Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

It’s amazing how much you gave a shit about non neurotypical kids you worked with and me, I was just stupid, obstinate, and innately lazy and foul tempered, that it, Mom? I’m getting you right, here?

My idea is to make Valentine’s Day the fireworks holiday and make Independence Day the candy and hearts holiday, thus setting fireworks off in rainy season, offering distributors a chance to ship fireworks for more than just lunar new year, and turning July 4 into more of a hippie love fest.

happy crying bald eagle with ARs day!

Here, There And Everywhere (2022 Mix) https://youtu.be/vs7U4xfkAfI via @YouTube

Sir Paul wrote it about a girl because he's Sir Paul so of course he did, but to me it's not about a girl, it's about a place. For all I know that place hasn't really existed since 1999. A lifetime ago for some people and heck, for me.

dear offshore recruiters, please don't fucking call me before 0700 or after 2300.

This cements my prejudices that 1) your lack of knowledge of time, distance or my actual skills means you don't really have a job, or you don't have one which is feasible for me, and 2) your sheer lack of boundaries suggests working for you would be sheer hell, and/or I don't want to make money for you.

MY DADDY HE DISOWNED ME CAUSE I WEAR MY SISTER'S CLOTHES
HE CAUGHT ME IN THE BATHROOM WITH A PAIR'A PANTYHOSE!

it's a sign of my old age that I describe some of my musical tastes as "hey man, what're you trying to do to my new record, I just bought it," which is wild since Earache My Eye is not itself stoner rock

yes, I'm listening to Bog Wizard

yes, they're fucking brilliant

yes, I want to run Dungeon World, why?

"charge," thank you, autocorrect

#drawings today, duergar charade out to surprise some adventurers trying to figure out an old door, and a batch of ghouls with a ghoul-hound. There’s nudity and ghoul goolies so y’all are warned.

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?