rhorsman @rhorsman@octodon.social
Oldish. Pretty vanilla in color and flavor, but hopefully an ally? "Lentrohamsanin" from Metafilter, to give that contingent a marker. Michigandroid. He/him
No wait, I saw THE FISH THAT SAVED PITTSBURGH the year before. Although 5 year old me might have liked that one, my memory is vague.
I just remembered seeing "The Girl, The Gold Watch & Everything" when it came out and I was 6. I think it's my first memory that art could be terrible.
My lil toe buddy is very sleepy tonight. Makes a change from last night when he was beating up his brother.
The universe keeps giving me reminders that The Proclaimers existed. Apparently God's great plan for me is "You should bust out your old copy of 'Sunshine on Leith'".
Seems trifling.
Also pretty sure I sold it.
Sorry God.
@Dimduning I'd say there's a grain of truth in that pop culture and hearsay. The weirdest one is pain management: it tends to either be impossible to get a reasonable amount of pain drugs and you're immediately under suspicion if you ask; or a ridiculous amount is dispersed and you end up with community wide opiate dependence problems. We're not good at doing things in moderation here, especially important things.
@Dimduning oh it's totes bizarre. For a supposedly brash culture, we're ridiculously overcautious about some things.
@redacted it's time period specific. Some period in the 90s where you can't have made a protracted stay for some reason.
@Dimduning Nah, it's just if you made a prolonged visit during a period in the 90s. I think it's to do with mad cow disease or something?
Waiting to give blood at work. Answering "no" to all the potential deferral reasons always reminds me what a deeply boring person I am. Never been to Europe OR juvie.
Finally read Neil Gaiman's Miracleman stories. The problem with them is that they were written as an interlude between Alan Moore's stuff and a planned longer story arc, so they're a bit slight and deal with perspectives away from the main drivers of the plot. Also, they're all about the question "how would normal everyday people deal with these science fictional events?" which is hard for me to warm up to. The Warhol one was fun though. And Mark Buckingham's art is great.
every good joke i've ever come up with has been immediately followed by a mild panic attack about where i could've subconsciously stolen it from
@marko ME TOO.
Feel like this is the first time I've breathed since early this morning. There's nothing I like about the pace of this day so far.
YOUR NAME was solid, but Shinkai is not going to hit the American mainstream any time soon. It's very very anime.
@tcql when that happens I'm worried they know something I don't and I'm using Masto wrong because I'm only on one instance. That I am, in fact, Mastowrong.
About to go to a morning showing of YOUR NAME. Totally thought we'd missed it but then my wife pointed out it still had some late and early screenings. Sunday morning movies are awesome, especially since the local theater has a coffee bar. It's church.
@groofay I haven't, but I'll check it out! Socrate has always been a tough nut for me to crack, and it's about time for another go.
@DaveHiggins oo oo and the woman who asks if she can just have a curry and gets shouted down.
Okay; maybe every piece on Soylent, but generically I'd say those are tech writing, not food writing.
"People in this culture really love food" is the worst food writing clichés. All cultures love food. Just once I'd like to see an article that starts with "People in this culture despise eating. They consider it a filthy act, done under a cloud of shame. Flavor, texture, and sustenance: all are abominations across the land. The national dish is a hard bread made of sawdust, moss, and penance."
("British food is bad" does not count as an instance of this. That's its own cliché.)
