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music, uspol 

Thinking of compiling a list of "yes, we're in the wasteland, but we're gonna fight and we're gonna win" songs juuuuust in case we don't pull this one off tonight. Songs for living comfortably in the Fire Swamp, basically.

Grateful for any suggestions.

So far I'm thinking of stuff like:

* Tears For Fears, "Everybody Wants To Rule The World"
* Santogold, "Shove It"
* Jimi Hendrix, "All Along The Watchtower"
* The 5 Stairsteps, "Ooh Child"
* A whole lot of Fela Kuti
* Stereolab, "The Noise of Carpet" (aka "Doomer Repellent" :p )
* The Police, "Message In A Bottle"
* The Ramones, "Have You Ever Seen The Rain"
* Sonic Youth, "Stereo Sanctity"
* The Soft Boys, "I Wanna Destroy You"
* White Stripes, "Seven Nation Army"
* probably like most of pre-Zooropa U2 :p
* The Nice, "America, Second Amendment"
* REM, "Little America"
* Camper Van Beethoven, "Militia Song" and "Hippy Chicks"
* CCR, "Long as I Can See the Light"

Help me de-Genx and de-Boomerize this a little, folks. XD

@Austin_Dern In the After Times, I really need to get you some photos of the interior of the Pinball Church down here. I think you'd go gaga over some of the rarities they've got there...

woo 

If, and this is a huge if, I were of a mystical bent, I would be very intrigued by the behavior of the Luck Plane today.

Maybe it's just that today already feels portentous and I'm retroactively applying it to ordinary coincidences... but my mp3 playlist has been BIZARRELY synched to everything today.

Like, to the point where I picked up the sledgehammer in Nuclear Throne today... and five seconds later, guess what Peter Gabriel song came on. Plus "Wicked Game" coming on just as I got my first of four Aphrodite boons in Hades.

Strange times. May "Bob" have mercy on our pstench.

re: uspol, video game analogy 

@Soreth This raises the terrifying question of who the Boss is... and what their inevitable 2nd and 3rd forms are gonna look like. D:

re: uspol, video game analogy 

@Soreth I wish there were a second tier of faving things here. I've been trying to figure out how to put that same sentiment for a long time and you did my job for me, perfectly. <3

uspol, video game analogy 

We're voting for midbosses here. If you're a US citizen, please vote for the one that's gonna be an easier fight.

The vote isn't the fight, but the vote can make the fight easier. The struggle still has to happen whoever wins. But one's harder, and there aren't many powerups or healing items showing up in this stage.

Whoever we elect is gonna be an obstacle, but for heaven's sake let's pick the obstacle that'll be less of an impediment to our progress. We don't want to waste all our firepower and hp fighting the fucking cheeto while the stage falls apart around us.

Let's please lower the difficulty level.

re: USpol, a break to consider 

@Austin_Dern The only one that actually makes me sad/mad is watching people throw shade at the woman who's doing Nancy, because she's BRILLIANT and exactly what that comic needed.

re: pop linguistics (now with the actual #!#@!# link!) 

@Phorm Love it, and love-a watch-a the monkeys makin' amore. :D My tolerance for Italian ethnic humor is very very high, because I've SEEN most of the stereotypes. :D

Ozymandias, All Star 

The following is something I wrote the first verse of on Twitter a few years ago and it has stuck in my mind. With Neil C having just dropped a Mouth album yesterday, John and Hank Green wrapping up a certain folly today, and our civilization and/or emperor collapsing as we speak, I now revisit it here in full.
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Somebody once told me he happened to behold the
most colossal wreck in his antique land
It was looking kinda sunk just two legs without a trunk
And a sneer on its face in the bare sand

Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
A century of rule can end up as nothing
Did it make sense when the sculptor read
The hand that mocked and the heart that fed
So much for you, so much for me, so much mighty work lost to history
We'll never know what it's all for
We'll never amount to much more

Hey now, Ozymandias, you're the king of all kings
Hey now, Pharaoh Rameses, grow your empire, build things
Nothing else remains there
Look upon my worrrks and despai-air

Someday some hunter will stumble through and wonder
at some giant fragment left of this place
He'll say "Yes, I can only guess, who once dwelt in this wilderness"
about our own unrecorded raaace

(Well the years etc.)

Hey now, Ozymandias, you're the king of all kings
Hey now, Pharaoh Rameses, Younger Memnon, Time sings
Nothing else remains there
Look upon my worrrks and despai-air.

cat ph +? 

yay! shemp's eye is open! n.n

still got take him to vet tomorrow for presnippage and to make sure the eyea ok but this is a relief!

terrible ideas, kinks i do not share 

"Crinklefist the Diaper Barbarian"

re: pop linguistics (now with the actual #!#@!# link!) 

@Phorm This could have been a character from MTV's The State so easily, and they're basically my favorite sketch troupe of all time. This is exactly my kind of comedy. :D

re: hot take, uspol, cheerfully forming a leftist firing squad 

@Sig wow, its always nice to hear my queasy feeling about somebody is SPOT ON. now i know who i'm stalking thru the reeds as soon as im out of twitter jail. being blocked by her is a trophy i much desire.

re: pop linguistics (now with the actual #!#@!# link!) 

@Phorm tell me who, i love this stuff. reminds me of Oh Hello whose characters always emPhasize the wrong syllAble.

pop linguistics (now with the actual #!#@!# link!) 

i just think little unwritten rules like this are fascinating. hidden structures in the human brain and our language and all.

re: pop linguistics 

@KinkyTurtle Ah, found it, am fixing original.

re: pop linguistics 

@KinkyTurtle Feh, I can't find the actual article. It was a Reddit snapshot of a news article about why people say "tick tock" instead of "tock tick" and also went into the innate structure of adjective ordering.

re: pop linguistics 

@KinkyTurtle D'OH! Let me see if I can fix that one...

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