Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

My delivery order has been bumped back three times. And I'm pretty sure the poor peon on the chat service just read me the exact same incorrect delivery times that were on my own screen, without bothering to call the restaurant.

Mars has started wars for less than this, you know.​

@anthracite

> I hope she’s not selling my souls to the devil or anything.

Why? Because he's gonna be pissed when he finds out he bought an empty box, except for a slip of paper that says "SOUL IS STORED BEHIND COUNTER—SEE CLERK?"

dinner was just a huge bag of brussels sprouts pan-roasted with pepper jelly and garlic

and lunch was a veggie burrito

i feel like i've let tiger society down somehow

Got 24 minutes through Altered States before they referred to yoga as "Buddhist" (it's Hindu) and I decided to bail before my inner pedant went for the Chair Leg Of Dharma.

I never said I was a *good* Buddhist.

@anthracite You did set him on fire, right?

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?