Kodo tickets got here. Finally going to get to see Kodo. Now, I am not as familiar with Yamato, but Kodo may be the greatest taiko ensemble on Earth.

I absolutely hate Phoenix. Why would anyone live here by choice? My job can basically only be done here and I hate it, why would you move here if you had a choice?

I like the alien society in Xenoblade X whose leader and most important social role is archaeologist. That's a culture I could do well in.

Any time I see a gaggle of people online recommending any sort of non-fiction book it is almost certainly nonsense. This does not include when the gaggle is academics, good returns on academic books.

These are up there with the Bandai Dendrobatinae (dart frogs) set.

https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/41707 『1/1ウミウシの世界』10月発売予定。 "The World of 1/1 Scale Sea Slugs" is scheduled for release in October. #ガチャポン #gachapon

Doing my favorite weekend activity: getting drunk as all Hell and listening to music loudly so everyone has to deal with my good taste.

Your girl spent waaaaay outside her budget buying art. But it spoke to me. And maybe the art museum will want it someday? For now, going in my new bookshelf setup.

I think a lot about a paper one of my mentors told me about once, outlining how archaeologists had been misusing statistics software packages and reporting erroneous results. All because they just used software and code without understanding how any of it worked.

Honestly, Phoenix really should host Pride the same time as everyone else. It will be only for the truly stout of us LGBT folks. A qrucible of queerness.

Takemitsu Zamurai official English release? Holy shit. Can we get Sing Yesterday for Me next?

"Banter" is idiotic. Meaningless speech serving no purpose.

Welp, told myself I would get a Switch 2 when a certain series that is a successor to games I have been playing since I was 12 (I am 35 now) was announced and that happened today. Kingdom Hearts IV also looks fun.

I have not played a Persona game since the one with KOS-MOS and T-ELOS (P3: FES). Have I been missing anything? P4 seems to be Diamond is Unbreakable × Kannagi × Inuyasha?

Evolutionary psychology has a lot to answer for.

My great grandpa was in the 2nd Armored Division, always was told as a cook, family always called it Hell on Wheels. Nobody ever knew if he was mainly in North Africa, Sicily or landed at Normandy and pushed in, but he was under Patton's command. Is there some place at DoD or the Army to contact?

Thought I didn't like bourbon until I tried an actually good one.

I absolutely hate Marvel Rivals, League of Legends, John Madden Football and Call of Duty. Not because I play any of them, but because these grown men I live with cannot stop screaming at a video game. When I was 26 I was not shrieking at the TV like a child. What happened?

From a conversation I had yesterday, it seems I am the Takaya Noriko of the taiko dojo.

Something very bleak about hardline naturalist scientific realists who let it dictate their entire life. Like thinking of romance in terms of optimal mating strategies and such. Just an utterly bizarre and dehumanizing way to live. Like, ya got something that separates you from chimps, practice it.

Hit the curio store yesterday. Found some great ex libris, all mid-20th century and depicting nudes, also first editions of Boris Vallejo's Mirage and Robert Mapplethorpe's Some Women, a weird old bawdy satire novel, and a few late 19th/very early 20th century French Christmas/New Year's greeting...

We were talking about the cultural chauvinism of Japan at the dojo today. All I could think was "Really funny since Buddhism, the shamisen, the deity Fujin, rice agriculture and ceramics are all foreign" In order: India, by way of China and Korea, India by way of China, Greece by way of Gandhara...

I could never watch Euphoria, every time it breaks into my bubble I go "So like, it's an adaptation of one of those godawful eromanga or something?" and think "This show seems deeply, deeply stupid, I am gonna watch MAO instead". And MAO has the benefit of having a really kicking end theme.

Ya know, probably explains a lot that I can be at a wedding reception think "they're cute" about another guest, and like, not talk to them at all because I feel it gauche and unbecoming.

Chicago-themed casino to compete with New York, New York.

Scientific realism is such a bleak way to build your ideology.

Waiting for Grogu.

Babus Frik.

I didn't age out of cons, I aged out of local cons. Hotter take: Hidamari Sketch > Madoka Magica

There is nothing more annoying than some dingus going "Uh awkshuly if you read da teachings of da Christ you would find that conservatives cannot be Christians" A religion is its followers, anthro of religion 101.

Back from ACEN. Flight home was... Not great, but the convention was amazing. It has been a decade since I enjoyed a con that much. Some absolutely amazing panels.

Reading incel stuff makes me want to be Bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha and teach them it is their delusion and hatreds, especially toward women, that bind them and that there is a path to freedom. I pity them, out of a sense of compassion, they don't have to live in such hate.

You do not have to censor the word porn. Please stop letting your minds be enslaved by algorithms. I rarely comment on politics, but please, please read Baudrillard and escape the algorithm cage and the real world simulacra keeping you trapped. Become a relic, a fossil if it takes that.

I am having a blast at Anime Central. Glad I made the trek. The FictionJunction panel was cool. Loved hearing about the musical process. And to hear things from professionals whose work I love that I myself think about my practice as an amateur taiko drummer and shinobue player.

Malört is nothing. Very good, even a bit sweet. Less bitter than bitter gourd and I will eat a pile of that.

Had Malort, a Pickleback and Yuengling. I am soooo fucked up right now.

I have seen plants and animals in this distant land (Cook County, Ilinois) I have never seen in my travels from Victoria in the north, to Nogales in the south and from Atsinna in the east to Hilo in the west. A mysterious, mountainless land.

I have never once been in a place without mountains. This is very weird.

There was a dad introducing his kids to manga at the bookstore yesterday. Ranma 1/2 to be precise. His older kid was showing him Gunsmith Cats and well, it was shrink wrapped and he was asking, had to bite my tongue on giving unsolicited content warnings. Things are alright in the world.

Went to grab the first Apothecary Diaries novel to read on my flight and dang, they also had They Were 11, so of course I grabbed that. Did not buy every volume of MAO despite reaaaallly wanting to.

Honestly I'll probably wash out of archaeology once I hit a decade or so of steady work and go retrain. There just isn't enough money in it to keep me around. I cannot have the life I want in archaeology. Wish I realized that back in undergrad, but hey, at least I failed to get into a PhD program.

My input on the most Millenial song is that it is some nonsense that was terrible and sounded like racket your friends listened to and you never even knew who was aurally torturing you until your late 20s and found out it was usually either MCR or Blink-182. Maybe Staind.

My life has rapidly become a surreal nightmare that feels more like a dream than my dreams. Probably not good.

The key to not having it happen to you is to be born not with "it" and never get with "it", so that when they change what "it" is nothing alters.

I think I hate men?

I just learned about a letter a local archaeologist received saying all the interpretative signs at Sears-Kay Ruin (outside Phoenix, AZ) were wrong because no one had agriculture and could only cover themselves with branches at night to hide from predators. And did not have controlled use of fire.

Damn it the ACEN international guest autograph session signups open right when my taiko class starts. May "be a bit late" to try and secure the slots.

Ugghhhh, my friend is doing red and black as the colors at their wedding. Colors I never wear, so I'll have to find something I guess.

I don't think I will ever understand what non-toxic masculinity is because it is all stuff 3 generations of my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother did and all the stuff unique to men is well, toxic.

Sometimes I think "Girl you are 35 you should start dating" then I think about logistics of that and the fact I refuse to use apps because from what I have seen everyone on those is a mess. I have a community, but it is small, insular and no one is single, so that isn't much help.