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In the last week, I've had two unrelated people give me two different "I would protest but I'm not ALLOWED to because X" (where in one case it was "I do part-time AV work for a state university", the other was "I'm not a resident of the specific town the protest is happening in", so nonsense reasons anyway) ... is that the new line from the ostensibly leftist but won't do shit crowd, making up someone who's denying you permission to protest? Ugh.
I need a higher-level-than-possible blocking/banning mechanism that stops me seeing opinions about New York from the rest of the country, and while we're doing that, also screen out the New York City opinions of Long Islanders who never go there. It's never, ever worthwhile, it's always some variation on "it's so meeeean of New Yorkers to like living somewhere interesting, and to not cower in a car all day".
The scifi/horror book club read a "Tales From the Crypt" collection for graphic novel January, so I took a stab at illustrating the ending of "The Wicker Man" as the final panel in a "Tales From the Crypt" comic. I may expand on adapting it like this, this was fun to do and it's been forever since I drew a comic.
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My incredibly talented friends Nicki and Santos over at Grim Delights made (and gave me!) this awesome edible "Phantom of the Paradise" helmet at a cool popup event where PotP was the secret second movie (following Dario Argento's "Opera").
They also made my non-edible helmet - Grim Delights has ALL your Phantom helmet needs covered, lol:
The Australians really gotta workshop "seppo" - an insult you have to explain every time isn't a good one, especially when the explanation is "I'm babytalking 'septic tank' out of coherence" - and the whole "it's a secret rhyming slang" thing doesn't work if you're desperate to get the explanation out. It shouldn't be this complicated to insult our terrible country, try a different one.
I won 2 free passes at the art cinema's screening of The Return for being able to name "Invitation to Love" in the trivia contest.
"Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-paw/left-paw? The story of good and evil? H-A-T-E! ..."
Pretty happy with how this turned out for going in with no plan and freehand carving with no templates or sketches.
Are there "The Fault in Our Stars" fans who can be fucking normal to cancer survivors, or do they all insist on their sanctimonious authority on the subject because they read a piece of fiction about it? I've never read it - certainly didn't see the movie which came out right when I got diagnosed - and I never will because its fans have been so consistently gross to me about insisting I do, because reading it makes them feel like they know more about cancer than you get from the actual cancer experience. Creepy as hell.
Cannot overstate how skin-crawlingly tone-deaf I find the whole "teeheehee Tumblring about cartoons like a quirky little sillybilly from my upper-middle class parents' house is just like firing a gun in low-income area to keep the rent down!" comparison, and people are fucking addicted to saying it on this platform. I don't get the popularity of it, how do people not immediately feel embarassed making that comparison?
... I mean a big part of it is very obviously that most people saying this have never been anywhere near a neighborhood like that, it's entirely a fantasy to them to be projected onto Tumblr shitposting purely for ego purposes. Creeps me the fuck out.
Also, no one's being "tricked" into thinking Tumblr's full of obnoxious corny horseshit when people post intentionally obnoxious corny horseshit to "gatekeep" away people from other platforms - you're still flooding the platform with obnoxious corny horseshit! It's not a trick if you're just really making the platform a shittier experience.
(I miss LiveJournal, it had its problems but the tone wasn't so consistently "googoogaga, also this is somehow activism").
Cannot overstate how skin-crawlingly tone-deaf I find the whole "teeheehee Tumblring about cartoons like a quirky little sillybilly from my upper-middle class parents' house is just like firing a gun in low-income area to keep the rent down!" comparison, and people are fucking addicted to saying it on this platform. I don't get the popularity of it, how do people not immediately feel embarassed making that comparison?
... I mean a big part of it is very obviously that most people saying this have never been anywhere near a neighborhood like that, it's entirely a fantasy to them to be projected onto Tumblr shitposting purely for ego purposes. Creeps me the fuck out.
I want to like Blank Check but I'm too allergic to excessive "ooh I'm just a little guy, such a silly sm0l bean" capering from the excessively privileged, and every bad bit gets dragged on for fucking ever with constant self-conscious smugging about the bit, and it's so much worse if the guest is ALSO a dithering nepo baby humble-bragging about their parents' connections.
Also I listen to enough podcasts run by people with actual day jobs who still won't take ad money to find the constant begging on Blank Check obnoxious. Neither of these guys needs money so fuck oooff with the stupid cutesy "da moviesh" tin-cup shaking every 15 minutes.
Under-discussed bit of generational discourse: millennials whose parents have the wealth, health and space to financially support and house them indefinitely aren't having the same adult experience as the rest of us but LOVE equating their situations to peers who actually support themselves, and get SO mad if you dispute that the universal millennial experience is living in a womb made of your parents' money forever.
This is why I love my local art theater - no cornyass bullshit patriotic programming for the 4th, I get a John Waters classic on my birthday.
What the FUCK is going on with Dr Who
Cardassian cosplay at Trek Long Island,
The hotel was fraught with power issues leading to fire alarms emptying the entire con three times in the morning and no kitchen service (unfortunate indeed for the half a dozen weddings also at the hotel!). The con itself was good so far - saw John Noble, John Billingsley, Terry Farrell and Andrew Robinson speak at panels, went to a very fun Trek themed drag show - but seemed smaller in attendance and in vendors than the last 2 years. I wonder if the former was impacted by travel restrictions and the latter by tarriffs ...
Man, "On a Pale Horse" by Piers Anthony sucks! Like, a lot! It's relentlessly adolescent in the worst ways, embarrassingly sexist and trite. Its magical morality system is somehow both boring and wildly fucked up - why am I reading PAGES AND PAGES devoted to hashing out the exact level of evil a ten year old boy is in this universe for being molested by a grown woman???
(Had a good time roasting it at the book club though, that always takes the edge off when the book that month was bad)