Oh yes. I love this version— it’s one of the ones I had as a kid. Blair Lent and Ernest Small were actually the same person!

Perfect

waiting for that Super Bowl halftime show with Negativland

Our cat, Weasel. She is asleep, curled up, exposing her belly and pink pawpads. She is a brilliant orange against a deep purple blanket. She looks extremely cozy.

(addressing the young person who’s shown up at my door searching for mentorship in an attempt to defeat the evils in the world)

Sorry, young blood. All these old bones are good for these days is feeling the horrendous malaise of late-stage capitalism and Stardew Valley. G’wan, now. Git.

WOW

NEW SHORTS WHO DIS

An orange cat lying on a bed, mouth caught mid-yawn, teeth bared but somehow still adorable.

CALL ME ISHMAEL

A “rizzed-up selfie” of yours truly. Beard a little too skraggly. Glasses a little too low. One eyebrow cocked a little too confidently. Smirk not quite smiley enough. Tugging down the collar of my black t-shirt in an unearned gesture of lackluster machismo. Fuck it, I’m still cute

Practicing my “rizzed-up selfies” as an almost fifty year old man. Maybe I’ll get the hang of it in another decade or so.

This time it's the band Explosions in the Sky on the stage, surrounded by fog, with lights flashing all around. Four dudes with guitars and a drummer. Wild.

It's been a hell of a year, but a crowd of people gathering to listen to other people make music is always satisfying.

Godspeed You! black Emperror on the stage at Austin Psych Fest. I was close enough to feel the rumble of the stacks, which is a lot of the point.

Live music is such a balm for the soul.

The ceiling of a room. The room is darkened. Shining on the ceiling is a pall of blue light, with a field of green "stars." Also visible on the ceiling: a vent; an emergency fire alarm light; several unlit can lights; another, smaller vent; a CCTV camera.

Well now. This is probably pretty overdue.

The chat support window for Spotify. Transcript: I'm good, thanks for asking. [Spotify Agent] at 12:21 PM, Feb 18 Can you please elaborate your concern? [Spotify Agent] at 12:21 PM, Feb 18 Well, Joe Rogan is an idiot with an enormous platform that is actively harming both our country and the world at large. It drives me nuts that part of the money I pay to Spotify goes to that goon. I would like to request that none of my subscription money goes to him or his ghoulish podcast. You at 12:22 PM, Feb 18

Follow up Spotify Support chat. Transcript: ... your feedback to the right team, so that they will look into it. We'll make sure to pass your feedback along [Spotify Agent] at 12:34 PM, Feb 18 Thank you! Just register my dissatisfaction that Spotify pays that doofus a ridiculous amount of money to blather his misinformation to ridiculous amounts of people. You at 12:35 PM, Feb 18 Please don't worry, I have taken your concern as a feedback and let the right team know, so that they will look into it. [Spotify Agent] at 12:37 PM, Feb 18

Now they know how I feel, at least.

Boy howdy, do I, a trans woman, have some thoughts about how the gender revolution put a lot more emphasis on letting girls do boy stuff, and almost none on letting boys do girl stuff, which if anything reinforced the idea that girl stuff is inferior if not shameful.

It's a late-80s movie, so it's vile in some of those kind of ways, although it is classist in the correct direction. It's also a Brian Yuzna movie (he produced Re-Animator), so it's pretty gross too. But it's VERY funny body horror.

I was cackling for the entire last twenty minutes. It really navigated the sad / funny straits extremely well.
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Have you seen SOCIETY? l... cannot recommend Society, but... I love Society.

TWICE. IT WAS SO GOOD

I have not seen that, nor will I. Even at the outset it seemed weird, but not my flavor of weird. Give me body horror over well-meaning but racist musicals any day of the week

Pretty baffling choices. I've seen some clips of it and thought "oh that looks charming" but now no thanks. Like the one where gosling does the face and Emma stone laughs at him? Or something like that? But not as part of that larger debacle, nope

Wow. Wowwwwwww. Someone wrote that. Someone wrote it and then someone else was like "sounds good to me," and then several dozen people were like "sure, why not."

... I'm sorry, what

A PILE OF SMASHED CRABS

The Amazing Spider-Man number 5! Spidey swings his way across the cover, but Doom has severed his web! He's about to land in some... lava or something! CAPTION: "It had to happen! Sooner or later, SPIDER-MAN was bound to battle DOCTOR DOOM!" Dr. Doom's word balloon: "This is your FINISH, Spider-Man! If the FANTASTIC FOUR couldn't stop me, what chance have YOU?" Art by Steve Ditko.

Hey, neat! It's Amazing Spider-Man 5, from 1963! It's the first time Spidey and Dr. Doom interacted! This was hiding in the corner of a lot I won for a truly cute amount on the internets. Probably the best score I will ever find.

I hate it when my ailing king is usurped by his scheming foreign vizier

The land stirs from winter torpor in snowbell peal, in Stay Below rising. Jackdaws quest for twigs, toads wake. The witch hears whispers of green promise, the song of pussy willow swelling to silver. Feral magics swim her blood. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Honestly if you show me a cat that can operate a zippo I’ll send them a pack of Virginia Slims.

DONE

My kid just literally relayed your comments to the cat.

My kid had naming rights. The name is SPOT ON.