Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

A weird observation while people-watching in the French Quarter:

The fastest way to endear yourself to me if you're a stranger, all other things being equal, is probably to swear creatively.

I think it reminds me of my parents.

@hystericempress I want Scandinavian prisons: very polite, very civil, very humane, very emotionally cold. A good prison should be like a good monastery, safe and quiet, with lots of art everywhere—how the FUCK can you get a good penitence going when you're too scared and deprived to think?

@hummingrain You know, I haven't made cookies in ages, and I finally have a decent kitchen that's essentially MINE MINE MINE... If I can get myself back into good baking form I might ask for your address.

I still owe you lizard pics, though. I've been trying, I swear, but the cute little buggers that live in every bush around here are just too damn fast and not interested in posing for me. :D

I'll just have to hit up the park and see where the *cool* skinks hang out these days...

I did make good on my threat to get out of the house and do something! That something was apparently "wander through the French Quarter and consume large quantities of caffeine and alcohol."

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WhoppingPertinentEsok-mobile.mp4

Seriously, Peg keeps insisting her hometown is not an amusement park, and now I am more convinced than ever that my beloved dragon is full of shit. :D

There was random calliope music, for fuck's sake. This place is basically Cirrhosis Disneyland.

@Phorm I did SO MUCH RACCOON ELEVATION last night, I don't know if I can do any more. :D

(I was having a really bad attack of Martian Brain Flu yesterday and Peg, after several noble but futile attempts to snap me out of it, mercifully retreated... but handed me Charlotte, her little raccoon plushie, before she left. When she got home, I was feeling so much better, I was making her dance to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK_497X82AI =(^).(^)= )

@hystericempress All this is so fucked up, and I can't... well. long story short I can't believe I used to be a centrist and actually believe there was some reasonable motive underlying all this petty dehumanizing shit. >_<

@Phorm YES <3

@Balina My expiration date rubbed off years ago, surely I'm past it by now... Sure feels like it sometimes! But like so many other pharmaceuticals, that might be there just so they can try to sell a new one of me. o_o

(actually, i'm on it—got caffeine and am settled at a nice cafe downtown, am pondering getting together with Anthy and doing a cafe & macaroon crawl east towards the artsy district—it's a bastdamn shame the cat cafe's closed this week)

am still alive and there's nothing i wanna do

pls advise

@hystericempress You want I should maul 'em, boss? 🐯❤️​

@Leucrotta @troodon Why does this give me Zardoz vibes?

@mawr *blinkblink* Mawr, I'll level with you, I did not expect this to be this credible of a song. Wow. Why do you not do this more often? 😻​

Also, hope you have better times soon, fuzzball. *hug*

@JulieSqveakaroo You are a wild roo, Julie. :D What, did they not realize you'd just bounce?

@001zlnv Weird, I haven't been able to find any here in Mid-City! There is some surprisingly decent Vietnamese nearby, but with no visible Cajun influence... Apparently most of that stuff is out in the burbs?

Sitting here wondering if I really miss Dick's Drive-Ins, or if I just really miss being able to get a really cheap burger while really, really stoned.

It blows my mind that there's not a single good, fast burger option within walking distance, here in this alleged food mecca. Honestly, I've been disappointed in NOLA's food scene (with a few admittedly sterling exceptions)—but that might also be due to the lack of weed.

*ponder*

No. No, it's not. It's due to the fact these swamp heathens have never even heard of the concept of conveyor-belt sushi.

On the other hand, you can go to the French Quarter, get a daiquiri the same way most of y'all go to 7-11 and get a Slurpee, and follow it up with OBSCENELY cheap fried shrimp. Plus Angelo Brocato's pastry shop is the last thing on earth that could possibly convince me of the existence and benevolence of the Catholic God. So I guess it's a wash.

Having decent Chinese food again before I die though, stoned optional, would be really nice. Or Thai. Or Indian. It's a town full of savages, Dante. >_<

I really need to visit Seattle soon. I'll... I'll just be somewhere in-between Xi'an noodles and The Joint, if you want to find me.

@anthracite If you win, do I get to throw, like, one-thirtieth of a brick at you?

God, Rex Reed is a pinhead. Who the fuck signed off the extension on this idiot's lifespan yet let Roger Ebert's lapse?!

(He panned Midsommar, and by extension all horror, as "existing only to shock," and I'm all pissy over it. I've always gotten such a prim "Movies should be nice! For the nice people!" vibe off of him. Ebert could be the same way, but at least he would surprise you now and then...)

@SangriaSnake Ooh, is that out already? Fantastic!

@mmsword He would have wanted it that way. *nod*