You're the seashell in my sandal that's slicing up my heel

[sovay]

I spent most of the day away from the news and therefore did not see until an e-mail from selkie arrived just as spatch got home that Alabama is doing its unforgivable best to bring on Gilead. And then in the sidebar was Mel Gibson, the chaser nobody ordered. So I am in a somewhat scratchier mood at the moment than I was for the aforementioned most of the day, which I spent primarily with phi and presently with their husband, child, and child's godparents, all of whom are excellent people to have unplanned dinner with. Said child is seventeen months old and adorable, whether finger-painting with yogurt or trying to Tinkertoy four different colors of tea strainer together. I had previously never given much consideration to the sea buckthorn, but it turns out that when it's made into Sanddornlikör I have opinions and they are favorable. I have been pointed in the direction of Princess Awesome for my niece who loves glitter and building things. I walked all the way home from North Cambridge both because the buses suck and because my normal stamina is finally starting to come back online. I was on Highland when I saw a man taking a Great Pyrenees for a walk, by which I mean that the enormous white dog was happily trotting and he was pedaling his bicycle to keep up with it. Here are a couple of links that are not terrible.

1. Bogi Takács' Algorithmic Shapeshifting has launched! I blurbed the book and generally recommend you check it out.

2. Courtesy of moon_custafer: Charles McGraw changes the channel. (I am the source of the description in the tags. I'm still proud of it.)

3. I showed this strip to Rob and he exclaimed, "Fumetti!" I hadn't realized that style of hand-annotated photocollage was being used for comics as far back as 1930, but everything is older than I think and I'm glad of it.

Being in the world is exhausting right now; I am glad I know people who are good to be in it with.

Comments

[gwynnega]

I gather the ACLU will be suing Alabama (if the governor signs the legislation), though I guess that's what Alabama wants, in the hopes of winding up in the Supreme Court. Ugh.

Yay Bogi's book! I plan to buy a copy at the Aqueduct booth at Wiscon.

Charles McGraw looks fairly amiable in that photo, but I expect him to say in gravel voice, "Why do you wanna watch that garbage? Time to change the channel!"

[sovay]

though I guess that's what Alabama wants, in the hopes of winding up in the Supreme Court. Ugh.

That's what I've read. I was asking spatch if there was any way to challenge or block it without landing it in the lap of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.

Yay Bogi's book! I plan to buy a copy at the Aqueduct booth at Wiscon.

Excellent! It is really good.

Charles McGraw looks fairly amiable in that photo, but I expect him to say in gravel voice, "Why do you wanna watch that garbage? Time to change the channel!"

Always looking out for you! (Worst roommate ever.)

[rushthatspeaks]

I've seen examples of that kind of photocollage-with-annotations in Dadaist and Surrealist art from the teens and twenties.

[sovay]

I've seen examples of that kind of photocollage-with-annotations in Dadaist and Surrealist art from the teens and twenties.

I'd seen John Heartfield's photocollage from that time, but I associated it with captions rather than word balloons. Now that you say it, I am not at all surprised the Dadaists got in on the ground floor.

[moon_custafer]

As a fan of captioning images with dialogue taken from textsfromlastnight.com, I approve of that fumetti (fumetto?)

[sovay]

As a fan of captioning images with dialogue taken from textsfromlastnight.com, I approve of that fumetti (fumetto?)

I value your professional opinion!

(Fumetto in the singular, I think, yes.)

[moon_custafer]

Now I kind of want to go looking for suitably unsuitable captions to superimpose on Charles McGraw.

[sovay]

Now I kind of want to go looking for suitably unsuitable captions to superimpose on Charles McGraw.

Do it!

[moon_custafer]

I can't decide which caption works better with this picture:

https://66.media.tumblr.com/f24a1f33944aa847faec5fa7cf94e949/tumblr_prk6kzgIvH1s1qizwo1_1280.jpg

https://66.media.tumblr.com/e876fa3d6997982d7caa9db72ee8fe9b/tumblr_prk6kzgIvH1s1qizwo2_1280.jpg

Basically any words are hilarious when superimposed over a serious-looking man at a desk.

[sovay]

I can't decide which caption works better with this picture

I like the second, personally. For starters, I can hear McGraw saying it.

[moon_custafer]

I think you’re right. I was originally going to use that caption with a screenshot from Spartacus, because of the bit about the javelin, but it seems to work better with the image where he’s leaning slightly forward for emphasis on the “I’m gonna stop you right there.”

[sovay]

but it seems to work better with the image where he’s leaning slightly forward for emphasis on the “I’m gonna stop you right there.”

It feels like a better illustration of McGraw's attitude in that scene, but it's also much less thematically connected to the setting, which makes it way funnier to me. The gummy army sort of goes with the military milieu. The javelin in the TV does not and it is beautiful.

[moon_custafer]

Another one: https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/yesterdaysprint/184696766800

[sovay]

Another one

I'm afraid I can't follow that link without a Tumblr account—did you reblog whatever it was?

[moon_custafer]

https://yesterdaysprint.tumblr.com/post/184696766800/daily-news-new-york-june-1-1932

[starlady]

They were definitely doing photocollage comics in Japan in the early 1920s.

WashPo tells me that I live in the state with the most abortion protections. Time to gear up to fight state by state, I guess.

[sovay]

They were definitely doing photocollage comics in Japan in the early 1920s.

See, that makes me really happy to know.

WashPo tells me that I live in the state with the most abortion protections. Time to gear up to fight state by state, I guess.

Huh. My state appears relatively undefended. We should do something about that.

[asakiyume]

Thanks for sharing that link--that's a great way to get a sense of the overall picture of where things stand.

[starlady]

You're welcome, it is really useful! For instance I didn't realize that California apparently is the gold standard? I thought Hawai'i had us all beat.

[pameladean]

Oh, hooray for the return of stamina! It is so FRETFUL-MAKING to DESPAIR-MAKING when one isn't up to whatever one's accustomed level is.

P.

[sovay]

Oh, hooray for the return of stamina! It is so FRETFUL-MAKING to DESPAIR-MAKING when one isn't up to whatever one's accustomed level is.

Thank you! It really is. My stamina levels have been highly variable for years depending on how badly the rest of me is doing, but what still feels normal is walking three and a half miles without thinking about it. (Even when being lightly rained on, as today.)

[landofnowhere]

Facebook has been advertising Princess Awesome to me for a while, but I don't have anyone to buy for, so I'm glad it's finding its market!

[sovay]

Facebook has been advertising Princess Awesome to me for a while, but I don't have anyone to buy for, so I'm glad it's finding its market!

I'd never heard of them before tonight! I like a lot of their designs.

[landofnowhere]

I would have loved them as a kid! 8-year old me was pretty much the target market for " dress covered in pi's".

[lauradi7dw]

They are fabulous, but I find the claim that they are the "first playable dresses" bizarre. We were not allowed to wear trousers to school until my sophomore year in high school, although there were shorts in gym class starting in 8th grade. We all climbed on jungle gyms and played ball and such throughout elementary school wearing dresses.

[rosefox]

and because my normal stamina is finally starting to come back online

That is sufficiently splendid news to outweigh a dozen Mel Gibsons.

[sovay]

That is sufficiently splendid news to outweigh a dozen Mel Gibsons.

Thank you.

[umadoshi]

(I am the source of the description in the tags. I'm still proud of it.)

SUCH a good description. ^_^

Yay for returning stamina!

[sovay]

SUCH a good description.

Thank you!

Yay for returning stamina!

And thank you! I am afraid today I am using it to get a lot of work done, but that is sometimes the way it goes.

[asakiyume]

Seeing Big Dogs--always a bonus. And yes, in the face of things like the Alabama news, I endorse your last sentence totally and wholeheartedly.

everything is older than I think and I'm glad of it. Me too!

And yay for Bogi Takács' book, and yay for Charles McGraw's cheekbones!

[sovay]

Seeing Big Dogs--always a bonus.

I called rushthatspeaks and asked if a dog that looked like an enormous plumy polar bear was a Pyr and they said yes. It looked very happy.

And yes, in the face of things like the Alabama news, I endorse your last sentence totally and wholeheartedly.

I just want the people who make the world better to be in have some power to make it better, full stop. I am sick of this other trend.

And yay for Bogi Takács' book, and yay for Charles McGraw's cheekbones!

Things to hold on to!

[phi]

I'm sorry I could not read the rest of this post because I clicked the Mel Gibson link and my brain literally exploded. What the actually fuck?

[sovay]

What the actually fuck?

I don't know! Every aspect of that project seems unsustainably awful to me!

[dhampyresa]

*hugs*

Glad you're feeling better.

[sovay]

Glad you're feeling better.

Thank you.

*hugs*