I don't wear formal very often, gotta get a little thirsty if I do.
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I don't wear formal very often, gotta get a little thirsty if I do.
Okay that's enough of that suit business.
Aw you're handsome. I'm just confused by scarves.
I do not know what I'm doing.
Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) The Devil is a Sissy (1936) A Romance of Seville (1929) Love the Conqueror (1918) Of these, the Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao kicks ass and needs to be rediscovered.
Rarest films I've seen by decade: Death Town (2024) Ninja Kids!!! Summer Mission Impossible (2013) Alien Uprising (2008) Sexy and Dangerous (1996) Ninjas and Dragons (1984) Silk Hat Boss (1970) A Revengeful Raid (1962) The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye (1956) con't...
Oh I'm not afraid of being feminine - and let's be clear, I'm gay and have no problems being perceived as feminine. I know my boss is going to rock the hell out of this scarf and he's big and bearded like I am. I just don't think that the more feminine shapes with my features at all.
I just don't look very good in a more feminine style.
I don't know if that will work with a suit.
I have to wear a square silk scarf for a work thing and I have absolutely no idea HOW I'm going to wear it in a way that will actually work and actually fit my personal style. I have until 5:00 to answer this question.
And that's why the people trying to clean up his reputation are doing it. They don't care about Kirk. They just found out that the game they're playing is dangerous to them too.
All excellent looks, but a full beard is always good during the winter.
On my floor at work the two bathrooms are "stalls" and "stalls and urinals." Anyway I had to take what I knew was going to be a disastrous shit so I used the "stalls and urinals" bathroom with the logic that people just looking for a stall would be less likely to go in after and see any aftermath.
Now it is, and they cannot fucking handle it.
Suddenly the game isn't so silly anymore. They didn't care about the other people who he incited hate against, those were others. As long as THEY weren't at risk it's fine. But now, holy shit, they are at risk. They've always been at risk. They might face a consequence.
It's actually pretty simple. They're a bunch of mediocre straight white men who think it's all a game. They have silly little arguments, and whoever gets the most attention wins. Now someone has burst through their bubble. They don't care about Kirk, they care that they play the same game.
They don't actually care what anyone says, they just think it's all a silly little game where they say silly little things and whoever gets the most attention wins.
It's meant more as a comment on the entire genre of person rather than that one guy.
How dare you both be that cute and so far away.
He's a reminder that they're not just in this bubble where nothing can hurt them because of their many privileges. They can't just say what they want and calmly go home after. It's not actually a silly little game where the man with the most attention wins.
My theory isn't so much that it's coordinated but that they see a mediocre straight white man experiencing the consequences of his actions and, as mediocre straight white men themselves, that is absolutely terrifying. They're trying desperately to regain their sense of safety.
"Sure, they have been systemically working to destroy everyone else's rights for as long as I've been alive, but they won't destroy MY rights, they told me I was one of the good ones!" - the right-leaning gay.
Yep. If the tiny-faced hate goblin can get it, they could be next!
A lot of the people mourning Charlie Kirk aren't mourning him, but instead are sad and frightened that a mediocre cisgender white man finally faced the consequences of his actions.
"I won't have my kids and grandkids raised that way." "Well I hope you enjoy the day they go no contact."
Anyone else feel like we are being asked to behave to a higher standard than literally any conservative ever has or ever will?
Anyway my angry side is pretty happy today and my calmer, more measured side thinks it has a point.
Most people wouldn't know it's there. It shows up in art, in some reactions to things. I'm also more aggressive than a lot of people expect in some situations. I'm not scared of this aggressive and angry side. It's not the dominant part of my personality, and it's not something that causes problems
A long time ago, I entered some photos in an art competition, and the judges described them as "surprisingly angry." I keep thinking of it today because I actually do have a kind of aggressive streak that doesn't really show up a lot.
Basically the casts of I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and She's All That. It seemed like those were the real "it" kids of the era but I don't remember them getting a cool name as a group.
Was there ever a cute name like "brat pack" for that group of young actors in the late '90s that were always in movies together? Ryan Philippe, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Selma Blair...
Ryan Philippe's character in I Know What You Did Last Summer is seriously named Barry Cox?
Something about reaping and sowing. Anyway, in more important news, I was not prepared to be on my feet all day and my dogs are barkin'.
Even if you do have a bus Scott Moe glowers at you for not driving a lifted F150 and pledging fealty to the oil industry.
I think this is also the Klingon mating ritual.
I don't think you even need that many rules. The only requirement should just be "your name is changed." A lot of the ultra wealthy barely have object permanence, giving someone an unfamiliar name would be enough to wipe out advantages.
It's weird that she was asked because she's both a woman and somebody who isn't white, which are two types of people Rowling hates.
That's one thing to call it.
"We need to open the tent." "Didn't we set up the tent so it wouldn't kills us?" "But... Open it."
I have to figure out where he put them. This also isn't something that happened a long time ago, he stole them last year. I was keeping them in my mom's house (for the benefit of his kids!) and then when she moved somehow them and a vase I expressed interest in disappeared.
I think, given his many crimes, he does need to be destroyed.
It is actually surprising how many good episodes are in the second season given the mess when it was being made. It is not surprising that there are also some really bad ones.
I used to have a Hot Wheels version of this. It might still exist! But my piece of shit brother inexplicably stole all of my Hot Wheels.
Look, I am fully on board with selling houses in my neighborhood exclusively to us.
Real estate agent 1: "We want a gay person to buy this house. How do we subtly indicate this?" Real estate agent 2: "Love is Love pillow!" Real estate agent 3: "Put Heartstopper on the TV!"
It's Star Trek day and I'm spending it watching one of the worst TNG episodes. "If Riker gets too horny, the organisms get too powerful!"
Shades of Gray is a bad episode of TV but I kinda respect that there's a section that's basically "here are all the times Riker was fully erect."
I'm pretty sure everyone I know thinks Beast is hotter as the Beast but maybe that's just the crowd I run with.
Me being correct also saved me $200. But being proven right and proving that the other guy was a total jagoff was more important.
I have a story that requires way too much context to get the full thing but the important part is I was correct and the guy who thought I was lying was wrong. Vindication!
MCM to celebrate this rental getting dropped off and my car coming home.
Knowing the multitude of problems with AI, this is going to take way more than 9 months if it gets finished at all.
Hell, the way it reads is that he had this conversation when she was way younger and now he's frustrated that he made the agreement.
Yeah everything is valid, it's just funny every time I see it when the branch is listed.
Okay but actually...
Alright GE, calm down...
I'm assuming it's there somewhere, but at this point the random picture of a check I just have handy seems to do the job.
It is weirdly lucky that I had to email it to someone at some point in the very distant past because the picture has come in handy multiple times.
"We need a blank check to verify details." Dude I have not owned blank checks since someone stole them from my car three years ago. Though I do have a picture of one which has the address of a branch that no longer exists.
Are you suggesting that the primary use of Appalachian culture in America today is to give people a veneer of a hardscrabble youth and young adulthood via the medium of a book with questionable accuracy and a Ron Howard movie?
Being wrong about Pablo Honey?
Pablo Honey is actually a lot better than a lot of people give it credit for, and was only weighed down by a band that was raging against the idea of having a huge, pretty mainstream hit single. Forget about the baggage and it's pretty great!
It was REALLY nerve-wracking. I mean, it was live and in a pretty large market (Vancouver talk radio) and I am a pretty awkward guy in general.
I wrote about Moana 2, the importance of diversity, direct-to-video Disney sequels and TV shows, and Dan Castellaneta
Well it'll be a brief respite from Paw Patrol.
Look, without the zodiac, how is a guy I met that day going to do a "star reading" and then ask me if I have borderline personality disorder?
It should be noted that there are MULTIPLE events from that place that got national attention where I could easily be either an extremely minor character or represented by a background actor. I was interviewed on the radio about one of them.
The trouble with posts like this is I can't give any actual details since it would be both semi-secret and require unraveling a ton of lore to explain. Anyway, my involvement was relatively minimal so my role could be pretty effectively filled by a background actor.
Friend tells me they are contemplating some kind of movie about a thing I was on the extreme periphery of: "Well, who would play you? Actually, would someone also play ME!?" It is unlikely someone would actually play me.
A Tale of Two Towns
I think in some things, but even all of my straight friends who I've kept in touch with don't have fond memories of late '90s-'00s fashion or music.
Look, at least they're finally wiping. Tiny victories.
Not enough space in the transporter buffer. The cache needs to be cleared after every transport.
Thomas Riker means it's actually darker than that. It doesn't disassemble you, it makes an exact copy, and then destroys the original. If the destruction is halted, everyone's a clone.
It was relatively cheap and at the time the expansions were planned there were lots of incentives. They kind of couldn't predict that it would all go so far into the shit.
Who are these people who think the best fashion happened when they were teens? Who are the 40 year olds who yearn for frosted tips?
It is a weird instinct some people have to catastrophize things that are already absolutely terrible. Like, we don't need to say the masks are an indicator of a neo-nazi organization. Skulls-patterned masks on a violent quasi-military police organization that is arguably neo-nazi are already bad!
David Cronenberg's Barbie
Weird fact: Rob Schneider did a charity set where I lived. He was booed off stage and prompted several apologies from the foundation that booked him. I interviewed at the place the week before. "I should follow-up with... Uh... They're probably busy."
"Mom is constantly abandoning us because when she puts her hands in front of her face she's not there anymore" - The US Department of Energy.
Rewatching TNG makes me realize that SNW would REALLY benefit from having 26 episode seasons. It would give it a second to calm down and not force every episode to be either a grand statement massive gimmick. The damn show needs some bottle episodes.
LinkedIn brain is a serious affliction and we need to think seriously about a treatment.
Apparently I have several. One day I'll meet one and we will smash.
This is a low res screenshot of it, but the movie Angels and Demons had an extra that looked like me and it was very unsettling.
It's an excellent beard, and you look good wearing it!
"I'm empty, you feed me, so refreshing. You're my soda Pop." I mean, it's not subtle.
Soda Pop is a song about cum. I don't know if I made it better or worse.
David Lynch's The Little Mermaid
Our front porch is easy to spot.
This might be the most American thing to ever happen.
It's a shame you couldn't get some Lifeline in there, but that's 2003.
Somehow, this is a perfect metaphor for this administration.
Short hair does make the light easier to install.
You should get a workout buddy too! And, you know, a camera to keep track of your progress...
Pumpkin spice has gone too far.
Looking for a different picture but found this.
Ooh some flavors I don't recognize, I've got to see what the local place has now.
"Chipocalypse Now" also sounds like a joke about someone who eats all the chips but it's hard to make that joke when he's actually openly declaring civil war.
(It's an LG bottom-mount fridge.)
"I should see if that fridge I want is on sale." *Searches for LG Bottom*