All with the blaring self-righteousness of - “I lifted a finger once. Nothing happened overnight. Never again.”
Cheered on by those actively participating in concern trolling divide-and-conquer political campaign tactics, both from within the country and from halfway across the world in China and goddamned russia.
The philosopher of choice for mediocre self-entitled pricks with delusions of grandeur everywhere.
Ooh… capsaicin-powered hot take!
For my Art Metal band, Caligula’s Ring.
For my Spanish-language Hip-Hop Reggaeton crew, Los Zánganos Del Rap.
Full disclosure: I’m not a fan of either genre.
Nah, I’m of the view that evolution doesn’t grow upwards, but sudeways. We are at the edge.
If Chins Could Kill
So humans are also the only animal that can hear chin music?
I say we take off and drop the ring from Gandalf’s eagles. It’s the only way to be sure.
Back when Australia was still remote and exotic, before Crocodile Dundee even, a lot of people back in the day thought he sang:
“He just smiled and gave me a bit of my sandwich”,
which would have also made for a fantastic lyric in a very silly way.
Ooh la lá!
Zoot allors!
I can almost hear Major Kong (Slim Pickens) from Doctor Strangelove:
“Shoot… a fella could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all this stuff.”
This hits the spot on so many levels, flies through a narrow canyon of being meta without being annoying about it, specific without being obscure, absurd without being outlandish.
We’re gonna need a note from your volcanologist.
On some National Geographic article in the 90s about the Los Angeles area, there was a photo of a gym class, maybe Tae Bo or spinning, can’t remember, with a gloating caption from the instructor - “We get a lot of very driven, type-A people around here”, and I cannot for the life of me imagine anything other than being bored half to tears and maybe death, in that… intensely shallow environment.
Imagine all those SUVs and BMWs in the gym parking lot. Yuck.
Hot! Core! Power! Yoga! “We get a lot of very driven, type-A people around here.”
Not in the United States, on Fridays it was Dukes Of Hazard then Incredible Hulk on CBS, while Love Boat and Fantasy Island was Saturdays on ABC.
While some tech people behind the scenes are overwhelmed and scrambling to keep all kinds of electrical infrastructures up and running, or at least safe until the solar storm blast passes.
Plus they were expecting it, have been low-key preparing for weeks or months - knowing there’s a solar maximum - then much more actively a few days and hours before the event arrived, thanks to solar weather satellite forecasts being a reliable thing now.
That’s true! It must have been “Ashes To Ashes” then, because I clearly remember Bowie that night.
“Shock The Monkey” must have been on the first recorded VHS tape of MTV I got my hands on, probably a year later.
Don’t forget millions upon millions of low-information, low-empathy voters and non-voters who let it happen, many who still lazily believe that corporations are our friends, that “what’s good for walmart and Exxon is good for 'Murica”, that they are still the client and not the product, and the far-reaching implications of this.
Fake news, comrad… I mean pardner.