Kate Cox

This is making me realize, after decades of studying French and many years of adding Spanish, that I've just fully accepted full chaos on all the Latin origin words in English lolol

Yeah, the Disney tapes I wore out as a kid were Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, and Pinocchio (even though I didn't like that one as much). The big puffy-case versions, haha.

Oh, man.

I mean, not counting the tapes I wore out as a small child because we only had a handful of early VHS, I definitely saw all the LOTR movies a dozen times each in theaters because I had free admission to AMC courtesy of film school haha

We're actually watching that iteration of Superman (along with the last season of Batman) with the kids right now, haha. I didn't see most of it the first time, since by then I was in high school and never home.

Man, Clancy Brown is also such a "that guy!!" courtesy of his absolute mountains of voice work

Shit, yeah, I hadn't seen that yet

We trick or treated at a house that had a piece of paper on the door with a lovely hand drawn blue jay head and the message "closing shop at 8:00, GAME 6"

I'm not actually mean enough to put the Icelandic salted licorice in our bowl but I might slip it to my own kids...

now I want brisket. why do you keep making me hungry with videos lolol

The "early Black Friday" emails are already arriving in my inbox (like, my personal inbox, not work pitches), if we're wondering how Holiday 2025 is going

And no matter what you are writing -- scripts, fiction, reporting -- read it out loud to yourself to hear what it actually says.

Every time we have a recording at 4pm on a Friday (usually because we're talking with someone several time zones behind us, and scheduling with CEOs is tough), I get mad at Past Kate for scheduling it. I do it TO MYSELF and yet.

This is my new favorite menu in any game ever, bless them from the heart of my queasy, queasy soul

ah yes: when Blue Prince was exactly both at once lol

There are SO MANY other beds -- both human and feline -- he could have chosen to sleep on, his own fault for picking the 7yo's haha

Welp, now I know what "cat falling asleep on a magna-tile structure that then collapses and falls off the side of the bed under him, taking him with, and indignantly waking up while falling onto magna-tiles" sounds like. That sure is a weirdly specific sound to now live in my head forever.

And it's hard, right, to feel overwhelmed with work you mostly like doing, when it also feels like still having a decent job makes you one in a hundred and like it's churlish to have complaints.

Yeah.

lol some families have never yet stopped playing Animal Crossing. (It's been fascinating watching how my kids age with it - the elder one was 6 when it came out, the younger one is now 7, both of them are constantly begging me for bells)

The late 90s for me were this wild whiplash between the swing revival (admittedly my boyfriend was the drummer in the jazz band lol) and, like, Britney Spears popping up

well, now I need a croissant

It's all such an absolutely unhinged mess. Luckily my mom didn't really have digital assets but, like, I had to be a backend workaround for a close friend who didn't have a FB account, to notify FB of her brother's death, because you have to be in the system to send a ticket. So dumb.

Hmm. I also grew up in a town with a huge mormon population (where the Romneys lived, in MA haha) and I don't remember any of the kids doing backflips but a WILD number of them could just do a flip in the air from a standing position.

I would _still_ happily read books the whole time on road trips except motion sickness caught up with me around age 13 🥴

(Elder child also takes after me. Younger kid at least so far can read in the car still haha)

lol I was "19" on the internet the day we got AOL, when I was in fact a 14-year-old high school freshman, and I'm preeeeeeetty sure today's kids do not lie less than we did.

Yeah, I usually have Strength in my deck but... that run was just cursed haha. Gonna switch which fear I used next time lol. (In Hades 1 my thing was always to load up on Hermes boons and race through and do all the timed challenges like a boss haha)

Rivals Prometheus brings a friend who hits like a freight train, and who stays active on the field when you are, e.g., trying to play Simon with lines of fire. I hated giving the smug bastard the satisfaction of Mel dropping dead lol but I'd used up a death defiance on Medea poisoning me earlier.

I tried my first 16 fear upstairs run last night and was smote by my hubris, appropriately, when I hit rivals Prometheus. (I did complete a 16 fear downstairs run.)

October always sneaks up on me every year, having to re-learn concepts like "turn the porch light on for people to come home from work and school" and "why is it dark in my office after 2pm"

You'd think I'd know by now, but apparently not.

Warner Bros. mergers never work, but they’re trying again anyway It’s a tale as old as time.

"That trick NEVER works!" is in fact a thing we have said aloud about WB in our house, a lot, because we are both media nerds.

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Well, that's exhausting.

I get how we get here -- pendulums swinging, reaction / counter-reaction, all that jazz -- but that really feels a little uncalled-for in the reality we inhabit