BWJ (he/him)

ICE to launch operation targeting Somali immigrants in Twin Cities, federal official says, as Trump calls community ‘garbage’ | CNN A new Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, will target undocumented Somali immigrants, a federal official told CNN on Tuesday.

...pardon me whilest I scream out the loudest f-bomb I have ever used

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YouTube video by Rufus Wainwright - Topic 11:11

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Back from voting? Good. Now, gimme some money.

Or rather, give Minnesota Fringe some money thru my page. They’ve meant a lot to me over the past… quarter century, damn, hell. If you give thru me, I’ll give you a little written gift, check the page for details!

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Hey, go vote! Minneapolis and NYC friends, go vote for mayor! Other places too probably, but I know those two. And vote for Good, not just Better Than Worst! Good actually has a shot this year, which is neat and we should take advantage.

Well hey. Welcome to manhood! It’s uh… it’s weird and dumb over here too, fair warning.

Interview: Brian Watson-Jones - Sounds of Cinema Sounds of Cinema interview with Brian Watson-Jones, the cast director of Transvestite Soup, the ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW shadow cast in the Twin Cities Metro Area.

Rocky Horror 50th anniversary work continues! Busy year, y’all. Anyway, did a radio interview, if anyone wants to hear me ramble about this big part of my life.

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Nothing quite like calling Portland “war-torn” to confess you’ve never seen a war.

Just heard an ad on a podcast for new Converse sneakers that come with airtag tech that stops your kids’ shoes from being lost. That… I’m not clever for seeing dozens of ways that’s bad, yeah? Somebody’s kid is gonna get kidnapped because a pervert remote-hacked their shoes. This dystopia is stupid.

(2/2) They want to use a horrible tragedy to fuel and drive another horrible tragedy. Mourn how you must, act how you can, but don’t let them trick you.

(1/2) There’s a certain segment of the reactionsphere that always, always, reports that a new mass shooter is trans. The fact that, this time, they’re accurate doesn’t mean that they’re correct. Their agenda isn’t honest, doesn’t care about the kids that died.

I’m as delighted as anyone that Newsom is hitting Trump this hard, but we all know not to like him for it, right? Looking good compared to Trump is the easiest thing in the world. Newsom sucks; trans rights, unhoused issues, that damn podcast guest list. Don’t hope he’ll be president, he’s awful.

As someone who watches every Frame Rate movie before listening to the pod (well, except “I Love You Daddy”), may I just say- aw shit, fuck, shit.

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag

Aw. We lost Tom Lehrer. No surprise, he was 97, but still. My favorite lyricist of all time. He built the most effortlessly tortured rhymes I’ve ever heard.

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Hot Dogg article?

Facebook… no. Apart from how little I’m interested in feeding your AI machine. You’re not gonna trick me into doing god damn digital blackface.

I could see Barry Bostwick as The Tick.

I really thought Epstein killed himself. Any conspiracy involved was the guards not doing their required every-half-hour check as he did it. That was the simplest explanation to me.

Nothing like editing three minutes of footage out of security tapes to convince me otherwise. WTF happened?!

a screenshot from a food ordering app showing a picture of chicken nuggets and the text: "Chicken Pops Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus; common in childhood."

aI iS cOmInG fOr YoUr JoBs

Oh wow, they got to me in the poem already, neat

Today in good deeds:
See mattress lying in the middle of the road on the way to work. Pull over, drag it to the side of the road.
Today in not thinking about stuff:
THE STAINS ON THE MATTRESS AHH NOPE NOPE IT’S FINE LA LA LA

This 4th of July, I think I’m going to investigate how much charitable giving I’ll have to do in order to not owe taxes next year. If billionaires can do it to avoid paying for roads, I can do it to avoid paying for ICE.

Fuck fascism.

All right, off work, what’d I miss, world?

(horrible bill that reduces Medicaid to pay for ICE passes)

That’s… that’s awful. Any pop culture news to distract me?

(Michael Madsen dead)

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(Pop Vinyl doing another Rocky Horror run for 50th anniversary)

…guess that’ll have to do, for my sanity.

In honor of Pride, today I’ve been doing “bum bum bum BUM bum bum bum, bum BAH bum bum”

So the show pages for the Minnesota Fringe Festival go live in a few days, and I just wanted to state now, for the record, if the show image is AI then I will not be seeing the show. Same as if the script was plagiarized, or if the props were stolen. It’s the same.

Cripes, I remember THIS EXACT COMIC. I read a lot of online comics in those days, I want to say this was called Partially Clips? Anyway, yeah, it didn't take long for the jingoism to go so far that you couldn't ignore how WEIRD it was.

Democratic state politician Melissa Hortman and husband shot dead in targeted attack, Minnesota officials say - live updates A manhunt is under way after two attacks in which another local Democratic politician and his wife were shot and injured, Governor Tim Walz says.

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Oh hey. A political assassination by a cop cosplayer finally happened. 18 miles from me. This outta make today’s planned protest extra interesting. I wasn’t going to this one anyway (event conflict), but now even going on the roads gives me pause.

Stay safe out there, all. ACAAS.

Soldiers have a moral obligation to disobey an illegal order.

Seriously, LAPD, that CAN’T be right, it’s impossible, but here we are.