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Thursday nights are for Critical Role, mute the tags because I am obnoxious. Besides D&D, other things currently include theatre, mysteries, dinosaurs, nature, nerdery, and ecopolitical nonsense. Sometimes I liveblog movies- I try to both warn and consistently tag them.

[worldsandemanations]

‘The Kelpie Pond’ by Jaimie Whitbread

[taavicleric]

OK, because I know that Brennan Lee Mulligan has food stuff, and I'm curious whether it aligns with mine (nope), I'm now watching HIS Final Meal, and, OK, Brennan: tavern cut pizza is not Iowa's. It's Milwaukee's, and it travelled across the Midwest. Why? Because it does not go on a plate. It goes on a napkin and you eat a bunch of tiny little pieces with your beer and your cigarette along with everybody else at the bar. This is the rationale. I don't agree with it, I don't support it, but, Brennan, I know you like an origin story. It's not pizza as meal, it's pizza as bar nibble. SO, yes, when the use case crosses over to a place that's known for the pizza and they're no longer serving the alcohol and you can't smoke in the bar, it definitely loses its idiom, but, that's why.

[dyk-tv-theme-song]

Visit Original Link

Do you recognize this TV theme song? #633

I know this and can name the series

I know this but can't name the series

I might know this

I've never heard this

Remaining time: 6 days 17 hours

[musthavebeenthecombat]

I'm sorry.???

[reject-tiefling]

@acarefreewind

Okey

[taavicleric]

OK, I have been half-listening to Laura Bailey's last meal, and was mostly not enjoying it (listening to people eat is different from listening to people cook, and I was not anticipating that), but we've gotten to Laura's House is Haunted.

AND TRAVIS IS STILL MARRIED TO HER?

[taavicleric]

Oh. Because of his anti-ghost aura. Got it.

[taavicleric]

OK, I have been half-listening to Laura Bailey's last meal, and was mostly not enjoying it (listening to people eat is different from listening to people cook, and I was not anticipating that), but we've gotten to Laura's House is Haunted.

AND TRAVIS IS STILL MARRIED TO HER?

[danphil]

embrace the void

[taavicleric]

A job I applied for on February 11th responded today.

"Given the substantial influx of applications..."

Except, they sent this to me 8 more times. I think their carbon copy screwed up and they're turning down 9 applicants.

I suspect they are not actually hiring for the position and simply closed it, sending out some boilerplate.

This bullshit is exhausting.

[sadclowncentral]

so many misguided metaphors around violence and desire. if the open maw of a panting beast fills you with the want to be devoured, that does not make you prey. while the rabbit trembles in fear, its deepest desire is to run. evolution demands it. in fact, the desire to be eaten does not make you any small animal at all.

it makes you a fruit.

[magicratfingers]

[taavicleric]

Some theatre in North Carolina says, "$10 a day seems like adequate compensation, right, riiiight?"

[earhartsease]

"depending on ... available funding" so nobody's getting more than the $200

[taavicleric]

Ye-ep.

North Carolina must have a state minimum wage equal to the federal- $7.25.

So the $200 is 6 hours a week at minimum wage and that's legal.

[taavicleric]

Some theatre in North Carolina says, "$10 a day seems like adequate compensation, right, riiiight?"

[everythingfox]

DOG

dog dog dog

dog dog dog

dog dog dog

[taavicleric]

No, no, the nearly 3 hour nap I took accidentally can't possibly have fucked me up. Obviously I am normal sleepy here at... midnight.

[anxietyproblem]

[getvalentined]

The Weather Channel's AQI is broken (apparently the entire planet is hazardous to breathe right now, oops) but the scale only goes up to 500 so I am in tears at how the little indicator loads in upon a refresh.

[taavicleric]

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital drawing of Wulferic and Pin from Critical Role. They're laying down together, Wulferic partially curled around Pin. End description.]

A kofi doodle for @navpike!

[taavicleric]

Project Hail Mary is a 9 hour read.

A friend says his work is doing it for book club and they've been given, like, 6 weeks to read it.

That's a long weekend read, though. For real.

I enjoy the premise. I think it's working just a little hard, but, hey, if this was a Star Trek movie I wouldn't mind at all.

But. I've had a look at the tags, now, and think some of you extroverts should go to your local library and try and recruit humans there to be your friends. I think some of you need more enrichment outside the enclosure, like when they took all the animals on walks in the zoos in 2020.

I think I actually don't care to see the movie, and the whole reason I read the book was because the premise of the movie as no CGI intrigued me.

It still does. It feels like the only way to bother making a movie, is to do it with practical resources. Because that's what the book is. The ship itself may be revolutionary, but everything Ryland Grace and Rocky do is basically nothing a regular guy couldn't do. (Listen, the book gets hand-wavy about Taumoeba reproduction, that *might* be the only thing somebody with access to math might not be able to do.)

As long as they had Ryland Grace's extensive and specific knowledge. The book is correct, he's gotta go because we went to the moon on less technology than in the phone I'm typing this on. To form a metaphor the book also makes- Rocky's culture did the same thing, the best they could under the circumstances and with their own limitations. It's a tactile book, so the movie also has to be that way.

But. I dunno that I care to see how a modern Hollywood movie is gonna spin that story.