Tacos and Beer

I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions. I have plenty of opportunities to disappoint myself without setting difficult goals. That said, I have set a couple of hopefully not difficult goals for myself this year. First, I want to watch more new-to-me movies. For a while now, at least since the pandemic, I have spent a lot of my viewing time on comfort movies — films I love (or at least like) and have watched numerous times. I’m sure I will continue to re-watch old favorites in the future, especially when I want a movie I can halfway watch while I am doing something else. I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions. I have plenty of opportunities to disappoint myself without setting difficult goals. That said, I have set a couple of hopefully not difficult goals for myself this year. First, I want to watch more new-to-me movies. For a while now, at least since the pandemic, I have spent a lot of my viewing time on comfort movies — films I love (or at least like) and have watched nu...

I stumbled upon this  Tacos and Beer  blog the other day. I hadn’t updated it since 2012 and had almost forgotten it even exists. But exist it does. (Wordpress.com has a long memory, apparently.) And I managed to get logged back in. So I think I’m going to start blogging again. ( June 6, 2024 update: I have since decided to copy these 2024 posts over to Blogger, just because.) I have been doing some regular blogging over at Substack, but that’s a very specific blog about old comic books, not general-purpose blogging. I had kind of moved all of that sort of general-purpose stuff over to Twitter, which I used to love, but then  some rich racist bought it and ruined it . Substack is having  some Twitter-ish managerial issues  these days, too. So I probably need to stop using Substack, too. Sigh. Anyway, if you want to read about comic books from 1978, check out  Marvel Time Warp . I’ll let you know when it moves somewhere that isn’t Substack. (Spoiler: I am probably going to m...