Having lived near downtown LA, I can tell you that like 50% of all car commercials are filmed within 2 miles and at all times expanding the shot like 5% would bring something into frame that would completely undercut the effect being evoked
My closest college buddy was this Boston kid with a truck driver dad and a mom who was the office side of a construction contractor who had been tested at like 78 IQ but then they realized he had ADD and gave him Ritalin and he turned into this space genius who hung out at the Harvard library and Johnathan Culler and some other big “Theory” figures – which was a school of literary study that had been big but was now pushed back to redoubts at Cornell and UC Irvine – recruited at 16 to be the field’s salvation, he was delivering papers at conferences his first year, eventually he ended up specializing in like, how trade goods from the newfound Americas affected 16th century European prose? He went on to Medieval Studies at Columbia before he looked around like “what the hell am I doing?”, married a girl he’d known in Boston, and switched to law school
God, was anyone else in adolescence during the 90s Wicca vogue, when kids would use 1970s feminist religious reconstructionism as their idiom for being chuuni?
Kind of funny how blog feminism dropped the 90s “funfeminism” thing and got like 6 years before running straight into the “fine then, we’ll be women better ourselves” thing the Second Wave warned about (complete with a side of the same “Hey, I’m a [SFF fandom] woman, and I like transgression and sexual violation in my fiction” stuff, too!)
about 60% of the way through utena and i love how every couple episodes the show will take a total break from the main plot of the show for the Nanami Kiryuu Epic Fail Hour
the black rose arc is also really fucking funny to me because it must be so baffling from utena’s point of view. at first all the duels were with a specific set of people who all explained very clearly their psychosexual reasons for duelling which like it must have been weird for her but at least she understood what’s going on. now every week some motherfucker she’s barely talked to shows up with a brand new tailored outfit ranting about how they’re going to kill her for what, to her, appears to be absolutely no reason
Huh, okay, other waterspout visible from my chair I wanted to take off the neighbor’s tree isn’t sprouting leaves this year so didn’t use up spring growth-from-reserves and wont grow in the way of things.
Realizing that my time being sentient and active on the broader internet (but especially this site) was perfectly timed for me to entirely miss both gamergate and monetizeyourcat
Falling into moneycat’s orbit and getting into the rhythm of daily effortposts was how this [tumblr] really kicked off. It was an amazing salon.
Vaping weed and living with a blood pressure disorder both just mean you have to get used to soldering through for a few seconds when your whole world experience and mental functioning drops a few resolution levels for anoxia sometimes.
Oh wow I just had sound get thin and metallic with a bit of flanging off that last hit
Oh man once you get used to the effects you can choose the subject of your consciousness to focus on for them to affect, I just got the concept of the last few months of my life flanging.
it’s weird how much “science fiction” involves ESP or other “psychic” abilities. I feel like there’s just this like 20th century woo mindset that accepted psychic powers, potentially old fashioned superstitions like poltergeists considered as psychic phenomena, as well as alien encounters. And you get some sci fi from that (especially let’s say AA Attanasio), but also that’s definitely where Stephen King is coming from so you can have aliens as well as vampires as threats to small towns in Maine.
Apparently a lot of this is due to a single guy! John W. Campbell, Jr. became a big believer and promoter of parapsychology/“psionics”, so in the 1950s lots of science-fiction authors used it as a story premise to increase their chances of getting published in Astounding, and this solidified the concept as an SF trope…
Here’s some more Biodiverse Memes! Y'all are strongly encouraged to repost to Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and other websites. No need to credit.
Some of these are new, some are from earlier. Wanted to make some (somewhat) positive ones since the point isn’t to be “anti-lawn,” it’s to get people to appreciate how beautiful and important biodiversity is and how easy it is to have biodiversity in your surroundings :3
Go wild, give them to the other websites so the people there can see
If you’re trying to get a mossy lawn back to grassy, as I did with the upper backyard, the issue is moss will take over where the dirt is kept waterlogged, you need to aerate it for drainage.
Kinda wonder if I’m gonna be a guy-with-a-cane the rest of my life. Is a neat accessory though, and we went with a cane guy to Universal Studios once in the 90s and got to skip all the lines.
Okay, carted all the “firewood” except stuff pretty thin or dry-cracked and easily splittable to Blueberry Hill and tossed them in the valley where the last smashing that wasn’t in the “dugout” had been, sorted the longer stuff I could possibly use and piled the rest to be cut up for the last part of [above]. Then yet more grass pulling, then some more shaping shoots, there’s some stuff off the smoke bush standard that if it works out that one trunk will have a woven basket emerging around it for lower branches to grow out of. Then hauling around some of the bigger felled mimosa logs to serve as the back lip of Blueberry Hill and impound fallen stuff there.
Tomorrow clearing more wood out of the lower backyard so I can snap a photo of how clear it is, but I might actually have some shopping to do.
