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yamamanama28 days until the vernal equinox
Apparently they can't predict snow more than a day in advance.
Winter, I once thought, could be broken down into three phases.
1. it's cold.
2. it's still cold, but I'm too sick to care.
3. winter's almost over so why the fuck doesn't it feel like it?
Either I'm wrong or things have changed.
1. maybe it won't be so bad.
2. nope, it is bad.
3. winter's almost over so why is it still freezing? If it was summer, I'd be able to tell that summer is almost over.
Somebody archived part of What.CD. I have some thoughts on this.
1. Wow, they were anal-retentive.
2. The search feature is defective because I looked up Beatles and found nothing. In lieu of a search system, I have found out that I can add a similar artist, if they have anything by them, it will show up on a list, and you can click on that and see what they have. It’s like vandalizing the Gamingforce wiki: nobody will care or even notice.
3. A lot of people made what.cd out to be the most comprehensive musical archive in the universe. They didn't have the Curtain Society's cassettes or even all of their CDs. They don’t have house music from 1973 Congo. House music didn’t exist until the early 80s and didn’t exist outside Chicago until the early 90s. They have The Reflecting Skin, which is not Reflecting Skin, it’s not Visigothic at all, it’s “dub techno” and they only have stuff on compilations. They don't have Chelsea on Fire or Big Monster Fish Hook. They have Angry Aryans, Brutal Attack, Bound For Glory, Saga, Ethnic Cleansing, Jeunesses Patriotes. They have the Dracula 2000 soundtrack. I think the site was populated mostly by 14 year old boys.
4. None of the curated album lists have commentary.
5. They have Turning by Light but not Paperboat. I am not shocked that Eyeless in Gaza was on there but I am surprised that they had most of their discography.
6. They ban entire countries from going through the interview process, which is not good because they basically want everyone to go through the interview process so they punish people who invite someone who gets banned. What you get from this is apparently a site populated by people who don't even realize that there are music scenes outside of the United States and Europe. The unofficial country ban list is as follows: Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, Georgia, Hungary, India, Israel, Morocco, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Thailand, Taiwan, and Ukraine. I’m surprised that Indonesia and Philippines aren’t on this list. Georgia and Palestine had about 3 users each.
7. I learned that there's a dubstep group called Goli. Someone once described dubstep as the sound of two fax machines fucking. In fact, a lot of it has
8. My knowledge of electronic music is as follows.
a. I have a few electronic albums. I really like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Future Sound of London, Neo, Lusine, Massive Attack, Delerium, Seefeel, and the Flashbulb but have no idea what genres they fall under.
b. I'd say something about Music for Airports but the one I listened to is in fact a cover by a small orchestra.
c. I have a friend from college who was way into trance. AIM is dead, alas.
d. Xpander likes electronic music. With some (great amount of) effort, I could probably track him down and ask him about it, although I doubt he'd be very friendly. I'm better off asking Ashley and by that, I mean Ask Ashley.
e. I've read Ishkur's guide to electronic music.
***
So the mad genius club has a lengthy post, but not lengthy by Hoyt standards, which is to say, it’s less than 1500 words, about how men and women are different. Because it’s long and incredibly dumb, I’m not going to bother quoting it.
1. I love the disclaimer that she’s not ragging on women.
2. But the rest of it says otherwise, because the whole thing is like “well, men actually hurt and or kill but that’s ok because your wounds will heal while women start campaigns of lies, rumors, innuendo, and mind games. and when they do use physical violence, they aim to disfigure”
3. Apparently Hoyt has never been on Kiwi Farms or the chan or Gamingforce. Or asked Zoe Quinn. Also, when men are toxic, it’s because of the influence of women.
4. If you pardon the obscure analogy, Kiwi Farms is Billsville. According To Hoyt is Fredsville and Joesville. Or “conform or else.” and “we’re Odd and we’ll accept all Odds as long as they fit our definition of Odd. Don’t deviate from that, or else.”
5. drow says that poison has always been seen as a woman’s weapon although I’m pretty sure Game of Thrones is fiction. i read somewhere that poisoning cases were actually rare, especially before the 1500s, and most cases of people being poisoned were actually lead toxicity or food-borne illnesses. In modern times, well, Putin is a man. If he identifies as anything else, it's probably some kind of attack helicopter as a jayus.
6. There’s a reason most of my friends starting 10th grade were women. Although it was more or less evenly split in college. Except on Gamingforce. Or maybe it was evenly split there. And nowadays, it's the circumstances I'm in more than anything.
7. The Phantom says that women have no honor and no shame either. Someone who may or may not be Bob K. Mando or Bob The Regissterd (demi-sic*) Fool says that there is a study done saying that men cluster at the ends of the intelligence spectrum, it follows that women must cluster at the ends of the morality spectrum. I have no idea who pulled this idea out of his ass or how far he had to reach. That same Bob also says that women tend to be in favor of their own families and households but are also prejudiced in favor of the Other. I refuse to dignify his use of the word oikophobia.
*by this, I mean that I know the word registered is misspelt but fuck if I know how or care enough to find out.
***
This sculpture is at the Kennedy Institute. Interestingly, it wasn’t in Ted Kennedy’s office. It responds to the proceedings taking place on the senate floor. I didn't hear much of Eileen's explanation of this but I'm sure she explained how they obtained it.
These pictures appear to be taken in 1980. Alas, the rest of the internet didn't notice it. And any update made to this website in the last decade involved making it uncooperative with imgur. It inflates when there are senators present and when it does, it first lifts two pearls out of a bag followed by a lump of bullshit obtained from a genuine uncastrated male Bos taurus.
Unfortunately, their senate rosters were in alphabetical order by state rather than grouped geographically.
1. The Readjuster party wanted to break the hold the former confederate and antebellum elites had on Virginia.
2. The silver party was just about currency backing. They're kind of irrelevant otherwise. I think that we should back our currency with prometheum, because it’s more or less useless, but I’m sure we’d find a use for it if there was more of it.
3. The American Party AKA the Know-Nothings were probably the most famous of these short-lived parties and existed on a platform of absolute xenophobia.
4. There was a party that was founded to maintain the position of power Virginia had before the civil war.
5. Free Soil was pretty obvious. If it isn't, they had a platform of all new states must be free states, not slave states, and that includes the newly annexed portion of Mexico.
burning question: what fictional or satirical party would you want to see in power?
Apparently they can't predict snow more than a day in advance.
Winter, I once thought, could be broken down into three phases.
1. it's cold.
2. it's still cold, but I'm too sick to care.
3. winter's almost over so why the fuck doesn't it feel like it?
Either I'm wrong or things have changed.
1. maybe it won't be so bad.
2. nope, it is bad.
3. winter's almost over so why is it still freezing? If it was summer, I'd be able to tell that summer is almost over.
Somebody archived part of What.CD. I have some thoughts on this.
1. Wow, they were anal-retentive.
2. The search feature is defective because I looked up Beatles and found nothing. In lieu of a search system, I have found out that I can add a similar artist, if they have anything by them, it will show up on a list, and you can click on that and see what they have. It’s like vandalizing the Gamingforce wiki: nobody will care or even notice.
3. A lot of people made what.cd out to be the most comprehensive musical archive in the universe. They didn't have the Curtain Society's cassettes or even all of their CDs. They don’t have house music from 1973 Congo. House music didn’t exist until the early 80s and didn’t exist outside Chicago until the early 90s. They have The Reflecting Skin, which is not Reflecting Skin, it’s not Visigothic at all, it’s “dub techno” and they only have stuff on compilations. They don't have Chelsea on Fire or Big Monster Fish Hook. They have Angry Aryans, Brutal Attack, Bound For Glory, Saga, Ethnic Cleansing, Jeunesses Patriotes. They have the Dracula 2000 soundtrack. I think the site was populated mostly by 14 year old boys.
4. None of the curated album lists have commentary.
5. They have Turning by Light but not Paperboat. I am not shocked that Eyeless in Gaza was on there but I am surprised that they had most of their discography.
6. They ban entire countries from going through the interview process, which is not good because they basically want everyone to go through the interview process so they punish people who invite someone who gets banned. What you get from this is apparently a site populated by people who don't even realize that there are music scenes outside of the United States and Europe. The unofficial country ban list is as follows: Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, Georgia, Hungary, India, Israel, Morocco, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Thailand, Taiwan, and Ukraine. I’m surprised that Indonesia and Philippines aren’t on this list. Georgia and Palestine had about 3 users each.
7. I learned that there's a dubstep group called Goli. Someone once described dubstep as the sound of two fax machines fucking. In fact, a lot of it has
8. My knowledge of electronic music is as follows.
a. I have a few electronic albums. I really like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Future Sound of London, Neo, Lusine, Massive Attack, Delerium, Seefeel, and the Flashbulb but have no idea what genres they fall under.
b. I'd say something about Music for Airports but the one I listened to is in fact a cover by a small orchestra.
c. I have a friend from college who was way into trance. AIM is dead, alas.
d. Xpander likes electronic music. With some (great amount of) effort, I could probably track him down and ask him about it, although I doubt he'd be very friendly. I'm better off asking Ashley and by that, I mean Ask Ashley.
e. I've read Ishkur's guide to electronic music.
***
So the mad genius club has a lengthy post, but not lengthy by Hoyt standards, which is to say, it’s less than 1500 words, about how men and women are different. Because it’s long and incredibly dumb, I’m not going to bother quoting it.
1. I love the disclaimer that she’s not ragging on women.
2. But the rest of it says otherwise, because the whole thing is like “well, men actually hurt and or kill but that’s ok because your wounds will heal while women start campaigns of lies, rumors, innuendo, and mind games. and when they do use physical violence, they aim to disfigure”
3. Apparently Hoyt has never been on Kiwi Farms or the chan or Gamingforce. Or asked Zoe Quinn. Also, when men are toxic, it’s because of the influence of women.
4. If you pardon the obscure analogy, Kiwi Farms is Billsville. According To Hoyt is Fredsville and Joesville. Or “conform or else.” and “we’re Odd and we’ll accept all Odds as long as they fit our definition of Odd. Don’t deviate from that, or else.”
5. drow says that poison has always been seen as a woman’s weapon although I’m pretty sure Game of Thrones is fiction. i read somewhere that poisoning cases were actually rare, especially before the 1500s, and most cases of people being poisoned were actually lead toxicity or food-borne illnesses. In modern times, well, Putin is a man. If he identifies as anything else, it's probably some kind of attack helicopter as a jayus.
6. There’s a reason most of my friends starting 10th grade were women. Although it was more or less evenly split in college. Except on Gamingforce. Or maybe it was evenly split there. And nowadays, it's the circumstances I'm in more than anything.
7. The Phantom says that women have no honor and no shame either. Someone who may or may not be Bob K. Mando or Bob The Regissterd (demi-sic*) Fool says that there is a study done saying that men cluster at the ends of the intelligence spectrum, it follows that women must cluster at the ends of the morality spectrum. I have no idea who pulled this idea out of his ass or how far he had to reach. That same Bob also says that women tend to be in favor of their own families and households but are also prejudiced in favor of the Other. I refuse to dignify his use of the word oikophobia.
*by this, I mean that I know the word registered is misspelt but fuck if I know how or care enough to find out.
***
This sculpture is at the Kennedy Institute. Interestingly, it wasn’t in Ted Kennedy’s office. It responds to the proceedings taking place on the senate floor. I didn't hear much of Eileen's explanation of this but I'm sure she explained how they obtained it.
These pictures appear to be taken in 1980. Alas, the rest of the internet didn't notice it. And any update made to this website in the last decade involved making it uncooperative with imgur. It inflates when there are senators present and when it does, it first lifts two pearls out of a bag followed by a lump of bullshit obtained from a genuine uncastrated male Bos taurus.
Unfortunately, their senate rosters were in alphabetical order by state rather than grouped geographically.
1. The Readjuster party wanted to break the hold the former confederate and antebellum elites had on Virginia.
2. The silver party was just about currency backing. They're kind of irrelevant otherwise. I think that we should back our currency with prometheum, because it’s more or less useless, but I’m sure we’d find a use for it if there was more of it.
3. The American Party AKA the Know-Nothings were probably the most famous of these short-lived parties and existed on a platform of absolute xenophobia.
4. There was a party that was founded to maintain the position of power Virginia had before the civil war.
5. Free Soil was pretty obvious. If it isn't, they had a platform of all new states must be free states, not slave states, and that includes the newly annexed portion of Mexico.
burning question: what fictional or satirical party would you want to see in power?
