My current blog has the wonderful title of I Have Found Something That There Is No Use For. The title is very appropriate, I think, not just for my blog but for most blogs, though especially mine. Really, my only big post has been my bitching out some poor misguided nitwit on Tumblr for failing at language; my next one is probably just going to be me ranting about noise music or anime directors or colour vision in animals or some damn thing.
Mine is called "Notes From the Moon Only" because my writing is so bizarre that it might as well be from the moon (superheroes who are exhibitionists! an 18 year old randomly ending the world while her friend protests! the misadventures of a space captain who becomes a child in an orphanage who becomes god! Huzzah!) the "only" refers to the fact that I have no "Memoirs in Realtime" (personal anecdotes) on this one.
Mine is Trespeak, initially because back in the Wordpress days it was a real, albeit stupid, blog.
Nowadays I keep it for brand recognition and cuz it's easier for me to think of myself as Trespeak or just Tre across the board rather than maintaining a whole frakton of personas (and heck, even as Trevor Whatever people still call me Tre sometimes).
Oddly, recently I reblog more posts than the ones I do on my own. I guess it's cuz I've resigned to my fate of being fairly obscure on Tumblr and as a result don't really care to make original posts.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Mine is Central Avenue, because I'm uncreative.
So far it's been mostly reblogs and conversational crap, but I think I'm going to start using it as an actual blog, albeit an actual blog that serves mainly as an outlet to ramble about my obsessions.
I made myself cracker-and-cheese sandwiches because there's nothing here to eat, and goddamn is this cheese awful.
Like, we normally buy, for our "regular cheese" those Kraft ones that come in a single pack, as opposed to being individually wrapped. Last time we shopped we opted for the latter, and seriously, this stuff is like eating plastic.
I kind of prefer having a Tumblr over making a bona fide blog but maybe it might be worth it to make a blog for my movie/game reviews. It wouldn't be as inherently stupid as 2008-ish Trespeak, that's for sure.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
...My blog's title being the same as its author's online handle won't be confusing, will it? Central Avenue by Central Avenue?
As a kid I never got why they didn't just call American cheese "cheese"; it was always "singles" or something like that.
It's more clear to me now but I still kind of wonder why they sell us a "pasteurized cheese product" instead of plain ol' cheese.
s'cheaper to make.
Fun fact: cheese forums exist, and they are incredibly easy to troll (the funny kind of troll, not the 'make racist comments and then say LOL I TROLLAN' kind of troll)
I keep thinking I should get a blog, but I don't know what I'd put there that wasn't self-indulgent bullshit.
...Firefox doesn't believe that blog is a word. Firefox doesn't believe that Firefox is a word. Switching this spell-checker off again, it's more annoying than it's worth.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
You think Twilight takes meds?
You think she doesn't?
Now replace dog 1 with you, dog 2 with me, and the grey character there with Twilight sparkle and also replace the dialog with that stuff above the comic and oh god, I should have said that first and I fucked this up and now no one loves me.
Regarding DMV: It blows ass, this is practically a statement of objective fact (you know...save the part where it doesn't LITERALLY blow ass...)
Penn and Teller did an episode about PETA on their wonderful show, Bullshit!.
Need to find out if there's a DVD box set of that show.
This was one of the better ones where they didn't need to bend facts, obscure counter-points, or mearly provide anecdotal evidence for their points . PETA pretty much has just a glut of bad history and hypocrisy.
Well it turns out that my beloved Star Trek Technical Manual from 1975 (and which I received a copy of many, many years later) isn't canon. Poo. Also, I thought the inspiration for Khan's commandeered USS Reliant was based off of the Ptolemy class (it was because Nicholas Meyer, director, approved the Reliant's blueprint as it was presented to him, upside-down.) However, images from this book popped up in the Khan-Spock-Voyage Home trilogy:
Apparently there's a big fight over the canonicity of the original animated series. If it was how Filmation originally begged Rodenberry to make it -- that is, the standard saturday morning formula of kids in the cast running the show with some "cute bastard" (Scrappy-Doo, Orbity) then I'd agree. However, the animated series was kept entirely faithful, was actually brilliantly written and won two Emmy awards. It also showcased the first episode of the Holodeck. So yes, it should be canon.
This is not to say that the tight control over Star Trek's canon is a bad thing, especially when you compare it to Star Wars. Like Boba Fett falling back into the sarlacc (three times) and Darth Maul dying (n times, one of them by Owen Lars. Owen fucking Lars.)
Funnily enough, I think one or two of the Darth Maul death's aren't actually canon (exactly HOW they figure this out where almost everything is canon except be the grace of Lucas is a mystery. Unless Lucas just said "Fuck you guys, Maul died at the end of Menace. I'm not dealing with another Boba Fett. "). I do remember a book or comic where someone made clone of Maul to fight Vader (Vader won).
Star Wars canon is pretty tightly controlled and was pretty consistent and easy until Lucas started with a lot of the prequel stuff and cartoons that are even hard to grasp inside just the MOVIE cannon. Also, the CLASSIC Star Wars setting with Luke, Han, Chewie, and Leia is such a bloated, animate horse corpse at this point, that every book and comic that's set in these part just further confuses things.
Han, Chewie, and Lando went one some pretty balls to the wall, batshit INSANE adventures before getting involved with the Rebels. Heck, I bet they felt joining a rebellion against a giant, galactic empire and it's mystic leaders added a touch of normality to their lives they had been missing for the last couple decades.
Basically what I'm saying is that comic book writers, book writers, and video game makes need to start focusing on the Old Republic or Legacy settings (way after or way before the movie settings) to keep us interested. We KNOW Han and Chewie don't die in your Star Wars themed zombie book because they are IN the movies. We KNOW Starkiller fails to kill Vader or the Emperor because we've seen them die (in the Emperor's case, it took several tries). We also know no Star Was writer is going to be allowed to go all Inglorious Basterds on us because of canon restrictions. Just stick to characters who have a lot less going on or stick to the ones for your stories, geesh.
Rant aside, Star Trek has had much less controlled canon for a while. Movies often retcon things Roddenberry signed off on and people have been writing book that are completely outside of canon for years.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
While it may not be the origin of the term, Stardust the Space Wizard is (if you ask me, anyway) the perfect archetype for the Mary Sue. For me, at least, it's a genderless term.
I prefer treating it as genderless, as well.
I really like some of Moore's comics.
Some are rather bland, and somehow people treat them as precious stones.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I just realized that when I read Brand New, I almost always skim over the bullshit rationales.
"The swoosh in this logo represents quality service and the gradient drop shadows represent our commitment to our customers!"
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Nowadays I keep it for brand recognition and cuz it's easier for me to think of myself as Trespeak or just Tre across the board rather than maintaining a whole frakton of personas (and heck, even as Trevor Whatever people still call me Tre sometimes).
Oddly, recently I reblog more posts than the ones I do on my own. I guess it's cuz I've resigned to my fate of being fairly obscure on Tumblr and as a result don't really care to make original posts.
I made myself cracker-and-cheese sandwiches because there's nothing here to eat, and goddamn is this cheese awful.
Like, we normally buy, for our "regular cheese" those Kraft ones that come in a single pack, as opposed to being individually wrapped. Last time we shopped we opted for the latter, and seriously, this stuff is like eating plastic.
Cream cheese is also good, delicious on bagels. Especially the cinnamon flavored cream cheese, mmmm.
I like most kinds of cheese.
Not cream, though. Although depending on who you ask (people have strong opinions on this kind of thing) that's not "actually" cheese.
I am a sucker for a good, really sharp, hard cheddar.
Stuff's my crack.
I like the taste better when heated; like the ads show, it tastes best as part of a grilled cheese (or maybe a burger).
It's more clear to me now but I still kind of wonder why they sell us a "pasteurized cheese product" instead of plain ol' cheese.
s'cheaper to make.
Fun fact: cheese forums exist, and they are incredibly easy to troll (the funny kind of troll, not the 'make racist comments and then say LOL I TROLLAN' kind of troll)
Why would you call yourself this.
I mean I've had some dumb aliases in the day, but....really dude? Really?
seems like Fake Four Inc. is shaping up to be the Anticon. of the 2010s.
How lovely.
...Firefox doesn't believe that blog is a word. Firefox doesn't believe that Firefox is a word. Switching this spell-checker off again, it's more annoying than it's worth.
I could just listen to Aesop Rock talk all day.
He says interesting things.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
He's on Anticon. so "ironic reasons" is likely.
Also, just got a song to include on my next podcast.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
5 Famously Terrible Movies (That Actually Don't Suck)
Shoulder pads.
^Sweet
Skrilly has outdone himself. this is pretty dope.
He's grown a lot as a producer.
^ Joke's on you, don't have a living room.
and this is crazy
I did some bath salts
and you look tasty