I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

half-funny, half-annoying WV annexation of SWVA performance discourse about to get spun up again

I bet JCO stays strapped, she just don’t go around telling all and sundry about it.

Still imagine the timeline of an Ong papacy.

Valid starting point.

CHARLIE BROWN: Yes mistress, you're right, mistress, I'm a blockhead! a hopeless blockhead!

DOMINATRIX: wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah

I have recollections of hearing something similar in my rural Baptist sunday school as a kid, even with nary a rich person in the congregation (not even close); it was like they were still looking for an out to excuse the 80s televangelist set

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But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

— Bell Hooks
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[lol, I ain’t even listen to it, and now it’s stuck in my head]

100% relatable; and been happening to me since I first heard it 30+ years ago

lol, I am prbly the worst professor because it is regularly “the protagonist smokes Salem cigarettes and is an Arab…..what do we do with this?”

[example taken from life, fwiw]

we always use "the mark of the beast" in terms of a physical mark, but mb the bible was speaking carney

There is a version of Christianity where an unordained arrogant white dude can mouth off based solely on his uninformed reading of Scripture and make a genuine claim to authority. It's called the Baptist tradition and there's a reason it has gone through 3 million schisms.

i'll have some major issues if/when i start seeing kinko's nostalgia (the veil of time can never diminish the shit-show trauma of working at one of those)

wonder if VA DMV would reject NAT TRNR vanity plate?

[surly humanities professor rhetoric] AI companies should start sponsoring campus greek life; branding deals with sororities and fraternities to formalize the failson and faildaughter customer base

Vernon, Florida would be hard to pass up, SE inundation be-damned

Almost certainly the Iroquois Club (warehouse district, now luxury lofts, naturally); there were several electro-hard bands, that mostly dissolved to elsewhere; genres were fluid: goth/industrial/shoegaze/harsh noise all run together

Then the infernal punks took over.

Toad of Frogland

Will add that Roanoke, of all wack places, had something going on for mb 5 year span 88-93, thereabouts, if you’re contemplating “southern/appalachian industrial”

It is wild to have Vancouver and Chicago as dueling/overlapping epicenters. Funnily enough, I came embarrassingly close to moving from SWVA to BC in 1992, for “the scene”.

80s RevCo is the intersection, imo

combo of waxtrax and nettwerk, imo

But Robb could’ve been Bill Clinton before Bill Clinton, but he Bill Clinton’ed prematurely, and thus…..

And wilder actually (informally?) started a campaign iirc; but he might have been the most grossly incompetent of them all (on the D side, at least)

Oh yeah; all of them; nerd glasses on, Robb was the only one that had a legit shot, and maybe started the trend

(I only like Gen X discourse in the sense of my students dragging the fuck out of “us” as bad or worse than boomers)

but comfortably middle class kids drinking from the water hose! don’t they earn some respect on that count?!?

What are the top 5 movies that you love to introduce people to?

Desperate Living
Betty Blue
Wild at Heart
Querelle
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of WV

equally applicable to woke nazi tattoo guy (beady little oliver anthony bushy-but-short beard plus stupid redneck caesar haircut eyeballs)