The Fat Man Today

 I saw a Quora thread that was basically a deconstruction of what made the current seasons of Doctor Who terrible. You can read it here  if you want to scream at somebody else who isn't me because you can scream at me all you want and I wouldn't care. 

 I don't write as well as I used to back when I was a lot younger. Nor am I as creative. The cogs of my brain seem to have slowed down to a pedestrian crawl as I became older, as I started to focus more and more on the morose business of living life as an adult shackled with real responsibilities. I don't know how the actually creative individuals do it, but I imagine for the rest of us, that's how it is as time marches on.

I don't exactly remember how it went down, but when I heard about Eddie Van Halen's passing, I had to stop and take a beat. This wasn't one of those moments where you feel the end of an era, as what many probably felt with the recent passing of Justice Ginsburg. But for myself, and I imagine many people my age or a decade older with some interest in heavy epic guitar music, this was a personal loss.