back.
• NOT THE FACE, JON - DON'T BARB UP HIS FACE!
• I felt quite ill when Mox raked up and down Kenny's arm with the barbed wire, so good for you guys, that was nasty (even though it didn't start to bleed)
• Kenny sought a table, set it up, then grabbed his barbed wire broom.
• Mox dumped a trash can on kenny and got CLEANED for his troubles. There was blood.
• Never did like CZW
• Owie owie ow
• The mousetrap board was scary at first, but when you realize they aren't the kind with the spike, they're way less frightful and way funnier.
• Oh man, I hated that screwdriver
• And the broken glass.
• I don't care if it's actually that beet sugar glass they use on cakes, it looked nasty.
• Kenny was VICIOUS, jamming the glass into Mox's mouth, then V Trigger, then slam onto glass, followed by two more V Triggers
• NO STABBING PLZ
• NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
• Kenny Stabbed Mox in the Forehead (it was actually scraping, but I was freaking out when I wrote these notes)
• Kenny then called on the Elite to retrieve a two-layer barbed wire mattress made of pipes. It's... kinda crummy looking, tbh, but Kenny isn't well-versed in the making of barbed wire surfaces on which to suplex opponents.
• Kenny ended up being the one Suplexed onto the Bed Of Pain
• The Set Spot, where they wound up inside the Plexiglass logo in the metal bulkhead, was awesome
• Kenny liked that. More of that.
• Piece of table chucked at Mox
• Paradigm Shift. Kickout.
• Mox peeled the ring apart like an onion, thankfully ditching the blade he'd used to cut the ties on the apron.
• Top Rope 450 CRASH to ring boards
• Paradigm Shift onto wood. Mox won!
• Yikes.

That was, overall a pretty decent PPV, but... I'm not really keen on the "Only One Elite Guy And/Or Team Can Win Per Pay Per View" thing they've got going (SCU and Page, tonight). I also have already voiced my opinions on the Jericho/Cody thing.

It feels too soon.

It feels incomplete.

It also feels like Omega/Mox should've been earlier on the card, but it's a good thing it wasn't because that crowd might have rioted if they'd been left with Cody being betrayed.

Overall, I'm still conflicted on this PPV, and I'm hoping there's at least some payoff for the Judges tonight. Because if not, that was stupid. They shouldn't have three ex-wrestlers of such incredible pedigree outside the ring and then serve no purpose.

Ugh.

Anyway, I'm going to watch Dynamite tonight (I hope), and see if we get any answers or if this is just going to be the worst part of the NWO and an end to consequences. If it is, I'm not going to be able to deal with it.

I hated the NWO.

We're already living in a country dominated by worthless a-holes with money. I don't exactly watch wrestling to show me the same things I see on the news - dumpster fires and dicks. I kinda watch wrestling for good wrestling and good storytelling. And adding elements that do nothing and mean nothing is NOT GOOD STORYTELLING.

So I'm still a little bitter.

And I'm hoping I'm not after tonight's show.

Also, I'd love to have a Darby Allin match tonight...

That's all from me for today!

Go Enjoy Something!

FC

Talk About Tuesday 246

In Which It's Heckin Cold

Guesssssssssssss what.

It's 33℉ (~0.6℃), wet, and there's a layer of sleet on the ground.

It's only November 12, and it's already winter.

BOOOO. I do not like this.

I'm going to have to make myself an egg sandwich in order to feel better about this :(

Anywho, it's been a heck of a week since last Tuesday. I:

• Finished my pumpkin!
• Watched AEW Full Gear
• Snuggled with my cat
• Walked a whole bunch
• Ate good noodles and pretty okay chili (it was from Wendy's and we meddled with it)
• Wrote about 500 words in one sitting for a new story
• Decided to try to make "rat soup"... but not out of rats, thanks.

I am excited for the rest of my writing, and I'm eager to try making a few things this week, but I'm not at all excited for the foggy gross weather we're having today. Cold, wet, and nasty. That's November outside the Blanket Fort.

Thankfully, I'm in my fluffy pants and a thick blanket, so... I'm not actually cold lol.

Here's my plans for the next seven days!

• Tomorrow I'll tell you all about Full Gear!
• Thursday I'll make some more art
• Friday will be about Dolemite Is My Name because I can't hold off on talking about that movie
• Saturday may be tricky because I'm still looking for a new game to play
• Sunday will be about something delicious because I'm hungry and I like to make food.
• Next Monday I'll start work on something new - if you guys don't suggest anything, I have an idea or two...
• Next Tuesday I'll blather at you about life, the weather, and what will happen next week on the blog!

That's the next seven days look like from here!

Go Enjoy Something!

FC

Fiber Monday 246: I Made A Thing!

In Which I Finish Another Pumpkin!

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I feel like I've been on fire lately for crochet :)

Here are all of the bean stitch rows finished!

I ended up having to tear out the final stitches about a dozen times because I literally cannot figure out the tension so that it's not too spaced-out! Regardless, I eventually reduced down from 30 to 24 to 18 to 12 to 6 stitches and ended up with a finished pumpkin!

And then I jammed a stick in it.
Apparently, they used hot glue and rolled up felt in the original pattern.
I had neither, so a stick it was.

After I got the stick in place, I began to use the very, very long tail I had left over to slowly section off the pumpkin so it wasn't just a blob with a stick in it.

Here's one view of the finished pumpkin!

Here's another!

I wish I had been able to take better pictures of this project, but it's a gray and gross day, so better pictures will have to wait :| Such is life.

So that's another gourd finished! Are there any requests for the next project? Any suggestions for future attempts at this pattern?

Because that's all for me, today!

Go Enjoy Something!
FC

Survival Sunday 245: Missing the Point of Vegan Noodz

In Which I Make Vegans Very Unhappy - Sorry!

Let me begin by saying this: I love vegans. I love vegan food. I love the tenets upon which veganism as a cultural movement are based. I am not, however, a vegan myself. I enjoy too many animal-based products and legitimately cannot afford to enjoy a 100% plant-based diet without being 100% miserable and living entirely off of tinned veggies, which... aren't ideal.

So when we wound up with the Samurai Ramen - a 0 animal ramen with no garlic or onion or msg (the last three of which I actually quite like) - I was a bit skeptical.

Because for me, garlic and onion are nearly my lifeblood.

And generally, "healthy" ramen is pretty bland even with the addition of either garlic or onion.

But it did look pretty amazing...

So we decided that the best way to round out this wonderfully well-intentioned noodle concoction was to add both deli chicken and egg.

Which is pretty morbid when you think about it...

Deli chicken breast, which I sliced up and soaked in the egg

I enjoy the occasional vegan ramen, to be certain - they're usually beautifully put-together with some really fascinating soup bases and flavor combinations. However, I was... incredibly hungry the day we made this, and I find these ramens to be usually a little hard to fill me up. So I decided that the animal proteins would serve as filler here. Delicious, delicious filler.

The noodles were thin and only lightly salted, and the soup base
was liquid, so I couldn't open it ahead of time to check how it smelled.

I was very, very excited to try this ramen, so I started up a pot to boil on the stove with about 1.5 cups of water for each sheaf of noodles (3 cups total). Meanwhile I grabbed a small knife and sliced the chicken into thin strips and cracked a pair of eggs into a bowl with them. Then I broke the yolks and got everything mixed together. At this point, my partner decided that the "no garlic/onions" thing was not for us, so in went some garlic powder and a little curry powder as well. I loooooooooove curry, so I was all for that.

No joke, I actually kind of wanted to just... dig into this as it was.
And I'm paranoid about raw eggs.

So here's the thing about adding eggs into ramen while it cooks: The water immediately clouds as the proteins in the eggs meld into the boiling water, and the noodles become coated. This means that every bite is filled with eggy goodness!

Though it does look a bit... nightmarish.

I really liked how the boiling action changes the texture of the chicken lunchmeat! Like with ham or roast beef, boiling the precooked chicken breast toughens it and makes it stand up better against the smooth slickness of the noodles.

I mean, look at this... it's gorgeous!

The soup base was very flavorful - almost intensely so. It had a lot of soy sauce flavor and was filled with umami. I may have to cry bull on the "no MSG" thing, since MSG comes from soy sauce (and mushrooms, and other umami foods). That's like saying there's "no vitamins" in orange juice...

Regardless, it's a really good ramen even on its own, but making it a ramen egg drop soup makes it even better! Since there were so many ingredients, we only wound up with maybe a half cup of liquid out of three cups of water! I cannot believe how good it was, too. Warm, rich, and incredibly satisfying, if you can get your hands on some Samurai Ramen, then you absolutely should.

So thank you, Umai Crate. That was awesome!

Go Enjoy Something!
FC

Saturday Casual Gaming 245: Incremancer

In Which I Do Crimes And Raise The Dead

So I have this bad habit of not finding a game I want to play until Thursday or Friday... which means I never get very far in these games. I did, however, manage to get the gist of this one.

Incremancer is a game by JamesG466 on Kongregate where you play a necromancer who is raising zombies to devour villages. As you massacre the innocents, you are granted (so far) three forms of currency: Blood, Brains, and Bones. Blood and Brains you start out earning when the first zombie you place begins to chew up the people of whatever little burgh you've ended up in. Every attacked villager earns you 1 Blood, every killed villager earns you 1 Brain. Eventually, you save enough Blood/Brains to start building, and once your graveyard is finished, not only do you automatically spawn zombies, you also now can collect Bones when your victims die!

Bones are just another currency, giving bonuses to your energy renewal speed (every zombie costs 10 energy, so keep an eye on your gauge!), how much energy/blood/bones/brains you can carry, etc.

I think one of my favorite things about this somewhat idle game is that it looks like an old Atari or Commodore game! We're talking super pixellated low-end 8-bit. The Zombies and Villagers are stacked blocks in a vaguely human shape. The houses are boxes with big open entrances. The trees are squiggly sticks. It's all very charming and very fun to look at.

It's also very easy to play - basically the only things you do are click buttons, choose where to drop your zombies, and hope that they don't send more cops... until you've got your zeds properly leveled-up, then you can pull a Return of the Living Dead...

Regardless, Incremancer is a really fun game, and I can't wait to see what later stages look like with more structures built and more blood, brains, and bones poured into my reanimated marauders :)

Go Enjoy Something!
FC

Filmic Friday 245: The Fundamentals of Caring

In Which I Talk About A Really Good Movie Based On A Really Good Book

The first thing I'd like to say is this:

I don't like comedies.

While, yes, one of my favorite horror films, House II, is a "horror comedy", and while, yes, many of the movies I like in general are comedic, Comedy as a genre is not my bag.

I probably don't like your favorite comedy movie. Sorry. It's not necessarily that most comedy is "bad" - it's just not funny to me.

The Fundamentals of Caring, however, is amazing.

It's also not really a comedy, but "drama" has come to mean "incredibly depressing movie about terrible things with no relief in sight", so this movie gets saddled with "comedy" in its description.

Any movie that uses a bold chartreuse background will get my attention.

True fact: my partner has been trying to get me to watch this movie since it came out. Why? Because we're both hot for Paul Rudd. Lol. No.

It's because this movie with its stupid title (and I stand by that statement, that's a dumb, clunky title) are based on a wonderful book by an amazing author named Jonathan Evison.

Look how much better a title that is!

Now, I'll be honest with you, I have not read the book myself, but my partner loves to read me passages from books that are good, and I'm pretty sure I ended up having 3/4 of this book read to me aloud. That tends to happen with Evison novels, I've noticed.

They're just that good!

And what is The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving/The Fundamentals of Caring about?

It's about loss, moving on, and Paul Rudd playing an avatar of Jonathan Evison.

While true, that last one is my attempt at a joke. Sorry. Lol.

This is the story of a man (Benjamin Benjamin, played by Paul Rudd), a disabled teenager (Trevor, played by Craig Roberts), and a giant hole in the ground. Trevor suffers from muscular dystrophy and requires a caregiver. He doesn't leave the house. He doesn't do much besides watch tv and be a total dick.

Enter Benjamin Benjamin. Ben was a writer once, but he's trying to duck divorce papers from his estranged wife, and he dreams of better times. I'm told that his tragedy is even more horrific in the book, by the way, so invest in tissues if you pick both book and film up for a weekend. Ben seemingly decides that one of the best ways to avoid his own problems is to pour himself into  someone else's troubles.

His first assignment is Trevor.

It... doesn't go very well at first, since Trevor has no respect for anyone and is generally a huge dick to everyone and everything, but Benjamin Benjamin's desire to avoid divorce proves too strong. Also, y'know, he legitimately cares about Trevor, despite Trevor's best efforts.

Eventually, Ben realized that Trevor may end up dying without having ever experienced anything, so he convinces Trevor's mother (played by Jennifer Ehle) to let him take Trevor on a road trip to see all of the things Trevor has been fascinated by on tv, culminating in a visit to the World's Deepest Hole.

And it goes... great...

Along the way, of course, things happen, and because it's a road trip movie, they get into wacky situations and prank each other (and if you just see a reel of the pranks, you'll think this is a step short of a dang snuff film, but they're vicious for funsies, and both know what they're getting into)... and they pick up hitchhikers.

Two young lady hitchhikers, in fact.

The first hitcher they end up with is Dot, a tough teenage traveler played by Selena Gomez. Dot and Trevor eventually develop an adorable relationship which both know cannot last. Dot fits into the duet of Trevor and Benjamin like a glove, meeting every joke and jab with one of her own, adding a sense of wry, hilariously bitter commentary into the mix as only a girl who seems to be a mix of a biker and Daria could pull off.

Dot travels most of the way with the pair, but about 2/3 of the way to the Hole, they find sweet, innocent, very pregnant Peaches (Megan Ferguson). Peaches is the best foil because at first she seems completely naive and incapable of keeping up with the swirling morass of bitter-but-lovable jerks she's found herself surrounded by, but it quickly becomes obvious that she is more than capable of taking care of herself and everyone else as well. She is their sage, but she also gives them a strong urge to protect her, even Trevor, who is uncharacteristically gentle with her. She brings out their best.

The movie is about a bunch of misfits finding their way in the world. It's about strangers coming together. It's about temporary truces and love and loss. It's about peeing standing up and giant holes in the ground. It's about learning when to let go and when to hold on.

It's so much more than a comedy.

But it's also flipping hilarious.

Almost every scene that isn't about dying and loss (and even some that are) has at least something funny in it. You'll certainly never look at breakfast or Slim-Jims the same way, and if you're a vertical-pee-er, you'll probably have a newfound appreciation of that skill when you're finished.

In short, The Fundamentals of Caring is a fantastic film, and I love that, while it does have a "happy" ending, it's not a perfect one. No one is miraculously cured, there's no sudden revelation that Ben Benjamin is actually Trevor's dad, Peaches doesn't adopt them all (though I doubt anyone would object - she's a treasure), and while there is some healing in some of the relationships throughout the movie, the letting go of a dead relationship is celebrated, finally, as the healthy thing it is.

Poignant, funny, and incredibly well-written, The Fundamentals of Caring is definitely something to watch on Netflix whenever you get a chance.

Go Enjoy Something!
FC