i have a new comic strip page but i will need to sleep and then buy groceries before i can sort out the website part
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i make incessant complainy remarks and usually, as previously mentioned, which i seem to previously mention quite a lot these days, only succeed in annoying people who are looking for a particular sort of drawn imagery rather than my annoyed irrelevant opinions but this one seemed to go over better for some reason, but then I insisted on talking anyway.
backstory already provided in the context i initially posted that image: In 2018, long after his first conviction, amidst what he was doing before his second, to not much surprise: every billionaire who persecutes queer people while citing utterly unfounded morality and “safety” concerns is in on it together. Claiming to want to “protect kids” while doing whatever necessary to stay in contact with the world’s best known child predator, and so it happened that the credited writer and chief beneficiary of Harry Potter books is shown amidst some of the “epstein files” our government deigned to release because they didn’t mention the president, seemingly quite interested in inviting Mr. Epstein to several such events as the altered image above refers to. Another file shows a mystery crony who has reason to assume Epstein knows Rowling begging Epstein to arrange an introduction with Rowling.
Also in that sludge is the megasleaze who started 4chan but i have thankfully been spared any pictures of him sucking a cigar while gloating about anti-trans-rights legislation, and his name isn’t at the pinnacle of an obnoxious fan/media mediocrity collusion cult I have had to endure for nearly three decades. Or at least not one that operates in public and is marketed directly to children though has equal popularity with child adults. fiddledeediddledorbin. Although i did see ONE picture of him WITHOUT a cigar just smirking creepily
as someone who lived with fans of the books for 20 years, I don’t mind if you like them, or even the movies based on them. My problem is when you let the fandom and brandom consume your life. You become annoying and boring and it chips away at your ability to have good judgement outside the brand, a la mylittleponies.
i would prefer if you DIDN’T like that stuff but if it became part of your upbringing, just based on how ubiquitous it was ages before Rowling’s agenda was apparent and you weren’t cursed with aversion to products that seemed too popular too fast like i was, I will still share a planet with you.
Continuing to promote helly pothuh toward kids now, that i take issue with. In my past years I read all the Tintin books, which are peppered with questionable racism, and are rightly no longer considered children’s media. Of course the [primary credited] author Herge didn’t persecute queerness and advertise the fact that he persecutes queerness but he also got dead in 1983 when it was still mainstream to simply not acknowledge gay people existed UNLESS you were mocking them, and trans people didn’t achieve even that until the 1990s, mostly via to daytime talk shows that were dismissed as “trash tv” and “fake.” Meepwhile Tintin was so detached from reality that heterosexuality didn’t even exist within it. The most common form of mockery directed at tintin itself was to imply that the main characters were gay for each other. But in a different reality yes i absolutely believe an undead centenarian+ Herge might hate queers just as much as Rowling does.
The people i foremost NOW have a problem with are the ones paying big bucks to put harry potter all over boxes of oreos and goldfish crackers at the grocery store while michael jackson songs are passed through the sound system. Have that in your home if it has meaning to you but don’t perpetuate it further.
I thought about this after my mother told me “i feel so bad” about having harry potter stuff around for so many years, after i made similarly themed gripes on insta gram, the one page of mine she actually sees the contents of. She is not the person I want to feel bad about this!
and so i have a number of problems with a number of different creeps but on some level a lot of them who aren’t necessarily creeps didn’t have a choice about being exposed to Big Pot for years and years. I had catholicism pounded into my mind from a young age. I don’t believe in it and probably got kicked into special school foremost BECAUSE I couldn’t believe in it or peacefully coexist with people who did for 6 hours at a time. But it is always going to be THERE and influencing my thoughts. But at least that is substantially older made up garbage that can only be indirectly monetized.
but on a similar note i am not impressed now if they suddenly (in this decade, at least; that screenshot is from 2021) want to say “ACTUALLY harry potter is TERRIBLE” unless they have been saying that all along rather than tailoring their judgement to the blood in the water. I said it for 20 years but it was considered a fringe “you just hate it cuz it’s POPULAR” viewpoint when I said it. No i only MENTION hating it because it is popular, and it always seemed like it was FORCED to be popular. Maybe I just didn’t say it in long enough form. Because i don’t actually WANT to talk about it! I only DO because it enters my personal business without permission.
since I post things mostly to put them out from my mind -however ineffectively i choose an audience– and did something that screwed up my mastodon interface last week, i couldn’t remember what this comment was replying to and thought it might have been from me complaining about Chrono Cross in 2024
Really the whole idea of rigid standardized magic “school” with arbitrary 19th century british societal norms is fundamentally non-magic. But that isn’t NEWS; that aspect of the product has ALWAYS been front and center and stupid. The POINT is that the AUTHOR is a creep, and continually revealed as a creep in additional ways. There are innumerable terrible products from authors who are not necessarily creeps. Dissecting the books shouldn’t be necessary since there is an pacific garbage patch of uninspired market-driven illogic floating right at the surface.
Or at least that should be the point but when I was trying to find old posts i made on this topic i realized last time was in 2019 at which juncture the movies were already not new and inexplicable to suddenly devote an issue to of Time Magazine, a national publication that isn’t explicitly about Harry Potter and that undoubtedly has covered the topic before. But i am CERTAIN i saw ANOTHER national magazine with a cover story and picture from the exact same photoshoot several years after THAT. hey now i have a chance to check if the twitter archive i downloaded in 2024 in anticipation of deleting my account actually worked. I deleted my account because the only other users of twitter had become brands, bots, and misanthropes who will claim to like harry potter exclusively out of spite –generally the dumbest and weakest reason to like something– BECAUSE its author hates transgendereals.
obviously reaching almost nobody with my words is not a factor with me
gosh there were TWO of them right next to each other.
it does work, sort of, even though i need to fiddle with the pictures to make them legible here. but it IS funny how FAST twitter is when it isn’t trying to run the full spectrum of obnoxious background tracking processes or preload additional pages I am not trying to look at.
this is from 2020, and not my twitter page. i seem to not have bothered to include what magazine this IS but has an entire issue devoted to the birthday of a non-existent person. And that doesn’t mean the franchise is 40, just literally the character –but still uses a picture from when the kid was 10 for some reason– as if he is real and continuing to age despite the series now being exclusively spinoffs and retreads focusing on different characters or decidedly NON-aged versions of the same characters and also a central premise being that non-magic users are NOT aware magic exists. This is the ULTIMATE guide that isn’t sure about its own rules to an “enchanted life” that did not occur. What’s his secret? That he is fictional and therefore can have fictional exploits and traits. Do people who write these magazines think rowling literally invented magic or do the people who buy them just like to pretend that?
I wonder how many of these “magical” retrospectives don’t care about any of the books or any of the movies after the first one. But JK Rowling “magically” gets millions of dollars in royalties to spend on cigars, luxury cruises and lobbying to have me sent to a gulag for not liking what my urine comes out of every day regardless!
I came up with that “what my urine comes out of” line when trying to explain to my mother that i did not want her to feel bad and she either couldn’t tell what sequence of words i was saying or just wished she souldn’t.
worth noting that nine whole years BEFORE that issue, while the movies were still getting made, i saw this on the poster rack at a store that was probably walmart because I still couldn’t drive yet then and could only go shopping when someone else felt like it and would very likely end up there
did he forget to shave? can he not magically sear all that off or drink a potion to prevent it growing? He probably can, but i suspect he was prevented from doing so to make him seem more mature and “manly.” More like HAIRY Potter ha ha uh. I guess that life IS pretty magical if he grew up into haggard harold but then aged back down to max weinberg junior to be photogenic on terrible magazines a decade later. It is like he can travel through time to keep selling the same dumb stuff to the same customers at different points in their lives that they barely have by manifesting at different points in his own life that he never had at all. Hey he’s a kid like you! ugh GROWNUPS, right? Gee he’s a YOUNG ADULT just like you! Isn’t he a dreamboat? Oops you’re old but remember when HE wasn’t? Wow so cute buy this magazine full of stuff you’ve already seen please!
mcgrubin gorbo and those GAUNTLETS! FLYING out of a giant dumb thoroughly non-magic mobile phone. i am supposed to take this SERIOUSLY.
look i almost said something POSITIVE about big bucks forced-trendy media, and couldn’t get even one person to like it. although knowing twitter, by 2023, it is just possible nobody SAW this since I didn’t put a bit coin in the slot before speaking.
because nuanced appreciation is not enough. you MUST be a dumb shill for something new that really isn’t any different than old dumb stuff and may even be a dumber remake. the same sort of people who would gloat like this would have shown harry potter gloating about beating batman or twilight or whomever 12 years ago. i have no expectation that anybody involved in sonic or “bad guys” movies aren’t worse guys, they are just better at not making piece-of-trashitude outwardly their core personality trait SO FAR. presumably this was shared at me and crossed several thousand miles of existing shares before i saw it. curiously the official mass shared version lacks the dig at the harry potter franchise, but the omission was an apparently an accident, hence that mention of “the w.” “the w” being sleazespeak for “the win” even though it takes two extra syllables to speak and saves negligible space to abbreviate. You don’t do it for a reason, you just do it because other people did it, the same absence of reason that you watch shoddy movies and read shoddy books and wear shoddier hats
but nobody who needs to tell you that they “won” is ever good even IF they bother to spell out the full word. this is the same one from last week. He WANTED me to go to his page and argue at his ugly hat on a dirty carpet collection. I don’t have time for that! I barely have time to argue with myself.
late 2021: the only time reading was “cool” was when the harry potter books were forced into that role, and the conservatiest then wanted to ban THOSE and probably went right on thinking that until they heard that the author was also a bigot fake-christian too.
i consider a “real” christian to be someone who believes in compassion and forgiveness, what jesus –whom i know stuff about without having chosen to– actually preached, rather than arbitrary adherence to inane, harmful rituals, which if anything was what jesus preached against since not one of those rituals persists for any reason but to keep wealth and power in fixed, steep heirarchies. But they are so BORING that they only have fun by getting and regetting into fights that they supposedly already “won.” big T is the closest this country has had to an emperor and he still wastes state resources trying to prove he “won” the 2020 election even though he didn’t and it would be irrelevant by this point either way because his method of expressing this involved criminal acts. I continue to fight because i DON’T win but i believe in the principles of what i fight for. which is to say that i DO have SOME principles.
oh nubs now i have to talk about this. just to get it out of the way
What are gods? Beings of unlimited power and influence, who were granted that the instant of their creation. They are the most spiteful, petty beings in the universe. They constantly demand tributes to their greatness and offer paltry rewards to mortals in exchange for entertainment that may cost the mortals their lives. While gods are occasionally abusive toward each other, their limitless power and influence ensures they never die from it and inevitably they prefer the company of other nasty unkillables. And the ancient Greeks who made these stories, they meant the gods as representations of the inescapable ills and cruelties of humanity and nature that cannot be totally fixed. Stories of gods satirize powerful elites, and there are even mythical beings for that which “satirize” is named after. So eventually what the wealthy elite did was… did they consider criticism and try to be better people? No they did what they always do: they rebranded religion. No more complex pantheon, now there is just ONE god who isn’t bad, YOU’RE bad for not APPRECIATING god enough. God shouldn’t give YOU money, YOU should give god money. God is all powerful but YOU should fight wars in HIS man men name. Criticizing God is illegal! Or by gumbi it SHOULD be. In fact even criticizing prophets who deliver god’s message to you oughtta be illegal. What? In The Middle East it IS? That’s tyranny, let’s bomb them, God said we should. You also are not allowed to check god’s message to see if it really says what the prophet says it says. God knows what’s best for you even if it destroys your life and the lives of everyone important to you. Monotheism is a capitalist scam. Just like “money can’t buy happiness” and “be careful what you wish for, you just might get it” and “the sword of damocles.” propaganda with a fib-agenda from the billionaires to keep you from trying to be a hundred-thousand-aire until you are vetted as principle-less enough to accept it gratefully. Gratitude is only a princple when it is aimed above you. Be grateful to the brands, be grateful to the owners of those brands who claim to be grateful to “god” who will send their “thoughts and prayers” in lieu of adequate funding for medical coverage if someone shoots you because a brand owner said god doesn’t like you.
i raaaaaaaaaage!
(don’t watch that whole thing, it is four minutes and i can’t find the version where the singer has antlers. although if you actually read up to this point freep glark hnierp)
oh no ANOTHER scandal just TODAY I can’t handle this. this website wasn’t built for this; it wasn’t built at all. I’ll just do it now. I DO have other things i want to put here.
alright the president legally qualifies as a “staffer,” sure.
but “erroneously” means it was posted by ACCIDENT. The president-i mean the person that his senior staff vetted and hired to pretend to be the president on websites accidentally looked up this post on the platform that he OWNS and shared it and left it there for twelve hours and the press secretary accidentally defended it and insulted you for complaining. instead of quietly leaving the post there and not banning every account that shared it before the staffer saw it since the other sharers might have also done so erroneously and the one who stole and reuploaded it from twitter in the first place might have done that by accident even and these are also accidentally the only people the president who the staffer isn’t likes
I am going to die for a few hours and maybe if I live again I will click the “publish” button
and then over night i made a totally different comic strip but that is also about this misery and i am not sure if i should force it here due to its topical nature and the likelihood that someone better at being seen and understood will put out there own comic strip that i will then look like i have copied badly, or delay it since it is miserable. or maybe it doesn’t matter since this site is free and nobody [should] check it more than once a week, if that often and I lost electricity during the last two storm events in december and probably will again anyway.
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i have another comic strip post ALMOST ready, but
or ice could just not casually wreck, kidnap and murder so that the natural inclination of an observer would not be to mock them but that would require disobeying their orders/fundamental motivation for joining ice. much better to simply try and avoid a word with a dictionary meaning and no exact synonym amidst conditions that explicitly call for it. we aren’t interested in saving lives, after all. No literally we aren’t
if you arrest 3000 people and only 23 of them are criminals you are doing a beyond terrible job! You don’t get to BRAG about BOTH of those things! Even if you DIDN’T kill innocents and destroy their property amidst the 2977 invalid arrests!
Of course this assumes “criminal record” means “criminal,” and it doesn’t. Of those 23 with “criminal records,” how many of the “crimes” were violent and how many had the “criminals” already served time in prison for? and how many of the arresters were themselves violent criminals? yes before AND after the arrest events. And how many of them voted for a criminal who has been cheating and molesting for half a century who boasted that he COULD murder someone if he wanted to and avoid consequences, with the explicit aim of keeping him out of prison?
fiddledeediddledoodeedle i don’t know how to NOT be angry. this only gets one-dimensionaler. even if you hold the opinion that it can’t possibly be as bad people say it is, and as bad as repeated VIDEO EVIDENCE demonstrates it to be, even 25% of this is beyond what any past criminal president, at least within my lifetime, has gotten away with. send hunter biden to guantanamo bay, lock bill clinton in the pranger at colonial williamsburg if you must, but don’t pretend this puzzlewit is doing a good job or that the warnings that he had no intention of doing a remotely bearable job weren’t there.
I remember in 2016 someone with whom i at the time communicated regularly was worried, based on social media paranoia, that the incoming administration would be deporting their legal immigrant relatives and i insisted that the US Government does not have the legal authority to do that. And it doesn’t and still doesn’t but does it anyway! Obama’s ice did it a few times by ACCIDENT but trump’s does it as a matter of policy. In fact just about everything it does seems designed to hurt perceived enemies and scare them out of complaining. That is not “governing.”
And this was someone who is (or was) in Florida, alligator alcatraz land, the state shaped like a handgun wearing cowboy pants. it probably wouldn’t help anything to contact that person now and say hey remember nine years ago when i said you didn’t need to be afraid about your relatives getting kidnapped? Oops i was wrong, hope you’re panicking! In fact that might shoot YOU just for being nearby!
worthless lizard! panicking helps nobody! yes i am back in control.
We aren’t north korea yet but the person I mentioned in some previous posts under varying levels of vagueness, who endlessly accosted airport security agents for creating a north korea-like environment and insisted that i film that so he could make “a video” about it ten years ago, went on to vote for THIS and now pretends it isn’t happening. In fact he ended his longstanding refusal to go back to an airport two weeks ago, and no chance THAT is BETTER now. was it for a funeral? No just a soft-ball tournament. in fact he seems to be doing better than ever and i have to hear my mother watching his dopey videos about his dogs or whatever and then showing them to my niece. at some point it starts to feel like letting someone listen to michael jackson songs without bringing up the fact that he was PROBABLY a child molester, even if his entire life up to that point was too cut off from reality for him to recognize how bad that was. Even though realistically just voting for someone who broke all precedent of decorum whom you couldn’t EXPECT to do that just BECAUSE of precedent is not itself a breach of decorum, even in an environment where he already shredded precedent to pack the supreme court with like-minded thugs who shredded more precedent in a very negative direction. Arrrgh maybe it IS! I don’t know what to do, i don’t have a precedent for handling problems like this, and even if i did it would probably just break.
I wish the late Trump shill and confuser of reality and fiction Hulk “not really his name” Hogan could have lived to see this, as he famously appeared in a storyline wherein he REFUSED to sell the World Wrestling Federation championship to the “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase, who then rigged a championship match against Andre the Giant and then bought the belt off of Andre instead.
there is, shockingly, video of this happening! youtu.be/zIE8XvGVMbg?… most striking, to me, at the end the VIRTUOUS Hogan ATTACKS the presumed corrupt or worse incompetent federation referee who officiated the crooked match so that he can also attack DiBiase and try to reclaim the belt by force. Also shocking, “Mean Gene” Okerlund somehow knew exactly what Andre the Giant was saying into the microphone despite it being totally unintelligible, as if they had a script and had rehearsed it beforehand or something.
Frustrating, my relation who was trump trump trump for maybe ten solid years has gone totally silent about that and is now all comedy all the time. I think he is funny in person but tends to seem forced in his desire to “go viral” and insistence that he has done so in the past. And fake-watching my instagram accounts with his new comedy ONLY accounts without expressing any remorse or contrition for voting for this guy twice (in 2016 I believe he voted for Gary Johnson but didn’t mind Trump winning) or trying to make sure everyone else he knew did and abusing them if they criticized it. That is better than doubling tripling and quadrupling down like the actual elected officials have done but still not improving anything. Then YESTERDAY he celebrated the million dollar DiBiase’s apparent birthday by dressing up like him for some facebook pictures, since that is a comical looking person i suppose
Apparently this sort of thing is “normal” which I should be glad about after him only taking cues from Alex Jones for so long, but since Alex Jones has passed from fringe to normalcy, GOP sociopathy is also normal despite the sociopathy being at a hundred year high, and most who voted for them before will vote for them again and passionless ghouls with no long term memory never fail to find themselves “on the fence” I am not glad at all!
another hogany loose end that i apparently posted about in july and never thought to mention here but now is effective for an intermission between tiresome trump stuffs:
excuse me her name is NOT “Linda Hogan.” Hogan is a fake name given to Terry specifically in 1979 because Vince McMahon Sr. wanted an Irish wrestler and so the next wrestler he saw became Irish. Quite odd that the McMahons have naming authority over the offspring and spouses of wrestlers even after their divorces and after those wrestlers are dead, and that this article points out Terry’s real name but not Linda’s.
that being “Claridge.” although wikehhhpedia gives “Linda Hogan” as her primary name, it also indicates that despite a 1983 marriage to the wrestler called but never legally named and thus never legally married as Hogan, nobody called Linda “Hogan” until 2005, and that she was divorced in 2009. So she “was” really only Linda Hogan for four years at most. Certainly far longer than I was ever Linda Hogan but still only a tiny fraction of her life time.
also on dumb websites i have dwelled on having a different person’s approval and I should not. Apart from some subjective gripes, i have noticed that just like my semi-fascist brothers he never regrets anything. Also he celebrated when charlie kirk was murdered. I am not and was not sad that Kirk is dead but killing him accomplished nothing positive because he is exactly like billions of other smug entitled jerk bullies across time and space, and murdering him only convinces his followers more that they are right. President Trumpo though is singular. He is not a true conservative. Conservatives live foremost to follow instructions from presumed higher powers, who can at best aspire to be popes of wealthy racist misogynist crumbaggery. Trump believes himself to BE the higher power. I at one time worried about JD Vance taking over if Trump became dead, ideally from natural causes or at least unnatural causes of his own creation, falling down stairs, getting hit in the head by a golf ball, trying to eat a box of gold nuggets, like that. But Vance is at worst a nazist like we have seen before who at least believes in something, even it is only obeying a vengeful death god.
Trump is more like an evil jester from a video game (i think all the evil jesters I have seen have been from video games). It isn’t clear what he believes in or if he believes in anything at all because his announcements make no sense and don’t consider reality. And true conservatives obey him just because obeying is what they do, which is the ultimate danger of someone like trump being in charge. Even when the cronies knowingly feed their master false information about the world they still obey his warped orders that are based on information that they knew to be false before they gave it. They are morons or are malicious but they are utterly uncreative and terrified of doing anything that hasn’t been done before; that is why they love AI-generation and sequels so much. Trump isn’t creative but he has a Yogi Berra like ability to say something stupid in a profound way that nobody else would but hasn’t been adequately conditioned to realize it is stupid, even if for a few decades it seemed like he was willing to be depicted as foolish if it got him on television; he surely already had cronies then lying to him about how he was perceived. eh uh this is nothing new but i need to type it in a box like this to restrain it elsewhere. That is also nothing new! I may be too old to do new and good things. Fortunately i will never be in government.
We “should” not be scared at all. We PERHAPS should refuse to give money to whatever uses it and otherwise live our lives like it doesn’t exist, because it doesn’t. It has a specific, if terribly generic appearance and stupid name, as unlike “normal” uninvited ainterference, it WANTS us to recognize its interference and choose to have it, so we can easily not do that.
I hate when [typically, jerky] persons see and respond to this trash like “this must be how horse breeders felt when cars came along lol cope, luddite.” No, it is not like that, because automobile manufacturers didn’t spend billions of dollars trying to fabricate a device that looks like a horse and the catastrophic environmental impact of automobiles took decades to manifest, while the catastrophic environmental impact of generative artificial intelligence we knew about before this happened. Yes you save a few days of filming because your “star” is a digital puppet but it eats an entire coal power plant for every minute of video so you haven’t saved a ding dang thing.
Additionally, motorized transportation actually does stuff that horses can’t and has the capacity to improve life for some people, and its negative environmental impact and inefficiency can be reduced. That impact only is NOT reduced because of the same sort of shortsighted, unimaginative greedy slimeballs who want ai actors. Meapwhile “ai actors” will only waste more resources and inconvenience more people, a few of them even actual actors, if more of this is used. The only person who benefits is the aspiring pharaoh the top of the pyramid who, trusting in AI information sources, possibly thinks pyramids were thrones for pharaohs rather than where their dead bodies were hidden until they could be looted and displayed in a museum centuries later.
I don’t even care about the cults of actual boring conventionally pretty celebrities unless they massively screw up. Why should I pay attention to a fake one pretending to be real, that can’t screw up in an organic fashion? This is thankfully someone else’s problem for now. Until my niece’s friends get her watching it and she brings it into my house, like every other obnoxious target-marketed thing I have had to endure excess awareness of the past decade, but she also binge watched “finger family” videos, and sometimes even just hands opening up plastic eggs and fiddling with slime. I could imagine ai-actors being massively viewed by people with no taste and who simply watch WHATEVER the ai-video sorter conspires to send at them, but getting viewers to PAY to watch one is entirely different. You might get business from some “own the libs” sorts who go to chick fil-a exclusively out of spite for marginalized groups that Chick Fila funds further marginalization of, but Chick Fila does, perhaps surprisingly, have customers outside that range also since it sells a product at least as appealing as those offered by others in the wasteful no-longer-cheap, no-longer-fast food business, and Chick Fila also doesn’t, generally, advertise based on its anti-humanity component.
this thing, it will never have a “difficult” opinion, it will never complain about sexual harassment, it will never say no. That appeals to sleazebag producers–
and apparently appeals to a strange subset of sleazebag viewers who aren’t necessarily ai themselves– but actually mixing it in with real actors, even ones with no taste or who just need money so badly that they will be second to it, is more difficult. It thus requires a full cast of fake actors, and I think if that cast already existed they would have debuted together rather than this being announced however this was. ideally that means money is running out for whatever is funding this and it is badly needing for further investment sooner than expected. rumor has it that other ai-masses-of-pixels interact with it in this video i refuse to watch but if they haven’t been given names then they probably aren’t finished yet.
and who the heck is this guy? none of the text on the article explains who he is. This is the artificial human I am scared of. Since Silly Borwood doesn’t exist it can’t actually profit from being terrible but this sleazo sure can. He probably hired/generated whatever shill wrote that “virgin onscreen” rubbish.
I sure am and that has not contributed to my suitability for screen appearances.
America was rocked to its core by the death of a hate-mongering sociopath that i have only barely heard of the same day as yet another school shooting in Colorado that America managed to be barely informed about and completely numb to
violence is exactly who you are, political violence is who your boss is in particular, and these are the principles you teach to children and advertise to the rest of the world. I assume America’s core is like the ones inside tootsie pops that are hazardous to bite into
DJ Taco Trump is not quite the king of political violence compared to some international competitors but he is like a scheming regent or a feudal warlord perhaps
This is still the number one issue in connecticut, where that monster isn’t from and his influence, ideally, holds less weight, because the murder-authorizing and sexual-assault-doing president ORDERED it. for DAYS.
yeah we only allow native born white male americans to glorify violence and hatred and then institute national mourning for them and then vow to add more violence and hatred when they get taken down by it. “Free speech! free speech! Whoa my dude that’s only for me and my pals”
when someone who advocates prayer in place of science gets murdered, I feel like, at best, that proves prayer DOESN’T work. And worse for snarky xenophobic bullies with a national platform would be if prayer does work but not the way they think it does.
I am surprised by this reaction from my usually tough guy family member E who tries to laugh off criticism of his own insensitive remarks, called covid-19 a hoax and hassled journalists over pizzagate nonsense, who wrote an entire song glorifying Alex Jones, who made a fortune over inflammatory tirades, which includes mocking victims of gun violence. And also the selling of snake oil dietary and “masculinity” supplements, one of which I found in my basement after E stayed at my house for a few weeks in 2023. I didn’t realize Kirk was such a big deal, but I guess he is like a civil rights leader for people who hate civil rights. A Malcolm
, if you white. Pardon, will. Although apparently to E’s credit he did untag himself from someone else’s post about what a “hero” Mr. Kirk was, it is also possible he didn’t untag and I just can’t see that post now because someone who isn’t me tried to argue against the notion that a progress-halting nation-damager was a hero and the posting account went private and cried of victimization by The Left but I don’t have proof so
hey speaking of foreigners endorsing violence
What’s his problem? Millions of people leave in peace whenever he takes over.
We don’t want violence. By the way, death penalty. By the wayer, ignore anything not told to you by us.
“death penalty” of course implies they intend both to catch the guy and not kill him until after he has been interrogated
at 31 years of age Kirk could very well have had enough time ahead to become a decent person and use his influence for positive ends but he had been given absolutely no incentive to do so and I find his life substantially sadder than his death.
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then a day later, the shooter “turned himself in” coerced by his incredibly churchy and NON-leftist family perhaps aware that police would shoot him dead rather than arrest him, or perhaps hoping to get the $100,000 reward offered by the DOGE-gutted fbi that had been utterly unable to find him.
He was shot by a white twerp from the place where it happened, you dumb toilets. The “race war” people like Kirk convinced you exists is only being fought from your side. Note that there is no official us government acknowledgment of abuse like this or retraction of accusations against leftist for the murder they had no part in. Because unlike George W Bush, Donald Trump DOES care about black people, in particular them being subservient and afraid.
How does having a full-time job condemning anyone who isn’t hetero-normative and caucasian make you a “political activist who rallied young voters”? I can understand, begrudgingly, if a republican governor describes him like that, but a news article about what the governor said should not.
praying for thirty three hours is not leadership. AFTER the thing already happened you PRAYED to retroactively alter how it might have occurred? Like as long as you don’t have information you can change what the information is, Schrodinger’s rifle or something*, That is preposterous, and you think it reflects well on yourself to admit this. You have a problem where hetero normative whites who fetishize guns victimize and collectively punish non-white, perceived-foreign and lgbtish people for crimes that hetero normative local white gun fetishists are committing, or really any remotely blame-worthy thing. Stop praying and THINK for a while or maybe even better take a nap before you give statements. Assuming you actually want to solve this; admittedly I don’t get the impression that anyone does.
*or the injured scientist in Cave Story who DIES if you talk to him but recovers and gives you the jetpack later if you simply ignore his mangled body. This is probably not a helpful point of reference for many people
oh grapety purple there is ONE evildoer responsible for killing him who is IN JAIL in Utah now. battle-crying around the world is unnecessary. And the folks who made sure he had guns and knew how to use them voted for the mutants you thank and heap praise upon. Nothing about this sequence of stories makes sense. How does it eat itself but keep getting bigger?
gorf I would love to not keep talking about this creep. I much preferred when the main thing I knew about him was that he LOOKED like a scumbag who would be set in his ways and smugly imposing them on others by the time he got to high school. But his acolytes including apparently the entire executive branch who don’t want their own crimes and abuses to be news means this is the world’s biggest and dumbest story for as long as they can keep it that way.
preferably into the sunset, though if they think the earth is flat so they’ll believe the sun is actually there and will set them on fire and thus will avoid it
Here is the airplane stuff I did not post a month ago. Really not any less depressing now! even though it is mostly about the always-on electricity-wasting, fare-raising screens stuck to the seats immediately in front of passengers
first of all I refuse to Enter [My] Seatback Experience nor call it that except for the purpose of showing how stupid it looks when i type out that label myself.
ESPECIALLY if you aren’t a heteronormative white guy who never had an organic or fact-informed opinion on anything unrelated to what genitalia someone has and how to persecute them on account of that while ignoring their actual merit, even while “merit” has become a bizarre code word for “heternormative white guy.”
Apart from THAT, the statement “the world awaits” assumes that climate-change related freak weather events caused by regulation cuts instituted by the same sort of people who want you locked up without explanation or justification don’t get your destination airport shut down for a prolonged length of time because it isn’t safe to fly through them and pog forbid the weather freakoff starts while the plane is in flight since air traffic controllers are getting laid off all over the place.
this picture is a lie. i have the computer open right now* and this space does not exist. i cannot extend my arms or open the screen fully without pulling the machine closer than that. The person in the photograph has two full window lengths of space. i have about 1.1, 1.2 MAYBE.
*it was right now when i wrote it but last month by right now
there is plainly not two windows per seat. even with the tray fully extended it is not possible to use the computer non-awkwardly, and forget about having any surface to use a mouse on. Thankfully I learned to use it against my right leg years ago in other uncomfortable locations. But after so long stuck on the plane during hours of delays with no place to charge it even if my charger weren’t stuck in my carry-on bag that got tossed into the baggage compartment by the staff anyway to cut 2 minutes off of the boarding process prior to the four hours of delays there isn’t enough battery left in the thing to use anyway except for awkwardly typing out some gripey notes.
i have NEVER had this facial expression while on an airplane, if ever. This is only plausible if it accompanies an internal realization that life has no meaning, reality is imaginary and leads directly to brazen criminal acts that i assume this presentation is not intended to endorse.
This journey was the first time i had to put in barely adequate earbudpodphones just to block out top 40 radio hits being pumped into the cabin prior to take-off. i assumed delta paid extra for the “right” to make my experience worse, but then the audio feed advertised spotify so maybe spotify paid for it. Somebody else paid somebody else to diminish the bearability of this situation. Soon after i heard mouth-whistling breaking through my block-out and was glad to be missing the full context. No corporation-approved music with whistling in it has ever been not awful. During the outgoing and return flights it was necessary to take a smaller, dinkitier airplane between Tallahassee and Atlanta. Most advertised features were missing on the smaller plane but it STILL had the crummy music imposed on passengers, though with shoddier, mufflier sound quality and I was unable to determine if it being harder to hear made the experience worse or better since I would still prefer just engine noise.
If you love a brand it is only because you do not know that brand because not one of them has any of your best or even good interests in mind. If you don’t own it, it aims to own you.
And I think having this awful rubbish presented to me is supposed to be a “perk” of the “sky miles” membership program that the trip organizer belongs to. I don’t know for certain that people in the back of the plane have access to these wonderful bonus advertisements for corporate mediocrity. I can verify that the wifi DID function but again there wasn’t much i could do with it in a cramped tiny space and hardly any battery left over except type out complaints, but LIVE to my pathetic discord chat server and wow jeeplies how exciting to get whining about airplane delays in REAL TIME.
wheeeeeee
Coca cola specifically is formulated to be drank rapidly and repeatedly and NOT savored, and possibly is the first consumer product that was. I drink coke, because the brand owns that piece of me. I don’t want it to, but i can taste when a similar drink is not coke. There is worse coke to have a chemical dependency on but better than worst is worse than good.
I do drink iced tea with more regularity than coke but foremost drink water and GOSH isn’t this fascinating to read about! And that is a bimshwel.com exclusive; i have never said that in the chat server. I need to provide incentives to not look at both.
popeye is considered public domain now so legally me showing pictures from the comic strips is not participating in corporate mediocrity
good gawrd he is literally putting sycophants from tv and the internet into his government. I didn’t think he would. He really is going to be worse than last time. Kids being obnoxious on social media and stupid forums aren’t all that important.
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i have heard that birds are jerks
this might be my least popular upload in years. presumably in part due to it not communicating my opinion on its message well, or even the
message at all, and also that i posted it during one of the most discomforting election days that I can remember. I almost didn’t want people to see it since I was so dissatisfied with the result, but then I also disliked when fewer people than seemingly average reacted to it.
Maybe its meaning would be more clear if i drew the birds like the three stoogers, since there were actually four, but I don’t actually like the stooges and i don’t believe they are known for assaulting women.
maybe the message itself: all organized religion has this at its core has baked-in lack of appeal. I kept making pieces like this since I was annoyed by the support (not enough to matter, only enough to be noticed) I had from racist, misogynist creeps who assumed I shared their viewpoints since I complain about some of the same stupid garbage as, presumably, whatever higher-tier idiot they take orders from.
it took this one (same person, different icon) until last week to realize I’m not being ironic or dog-whistling when I reject his anonymous insincere klanny memester values.
I wondered who this person was and I saw it using a particular ugly horrid arbitrarily racist “reaction” picture, like 30 times in a short period against different people in petty arguments, and I really didn’t want it, or anyone similar to it, thinking I was on whatever they think their “side” is but I didn’t want to directly engage with it either.
After I wrote that, the person in question saw it and has insisted that my remarks misunderstand and or misrepresent the behavior. Maybe I am just too old. Most of the people putting forth the snarky racist culture though are plenty older than me and know exactly what they are doing. Whatever variety there might be among his fans or what they get out of it, Mr. Stone Toss himself is a bad guy.
pardon me, you aren’t a white supremacist, you just believe people who don’t have light-colored skin are intrinsically inferior to you
And that was months before a deranged child-leg-fixating sex-cyber-stalker whom I want even less to engage with used the exact same insult against me, even. I can however change what topics I prioritize among the numerous undrawn comic strips I already have little scripts for.
of course I have complained about Stephen Colbert trying to reinvent himself as an unmistakable democrat party and perceived like-aligned media shill, even changing his signature glasses to underline that he is boring and “network” now, especially after idiots who took the act seriously threatened to cost him money while he was still on cable, but “thankfully” I do this for free. Although unfortunately I also do this for free so no pro-shill sponsors are encouraging me in any direction.
how can you be shocked? trump got elected before. T won with a wider margin, the first time he actually got more votes than his competitor, but you also have both people who won’t vote for a woman AND people who won’t vote for a non-white person contributing along with the usual reasons any 0-integrity criminal slimemound gets elected to office. Unfortunately,
that is America so how can we? Don’t disregard that even when T lost clean he did it with over 74 million votes. This year the democrat party forced Joe Biden to quit the presidential race over media nitpicking his ability to look good on camera, replaced him with a candidate people hardly know anything about and who comes across as insincere, while continuing to ignore the most prominent genocide of the day, against an established career dirty trickster that for whatever reason a massive quantity of the populace seemingly tolerates the tricks of, some even enjoying it, and most importantly urinates standing up, even if directly into a diaper at this point. They went with the crook they trust to be utterly untrustworthy at the expense of someone else in their favor.
And I can find humor in how extremely stupid this is without making telling people that they are stupid in the nastiest, least constructive ways possible my foremost passion in life
I am not sure how I avoided putting this picture anywhere since I used one of its counterparts ten years ago and I generally think this one is funnier.
the musicien de rock detester may not have a choice about being in such close proximity, but the television detester is deliberately standing right in front of the television. He could turn the thing off! Unless this drawing is more literal than I assumed, and this person has no arms or body and cannot move. In which event he should aim his detestment at whoever placed him there.
trump does not directly affect me much. The anti-science, anti-feminism, anti-empathy sentiment that he depended on for victory and that has frustratingly affected some people to whom I was once close was not created by him. He is an exploiter, not a creator. But in 2016 he still seemed unusual and likely to at least gut some of hypocrisy in government that didn’t directly benefit him, and by 2020 it was clear that in practice he isn’t much different from standard crooked wearers-of-suits. His regressive policies are their regressive policies. He is impervious to shame, publicly bragging about deeds that other politicians would resign to keep from going public, but he also knows that as hard as he wanted to be respected in New York, where he had his biggest, most audacious campaign event, he still didn’t win and still lost business licenses. He knows and dislikes that he is seen as a redneck president.
This friggin guy lives in essentially luxury hotels for his entire life, treats his employees like pets or worse, chums it up with literally the wealthiest person in human history, and is somehow regarded like a champion of the downtrodden, when just about nobody is more symbolically associated with trodding-down. Some people believe, without any evidence, because trump has also trained them to be anti-evidence, that he will reduce food prices. The people inflating the prices for pure profit all donated to his campaign! (probably) During my brief brush with election coverage last night I inadvertently saw some goofus in an enormous plantation house that almost certainly was built and furnished with slavery money, with a bust of Ronald Reagan behind him (similar to the television detester, except bronze) being interviewed, swelling with swill about how Trump takes down “the elites.” The only elites he took down was Rudolph Giuliani! If Hillary Clinton hadn’t run against him in 2016, Donny and Bill would probably be best buddy old pals like they were back in the Epstein days. I am not optimistic but I think there is a pretty good chance big D will slip on a banana peel down the steps of the capital building or detach his arms during a golf swing which might at least be interesting to read about.
A Kamala Harris presidency wasn’t going to improve my life, nor anyone in Gaza’s either (I voted for Jill Stein again, since in Connecticut it doesn’t make a difference), but I could have had marginally more optimism about who might not get hurt by it. I understand why they believe it. Trump says he will hurt people. He never drained “the swamp” and he never got mexico to pay for “the wall,” so he probably will continue not doing what he said he will do, but he hurts people spontaneously in the present. You can’t trust his promises, but you can’t know what he will do instead.
I received a FOURTH bit of mail for pennsylvania after posting this but it essentially remixed the previous one, with the ballot request, so it isn’t worth showing a picture of but it reminds me that this america pac has lost loads of money by paying employees who don’t care and thus are doing their “job” as shoddily and quickly as possible. The article is about that affecting “swing states” but even in the states that don’t really matter they are doing it and doing it unwell.
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this feels somewhat redundant given my last horde of snake comic strips, and maybe it isn’t fair either since idiotic political sentiment is largely manufactured at or near the top and directed downward with the intent of setting common folk against each other instead of recognizing what their actual problems are. However I also encounter more of this than ever before, dumber and more aggressive than ever before, and do not know what productive I really can do about it, hence perpetual gripage. This is the last such thing I have, however. for now.
Although I encountered that WPWW “white pride world wide” symbol on a school bus back when I was tennish years old, the kid who wrote it probably still believes in that and no longer considers it such a fringe viewpoint that it needs to be secretly scribbled in places where hardly anyone will see it.
this is on the same street where my home is. Not in Texas or Florida, but Connecticut. I do not know if “you can’t fix stupid” is official campaign signage or something that the erector purchased, but either way it is screwed up and the fact that I cannot tell if this isn’t official signage, because Trump’s official platform is abuse, and that APPEALS to or fails to alarm a significant portion of the populace, is even more screwed up.
the message is a bit more coherent from this angle, but just as likely to do any good.
I cannot fathom somebody scanning this on purpose.
That was two weeks ago, as I am writing this. More recently, on October 14,
I have had difficulty believing Rob Bresnahan will put Pennsylvania workers first
when this message is being directed at Connecticut [or current] residents
less than a week later, october 20:
there has been some unorthodox campaigning this season but reverse psychology is a new one to me. i alone have the power to keep trump from being elected merely by not voting.
This is printed on the reverse side, with stuff to fill out between them. Perhaps not terribly surprising the Trump mail also believes unregistered Pennsylvania voters are hiding out under pseudonyms at my home in Connecticut.
This is sent from “america pac” which Elon Frippindrippin Musk paid for, but the other one is from “congressional leadership fund” so the information placing Clinton Connecticut inside Pennsylvania was wrong prior to that particular wealthy creepadoodle’s gang getting involved.
October 24, yet more Pennsylvania mail. All this fuss about democrats conspiring to commit voter fraud, but I have never had them asking me to vote for them from out of state.
On DAY ONE Rob Bresnahan is going to drive 31 hours (33 if he goes the scenic route) to Mexico- officially it will be day two by the time he gets there but regardless he will personally duct tape The Border shut. Assuming he doesn’t mean Canada, or even New Jersey; no border was specified
for a bit of variety, my sister, also in Connecticut, has been urged to vote for Chad “Yes my name is really” Bobo in Tennessee.
and goop gorpity don’t ever say The Media only covers embarrassing stories about republicans. Maybe they don’t even think this is embarrassing.
I don’t understand the significance of being a “music fan.” I think there are very few people who outwardly HATE music, just in general. Obama just happens to be a name-dropping and hob-nobbing fan. This is the same kind of garbage that preceded the 2016 election. All the socially correct celebrities palled around together and talked about shattering the “glass ceiling” with the first woman president and then an old rapist white guy got elected instead. wealthy leftwing hubris right before an election puts off undecided voters. I don’t understand why wealthy rightwing hubris the other 90% of the time appeals to them but I don’t know how somebody can possibly be “undecided” about Trump in 2024 either and that is just the bag of doughnuts we have been dealt. I suppose the idea is to reach the thoroughly decided but apathetic potential voters, but that’s still depressing, that the election depends on fickle idiots either way. Is it because of the fickle idiot candidates or the reason we get them?
I prefer Harris to Trump, but it doesn’t fill me with euphoria to think about –neither of them is going to stand up to Benny Netanyahu– or an urge to smugly toss out “better luck next time, righties” sort of statements. I want the entire abusive oafy system of attitudes to lose this election, and I had that sentiment even before a few kiwisharecroppers had a bone to pick with me.
Of course if casual voters think their “side” has already lost then they won’t bother, but if they think it’s a done deal months before and all the celebrity television pushes this story they also won’t vote, but those who RESENT that will, which is why Hillary Clinton didn’t win.
Barack Obama also had that sort of mega media push but he went against Mitten Romney and party-poisoned John McCain, who were still running conventional campaigns which hadn’t figured out how to tap into the nihilistic mutant memester demographic. Sarah Palin had a Trumpesque snark to clue ratio but fundamentally didn’t want poor people and immigrants to die hard enough. She was too busy making sure animals were dead.
a number of these headlines specifically name stephen colbert, which isn’t anything new but it still bothers me since I remember a time when I thought he was the most progressive, anti-complacency figure on television. But that was a “character,” I suppose. the “real” one easily drifts into pandery smirky shill mode, which is exactly how terrible right wing comedians operate, and it reinforces the concept of “both sides” and “they’re just as bad!” like elections are a game that it doesn’t matter who wins. Even in a contest of low standards vs no standards the outcome very much matters. And that was from July!
in october he met and product placed with Harris on television and I was too numb to even bother taking a proper screenshot of the news headline for some reason telling me that this occurred. I have momentarily regained sensation in my indignation but not I am annoyed that the guardian’s built in search box just forwards to fricken google which I have a largely unrelated gripe pile about. I have plenty of resentment but perhaps not the time and energy to finish both of these, but at least the president we almost sort of get a choice about. Nobody has to vote for google for it to be in charge of our wrongs and our rights.
Sheeran was exonerated for copyright infringement, or something of that nature, supposedly. I certainly hope so, I can’t fathom that he heard songs this bad and decided THESE are what I will lie about having made.
But that is fine if YOU like them, if you actually bothered to read any of this. You are real to me and i appreciate you for that.
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JOHN LEGEND
AN EVENING
WITH
A NIGHT
OF SONGS AND STORIES
when I saw this last week my eyes rolled so hard i almost went off the road. It is trying so hard to seem folksy and humble that it is obviously neither. he gives his stage name as “legend” for fleep’s beep. yet he isn’t creative enough to not be john.
I went to the website for foxwhoops (the casino at which this event is to occur) trying to find a picture of the billboard since, at that time, I thought it would be unsafe to take a photograph while driving, and later realized it was just ineffectual. but THAT says
JOHN LEGEND
AN EVENING WITH JOHN LEGEND
which comes across as somewhat less pretentious, if redundant.
However it shows the same “humble piano player with back to viewer in monochrome” photograph, and makes sure I know how many egots he won. and also that he is the first African American Man to win one
obviously I am not in the target audience, since even with Johnny Leg’s disco graphy in front of me, I don’t recognize any songs. That may even be in his favor to a degree but I still don’t want to pay twenty four thousand dollars or less for the right to hear them in person.
it reminded me of when I ended up on a terrible “screenrant” page last week
“the room is terrible” says conan o’brien
what a vague bizarre headline. it tricked me. it was designed to trick people and shove ads at them, not inform or entertain them. i disapprove of that business model. then the content of the story is like:
conan o’brien, the iconic, award-winning talk show host, sat down with the iconic, award-winning musician ed sheeran to discuss the iconic, award-winning cartoon series the simpsons
the simpsons, the iconic, award-winning cartoon series, has had many writers over the years, such as the iconic, award-winning talkshow host conan o’brien, who sat down with iconic, award-winning musician ed sheeran recently.
ed sheeran, the iconic, award-winning musician, recently sat down with the iconic, award-winning talkshow host conan o’brien and turned the tables on the iconic, award-winning talk show host to ask a question about the iconic, award-winning animated series “the simpsons.”
the phrase “award winning” instantly turns me into a skeptic if I wasn’t already. It is very much a phrase for marketing and for bad writers to fill space with. Do you have nothing to say? Just verbally lick the hindquarters of celebrities and list off their awards and other celebrities they have met, and you’ll have six intellectually barren paragraphs to surround your one scrap of new frivolous information in doh time. I even like Conan and have taken inspiration from him in some ways but I know from direct experience of hearing an offensively low effort generic bad song, looking it up out of pure anger and learning Sheeran was responsible, multiple times, that Ed is aggressively talentless.
breaking news: marginally talented irritating charlatans have a vested interest in keeping each other’s gravy trains going
I might become a “flat earth” adherent just to protest this piece of global news.
Everything about this guy has the aim of conditioning people to accept and pay for mediocrity. In 2019 in a london tube station I saw an enormous poster presented in this exact manner, presumably regarding the same product, but I did not photograph it since I didn’t want to seem as if i approved. also i was following nine other people, hauling excessive quantities of baggage and likely holding somebody else’s coffee cup and/or water bottle with the hand that should have been free and definitely wasn’t going to hold everyone up for dumb old ed sheeran when he doesn’t even care.
Why doesn’t he? And why should thousands of people trying to get to their trains have to be told that he doesn’t care? What he DOES care about is getting his name and the name of his mediocre cronies listed as frequently as possible.
He cares so little that he just “drops” shoddy songs and expects me to pick them up. I appreciate him linking himself to bruno mars though since the last time I heard a bad sheeran song in the supermarket I assumed Mars was responsible and only when seeking proof learned it was sheeran. it is extraordinary that I can see photographs of them beside a supposed musician wearing a cowboy hat and I complain about them instead. I assume the headline has been truncated and he doesn’t simply have the stage name “Chris,” but I am not angry enough at him to look it up.
I can appreciate that Mr. Legend can play a pianoforte instrument. I do not know if he does that especially well but there is definitely POTENTIAL there that Ed’s brand of bland unaccompanied acoustic guitar sappy moaning lacks. My Sheeran references happen to be several years old since it was precisely encountering songs like his that extra-emphasized the need for me to carry earphones in my personal satchel at all times. even if I do not take the satchel out of the house for a few days and need the ear phones for other tasks, I always store them in the bag because when I DO go to a place where I am at risk of hearing those songs, I WILL bring the bag, and if the ear phones fail to be in it I will quite lose my mind when struck by unblockable audio awfulness in public. It happened this summer with the beyonk “halo” song and that was hopefully enough to scare me straight for another few years. That and Sheeran’s too cohOOold outside crumbling like pASTEries are absolutely the worst songs I have ever heard that I remember right this moment. But Sheeran is a man with white celtic lineage similar to my own so there is no cultural or social “privilege” anyone can accuse me of having benefat from that he didn’t also so I feel more confident in declaring that he is absolutely horrible and without merit. Also Beyonce can dance or could at one point in her career. I don’t think I’ve seen a picture of Sheeran verifiably standing up.
look at that smirk. why stop with one cut?
hey guys we’re all unblemished rich privileged chums who get paid to be lazy together and call ourselves beautiful. I hope everyone involved with this dies immediately. But I know they didn’t because I saved this picture in January 2021 and I know at least Sheeran is still alive since the screenrant article that mentioned him was from more recently. It also didn’t mention him being permanently scarred by a sword attack so I assume that didn’t amount to anything either.
in retrospect I think he had no involvement with this but the convention of listing as many singers who need their faces looked as possible in the title confounded me initially. I only see two in the picture so the other two in the title are there for name-drop purposes foremost. And also perhaps so you don’t assume it is the beautiful people marilyn manson song, even though I would be more likely to listen to it if I thought it was the case that these ai-generated-looking forklogans were covering that raspy absurdity than whatever low energy misery Ed approved of, assuming “Khalid” didn’t bring anything new to that table, and really Sheeran has no financial incentive to allow that and I have no auditory incentive to consider that he might have. It might haven taken less time to check the song than to explain why I did not, but I would then be at risk of remembering it which I prefer to reserve the right not to. Good night!
I presume accidentally getting cut by nighto is even more embarrassing.
gosh what a monster
and I can hardly comprehend what an anti-semite my nine year old niece must be to own TWO of these.
for context I have never bought into the media cult around Thunberg, but rallying people against greed and corruption is ultimately doing something good. So when someone else looks at that work, ignores the actual message and evidence and seeks only what nits can be picked from it in order to dismiss it, I am disinclined to give their remarks much weight. Ha HA! An OCTOPUS which doesn’t resemble this in the slightest was used to discredit jews a long time ago! Therefore climate change is a hoax and one government which has Jews in it deserves to claim whatever territory it wants any way that it wants for all time. And if that comes from the same person who always says after a mass shooting is “too soon” to talk about gun control– no it is too soon for me to talk about this!
You can say that we need to consider that Hamas struck first, cruelly, without regard for the most basic human decency, but that doesn’t justify indiscriminately eradicating the population kept in the same scrap of land as Hamas as revenge. And this isn’t the first time for this unbalanced revenge. This conflict did not START two weeks ago. This is the same Gaza whose notorious stripping constantly dominated news I didn’t pay attention to growing up. No, the people who started it are all dead and we ought to be able to do better than to continue it forever, cheering for whichever “side” we were born into to “win,” like it’s championship figure skating or badminton.
when he says “both countries,” he means Israel and the US. He and the Israel government doesn’t consider Palestine to be a country and will do and say nothing in support of it becoming one, because that would require both admitting any level of fault in its policies and also ceding territory it claimed unjustifiably, which “both countries” here never do.
A criticism I see of Israel criticizers is that they don’t condemn Hamas. My initial thinking was, it isn’t necessary to condemn hamas, it was widely condemned immediately. The first and easiest reaction is to condemn hamas. But I also know there are people out there, too many in my own family, who believe in “the deep state” and will gladly tell you the evils of “the Rothschilds” and all that involves. So just to be clear, I now today condemn hamas, I curse hamas, I sneer at hamas. You can’t cure systemic oppression by beheading and raping people who have nothing to with it any more than you can cure a headache by punching someone who doesn’t appear to have a headache over your frustration at being unjustly denied ibuprofen.
Hamas has been funded by crypto currency since 2019. That alone is reason enough to shut it down.
this continuing text goes around in circles. I could cut it off here but I want to know it is SOMEWHERE even if it is repetitive. I put something roughly equivalent into facebook but evidently that was inadequate to getting me over it. There were no reactions whatsoever to it, even critical ones, which made me suspect the facebook machine simply hid my remarks since I mentioned a divisive topic but without being particularly inflammatory despite the large quantity of words used, so eventually it all came out of me again.
An irony with the gripe against Thunberg is that by insisting that someone who criticizes Israel must be attacking jews in general, it is you who makes the association, the same way someone who attacks jews in the US might accuse them of being agents for Israel just by the basis of their religion. That is absurd, and that would happen even without the stupid cephalopod there.
It needs to be possible to consider one separately from the other. Just as it is necessarily to consider people in Israel, many of whom are not Jews at all, separate from the government of that country, whose actions are not approved of by a staggering amount of those people. Not being able to differentiate these groups, or not caring to, is a big part of how these stupid conflicts get so intractable. so many ignorant belligerents live for nothing more than symbolic revenge against what they consider to be representatives of what has actually wronged them. The bosses who order soldiers into war are not harmed by nasty guerrilla attacks on civilians perceived to be symbolic of the bosses, and instead the bosses gain more leverage for their own bigger symbolic re-revenge.
Personally, I think the entire area should be vacated. That will never happen. Muslims, Christians and Jews all consider that “the holy land” and their least rational behaviors can always be traced back to ludicrous scriptural notions. A harmonious world will never be achieved when men with guns think god or gods told them they are right. And it’s usually men because god is usually also telling them to dominate and punish women much as they do heathen men. The Chinese communists ostensibly eschew religion but the government acts in a way that is consistent with one directed by religion.
The US had its own big terrorist attack in 2001 that you might have heard of, and also like Israel ignored reports it received that such an attack was coming. In fact the US just spent two decades trying to get revenge for that, and that made everything worse (though deliberately confounding the facts so George W Bush could cram in his own bonus revenge against Saddam Hussein did not help), and now the US is supporting another country trying to do the same, but with more volatile potential consequences. Stupid stupid stupid.
As much as idiots who voted for him may have WISHED for it, Bush was never going to and lacked the authority to blast Iraq off the map, even while that war killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. The Benji Netanyahu gang on the other appendage have a much smaller target entirely within their country’s border and are entirely capable of killing everybody in Gaza and have tried to sell that as an admirable outcome. That’s not good! Even if it ended there it wouldn’t be good but it won’t possibly end there. These wars cannot be “won.” And if they inexplicably destroy just Hamas it won’t end there either since they’ve already ensured the next generation of revenge-seekers whose existence they will use as justification for more oppression. It’s too late to stop this one. But it might not be too late to prevent the next one.
A sickeningly common right wing mantra after mass shootings is that it is “too soon” to talk about gun control. But they were disingenuous and meant to never talk about gun control and just hoped for another topic to come up, and sure enough we never talked about gun control. Now we have mass shootings every week now, meaning it is perpetually “too soon” after one. But it is never too soon for them to talk about gun USAGE.
I am glad to see more people unafraid to stand up to that thinking but I worry it might be too late.
Israel’s treatment of its own citizens, notably women, is superior to many of the countries in that region, and plenty outside of that region. I don’t see stories about Izzy trying to kidnap travelers at airports and as far as I know it is not punishable by death to renounce the state religion. But that is stuff NO country should be doing, so being better than them is not enough.
Hamas is a terrorist organization, and we condemn it. So regarding it as we do, we ought to hold ourselves to a higher standard than them, not merely exterminate them whichever way its fastest and say it’s done. Nothing is ever “done” just because a loud person declares it is.
This website entry probably isn’t even done, but I am trying to be quiet about it.
to follow on the topic of southern us commercialism = southern us culture, in Atlanta Georgia immediately adjacent to the ostensibly educational Georgia Aquarium is the “World of Coca Cola,” whose singular goal is to advertise a non-health-contributing beverage at you, one that is sold at literally every vendor in the city, if not the state, and you need to PAY to get in!
I did not go there, but since I went to the aquarium I was near enough to it to see that the price of admission does not get you any complementary product to consume either.
and also a rather incongruous mix of attractions. I wonder if this is a legally mandated community service sort of thing since the drink was invented by John Pemberton, a confederate colonel/snake oil merchant/eye surgeon who owned slaves.
It makes me wonder if the Coca Cola company ever experimented with putting cans of coke into archive footage of revdr Martin Luther Kingjr and Rosa Parks like they did with Fred Astaire and Groucho Marx.
ALSO my angle isn’t: don’t drink coke, it was invented by a slave owner (though “don’t drink coke, it’s liquid candy” is valid); every company that old was started by a slave owner. If pepsi was a decade or so older it would also have been. Slavery is woven into the textile of american history, if not white history as a whole, and human history as a wholer, to paraphrase the hokey sort of person who wants to pretend slavery didn’t happen or benefit them. BUT I can imagine the contemporary owners of the company considering that an image-related problem for them and wanting to make sure they have a defense prepared that they can point at when the topic comes up.
But EARLIER in June I needed to visit a hard wares store. While operating an automobile even. Rather a change from the earlier days of this website. My life has changed but my opinions haven’t. My cousins once insisted that when I was older I would appreciate the Beatles and Bob Dylan also. I don’t, I merely encounter more songs that are worse than theirs. While momentarily stopped at a traffic intersection near the store, I overheard bits of a hokey country-sounding song playing from a neighboring motorist’s vehicle. I thought that was odd, and so was quite surprised when I arrived at the store and the SAME song was playing from the local sound system. The song’s lyrics concerned how “we all have a hill billy bone down deep inside,” essentially trying to say we are all dumb southerners who enjoy songs like this ultimately. Somehow it was released in 2009 and I was never prior aware of its existence. My gripe, though, is it isn’t a hillbilly song. there is no fiddle, no banjo, no jug or washboard. It has electric guitars and studio production. No hillbilly music is getting played on a radio station in Madison Connecticut, if anywhere.
The singers, apparently there are two, aren’t hillbillies either. They are red necks. Hillbillies do stuff for a reason or out of necessity, rednecks just affect the imagery they see from celebrities and/or politicians. If you observe a hillbilly wearing a cowboy hat, chances are that’s just the only kind of hat available, or maybe you’ve even witnessed an actual cowboy. Rednecks vote for Trump, hillbillies don’t trust city folk, if they’re even registered to vote, if they even know an election is happening. Dumb rednecks are dumb by choice because somehow or another that is a status symbol, dumb hillbillies are dumb because their schools are under-funded, if they even have schools. Rednecks collect guns and pose with them on instagram, Hillbillies know that you know they have guns and don’t need to advertise it, and as long as you stay off their land it won’t become an issue. Assuming they still have land and corporations supported by rednecks haven’t cheated them out of it. Rednecks swear they aren’t racist, especially the racist ones. Hillbillies, again, don’t care who thinks they are racist. Rednecks hate queers. Hillbillies think rednecks are queers.
In fact, it isn’t even a redneck song. it sounds more like Black Cat by Janet Jackson in 1990 than anything country or Appalachian. Supposedly Black Cat is “Jackson’s first solo writing credit.” Do you know who wrote the Hillybilly boney song? Two totally different people that aren’t the ones singing it.
it’s about the phoniest garbage I have heard of since a tv commercial advertising “honky tonk badonkadonk,” which I looked up for this post today and BOTH songs are sung by Trace Adkins, who has never had a solo writing credit. Though this apparently was written by a different group of boneheads who sell songs to other boneheads than the song about bones.
pardon me, “bro-heads.” Thankfully I didn’t know about this terminology i 2005, else I might have requested my immediate execution rather than a pardon. The only group phonier and jerkier and more addicted to following orders from unaccountable imbeciles than rednecks are bros.
I don’t get this at all. You don’t want black people in your neighborhoods, your public offices or your precious advertising but you will appropriate vernacular like “badunkadunk” from their dumbest recording artists. Is that just to make it so lame that they don’t want it either? Black rappers stopped saying “bling” so fast that I can’t tell if the scheme worked or if the originators realized it was lame before that happened.
and the “previous single” is called Arlington. Possibly the most deliberately depressing place in the united states, Arlington National Cemetery, and again written by other people, even though the album is titled “songs about me.” Trace Atkins is not buried in Arlington Nat’l Cemetery, and he never will be unless he gets crushed by a meteorite whose path sent it through the fence while he was being chaffeured past the place. Though as I mentioned in a title tag above this I was surprised to learn that Adkins has in fact been fired upon by an enemy combatant and hit, but the aggressor was his second of four wives.
He only has a song that mentions it because redneck is a quasi-relgious identity, where you subjugate women and drink international conglomerate brand beer (provided it isn’t endorsed by anyone gay or trans) and crow about how “rebellious” you are then suddenly are serious and solemn worshiping [the concept of] The Troops on designated federal holidays while picking fights with anyone who isn’t. The only reason we still HAVE troops in 2023 is because bullies and idiots who obey bullies won’t stop picking fights over really stupid issues.
What a phony pandering sack of empty nonsense this goobert is.
he has had seventeen studio albums full of songs about the same three topics, all written by other people, and he wants me to believe he wrote a book? About how free-thinking he is? He’s literally named after copying someone else’s work. I CHECKED, he is credited as a co-writer on ten songs, total, in twenty five years, which admittedly is more than I was expecting, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he did more than make a suggestion, and only the first was released as a single. Since it wasn’t a hit single I guess his writing privileges were revoked. Which is more about the machinations of The Music Industry as a whole than redneckery specifically, but as noted that is inextricable from corporate directives. Nobody is less rebellious than people who need you to know they are rebels.
Even compared to his hill billy co-boning co-singer Blake Shelton Adkins is depressing. Shelton has 16 co-writing credits in 12 albums and even a single solo credit in twenty zero years, and has actually been photographed not wearing a cowboy hat. Unfortunately now I know hard trivia about both of them and may even be able to discern them from each other.
but there are always worse things to know.
great food if your oxen can ford the river
Maybe I am too accustomed to the stereotyped labeling of the northeast united states and national chains but I can’t help wondering if this Mexican restaurant primarily serves corn meal biscuits and any rabbits you caught en route. Stranger still, it is in Helen, a German-themed tourist town, in north Georgia.
I was there for four days last week. I took thousands of pictures. Some of them weren’t even blurry, but I am too tired to finish this sentence. I also spent two days in Atlanta, the Coca Cola capital of the world, also in Georgia. For once I was in an area where I could reliably trust no place would only have pepsi when I wanted coke, but I just drank water the whole time, and occasionally iced tea.
They don’t have “iced tea” in Georgia either, preferring unpalatable “sweet tea” but that is great once I squeeze four lemon slices into it. And here is a picture of that, apparently. You can tell I was out of my home since the broken android brand mobile device I usually employ in this era is visible here so I must have been using the bigger mechanical digital camera that I bring on long trips, because it takes pictures of the wider variety of supermarkets and public restrooms I visit away from my home much faster and blurrier than any touch-screen device. A drink that isn’t good, at all, “starry.”
I never heard of it before I got to the Laguardia airport; I researched the matter and learned that Sierra Mist sodee pop was discontinued at some point. Then replaced with “mist twist,” then returned, then discontinued again and replaced with this.
Unless it was singularly responsible for the debilitating bladder ache I felt for the next hour before I was free to tend to that, I would say that Starry “hits” exactly the same as every other bland “lemon-lime” drink since 7-up changed its recipe to taste like Sprite in 1998. And even that I didn’t think about until this napkip was already crumpled, on its way out and separated from the actual product it accompanied, hence this being one of the blurry shots I mentioned.
I asked for starry because the drink was “free” and despite flying out of Atlanta and offering coca cola’s horrid Minute Maid “”juice”” brand, the flight only stocked Pepsi-brand non-juices, I wanted to ingest some calories on the flight, but was morally opposed to purchasing food at airport prices.
I had reluctantly reacquainted myself with Minute Maid on the previous week’s incoming flight and imagined I was set for life on that. So what the heck I thought, I will try this thing that it wants me so badly to try. And indeed it was badly.
I would like a proper national brand of this stuff.
That is not Mt. Dew; apart from the garish dye they are fairly dissimilar. For sodas, I mean.
Even the local restaurants that have Foxon Park on tap don’t offer the green flavor. Instead they have “Gassosa,” which tastes like Sprite.
It is frustrating that a company which has a superior citrus drink more heavily emphasizes the one that tastes like a less-good but better-known citrus drink. But that is how capitalism works. Most effort is put into remaking, rebooting, and ripping off stuff that already exists and aren’t great but are proven to generate revenue. But even with that in mind I don’t know why pepsi makes a big fuss over releasing a new soda that is indistinguishable from its old soda.
It’s essentially what McDonalds does with the mcrib sandwiches, getting press every other week when “it’s back” even though nobody seems to notice or care when it leaves. the pepsi company has to design and manufacture new logos and labels (and inadequately sized promotional napkins), and distribute them to every business that was selling sierra mist whenever it does this, if those places even go to the trouble of changing the drink machine labels, nevermind the menus, which makes building name recognition for the rebranded product complicated, since if somebody orders sierra mist off last month’s menu and gets a cup of Starry instead they probably won’t even notice. Unless the server says “sorry, we have starry” and then the buyer has to wonder what starry is and ponder whether to try it. Heapwhile mcdonalds just has to dust off the rip-shaped mold that the meat paste and pork syrup get sprayed into and pull the “mcrib is back!” sign out from under the counter.
Incidootily it is peculiar to me what a hullabaloo mcdonalds made about ‘grimace’s birthday’ last week when the character hasn’t been used in a quarter century and is best known now for appearing in a 1980s ad with Trump. All the mcdonalds characters got revoked because they were designed to represent mcdonalds food (including grimace, though not in my lifetime), which the company needed to be able to insist it was not targeting at children. They could show Ronald McDonald doing “healthy” things like playing basketball or doing his taxes or whatever, since he is at his core just a human who dresses funny. But you can’t rehabilitate the Hamburglar; he exists only to steal hamburgers and Mcdonalds isn’t allowed to put hamburgers into its marketing aimed at kids anymore, even though hamburgers is what it sells. And mcdonalds still has special “meals” specifically FOR kids, which have the same food in them, packed into boxes covered with imagery of OTHER company’s characters in promotion of material that will rot kids’ brains just as much as the food will rot their other organs. Everybody with money is lying, and the regulators all know it, but they don’t have enough funding or resources themselves to care about it. Meatwhile the politicians running on the platform of ostensibly protecting “our kids” get financed by companies like McDonalds and its happy meal cobranders, and want nothing more than to cut funding for regulation further, then seal the deal by appointing their like-minded buddies to all the chief positions. ha, ha haaaaaa
i SUPPOSE pepsi might be planning some longer term scheme, with a massive “Sierra Mist is BACK!” campaign planned for if its pseudonym doesn’t catch on, like when Coca Cola reintroduced “Coke Classic!” after New! Coke flopped in 1985 (which I am not old enough to remember but it was a popular joke topic for years). HOWEVER that only worked because Coca Cola was already the market leader and was just spooked by pepsi’s cola supposedly winning “blind taste test”s, in addition to fears that an alternative Coke would steal market share points from the main coke and might let pepsi claim to be the number one cola just because it didn’t have a second pepsi, unless new coke BECAME the main coke. The fragile egos of billionaires afraid of imaginary numbers were the only factor*. Whereas Sierra Mist was hardly bought by anyone at the time of its most recent supposed removal.
*AND the reason for the flop was the fragile cultural identifies of rednecks who care about marketing too much and mistake brand preference for cultural identity + bullying from complacent attention seeking doofuses who don’t have real problems. They have a lot in common with those now protesting woke. Woke is the new New Coke. I liked old 7-up better than new 7-up or the other drinks it changed itself to be as less-good-as but it truly is not of great importance to me.
anyway I have to go clean out the car since it looks like a hurricane tore off the roof and flooded it while I was away.
realizing that a dirk is essentially a dork has profoundly changed my world view.
my first experience with this was in the Batman Nintendo ES game. somebody with access to the instruction manual proclaimed the disk-like weapon that splits into 3 a “dirk.” that really isn’t what a dirk is but sure enough the manual really does call it that. which means batman is pretty much throwing dorks at his foes. imagine how close he must have come to using Burt Ward as a weapon back in the 1960s.
a few years later while playing final fantasy threex my elder brother had the hero Relm use the “sketch” attack against Hidon and totally screwed up the game, resulting in multiplicity of rare items like gem box and illumina, but more importantly HUNDREDS of dirks. which as we know MIGHT AS WELL be hundreds of dorks. think of the damage you could inflict with THAT much unrepentent corniness on your side.
players these days apparently gripe about the heroes Cyan, Gau and Umaro, but at least they have honor enough to REFUSE to use a dirk.
Sabin also doesn’t use dirks either but he also spend s a lot of time rushing bums and in most cases I consider that disreputable.
Although in this specific instance Sabin engages a foe who used to be a regularish person who was SO greedy that he transformed into a lizard, that is not always the case.
(I don’t know what chief programmer Kan Naito is talking about here, I just think the way he says the title at the start is funny)
The sega genesis game Landostoka contains, as a clue, the poemoid
What happens when dorks get dangerous?
I mean that “skeletons” is the correct answer, not that skeletons themselves make wise decisions. You solve the puzzle by ignoring all the skeletons except the one that isn’t white, then beating it up. In skeleton lore, having a dumb color makes you a dork, which is a sin against God requiring your immediate termination. Skeletons have also historically been racist. that is just history. In fact all these skeletons reveal themselves as dorks just by the way they JUMP without extra animation frames to go up stairs, but since that doesn’t come across in a screen shot I cannot for the moment effectively criticize them for that.
initially I misremembered the skeletons here as being knights possibly due to this corny line being permanently enshrined in my consciousness
and consequently referred to knight lore rather than skeleton lore.
This is important because my next point referred to the Ultimate Play The Game game “Knight Lore,” which involves no knightly deeds or insults whatsoever, only slowwwwly traversing a castle named “knightlore” which is itself pretty dorky, without even the assistance of any dirks. instead your fragile traverser becomes a werewolf who seems to be no less fragile but does waste an extra 3-6 seconds of his life and yours changing to and back after the approximate amount of time it takes to walk across five rooms. All times are relative because any moving objects apart from the protagonist in a room slows it down considerably.
this game achieved massive critical acclaim. From dorks.
I cannot confirm a rumor that the werewolf’s appearance and ill-acclimation to video games inspired Paul “TX Critter” Fusco to create ALF, I can merely start that rumor right now.
complete freedom to pick up objects and drop objects, unless touching them destroys you
COINCIDENTALLY, there is another nearly identical game called Batman that involves Batman doing the exact same thing, just in a cave. Batman no longer needs to use dorks as weapons; verily, he can’t use weapons at all and is victimized by everything, for he has become the dork.
Don’t read that. The story is that a bunch of characters you won’t see are somewhere else because batman can’t keep track of his stuff and apparently is so clever that he placed fatal duplicates of his stuff as traps for, apparently, himself, in his own cave
they DARE to make THIS the box art for such a game.
People associate disappointing licensed games with the nes, and it seems like a miracle that Batman got a good one, dorks notwithstanding, but he actually beat the simpsons and ninja turtles to point-missing nonsense by several years
1980s computer software companies were just cranking this trash out. Since Ultimate Play The Game pioneered this isometric interface amidst a crown of minimalist black-void background side-view games people were in awe of it even though the computers of that period were too wimpy to do anything interesting with it, and apart from that Ultimate Play The Game’s developers were more about abusing players than entertaining them. This was made plain when with access to more powerful Nintendo hardware and calling themselves Rare Ltd, a self-labeling improvement, I admit, rather than making a GOOD isometric adventure game they made Roger Rabbit, Wrestlemania and Battletoads instead. Also Snake Rattle n Roll which actually is isometric but I don’t known enough to hate that enough to complain about it. However they licensed Knight Lore to Jaleco who made an even worse version of the game than they did.
I can’t remember what I was talking about. Stay away from video games. They will ruin your life even if you don’t have time to play them anymore.
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10-28-2022 updating this website may not be feasible again before novemeber. do you care? somebody told me you did.
nothing but destruction in the news these days. the numbers may not lie but i wish they would be more discreet.
I’ve heard of this one, it’s called using a toilet.
Hours worth of vague twit-feed allusions to it some days ago eventually gave me enough information to realize Christopher Rock got smacked and yelled at on stage during a recent award ceremony I was otherwise glad to not be watching, and after looking up the story and going to bed, the question my mind kept coming back to was “when did he shave off his beard?”
the joke that prompted the response was over “the line” but attacking the man for the joke was overer the line, but I can’t stand any of those people anyway so why does it matter? They’re already millionaires and they get paid to be there getting filmed while getting praised by each other for how strong and beautiful and talented they are and giving awards to themselves, it’s disgusting. The whole building should be slapped and yelled at, and that wouldn’t be nearly enough.
I was watching episodes of the hbo series “Succession” that night. I can only enjoy the most entitled hollow misanthropes on earth when I know they aren’t real people.
Obviously they are PORTRAYED by real people, but evidently the in-character, on-set, following a more plot-driven script layers of separation are enough for my personal disbelief suspension.
I was even able to get past the involvement of Adam McKay, whom I had a gripe with due to for some reason having him confused with T. Sean Shannon over an especially lame sketch called “Harold” that the latter was written-and-directed-by credited for on Saturday Night Live during a period when I found it particularly gripeworthy but not yet enough to conclude watching it, and both personages must have been on the writing staff. Consequently the gripe isn’t necessarily relevant, but it is meaningful that I was able to overcome the gripe before realizing it was irrelevant. I am grateful whenever that is possible! It is entirely feasible McKay was solely responsible for other work that I hated or would have hated as much or more than Harold, but he didn’t write any scripts for Succession and only directed a single episode, AND I haven’t consciously been aware of anything else that was directed by him while watching and hating.
It is bizarre that I have been to this park, Great Escape in Queensbury NY, but don’t have a single picture from an angle close to one used on “Succession.” I remember those silly colored houses because my niece was more interested in pretending in those than going on rides.
I also didn’t realize this shot was meant to show common folk being barred from entering while the company owners’ families had a birthday party because this is NOT ACTUALLY THE ENTRANCE to the park.
This is “timbertown;” the show didn’t bother to change the sign logo!
This is noteworthy because because because 1149pm now and this turns into a different topic and then another topic and I can’t finish the matter right now, and so I either post the part I did finish or probably never post any of it, so it probably isn’t really all that noteworthy, and I have done so anyhow because I am too old to change my habits, only manage them and their consequences better.