the Bloomsday Revolution
Jun. 17th, 2013 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaFuck, there's a severe thunderstorm warning and the afternoon skies are as dark as twilight. I don't hear any thunder but the winds blow fierce. I'm writing this in a hurry. Today isn't Bloomsday, that was yesterday. But you know how long it will be before I can use this title again. 364 days, that's how long.
I forgot this last week: there are people in Asia who eat pizza and chicken wings with a fork and knife. See, it's western. Westerners use forks and knives to eat things. Or I could just be remembering things wrong. And on the subject of time travel, I printed out two Percival Dunwoody comics and thought "I totally want to get a time machine and go back to 1993 with a copy of Sonic Colors. That would blow everyone's mind." and "Maybe I'd like to give myself an iPod filled with music back in 2000. That would be cool for a day, and then it would be a paperweight for the next eight years." and "hey, wait, they have chargers you could plug in the wall. That might give me a few years of use" and "mutual defense treaties are a great way to start a world war."
I watched Blade Runner for the first time in 16 years the night before Bloomsday after thinking about Voight-Kampff empathy tests for people who are required to smile for one reason or another, but I'm still not titling this A Premonition is Just a Memory of the Future. Ian and Jessica agree: Blade Runner is a great movie. I don't think Devin or Laura have seen it and Christina was probably at the beach or on the moon or exiled to another universe for violating social mores and morals, or maybe all three, since I doubt they can pick and choose the dimensions they're exiled to and maybe there's a dimension where we terraformed the moon and the Sea of Tranquility is filled with water and not regolith and basalt, so I didn't ask her. We did have a Reptile Party without her.
A snapping turtle did not need scute adjustment. I did learn these things: there are sea turtles who swim around with their lungs exposed when the scutes up top get ripped off. And snapping turtles eat what they can when they can. They live pretty much entirely in water so they don't have much of a plastron and when they're forced to live on dry land, they tend to get ulcers down there. But healing the fixed scutes works better when they're dry. Oh, the agony of choice. And they can and will take off your fingers, so handle them with care. And maybe chainmail gloves. Their heartbeat sounds like a Merzbow-ish whooosh on this device we were testing out. And the washing machines made these awesome beats. Kids don't say "phat" anymore, right?
There's a baby groundhog. I didn't bring the camera, but even if I did, it's not like you'd get a good photo of it.
I forgot the dead fish description. Sorry. It was hot enough that I'd sweat it off anyway and it would be "murphy, you are an elf uncontrollably a we nom yo ho renge kyo."
Burning question: If you could pick a single date to relive over and over again, which one would it be? April 27, 2009 for me. Maybe. Depends on if I start the timeloop remembering previous timeloops.
I forgot this last week: there are people in Asia who eat pizza and chicken wings with a fork and knife. See, it's western. Westerners use forks and knives to eat things. Or I could just be remembering things wrong. And on the subject of time travel, I printed out two Percival Dunwoody comics and thought "I totally want to get a time machine and go back to 1993 with a copy of Sonic Colors. That would blow everyone's mind." and "Maybe I'd like to give myself an iPod filled with music back in 2000. That would be cool for a day, and then it would be a paperweight for the next eight years." and "hey, wait, they have chargers you could plug in the wall. That might give me a few years of use" and "mutual defense treaties are a great way to start a world war."
I watched Blade Runner for the first time in 16 years the night before Bloomsday after thinking about Voight-Kampff empathy tests for people who are required to smile for one reason or another, but I'm still not titling this A Premonition is Just a Memory of the Future. Ian and Jessica agree: Blade Runner is a great movie. I don't think Devin or Laura have seen it and Christina was probably at the beach or on the moon or exiled to another universe for violating social mores and morals, or maybe all three, since I doubt they can pick and choose the dimensions they're exiled to and maybe there's a dimension where we terraformed the moon and the Sea of Tranquility is filled with water and not regolith and basalt, so I didn't ask her. We did have a Reptile Party without her.
A snapping turtle did not need scute adjustment. I did learn these things: there are sea turtles who swim around with their lungs exposed when the scutes up top get ripped off. And snapping turtles eat what they can when they can. They live pretty much entirely in water so they don't have much of a plastron and when they're forced to live on dry land, they tend to get ulcers down there. But healing the fixed scutes works better when they're dry. Oh, the agony of choice. And they can and will take off your fingers, so handle them with care. And maybe chainmail gloves. Their heartbeat sounds like a Merzbow-ish whooosh on this device we were testing out. And the washing machines made these awesome beats. Kids don't say "phat" anymore, right?
There's a baby groundhog. I didn't bring the camera, but even if I did, it's not like you'd get a good photo of it.
I forgot the dead fish description. Sorry. It was hot enough that I'd sweat it off anyway and it would be "murphy, you are an elf uncontrollably a we nom yo ho renge kyo."
Burning question: If you could pick a single date to relive over and over again, which one would it be? April 27, 2009 for me. Maybe. Depends on if I start the timeloop remembering previous timeloops.
