finally saw STOP MAKING SENSE last night. first time in my life I've wanted to describe something as "electrifying"

happy National Spoon Day to all those who celebrate

I'm planning on running a Numenera game soon so I started rereading The Book of the New Sun for inspiration

went to see Oasis in LA tonight. great show but I gotta be real with you folks: I had no idea what those guys were saying

I should watch more music videos

pondering Charles Sumner's "state suicide theory." wild stuff—the Reconstruction Era's so interesting. but I wonder if there were actually any proposals to redraw the states in the South at the time, because it's the sort of thing amateur mapmakers love but I haven't found any sources for it yet

just imagine the obituaries

Tales from Topographic Oceans is actually really good

I'm going to be so relieved to be done with my associate's—just one more semester. looking to transfer to Humboldt or CSU Fullerton

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been getting really into the Reformation lately, and the early modern era generally

LA's gone through enough already man. we don't need this shit

I'm far enough away from the fires in LA that I haven't been in any immediate danger, but not by much. I haven't really known what to do with myself for the past few days

"Santa Clause is Comin' to Town" contains the lyrics "he knows if you've been bad or good/so be good for goodness' sake!" this implicitly affirms the principle of free will—the listener must actively choose to "be good." this song is consequently incompatible with most Protestant theology

just logged on to phone banking. wish me luck

I'm optimistic but the stakes are getting to me rn

really nice to see all the people wearing "I Voted!" stickers out this afternoon

it's gonna be excruciating until tuesday or whenever the election's called, and despite myself I'm afraid to be too optimistic because it feels like I'll jinx it. but it feels like things are falling into place in a way that they didn't in '20 or '16

okay *this* seems pretty good

CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES COME ON

based ball

ADVANCED NAGINATA TECH, a tabletop roleplaying game I wrote when I was eleven years old. #ttrpg When it gets 100 Likes, I will post the entire thing.

pee tape real. I never stopped believing

the pervert European mind sees a little gap you can't see anything through unless you're right up on it and jumps to "shitting window"

when I started watching Gilmore Girls a year or so ago I didn't really know what to expect, but I *definitely* didn't expect one of the major recurring characters would be so into eugenics

hey so MEGALOPOLIS was really bad

been reading RED MARS lately. pretty good so far

no California partition ballot measure this year. time for me to unveil my own brilliant scheme: each county of California should independently secede and become states of the US. 57 Californias

most annoying thing abt my job is I have a couple really shitty coworkers, but the second most annoying thing—the one on my mind all morning—is we don't have user documentation for our printers & other devices. every time there's a problem we have to call tech support

been watching HUNTER X HUNTER instead of the debate. that show's fucking nuts. there's a guy in a jet-powered wheelchair who fights with electric snake whips

*charli xcx voice* fall fashions

just watched HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE, my favorite (maybe not the best) Ghibli movie. I wrote some of my thoughts about it here: boxd.it/7qiHz5

say what you will about gustav holst that mother fucker knew exactly what planets sound like

anyone know a good typeface/font reference? I've wanted to write something about video game console industrial/product design but I want to identify the fonts they use for logos, labels etc

new country dropping soon apnews.com/article/alba...

just watched THE MATRIX

very slow at the UPS store today, got some Japanese jazz fusion playing...feels very Animal Crossing

I couldn't get this to work earlier

Astro Squid, a game so obscure I'd forgotten until a few minutes ago that it was actually a commercial product. I don't think it was actually that good but who knows, it's been well over a decade since I played it last

been listening to the Revolutions podcast and it got me thinking it might've been possible for the French Revolution to have happened much earlier—if not for Louis XIV's imposition of absolutism the parlements might end up deciding they could run France better without a monarch

remember when they changed a line in O Canada from "in all thy sons command" to "in all of us command" and a bunch of freaks got mad about it

signed up for a phone banking training

Shadow of the Torturer finished! great stuff. waiting on the rest of my book club to see if I should move on to the later volumes but I definitely will

followed an account on Twitter really similar to this and I missed em. good to see there's someone doing roughly the same thing

okay look. Starliner's a piece of shit, Boeing executives should be in jail, we're all on the same page there. but come the hell on

we're going with The Shadow of the Torturer

just finished reading The Little Drummer Girl. hell of a book, although I feel like I'll like Le Carré's other stuff more when I get to it