Irish Spice Bag with fried rice and curry sauce? Count me all the way in on one.

When I worked at a copy shop the zine kids were some of my favorite customers and I always hooked them up with discounts and free finishing services.

The wait for the new Whitelands album is tough. The first one was in heavy rotation for me when it dropped.

Between the holidays, the vacation and the houseguests we’ve had over the last month the kid has gone feral. I’m not sure any of us can deal with another interruption to her usual schedule if the storm disrupts things that bad.

Last winter storm we got lucky and never lost power (we’re near hospitals and retirement homes) but this one has me really nervous.

Remember when Pelosi kneecapped Jessica Cisneros because she wanted to keep Cuellar because I do

We’ve been hearing about his declining health since about 2018, but more than ever I’m sure he’s not going to make it through the year. I lost a ton of older relatives in 2006 (I was a pallbearer 6 times in 7 months) and Trump is showing ALL the signs I saw in bits and pieces on all those people.

CBP and ICE have the highest suicide rate of everyone in federal service (outside of the military, IIRC.) Officially it’s because “they see so many horrible things” but the unspoken second half of that sentence is obviously that they are the ones doing the horrible things.

One thing Sicario had 100% dead on is the creepy look and feel of the weird network of mysterious military/security/carceral facilities scattered across the Southwest, especially around bases like Fort Bliss.

I redownloaded DKFM because my streaming service algorithms were getting a little stale and it’s been great.

I asked a social worker I know if we’re not just creating a generation of US ISIS out of these kids we’re brutalizing and the answer was somehow worse. “Kinda, but most of the violence is lateral. Kids in these situations tend to grow up and lash out at each other.”

I’m a Southwesterner first and foremost so I made a big pot of green chile stew before the cold front hits. Wasn’t crazy about the flavor when I turned the heat off but it was spot on when I reheated a bowl for dinner. Might fuck around and make some pozole tomorrow, too.

I’m pleased to report the new Deathstalker movie is fun. Great and goofy practical effects, just enough self-awareness to be funny but not completely Marvel-ized. I was raised on cheap Conan and Mad Max ripoffs airing on UHF stations and if we could get more like these I’d be pretty stoked.

Also, I always kinda assumed large swaths of the world hated or just tolerated Americans in general, so this isn’t exactly new or shocking information for me.

ICE is using each city as a way to create and evolve their tactics for the next deployment. We should absolutely be doing the same on our side.

We’re going to end up with Trump serving as President for life as a vegetable while Stephen Miller runs the show and Thiel puts data gulags everywhere. America gets the same ending as Eddington.

Man, going to a library and looking through microfiche would hit so hard right now.

hearing that on his deathbed donald trump tried to receive the light of islam but couldn't recite the shahada. so hes in hell now

Just in case It Finally Happened, the reason there was such a huge initial backlash against anyone who didn’t rend their garments over Charlie Kirk is because they were test driving a response to celebrations over Our Big Wet Boy keeling over. It mostly failed but we’ll see how round 2 goes.

they lie at all times, all scales, in all ways, and so we have to adhere to truth at all times, at all scales, in all ways

Hell yeah, I was just wondering what he’d been up to lately. Glad he’s doing well.

I’m a diehard aristocracy hater to the point that I refused to participate in Homecoming elections because the idea of a King and Queen of High School was too monarchist but also melted into a puddle watching the kid get a princess makeover in the Disney World castle. Parenting, man.

Relative to the tastes of their times were Mussolini and Hitler’s movements as tacky as the fascist movement we have now?

We were taking the kid to buy some new shoes she needs but she was tires and said “We have shoes at home!” Adri and I have snickering about this for days.

This place called Spoon in Castle Hills had one of the best tortilla soups I’ve ever had and the presentation for it was so good.

I think I caught the kid’s stomach bug.

I like how much this chip company respects potatoes. (They’re not bad!)

Flounders are one of those creatures that make you think “if there is a creator they must be cruel as hell.”

Correct. Squares on pro games with people you know personally is the only gambling we need. $10 cap on bets.

San Antonio people: family obligations keep me at home most of the time. Are there any mutual aid funds you recommend? I’d like to donate to help keep our neighbors safe.

Just emailed my congressman and told him there is no compromise position on ICE, it must be abolished and its personnel brought to justice. idk, its something I guess?

Can you imagine how well Lyndon LaRouche in his prime would do in this political environment? He’d put up huge numbers with every JRE appearance, probably even have his compound in the Austin area.

This is gonna sound harsh but you gotta stop talking to these hicks out in bumfuck towns. I know these people. They know less than nothing, it all comes from newsmax and facebook. They live in a fantasy world and everything they have is because of the cities they hate. They aren’t real Americans.

I guess all the mayors and governors in this country are scared to tell their constituents the truth, that they effectively serve at the will of their police. The first one to do it is going to be made an example of but I don’t see any other way around it.

The most honest and useful thing he could say is “elected officials in the US have little to no control over state and local police” but that gives the whole game away

Somehow I hadn’t blocked Michael Ian Black yet?

I hate when you go to an HEB that’s not one of your usuals, you can’t match the vibe and the whole grocery run is fucked up.

deary has my highest recommendation if you’re into dreampop and the gauzier side of shoegaze

Formative reading, here. My first intro to the art of Frank Quietly too.

This reminds me of Lucasarts Outlaws which was a hell of a game, completely underrated.

Nuremberg trials for all these fuckers, make examples out of scores of them and the lucky ones never get take a breath of free air for the rest of their lives.

It’s awesome a legacy TV newscast is rolling out with “better sit down, you’re going to want a drink before I tell you what happened today.”

Therapy session that mostly vocalized stuff more than provided clarity or resolution. It’s ok, that’s part of the process, as is this big sandwich I’m housing to process some feelings.

A thing I’m noticing about Miyazaki films now that I’m a parent is how good they are to little girls. There’s a unique respect and appreciation for girls as actual people that you don’t find in the even in US princess movies.

A Storm In Heaven by The Verve is such a killer album.

From a friend in Minneapolis who gave permission to share without attribution:

I know way too much about RFK’s favorite protein delivery method.

Me: If Snow White thinks the dwarves cottage was messy wait until she goes in the mine. Adri: (disapproving look) Me: Because you just know those guys weren’t hiking out for bathroom breaks. Adri:

As far as world-building goes for a kids cartoon goes, Tailspin was really cool. Evil corporation a constant threat to a small city-state trading hub, zeppelin-based air pirates, a floating freebooter outpost in the sky, incredible planes. Disney should reboot it with the DuckTales team.

I want it to happen as much as the rest of us but hoping for it also feels cowardly when so much needs to be fixed or changed.