2021 officially sucks.

[Callie Del Noire]

We lose Betty White on the last day?

https://people.com/tv/betty-white-the-golden-girls-and-hot-in-cleveland-star-dead-at-99/

[Sara Nilsson]

Its a pretty good testament to her life though when people go 99 years was too short.

[Laughing Hyena]

This is right up there with Stan Lee's death.

[Lilias]

Betty was granted a vision of the year ahead, and went, 'F this S, I'm out.'

[gaggedLouise]

Also, Spielberg has made what could likely be his greatest film in a decade - at least since Lincoln (2012) - and it turns out a resounding box-office flop in the US. :( I watched the priginal West Side Story on dvd with family Saturday - a brilliant film,  groundbreaking in so many ways - and we are so planning to watch the new one at the theatre. It also feels like just the right time to make a new film of Bernstein's masterpiece.

[Lux12]

The year was doomed to suckage since that fucking incident on the 6th. I wonder if that's why I've taken to listening to pro union civil war victory songs for the past few days. My play list has seriously been basically Union Dixie, The Fall of Charleston, John Browns Body. and While We Were Marching Through Georgia...The passing of Betty White from this world not long after the passing of Anne Rice was just one final act of unrelenting spite from whatever malefic force so ruled that period just to make damn sure it went out on a low note... Also for the love of fuck can the plague just be done with already. I'm tired of having to second guess what it means whenever I or anyone else has a damned coughing fit. You know it's funny... When at first this thing was picking up, I thought little of it. I thought it was to be as the ebola scares or SARs and just swiftly disappear...That did not happen. Then I got to the point where seemingly everyone was getting it and my mind treated it as if the virus were some sapient  predatory waiting and watching...I remember wishing it would just hit me so I could be done with it already...Then  I waited and waited and that moment never came. I got vaccinated and when I did get sick it was little more than a simple flu. Eventually it turned into a tacit, irritating acceptance accompanied by bewilderment at the foolish of the general populace. All of this is to say I'm just tired of it and I want something...Any fucking thing to change for the better. I want to see real change in society and in the political landscape and real action on climate change. I want it to feel as if each day isn't marked by the news of some new crisis personal or otherwise. Also...I just would really love to feel as if I don't have to wear a mask inside a building that isn't a private residence. I'm not turning anti-masker on anyone, but I would just love things to get to the point where I felt safe enough to walk into a fucking super market, a restaurant, a museum or any such place without needing one.... However I fear that either my trust in other human beings to not do anything foolish has been damaged beyond what it was, or we've been stuck with this so long it's started to become something resembling normal...Perhaps both.