Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

gotta say between the temp job cancelling on me and the smarmy of-course-we-have-an-excuse email from the landlords, this fucking day has probably moved me far closer to heart failure or stroke than the entire last two weeks.

oh but Amazon's warehouses are always hiring

how nice

A Tribute To Vernon - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - by John Wil... https://youtu.be/iyOVmES9Pbk via @YouTube

I haven't watched the start to the movie in years because the sinophobia really grates on my nerves and I missed that part of the movie has *this* gem. John Williams doing jazz, where he started out.

Listening to the soundtrack to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; our society really has a visual language about weaponry that gets played with in this movie. The only big fight with melee weapons uses tulwars (long visual elements), the only time someone actually tries to knife someone, Chattar Lal swaps grip on a dagger (not a katar!) dramatically as a *framing* element, but even though nobody actually *uses* a katar in the movie, they're the closest read to "a batch of people point guns at the main character."

a track so funky that within 30 seconds I was bobbing my head, within 2 minutes I was dancing, within 4 minutes I was smoking inside restaurants, and by the time it was finished I was fighting The Mob trying to move in on Harlem

any song which includes a "WHAOOOOOO!" is automatically good

examples; "What I Like about You," "Venus," "Lapti Nek," etc.

“Five Machines that Changed the World.” In 500 BCE, Ronpopeilides created his Efkolo Kalamari. Rome shook to its core with the Vegematai invented by G. Ronpopillius. The Tang Dynasty saw the Yufu Zui Hao De Pengyou of Lon-Po Pei Li. In every age a new Ron Popeil has arisen.

You’ve seen Cocaine Bear, but now get ready for Espresso Fennec! #eeeee #EEEEEEEEEEEE

Problem with “okay I’ll go to the company picnic so I can get a feel for people and locations they work with” is NOW there are people and I’m trying to say hi rather than hide as is my natural reaction.

#drawing so far today, human, dwarf and elf from D&D’s “Dark Sun” setting.

The urge to comment EEEEEEEEEAAAK! at different points of Steiner’s “King Kong” soundtrack on YT. Whatever happened to Fay Wray?

Finally I am running into furries I like (so not people I'd happily never deal with again) using AI to make pictures for themselves (so doing the sort of personal-use thing it's SUPPOSED to do, but also taking business away from artists and there's still the art theft aspect).

I'm not sure how best to say "That's a great picture, I'm glad you have it, and I also think AI is unethical at every possible level, could you please not go there?"

Sabih, the most over the top vegetarian sandwich ever invented. Theoretically this should also have mango pickles! CW food photo

Also, I can see why right wingers screamed bloody murder about this thing (to be fair, they'd probably scream bloody murder about any movie further left than 300).

If you want to see a lot of very pretty people not take themselves too seriously, this is your movie.

Wow, that was a incredibly well written movie - it has a lot to say on top of being a really smart comedy, and does so within 2 hours. My only complaint is that right at the end it bogs because it has to somehow wrap up a plot point, and does so by going a sorta schmaltzy route, the sort of thing that you’d cry about if you were a stressed out, mostly Ashkenazic ancestry, and still missed your Gramma. Which of course doesn’t apply here, I’m completely dry eyed.

#drawings last night. A group of fiends! And two adventurers are ambushed by spider goblins (my excuse is these little guys are Lolth worshippers mutated by the weird energies of the Underdark).

“Naval warfare is outside the scope of this book,” in which there are huge lake battles, sailing up and down the Yangtze to control the country, during the same period Chinese ships make it to Africa. IS there a good general interest book on Yuan-Ming navies?

furry porn comic only the mood is slightly dampened by how the artist/author has captioned each page/panel "They're having sex"

Shobu!