Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

oh yeah Amok Time

combatants may spray each other with the Win-Deks

suffocate each other with the fragrant Swetsahks

or engage with the deadly Lirpa Loof

current mood; singing "OOMpa LOOMpa OOMpa LOOMpa" to "The Processional" from "Amok Time"

also I forgot this episode's very wannabe-Stravinsky soundtrack includes this awesomely surf bass guitar riff.

the "Close to You" sequence is definitely the best part of Mirrormask. I got here from Black Hole Sun, I can explain.

Okay, I roasted kohlrabi and stewed Roma beans and tomatoes for this deal on Friday, and talked to my folks to confirm that I'm there tomorrow, which uhhh yeah.

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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 Jesse got trapped in the coal mine,
Never did marry his girl!

Spam musubi acquired and consumed. Also there were dorayaki on sale and those ube breads I like from the Filipino place in Everett so I got THOSE too.

petition to require high visibility/reflective materials for all d4s

I’ve had smarter ideas than driving in Karentopia at lunch hour. Was doing a practice run for a job site tho and thought, what if I could stop at Uwajimaya and maybe get saba shioyaki or something. This is uhhhhh not feasible.

having watched Yellow Submarine often enough that I wind up clapping when "Nowhere Man" comes up on this Beatles compilation

you know, right before the instrumental sets off crushing nostalgia for A^2.

It’s wild; I came out of the southeast without the prejudice against Queers, Jews and Blacks that was everywhere in my childhood, I never bought into the HORRIBLE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS thing, I honestly like Zoomers, and I don’t see where I AM prejudiced as a good thing, etc, and to be fair I don’t like or trust police, landlords or insurers.

But the older I get the group I absolutely LOATHE? Is journalists.

Ah yes the hit Beatles tune, “Problematic Demand for a Beej.”

oh man the richest or second richest man on earth really is basically a 16 year old redditor.

another thing with the great "young people aren't making babies!" complaint;

Everyone's noticed millenial parents don't really have the resources for kids. But traditionally the answer to "young parents don't have time or energy to keep up with kids" is "and grandparents DO." How many millenials are physically close to, on good terms with and trust their parents?

@zebratron2084 happy birthday!

weird, that's too stompy sounding to just be someone fucking and too steadily paced to be say someone moving all their furniture. Like they can't possibly have a step machine up there, can they?

#drawings finished/from today, trying out ideas from Ryan Benjamin.

maybe this is because the song got an okay amount of air time about when I came out but despite how Me'Shell says VERY clearly that she's a woman in the song, I'd assumed "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)" to be about very catty Gay men for the LONGEST time.

IIIIIIIII
CAN'T STAND IT
I KNOW Y'PLANNED IT
I'MA SET STRAIGHT THIS WATERGATE
CAUSE I CAN'T STAND ROCKIN' WHILE I'M IN HEYAH
CAUSE Y'CRYSTAL BALL AIN'T SO CRYSTAL CLEAH
SO WHILE Y'SIT AND WONDER WHY
I GOT THIS FUCKIN' THORN IN MY SIDE
OH MY G-D IT'S A MIRAGE
I'M TELLIN' YOU IT'S SABOTAGE!

SO LISTEN UP CAUSE YOU CAN'T SAY NOTHIN'
I'LL SHUT YOU DOWN WITH A PUSH OF A BUTTON
BUT I'M UP AND I'M GONE
I'M TELLIN' YOU WE KEEP IT ON AND ON!

WHYYYYYYYYYY
OUR BACKS UP AGAINST THE WALL

[can't remember a chunk of it]
CAUSE I CAN'T STAND ROCKIN' WHILE I'M IN THIS PLACE
BECAUSE I FEEL DISGRACE
BECAUSE YOUR ALL IN MY FACE
SO MAKE NO MISTAKES AND SWITCH UP MY CHANNEL
I'M BUDDY RICH WHEN I FLY OFF THE HANDLE

[and that's about where I run out of lyrics memorized]

okay SO the Glenn Miller tune "Pennsylvania 65000" - finally looked it up and it turns out to be the purported oldest still-used phone number in NYC, the Pennsylvania Hotel from 1919. Apparently standardized phone numbers didn't happen till 1947.

The hotel went out of business in 2020 during Covid, and there's now a big hole in the ground where they're going to put up a tower of some sort, so it's good to know Seattle isn't the only city gleefully demolishing stuff to put up new stuff.