Yeah, in this last post of 2025 I’m unable to discuss Avatar: Fire & Ice as that still hasn’t been viewed yet. Next week I should finally have the time to tackle such a long movie and that will be reviewed sometime early in ’26, along with a famous movie (from India) that most likely had never heard of before. I still have a few topics to discuss, including a bit more from my Kansas trip a few weeks ago. After leaving the city of Dallas, I actually stopped at a Buc-ee’s in Denton, to see how it compared to the ones in Florida. Well, it was larger than the ones in Florida. It was where I used booking.com to book a random hotel in Oklahoma City.
The Douillet by Demeure Hotels is a wacky name and to its credit, the cost wasn’t high for a former Sleep Inn in terms of room quality or being clean. Unfortunately, it wasn’t in the best of neighborhoods… if smelling a couple reeking of weed walking in as I went out to bring in my luggage, the doors locked at midnight as if it was prison! Even worse, when I received my key, I had trouble opening the door. Well, it would have been better if the donkey at the front desk would have told me BEFORE that it required almost kicking the door down for it to open instead of making me think that the key wasn’t working, then accuse me of GOING TO THE WRONG FLOOR as if I was a mental incompetent… I didn’t say anything to the donkey although it was deserved.
Instead, I’ll tell everyone NEVER to stay a night at that hotel if you’re ever in Oklahoma City. It wasn’t all bad in Oklahoma City, a city that didn’t leave the best impression-in part, it’s not the easiest city to navigate if you’ve never driven in the area on your own before. The next morning, breakfast was had at a Shipley Do-Nuts. I’d never been to the chain that started in Texas before. Their namesake was quite tasty.
Rob Reiner’s death-and how he and his wife passed away-was tragic. How ironic that right before his passing and I was still in Kansas, the day that I left to return home, there was time to see the Spinal Tap sequel. The original film is of course great; the sequel… decidedly less so. At least back home I got to view The Princess Bride for the first time in way too many years. Yes, that’s still a classic.
Just a few hours ago, I was able to make an unexpected visit to a new spot for both cookies and the now-hip dirty soda phenomenon. Crave Cookies and Soda is a chain I hadn’t partaken in before, full-stop. The cookie and the dirty Dr. Pepper (I had a tropical version) was in fact good. At least the drink aspect makes it different from Crumbl, which they were clearly “inspired” by.
I’ll be back sometime in January. Hopefully everyone had at least an alright 2025 and 2026 is better for everyone.
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