Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

we have just folded space from Ix

many machines on Ix

new machines

fried up cherry tomatoes with garlic and chili, to have with cheese sandwiches I can eat. Hoping I don't get horrifying acid reflux from this.

I wasn't able to blanch all the yu choy sum like I'd hoped but I still made a big batch of seasoned greens for later in the week.

I do NOT want Shen Yun tickets, the whole Falun Gong behind-Epoch-Times thing is a turnoff but not even half so much as getting Shen Yun ads seemingly every time I go to watch a video, give it a rest dudes!

Having the sort of unfocused day drawing where it’s all figures in dramatic motion rather than anything finished. Anyone else get that?

Anyway here’s real cold photos from earlier today.

Well… I had been hoping to get the deep fried chitterlings here, cause this place does AWESOME deep fried stuff (and in this case piles on the chilis). Sadly no luck, it’s lunch special time so I had to settle for pan fried noodles better than anything I can make!

It’s not often someone manages to push buttons for me both as an environmentalist with socialist, inclusive politics AND as a hick DoD brat who still thinks “America” is some big worthwhile ideal. Until 2016 I didn’t even think that was possible. That THING and its stoolies push that though.

I only penciled one #drawing today but with the unexpected downtime really pushed on inks today, this is only some of them.

I eat 1, 2, 3, 4 burritos
pretty soon I can't fit in my Speedos
well I hope they feed us lots of chicken fajitas
and a pitcher margaritas

I have tomorrow off where nobody's going to particularly mind if I cry copiously, maybe I should rewatch The Dark Crystal

REPEATED RANT

be careful with needing violence to protect ourselves.

Because yes, we probably need it. But ethics and years of terrible fallout aside, the people who wind up on top in violent environments will stick around later. Let's be careful about handing the Mao Zedongs and Ariel Sharons of the world any control.

Power breeds parasites. Long live anarchy.

Five years ago was my first full day in Seattle (spent most of the 13th on the road obviously). I guess that makes sense as close to the halfway point between how it feels like it's been 3 years or 8.

oh man

so I found Damnation Alley and might watch it all the way through, but you have to understand a portrayal of nuclear war is real offputting to someone my age.

The charming watch sergeant who's an artist in his free time is Paul Winfield. That's a familiar name so I looked him up and wow, if you know the dude from STII and Terminator it doesn't touch the huge list of stuff he did.

Turns out he was also Gay, his husband went two years before he did and he went in 2004, alav ha shalom.

one or both my parents has a cold, so no seeing my folks and getting baked to help soak the psychological damage this evening

I am pondering spending the evening getting baked and listening to Tinariwen while wearing nothing but a fursuit head

hmmm

A Dracula movie in which all the titular character says is “bets!” “Blahd!” And “Transylvania!”

… oh and plays the Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor cause Toccata and Fugue is overused

Okay checking the military history section of the used bookstore, a complete book of curassier officers of the First Empire, and a book about Prussian curassiers in the lead up to horrifyingly realizing that didn’t work. SOMEONE had a niche interest, which I hadn’t considered books existed for.

anyway the thing I wanted to talk about yesterday

that iado duel at the end of Sanjuro? When I look closely Mifune steps *in* and to the side of Nakadai's attack, so even if the blow lands it won't be as bad. That's why his arm's extended, to help brace his sword when striking way closer than normal. Everything else is so dramatic I missed all this earlier.

"jazz hands" implies "bebop hands" during which your hands suddenly stop moving for several beats and possibly "ragtime" or "stride hands" in which your fingers move at furious speeds

It's wild how The Shadow (1994) didn't become some sort of cult classic movie. I mean it's gorgeous, there's random weird scenes which don't really do much for the plot, there's weird tension between the hero and villain which suggests they're gonna smooch...

wow, so I didn't *intend* to watch all of The Shadow (from 1994) tonight but that's what happened. Okay movie which, if there'd been some different story choices and editing, could have been great.

oooh YouTube has both Sinbad's Golden Voyage and The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad for free

Anyway have two #drawings from today and two of the things I inked this evening.