As I make my way to Denver for Convergence27 the thought occurred: Half of why I’m there is to shoot laser rainbows. There must be a non-zero number of goth songs where the villain is a guy who comes to a goth get together and shoots rainbows at them. My super villain moment is here!

A group of evil supernatural musicians attempts to destroy a group of good vaguely supernatural musicians. Sinners or KPop Demon Hunters?

Behold the floofs

Did you all hear about the straight pride festival in Idaho that drew tens of people and was crashed by an Army vet who sang a pro-trans song after lying about the lyrical content of his music?

Finished Expedition 33. Did… did I just play Belle Epoque Nier Automata?

They: “Isn’t my baby just the cutest?” Me: “I’d prefer not holding an infant to modern society’s unrealistic beauty standards.”

Thoughts I had while at the Charming Disaster show: “Everyone in the crowd has been to New Orleans, but not as much as they claim” “A non zero amount of people in this room have written erotic Alice in Wonderland fanfic”

The set what I am playing tonight

Happy World Goth Day! It is a common misconception that chickens can't be goth, but Lavinia enjoys Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, and Victorian poems about beautiful women dying of consumption.

Present papal proclamations: Pietro Parolin preferred pope over Pierbattista Pizzaballa. Preposterous!

Ads seen on meta platforms this morning: Church, other church, date Slavic women, Christian relationship counselors, church, Jordan Peterson, stock tip, stock tip, church, church but in an arena, other church but in the same arena

It’s been years since I contemplated… What IF everything I ever wanted came in a rocket can?

Quick movie reviews: Alien Romulus: scary fun, and the final xenomorph was as disturbing as the queen was 40(?) years ago Crimes of the Future: verrrry Cronenberg, light on plot but good subtext about naturalism vs technology. Also I could watch Kristen Stewart get horny for surgery for days

Thinking about quitting my day job

When I started Cymbalta my weight shot up 20 pounds in the first couple of months. I started intermittent fasting (8 on, 16 off) when the scale hit 241. 3 weeks in and I’m down 10 pounds. This is a long way of saying that I won’t have to buy new pants, which is really the driving factor here

I do not like that I now know the term “Dead Cat Bounce”, the origins of the phrase, and can use it in a sentence

I’ll bet

Every church has that one painting where Jesus is just completely over this shit

I wondered why Russell Brand went from outspoken atheist to Christian evangelist. There’s three highly reliable get-out-of-rape-charges-free cards - athlete, Republican politician, and Christianity. And yes those buffs stack.

Photo by Digital Daydream Photography (who appears to not be on this platform)

Liberal woman beats world’s richest man, charges him $24,000,000

Bird report: definitely plotting something

Oh no. I’m one of those “I own multiple vocal microphones” guys.

At the airport waiting for the aerial disease tube to go to Chicago then change disease tubes to go to Ft Wayne. Wee.

New Owl Kitty!

That Severance finale was phenomenal

I have subjected two more friends to Ember Days.

I was kind of wondering what having my face eaten by a leopard was like anyways. Take that, libs!

Important: there are now two foxes

Election text I received. I have doubts they’ve asked all their friends that question.

Found some good yoga videos on YouTube with zero talking. They just show the stretch and you do the stretch and that’s it. It’s great! I heard Laura do a normal video and the instructor Never. Stopped. Talking. I can’t go back.

Important: Fox now naps in our yard

The following is an incomplete list of things Laura has said to me: “I’m just putting words at you.” “Now I’m useless and can’t wipe my butt.” (About Brian Cox) “do you think he goes to sex clubs?” “My knee thing is a strap on.” “I thought my can of PBR would go more different than it did.”

Enola Gay to be renamed Enola King David and Jonathon Were Just Close Friends

I got a winter melon cake at the local Asian grocery store. Winter melon is also known as wax gourd ash gourd white gourd winter gourd tallow gourd ash pumpkin Chinese preserving melon In Chinese it’s called “dōngguā” with guā meaning squash Mmm dong squash cake

Laura watching Laura

That went harder than I expected

“wow, it’s rare to see ears holes so smooth” Normal ear plugs and ear buds never stay in my ear. So when I was at the audiologist getting fitted for ear plugs I asked why my ears seem to be coated in Teflon. So she looks with that lighted probe doohickey and says the above about smooth ear holes

Boy these newsletters from the VA have been getting more and more dire. “No we’re not laying off anyone, that’s just media rumors” “No we’re not laying off 15% of our workforce, that’s just media rumors”

When you go outside to find a package sitting at the bottom of your stairs covered in a quarter inch of ice, you know that when you chip away all that ice the label will say FedEx. #fedex #firstworldproblems

Laaaaammmmmmp

Coworker: “from over here it looked like you were eating shredded cheese straight out of the bag” Me: “it’s not 9pm on a Saturday and I’m not leaning over the kitchen sink and crying so no, I’m not eating shredded cheese straight out of the bag”

#industrialmusic @in-otter-news.bsky.social

That turned out nicely

I feel you, hastily taped on warning sign

And all my Logic Project files disappeared from Dropbox. Fun. Internet says recovering them is easy but time consuming, and I can’t save there anymore. Hashtag firstworldproblems