I like how when I newly fit into something these days it’s never like oh, I’m having a particularly good day and maybe it’ll be a bit too tight next time, no, that fits now
Honestly, I wonder if the Long Covid case that introduced low blood pressure symptoms wasn’t ultimately some damage to or limitation of the cardiac muscle.
Ah, man, just amazing fucking weather lately, my mom had texted to warn it was gonna be hot but it’s exactly as summery as it gets without being a bother, the wind and humidity is perfect, and the leaves are coming in on the trees and showing how they’re adapting their growth regimes to last year’s cuts and it’s looking great
I was gonna say “like Angelus you know the Catholic devotion” before realizing how unhelpful that is so in terms of local English pronounciation I’ll just post a Bad Religion song
Los Angeles and the whole area was settled by Hispanophones but the existing LA culture comes from Anglophone migrants with no prior contact with Spanish orthography or pronunciation, so there are actually a ton of shibboleth place names today
Thinking about this documentary I saw about this Christian missionaries that got kidnapped in Mindanao by a Moro group and at first they tried to preach to their captors but that didn’t work and after awhile they were like “heyy uh doesnt the Koran say to treat People of the Book well and stuff? We count as that” and the captors were like “huh?” and a little while later they came in with a Koran and we’re like “oh yeah it does say that!” and gave them a mattress to sleep on instead of just the floor and removed some of their shackles
Thoroughly mystified by the top one. “America colonized heavily by the British with a bunch of cities named after English cities” is just… America again. The bottom one at least makes sense even if it’s absurd (minus the part where the Central Powers cede a bunch of territory to Japan, an allied nation in WWI, for seemingly no reason)
The [first] map appeared on the cover of The Fatherland, a pro-German weekly paper established at the start of the war, with the title ‘New Map of the D.S.E. - Dependent States of England - Formerly U.S.A.’
It was published in response to Life magazine’s famous cover [second pic here] imagining the country conquered by the Central Powers and Japan:
As I always comment, love how both sides of the war agree “oh yeah also Japan your ostensible ally is gonna backstab you and take California”, a totally reasonable and justified fear in the 1910’s for sure.
Why are they agreed that Americans will be put on a reservation in specifically El Paso?
Given your background, do you have some interesting thoughts about the Writer's Guild strike?
I was in LA for the ‘07 strike, and I remember it was mentioned that the overwhelming share of membership was not currently working or likely to work again, it was people who had sold one unproduced feature script, and that actual working screenwriters a “pencils down” mandate might affect cast a minority of the votes on striking or contract acceptance. I don’t know how that stands now – I’d believe the feature market buys fewer specs, it sure never makes anything original now – but there might be something there
Idk about this one boys, Cookie Monster always refers to Cookie Monster’s self as “Cookie Monster”.
no he doesn’t. he refers to himself as “me.” elmo’s the one that talks in third person. that’s the joke. elmo doesn’t use pronouns and cookie monster is blue. how dare you assume i made this post and didnt know my fucking sesame street history. christ
Okay, more tidying up the lower yard: more grass weeding (there’s enough heat and moisture that something new’s always showing up – watching grass grow is exciting!), more chopping up the last little branches into wood kibble, debarking two thick branches that wintered under the pine tree, stacking all the little stuff and split logs I’ll actually use for fire fuel on these slag blocks off the ground
