racketboy.com

The first two episodes of the Ncuti Gatwa era of Doctor Who are on Disney+, so I'm watching that.

I'm not THE biggest Disney person, though I do have Disney+ and a love for a handful of Disney films and while Dumbo isn't one of them, I do gotta say that this Pink Elephants on Parade remix slaps.

You're in your 30's right? Do you have a drivers license? if so, maybe save up over the years for a car, to maybe MOVE out of your situation to better yourself or drive to better employment that can get you to where your dreams lead to. I've never been to your area, but it can't be as bad as only f...

I'm just going to stop talking about my hopes and dreams, my job and my desire to move to NYC. All it does is piss everyone off and makes me wonder why I keep coming here. I mean, it's not like you know my situation even half as well as I do. You think I do things the way I do them because you fancy...

Much of the reason why I don't get promoted is because a promotion implies that what I do is my career and not just a job. As for why I do what I do for a living, it's because that's how I keep the lights on. I'm actually grateful for the fact that both my current jobs are at places that are open ye...

JSYK, the nearest place to rent filmmaking equipment is in Raleigh... four hours away. And before you say "why not shoot it on your phone" I'd like to remind folks of TWO facts: * Without any external audio devices, the dialog will sound like shit. * Most low- to mid-tier smartphones can't...

Charlotte, NC is not the home to the second largest film industry in the world. Plus if I was going to settle for a lesser city, I would have done so by now. If I told my parents back in '06/'07 that I wanted to move to Charlotte or Raleigh or Winston-Salem they'd probably have fewer qualms about me...

And what makes you think you can land two or three jobs that guarantee the hours you need in order to hit those hourly numbers? Also, what makes you think you can even land those jobs when you have a million (literally) other people looking for those jobs? This doesn’t even include the migrants tha...

Still, $720 a week after taxes year-round sounds better than what I make where I live. But then again, the best I can hope for is getting my hours cut in the fall and winter and not getting outright laid off. And 720 a week is roughly $2800 a month and if realistically half my salary went to rent, w...

However, the huge jumps in college tuition, home prices, and rent prices blew those factors away. And made worse by the fact that the minimum wage hasn't kept pace with inflation. We haven't had an increase at the federal level since 2009, when it was raised to $7.25, which adjusted for inflation i...