Drinking in a SEA-TAC bar, just saw that Kiefer Sutherland Cuervo TV campaign. Which is hilarious to me because when I was living in Los Feliz and 24 was shooting at Prospect Studios, Drunk Kiefer Sutherland was our neighborhood mascot. Even bought me a shot of tequila once, not specifically but a round for everyone at the Drawing Room.
(it’s namedropping as a clause; as a paragraph it’s *worldbuilding*)
was the bram stoker’s dracula pinball table built specifically to try and tempt you to knock it into tilt status out of anger
Yes.
In real life with loose settings you can shake the mist ball loose with only 1-2 warnings, even after the live ball’s drained.
(In real life if you hit it slow enough with the live ball it can get caught by the magnet and both dangle as it drags and you have to wait for one to scrape off when it reaches the side)
Violence is the final answer to the question, “Or else what?”(via zentropista)
“Is this bar just playing Tragic Kingdom? …holy shit, these kids have never heard Tragic Kingdom.”
Well they recognize the singles. Also holy shit I didn’t notice how much Danny Elfman influence they had
taylorswift would be amazing in the Rebecca de Mornay role in a Risky Business remake
(when she internalizes that she can’t perfect her way into pleasing everyone, which she will gently ‘cause she’s competent)
((also the Dolly Parton role in 9 to 5, but the Dolly Parton role in everything, that’s a foregone conclusion))
Oh my *god* it is a terrible idea playing a pinball tournament at a location with a well-playing AfM, this is taking forever. Playfield needs to be roughed up or waxed to hell.
The standard critique of steampunk fashion is that it takes 19th century style and just slaps gratuitous gears on it.
But the interesting thing is that 19th century styles were spangled with gratuitous cutting-edge industrial products! European mechanization first took off with the (important!) textile industry, and fashion of the age took clothes and just slapped newly accessible lace, ribbons, and ruffles everywhere.
Ironically given all the shit they catch for pushing a purely bourgeois vision of the Industrial Age, the rivets-and-goggles set verge on Soviet in fetishizing industrialization in terms of “hard” heavy industry to the exclusion of “soft” consumer goods.
“O Princess Dulcinea, mistress of this captive heart! Thou has done me grievous harm in bidding me farewell and reproving me with the harsh affliction of commanding that I not appear before thy sublime beauty. May it please thee, Señora, to recall this thy subject heart, which suffers countless trials for the sake of thy love.”
He strung these together with other foolish remarks, all in the manner his books had taught him and imitating their language as much as he could.
Meanwhile Don Quixote so far is about a LARPer who bases his life choices on bad fantasy novels and complains about getting friendzoned. It was published in the early 1600s. Human nature is eternal
We replace all uses of the word “tradition” with “meme.”
Example: Every year, our family praises the good lord with a carefully decorated nativity scene, a valued Christmas meme.
It was the priest as an idler and destroyer of the household, who gained ascendancy over women through the confessional, that the soldiers and leaders attacked more than the priest as magician or upholder of the old order. The revolutionaire was no theologian. even if he talked of superstition, and the real reason for his prejudice against the confessional was the power he felt it gave the priest over his womenfolk. Such prejudices at times came near to misogyny and there are many examples of this in the expressions of the san-culottes, the commissairs and the representants en mission. This anti-feminism was fortified by the frequently furious opposition from the village women which they encountered on their iconoclastic missions-more than one revolutionaire had to take to their legs to escape their fury. But most of all the soldiers held a grudge against women because of the way they let themselves be seduced by the lying and lazy priests. At Bec du Tarn, Huegny, a Toulouse commissaire civil ‘thundered against fanaticism, and in particular against women, who were more easily seduced by it; he said that the Revolution had been made by men, and women should not be allowed to make it backtrack…” Dartigoeyte, representant en mission in the Gers, gave vent to similar feelings in his tirade against the devotes of Mirande: “And you, you bloody bitches, you are their whores [the priests’], particularly those who attend their bloody masses and listen to their mumbo jumbo,’ but he also had a word for the “jean-foutres of husbands who are naive enough to accompany them [and who] simply show what cuckolds they are by doing so.’From The People’s Armies by Richard Cobb (via lovegodsmashtyrants)
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