Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

I just mildly damaged a pair of my jeans, and I found myself muttering "stereophonic hamsterdicks" out loud. I'm not quite sure where that came from, but it was apparently intended to be an expletive of some kind.

I think I may be spending far too much time around Peggy. My maledictions are turning all whimsical.

(Oops, it linked to an Alive From Off Center playlist -- what comes up first isn't Gertrude Stein... I presume. O_o; But it's in there somewhere, and all these videos have pretty much the same aura of ripe 80's bulldada.)

You kids joke about 1980s aesthetics, but have you ever taken a really brutal look at vaporwave in its final, terminal stages of pretense? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmtSuMu-3O8&index=2&t=0s&list=PLFxgAM3UAATdFsT_i46tXQefeExSvFCL8

(I kid -- I actually find this old short, a Gertrude Stein adaptation, sort of charming. Content warning for... um... policemen... and killing... I guess?)

Self-image, 2/21/2012: Timothy Leary as a cybernetic catgirl

Self-image, 2/21/2017: Spider Jerusalem with day-glo green kitty ears

Self-image, 2/21/2018: "Sweet Dee" Reynolds from It's Always Sunny except a cat instead of a bird

If I could do anything in the world to accommodate my current mood, anything at all, I would get a black-market liposuction and then promptly refill the resulting cavity with 80 lbs. of assorted pastries, eaten in the attic room of a sumptuous Alpine ski lodge, with the windows wide open, while shaking my fist to the heavens and shouting things like "HUMANS ARE BASTARDS AND THEIR GODS ARE BUMBLING MORONS" between bites.

Also, content warning for Morten Harket's TERRIFYING BIRD NOISE at 0:41 in "Lesson One": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc6MumuychA

I think I want to sample it for Parallax (Red) and use it as Kurt's Wilhelm scream.

Poor. It's poor. And I don't feel like it's safe to discuss anything else about it here.

I know this is a stressful time for a lot of people, but if any of the Usual Suspects have time for a chat this weekend or next week, online or mmmaybe in person, I could really use that.

On the other hand, I found the original demos of A-ha's "Take on Me" (look for "Juicy Fruit Song" and "Lesson One") so I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

You know what I could really use right now?

Confuse-A-Cat. Like from the Python sketch. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Je1CEPkUM)

@anthracite does provide a lot of good confusion services, but I need a professional. Maybe it's time to hit the legendary Psychotronic Film room at Scarecrow video. Or see how deep I can get into Deep Youtube.

Otherwise, having a pleasantly dull evening. Played Stellaris and procrastinated on work-work all day. But I got ahead on the weekend, so now it's four more hours of write-ups and I'm done for the week. God, I'm grateful I don't have to work sane office hours and can do stuff like this.

Everything else is just weird and complicated right now, but I'm more or less okay.

I want pastries. Really good ones. :|

Oh, and Peg made me a cardboard space fortress, so I got that going for me. 🐯​

Had a fun morning with Peg, watching her open her tongue-in-cheek present. (It was one of those bouquets of plush dragons on special from ThinkGeek. I think I'd describe her reaction as "entertainingly nonplussed.")

Kinda melancholy otherwise, still processing how I failed Buni and Keet. Any silence or evasiveness on the topic from this point is probably just an attempt to cultivate a little patience and approach things with the delicacy I catastrophically failed to before.

once again I have worked so hard on a good solid guilt ridden depression and once again that dragon has to go and ruin it by looking up youtube videos of that anthropomorphic typewriter from sesame street and engaging me in nostalgia about THIS creep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVktxm3p7gI

Cripes, I'd forgotten how good hot pepper jelly is, especially on latkes with sour cream and a little kraut.

I need to get back out to Pike Place Market and get another jar of the GOOD stuff, preferably with as many X's on the label as possible.

I see this is going to be one of those mornings that I spend debating cat philology instead of actually working... https://awoo.space/media/fThTQNynY5FQPapxQYU

#moodshapshot https://awoo.space/media/FzsM5X5QLEeoMzKYQnI

https://www.benjerry.com/flavors/flavor-graveyard/holy-cannoli

*weeps and pours a 40 of maraschino cherry juice out on the pavement* ;___;

I could really use a new game to keep the panicky overanalytical parts of my brain occupied.

In particular, a random reference to character classes and races made me realize I'm in the mood for something with a COMPLICATED-ASS character system... and preferably, as little other game as possible.

I mean, I want something a half-step up from a GURPS spreadsheet. XD Preferably turn-based and compatible with being run in the background. But any rec for stat-wank gaming is welcome 😺​