Don Hall 12/19/22 Don Hall 12/19/22

I Believe... [Trump Cards?]

...that $99 is a steal for a Donald Trump Official Digital Trading Card but the very person who would appreciate it most can’t work his phone and is still using a 2005 Dell desktop.

Don Hall 12/15/22 Don Hall 12/15/22

The Final Stage of Grief

Sunday, May 11, 2014 was the day things changed. All of the inspirational phrases, carefully set in creative fonts, became pronouncements of love.

Don Hall 12/13/22 Don Hall 12/13/22

When You Can't Tell the Difference Between Snake Oil and Hair Tonic

We are now in the Golden Age of the Grift.

Don Hall 12/12/22 Don Hall 12/12/22

I Believe... [Website Design is a Service]

...that if the government can compel a website designer to provide the service for a gay wedding, it can likewise compel another website designer to provide the service for a Neo-Nazi wedding and, in my opinion, it should in both cases.

Don Hall 12/8/22 Don Hall 12/8/22

I Like to Watch | The Best and Worst of 2022

Doesn't Schrader know that there was a rogue wave that hit a cruise ship and pulled a woman overboard? Is he aware of the fact the democracy is ending... what? It didn't end? What the fuck?

Don Hall 12/6/22 Don Hall 12/6/22

Law School Might Have Been a Good Idea If Money Was the Object of My Dreams

I look around and one of the professions cleaning up is law. Lawyers are making serious bank on stupid lawsuits designed to appease the moral indignation of people looking to game the system by way of legislation.

Don Hall 12/5/22 Don Hall 12/5/22

I Believe... [The Perfect Christmas Playlist]

...that Violent Night joins my perfect Christmas playlist along with Bad Santa, The Ref, and, yes, David Himmel, Die Hard.

Don Hall 12/1/22 Don Hall 12/1/22

To Manage Stress, Remember You Could Die in the Next Ten Seconds

No, dying is not that scary. It's unfathomable because it is a leap into a void of the unknown and unknowable, but not something which we should shy away.

Don Hall 11/28/22 Don Hall 11/28/22

I Believe... [Half Full Patriarchy]

...that without the patriarchy, hundreds of OnlyFans creators with no skills but great tits would have to get jobs.

Don Hall 11/26/22 Don Hall 11/26/22

I Like to Watch | Barbarian (2022)

This is a truly imaginative, risky film. The script is great, the performances (especially Campbell) are stellar, and nothing about this smart, idea-driven monster movie is anything but outside the box.

Don Hall 11/24/22 Don Hall 11/24/22

[Worth Revisiting] Trusting Hope Over Experience: The Shedding of the Old

“Everything I had built in the past 15 years just went up in smoke. It’s gone. I mean, what the fuck do I do now?”

My friend had gone through one of those tribulations that involved losing status within the community of artists he was a part of, losing his job on top of that, and flailing his now beaten down limbs in search of what he was supposed to do, who he was supposed to be, after the dust had settled.

I understood the feeling.

Don Hall 11/21/22 Don Hall 11/21/22

I Believe... [Be Fucking Grateful]

...that the holiday isn’t about the food or the genocide—it’s about being fucking grateful. Practice a bit of gratitude and maybe you won’t be such bitter, partisan sonofabitch. Also, grab a plate of root vegetables and offer your indigenous neighbors a blanket covered in small pox cuz covering all bases is the American way.

Don Hall 11/17/22 Don Hall 11/17/22

I Like to Watch | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

His leading actor died. Instead of replacing him or finding a convenient way to deal with it, Coogler embraced the death as a part of the narrative, effectively honoring both Boseman and T'Challa in one fell swoop. I'm so goddamned impressed with the depth of creativity and feeling.

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

I Believe... [GenX Kids Were Monsters]

...that, if you’re honest with yourself, you know that you and your prepubescent friends would’ve beat E.T. with rebar and hammers, would’ve absolutely ostracized Edward Scissorhands, and would’ve taken Rick Moranis’s shrunken kids and put them in a mason jar with a firecracker.

Don Hall 11/3/22 Don Hall 11/3/22

If Not Biden, Who?

Yeah, politics has become a Bizarro World version of the wrestling world of ridiculous hype and flexing muscles but it still actually matters.

Don Hall 11/1/22 Don Hall 11/1/22

The Easy Gullibility at the Heart of Self Proclaimed Identity

In the parlance of a generation a few beyond my own "I don't care what you call me as long as you don't call me late for dinner."

Don Hall 10/31/22 Don Hall 10/31/22

I Believe... [Leaving Elon's Twitter]

...that the same people screaming that they’ll be leaving Twitter because Musk owns it are the exact same people who vowed to move to Canada if Trump was elected and guess what? They are full of shit. We know they’re full of shit so do we take their admonitions about anything else seriously?

Don Hall 10/30/22 Don Hall 10/30/22

Farewell to Las Vegas

It wasn't supposed to go this way but the universe giggles when we make plans.

Don Hall 10/30/22 Don Hall 10/30/22

When Your Ideas Become Your Identity, Disagreements Become Personal Attacks

The more each of us aligns our identities with orthodoxy, the harder it is to separate ourselves from the talking points of ideology.

Don Hall 10/27/22 Don Hall 10/27/22

Who Are 'The Working Class' and Aren't Most of Us Already Them?

Beyond the hyperbolic rhetoric that states quite clearly and with great repetition that a vote for pretty much anyone of any ideological stripe is the final nail in the coffin for our democratic way of life, there is the drumbeat that gives us that delicious rhythm of the Great Abandonment of the Working Class.