Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

A samurai asks a monk to define Heaven and Hell.

The monk starts just laying into this poor schlep. He's still tossing out insults all the way up to when the samurai loses his temper and pulls his sword.

"THAT is hell!" the monk says.

The samurai thinks for a moment, breathes, and sheathes his sword.

"And that is Heaven," the monk says.

This is very much how I feel about closing Twitter when other users piss me off. Masto is a LOT better in that respect.

ah yes, this best of John Williams has the Jurassic Park theme. Can I make it through without tearing up?

no

My old mask fits okay, but the jacket would pull open in a moment if I actually fenced in it; even I age.

have you considered that the end of the Rite of Spring sequence in Fantasia (aka "the good bits") is basically "everybody dies, rocks fall"?

luckily for me I associate some leitmotifs with other media than just Excalibur/the Voluspa/etc

Oh mighty warrior of great fighting stock, might I inquire to ask, ehh, what's up doc? For it is the doom of men that they forget.

... 3 minutes of Wagner later...

Shields shall be SPLINTERED! Spears shall be SHAKEN! A sword age, an axe age, iniquities multiply, a wolf age till the world ruins! Ride now, ride now, ride for ruin and the world's ending! LET THE WORD GO OUT THAT BRODIR HAS FELLED BRIAN! #WouldYouKnowMore

this Twitter meme about "well what songs are intrinsically linked to a movie or TV show for you" got me listening to Les Preludes again.

"Put him in THE EMULSIFIER!"
"Eeeek, Flash!"
*badly choreographed fistfight*

Next up, Siegfried's Death and Funeral March, and possibly Rite of Spring.

okay, so this job I almost have is *now* waiting for confirmation of my employment from New Tech Solutions. It takes practically no effort to make me furious at New Tech Solutions. How long am I gonna regret having worked there?

It’s so weird to see people rolling dice like this over lunch and none of them have character sheets

The sign “Szechuan hot oil wonton.” Such a coyote lure you practically need to check overhead in case there’s an anvil!

Done! Getting lunch at my favorite Chinese on island, Xing Yuan. I’m gonna miss this place.

The huge house where they were doing the survey had a DO NOT PLAY WITH THESE THEY ARE NOT TOYS sign over a collection of figures from different cultures. Stop making the alebrijes fight! Stop stacking alebrijes on the Buddha!

Doing a short gig this morning, a health/exercise related survey, so just paid bills and even drawing my own stuff before coming here. The ethnic identification listed “middle eastern” as well as white, so that was a nice change of pace (I still hate declaring it tho). This is in a big AirBnB place in Piedmont, you should see this. It’s like I suddenly wound up in Altadena somehow.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-cancels-military-parade-blames-dc-officials-high-cost-n901576?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_ma

so I'm hanging out with my friend and we're having a great time and hey, Ed Wood is on.

We're watching and having a great time before I say "hey, I think we should turn this off."
"But why?"
"I can see where this is going right now. Lugosi's going to die, and I'm going to cry for five minutes straight."
"Well why don't we keep watching this and see?"

And sure enough, Lugosi died and I was weepy for most of the rest of the movie.

oh it's the music from that part of Edward Scissorhands that makes me feel weepy!

this is time for me to reiterate that Batman Returns is pretty much the best Batfilm ever made, because it's purely a Tim Burton film which by sheer chance is also about the Bat-mythos.

oh yeah, "Sad Scrawny Bondage Enthusiast in Snow," my favorite Danny Elfman track.

"I am Natal Mounted Police."

"Oh, did ye hear that 8793, he's a peeler, come to arrest the Zulus."
...
"How far can you redbacks march in a day?"

"Oh, about 20 miles."

"Well a Zulu regiment can run - run! - 20 miles in a day. *And* fight a battle at the end of it."

"There's daft it is, I don't see no point in running to fight a battle."

"Don't you realise? Can't you see? You're all going to DIE! Die... Die!"
"He's right sir. Why is it us, eh? Why us?"
"Because we're *here*, lad, and nobody else. Just us."