{"id":2152,"date":"2024-12-31T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T16:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2024-12-31T11:28:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T16:28:35","slug":"goodbye-yellow-brick-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/goodbye-yellow-brick-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Yellow Brick 2024&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A song recorded and released May 1973 came into a resurgence almost 10 years ago by Sara Bareilles with her amazing rendition. Sang recently at the NEXT \/ Kennedy Center for the 2024 Near Years Eve celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sara Bareilles sings powerful cover of &#039;Goodbye Yellow Brick Road&#039; | NEXT at the Kennedy Center\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DB4g1qTuHq4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DB4g1qTuHq4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/DB4g1qTuHq4<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s been many other things that find their finality in 2024, and for once I&#8217;m glad closure was invented for many of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Metalocalypse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>That\u2019s my bread and butter you\u2019re fucking with.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metalocalypse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">src<\/a>] Originally a 3-season series between 2006 and 2010 I was living in a <a href=\"\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/razing-the-roof\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/razing-the-roof\/\">now torn-down 105<\/a> when I came across this delectable dance of the ears. I had dated a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sarbear1029\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sarbear1029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sarah Marie<\/a> Abbey\/Butman\/Koterass and watched the first two seasons with her until she had a seizure. I had listened to both Albums that were created from the series as I travelled for years around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The series ended up leaving many, many questions and it wasn&#8217;t until The Doomstar Requiem that there was hope of completion. That hope, however, waned until the actual release of The Army of the Doomstar  in 2023. It wasn&#8217;t until early 2024 I got to order\/watch this and finally be completed with the &#8220;Song of Salvation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gavin &amp; Stacey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Tell me tomorrow I&#8217;ll wait by the window for you&#8230;<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gavin_%26_Stacey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">src<\/a>] I was introduced to a series about two people that fell in love hundreds of miles apart while dating my second wife and we were cohabitating in London, UK with our mutual friend\/coworker Stavros Nicolaou. We all fell in love with the Billericay\/Barry pair from 2007 to 2010 and after 3 seasons seemed to end with the only question of &#8220;What happened during the fishing trip?&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward to a Christmas special in 2019 that sets up a cliffhanger ending of &#8220;Will You Marry Me?&#8221; and still teasing the &#8220;fishing trip&#8221; it wasn&#8217;t until 2024&#8217;s Christmas Special and 90 minutes later that all of our questions are finally answered&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;except for that fishing trip&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Deadpool<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;<em>anyway I got places to be, a face to fix, and ohhhh bad guys to kill. Maximum Effort!<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deadpool_(film)\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deadpool_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">src<\/a>] The movie debuted in 2016. I probably went to the theater and brought people to this viewing more than I should&#8217;ve, but that&#8217;s how we created memories. At the time I felt that if there should be a sequel that it should contain Wolverine, but I felt that the character that played it really didn&#8217;t want for further typecast himself into his 50th &#8220;wolverine&#8221; movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sequel dropped perfectly in 2018 alongside Avengers: Infinity War where Josh Brolin had to juggle 2 Antihero&#8217;s perfectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024 made the perfect completion of this Trilogy with all the necessary Cameos, new characters, and geek squeals. Nothing more, nothing less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Employment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I was hired in August of 2013, rehired in April 2014 and my position was obsoleted in October 2024. I was provided 10 weeks of severance and medical. The difficulty now is finding another position in this industry that&#8217;ll last another 10 years and begin to take me into retirement without having to approach independent employment again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A song recorded and released May 1973 came into a resurgence almost 10 years ago by Sara Bareilles with her amazing rendition. Sang recently at the NEXT \/ Kennedy Center for the 2024 Near Years Eve celebration. There&#8217;s been many other things that find their finality in 2024, and for once I&#8217;m glad closure was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,41,14,12,11,7,25,16,23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-dad-feels","category-goals","category-heartbreak","category-love","category-music","category-opinion","category-pain","category-wikipedia","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}