Don Hall 7/23/22 Don Hall 7/23/22

Live Your Life as If It Were a Comedy

The world is ridiculous. My life is just as open to mockery. Maybe that's the trade-off. If I can find myself to be a legitimate source of comedy, I get a pass on finding everyone else as a source of hilarity.

Don Hall 7/21/22 Don Hall 7/21/22

I Like to Watch | Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

While the world may be oversaturated with too much MCU, I'm not. I am, however, thinking Waititi might need a break. He is almost the MCU Joel Schumacher.

Don Hall 7/19/22 Don Hall 7/19/22

Crisis Headlines Are Not Helping

Despite the desperate need to spin reality, perspective is essential to keep your head from exploding like that dude in Scanners. Perspective is about wondering what the headlines might look like from a different angle than your baked-in certitude of moral authority dictates.

Don Hall 7/18/22 Don Hall 7/18/22

I Believe... [No More High School Drama, PLZ]

I believe... that with the state of society in 2022, a moratorium on high school dramas is in order. I get all the bitchy, judgmental bullying I need in line at the grocery store.

Don Hall 7/14/22 Don Hall 7/14/22

I Like to Watch | Elvis (2022)

Like The Greatest Showman—a movie musical that completely reframes the huckster P.T. Barnum into an equity-chasing social justice type—this is not intended to be an accurate biopic. It is a meditation on the legend that was Elvis Presley.

Don Hall 7/11/22 Don Hall 7/11/22

I Believe... [Heartbroken Woody]

...that all the Toy Story movies are actually about divorce.

Don Hall 7/10/22 Don Hall 7/10/22

The Inner Monologue is Making Me Nuts

I'm having a hard time getting motivated.

Don Hall 7/9/22 Don Hall 7/9/22

A Case for Optimism (sans Rose-Colored Glasses)

Optimism is an act of resilience against the brutal harshness of living the existential crisis.

Don Hall 7/7/22 Don Hall 7/7/22

What You Write Tells Us Who You Are

This skinny, tattooed fucker told us what he was going to do. He wrote and posted videos telling anyone listening the plan. He isn't the outlier—most mass shooters write out their intent and display it to the world well before legally purchasing a weapon and unleashing their fury on bystanders.

Don Hall 7/5/22 Don Hall 7/5/22

I Like to Watch | Best Movies to Watch for a Recently Divorced Man

When a man goes through a divorce—especially one predicated by infidelity —he is need of a few reminders and narratives.

Don Hall 7/4/22 Don Hall 7/4/22

I Believe... [Happy Fourth—Party in the ICU]

...that, admittedly, Independence Day this year feels a bit like throwing a party for friend in a coma from an awful car accident who has no health insurance. “I’m sorry, sir. You can’t shoot that bottle rocket off in here. This is the ICU.”

Don Hall 6/30/22 Don Hall 6/30/22

The Cold (un)Civil War

These are all the warning bells of a new era of states rights and a roll back from federal control in the United States and the Left side of the issues continues to blare the outrage that this is all the fault of Donald Trump.

Don Hall 6/21/22 Don Hall 6/21/22

Finding Purpose in a World on Fire

What purpose do I serve? Am I merely a creature of consumption and survival or is there something more than drives me? These are questions I'd guess an awful lot of people are asking right now. COVID shocked the world into a dark gaze into the void of routine and comfort, of complacency in the face of chaos just at bey.

Don Hall 6/20/22 Don Hall 6/20/22

I Believe... [Binary Choices]

...that the internet operates on a binary set of numbers, 1’s and 0’s. Humanity operates with far more complexity. As the internet continues to evolve into humanity’s primary means of communication, we can’t help but begin to see the world in binary terms.

Don Hall 6/18/22 Don Hall 6/18/22

I Like to Watch | The Rocky Saga (1976 - 2006)

This is the wisdom of Stallone. The wisdom of someone had to fight like hell just to star in the movie he wrote for himself. The wisdom of someone looked down upon, laughed at, and ignored yet refused to give up. That's the legacy of Sylvester Stallone and it is most crystallized in his character most like himself.

Don Hall 6/16/22 Don Hall 6/16/22

Advice From a Dimwitted GenXer to Himself

Success comes from a cocktail of luck, timing, and the willingness to be completely reckless and thoughtless and bold.

Don Hall 6/13/22 Don Hall 6/13/22

I Believe... [First the Show, Then the Convictions?]

...that if, at the end of the January 6 Commission’s hearings, no one significant goes to prison, it was all just a campaign commercial.

Don Hall 6/11/22 Don Hall 6/11/22

American Jobs—Selling Amoco MultiCards to Old Women

"But doesn't it bother you any? I kind of feel like crap after a shift. I keep thinking about all of these poor people who can't afford these things and that we just hammer them over and over until they sign up for the card to be polite. I dunno. It seems... unethical or something."

Don Hall 6/9/22 Don Hall 6/9/22

The Truth Will Set You Free...

Here it comes, kid. For some time upcoming, you'll pass those places and moments when things were shiny and wonderful but the patina of betrayal will be right there to make each one bittersweet. Sonofabitch, I hate this part.

Don Hall 6/7/22 Don Hall 6/7/22

The Foley Artiste

She wanted to be lusted after, to be prey to the kind of men who fetishized her. She understood that kind of power over men. Her husband was not susceptible to that sort of control and, she imagined he might not be even if his eyes functioned.