Dave's Distractions, Dictums, and Dalliances

A collection of my fandoms, interests, and the ocassion sociopolitical statement or two

[davejcarr]

Eric gansworth's excellent Memoir in poetry form , Apple : skin to the Core comes out today. Continues his current trajectory of really rich nuance complex and very funny work that is young adult friendly. It's being marketed as young adult but it is all ages in the best sense. Everyone can find wonderful honesty and self-awareness, I love of community and the tension that comes from wrestling against it sometimes I took exactly one creative writing class from professor gansworth 14 or 15 years ago. He's exactly what you want in a teacher. He's going to give you his honest assessment without cruelty for the faults and without embellished praised for its good qualities. At some point I realized that creative writing wasn't my thing, but I still think about that class all the time how exciting and difficult it was and the things I learned not to do - and the permission I gave myself to still keep doing some of them because at the end of the day I'm the author of what I write. I did terribly in the class but I will always cherish I'm a fan of Eric as a teacher, visual artist, prose writing poetry radar and in whatever medium he decides to tackle next. I don't think you would make a distinction between any of those endeavors, and neither do I. It always gives me great joy to engage with his next work and to see the influence he continually has on students across the generations I was at before how much I miss live shows. Is tremendously common for me to see exchange I smile and Nod with Eric in the line right before everyone else let in. We either have equally excellent or equally awful taste. I'm only a few poems into this Epoch of his literary life, but Apple it's my full-throated recommendation. He reads the audiobook himself, which is an extra Delight If you're looking for poetry, if you're also looking for poetry oh, really good poetry to give a young audience to show them what poetry can do, give them this. It's a fantastic exploration of identity and the various contacts that makes that thrilling finding insufficient and the only thing that matters. Read this book #ericgansworth #poetry #appleskintothecore #itsreallyfuckinggoooooood #onondaganation (at West Seneca, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGBknHVBNTh/?igshid=pfuhkr4p5wi1

[davejcarr]

Apparently it's National twins week. It's also possible that this happened at the beginning of August and I missed it. Who can tell? Is the pandemic so we're missing everything, and nothing simultaneously. Anyway here's a recently resurfaced photograph of a twin sister Kelly and I. We don't have a date but I guess early 90s to midnight is at the very latest. This picture was going to get discarded until I rescued it. How could I not. There can never be too many picture with Kelly L. Esquire, my absolute favorite person in the universe. I would like to shout out her no-nonsense power pose, has continued, undaunted in the face of her glorious successes. She is terrifying, hilarious and generous in equal measure. We share some crossover in tastes an attribute, but there's wide enough difference between us to keep things interesting and playfully contentious The most frequent adjectives Kelly uses to describe my taste in music movies, books is " ridiculous" and she is not wrong. Kelly is a firm handshake kind of person and I am and everlasting hug kind of person. There's a balance there . Indeed, there is a very high risk that my postings will result in a a Something being thrown thrown in the general direction of my head color and the plotting of consequentially dire.(constitutionally questionable. )revenge It's worth it though I heartily recommend having a twin sister. It's the best thing about life #davidandkelly #davidlouise #kellyesq #brushofdeath #ahoy #nationaltwinweek2020 #wombmate https://www.instagram.com/p/CD4Ub6HhLEF/?igshid=hvtkik4u788q

[davejcarr]

I have wanted to read Oracle code for a long time. Barbara Gordon as wheelchair using hacker and crime solver Oracle it's probably my favorite character in corporate superhero comics , Marieke Nijkamp is queer and disabled, though they are not wheelchair users themselves. They have written and talked about disability in ways that I find very resident.. Manuel Preitano''s pencils and Jordi Bellaire 's colors look great. There are some wonderful things about this book, from accurate depictions of the kinds of skills one learns in a clinical rehab independent living training scenario, there are great moments of friendship and conflict between diverse sampling of disabled characters, but there is a rather glaring flaw in the decision to treat that same rehab and some of the same staff therapists and members as villains conducting eugenics experiments on the rehab residents . On the one hand, this ground was the story in conventional superhero trope and there is certainly a history and present of people with disabilities being subject to all kinds of medical experiments without their complete active consent, but I have a big problem with the way it's presented in the story.  Finding the secretlab where the disappearances and experiments are taking place takes away from showing Barbara actually going through rehab, and especially in processing the psychological aspects of her trauma in a way that is very essential to the story that the creators seemed to be trying to tell. Worse, those moments they do capture some spirit of rehab and independent living style therapy and pedagogy are undermined by later development In the last two panels I excerpted I think it's a real problem they have the physical therapist giving out actually sound advice about trying hard not being able to advance the timetable of healing rehab and only to have be revealed as a eugenical villain is jarring This framing does allow Babs and Company to fisticuff literal prejudice which is a superhero thing but Babs suspicions about the efficacy of independent living and Rehab are somewhat Justified and that's alarming #theoraclecode #dccomics #mariekenijkamp #wheelchairusers #babsgordon (at Gotham City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCjtfSEBIi0/?igshid=4cdwfsu8ywsc

[softandsapphic]

you know girls who always smell like vanilla and fresh laundry? the ones who wear a lot of the makeup you know nothing about? who tell you you look nice even though you rolled out of bed ten minutes before?

or the girls who look punk and goth and maybe scary to approach but are some of the friendliest people you’ve ever met? the ones who don’t care for what other people think or say at all? the ones who cut their own hair and make their own t-shirts?

the girls who wear the same sweatshirt 5 days a week? the ones who laugh with you in your car until the last second before you have to part ways? the girls who have gummy worms and redbull for lunch because they stayed up til 3 am the night before?

the overly-excited girls who hug you every time they see you? the girly girls with surprising interests like geology or dungeons & dragons? the girls who take 500 pictures with you because they want to remember that they saw you?

the girls who have to stop and think about what you said to them because they’re sleepy? the girls who always smell like coffee and have their hair in a bun? the ones who you can always rely on to have a quiet day with?

perhaps the girls who drag you by the hand around a mall and show you all their favorite stores? the ones who take you to a craft store and make personalized picture frames with you? the ones who always seem to make it feel like summer?

you know…girls??

[lifeisawonderfuladventure]

This is so beautiful Alexa play Hayley Kiyoko

[genderisover]

“some of the fab signs at nottingham pride” - @ezrafidds (twitter) https://ift.tt/2AkJje4

[weheartchrisevans]

[pleaseexorciseme]

John Mulaney, a man who is iconically known for loving his wife, after being told by Jerry Seinfeld that his wife only thinks shes good at something

[jackironsides]

Well done OP, you’ve managed to capture the moment John’s spirit left his body

[ryrosryhoe]

Jerry’s lucky that John is too polite to throw hands

[bonepoem]

Okay but I just went and watched this for myself and it’s WORSE

He’s. So uncomfortable. It’s obvious. I cut out the part where John kind of muttered, “That is true, isn’t it” about how all men think they’re funny, but his face is just screwed up in this ‘oh god what have i done what have i signed up for this is not good and this will probably go into my next comedy special of awkwardness’

[jukebox-head]

Just watched this omg bless john bc jerry just keeps trying to do some “take my wife” bullshit and john very politely goes no, no.

[cryptiboy]

proud of John for restraining himself from murdering a man on camera

[wintersoldierfell]

What’s so horrifying about this to me is that this is literally Jerry Seinfeld trying to teach John Mulaney how to gaslight his wife.

Look at that dialogue. “She thinks she knows.” He’s trying to get Mulaney to see his wife’s expertise as instead a weird misperception. He’s coaching him to undercut his wife’s confidence in the truth and her own abilities.

And Mulaney replies exactly the right way: “She does know.” He asserts not only that she’s perceiving the world accurately, but that she is an expert at something he’s not good at.

Dudes, don’t take this shit from other dudes. Mulaney isn’t by any means perfect but he aced this. Stand for the truth. Defend women’s objectivity. Promote women’s expertise.

[randomthingsthatilike1]

Doesnt his wife also work with antiques too?like. Isnt that part of her actual job?

[thechy-fychannel]

I reblog this every time because I don’t think people understand that Anna is literally an interior designer. She makes absolutely stunning Victorian Lampshades. Which she designs.. for the interior of a home… she’s literally an interior designer. She doesn’t think she’s good at it, she knows she’s good at it because it’s her fucking job

[bowditch]

Jerry Seinfeld’s wife writes cookbooks and does significant charity work. Her first family cookbook hit the NY Time’s Bestseller List and stayed there for five months, as well as the #1 spot on amazon when it came out. She’s ALSO a talented, capable person that he’s trying to gaslight.

[mygoldenwolf]

These were my EXACT thoughts when I watched this—I don’t even really watch this show, I just watched this episode because John Mulaney was in it. I can’t get over how much effort he’s obviously putting into resisting the urge to throw down with Jerry Fucking Seinfeld on Jerry Fucking Seinfeld’s show

[henryclervals]

Riz Ahmed giving Edmund’s ‘Stand up for bastards’ speech from King Lear (Act I, Scene II)

[kpopco]

Kristin Stewart

[forchrisevans]

wait

[the-cimmerians]

tagging excellence

[graysoninabox]

“The Autograph”

Who doesn’t want to meet their heroes? Also, who doesn’t love old-school?

[bob-belcher]

[kooksv]

john legend will never live this down

[davejcarr]

Much Adorable. Very Dad

[ytamano]

A new batboys portrait among Tim’s things. All the male Robins plus Duke are in it. Tim framed it himself and he was definitely the one who named each figure, but that “D. Wayne” though…

(taken from Deathstroke #34 preview)

[swingsetindecember]

ok, i’m built like a noble ox. like i am 6′1 and i am sturdy lady. like thighs for days. if you try to move me. you will be moved. body images aside (lol, i am self conscious about my size, yeah it’s life) 

so like, i am very used to girls standing next to me in public places. i end up acquiring a pack of ladies. just because women are like, that lady is a lady men stay away from. i am jerk kryptonite (usually, i get my fair share of creeps, such is life) but most men have self preservation that this 6′1 ox will break them. and i will

so usually i am in my own phone and look up to another lady standing next to me. and i will immediately look up and make eye contact and nod. like, you know, that nod. i see you and you can talk if there is something wrong. i end up on a reg basis being a defacto bodyguard to these young ladies and small women while waiting for buses and in the metro. 

i am a large oak tree. i protect the other birds. 

ladies, we all got roles. find tree in the wild. we’re always happy to provide shelter from the creeps.

i’ve regularly said, “move on, she doesn’t want to be your friend”

[grimm-fairy]

I’m in love

[paranoidhousecats-deactivated20]

Story time: So I’m 6’2 and “big boned” as my mother would call it. This happens to me all the time and a couple years ago I managed to get the the front row of a Macklemore concert. This woman, probably 5’4, squeezes up next to me and says, “Hey, I’m here alone, do you mind if I stand in front of you?” Of course not. So we’re all having a good time, dancing around, when all of a sudden this Bro™️ is behind me telling me that I’m too tall to be in the front row and it’s not fair. Now, keep in mind that this concert was outside, in February, in Vail CO. It was FREEZING so not only am I of the stature I am but I had my hair up and a beanie on and a big coat and boots. We try our best to ignore him but Bro™️ is drunk and very clearly thinks I’m a man and proceeds to punch me in the back of the head.

LIL SIS WENT OFF, FOLKS. This tiny woman literally moved me out of the way, jumped up, and head butted Bro™️ in the face with such a fury. I thought she was going to kill him, it was truly a beautiful moment in my life.

The moral of the story is that for every tree in the wild there is a cute little birdy who will defend its shelter to the death. Stick together ladies👯‍♀️

[mikeybooch]

Titans Together This is the first in a series called Saturday Morning Selfies  where I provide my own take on characters from some of my favorite cartoons growing up. While everyone tends to like the Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans roster, I’ve always been partial to the “fab five,” the Silver Age original Teen Titans line up. I liked the idea of these sidekicks stepping out on their own, out of the spotlight of their mentors’ shadows and doing their own thing. Every couple of years, I’ll try and redesign this roster for a more modern setting (I wasn’t a super fan of how they were handled in the latest Titans series).

Along with the Batman Animated Series growing up, before the Justice League cartoon series and the Murakami Teen Titans, I watched old reruns of Super Friends. The original Teen Titans (sans Robin) appeared in cartoon form on The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure.

[metalwarrior22]

The Legend of Korra: Book 1 & 2 characters sketches | Desktop wallpapers