Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Also, @ElectricKeet​, I think you might want to see this one... (cw: brief simulated/virtual emesis; intense psychedelia)

https://vimeo.com/166829672

Ah, okay. I should have just read the Youtube notes. If I'm reading the context right, spoiler alert, it's a very very snarky response to a lost Italian Futurist film... with cute kitties and babies.

I should probably put some kind of content warning on this video, but I'm not sure enough of what's going on to say which ones. o_o

I did at least manage to figure out "Cecco Beppe" is an Italian nickname for Franz Joseph I of Austria. And it portrays proto-fascists as adorable but ill-behaved infants. Or babies were the only non-feline actors available. Probably the latter. There's a cute kitty with a creepy voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT2L2TwD0pc

(yes, I realize this is an appalling misuse of the term "karma" and I apologize -- it derives from a specific joke from Sifl and Olly and I know that I am trash. n.n )

john goodman has beef karma
mark lynn-baker has chicken karma
michael cera has lamb karma
stephen fry has goat karma

ken nordine is the new abe vigoda

I had a sudden overwhelming wave of nostalgia for Roadwar 2000. If anyone knows what the hell I'm talking about, what's the closest equivalent of that these days? Strategy/tactics hybrids are always my thing, but I think what really appealed to me was strategy in some contorted, mythicized version of the United States. I want that bad, I think, maybe even in board game form. (I've played Neuroshima Hex and 51st State. Right genre, wrong mechanics. n.n; )

Home.

I have weed. I have raw fish. I got to pet a dispensary doggo. I get to pet an ACTUAL* FUCKING DRAGON.

God, I missed Seattle.

In Chicago, just 5-6 hours to go... *sigh* Smooth process so far, I just want to get HOME. I want WEED and REAL FOOD and ANTHRACITE*, not necessarily in that order.

*the dragoness, not the coal

the songs that you play are cloying
the effects are most annoying
and though it may sound quite crass
bite my ass bite my ass bite my ass

Here I am at Akron-Canton Airport, waiting for my first flight. Mom decided to spend most of the trip talking about things I've done during previous travel that have terrified her, and then segued right through a bunch of other depressing topics like fretting about my niece.

Love my mom and stepdad, and wish for many for holidays like this, but... yeah, it's time to separate the mother and child Dago specimens and return them each to their natural habitats.

After having difficulty getting a Christmas gift card to work, I impulsively bought a few games and a stuffed tiger on Amazon just to get the damn thing out of the way.

Now I'm doing admin work for Phoenix Comics that requires pulling a lot of MSRP and package-size data from Amazon... and my ad banners are now consistently festooned with plush tigers.

This is the only time in my entire life that targeted marketing has ever made me smile.

But I still have more than enough fucking cats. :)

Small updates to my "commonplace book" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book ), so I might as well reshare the link!

https://www.evernote.com/l/Ahj14VCozwRCmKPf3jNAGoweu4XXvAVxioo

> somehow made it legitimate

(illegitimate, rather)

Okay, so a month or two back, @anthracite and I were talking about words, and I bitched about the fact that "polyamory" was half Greek- and half Latin- derived, as if that somehow made it legitimate. Peg made a case that there was nothing wrong with that, and I kind of blew her off.

Tonight I ran across https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word and realized such words are VERY common and clearly valid.

I hope you can all forgive me, especially my longsuffering partner. ;) <3

𝓓𝓘𝓢𝓒𝓞𝓤𝓝𝓣 𝓒𝓗𝓘𝓜𝓔𝓡𝓐 𝓦𝓐𝓡𝓔𝓗𝓞𝓤𝓢𝓔

https://awoo.space/media/9Bf8-yRAaAEObE7YorQ

Aspirations for 2018: become exactly the same class of asshole as Alan Resnick.

rickrolling: still super fun