The Movie Trivia Schmoedown is so much fun. It is a combination of movie trivia and showmanship like the WWE.

Created by Kristian Harloff and Mark Ellis, the Schmoedown has been around for 8 seasons, increasing every year.

Current champion is Marisol McKee.

Today is World Kindness Day.

Try and remember that… the world could use some more kindness in it.

Today was Disney + Day on the streaming service and I can not tell you how excited I get when there is a presentation from Marvel. It is as if I can’t think of anything else.

Thank you for your service.

Keeping us free for years, the veterans of great country deserve recognition every day, not just today on Veterans Day.

Wednesday is new comic book day and I go to get my pull list the same place that I went back when I started buying comics in the 5th grade. Sure, it has different owners and several locations since, but ComicWorld has survived in Dubuque since 1973. And I love spending time at the shop reading comics and talking with the awesome staff, affable owner Ben, comic aficionado Todd and super friendly Pat. Three great guys.

When LOST went off the air, it left a hole in my heart. It took several years to find a show that could fill that spot (eventually filled by a series of shows). LOST is one of the greatest ensemble cast shows ever on TV.

One of my, if not the, favorite movie of all time. Right up there with Avengers: Endgame. The Princess Bride has been a movie that I have watched when I needed to become happy. It works every time.

My favorite fictional character of all time is Peter Parker, Spider-Man. Not just super hero, but my favorite fictional character from any medium available, and it is not even close. I have loved him as long as I can remember. I learned what it meant to be a hero from Spider-Man. Not just a hero, but a decent person.

Yesterday was National Donut Day. What a great day.

It’s been a tough, stressful week at work, but all that matters now is that it is the WEEKEND!!!!

Nothing quite like seeing a movie on the big screen.

Going to Eternals tonight at the IMAX.

As a Dodger fan, I should be over it.

But I’m not.

So I am grateful that the Atlanta Braves, even though they defeated LA in the NLCS, won the World Series over the Houston Astros, The Astros, who famously cheated in the 2017 World Series, will always be the one team I want to see lose. Their garbage can exploits cost the Dodgers the championship in 2017 and it may be petty, but that is just they way it goes.

Plus Atlanta has Joc Petersen on their roster. So there is that.

Atlanta won the NLCS against LA fair and square. So I am grateful that the Braves won a deserving title.

I am also grateful that it was not Houston vs. San Francisco in the World Series.

So today I am grateful for the one and only, EYG Hall of Famer Edgar Allan Poe. I love his macabre work and the craziness of his life and his death. I spend a good chunk of October and November teaching a unit on Poe and he is so great. So November 2nd gratitude is for Edgar Allan Poe.

Nevermore

November is National Gratitude Month and EYG is jumping on the band-wagon. We will be posting a pic of gratitude every day, expressing our gratitude about something that makes our geek hearts sing.

Starting off with…