There are a couple songs from the Hair soundtrack like that.

Their quality hasn't been up to snuff in well over a decade. I always had luck with Grinders.

Thanks! Did you send me your current address? Text or messenger or here or whatever. I'll send it tomorrow!

I'll send a copy of this little zine about my childhood armory to the first 7 people who send me a mailing address.

a picture of me with the word 'LEE!' written across it. this is also what the next two pictures are.

I've been going by Lee and using he/him pronouns with friends and now you are invited to do so as well! hi!

Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Text: "This is a flail." Also: "This is a BAD idea" with bad underlined. Descriptive text notes that this is a pine cone tied to a cut off broom handle with braided yarn and the art shows exactly that. This was easy to lose control of while swinging wildly and could do real damage. I probably shouldn't have made these.

Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Text: "Broken glass tapes to a stick." Also, "Not a weapon - a makeshift pocketknife until I turned 7 and got a real one." The art is of a chunk of broken glass taped to a stick with scotch tape. I made these when I was 5 or 6 and wanted to do something like sharpen sticks or cut string. I was weird but clever!

Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Warning at top: "Don't hit your sister!" Seriously, though, this could cause actual damage. The text is a small poem: "Palmetto frond/with edges trimmed/can become/the swordman's friend." The art shows a palmetto frond spine that has been trimmed to allow a handle and several spikes along one side. I still make these today, given half a chance.

Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Text: "I dug so many holes!" and "This folding shovel was the best toy I ever had." Y'all, I dug so many holes in so many places I shouldn't have been digging holes.

Small zine on graph paper. The title is A Well Armed Childhood with the subtitle I Read A Lot Of Fantasy. All the lettering and art is hand drawn in simple black ink. The image is of a sword with a curved guard and some etching on the blade. This was a very common plastic sword design in the 90s. Once you hit a few things with them, the would split along the seam on both sides and have to be taped back together with duct tape.

Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. The art is a life size drawing of a butter spreader knife from a set of silver flatware. Text: "You can't sharpen a silver plated butter spreader on a brick." Below: "Mom hated when I took these." It's true, too. I always lost them in the yard trying to use them as boot knives.

Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Text: "Drinking straw + tape wrapped pin blow gun" and "Seldom worked but stung like hell when it did." The art is of those two exact things. I'm pretty sure I mostly just tried to get the darts to stick in my wall or some cardboard.

Lettering and art hand drawn in black ink on graph paper. Text reads: "Daggers: a pirate requirement," "Slats from a semi-discarded shutter," and "Trimmed with a hand saw." Art shows a very blocky wooden dagger with a squared off guard, attached with three nails (one showing the bent over end, two just showing the head). My folks weren't happy that I stole all the slats from that shutter.

A new zine about the old days.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

I'm not worried about the licensing. I'm saying it doesn't look good up close. It's sloppy and obvious. Which is too bad, because it's a great concept. They should have paid a queer artist to actually create the image for them.

Except this looks all wonky if you pull it up. You can tell everything was just placed over a stock image. The HRC specifically looks wrong - it caught my eye immediately as looking tacked on afterward. If you want to make a big, cool statement graphic, this ain't the way.

No I figured out why it looks weird. Someone took an already existing eagle image and added in the harness, makeup, etc. That's why it looks wonky. It's just gussied up stock art. That's kind of not cool. www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/2...

Why does the HRC symbol on the harness look like it was photoshopped in on top of something else?

That place was so filthy.

That stretch never made a profit. Now the tracks are owned by companies that ship goods and Amtrak doesn't want to pay what it would cost to buy schedule space.

That was the last Muppet movie in which Richard Hunt voiced Janice. She hasn't sounded quite right since then.

Some people just don't like cringe humor and watching people embarrass themselves. I've seen a lot of the office and it largely made my skin crawl. I can tell it's well written, I can see why people like it, but it's not for me.

Hey, how's your blood pressure?

I'd love to see your sources on that.

In case you hadn't noticed:

In 2000, I was on a greyhound headed for Cali. In western states, law enforcement stopped the bus and went down the aisle checking docs on anyone who was brown/had an accent. They removed people, loaded them into a truck, and took them away. We have always lived in a country like that.

I don't see Democrats doing a damn thing about it either, honestly.

I remember when I was a queer teen in the early mid 90s. I used to hunt down any gay-related catalog I could get my hands on (teeshirts, gay cruises, jewelry for homos) and save them. I'd read them until they were shreds because they were proof that there was a community out there somewhere.

I've said most of those things in Host Voice because of you.

I'm not fighting for democracy. I'm fighting for people.

I don't know, that's a good question. Any system that allows the populace to vote in a fascist regime that strips the country for parts, sells citizens into slavery in different countries, and rips the civil rights from people is a failed system.

I think you're adding the "there's no hope anymore" part. It's frustrating to talk to people - mostly registered Democrats - who are stuck in this mindset of working within the system to vote them out. There are many things we are and can be doing, but few of them involve voting.

I think it's pretty important for people to be aware that just hanging on for four years and working to vote them out probably isn't a viable option at this point.

There are places like House of Music, Legacy, Hub at Feather Oaks, and Oyster City that do music every week. And then Fire Bettys and that kind of place has shows too, but not always.

926 sometimes, Sound Bar sometimes, but always Blue Tavern and The Bark. I check it every week for the event list. Before Covid every venue sent theirs in, now not so much.

Isn't the concert update whatever the venues call in? Blue Tavern and The Bark are the only ones who add things regularly.