Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" Day to all those who celebrate.
Pyat, a Mouse
@pyat.bsky.social
Poorly curated personality advertisement for an actual mouse. Former reporter, sometime writer about orcs & rabbit samurai. Now Infosec bureaucrat. As seen on TV. Ponderous whimsy a specialty, sometimes factual. Squeak.
A kid (about 12) on my street is walking a patrol with his dad, a few streets away, both listening to an emergency scanner app to fire and ambulance calls. They are using their phones like walkie talkies, with static of switching mic on and off, muffled voice and all.
Voice over: "Anzio playset comes complete with one figure representing Eric Waters, Company Z of the 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and genuine miniature scroll (with gold leaf adorned) signed by his Majesty's own rubber stamp. Rock opera and generational trauma sold separately."
Realized this morning the little Aussie penguin "Ollie Funt" that shows up to replace Opus in a 1988 Bloom County story arc was intended to be political cartoonist Pat Oliphant. And then looked him up and discovered he died a couple of weeks ago.
The game in question is currently on sale! :D www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1...
"Eppy-Deppy-Diah!" a thing I say at the end of every episode.@epidiah.bsky.social · last wk.There's this chonky role-playing game that I like. Very adventure focused. It has a bunch of fiddly ways the different weapons work, but each fiddly way is internally consistent makes the different weapons feel, you know, different tactically. I it.
This was so absolutely not my experience. In 80s all the nerds I knew were deep into Robotech, Starblazers, etc., and in the 90s would pack the local art house theatre for "Japanimation." The 1991 Matthew Sweet video for "Girlfriend" was built around anime and was playing constantly on MuchMusic.
Zero Utopia@zeroutopia.bsky.social · last wk.Genuinely impossible to make people understand how much most the United States in the 90s hated and looked down on anime if they didn't live through it.
This is bullshit. Dragonball, Sailor Moon, and Pokemon were ridiculously popular in the 90s. There was never a time in the US when people "hated and looked down on anime." At the most, there was a time when people were "unaware of anime."
Zero Utopia@zeroutopia.bsky.social · last wk.Genuinely impossible to make people understand how much most the United States in the 90s hated and looked down on anime if they didn't live through it.
**Problem**: I have analog televisions that cannot display a digital signal. Some have no AV input ports **Solution:** Buy a tiny analog TV transmitter, input a digital signal into it, then broadcast old timey TV from my basement.
Around 5 AM our cockatiel woke up, left his sleeping perch, and started jumping on us till we woke up. He was alert and tense, but totally silent. I think he smelled smoke on the air. I had to bring him downstairs and turn on some lights before he'd settle.
He was the cashier at the sketchy variety store near my school. We'd buy candy from a man who'd wrestled Hulk Hogan. Even without context, the words "He trained at Al Spittles’ gym" and "worked as a Santa Claus" paint an accurate picture of my city. dead-wrestler-database.fandom.com/wiki/Ted_Gri...
Ted Grizzly
Gary Wolfenden (1944 – April 20, 2009) was a Canadian professional wrestler known by his ring name Ted Grizzly. Before starting off his wrestling career, Grizzly, around 1973, was involved in a fight ...
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Ashtrays in bank and movie lines. Standing for "O Canada" before a movie. Lord's Prayer in public school. Singing "God Save the Queen."
Dennis Detwiller@drgonzo123.bsky.social · 3w ago"Verify your age" I used to use a butter knife to play video games.
I keep thinking about this Alex Ross painting of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that is, for some reason, also the cast of 30 Rock
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"This week on Hearts of Space. An emergent tonal wallpaper, originally composed for East German Singing Bowl, but performed entirely on Theremin. Yes, it's Constance Demby's 1972 extended conceptual emulation of the ethereal bongs of the Glockenfurz."
I went on a road trip with @perthum.bsky.social and she hardly touched her LSD.* *Box actually contains partly-eaten chicken quesadilla.
Father's Day card from my youngest, who asked me which one of the bots was anti-ICE. @billcorbett.bsky.social the youth salute you. And fathers.
Conversations about autistic and allistic social differences are valuable but often exist at the level of "Normies drive a car like THIS, but us Slans, we drive a car like THIS..." giffiles.alphacoders.com/161/161678.gif
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Just so long as the trees don't wear headscarves or visible religious icons.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.Terrasse-Vaudreuil, a town west of Montreal, has recognized trees as living beings with rights. The town will review its rules to protect trees and increase the canopy.
I finally saw Napoleon Dynamite, and I think I was precisely five years too old to appreciate it. This is not a criticism of the film or people who like it.
It's time to Hold fast To the law Of the last Cold tome, Where the earth Of the truth Lies thick On the page, And the loam Of faith In the ink Long fled From the drone Of the nib Flows on Through the breath Of the Muppet SH-OOOOOOOW!
Rain Dog@brushwolf.bsky.social · 2mo agoMuppet Gormenghast
I guess people were worried they'd been kicked out of Windsor and were running around with street dogs in a Manchester slum and... wait, someone get Don Bluth on the phone! Or Andrew Lloyd Weber!
I got to tell @veeunit.bsky.social about the time I met Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake at a pizzeria in Hagersville. And also the Townsend "f*cking cornfield" story.
Last weekend was melancholic, but involved necessary and important re-connections to extended, even though some were sad. I did get to spent a lot of time with my Dad and sisters, and that was all good. And there was ice cream at sunset!
Right now I am waiting for my wife at an optometrist, and the music they are playing is the Johnny Cash cover of "Hurt."
