what are you into right now?

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acknowledging that in some (many) ways i'm totally basic and being ok with that.

this is a good feeling to have ime, we are all basic

It's all over the news for the last couple of days; it's got teflon in it basically i guess? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/09/oral-b-glide-floss-toxic-pfas-chemicals-study/2530661002/

― Dan I.

oh, ok, thanks, i actively avoid the news because i find most of the stuff there is more directed towards generating a strong emotional response than actually telling me stuff i might conceivably find useful (and yes, i _do_ own a tv, i use it to play pokemon). i guess i will try these "advanced soft picks" vegemitegrrl is talking about? i have terrible trouble with my gums.

assam tea
solitude

luna what are some graphic novels you are enjoying

Walking in London - I really love walking in London, and in fact have considered publishing something online about the ecstatic spots i have discovered.

― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 11 January 2019 23:18 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Love an early morning walk exploring London whenever I'm down. I can recommend this book which meanders and digs into various trails in the 90s.

i am into the "hang in there" cat poster. i want to buy one to hang up behind my desk at work to let everyone know that i am not like all those other administrative assistants who don't want them to hang in there.

https://i.imgur.com/eFwsH5O.jpg

relatedly, i'm into learning about the history of the hang in there cat poster. the one above is the one i remember from the 80s, but there are several different versions, and it actually goes back to a 1971 "hang in there, baby" poster:

https://i.imgur.com/FGVrMPs.jpg
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hang-in-there-baby

omg

please tell me you're thinking of getting a garfield mug or maybe even a cathy calendar

it would almost be worth it to try for an admin assistant position just to get all of that plus little carved wooden letters that spell out my daughter's name etc.

haha, those are great ideas

i am probably going to seem like a weirdo because somehow no one else in the office has heard of this cat poster. i thought it was ubiquitous at one point, but tbh i think that memory is there because it was hanging in a prominent hallway in my elementary school, so i saw it for 5 straight years during my formative years.

it's the "hang in there kitten !!! an inspirational icon

i am into all the same old things tbh
i guess i have a slightly above average interest in hanging out with people irl honestly

i am probably going to seem like a weirdo because somehow no one else in the office has heard of this cat poster. i thought it was ubiquitous at one point, but tbh i think that memory is there because it was hanging in a prominent hallway in my elementary school, so i saw it for 5 straight years during my formative years.

― Karl Malone

oh god i'm always referencing things that i figured were common cultural touchstones but nobody else has ever heard of, yesterday i derailed a meeting by using the phrase "bob's your uncle", which i guess might as well be "23 skidoo" or "what a shocking bad hat" or something

lol, i know "bob's your uncle" but i now have no idea what it means. sounds like a great derail, though!

fwiw i'm running a quick twitter poll and 11 of 12 so far have heard of this cat poster

i don't think anybody actually knows what it means, as tends to be the way with those sort of sayings. asking the question around me tends to be dangerous as i have an unfortunate barely repressed tendency to go off on long rambling monologues at the drop of a hat, ending up talking about the importance of the corn laws or some shit. i can't imagine anybody actually caring but people tend to look at me as if i'm saying some genuinely fascinating shit, which i can't quite work my head around.

i sometimes regret not becoming a teacher. i didn't become a teacher because i hate kids and i somehow didn't realize this was the actual motivation of many teachers.

you don't have to teach kids to be a teacher! adults need teaching too. it helps to like them though ime/o

In uk everyone knows “bobs your uncle”

It means jobs a goodun

I get sad when I see the hang in there poster because it just makes me jealous of the kitten that really does not have any responsibilities at all. Easy for you to say, Snowball. And mind your own business.

my boyfriend
learning networking and studying for my CCNA certification
still vegetarian cooking
Talk Talk's "The Colour of Spring", WOWZA!!!
this Raspberry Pi 3 I built out as an emulation box, and all of the fun games I'm playing for the first time, incl but not limited to:

oops

the Spyro series (finished 1, about to start 2)
Final Fantasy VII
Donkey Kong Country 2
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (it is HARD!!!)

I am about to start:
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Clock Tower (the OG Super Famicom one)

if anyone has recommendations for obscure/sleeper games for literally any console up to and including PS1 let me know

reading more in 2019, trying to finish 1 book a month

good list of games! i have never (or just very sparingly and i can't remember) played DKC2 despite the first one being one of my favourite games

early REM (pre-Green)
cooking something new for dinner every night - last night a not particularly exciting, but fairly satisfying attempt at mujadra
super mario world
iranian history
walking

man Super Mario World, I wonder what it would be like replaying that? It was one of the first games I ever got and I feel like despite not picking it up in 20 years I probably know every level inside and out

i hadn't played it for a similar amount of time and it was the first SNES game i ever played. my friend charles got a ton of money for his first communion (i got about a 1/4 the money he did :( ) and bought a SNES and a bunch of games. luckily charles was very bad at video games and he would usually let me play to get past levels.

ive really enjoyed replaying it and i love the way it looks but i don't think it's quite as good as super mario 3, which i replayed a year or so ago and has more interesting levels imo

hey stevie you might like echo night on ps1, it's a first person puzzle game developed by From Software (of later dark souls fame). its pretty fun and bizarre. i've never really heard it talked about, i think its relatively unknown. i'm only aware of it because the person who gave me my ps1 gave me this game with it

Donkey Kong Country was so good and looked better than anything else on a SNES, surely it couldn't have been any better. I've got a Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 for my kid's birthday, and haven't had a good play on a games console since about 2001. If he doesn't like it - it won't go to waste.

I've got a raspberry pi set up this way and it rules. But Donkey Kong Country - which looked great 20 years ago on a 20" CRT TV - looks terrible on a 55" HD flatscreen. The best part are some references in the game to how AMAZING the graphics look and how every other (contemporary) game looks like shit in comparison. The super flat colors NES marios 1-3 and SNES super mario world hold up much better.

Gotta get Tropical Freeze on switch!

Glenfiddich 12

reading more in 2019, trying to finish 1 book a month

― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux))

god every time i try to read it's some unreadable doorstopper about mass slaughter and i keep telling myself "i should do more light reading" but i'm so shit at it

man 2666 is like 5 novellas, just read one of those at a time : )

ahhh, shit, you know i'd never even heard of sebald before? it's not helping :(

robert walser, that's the way to go, little stories about nervous fellows buying sausages

but arty, so you feel like you made a big accomplishment

oh, yes, that's the ticket i think! reminds me of richard brautigan.

walsers are really good indeed but almost too tiny to make u feel like you’re doing actual reading

walruses really good too if you're looking for some stuff to be into right now

walruses really good too if you're looking for some stuff to be into right now

― j.

i was in a store tuesday and they had a walrus penis bone for sale but it was pretty expensive and i don't know what i'd do with a penis bone that big

also the demo bonus tracks on the residents' "eskimo" reissue are honestly very good

i actually prefer miniatures, i get the refreshing feeling of doing light reading without having to plow through all those unimportant words

Thin Lizzy

xp uh what would you do with a smaller one

xp uh what would you do with a smaller one

― j.

i'm thinking!

i'm into these these tibetan buddhist tantric scores, which i came across here: https://blogthehum.com/2016/02/29/tibetan-buddhist-tantric-scores/

https://i.imgur.com/2sDhaMn.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/U4tWMpG.png

https://i.imgur.com/62tZAF2.png

Those are pretty.

I don't know what I'm into at the moment. I feel like I blew the last month not being into anything. I started a book on the history of Africa which is pretty good.

those are beautiful! xp

I've been scanning a ton of my mom's negatives:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/disbister/collections/72157677972626298/

mitochondria + endosymbiosis

xp

i really like the one from naomi's birthday, 1975, with the man holding a camera and the plaid-shirted woman looking on

https://www.flickr.com/photos/disbister/46770226772/in/album-72157688967159813/

Xpost woha

Me? Reading. Big time.

i'm not really "into" it deeply, but just the whole theory of endosymbiosis is really interesting - a lifeform (like a mitochondrian) that becomes integrated within another lifeform (a cell), with its own set of DNA. it's fun to imagine a human being wholly subsumed into a different lifeform, into a new symbiotic relationship

reading more in 2019, trying to finish 1 book a month

― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux))

god every time i try to read it's some unreadable doorstopper about mass slaughter and i keep telling myself "i should do more light reading" but i'm so shit at it

― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Thursday, January 31, 2019 9:25 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so I have a chronic habit of buying books and just not reading them, and also my bookshelves are all full so I have like 7 or 8 stacks of books scattered around my apartment. a couple months ago I decided to go through them all and make a short list of stuff I was most excited about reading first, and wound up with like 25 books, so that's what I'm pulling from. So far I've read Charles Burns' "Black Hole" and now I'm 1/3 of the way through "The Great Gatsby". This is my full "short"list

https://i.imgur.com/eoy9lQQ.jpg

god, that's what i need to read more of, indie comics. they're so expensive though...

the only one of those i've read is transmetropolitan. i'd give it a thorough "ehhh".