Half has promised to bring Halfself and theKid back next month. It’s been awhile. Methinks me be lying if me said sleeping in, occasionally fooding, hermitting and yon’midnight late-nights haven’t been nice … most def have. A solitary creature does like its solitude. But. Even Ted Kaczinski needed to reach out. Jim Beam has a …
Month: July 2024
As The World Watched
That was … bold. Read an article about a year ago that officials in Paris were fighting a bedbug infestation… a plague of insects, prr’haps? To get things started, the city was battered by rain. Like, sheets and buckets. And it’s hot. What? During the opening ceremony of that global quadrennial pagan ritual, TIMs/TIFs, drag …
Ballet, Beauty Pageants, and Birth … or Whose Dream Is It, Anyway?
Ring/buzz/trill. “Hello?” “Hey Dad.” “Hey! It’s my number one son! How’s it going?” “Good, Dad. Good.” “And how are all my grandbabies?” Gentle chuckle. “They’re fine.” “And my daughter-in-law?” “She’s good.” “Planted the next seed yet?” Another chuckle. “Not just yet. The baby’s only a few months old, figured I’d give her break. Maybe have …
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Raw Selfish
HA! No sympathy. Nada. None. Zilch. Nyet. Hate to break it to you ladies, but you created your own creature, built your own beast. Made your own monster. To an individual, the audience heard the exact same thing: “I want …” “I wanted …” “I just had to have …” There was never a need, …
Shockingly Meh
Much like the Jan.6 insurrectionists/rioters/patriots/goons, sometimes have to wonder if Stephen King just smears stuff on the wall to see what sticks. Not that this was a bad read, no … stayed curious as to what’s next. But the payoff? So not worth the buy-in. And actually like Stephen King (gotta say his whole name, …
BootyHole Worms, AKA Parental Debts
There’s a delightful young woman on the Tok of the Tik – the Girl with the List / @z00mie – and she offers birth control advice / cures for baby fever. She (I believe the term) “stitches” other clips together of women describing the absolute horror of certain birth situations. For example, one woman reminisced …
Wow … Didn’t See That One Coming, But Pretty Sure Someone Did
Some disgruntled bearing a discount sniper scope tried to end the Orange Menace. How very American. And of course the shooter was killed by … “law enforcement.” Big fan of conspiracy theories, so thought would add another. The objective of the masters of mankind is authoritarianism, and currently the best approach to achieve that goal …
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Tornados, Floods, and Fires, Oh My
OK so the Amazon Rainforest did not get a whole lotta rain earlier this year and now it is literally on fire. Bangladesh has flooded out after continuous rainfall for at least a month. Hurricane Beryl (July 2024) is the first F-5 hurricane of the season, hitting the Caribbean hard almost two months prior to …
The Death of a City
Was perusing the Tubes of You and came across a CC “Metal Leo,” who visits decaying cities in CA (yup, there’s Gavin, selling his used BMWs). Recently watched a familiar area – Fisherman’s Wharf and North Beach in SF – and was really surprised at the decline. Gone. Used to work there. Once got catastrophically …
Cognitive Dissonance, or If Everything Is Better Why Does It All Suck?
Gleaned an article re the strong job market, low unemployment, boundless opportunities, Wall Street on record highs (booger shooger will do that). Aaaannnndddd then there’s another article re how tech workers of FANG – Facebook, Amazon, NetFlix, Google – are experiencing layoffs, unable to find work, living on credit cards and out of their cars, …
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