Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

lost as i may be
in the fog of my own noise and trivialities
Grand Holy Mother grant me clarity
i am standing on the edge of forever
forever

we have just folded space from Ix
many machines on Ix
new machines
far better than the ones on Richesse

fuck this song's making me want to walk somewhere I can get cigs, but that'd mean putting on pants, wouldn't it

corn liquor tastes sweeter in this town
can it be it's the same as the last?
Swear Ah seen your face elsewhere before,
just as familiar as a bottle and a glass
hey darlin'! sleepin' on the blacktop
hey darlin'! runnin' through the trees, honey
hey darlin'! leavin' for the next town,
less'n mah sense catches up with me

the rum pours strong and thin
beat out the dust-man with the rain dogs
aboard a shipwreck train
give my umbrella to the rain dogs
for I am a rain dog, too

oh how we danced with the Rose of Traleigh
her long hair black as a raven
oh how we danced and you whispered to me;
we'll never be going back home

she's my only true love
she's all that I think of
look here, in my wallet, that's her
she grew up on a farm there's
a place on my arm
where I've written her name next to mine
see, I just can't live without her
and I'm her only boy
she grew up outside McHenry
in Johnsburg, Illinois

downside of being a child of the 90s

cannot watch the Smashing Pumpkins video for "Zero" without immediately adding in

"yeah! Yeah! Yeah!"
"Fhut up Beavis he's talking to a chick."

*seconds later*

"yeah YEAH! Mozart RULES!"
"Settle down, dill-munch"

really gettin' into Blue Oyster Cult's "Godzilla" by flailing my arms and pretending to breathe fire

history shows again and again
how nature points out the folly of man

thump thump BANG
thump thump BANG
the cinnamon cinnamon EINS ZWEI DREI VIER
THE CINNAMON GIRL
THE CINNAMON GIRL
I WANT TO LIVE WITH THE CINNAMON GIRL
I COULD BE HAPPY THE REST OF MY LIFE WITH HER
I'M SHIFTING TO HISPO I RUN IN THE NIGHT
YOU SEE US TOGETHER CHASING MOONLIGHT

and then suddenly I realized that "867-5309" would WORK for playing Katamari Damacy

JENNY JENNY WHO CAN I TURN TO
YOU GIVE ME SOMEONE I CAN HOLD ON TO
I KNOW YOU THINK I'M LIKE THE OTHERS BEFORE
WHO SAW YOUR NAME AND NUMBER ON THE WALL
JENNY I GOT YOUR NUMBER
I GOTTA KNOW WHAT TO DO
JENNY I GOT YOUR NUMBER
6060-842

we all came to Wisconsin
at the Lake Geneva shoreline
rollin' fighters with d6s
we didn't have much time
when it all was over, we had adventurers of renown
but an anti-grav spiked pit trap
took us all off the ground
#duh #duh #duh
#duh #duh #daduh
#duh #duh #duh
#da #duh

Okay, so the overflowing colostomy bag that's governor of Florida (and maybe I shouldn't use that as an insult, since colostomy bags actually help people) is on about slavery being good because it taught people skilled trades like say smithing.

Okay so 1) I've heard the theory that slaves were chosen from the Ivory Coast because their knowledge of farming in similar climate and soil made them skilled labor ALREADY and whether that's true or not

2) you're implying that uncoerced Black people, actually free to pursue professions, would NOT pick up stuff like smithing or carpentry in the 17-1800s, which is completely unrealistic as well as racist and

3) you've just stated "learning a skill" is a good thing, which is way different than "having your entire cultural heritage dismantled, your family shattered, and never getting any real share of the wealth you helped produce because you're considered expendable." But given the Republican stance on worker rights in general I guess no Republican understands the difference between wage labor and slavery anyway.

Jesus, how fucking straight up evil can you get?

See, what *I* get out of archaeology is that when we look to the past we see similar people. And one of those similarities is that there’s almost always some sort of trans thing going on. So please, DO gender every pelvis and mandible you find because you’re proving THAT point, not that it’s somehow violating some divine plan to transition.

Let’s say, sake of argument, you can identify birth gender from remains 100% accurately. Bodies are only one way to study the past. Do you think in all those people at Canyon de Chelly, there were no nadleehi? Are you sure that apparently female Scandinavian buried with weapons presented as female? Do you really think medieval London wasn’t full of AMAB folks presenting female?

Star Wars is so 70s it’s got space truckers, an evil disco ball, and even smoking in restaurants if you count those dudes with the hookah in the Mos Eisley cantina. About the only thing it doesn’t have is roller skating rinks.

Gotta say “opera in midsummer evenings by the lake” sounds ridiculously good somehow.

this was going to include her overcoming her fear to master Shai Hulud but then they realized “riding the pink sandworm”

so glad that Barbie seems to be doing well enough at the box office they’re going to be able to make the second half of the novel where she drives the Harkonens from Arrakis and overthrows the Padishah Emperor

More “maybe I’m ADHD,” I have so many books I’m only partway through!