Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

okay, drawing advice, supposing you were Hellboy and therefore you needed to punch something, what would get the right hand of doom, WHAM! right in the ugly mug?

my ex used to HATE me playing the same videos as a sequence and in some cases forbade me to do so

I mention this because the logical follow up to Tom Waits' "What's He Building" is always the opening sequence to Hellboy (2004). Ahnung un Rama! AHNUNG UN RAMA!

No, I'm not a non-resident alien, I'm a fucking dual citizen. I really wish they paid me for shoveling through this bullshit, I'd buy myself a pie AND coconut whipped cream.

Okay, done with background check stuff, and that Theodore Bikel album was TOO schmaltzy. So I'm back to Tom Waits and working on the registration/background paperwork I was originally PLANNING to crank on before surprise background check needed.

I really resent gender things where I can't opt out. But hey, I'm big in Japan. I'm big in Japan.

oh for fuck's sake y'all need another background check? Y'all just DID one of them, I'm not gonna be guilty of any more profound crimes against humanity now than I was two weeks ago

playlist;

"Nothing Compares 2 U" is nostalgic & sad =>

"Won't You Be My Neighbor" is nostalgic =>

Muppet version of "Kodachrome" is a recommendation from "Neighbor" =>

a really crass filk of "Kodachrome" is like "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee" =>

"Stick It Out" on the same album also contains the lyric AY YI YI

1) "remember the present," "thinking about anxieties can worsen them" and so on are great pieces of advice but phrased as "YOU are WHAT CREATES STRESS FOR YOURSELF" I'm just going to tune it out

2) similarly "I am self taught and want to pass on tips" is useful, but "I became a professional comic artist at 16" comes across as having unrealistic expectations and ego, and this could be the most useful video since learning how to create layer masks in Photoshop, I'd still tune it out.

okay, done with job hunt for right now - there's agency paperwork I need to crank through, but it can happen *later*. I can feel a little of the despair, not the punch in the face version the last few job hunt things, and am going to cook and eat something before anything else happens.

it's YOU they card
it's YOU they charge
it's YOU they complain about strollin' the boulevard
you the one screamin' and claimin' you all hard
are you in charge or is it just a facade?
if Uncle Sam wants you, it's YOU that he'll need
it's YOU that he'll sacrifice and it's YOU that'll bleed

I SWEAR I'm actually about drawing, cooking, going completely nuts over cats, and so much stuff other than beyond being fucking angry. Jokes about actually being an Ahroun in WtA terms aside.

do NOT reply to a message about "what year did you receive your college degree, we specialize in placing recent grads and those within 6 years" with "you can fuck right off with your ageism, exploiter parasite."

THIS TIME THE BULLET COLD ROCKED YA
A YELLOW RIBBON INSTEAD OF A SWASTIKA
NOTHIN' PROPER ABOUT YOUR PROPAGANDA
FOOLS FOLLOW RULES WHEN THE SET COMMANDS YA
THEY SAID IT WAS BLUE WHEN YOUR BLOOD WAS RED
THAT'S HOW YOU GOT A BULLET BLASTED THROUGH YOUR HEAD
...
JUST VICTIMS OF THE IN HOUSE DRIVE BY
THEY SAY JUMP YOU SAY HOW HIGH

... I'm listening to the 8 bit version of this album with no vocals, how the heck do I remember so much of it?

if we don't take action now,
we'll settle for nothing later
we'll settle for nothing now,
and we'll settle for nothing later
#SongLyrics

THE PRESENT CURRICULUM?
I PUT MY FIST IN 'EM
EUROCENTRIC EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!
SEE RIGHT THROUGH THE RED WHITE AND BLUE DISGUISE
WITH LECTURE I PUNCTURE THE CULTURE OF LIES
#ungh #SHIT

remembering this one place in Santa Cruz;

the owner/cook/apparent only employee was this old Black dude, had really good hot links and collards and I forget what else, the walls were full of old photographs and kitsch, and the speakers played nothing but funk. It was like you'd opened a door in space time and walked into Detroit. And unfortunately the march of time did march of time things, so he retired and what took his place was this really generic Mexican place with NO funk whatsoever.

* me, age 7, watching Fantasia *; oh MAN being a tyrannosaurus would SUCK actually, you just fight other dinosaurs in the rain and then the KT mass extinction happens

* the blue jays nesting in the elderberry tree out back *; Bird. BIRD!

Life in a Medieval City includes the term “viticulture” which I haven’t previously seen. Now I realize, despite Champagne‘s reputation for wine, grapes would’ve been incredibly important; before cane sugar, raisins are a shelfstable, easy way to add sweetness to baked goods. I wonder if 13th c French pastry was more like Russian sweets than modern French pastry!

I gotta say "a heavy set Mexican who paints garage kits" is possibly the most wholesome, normal, sane thing for any celebrity to be in 2023

Conan the Barbarian - 02 - An Age Undreamed Of w Mako Dialogue https://youtu.be/3UTBlatoJXA via @YouTube

LONG AGO IN A DISTANT LAND
I AKU THE SHAPESHIFTING MASTER OF DARKNESS
UNLEASHED AN UNSPEAKABLE EVIL
AND UNTO THIS CONAN
DESTINED TO BEAR THE JEWELED CROWN OF AQUILONIA UPON A TROUBLED BROW
STEPPED FORTH TO OPPOSE ME
BEFORE THE FINAL BLOW COULD BE STRUCK
I OPENED A PORTAL IN TIME
AND FLUNG THE FOOL INTO THE FUTURE
WHERE MY EVIL IS LAW
LET ME TELL THEE OF THE DAYS OF HIGH ADVENTURE

omg

Conan the Destroyer - Intro [8bit Cover] https://youtu.be/_64G94BiUCs via @YouTube

* repeatedly hits the Jump and Attack buttons to get the really awesome jump attack*
* until Conan drops sword in the middle of a crucial battle and has to punch opponents until he can pick it back up again *