YOU, an idealistic clown retaining hope like a sucker: Engages in meaningful and strategic acts of resistance, opens dialogues and builds support networks, prepares.

ME, an intellectual: Stands on streetcorner with a THE END IS NIGH sign.

Look, all I’m saying is: When I die, if anyone ever quotes anything I said, you should construe it as a personal attack upon my memory, and work to see that they’re punished in some way. Why do you look all confused?

Share what you’re doing instead observing of the 4th of July.

AI DEVS: Good news everyone! Our team has created a broken clock that’s right 182 times a day provided you check it 50 Billion times.

Almost anything by Dick Dale

What the absolute FUCK

Amazing movie. I saw it once like 10 years ago and it’s stayed burned on my brain. Paul P is a hero.

But I’m happy to say that there was a long, rough, road to a happy ending for Paul Pena. I won’t spoil it, because it’s pretty wild. Suffice to say y’all should check out the documentary Ghengis Blues if you’ve never seen it. It’s a 100

So that already seems like kind of a dick move right from the jump. But it gets even worse. Because, for some reason, Paul’s album gets stuck in kind of development hell. It winds up never getting released. So Steve winds up releasing Paul’s song, scoring a hit, and pretty much erasing Paul.

His name was Paul Pena, and he was recording in the same studio at the same time as Steve Miller, and Steve heard and liked one of his songs. (It’s the big-old-white-freight-liner one, I forget the name) So Steve decides he wants to cover this other guy’s *brand new original unreleased song*.

More fun Steve Miller trivia: y’all know he stole his first hit from a blind African-American man?

Haha. Noooo. A different word.

The Joker by Steve Miller Band. God. Fuck that song. It’s peak riding-around-in-an-open-jeep-on-a-beautiful-day-and-shouting-the-f-slur-at-people music. I’d kick Steve Miller down a flight of stairs just to hear the noises he’d make, which would still be 10,000% more enjoyable than The Joker.

WELP. We fucked around and got us a dictatorship.

Good thing we got all these state’s righters and strict constitutionalists around. They’ve been just dying to rise up against this kinda thing. I’m sure that’ll start any second now.

Hardest thing about Springtime is the sudden lack of pockets.

The afterlife I want is my true best self gets reincarnated as a character in a great book.

The middle class now seems be 75% comprised of people who are just good at being poor. How long’s it been this way?

Right? Anything that doesn’t fit in a go bag isn’t part of my retirement plan

Sports fans. I’m with you. The “derp sPorTsBaLl!” guys suck. And I will stand against them with you. Shoulder to shoulder. Comrades.

But y’all got some work to do too. Remember: *benign disinterest in sports is not hostility to sports.*

Forehead wrinkles = brain abs

So fuckin sorry, man. Hang in there and give me a call if you need anything

What the absolute breathtaking fuck

Is there a place that doxxes billionaire’s climate doomsday bunkers? Location, defenses, recommendations on how to circumvent said defenses?

Because if that isn’t a thing I would definitely contribute to a kickstarter to make it a thing. Also let’s do print editions.

Count Zero, William Gibson. (While I’m here just wanted to say I loved The Devil Takes You Home, well done dude)

While we’re at it can we come up with a funny alternate meaning for the word tabernacle? It seems such a waste for that to be a single use word.

Okay so if I get the plot of Nosferatu, it’s about a german girl from the 1830s who got so *incandescently horny* that a thousand miles away a long-dormant undead monster stirred in his coffin and said DAMN.

Do I have that right?

If a piece of media is described as being ‘like Firefly’ it’s a so-far 100% guarantee that I’ll hate it. But… I like Firefly. I even went back and watched some just to make sure that I *still* like it, and yeah. It’s dated but still enjoyable. Can someone explain this seeming paradox?

Anyone out there have a good Things-to-do-when-it-looks-like-civilization-is-ending-and-evil-is-triumphant list?

Because I’m worried that civilization is ending and evil is triumphant.

But did ‘all the reindeer’ love him? One may be forgiven for doubting it. Does it seem credible these ‘other reindeer’, lately so cruel in their mockery and exclusion, would welcome the elevation of he who had been least among them? Seen in this way ‘go down in history’ may imply threat.
#christmas

I just stepped in to my local indie bookshop and had a delightful chat with the owner about all the awesome sci fi and fantasy books he's got in for Christmas. Bookshop people who love the books they sell are magnificent beasts. I now have all the books. That is all.