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(source: The Tennessean, August 9, 1925.)

1) i love how they said “not just” implying that Florida man being from Florida was ONE of the reasons he was arrested but not the sole reason

2) i can’t believe florida man meme is like nearly 100 years old

#this post is queued #holiday #history #memes #greetings from 2016

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today is video games’s birthday.

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Happy birthday videogames

ubuyo

#this post is queued #birfday #happy 50th

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None Pizza with Left Beef is 10 years old today.

happy birthday to a decade-old meme.

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happy 12th birthday none pizza with left beef

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Happy 13th birthday none pizza with left beef

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Happy 14th Birthday none pizza with left beef

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Happy 15th birthday!

#birfday #oh tumblr #none pizza with left beef #memes #this post is queued

My dad and I were in this one band in 2015 and 2016. It had a real name but we called it 'The Don Band' because of our band's leader, a man who didn't know how to run a band. We have stories for days! If you can believe it, he inspired an antagonist character in a music story I'm writing. Side note: I'm sorry, that was really mean. But it's kinda true. The guy went through trumpet players like most people go through glasses of water.

Don hardly ever handed out new music. However, it was all new to me since I was but a wee lamb with hardly an ounce of practical life experience. Despite my dad's love of the swing era classics, I hadn't yet heard most of the songs in the band's repertoire. Side note: it took me a solid 2 minutes to type in various phonetic spellings of repertoire into Google for it to finally come up with the word I was looking for.

Stolen Moments appeared on my music stand at rehearsal one night. I remember hearing my dad making noises of disgust at having to play this. Maybe I imagined this; it in unclear at the present moment. Why are the moments unremembered? One could argue they were... stolen even. The original song is already slow enough but we played it at this unGODLY slow tempo. I think my section got yelled at a lot for rushing the soli section??

On every car ride home, Dad and I would bitch about every possible thing we hated about that evening's rehearsal. I don't think we were even out of the parking lot before my dad starts in with, "Stolen Moments!!! Stolen Moments, really Don? Ugh, this is the worst. Moments? More like minutes and hours stolen from my life by practicing this song. Stolen moments? More like stoned moments!" From then on, everyone in the band (except Don) called the song Stoned Moments.

Now that you have some context, you can better understand my new tag: Stolen Moments. Basically, if stolen = stoned, then stoned = ?? (Go ahead; guess!)

#high as spit #stolen moments #gig blog

"[John Wayne] didn't really get famous until he was a middle-aged, surly motherf*cker... That's part of why he remains so popular with dads and grandpas, ... he was this old guy who would beat your ass, which they all want to believe they are. ... You always [get] a movie every couple of years with a 60-year-old man who beats the shit out of a bunch of 20-year-olds. Clint Eastwood used to do these. John Wayne was the motherf*cking Jesus Christ of that, and all middle-aged actors who beat up 20-year-olds are his apostles...

"He had a very long career and it was primarily cowboy movies that made him famous. As Charles Silver - of the museum of modern art - observed, 'Wayne made westerns for twice as long as it took to fight the Indian wars. He made westerns for about as long as it actually took to settle the continent west of the Missouri.'

"[Wayne] is part of why this western period is so central to the American idea, particularly the right-wing idea of how this country was 'founded'. It's because he was in movies romanticizing that period for longer than it was ever real."

-Robert Evans, Behind the Bastards

#i don't always quote my boy verbatim but a monolog like this needs to be transcribed and shared #tag later #fun fact - one year on a family vacation we drove through somewhere it was the jw museum at his birthplace #and i didn't visit because i was too car sick to move #yet i wasn't violently ill after that despite riding in the car for even longer the next day #my body was just allergic to john wayne i guess #stolen moments

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It’s called ‘being able to see the corpse’

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So if I put you in an L-shaped swimming pool, and you knew there was a corpse around the corner, you'd be fine?

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loving the implication that I'm a little animal and you're a scientist putting me into various bodies of water to test my corpse:water ratio tolerance

#i ship it #ask me when im sober it is too funny to explain right now #science

✨ I just had this horrible idea for a dystopian novel ✨

Instead of paying people livable wages, the government launched a series of programs attempting to cut down on the number of homeless people. We all love it when people have places to live, right? Yeah! Which is why so many people got brainwashed into believing that preventing homelessness is better than actually assisting the currently homeless.

One of the new policies was to stop citizens from becoming "starving artists". The government drastically cut down the number of self-employed, freelance, and art-type jobs from existence. Jobs where the work is sparse, competition is fierce, and the market is extremely volatile: music, art, content creators and freelance jobs were at the top of the list, along with various jobs that don't earn W2's. These included actor, filmmaker, musician, painter, photographer, author, consultant, dancer, as well as several more professions, which (for the sake of simplicity) I will condense into one job: the artist. If you were paid above a certain threshold then you were deemed important enough to continue to create content, considered to be "essential".

Because the government had reduced the number of available jobs, this only further strengthened the "starving artist" stereotype. People could still do these things for fun, they just wouldn't be paid. Neither paying tips nor giving donations were allowed (or aloud... get it? Because buskers are often musicians? Sorry not sorry). Everyone employed as an artist had to find entirely new jobs or do things as hobbyists, not professionals. For me in my own personal bubble as a hobbyist, I'd be out around 600 bucks per year. That's less than my paycheck every two weeks for my full-time office job.

But then the government felt bad for making the homelessness problem worse. So they said people could do artist work for money ONLY IF they were also full-time or part-time employed in another non-artist profession.

#stolen moments #i feel like this is just a parallel to the covid pandemic #replace homelessness with pandemic and remember that we werent allowed to be artists all ALL #waiting for this story to finish writing itself #is this how mythology is written #cause like #replace govt with deity and i've essentially written pandemic fanfic #greek mythology is fanfiction of babylonian mythology which is already sumerian mythology fanfiction #it's plagiarism really #don't even get me started on how much of the abrahamic texts is straight up plagiarism #i'm sorry i've watched like 15 hours of documentaries about the ancient mediterranean #in the past two weeks

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#about me

To quote Hagrid, I should not have said that

Dad and I randomly listening to the recroding I took of tonight's show. My tenor solo comes up.

Hee hee. I forgot I played the licc.

#ignore #gig blog #actually i played it starting on an a

Crossfaded right now. Literally this morning I changed my background image for the first time in like forever. ThIs MoRnInG. To a selfie of me and bae. And what does this mofo do? Ugh. Nope. My background is now the muse of chorale song and dance, as it rightfully should be!

#🥵🥴😬🍾🌬

Dumbass McSt0ned over here did the math: after subtracting the cost of buying a new instrument, I will have made approximately $1.17 per hour on this musical.

But ya know what...

It was worth it 😎

#gig blog #but seriously i did the math #it was something like 80 hours of individual practice and rehearsal and gig time

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