by Ira | Apr 10, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
We started Fallout tonight. Watched the first two episodes. It’s fun. Great cold open, actually. Like, very good. I think the tone of the show is a bit up and down—I get it, the game is very gallows humor, it is the end of the world, after all, so it’s not that I...
by Ira | Apr 9, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Joy took me hostage there for a sec, licking my face. But she’s getting better now that’s she’s growing up in being able to listen when I want her to stop. The compulsion is controllable. And a cute compulsion it is. I love, especially, picking her up by her shoulders...
by Ira | Apr 8, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
There was a solar eclipse today. Like the one back in 2017–it’s crazy to think it’s been that long since standing up on the roof of our building with a cereal box in-hand, looking at the finger-nail shaped bite that was taken out of the sun—it wasn’t a big to-do here...
by Ira | Apr 7, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
We’re almost done with our re-watch of The Terror. Season 1. It’s a goddamn masterpiece. Yup. It’s. SO. GOOD. A masterclass in…everything, honestly. And it’s perfection in the sense that it’s one and done. Sure, there’s a season 2, but it’s an entirely different show....
by Ira | Apr 6, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
It’s a late one. We were out at USC seeing our friend Joe’s world premier of a play he wrote in the Playwriting masters program over there. He graduates at the end of this term. So freaking proud of him! So proud. Liz and I got to go together, and it was wild being...
by Ira | Apr 5, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
I wrote today. That was good. What a busy, busy couple weeks. I hung with it pretty good, all things considered. Genuinely. There’s not much time for else when you’re pulling twelve, fourteen hour days with work. And those days mean recovery time for me. That’s always...
