Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Thinking about the only New Englanders I know describing Lovecraftian New England instead of Lovecraft.

“Oh it’s some sort of wicked strange tourist trap over by the Manuxet River. It’s so small there’s only one Dunkin’s in town. I used to live about five miles away which means you can get there in 2 hours if you’re not dumb enough to try it at rush hour.”

see the counterpart to popular “banger” posts on social media are starchy, bland but satisfyingly filling posts, “mash” if you will

I’m thinking here about Musk, with whom I have less in common than with my abusers, most neo-Nazis, my landlords, or Christian clergy. In contrast to Bob Iger who doesn’t seem to have entirely connected his vast wealth to someone else making it possible. And about the brief moment in 2020 when Trump was a fat old man who didn’t want to die, rather than some completely alien disease which should have been eradicated in the 80s.

For me to utterly hate someone they need to have a smug sense of superiority to me, enough that doing as they please is its own justification regardless of how many people it hurts, they need to be beyond ever facing accountability like a 16 year old redditor saying any slur he wants b/c it’s officially a joke, and they need to be so remote from me and my experience that I literally can’t see anything sympathetic in them as humans.

And by definition this is only true of the horrifyingly rich.

An uncomfortable thing I’ve been realizing lately is idealizing where I was in the 90s is natural; the combination of life without obvious Republican control, obvious social crises, and unending poverty would be unrepeatable, even without adding in my age or Ann Arbor at the time. No matter how sane, skilled or loved I am, in what little time I have left, external circumstances are never going to be that good again, and I have to accept that.

lest you were wondering, I would love it if McConnell retired and relieved the USA of his odious presence

and I'd love it if Feinstein fucking retired the way she should have 10+ years ago

it's possible to want to not be misgoverned by decrepit senior citizens beyond party affiliation

Minnie The Moocher https://youtu.be/_sSE0_RKhCI via @YouTube

why that's an outrage. For $2.00 you can get a record of Minnie the Moocher. For $2.75 you can get Minnie.

oh crap I listened to too much popular music from the 20s/30s and now REALLY want to play Elder Sign, Arkham Horror or Call of Cthulhu

with a long white beard and a crooked staff
he walks around while the folks all laugh
AND PRAY YOU NEVER MEET HIM IN ANY OF HIS OTHER THOUSAND FORMS

doing the Squash and Stretch, the Anticipation, and other popular dance moves of the 1920s

@Oneironott https://i.imgur.com/4B1gHVk.mp4 omg

I was a doofus and remembered time zones exactly the wrong way, so my teams interview was at 0700 rather than 1100. Either I really did well or I botched this beyond all possible imagining, so I'm now *out* of interview outfit and cooking breakfast.

I woke up a fair amount early, too, thanks to this dream about The Beatles possibly committing a murder or at least joking about having done so; John playing it off as a joke about having secreted bits of his victim about the house during Christmas (I'm not sure why I apparently associate The Beatles with Christmas), Paul gleefully talking about eating the victim. Ringo just looked morose. No matter what actually happened it obviously wasn't his idea.

#drawings today, playing with drawing anthro deer and anthro spotted hyenas, figured an off day was a good time to do something I don’t think I do well anyway, maybe I’d find out something? Nudity but basically work safe (obvious bits covered, but ass).

@electrickeet this is amazing

8-bit Rite of Spring (full) [Famitracker, VRC6] https://youtu.be/GG2LR5wnKKM via @YouTube

oh yeah full power has been restored to the warp engines so Vasquez and the rest of the Marines can escape

uh, why are we suddenly in "Til Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche"?

uh-oh, given the musical cues in this part of the Willow soundtrack I can only conclude that Mad Mardigan has entered the Mutara Nebula and all the sensors are down

and right when the Teutonic Knights from Alexander Nevsky show up, too, sheesh

stuff I'm sad about today includes kittens, how I'm never going to get to another out of state convention, cute stuffed animals, the way we seem to not be able to avoid a huge extinction event, how the 90s are over, a couple of friends being dead, Leonard Nimoy being dead, etc.

feeling sick right now so sadly the hoped for visit to Barnes & Noble for air conditioning and looking at hobby magazines has been tabled in favor of feeling weepy, trying to draw and running back and forth to the bathroom

Okay, do other folks parse a mandatory field for when you graduated college as basically ageism?