Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

on the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me
DAVID BOWIE HAIR!

@Daylight spotted on birdsite so thought of you;

"(it's always worth tasting ants)" Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City p. 135 https://twitter.com/fulmerford/status/1001639458456920065/photo/1

1949 saw Schostakovich hard at work on his concerto, “Everything Looks Worse Every Day and Chain Smoking Isn’t Helping Anymore” but after yet another censure he quickly revised the piece as “The Glorious Struggle at the Tractor Factory.”

☠️

TO ALL THOSE WHO STAND IN THE WAY OF FREEDOM
FOR WORKING PEOPLE

The mother of all #lizards found in Italian Alps @nature https://phys.org/news/2018-05-mother-lizards-italian-alps.html

Ever noticed that “Jurassic Park” has the same scansion as “YMCA”?

Brain; you’re gonna die in a camp wearing a pink-yellow star, y’know.

Me; that’s paranoia, also how’s that help with this work day?

Brain; ok well how about you can’t effectively protest or get representation that actually changes things you pay taxes into and by the way you’ll probably die homeless or thanks to something climate change related.

Me; not helping.

Uh I was processing invoices and had to swap desks, and trying not to sink into depression, we’re meming about teeth now?

Birdsite link; “Antarctica is about to have its first ever Pride https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/05/28/antarctica-is-about-to-have-its-first-ever-pride/

What a great idea! Despite years in the field, we never had any Pride celebrations. Wishing I had!”

In FACT this is so completely England's Mountains Green pastoral that I'd put money that competitors arrive by steam train and that there's a gruesome and nigh-unsolvable murder during the event.

so the "Gloucester Cheese Roll"

this is a Very Traditional Chasing a cheese down a steep hill in the bucolic village of Brockworth. Despite the stern warning issued by Chief Superintendent Nigel Avron to 86 year old cheesemaker Diana Smart, former winner Helen Thorpe and others endorse the competition, which usually ends at the nearest pubs, The Victoria or The Cross Hands and

HOW is anyone THAT ENGLISH? All these people could have stepped out of a Dorothy L. Sayers mystery.

I can tell Chewie's role in Solo isn't a runaway success by how Bad Dragon hasn't made an "anthropoid" model for their obvious STAR BLAT series.

so apparently playing videos like "who are the Imperial Guardsmen anyway?," "different types of TIE fighters" and John Williams soundtrack means YouTube recommends Star Wars content to me.

Unfortunately this means recommended Star Wars content are nauseating little pukes whining about EVIL KATHLEEN KENNEDY and SJWS MADE SOLO BAD and EP VIII RUINED STAR WARS FOREVER and ugh. I'd rather pull taenoglossids out of roadkill again.

ooh my little clever girl
clever girl
when you gonna give me some
DEINONYCHUS

HERE ARE WE
ONE MAGICAL MOVEMENT FROM KETER TO MALKUTH

I’d actually never heard REM or the B-52s in Georgia; they were far too Queer or liberal to get airplay there. So of course one of the first things I checked out was Automatic for the People, which made me an instant fan.

Rollins Band, Tori Amos, The Kinks, The Mamas and the Papas, The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, The Beatles, The Shirelles...

I still remember the first time I heard RAtM; I couldn’t believe you could sing/yell about this stuff.

And *then* I discovered punk and old school Goth stuff.

Fellow students making awkward small talk would ask where I came from, and usually followed up with “you don’t have an accent” or “do you like REM?” I’d want to be obliging and would say yes...

My Dad couldn’t see why I might want or need my own way to play music or listen to anything he wasn’t interested in, and my Mom didn’t care. So I missed anything in the 80s that didn’t make it to top 40s locally.

I got to explore music more after I got to college, and I’ve tried to explore since. The Oldies station was the only station which came in anywhere in town so a mix of 50s, 60s and 90s pop is what I grew up on. STP, RHCP, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, RAtM...

Ugh, feeling weepy at work. Just the ongoing feelings of burnout meets mid afternoon circadian crash. 2 hours and it’ll be much better.