I haven't done any blogging posts on current and streaming media since November 3rd, which broke a streak of weekly ones that had been going since September of 2019 - albeit as part of a different, group, blog. As with many such inactions, it wasn't intended as a formal stoppage, just a momentary delay, but here it is five weeks later. This post's linking theme is the return of fondly-remembered characters. It really should include the recent arrival to streaming of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny over on Disney+, but I haven't really mustered my reactions to that. Instead, I'll stick with two other nostalgic items that arrived this week. Yesterday saw the arrival of the season finale, episode ten, of Kelsey Grammar's return of Frasier Crane in the 2023 iteration of Frasier , over on Paramount+. The series picked up on the titular character in the present, whom we haven't seen since his 11-season first series wr...
now it's largely confirmed that smoking nearly doubles the risk of blindness later in life. (Thanks to Crypt Leak for this one.)
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My brother knows this stuff is coating his lungs and has been for the past 31 years. He figures his periodic light exercise and pretending he'll quit someday compensate.
Our grandmother died of lung cancer. Our aunt died of emphysema. His girlfriend's dad is slowly dying of emphysema. Doesn't give him pause.
Well, maybe he pauses. Then he flicks his lighter and sucks on another coffin nail.