Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

AH KNOW KARATE, VOODOO TOO!
AH’M GONNA MAKE MAHSELF AVAILABLE TO YOU!
AH DON’T NEED NO MAKEUP, AH GOT REAL SCARS!
AH GOT HAIR ON MAH CHEST,
AH LOOK GOOD WITHOUT A SHIRT

AH’M GONNA DRIVE ALL NIGHT, GET SOME SPEED!
AH’M GONNA WAIT FOR THE SUN T’SHINE DOWN ON ME!

Also; I had blood relatives who went in those camps. I had a blood relative who as a medic was one of the first Americans in. I’ve met survivors. I had a German friend whose grandfather was made to see the camps late in the war; Peter himself had visited Auschwitz.

You say the Shoah never happened? Yeah, you BETTER do it where I can’t get in a good swing at you, you ruptured colostomy bag.

Okay I am now trying to be banned from Twitter apparently. I said directly at the scion of the master race;

“Apparently it’s comedy to badmouth a marginalized group and deny unquestionable FACTS about what happened to said group?

“You’re supporting bigotry and it WILL get someone killed. It is very hard for me to think your actions here are unintentional but; please do better, sir.”

Okay I think I’m done with the super long serialized-while-posting-receivables journal entry. Oofgh it’s been a fucking month hasn’t it?

Obviously the antikythera mechanism is a calculator and afaik has nothing to do with Archimedes. But the usual suspect for the holy lance - the thing everyone at the beginning of the movie thinks is the holy lance - is something which was in Austria. The Nazis acquired it early on with Anschluss.

What I liked most was the overall tight story, including introducing new characters and giving them a personality and trying to resolve Indy’s personal stuff, WHILE still doing exciting Indiana Jones stuff. This could make for a long movie which bogs and it’s handled as a long movie which only kinda bogs right before the end. The camera work is great, and I might be missing some very effective storytelling, but pacing for story is fantastic.

There were a couple of things which didn’t make sense if I thought about them but looked good and made the story work (eg, how does Sallah get Indy out of NYC, why would Marion come back at the end, why would the never actually military villain wear SS uniform at the end or think risking an encounter with his younger self would be a good idea?).

The thing I liked least; there was this Cleopatra Jones styled badass government agent who bought it partway through the movie, and naturally I thought she was cool, I wish she’d survived to be important at the end. This movie had no problems killing people off, I think because they wanted to drive home HOW Nazis aren’t good.

I went from thinking about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny to about this book on Shang burials that I held off on (“if it’s still at Half Price next time I’ll grab it”), to about trying to learn Mandarin again.

SHOULD I get a book on Shang period burials, or do I have too many unread books already?

okay the Yellow Submarine soundtrack is helping me hate everything a LOT less

the downside; I now miss Ann Arbor back when I was young and the world was very different

my spirit sings loud and clear
even in here
I will be born, someday someday
if I wait long enough
I don't HAVE to be afraid.
I don't WANT to be afraid.
And you can't tell me what my spirit tells me isn't true
can you?

i live cement
i HATE this street
give dirt to me
i bite lament

I hate this, I hate this
I’m weightless, I’m weightless
I hate this, I hate this
I’m weightless, I’m weightless
She’s a child,
A child in all of this
She’s a child,
A child in all of this

I utterly despise the EXPLAIN GAPS IN YOUR EMPLOYMENT! question. I was looking for work, I suppose you want me to say either I smoked a crapton of weed while playing WoW, or that I went back to school (with what money?).

I hate it as much as EXPLAIN IF YOU WERE TERMINATED FROM A POSITION!

Or as much as when you input your resume and the next section asks to list job duties, title, company, dates. What did you think I usually put on my resume, types of sandwiches I like?

Combining job hunting, my agency not paying me in a timely fashion and my Tuesday already slated for seeing my parents, puts me in this hating EVERYTHING headspace.

I can't believe some sort of shitty pissant excuse for a Gay would work with the Republicans. Maybe you should realize that when you help the worst people on earth crap on Blacks and poors, YOU aren't gonna escape for your collaboration. You're not Gay, my dude, you're SHIT. I have NO tolerance for any Queer, Jew or Black who joins the enemy.

It’s when I start identifying tank kill awards on a sleeve that I think, why the hell do I even know this, I don’t like Wehrmacht stuff for obvious reasons. A nerdy chunk of me raised on a real cleaned up version of WWII thinks it was cool to show late war uniforms for a change.

reimagining the Lobby Scene as a musical number, only they pull back and there's Stadler and Waldorf

STADLER: Oh yes, they're definitely visually referencing classic Woo action movies
WALDORF: Looks like classic poo to me!
*both of them laugh*

apparently this is a tension headache from clenching morning

I would like to quote someone smarter than me.

"Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a
false sense of inferiority. To use the words of Martin Buber, the great Jewish philosopher, segregation substitutes an "I - it"
relationship for the "I - thou" relationship and ends up relegating persons to the status of things. So segregation is not only politically, economically, and sociologically unsound, but it is morally wrong and sinful. Paul Tillich has said that sin is
separation. Isn't segregation an existential expression of man's tragic separation, an expression of his awful estrangement, his
terrible sinfulness? So I can urge men to obey the 1954 decision of the Supreme Court because it is morally right, and I can urge
them to disobey segregation ordinances because they are morally wrong.

"Let us turn to a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on a minority that
is not binding on itself. This is difference made legal. On the other hand, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow, and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.

"Let me give another explanation. An unjust law is a code inflicted upon a minority which that minority had no part in enacting or creating because it did not have the unhampered right to vote."