I'm also noticing through the sci-fi book club that I can always tell when a book was published between 2012 to 2020-ish because there's a non-union Mexican equivalent Elon Musk character who's portrayed as good. If the same character is evil you know it's post 2020.

There's something about having a goofy mustache that makes random people ask me for favors. I'm constantly asked for directions or to get something from a high shelf in grocery stores. Just this weekend some lady at the Laundromat asked me to put the quarters in the dryer for her(????).

That's odd, I don't remember any episodes of CSI where Gil is ordered by a supreme court NOT to test a specific piece of evidence for DNA because Gil didn't feel like it or whatever the first time.

Oh so apparently the military is just permanently occupying DC. I don't think this will be a prelude to a Tianenman but it's pretty fucking weird for a democracy youtu.be/SQUTGCRAgT4?...

Oh the Jenny Nicholson alarm just went off, cancel all your plans! We didn't dress quite this outlandishly, but this is how I remember every 20-something did their makeup in 2009 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gq1...

Some Alien pulp novel that had way more explicit sex than you might assume in an Alien novel

There's a lot of Walker lore in this episode of Walker Texas Ranger. He's half Cherokee and grew up on an Oklahoma reservation after his parents died. I knew people who are half Cherokee, Chuck Norris cannot plausibly pass as half Cherokee

My based son Saxon orders sushi from taco trucks. He asks pigeons for directions. I saw him one try to suckle milk from a parking meter

Eating head on shrimp in the break room. Hope my coworkers liked The Substance

Long forgotten glamour tip if you are "fair", harken back to your ancestors by painting yourself in woad

Did a game of "Thing with the longest adaptation chain" with a friend. His was Pretty Woman (2018 musical) <-- Pretty Woman (1990 movie) <-- My Fair Lady (1964 film) <-- My Fair Lady (1956 musical) <-- Pygmalion (1912 play) <-- Pygmalion (various plays and opera) <-- Pygmalion and Galatea (myth).

Ok there's something bugging me about the Dun3 trailer In the shot where Fremen are sword fighting guys in round wide-brimmed hats, we don't see any of the blue shimmer from shields. But the whole reason they mostly fight with swords in Dune is because shields render guns useless.

Music trivia round at bar trivia was all Beatles covers. I already hate this band the skeletal hold they hold over bar trivia, I'm not going to enjoy their covers.

Me today

*Screaming crying Wojack girl "Please Denis, show us a Guild Navigator! They're essential to the plot of Dune Messiah!" *Neutral expression Wojack "No"

Johnathan Frakes 0.5x slowed down voice "Did you know that Betty Boop used to be a dog?"

Not the greatest picture but the hardcore band I saw last night did a gag where all the members worse a white shirt with a bow tie, short shorts, and a propeller beanie. I love when bands do stuff like this

Ocelot lady tapped my shoulder at the pub "Hey, do you know who Temple Grandin is?" "Uh....yes. Autistic lady who works with animals?" "She came to our zoo today! I had to tell someone and figured you would know of her!"

I was talking to a guy at a bar yesterday who said he worked as a contractor for the military. He didn't say specifically what he did but he drunkenly said something like "Man if we started doing here what we're doing over there.....I'd quit"

It's actually a clever strategy by Trump to make sure all our dead soldiers are blasted to bits and all they can return home is scraped into a small paint can. They can't protest against the war now

*Feeling in a black mood after drinking a lot of beer Boy I'm glad I'm not the family of one of the US soldiers turned into paint by an Iranian missile because a pedophile wanted to feel like a big man

Reading a recently published Hollywood satire novella. So the premise is CGI killed live-action and every movie is a remake where current actors replace the old ones in movies. But the author is old as shit so it imagines an endless nostalgia for the 50's, aspiring cg actresses dress like Marilyn

Oh my goooood, $2.50 Guinness at Hooters starting Monday!? Trying to think what the funniest book to read there would be, Irish short stories or the history of the Great Hunger?

Because their customer base is mostly women, the bathrooms at the spin class have a wide variety of very nice hygiene products. I tried some of that dry shampoo spray back when I had hair and it feels amazing.

Oh boy, Friday the 13th! The day when we learn which cartoonists have never seen a slasher movie and think Jason's signature weapon was a chainsaw!

Well let's see, I started my undergrad in chemistry is 2010 so.....yeah Breaking Bad. I even had the same goatee and shaved head for a while.

When a Millennial dies they spend one year in Purgatory for every avocado they forgot to eat before it rotted.

Train them to do what? Abuse painkillers?

Same energy

I've seen Youtube prank videos more believable than this

Hmmm, trivia friend brought a coworker to trivia. I learned later she previously had a high paying email job and had a psychotic break talking to chatgpt. Which convinced her to quit her job and she went bankrupt.

Lunch today is mashed potatoes mixed with sauteed onions & mushrooms with loads of garlic and spice. Visually a very unappealing brown slop but quite tasty. And coconut milk makes it technically vegan

I'm mostly enjoying the 28 Years Later trilogy but I think it assumes the audience is more familiar with famous Brit pedophile clowns than I feel is reasonable.

Okay cool, what's with this unrelated photo of a German flak tower?

Finished "Audition" by Pip Adam. I need to talk to one other person who's read this book because I don't think I got half of what it was about. It was surrealist but also about something specific and I don't think I was picking up anything the author was saying.

Do you think it's kind of odd we're in our third year of a major ground war with Russia and they're at WWII levels of casualties while we in the West are just chilling.

Remember when six days after 9/11, George Bush went back to that school to finish reading "My Little Goat" and then attended the Presidential Roundtable on Children's Literacy?

Mmmm, yellow iron oxide alkyd dispersion aka The Forbidden Mustard

I see the aesthetic of "Just grab a bunch of random shit off the wall in the Tactical Closet and call it a uniform" thing we do has made it's way to Hungary

Did the Target CEO write this post?

Okay I know what our problem is but what's going on in Turkey?

There's no good way to do a photoshoot for an article with this headline so why not go nuts for it?

Reading a mid 90's science memoir and BAM James Watson jump-scare in the final chapter. (I think this was published a bit before he started getting really into racism)

mfw I have to buy two paints for work and I got the wrong kind of both. Fuck you, pastel base enamel for not being clear or semi-gloss base

*Me getting jealous of other people posting more interesting election results "Oh my god, 92%!!! Who could believe this folks!?"

Hmmmm, local news interviewing head of a veterans group who has misgivings about the Iran bombings. Seems they haven't quite lined up the manufactured consent on this one.

"And that nasty woman Mrs. Hyacinth. Terrible nasty woman. Very mean to her husband. Bouquet, bucket, which is it."

Always great watching a movie and it has a line that got sampled in a song you listened to 20 years ago. Turns out the "Soon as that camera's off, he's gonna fuck that little dog" sampled on a Slipknot track is from Shakes the Clown.

Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" was in the free library at the bookshelf for some reason. I cant say I exactly disagree but I despise his rhetorical tic of "If X, then Y, but also vice versa". I suspect it's the Hegelian in him making him find if this construction.