Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Okay, second hint for today's MST3K trivia question:

It co-starred the star of the original The Fugitive.

@001zlnv "By this time my lungs were aching for air?" Lloyd Bridges? Nope! You're at least at the right approximate level of washed-up actors, though. :)

Today's trivia question, something I ran into on a general web crawl. I couldn't get it, myself:

One and only one (old school, Mike and Joel) MST3K movie won an Oscar. Which one was it?

(HINT: We get to hear Crow's Gregory Peck imitation.)

Wow, nothing to get your blood flowing in the morning like getting threatened on the street!

Some random kid was walking about 50 feet ahead of me, listening to his Walkman, when some car nearly hit him while pulling into a church parking lot. This, understandably, pissed him off.

I shrugged and kept going. He muttered to either himself or someone on the phone for the next few blocks—he was wearing earbuds so I _think_ it was someone else?

And then when I caught up to him just outside the cafe, he muttered something at me about wanting to "beat the crap out of one of you people." I assume that was a racial thing. C'est la vie.

I told him, "Listen, it's a beautiful day, try to enjoy it" and kept going. After living for two years in the U District, I guess it's not that easy to faze me unless you're actively chasing me.

Hope the fucker has a better rest of his day. If it was a racial thing, I sympathize. I was sympathizing long before I caught up to him. But I'm afraid that now I sympathize a bit less, 'cause I'm not the idiot who almost plowed into you, my dude. That's not a melanin-linked trait. :p

@Sig That's me EXACTLY, dude, I sympathize so much.

@Sig Whoo, congratulations!

@mawr *hugs* It's okay, hun. I did think it was... hmm... champing at the bit a little? I think clearly you had noble intentions, but as per recent rant... incremental progress is your friend. :)

The hectoring to keep up with Our Movement's euphemism treadmill, to be brutally honest, can be exhausting even for people who sympathize 100%. And I think it's really important to distinguish "this doesn't represent this reality adequately" from "this is outright phobic." :(

Still here tho. <3

Related quote:

""Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth (My fraternity brother! Er... it's a long story.)

"Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien." ("The best is the enemy of the good.") -- Voltaire

I don't like purism. I don't like being told that my culture, my language, or my life have to achieve complete symbolic perfection, especially not in the eyes of somebody else. I believe very strongly that there's a point where you have to stop and say, "This is enough progress for today. If we push any harder, something's going to give."

This ties in very strongly with my interest in the Buddhist concept of the "upaya"—translated very loosely, "the expedient device." The concept originated as a way for Mahayana Buddhists to answer the question, "If all this new stuff you're adding is part of the dharma... why didn't the Buddha say it in the first place?"

The answer, speaking very generally, was "because there was absolutely no way you would have taken him seriously, because he had to lay the foundational work and let you absorb it for a while."

The Lotus Sutra contains a story about a prince whose home catches fire with his young children inside. When he told his children "There's a fire!" they had no concept of why that was dangerous. When he told them "You must come out at once," they defied him just to be contrary, as children do.

So he told them to come out immediately, because he bought them all their favorite toys and they were waiting outside. He didn't try to explain fire to them. He didn't threaten them. He didn't insist. He certainly didn't sit there pondering whether "I've got toys for you" would create long-term social problems, because the term "toy" implies an ageist, anti-toddler dialectical blah blah blah. And he didn't really lie to them... because not dying, you must admit, is a *fine* gift.

The application of all this to today's discourse is left as an exercise for the clever initiate. Hail Eris.

@001zlnv Man, that is some Xanatos-grade quality scheming right there. :)

@frameacloud I love when that happens, same way I love getting one onion ring in my fries. :D

@Austin_Dern I mean, as previously noted, I'm a lot of things. But I'm not *not* smart-jello, at least somewhere... =(^)_(^)=

And YES THAT IS A PINEAPPLE IN THERE, NEVER YOU MIND

Oh, since I brought up the whole jello thing...

Dis me. (Not pictured: lime flavor.)

I subscribe to a bunch of tropical weather discussion forums—'cause, I mean, look at where I live now—and I'm very gratified that they're ALL still making fun of Captain Sharpie every time there's a new storm.

Not as good as impeachment, assassination, or justice (not necc in that order), but it still warms my jello-ey little fake raccoon heart.

After 28 years of being fairly sedentary (i.e. ever since high school marching band), I think I've finally rediscovered the appeal of grueling exercise thanks to Anthracite.

She wanted to drag me out to see her favorite feature of City Park, Popp's Fountain--which was admittedly beautiful through the big locked fence. :p

Not her fault in the slightest. We had searched EVERYWHERE for their hours before we left. Even their official page didn't list 'em.

So, with me already exhausted, we took off to get me a drink. 20 minutes in intense sunlight later, I finally got to drag my ass into a PJ's Coffee.

They have frozen lemonade.

I am the happiest little trashpanda right now, and the whole afternoon is now retroactively wonderful. I think I'm gonna have at least two more of these. =(^)__(^)=

@001zlnv I mean, you're not wrong—I've been enjoying the season despite it, but it did seem like a weird turn. And I really liked where the whole Dagmar plot was going, would have liked to see it stick to the damn arc.

@001zlnv Uhh, how many times did Futurama flipflop on whether Bender gets drunk on alcohol or gets drunk when he doesn't have enough?

@JulieSqveakaroo Oh god I'm so timid, honestly. I'm not afraid of my enemies in the faintest anymore. I'm terrified of my friends and always have been.

@mmsword @Leucrotta Yeah. Honestly, I like a certain novelty in my gourmet donuts, but they've gotta be able to 5-star the basics, too, and I never felt like Frost could really do that.

It's kinda like how they recommend you test out a new sushi bar by ordering good ol' tamago and tekka-maki. 'Cause if they can't do that, they certainly won't be able to pull off their Specialty Gourmet Habanero Camembert Jackfruit Balut and Tempura Skittles Roll. :p