At least 50% of historical examples of non-combat “courage” were committed by people who just had a more correct assessment of probability of victory than after-the-fact analysts thru access to still-private information.
On the one hand it’s kind of insulting to have WNBA veterans commenting this NBA summer developmental league game, on the other hand it’s really clear this is the level of play they’re used to and understand and have thought about.
The bar that was showing The Good Guys (2016) last time I was in is showing Freeway (1996), different bartender I guess they’ve just cultivated a neo-noir sensibility for movie night.
Which knowing this bar (it’s where I captained a Sunday league pinball team for several years!) is a big change, they’re updating to keep up with the neighborhood and clientele by investing in staff, which is wise
A character is “the I-5 Killer”, and I bet the other people in the bar don’t realize that the really serial-killer part of I-5 in the 80s-90s was the segment between Portland and Seattle.
You will recall that I realized “bottoming for a West Indian guy” as a fantasy was really a delayed reaction to Dee Jay in Street Fighter that didn’t trigger for decades while I was straight, and that was kind of about his lean (but not Dhalsim-thin) muscular form, and as my muscles develop I feel myself moving towards that form, which is interesting.
Been bingin’ some 90s movies/shows like everyone else and every once in a while you go “Oh hey I remember that 90’s misogyny, oh how nostalgic, that’s not how misogyny is done anymore.”
YouTube has been feeding me Seinfeld clips and it reminded me that both Seinfeld and Friends at least had plots about male characters carrying bags that kind of looked like purses and whether it was okay for a man to have a purse.
Oh yeah that, I was noticing more stuff about the specific way they would describe how women were all bloodsuckers who would take all your money.
Oh shit @morlock-holmes that gives me a chance to again repeat a favored story, that the leather shoulder-strapped bags US Secret Service guys use to carry carbines around without giving a menacing impression are called FAG bags and they say that means “Fast-Action Gun” but it’s really because the first agents to use them thought they looked like purses and made them look gay.
The bar that was showing The Good Guys (2016) last time I was in is showing Freeway (1996), different bartender I guess they’ve just cultivated a neo-noir sensibility for movie night.
Which knowing this bar (it’s where I captained a Sunday league pinball team for several years!) is a big change, they’re updating to keep up with the neighborhood and clientele by investing in staff, which is wise
Kind of wonder how much of my body changes I’m missing looking in the mirror cause I can’t see my back. I can tell by feel that’s where a lot of the muscles I’m developing lately are.
Yeah honestly we should maybe be clearer about this: if you are in boy puberty, with elevated testosterone and that, muscle-building exercise will be much more effective, as if on steroids, so it’s worth spending the time on.
In retrospect the one halfway real job I’ve had being the kinda entry-level business side of Hollywood role you do to build connections only I didn’t leave with any connections, just a sense of how power structures work behind the scenes that I’ve been chewing over for 20 years, was really on the nose.
(In that this formative experience was somehow in line with the person I went on to become)
Iron hunger retreating, at 4 pills every half-day sometimes I miss a dose and don’t even notice for an hour. Going down to 3 (or at least 4/3) before too long.
Oh also as the last of my physical limitations wear off and I get quite strong remember I was also a blue belt in American Kempo from that very fighting-focused LA dojo and everything the old personality knew has been internalized in depth as something the new personality has always known before he learned how to walk, so very good chance I could kick your ass in a fight.
All this intense topsoil-pitching does consistently make me shit mud though, which I guess makes sense; the twisting mechanically moves stool through the intestines with less time to absorb.
Sure. It’s about uhhhhhh, Renaissance Neo-hermeticism. That line about James Deen is about drinking mercury to live forever.
Glad we’re all on the same page
Yooo it’s the red sun rising over the city! It’s my good friend the purification and reddening of the work by flame!
We’re at the point where we have to start footnoting that James Deen the popular-with-women male porn star was referencing “James Dean” the Rebel Without A Cause (1955) actor, huh?
Okay, three more yards today. I’ve totally got the best pitching motion now, I stand beside the bed facing towards the center of the hood, and with my outside arm on the handle and inside arm choked by the head i canoe-paddle through the topsoil, tossing it behind.
I do appreciate Across the Spider-Verse mixing up the “issues with your child growing up” themes in that it’s the father with the real issues, that manifest in a particularly masculine way, and with the new universe teasing a resolution that would be further racialized: appreciate that it was your presence and guidance in childhood that set him right, without which he might have fallen into the same roughness you escaped from as a young Black man in the ‘80s and '90s but people close to you didn’t.
And that Miles’ mom being more positive isn’t played as mother-as-bearer-and-transmitter-of-domestic-life, she’s not excited about her baby growing up and forming a family of his own, when his dad, deep in his masculine-idiom issues, is like “and what’s he doing with this Gwen girl anyway?” she’s basically like “well, he probably wants to fuck her.”
Also appreciation for how the way nothing really triggers off the way Gwen/Miles would be an interracial pairing.
And how it pointed out that Gwen and Miles may have different skin colors but they in fact share a race-like fictive hyperextended kin group in that they’re both from police families.
There’s a scene with that isssues-y dad meeting this girl who’s taking his son away and he’s saying he suspects her family are criminals – the enemy tribe – before becoming more positive when he realizes they’re actually cop tribe
