PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]

Reading papers and contacting people in that field. I’ve found that university professors can especially direct you to materials in their field, and even like to chat about it sometimes. Half of my book collection was found this way.

Bored music teacher in 2200: “and here children, we find the most important contributions to late 20th centure music: a phonograph of Depeche Mode’s Violator.”

Wallet, phone, keys. Everything else i just keep in my car or work van. Whenever i see someone add a gun to their list, i always find it funny. It’s such a silly thing to walk around with

Chapo got banned, checked out chapo.chat, found the “under construction” page with what i think was “call me maybe” as a chiptune playing, and joined a little while after.

My wife saw a charcuterie board and under her breath said “charcussy”. I have been repeating that basically every day to her since.

Your website will rot on the vine.

That note at the beginning lmao.

“NONONO, WE DON’T ACTUALLY MEAN THE THINGS WE PUBLISHED, THAT’S RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION”

And a hotdog is a type of sandwich.

It’s even easier than that

Every New Year’s i play the same two songs around midnight: This Year by The Mountain Goats and The Ice of Boston by The Dismemberment Plan. Both help me get through those turn of the year moods.

First half hour is you being a super cool highly trained american spec ops guy being sent behind enemy lines, only to get murked by the actual mc, some guy who used to be a teacher turned nva who now has to fight against the imperialists

Proper chef’s knife and vegetable cleaver. Most of my military surplus clothes. A vaccuum sealer. Second hand books. My Traynor YBA-1. Some good boots. There’s definitely stuff i forgot, i don’t really buy items anymore.

The Conquest of Bread

Mangosteen

“Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name.”

As long as i am remembered, i exist. While my physical form may be rotting, i will hope that i made as much of an impact in this world as i did to me, and hope that my memory will never fade. It is for that reason that i keep soldiering on, never looking back, and trying to contribute to a better world.

No problem! I’m obviously a bit biased since i’ve been a fan since the late 90s and dabble in the art (i’ve been an off and on pro wrestler since the late 00’s), but i view it as more as an improvisational art than i do a sport. It’s basically live theatre, with the actors and actresses having more to do with ballet then, say, combat sports and mma. It’s actually fascinating to see how professional wrestling had influenced sports as a whole. Muhammed Ali, for example, has cited Gorgeous George as the reason why he would trash talk his opponents. And Conor McGregor, well, he talks like he’s straight out of the WWE. Filthy Tom Lawlor is a guy who basically went from being a pro-wrestling character in the ufc to becoming a full-time pro wrestler. Never mind the fact that there’s been matches where the ring is an entire island, or floating in the pacific with pyrotechnics everywhere, or even more cinematic productions set entirely within a house (or not so cinematically in the case of ddt). All together, though, is it’s an art benched on the back of blood, sweat, and even more blood of its performers. There’s nothing “safe” about pro-wrestling, as even the tiniest mishap could cripple a person, but it’s done through years of training, fitness, and finesse, that it is able to continue.

So, there’s a certain level of suspension of disbelief that has to be done by the audience in order to enjoy the show. The purpose of the wrestlers is to entertain the audience in that state, which can be as simple as chain wrestling (which is only really enjoyed by a certain segment of hardcore fans) or as convoluted as a swanton bomb (which is a flip off the top rope). It’s more vaudeville, but it allows individual wrestlers to better adapt tge story of the match to the emotions in the audience. For example, at wrestlemania x8, hulk hogan was to play the bad guy, and the rock the good guy. The audience, however, sided with Hogan, which caused a decision between the two wrestlers to wrestle in a way that aligned them with the opposite of what they initially entered the match for. It’s understanding audience psychology and being able to adapt on the fly, thus fulfilling the preconceptions of the audience. It’s amazing to watch to skilled workers be able to manipulate the audience to their advantage, but even more incredible to see the audience force the workers to change their direction mid-match.

There’s about 25 blimps in the world, and only 40-50 pilots.

The Willi Waller 2006.

“Hey, you like Rob Zombie movies?” (We have been together for 7 years now.)