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it's finally raining after a week-long heatwave here in the Midwest. thunder has been booming for hours now. Pearl hated thunder and would need physical contact and reassurance through every storm. now, trying to enjoy the sound of rain on the roof and gentle rolls of thunder across the sky, getting conflicting feelings. i hope Pearl's ghost is not too bothered. i hope she understands i would still be holding her if i could.

i keep miscalculating how many dogs are in the house. "Rose is in the front room, Ray is right here, so where is--oh. dammit."

@001zlnv sweet! thank you.

@001zlnv hey, dumb question time, where do you get these gynoid models, and/or what should i search for on eBay or wherever to find models like them? i have the urge to paint figurines but fantasy minis are out because my fine motor control is for shit and i'd like to do something other than plaster gnomes from the local Michael's.

one of the shining stars at the center of my universe has blinked out. Goodbye Pearl, you will be with me forever.

thanks for your #movie recommendations, everybody. i decided on "Hotel Artemis" because my dear sister recommended it a while back and i trust her judgement. i hope you all have an incomprehensible friday night, as i am having.

@JulieSqveakaroo i read the novel that "Freejack" was based on and it could have been a much better/stupider movie

i don't have the mountain of blow that Stephen King had to make "Maximum Overdrive" a good idea

@001zlnv okay thats more like it

@JulieSqveakaroo NOOOOO

i'm making steak curry and kind of drunk, listening to D&B at brain-damaging volume levels, as one does when one has a night away from one's partner. recommend me a #movie, internet. take your best shot.

happy "Elvis is Still Dead Day" to all those who celebrate it.

remember when Elvis sightings were a thing, and fat, weirdly-pompadoured, be-jumpsuited Elvis became sort of a shorthand talisman for the kind of uneasy but vaguely optimistic, post-hippie, pre-millennium/pre-internet fascination with fortean events, UFO's and the supernatural? adjacent from actual cult lore, only mildly overlapping with Fake Real Cults like the Subgenii, often appearing in pop culture imagery before fully metastatizing in its most well-known host, The X Files.

Rotund, Spangled, Perpetually-Young-and-frequently-abducted-by-aliens Elvis was a symbol unto itself that meant a lot of things, and people just stopped using it after the turn of the century. last time i heard anyone mention Elvis in this capacity was in the first "Men In Black" movie ("Elvis is *not* dead, he just went home"). the culture has moved on from this now quaint period of low weirdness that lasted from the mid-80's to the mid-to-late 90's.

if you ever want to read a book that perfectly encapsulates this time period, seek out the book "Buddy Holly is Alive And Well On Ganymede" by Bradley Denton; which was going to be made into a movie starring Jon Heder but never came together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmQpZ7iYDo4

@001zlnv [nodding sagely] Mister Creosote, awaiting his wafer-thin mint.

oh yeah, i have a masto instance, don't i.

hello. nothing is new. no job, no change, no forward motion.

watching the world right now is like watching a supercut of that one scene in 'Holy Grail' with Lancelot charging the castle and never quite getting there.

@LeDiva my condolences, LeDiva.

the great thing about going to small live music venues is getting to know and recognize your city's wandering eccentrics. like you go to a little club you've never been to before, but check it out, Bathrobe Jesus and the Goodwill Cosmonaut are here, okay this is gonna be a fun show

i don't know to what extent having recieved a couple of encouraging nibbles from possible jobs helped improve my functionality today, but i can honestly say that it certainly didn't *hurt.*

this week i have experienced all points on the full spectrum of functionality, from "fucking barely" all the way to "can dress self and answer questions" and veering wildly back to "segfault, lose equilibrium, release Magic Smoke."