Last night I did a really stupid thing. I had forgotten an item in my car, and decided to just zip out and grab it. Which meant that I traipsed out into 15F snow wearing a bathrobe and my house-slippers, which are leather-soled moccasins.
One comment in my post about Joe Rogan pointed out that Spotify does have the virtue of bringing new, unknown, musicians and performers to our attention. There’s truth in that.
I am so full of anger and hatred that it’s 3:00am and I can’t sleep.
This is an old joke told by Billy Conolly.
The US Navy could not tolerate having the British get ahead in the “flinging F-35s overboard” TikTok fad that appears to be emerging, so they did one too. It’s a dangerous fad and people get hurt.
For the record: I don’t care particularly much about the underlying topic, but I am interested why someone would lie so obviously and incompetently.
I’m going to rant/ramble and not try to make a neat argument this morning. I need sleep and coffee and it looks like I may be snowed in again and I want to get to the shop and make some wood chips before the roads are impassible.
Content Warning: Blood, Despair
I found this years ago; I don’t know who did the original or where it’s from, but it captures something.
He was exactly what he was and he was larger and louder and glampunk theatrical.
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How’s the defunding going?