Hope you all are having a lovely day today, whatever this day means to you (or doesn’t). Consider this an open thread, to discuss whatever, from presents to politics to cats to whatever holiday stress you might be feeling.
And here’s some stuff I found on the Twitter.
— David, who is hanging in there
Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄🎅 pic.twitter.com/YfyTsQ95de
— Maggie Serota (@maggieserota) December 25, 2017
At this time of year, take a few moments to remember who Christmas is truly about… pic.twitter.com/TQ9tSP5EED
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) December 24, 2017
I haven’t laughed this hard in a while. I needed this. pic.twitter.com/2aQFpugdis
— deray (@deray) December 7, 2017
Brian Eno, Paris, 1973 (with Christmas 2017 augmentation) pic.twitter.com/hRwMDTOUKv
— Brian Eno News (@dark_shark) December 25, 2017
“Fun” pic.twitter.com/tsAdsZeez8
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 24, 2017
#MerryChristmas 🎄🤶🏻 pic.twitter.com/IahMZhf5gc
— Melania Trump 45 Archived (@FLOTUS45) December 25, 2017
Same. pic.twitter.com/kcNPdrLy6R
— Adrenalin (@adrenalindenver) May 24, 2017
🎈🐾🐅🎈🐾🐅🎈🐾🐅🎈🐾🐅🎈🐾🐅
All of a sudden …
🐾🐾🐾🐾 pic.twitter.com/fza8NZioI0
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) December 25, 2017
Human: My cat has an easy life
Me: pic.twitter.com/e8kvlVhUdR— Curious Zelda (@CuriousZelda) December 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/awwcuteness/status/945193410662682624
Good to hear from you again, David. I hope you get some good news soon.
Skiriki –
Hmm. What about something made of glass, with a sheepskin bag to slide your hand/glass into? There are lots of nice paperweights, or if you’d rather have a different shape, um. Probably TMI, but I’ve seen* some very nice dildos made of a pyrex-type glass, which have as one of their selling points “These warm up with your body heat!”. They’re pretty, too. Artsy-looking.
kupo, thank you, but my financial aid for school should be coming any day now. I can tough it out until then, now that my kids don’t have to. The offer is much appreciated, though <3.
dust bunny, that's a good idea. I'm trying to get the clinic to write me a prescription until I can be seen, but splitting what I have would at least let me taper off.
* – I totally don't own one of these, I don't know what you're talking about.
So wwth, that link is awful and it makes me angry. Just like it does every time someone decides that using a gun to punish others is the answer to rejection. I wrote a song to express my anger a couple years ago, and since it doesn't look like I'm going to get a band together anytime soon, I hope y'all don't mind me posting it here. Let me know what you think?
Lonely Boy
You hit me up
For a pity f***
Go grab a Glock when I don’t tell you yes please
I’m not a doll
For you to ball
M’skin starts to crawl at the thought of you inside me
Well why should I
Believe your lies
You’re such a Nice Guy who’d treat me like a princess
But when I refuse
You start to lose (it)
That’s why I choose to keep a little distance
(Chorus)
Cuz you’re a…
Lonely boy/You spread your blame just like a sickness
No one will date you/And it’s always someone else’s fault
Misunderstood boy/Yeah it’s not my job to scratch your itches
You get so angry and we all…fall…down
Well I don’t know
When you were told
That someone owes you sex and dedication
But my body’s mine
So I’ll decline
Those of your kind who use threats and intimidation
(Chorus)
There’s no excuse
For your abuse
Yet you accuse me of withholding all that you’ve earned
You retaliate
You give in to hate
Since I won’t date you now you want to watch the world burn
(Chorus)
My plan was to get someone to do music and I would sing it, post it to youtube and see what happened. Ah, well, everyone I ask is offended, lol.
@Katamount
Chapo is… not the best. Look, the receipts are out there, not gonna hunt em all down, but the thrust is that they’re shits. “A little dudebroy” is putting it lightly. Can’t speak about the podcast itself (maybe they keep their shit together on air), but the dudes (Frost seems OK? Or OKer? Again, don’t listen, but I’ve not heard anything terrible about her) are the worst. One of em made fun of a sexual assault survivor for being fat, and some others made a Bill Cosby/Confederate statue joke which is just as bad as you think it is. Like, they’re a buncha a white people from Brooklyn (prolly Williamsburg or Bay Ridge or some hipster shit) named Chapo Trap House. No good can come of that, frankly…
@Axecalibur
Thanks for the heads up. I had heard murmurings that they were a-holes from other circles, but I wasn’t sure as Sam Seder, who I respect, has been on that show and Matt from Chapo was on a Michael Brooks Show (that’s where I first heard of them.)
@David
Wishin’ you all the best!
@WWTH
But of course we musn’t say anything that might force young men to address their entitlement, that just won’t do! Won’t do at all! /s
Good to hear from you, David, and looking forward to seeing more of you whenever you’re ready :-)))
@Mistyful, I like those lyrics a lot – and I like your rhyming scheme very much too.
@kupo: Thanks! Glad to be back!
@Dave: Thanks and I hope you feel better soon!
@Mistyful: Those lyrics are brilliant! I’ve run into one or two of those guys before…they are the strangest combination of scary and pathetic.
Mistyful, I’m not a pro-arranger and my music theory is a little rusty in favor of too much hammering stuff out by ear, but if you made a quick recording of the melody line I might be able to figure out some background instrumentation for you?
I’d need you to sing what you’ve got and make notes for what you’re thinking for backgrounds (like do you imagine a drum fill here or what sections should be soft or loud or whatever).
It’s be mostly midi generated sound, but with some accompanying sheet music, and I might discover that I’m just too buried in ME Thermo homework to try, but I like the lyrics and it could be cool?
Contrapangloss, that could be very cool! In my head, it’s…bluesy? jazzy?…but I wouldn’t mind other ideas. Hah I’m not posting my recently-sick voice in a public forum, though, is there a method of sending to you that you would be willing to share with me?
Mistyful, I have a burner email alias that’s
[email protected]
Or if you’d rather drop a private message to a tumblr, I’m Uncertain-Imp over there.
@Violet, yay! Missed you ??(my emoji keyboard assures me that this last pic is a female necromancer, but I have my doubts…)
@Mistyful
That song is grimly awesome, and I think blues would suit it well. Or bluesy garage rock?
Hope you and Contrapangloss can work out a tune
????
So we, uh, achieved a compromise with Carisma dragging the kitten to the bed.
https://twitter.com/DidiCarisma/status/958162105022238720
…Kittydad (aka Significant Otter) is now going to sleep in his workroom’s bed for a couple of nights until Big Boi is too big for Carisma to haul him around.
@Mish: It could be me in reverse drag ?
Just as well, I’m kinda fluid anyway (I fluctuate between feminine and neutral–she/her and they/them work equally well)
Anyone else seen this? Assange thought he was talking to Hannity…
@Violet, sure, but do you have a cute little white beard? That’s the question our audience needs answered ?
Nope…but I can make one. All I need is some cotton stuffing.
@Mish
I woke up in the middle of the night, couldn’t sleep right away, saw that and laughed my ass off.
If anything, it certainly explains how things are nowdays.
And Assange is as thick as a pile of pancakes I’d like to devour, except less delicious and definitely made out of diff stuff.
Carisma and Big Boi are so ridiculously adorable. I love how cats are so skilled at stealing the bed from the humans. When I was a kid, my cat would somehow push me almost entirely off the bed in my sleep. And although Whiskers was a big cat, I was a skinny kid and had a double bed. My mom would check in on me in the night and I would be on the knife’s edge of falling off the bed squeezed at the edge and Whiskers would be sprawled out right in the middle. He was the best cat.
> Mish, VioletBeauregarde
Is this necromancer going to participate to a lapidation against someone who had said the name of Jehovah in vain ?
Sorry for the double post, miss the edit window.
I just read some people tried to make racism great again by using Australia National Day. It (obviously) failed…
@David
Nice to hear from you! I’m glad to know that you’re making progress. Come back when you’re ready.
Everyone, if you haven’t already, you absolutely have to read this brilliant article I just found: https://thenewinquiry.com/the-malignant-melancholy/. It deconstructs the fake loneliness, borne of thwarted entitlement, felt by whiny white dudes (i.e. MRAs, incels, alt-righters, etc.) versus the true loneliness, borne of oppression, felt by marginalized demographics (i.e. women, POC, LGBT people, etc.). You’ll love it. It hits the nail so damn right on the head.
@occasional reader,
Why not? We’ll buy some gravel and small rocks – make a day of it ??
Wow, Aust. news made Le Monde?
Massive eye roll re the actual story. I mean, who would actually believe that sign? oh, wait…
The Change the Date campaign is really gathering momentum – I take hope from the possibility that the racists are seriously spooked, hence this kind of frothing-at-the-mouth stuff.
How dignified. How statesmanlike. During Trump’s State of the Uniom speech, donors will have their names displayed:
Why not auction the branding rights for the speech? “The Coca Cola State of the Union” should be worth a few million.
If this isn’t already out here, Senate vote on abortion ban fails to advance
3 dems voted for it, Murkowski and Collins voted against. Still technically “passed”, but short of 60-vote minimum to break fillibuster.
So many times, so many people’s lives hang in the balance of somebody’s momentary spark of decency.