Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

I think I look pretty good for my age and how I’m less active than preferred. Please say nice things about my naked body (CW nudity but no eye contact), and please don’t say mean things about my apartment.

holy FUCK Rachid Taha's first album is so fucking GOOD

but then you switch out to Tinariwen and it's like leaving a big party to look at the stars so far away from that party that the city's just a faint glow in the sky

Mdou Moctar winds up being a pretty good compromise between the two

damn these guys are all awesome, I'm gonna make some tea.

I think it's very appropriate to interrupt the "Dune" soundtrack with rai and in particular the bad driving theme tune

ou alech taadi ou ana megdi bennirane waaaaaaaaaa!

we have just folded space from Ix

many machines on Ix

new machines

Half Price is having a sale and I went there to detox… and passed up on Pathfinder modules so I could get another book about Mycenaeans. I need therapy or possibly an archaeology grad program.

I’m sorry, I’ve watched so many WWII movies that I can’t see a map of southern England without wanting to push little wooden blocks around it.

Maybe I can get out of here early enough to do something else with the day. But that time’s disappearing…

@frost I’m not mad at you, fwiw!

@erin_kitsune welcome to SoCal!

@frost how big a difference is there really between all of us? We all need food and shelter, have hopes, fears and dreams. We’re all going to get old and die (me sooner than you, though). Gets into lack of duality, we simultaneously are the same while being very different in ways worth honoring.

@Kusimanse nobody gets Hamish unless they’re Scots. When I was working Ren Faire, my group was technically English only, but I insisted that I could use the name, because fuck it, it’s my actual name.

Last night while on the pot thumbing through Chodron I thought;

The Four Noble Truths are a spiritual equivalent to general relativity. If everything is transient, a lot is perception or preconception, and there’s no real barrier between us, then what IS real? There’s got to be a constant and that’s the constant.

@GraySpots Digital stuff is fucking amazing and I am waaay behind at it. Thing is if I take a sketchbook and pencils with me, I'm not worried about them getting stolen or dinged, and there's more area to work on than the tablets I own - that's why I keep doing analog stuff.

#drawing from Wednesday and tonight, something from tonight.

@Kusimanse Hamish.

My great grandfather apparently asked my parents on his death bed never to name a kid "Hermann." (You can imagine how happy he and his brother Adolph were when the obvious happened.) Apparently to Anglophile Jewish New Yorkers with no Scottish ancestry whatsoever, Hamish is an appropriate substitute. I've actually run into two other people with the name, a Scot and a Kiwi.

Jessie got trapped in the coal mine
diggin' in the dark like moles
Jessie got trapped in the coal mine
never did marry his girl
there ain't no air and there ain't no light
and there ain't no way to make it out alive
his weddin' was planned for the fifth of July
but Jessie got trapped in the coal mine

the songs I've been playing over and over again lately are a Yiddish folk song about how childhood's forever over and gone, and a folk rock song about a miner dying in an accident before his wedding. Dunno what that says about my emotional health.

the popular misunderstanding that The Offspring wrote a song about trying to find bras that fit, based on the lyrics “you gotta lift and separate ‘em”

Ever since V I’ve had this idea for Indiana Jones VI. It’s now 1980 and a profoundly old Indy is the consultant for this movie Spielberg is making about him in 1936. He keeps grousing about how it didn’t happen that way while Marion tries to get him to take his blood pressure meds. And then something happens. I’m tempted to say a murder, or the Tunisia set winds up hitting actually significant Carthaginian ruins or w/e, but our hero must put on hat and leather jacket yet ANOTHER one last time.