Haul away, you rolling king

[sovay]

So the first pieces of news that greeted me when I woke up were the death of Jeffrey Epstein and the punishment of Arisia for supporting a strike, neither of which was a great chaser to the realization that yesterday's excruciating headache did not have the decency to buzz off overnight, but I also saw via spatch this wonderful production still of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984):



It is so effectively in character and outside the plot that it looks like fanfic. Have some links.

1. Elie Mystal and Ken White, "Should the North Carolina Gun Store Billboard Targeting 'The Squad' Be Unconstitutional?"

2. Ethan Siegel, "Astronomy Faces a Field-Defining Choice in Choosing the Next Steps for the TMT."

3. Philip Miller, "Biennale." The magazine is dedicated to islands, which I love.

I was supposed to spend the day with my niece, but the current circumstances are looking like spending the evening with her. She wants to watch Ponyo (2008), which I haven't seen in almost a decade. I think I can manage to do that.

Comments

[sara]

As context for those of you reading this and wondering what a million dollars worth of extra liability coverage costs me, the answer is, $12 a month including the extra personal injury coverage I had to tack on to my homeowner's policy...the actual liability is $9/month. This is one of those where it's so cheap to do it and the downside risk is so massive (I am a regular volunteer with an organization with which I regularly put people in my personal car, drive them into wilderness areas, and take them hiking; my potential liability here really doesn't bear thinking about, but I think it's probably smaller than the potential liability of being on the concom for a large event) that even my extremely cheap self just pays the bill.

Mind you, I live a basically dull life, so I'm cheap to insure.

[rosefox]

Hm, I wonder whether I could add that to my renters insurance. Thanks for the info!

[sara]

Yeah, I started doing it because between the nonprofit work and the big dogs (and now the single parenthood and being the sole household income) My Uncle The Lawyer told me I would be very stupid not to.