Side note one: I get that trans people often want to choose a name for themselves... but "Eddie" is a perfectly acceptable name for a woman, as well as a man. It could be masculine... or as feminine as "Patsy." One of my favorite sitcom characters is a woman called "Eddie."

Me, just now: "Don't know them, don't know them, don't know them, fucking hell, don't know them, don't know them, don't know them, don't know them, how fucking could you, don't know them, don't know them, don't know them..."

Weird, weird cartoons...

Another weird cartoon...

So, I'm with a friend, and I just learned that this exists...

I suppose I had to be aware that the weather couldn't be nice forever...

Ho. Ly. Fuck. I've been hearing rumors about a ballet done to the tune of Plague of Butterflies for YEARS, and my hopes were faint. But I had hope, and holy fucking shit, I love this, and I would have paid SO MUCH (and maybe even braved a cruise ship) to see this in person!

Nothing to see here. Just a bunch of strangers who love weird metal, all sharing the most batshit insane brilliant stuff they can think of. (Being batshit insane, I obviously know plenty of this stuff already... but there's still quite a lot I'll be digging into this weekend!)

I generally don't talk about politics at work... but this music is political. Especially lately, and especially during the Trump administration. The post I did below ⤵️⤵️ is a great performance of Symphony 11, by Shostakovich. This video here ⤵️ explains why it needs to exist.

Back when twitter wasn't quite a sewage farm, a few of us metalheads there made a game of typing out riffs to Meshuggah songs, like I just did here ⤵️. It was almost shockingly easy to read a bit of typing and know the song just from that!

"Dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun, LAAAAAAA, LAAAAAAA!"

A patient caught me humming a few bars of this. I've been thinking of it a lot lately, especially with all the noise coming out of Washington lately...

If I believed in god, I'd be suggesting that they have a very sick sense of humor. www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...

Thaaaank you, YouTube Shorts, for showing me that scene with two white cops being completely reasonable, pulling over a young black thug, and getting interrupted by that thug's bad-ass black mama showing up and IMMEDIATELY siding with the cops. Just for entertainment, I'm sure.

I'm a HCW. Have been for over ten years. ...and light blue caps are for blood samples being tested for coagulation issues. Dark blue caps are for metal toxicology. Jesus Christ, medi-drama writers, get some actual HCWs to look over your work!

Over in one of the metal subreddits, this one came up. It's amazing. It's a masterpiece. It's a journey. (And if you've lost anyone you loved to dementia or Alzheimer's, it will probably hurt like hell. In a good way. I hope. Maybe. Be careful, is what I'm saying.)

...oh, a thousand pardons. Did I just imply that rigtht wing assholes have a massive problem with pedos in their own ranks? Oops. Sorry, not sorry, #notadragqueen.

I used to be offended and amused by this sort of thing. Now, I'm just relieved that this scandal involving conservative assholes at least only involves adults.

I've preordered Dissonance Theory, the latest upcoming release by Swiss prototechdeath legends Coroner, because they are amazing and they deserve All The Support (and my money). I'm listening to a leaked copy right now, because I am impatient as hell.

I love Gwar, I despise Elon, and may all the gods help me, if Elon were sentenced to death, I'd give a lot of thought to seeing if I could show up. That said? DEATH BY GWAR is more respect that Elon deserves. (Still, this is pretty goddamned funny.)

I may have mentioned that, if you're bi and het-presenting, you don't really have a big coming-out moment, but lots of small ones. "Estoy aprendiendo español porque tengo muchos pacientes mexicanos, dos novias mexicanas... y dos novios mexicanos." I said this to a group of strangers. One got it.

I miss going to metal shows with friends. I had friends I could go see live music with, once. One of them, I'm sure I still could... but he moved to SoCal and has a wife and kids now. He can't just come up here. And I'm a team leader at my job, I can't just drop it all and go to him.

Still going nuts over the new Igorrr. Oh, and they put out a new video! And this video is like a Behemoth video... if Behemoth were actually cool and having fun, and hadn't been cringe edgelords who've been painting by numbers for years. So, only barely superficially like Behemoth.

Calm down, dude, it's just a few Spanish lessons. (I actually like this character. I dressed up as him for a Halloween party once. But calm down, dude.)

Least shocking plot twist I've seen all week. He'd better hope that his new right wing friends don't remember his comments about how white male gun nuts like holding and firing big black guns because they're envious of black men for... reasons.

As is often the case, I have a song #StuckInMyHead at work. At least this time, it has a title I can actually tell people. (Imagine if I had a song like "Rectum Grinder" stuck in my head at work...)

Going through my old comics as part of a much belated spring cleaning. Finding a lot I no longer care about, some old gems I forgot I had... and these. I'm pretty sure these go in recycling, as opposed to regular trash.

It's out! And it's really good (if you have a high tolerance for weird shit)!

Over in the Bad Place, there was an account called Internet Of Shit. I wonder if they've made it over here. (By the way... the man who wrote The Three Body Problem also wrote a short story called The Fifth Curse. Look it up.)

Dear YouTube, Yes, I'm a fan of @mattbaume.bsky.social and I was looking for his video essay about one of the men behind The Muppets. I realize that he (sadly) shares a first name with Matt Walsh, who has also done a video about queer themes and The Muppets, but you didn't really think...? No.

Dear liberals, Can y'all please stop sucking @lincolnproject.us's cock in public? They sold their souls to the devil in the Reagan era, and now that we're in the Trump era, they're having seller's remorse. If you're going to forgive them, please, make them fucking work for it first.

This is what Kimmel posted the day Kirk died. Trump’s mad about what Kimmel said about him on the show, not Kirk.

So. Lemme get this straight. A guy on TV suggests -- correctly! -- that Trump isn't terribly sad, so much as mildly inconvenienced, by Charlie Kirk being shot, and his show is taken off the air. A Fox Noise asshole screams that we should kill all the homeless, and that's just peachy?

I have this song stuck in my head now. And there's no way I can let a patient catch me singing it, or even explain what it is or what it's from.

Dear Filip Miucin, Thanks a lot, you fucking hack. I would never have heard of this game had it not been for your plagiarizing ass, but since you did that review, it's now in danger of taking over my life.

Back in my edgy teen days, I kinda liked venues that had messy floors and only barely usable bathrooms. Now that I've grown the fuck up, I appreciate Kay how often August Hall had staff cleaning the floors and the loos. 10/10, would recommend.

So, I've left the concert, I'm feeling amazing, I'm back on social media and it's reminding me the world is going to hell... I'm not a fan of Billy Joel, but sometimes, the line "to forget about life for a while" hits hella hard.

All great bands have a few standards that they have to play, and Symphony X is no exception.

Envy me, y'all!

I've been really good about alcohol until today... but I've already spent a RIDICULOUS amount of money on drinks, and the night is still young.

...and I'm going to be away from my keys for a while.

I've got my room, and I'll be finding a quick snack soon. And then... Symphony X! Any of you fine people gonna be there?

Every time I'm in SF and I hear cable cars, I think of... Alcatraz!

Thank you, Alex, I'll take "things you type into the Google search bar to frustrate its data collection efforts" for $500.

Woody Allen should've just sat there and ate his food. May I recommend strudel? There's this lady, Magda something or other, I don't remember her last name, but I hear her strudel is fantastic.

I don't like a lot of deathcore. It's not elitism on my part. It's just... the texture is not my thing. I love potatoes, and can only barely stand rice, and usually, I absolutely hate cassava. The last couple of Lorna Shore releases are cassava... and they've made me rethink my tastes!

I'm pretty sure I've seen at least one comedy that included "destruction of evidence" when the evidence in question is cannabis. Because hey, that's funny. When it's cannabis. When it's meth, it's not funny. It's horrifying, and possibly the stupidest goddamned thing I've seen this week.

To all of you, generally, and also to @filthycreature.bsky.social in particular... Twenty years ago, Jerry Springer: The Opera came out. It was somehow obscene, sublime, blasphemous, and divine... and all of that at once. And at the moment, it's on YouTube. Somehow, it hasn't been DMCA'ed. Yet.

Charlie Kirk in Valhalla? No. Eighth Circle, Ninth Ditch.