What's a queen to a joker, tell me?

[sovay]

I got to say, everyone seems to have more exciting experiences on drugs than I do. All that ever happens to me on steroids is I lose my appetite.

(spatch's opinion on the situation comes with cat pictures in comments.)

I have now gotten out of the house for a walk for two days in a row and while I still feel generally crummy—there have been phone calls with doctors—I feel better for feeling crummy in the open air with cloud-sliding autumn sunlight and leaves just starting to turn. I took some pictures of the GLX construction that had rather more of an air of industrial decay, which I shall try to remember to post later. Have some links.

1. N. K. Jemisin is among this year's MacArthur Fellows, which is just really cool.

2. I like the fact that languages exist that I don't even know about. Then I want them to stay in existence. For example, I just learned about Saraiki from Atlas Maior and Ali Pervez Medhi's "Nazuk."

3. I almost never remember to watch music videos even for songs I like, but Noga Erez’s "You So Done" is embedded in a beautiful little fragment of tech-noir. I am also enjoying the protest and solidarity of Yanna's "Marcaperu."

4. It is completely nuts that one of the grandsons of the tenth President of the United States just died. (The other is still alive.)

5. I am seriously considering watching Sinister (2012) and Sinister 2 (2015) on the sheer strength of this gifset, i.e., James Ransone's face.

I can't in good conscience wish for a kid to be named after him because I think it would be unfair to the kid, but I am not exactly grieving that Stephen Miller has joined the ranks of the Rose Garden superspread. I am not neutral about any of these people, but I take him personally.

Comments

[sara]

Yeah, we might have just expressed out hope that Stephen Miller will shit himself violently for an extended period of time, here.

It's good to see people one likes prosper and the wicked get what they've asked for.

[sovay]

It's good to see people one likes prosper and the wicked get what they've asked for.

It is. There is also a certain amount of satisfation in the hot equations. You court a plague, don't be surprised when the plague takes you home.

[eva_rosen]

The first Sinister is alright, and Ransone is a gift. The second one is definitely a lot less alright, and is not even hilariously bad, but his character holds up pretty well, if you watch it only for him. Have you watched Tangerine? That's my favorite movie he's been in.

[sovay]

Have you watched Tangerine? That's my favorite movie he's been in.

I've never seen him in anything! I was just struck by his face and his physicality (the couch sprawl was tremendously impressive and I thought it was Anthony Perkins at first glance). I have heard of Tangerine, though, and I've heard good things.

[moon_custafer]

He caught my eye in that gifset, too.

[minoanmiss]

In my next life I want to be a linguist.

[sovay]

In my next life I want to be a linguist.

May you figure out Linear A.

[minoanmiss]

That is a heck of a blessing. blushes a lot

[asakiyume]

Or a polyglot--I'd settle for that.

[gwynnega]

I hope you feel less crummy soon.

I remember being jittery and unhungry on steroids, but not megalomaniacal.

I may have yelled "Yes!" and pumped my fist in the air when I read the news about Miller.

[sovay]

I hope you feel less crummy soon.

Thank you. One of the phone calls resulted in medications, so I hope so.

I remember being jittery and unhungry on steroids, but not megalomaniacal.

Right? I don't even get the jitters. I just lose my appetite and have to be coaxed by spatch to eat with much the same language we use for the cats. Maybe where I went wrong was not starting from a baseline of megalomania.

I may have yelled "Yes!" and pumped my fist in the air when I read the news about Miller.

It feels a little like justice, which has been unfamiliar for so long and is heady. I just want to see some of the rest of them with their negative tests go down.

[selkie]

Oh, please find your baseline of megalomania. We are due a regime change. If you want a horse in the senate, I’ll put the fancy ribbons on it. If you want any sitting rulers kicked to death, we’ll look in this bucket of plausible deniability. I’ve always wanted to be a mad vizier and I’ve topped out at rabbi’s secretary! Do it for world peace, pandemic control, and my languishing potential!
(TW is patching his Sic Semper Tyrannis t-shirt as we speak. There was a moth thing. He doesn’t want to talk about it.)

[sovay]

If you want a horse in the senate, I’ll put the fancy ribbons on it. If you want any sitting rulers kicked to death, we’ll look in this bucket of plausible deniability. I’ve always wanted to be a mad vizier and I’ve topped out at rabbi’s secretary! Do it for world peace, pandemic control, and my languishing potential!

You're such a good friend!

(I'll just leave this here.)

(TW is patching his Sic Semper Tyrannis t-shirt as we speak. There was a moth thing. He doesn’t want to talk about it.)

Hey, moths are bloody huge when you live in a jam-jar.

[rachelmanija]

I didn't get any exciting manic episodes from steroids either. They did give me back my appetite and make me feel a lot better (not in a manic way, in a "not dying" way), but they were by far the single hardest drug to get off that I've ever been on.

I hope Stephen Miller dies. Apparently he comes from a nice Jewish family in LA and they're all baffled and horrified by him. Maybe he's a changeling.

[sovay]

They did give me back my appetite and make me feel a lot better (not in a manic way, in a "not dying" way), but they were by far the single hardest drug to get off that I've ever been on.

Because of the positive effects or for other reasons?

(I hope they, like everything else, give him trouble.)

I hope Stephen Miller dies. Apparently he comes from a nice Jewish family in LA and they're all baffled and horrified by him. Maybe he's a changeling.

He is one of the very few living people I have ever literally cursed.

[rachelmanija]

They had horrendous withdrawal side effects. Every time I reduced the dosage by even ONE MG, which is an absurdly tiny amount, I'd get splitting, all-day headaches, insomnia, and flu-like symptoms.

[tree_and_leaf]

A friend was on the steroids they've got the President on last year (not Covid, obviously), and while they did save his life, he had a similarly dreadful time getting off them.

His face also swelled up alarmingly while he was on them (he looked distinctly pumpkin-faced), and I feel like Trump deserves that side-effect a lot more than he did. And of course it would fit well with his preferred foundation shade...

[sovay]

And of course it would fit well with his preferred foundation shade...

He's actually been an awful color in some of the recent photos I've seen—more so than his usual face, which I find difficult enough to look at.

(I hope your friend is doing all right.)

[tree_and_leaf]

Thank you, friend is pretty well now, although living with heart damage (from the original condition, not the steroids), so very nervous given the pandemic. But he's back to being able to go birdwatching and take decent walks in the countryside, which are pretty much his favourite thing to do, so all in all, he's been quite lucky.

I agree Trump looks dreadful - mind you, Johnson still looks ill almost six months on, and while he might or might not have been sicker,* he is younger and was probably in better (though not good) health to start off with.

* Johnson was definitely sick enough to be on ICU, but his people were also significantly more honest about what was going on. Which doesn't speak for the Trump administration, given that the Tories are a set of mendacious fuckweasels.

[castiron]

The only time I took steroids, on day 1 I went out and mowed the yard in 2/3 the time it usually took me to do it, and then stepped back and went "huh, that was weird". That was all, though; no really exciting or bizarre side effects.

[sovay]

The only time I took steroids, on day 1 I went out and mowed the yard in 2/3 the time it usually took me to do it, and then stepped back and went "huh, that was weird".

I can see not expecting that.

I found myself linking Bigger Than Life (1956) in several conversations elsenet.

[davidgillon]

1. N. K. Jemisin is among this year's MacArthur Fellows, which is just really cool.

That's a seriously interesting bunch of people they've got there.

[sovay]

That's a seriously interesting bunch of people they've got there.

It is! All of them look like people whose art or research I am in favor of—like, I would personally want to read or see it.

[lauradi7dw]

Arthur is acquainted with Isaiah Andrews. It may not be true that all Boston-area econometricians know each other, but it's a comparatively small world, I guess.

[sovay]

Arthur is acquainted with Isaiah Andrews. It may not be true that all Boston-area econometricians know each other, but it's a comparatively small world, I guess.

That's really neat.

[moon_custafer]

I guess it was earlier this year I read about Seke, a Nepalese dialect with only 700 or so remaining speakers, of whom about 100 live in Brooklyn (half of them in one apartment building in Flatbush, which I suppose must make it easier to use the language): https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/brooklyn-nepal-seke-dying-language-new-york-a9281386.html

[sovay]

I guess it was earlier this year I read about Seke, a Nepalese dialect with only 700 or so remaining speakers, of whom about 100 live in Brooklyn (half of them in one apartment building in Flatbush, which I suppose must make it easier to use the language)

That is exactly the sort of thing I don't want to be lost. I saw the mention of other endangered languages in the wild in New York and I want them still to be there.

[choco_frosh]

All that ever happens to me on steroids is I lose my appetite.

:(
Good luck with remembering to eat?

It is completely nuts that one of the grandsons of the tenth President of the United States just died.
“I think it had to do with second wives.” -- Tyler Too's Great-grandson.
Gee, ya think?
But yes. Nuts.

[sovay]

Good luck with remembering to eat?

It is not immediately relevant! I was speaking in the aorist, not the present tense. But thank you for whenever it becomes relevant again.

“I think it had to do with second wives.” -- Tyler Too's Great-grandson.

The family resemblance hasn't had much time to drift, which is also ridiculous.

Tylers

[lauradi7dw]

We recently watched a re-run of a 2019 book talk by author Jared Cohen, hyping his book "Accidental Presidents"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40538709-accidental-presidents?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=LXAMtUgu4x&rank=2
JC suggested using the Tyler family weirdness as a fun story for party conversations.

[asakiyume]

Loved that tweet of spatch, especially the god emperor part, and just now looking at the responses delighted me anew.

I was on steroids to get over poison ivy last summer, and they just made me feel a little jumpy. I have boring responses to medication too.

Re: N.K. Jemisin, yeah!

And strong agree on languages.

[sovay]

Loved that tweet of spatch, especially the god emperor part, and just now looking at the responses delighted me anew.

"Spider-hollering."

I was on steroids to get over poison ivy last summer, and they just made me feel a little jumpy. I have boring responses to medication too.

I actually have more idiosyncratic reactions to medications than I do normal ones, but I've never tanked a stock market.

Re: N.K. Jemisin, yeah!

I like seeing good things happen to good people! It should happen more often!

And strong agree on languages.

It's really non-negotiable how important I find this sort of thing and how frighteningly easy it is for languages to be killed and kinds of cultures with them.

[sorcyress]

Every time my mom did a steroids push it meant she slept for about twenty hours a day the entire week or two she was on the steroids, so like...yeah. You're not alone in boring drug experiences.

~Sor

[sovay]

Every time my mom did a steroids push it meant she slept for about twenty hours a day the entire week or two she was on the steroids, so like...yeah.

Oh, man, if steroids made me sleep, I could have a drug problem.

(I am reminded inexorably of Arlo Guthrie's "The Neutron Bomb": "I mean, somebody told me that Reagan was asleep when the planes was happening, you know? I think it's good to have a sleeping President. That's not a bad idea. The more he sleeps, the safer we are.")