the last thing you explain before you die
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yamamanamaDay 10: One confession
1. I've lost to Toad Man. Invariably, I'll jump or just walk into him when I meant to slide under him, or slide into him because he decides not to jump when I shoot him when he's almost dead (and I'm almost dead thanks to the snail and the evil fish). I'm also just using this as a vehicle for burning questions and I honestly laughed at something on Encyclopedia Dramatica. I feel so dirty about that last one. And, funny, that, I don't even remember what specifically it was I laughed at. I don't even remember what it could remotely be about. Weeks between entries will do that to you.
I know that's three. I don't care. I actually had three things to confess.
Musings on Flashback by Dan Simmons
Flashback has both a global Caliphate and a Yellow Peril. Shit, Dan, you've outdone yourself again. All it needs is Mexicans overrunning the United States. Wait a minute *googles* oh, yeah, there's a reconquista too. Tell me that isn't overdoing it.
(although that isn't the Chinese's fault, interestingly. Actually, China became unstuck in time - just kidding, but Japan invaded, and they also run everything in America - I think he played Final Fantasy XII and saw all that Islam-influenced aesthetic and then muttered something about "those dastardly dhimmitude japs")
I always thought anti-Japanese sentiments were as dead as that cold war relic slash festering corpse called anti-Jewish sentiments, but what do I know?
I fucking called it. Don't say I didn't fucking call it. I said those of you who were wondering if he'd ever be able to embellish a story with his modern xenophobia when he's writing historical fiction. And who knows, maybe he'll write a novel about Super Mario Bros. being a Japanese plot to take over the world.
It's the Camp of the Saints for the 21st century. That is not a good thing. Especially since it's wedded to the Protocols of the Elders of Kyoto (Protocols of the Elders of Xian would be more punny. If only the Chinese were part two of the Unholy Trinity). I wish I cared about anything as much as he cares about Islam. I can't even come up with a proper manifesto for Islamism, although I think that should be about complete and utter ignorance. Like, you're qualified if you live in a gated community and only watch Fox and read blogs with scary words like jihadist and caliphate in them.
(an aside: some asswipe and shitlicker said this would be the 1984 of the 21st century - if that's so, maybe the Caliphate of Canada and the rampaging Hello Kitty mechas are fabricated by an ascendant eurofascist government, but I doubt it)
(an aside: I thought about an explicit reference to Narendra Modi and the Great South Asian War, but what if Modi were to die in the next ten years, or between the time I send this out and publication? I'd look like a buffoon, that's what!)
And other things
Seen in a bathroom near Harvard Square T station: Kung Fu: The Ledgen Continues.
I don't know if ledgen is a pun or he's just a barely literate (but somehow very clever) troglodyte who started a religion (possibly Islamism) just to get into Harvard. Ledgen is not recognized by text-edit. Google defines it, but only in German. I'd blame non-Euclidean geometry for making him go temporarily insane and unable to spell legend, but that's MIT. Everyone knows that.
"There's just no point in driving in Moscow."
"It's not about speed. It's about being able to afford not to take the subway."
from The Secret History of Moscow - those things are true everywhere.
Bruckner reminds me of Mahler.
Overheard on the T: "You're going home without ice cream. Except I'm getting ice cream. Because I'm driving."
There's a butterfly called the Fluffy Tit, and seeing how it's from India, it's not the worst name for a butterfly there.
as of nov 19
work in progress - 179,450 (+1667)
new project - 1421
Burning Question: If R.L. Stine came first, wouldn't Tommy Wiseau be the R.L. Stine of filmmaking, rather than the other way around?
1. I've lost to Toad Man. Invariably, I'll jump or just walk into him when I meant to slide under him, or slide into him because he decides not to jump when I shoot him when he's almost dead (and I'm almost dead thanks to the snail and the evil fish). I'm also just using this as a vehicle for burning questions and I honestly laughed at something on Encyclopedia Dramatica. I feel so dirty about that last one. And, funny, that, I don't even remember what specifically it was I laughed at. I don't even remember what it could remotely be about. Weeks between entries will do that to you.
I know that's three. I don't care. I actually had three things to confess.
Musings on Flashback by Dan Simmons
Flashback has both a global Caliphate and a Yellow Peril. Shit, Dan, you've outdone yourself again. All it needs is Mexicans overrunning the United States. Wait a minute *googles* oh, yeah, there's a reconquista too. Tell me that isn't overdoing it.
(although that isn't the Chinese's fault, interestingly. Actually, China became unstuck in time - just kidding, but Japan invaded, and they also run everything in America - I think he played Final Fantasy XII and saw all that Islam-influenced aesthetic and then muttered something about "those dastardly dhimmitude japs")
I always thought anti-Japanese sentiments were as dead as that cold war relic slash festering corpse called anti-Jewish sentiments, but what do I know?
I fucking called it. Don't say I didn't fucking call it. I said those of you who were wondering if he'd ever be able to embellish a story with his modern xenophobia when he's writing historical fiction. And who knows, maybe he'll write a novel about Super Mario Bros. being a Japanese plot to take over the world.
It's the Camp of the Saints for the 21st century. That is not a good thing. Especially since it's wedded to the Protocols of the Elders of Kyoto (Protocols of the Elders of Xian would be more punny. If only the Chinese were part two of the Unholy Trinity). I wish I cared about anything as much as he cares about Islam. I can't even come up with a proper manifesto for Islamism, although I think that should be about complete and utter ignorance. Like, you're qualified if you live in a gated community and only watch Fox and read blogs with scary words like jihadist and caliphate in them.
(an aside: some asswipe and shitlicker said this would be the 1984 of the 21st century - if that's so, maybe the Caliphate of Canada and the rampaging Hello Kitty mechas are fabricated by an ascendant eurofascist government, but I doubt it)
(an aside: I thought about an explicit reference to Narendra Modi and the Great South Asian War, but what if Modi were to die in the next ten years, or between the time I send this out and publication? I'd look like a buffoon, that's what!)
And other things
Seen in a bathroom near Harvard Square T station: Kung Fu: The Ledgen Continues.
I don't know if ledgen is a pun or he's just a barely literate (but somehow very clever) troglodyte who started a religion (possibly Islamism) just to get into Harvard. Ledgen is not recognized by text-edit. Google defines it, but only in German. I'd blame non-Euclidean geometry for making him go temporarily insane and unable to spell legend, but that's MIT. Everyone knows that.
"There's just no point in driving in Moscow."
"It's not about speed. It's about being able to afford not to take the subway."
from The Secret History of Moscow - those things are true everywhere.
Bruckner reminds me of Mahler.
Overheard on the T: "You're going home without ice cream. Except I'm getting ice cream. Because I'm driving."
There's a butterfly called the Fluffy Tit, and seeing how it's from India, it's not the worst name for a butterfly there.
as of nov 19
work in progress - 179,450 (+1667)
new project - 1421
Burning Question: If R.L. Stine came first, wouldn't Tommy Wiseau be the R.L. Stine of filmmaking, rather than the other way around?
