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Sep 11

The Avocados of Classic Rock

It came to me in a dream this morning — Steely Dan is the avocado of classic rock. ”But I like avocados!” you might say. So do I. But Steely Dan is like avocados were back in the 1970s. You didn’t know if it was a vegetable or Messican voodoo…

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Aug 27

“Gen X Midlife Crisis” not coming to a theater near you.

For the past several years, Gen X has been quietly dumping its midlife crisis into the media ecosystem and just like Gen X itself, nobody really noticed. It has quietly been ignored. Slacker ennui and existential panic are a loud puff of weed stank, quickly dissipated by the wind. However…

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Jan 19

OF POTIONS AND POSSESSIONS

The Frame Story: A 2200 cyborg historian on Mars is writing The 點化史, about Earth as it went through the convulsions of the late 20th century and 21st century. The turmoil started in 1973 and did not cease its reverberations until the Treaty of Brasilia in 2119. One of the…

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Dec 22, 2022

The Letter of MAIJAX to the Pontchartraini

The Weeds are not caused by busy. The weeds are caused by some other asshole not doing his own running side work. Or they’re caused by some idiot putting gold rims on the soup cups. But then that goes back to running side work. My very first server job was…

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Dec 17, 2022

The Most Important One Night Stand in Lapsed Catholic History

The Pyrate Democracy of Fujian, Kaohsiung, 2011, The Minor Tridiuum I had gone out Saturday night for Halloween festivities. I don’t remember if I met Beatrice at Brickyard or if we had met before and decided to go to Brickyard. I went dressed up as a Jack-rabbit and we ended…

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Nov 27, 2022

Almost Umami

0. Why are Star Wars names so…. MSG. They are MSG names. They’re Almost-Umami. You can taste what they’re getting at, but it’s just not the same as mackerel or mushrooms or the three step process to actually make miso soup. They taste like instant bonito soup names. “JAKRO LADORN…

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Oct 24, 2022

THE ORIGIN OF THE TLC

On this day in history 10/24/1959… The Tri-Letter Commision rules the world. Not the TriLateral Committee. The TLC supplies the three letter abbreviations for the entire world, but especially for political movements and Internetworking. The Russians tried to create their own Tetraslovo Comitat, and created the USSR, CCCP, and various…

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Oct 13, 2022

The Peregrine Adventurine of Gingivitis McKillerothers

The Peregrine Adventurine of Gingivitis McKillerothers I. The implacable evil covered the land and dusted even the quiet corners of mens souls in that scrum brambled-over concrete. The evil could not be placked. All men could do was beseech other more benign powers for their placking. …

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Oct 12, 2022

Sex Metrix

Within one year in Texas, everybody can carry a gun, but nobody can have an abortion. This is just a continuation of the MPAA ratings policy decision in the 1970s where violence was encouraged, but sex was restricted. America’s sex negativity rating keeps on declining. Sex positivity or negativity can actually be indicated as a metric. I dont have time today to finish this. But basically, some countries cultures foster an environment where sex is like a warm fuzzy blanket in November (Scandinavia, +3). Some countries have strippers at funerals (Taiwan, 0). Other cultures create cold showers to have sex in. With shrinky, shriveled balls (USA, -3). And some places like Saudi Arabia, its just easier to butt fuck a dude on your football team than it is to say hi to a woman. (KSA, -9)

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Aug 27, 2022

Gael Larp

It is my understanding my grandfather was a Republican. Why? Statistically speaking how strange would it have been for a white Man in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, civil engineer/surveyor for an oil company to be a Republican? His father was a democrat and the son of a Slave owner. Trump…

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