Ken Applebaum

For the 1st time since 2020, this nigh-18 year old cat caught a wee bitty mouse. I praised him, then he started walking towards me. I hurriedly closed my bedroom door, in so doing startling him into dropping it AND knocking my umbrella off the knob, wedging the door shut.

it's in my shoe, isn't it

Featuring:

"Prairie Dawn Constantine, Hellblazer"
"Snuffy Thing"
"The Inviddlebugs"
"Ernimal Man"
"The 123ming"
"Vimanarelmo!"
"Black Oscar"

Wed eve @ the staff holiday party a supervisor w/whom I have a strictly formal relationship tried to rope me into a photo w/her & a guard who I... "hate" is too strong: let's just say "disdain." With the grace of a couple intoxicants I turned 180° & continued, but I heard her say, "What the hell??"

A panel from BATMAN #4 (w: Matt Fraction; a: Jorge Jimenez & Tomeau Morley): 6 women (& 1 penguin) sit at gunpoint on scaffolding as mob boss The Minotaur says, "...I brought some of your family here tonight. So do I have your attention now?" His hand has 7 fingers on it for reasons I would probably need to read the comic to know (or care).

Ah, I see he's in league with Gotham mob boss The Minotaur.

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@lucidrevolution.bsky.social I thought you'd appreciate this, though I don't know if there's anything of which you weren't already aware. youtu.be/EbnBU1NLrXE

I experienced a moment of jubilation upon learning a high-profile, widely-respected actor w/a direct association to the subject of a theatrical experience I'm attempting for my 50th b'day would in NYC in a production through said milestone, until I looked closer & saw it was a pre-recorded role.

💩

Right there with you. Of course, there's the paid tier, which takes all the guesswork out of the hunt & becomes a class signifier. Then again, maybe that IS these ppl's kink. I'm old enough to remember when such sites just WORKED, but no doubt that wasn't profitable enough to their investors.

Have you tried Feeld? It's definitely not for everyone, and I'm still single, so... but there are many beautiful trans folx of all kinds and even more ppl fluent in gender/sexual permutations than most other apps I've seen. (That said, even the concept of online dating now feels anachronistic.)

I should add that my response wasn't intended as a critique, only as validation.

We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.

And that, kids, is where we get peppermint schnapps.

I neglected to mention artists. For POWER PACK, Mike Wieringo would have been perfect. Living, maybe Gene Ha, Mayday Trippe or Carla Speed McNeill.

For Hectic Planet, perhaps James O. Smith III, Xaime Hernandez, Chris Bachalo or Jim Mahfood: depends on the particular story.

First, last & always, POWER PACK. In my 20s I wanted to put the characters through A Dark Night Of The Soul kind of wringer, but now I think I'd just like to make a fun comic.

Also, I've told @evandorkin.bsky.social this, but the Hectic Planet universe would be fun to play in as an anthology.

Your skeeter (a bald, bearded "White" man of Jewish heritage), dressed in a teal & black shirt with a stagecoach silhouette motif, patterned pea green pants, and gold & brown shoes. His phone obscures the black & silver bolo tie around his neck.

Last nite was the museum staff holiday party, which gets skimpier & cheaper every year: if I wasn't determined to eat & drink enough to cost my employers dearly I wouldn't go. This year's theme was "prom," but we weren't allowed to bring dates (a moot point). This was my 'fit: a bolo was involved.

1st time I've seen "Belladonna Of Sadness" in these replies. I get it on a SA & general sexual politics level, though its existence as the template for what we now know as hentai is kinda remarkable, even if 90% of the film isn't animated but still images.

Re: SPAWN, it was so bad it made me stop buying the comic because I realized Todd McFarland had zero vision for the property. But while in the theater with my dad, the best moment was when Michael Jai White blows up a plane on the tarmac, 2 rows ahead a dude said, "Yeah, a BLACK man did that shit."

I own a VHS screener copy of DANCER IN THE DARK (2000, dir. Lars von Trier) that I treat with the solemnity & fear a sane president would afford The Nuclear Football. If I ever need to bring myself to the brink of su¡c¡de, it's there.

The vet called yesterday to say that Pavement does NOT suffer from hyperthyroidism, as he'd theorized all year. Which just means he moonlighting as a whiner: it's his passion. I coulda told him that for free. But it's good to know that he seems in no immediately obvious risk of losing his 9th life.

Any sufficiently advanced technique is indistinguishable from magic:

Posted to a major artery, I intercept a man in motion so smoothly he has an existential crisis: "Where did you come from?? Did you watch me on camera???"

-I came from that door. I used my eyes.

I AM an interdimensional anomaly.

CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.

Y'all, I... I think this is it: the moment when society irreconcilably lost what shreds were left of our minds, hearts & souls. There are too many words but not enough knives for the debased greed & evil this demonstrates. I don't think we come back from this. truthout.org/articles/cnn...

If you need a core sample, these kids are probably w/i 3 years age +/- of me. youtu.be/BwJJdTkvS7Y

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This is fucking ground zero for my demographic. youtu.be/BwJJdTkvS7Y

How can Netflix buy WB if the former's valuation's so murky? They don't release #s re: viewership nor budgets of internal projects: informed estimates are the best we have to go on, but they also spend $$ w/abandon. And just think: had they moved sooner they coulda bundled Sesame Street in the deal.

A cluttered if effective setup between a white Casiotone keyboard and, perched precariously atop a pile of DVDs, a laptop with a tracking program visibly open & running.

The other reason why I bought the USB converter set was so I could route my keyboard through the "new" PC & begin using it as a MIDI controller to track my music. Though the BandLab site/app is fairly easy, I have only barely managed to make a drumline: now I'm unsure how to move the melody. 🫩🎹🥁💻

I have another external HD I bought at an estate sale a couple years ago that I'd never checked out. I was paranoid re: virii & didn't have the right USB plug, but I took a chance on the new PC: nothing to lose but itself.

It has a random assortment of movies on it, from Oscar bait to odd sequels.

I have been in both & can confirm.

I'm acutely aware that it's been some time since I made a statement re: the ongoing gen0c¡de in Gªza. That's b/c I'm in the process of trying to make a VERY LARGE STATEMENT re: |srae|. I feel almost guilty of how fulfilling the hard work I'm doing is yielding results in which I take pride: a rarity.

While in examination I mentioned to the vet tech that we have a gravity water dish, "so if I was to die, he'd be good for at least a week."

The tech told me they'd just rehomed a cat who had no choice but to eat their deceased owner. "You hope that's what they'd want, under the circumstances." 🐱💀🤷‍♂️

I took Pavement to the vet today for the first time since his teeth were yanked: he's still fixated on his muzzle, which I feared meant he had a tumor or something as undeniably lethal. I really thought this might be his last day. But no, nothing so terminal, except maybe to my checkbook.

@mc.frontalot.com Happy New52, Front! Youse da king!