Jace, Extat

That bit about DMC buying me breakfast is a modified joke Norm once made about Andy Richter on Conan.

I was speaking generally. That shit turned into a firing squad pretty quick. You know, just the other day @DMC picked me up on my way to work. And he says to me, he says, "Jace, I've got some money and I'm buyin' ya breakfast." I said, "well you know I eat steak and eggs..." And he says "that's alright. I got a new job, and last night I made four-hundred and twenty-six dollars and five cents." I said "well I can't say no to that." So I get in his car and off we're going. And I asked him, "so what's the new job? Where'd you get all this money?" And he says "well, I became a male prostitute. I turned a couple of tricks there." And I said " @DMC that's horrible, you had to become a male prostitute!" And he tells me "no, no, it's fine. A man has to make a buck, and I made four-hundred and twenty-six dollars and five cents." So I asked "who gave you the five cents?" He said "every one of 'em."

Well said, and thank you for it. The truth is, trans issues IS a niche. Or it should be. Yes, Republicans by and large are bigoted assholes about it but normall, non bigots, can get annoyed or weirded out by well-meaning liberals making everything about trans people. I get annoyed at it, and I think it feeds into not a resentment of trans folks (by normals); but a willingness (from normals) to ignore that one side is being mean to them because the other side won't stop being weird about it. It's a nasty loop that I think sees most people just check out and say "whatever, I don't want any part of any of that" which is a perfectly normal reaction... when one party is not actively trying to destroy the government it controls, I'll admit. But I can't blame people for overlooking the anti-trans stuff coming from the right, I just can't do it. Because even to me, a trans person, it feels like the left is trying to make heroes out of every non-binary person who goes outside and that's fucking annoying and patronizing. Well, that's certainly true. But you just gotta find that something that gets you goin' when you're alone in the parking lot of a Kroger, and never let the rich take it from ya. The last thing the New Fascists will take from Jace is being able to imagine myself as the freshly acquired plaything of a noble warlord in the Attican Traverse, fighting off the devious Marxic Commune to keep all the worlds under his jurisdiction free from socialism. Find your fantasy, baby. Not much else is gonna be left over.

You've got a cold and dispassionate kind of consideration. Sure. Though you'll never go broke betting that Jace don't know somethin'. Well now I have to. America has 5% of the world's population and 4% of it can't afford a handjob behind their local hardware store. Now that's a damn tragedy. 100% of GDPs should be spent all up inside America. (Gross Domestic Prostitutes)

Sure, but it's just a guy's opinion. Y'all went apeshit on this dude. Truthfully I have no idea how my house's heating system works, it's some strange radiant water contraption under the floorboards that I dread ever malfunctioning because I don't even know who to call to fix it. And that's about where my understanding of the US budget ends too, some byzantine somesuch or another that takes taxes and makes trans opera and T-1,000's out of 'em. So I can't say much more than I've said.

Jesus Christ, folks. The fella has an opinion that isn't crazy, funding trans operas is pretty dumb considering the manifold problems facing this country. You're allowed to think that and not be a troll.

Eli should have made it on his first ballot, fuck those voters.

Damn, you got outta bed hot today! The Professor is out for scalps and I love it.

My dad wears NewBalances. Motherfucker makes more money in a year than I've made in my life these days and still wears them until they fall apart off his feet. Workin' shoes for a workin' man, I've always thought.

That is disgusting.

I don't doubt it. He was the best thing about a lot of stuff.

Ray Stevenson died!!!???!!! That's horrible.

Yeah, but what we got is gold and I always try to appreciate that. Rome is my favorite show of all time and it got canceled too soon, but those two seasons are just spendid and I love 'em for that.

I just got to a certain twist in Westworld and I need to go on a rant. Here it is: WOW Just... fucking... WOW! Man, what a show. What a show. "You're a fucking monster." And then the villain goes on an insane megalomaniacle rant that ends in a dispassionate murder. The villain who perceives himself and is presented as God by way of the Devil, by the way. His crimes are so vast, so intrinsically against nature and the very concept of consiousness, that there isn't even a word to describe what he's done. And played by a fucking powerhouse actor in a brilliant role. Just splendid. "This is why we're here", as I say. I mean, it's just sublime. Wow. :End Rant

As long as they have Mahomes they'll be a bully, they just got sloppy the past year and let teams hang around. If anything that just makes me resent them more, it's like they're not even trying to win but they still do.

They're the bully, man. Just stompin' on people, it's not fun to watch.

I actively want the Chiefs to lose so... call it a dry fart?

Yeah, it's uh... pretty fucking dark out there. I don't know how we get out of this one, and that's quite horrible. An entire half of the (voting) public has turned completely against not just the federal government, but seemingly democracy itself. And unfortunately it's the half that's more active and agitated. I think this is about it for America as a republic. Cheers. I'm not optimistic, maybe not exactly sanguine, but I'm simultaneously not shocked and horrified. I have nothing to say to cheer you except that as long as there are elections there's a chance. Unfortunately those elections have been sighted for dissolution already, if not acted against. Trump really intends to go for a third term, and the only thing that will stop him is either mortality or the consequences of his actions being so disasterous that all Dems can win back from him is a smoldering pile of federal rubble. It's a place so dark for democracy that I often struggle to keep in mind at once the totality of the horror. This is a death spiral that ends in one place: the absolute supremacy of force to back one's agenda. America had her day, though. We don't have to forget that.

There will never be another civil war in this country. For one thing, liberals don't have the stomach for rebellion. But more importantly there is no fighting the US military, which will always follow the federal government no matter how corrupt or fascist it gets.

Do it, babe. It's great. I just finished episode 3 and I'm really thinking about watching the next one too, which is pretty rare for me. I don't often watch more than one or two episodes of something a night. Episode 4 introduces Hector and Armistice, both of whom I love. They're on the thumbnail for the episode and I kinda want to get a look at my favorite bandit duo.

Newton is a delight, I love the different ways she delivers her "That voice in my head" lines when they'r messing with her personality. And Tessa Thompson is maybe my favorite actress. I just smile any time I see her, she plays a villain just delightfully and I love her for it. She's like the lady version of James Purefoy, you just enjoy every second she's on screen. And Anthony Hopkins is magnetic in this show, you can tell he's into the story he's a part of and he's such a powerful actor I find myself hanging on to his every word.

Amazon. You gotta buy it, though.

Meanwhile, I just started episode 2 of my Westworld rewatch... good God, what a show! Season 1 is perfect television and I adore it. Evan Rachel Wood is so much more than a damsel, it's beautiful. And Jimmi Simpson just fucking smolders.

Oh I haven't seen The Incredibles in like fifteen years. I'mma watch that sometime, blast from the past...

Nice. My copy fell apart at the binding and I had chunks of pages that would slide out of it, but they were still glued to each other at least.