Nice! I’ve taken mine out of the box and once I saw all of the book covers I set it aside for a little bit. That was a couple of months ago.

Each year on the anniversary of when I got back my stem cells to cure my cancer, I read Invictus by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.

I read it a bit early this year for this - this July 12th it will be 20 years unbowed.

I would guess probably some kind of fan art maybe. There were very few relevant hits for cruddlesticks

‘Cause he’s a dick.

Same thing with age. I’m in my fifties, stumbled into Tropical Fuck Storm through King Gizzard a year or two ago and realized that all the new bands I was listening to were all Australian (I’m in the US). Probably from watching so much Like a Version. I listen to a lot of new music based on either covers of songs I know or cool band names. My current obsession, Apes of the State, is driving me into folk punk now. A little while ago I was wondering who was making the best protest songs for all of today’s bullshit. Folk punk is soothing my soul while I fight the power.

Apes of the State, which is now sending me on a folk punk deep dive

Helicopter with hands behind head

At this time of the night at this time of year in this part of the country localized entirely within your kitchen?

First would have been either Battle of the Planets or Starblazers. I was a kid at the time and they were just weird new cartoons where the mouths didn’t quite match the words. I think they came on around the same time as Banana Splits or some Sid & Marty Krofft nightmare. I remember eating taco flavored Cheetos while watching them at my grandma’s house after school. I enjoyed the shows but miss the Cheetos.

Best? Toss up between Frieren and Cowboy Bebop for opposite reasons. Frieren is so quiet and Yoko Kanno and Seatbelts drive Cowboy Bebop so hard. Bebop still has the best intro of anything ever.

I haven’t seen a lot of anime, so most has been cherry picking the good stuff. And I’m not so wed to the genre to remember the bad ones. More of an “Ew, that sucked” with an almost immediate erasure from my head.

WALL-E

Ran into that problem with my enby friend. Specifically in the jokey context, like when a friend asks you to do something and you say “Yes Sir!” Or “Yes Ma’am!” in a kind of over the top way. They hadn’t really thought about it either and they were flummoxed too. We wound up with “Yes Colonel!”

tldr: YOU ARE PREY!!!

“When Jesus comes back, we pinch!”

Rover!

Liz, short for Lizard. “Liz? Is that short for Elizabeth?” “No….”