Take the wheel and drive by

[sovay]

I would strongly prefer to have started the year without respiratory crud. I travel tomorrow nonetheless. Have some things from the internet.

1. I love the idea of a ship's biscuit love token.

2. I had never heard the story of Lee Sallows and the self-enumerating pangram.

3. This poem sticks with me: Martín Espada, "Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: The Paterson Silk Strike, 1913."

4. Worth reading in full, especially the parentheses: Matthew Cheney, "The Narrative of Dead Narrative."

5. I can't remember which recent news item provoked me to leave myself the note "FUCK THE GHOST OF JOSEPH BREEN AND ALL HIS NECROMANCERS," but I'm sure it's still relevant.

I understand the concept of statistical outliers, but I still have a very hard time believing in the Boomer-Millennial culture wars when my father calls me up to discuss in detail the fourth-season finale of Lucifer (2016–).

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[thisbluespirit]

He loved it! He enjoyed the first three seasons, but thought the show really came into its own with the cancellation and the move to Netflix.

Aw, cool! I have to say I got S1 for my b'day, devoured it, S2 & 3 and then was obliged to pirate S4, which I think was v interesting, maybe more so than the others (although I liked the 2 random 'lost' AU S4 episodes, too), but they were longer eps and I was watching online so it was v tiring, too much so for me to have fair comment. It's a sort of guilty pleasure show that's a lot of fun and then sometimes actually really excellent in multiple ways, I think? (If you do try it, I found the first few eps a bit off, but there's an episode around 4-5 in that involves Lucifer's wings and that's where it steps up. So if you do give it a whirl it's worth holding on that far before coming to a decision.)

Thank you! It's very folkloric.

I think that was what made me think of you. I don't know why I didn't mention it in the end - I suppose I got overtired as usual and then it seemed like an uncool source or something, idk.

I think you are right. I will do my best not to feel alienated.

I liked sholio's zodiac comparison, because, given how a lot of tumblr users go on about it, lol, yes. And Baby Boomers are the new Scorpios! (I don't know if this is generally true but I watched an astrology-based old TV show once and the Scorpios were invariably not to be trusted and usually murderous, because scorpios. Which I doubt is true or the police would have a way easier job.)

ETA: In other important news, in my attempts to gif all the Draculas I have now achieved Peter Cushing:

[sovay]

I don't know why I didn't mention it in the end - I suppose I got overtired as usual and then it seemed like an uncool source or something, idk.

No worries. (In general, do not worry about uncool sources with me. I do not tend to fret about cool.)

t I watched an astrology-based old TV show once and the Scorpios were invariably not to be trusted and usually murderous, because scorpios.

Whoa, what?

ETA: In other important news, in my attempts to gif all the Draculas I have now achieved Peter Cushing

Hooray!

[thisbluespirit]

Whoa, what?

Ha, at some point around 1974 someone apparently asked Roger Marshall to make the most 1970s thing he possibly could and so we got six episodes of Zodiac starring Anoushka Hempel and Anton Rodgers about a newspaper astrologist who is always right teaming up to solve crime with a detective who's only still in the police force because if he leaves he'll lose the money someone left them in their will. But it's pretty charming and, like I said, the most 1970s thing ever.

I think Scorpios are extra ambitious or something, according to the show, hence the tendency to murder more than other star signs, but anyway, Esther is down on them and Esther is never wrong about these things, much to Grad's annoyance. :-D