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Take One: The Phoenician Scheme

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:18:30 GMT

Unfortunately, Wes Anderson has finally disappeared into his own butt, and I say this as a fan of Grand Budapest Hotel and Fantastic Mr Fox. Every scene is gorgeous, the running gags are clever (especially the hand grenades and Liesl's refreshments), and Michael Cera's mid-movie hairstyle change was jaw-dropping. Wes Anderson's dreamlike style also feels right for Korda's frequent afterlife interludes. Unfortunately, his style hampers scenes set in the present. Nobody except Korda feels like a real person as they reel off dialogue like a patter song and walk across the exquisite sets from mark to precise mark. There's a real, tender story in this movie about how Korda and Liesl learn to meet each other halfway and find happiness, but it falls apart because Wes Anderson just doesn't let Liesl's actress show any emotion besides stoicity. Even a little bit of body language or variation in line delivery would go a long way (as it does for Korda) and poor Liesl gets none at all.

2/5.

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Sheridan Animator Man Guy

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 04:27:10 GMT

Okay, so I dreamed that a friend of mine I hadn't seen in a while was getting married. Her fiance was a civil engineer (like me) who had suddenly decided that his dream was to make animated movies, so he was currently enrolled in the animation program at Sheridan College. I met this fiance and he turned out to be a real stand-up guy, who happened to look a bit like young discount Keanu Reeves. And I remember feeling just so relieved in the dream that my friend had someone to take care of her, and was gonna be ok, that I woke up feeling relaxed.

Then I got hit with the poshmark refund bamboozle though so that was the end of that.

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BG3 - 1

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:18:35 GMT

Krogoth and I are playing through a co-op campaign of Baldur's Gate 3 (incidentally, the reason I stopped writing last October). He's a human barbarian and I'm a half-elf bard. So far, he has:
- gotten annoyed at Shadowheart for constantly missing with sacred flame
- been extremely put-off by Astarion
- killed the two tieflings guarding Lae'zel
- looted every vase and lit every candle in Wither's crypt
- ran right by the grove, figuring that he could "go back later after finishing exploration"
- killed two cultists of the Absolute

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i saw a death cab sticker on a cadillac; a little voice inside my head said you can never look back

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 04:10:01 GMT

Boys of Summer was playing over the intercom at No Frills and it was just an oddly moving experience. I'd been thinking about what, exactly, that I learned in high school that was still immediately useful me this year. And it was mostly things from that hiking trip that I hated at the time but built a lot of character. Bring two litres of water per person on a day trip, how to poop in the woods, how to dress for the outdoors. All things that will come in handy in April.

Anyway, the great bathroom reno is nearly done, minus final cleanup and mirror installation. I might have Krogoth start a co-op game of Baldurs Gate 3 with me later, but I'm running out of excuses to avoid my WIP.

But the sooner I address my WIP, the sooner I can get to the Babylon noir detective fic in the same fandom that I've been thinking about...

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2024 Goals

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 03:47:27 GMT

They're real simple:
- wrap up my D&D 5e game (this has gotten very out of hand, if I can finish up around summer that'd be nice)
- Keep drawing with the inks I bought myself for Christmas
- recommence writing my WIP, which I stopped when I started playing Baldur's Gate 3, preferably before I:
- Successfully go on the road trip I've planned to fulfill a 20-year dream; I've bought a guide book and mapped out everything and all but the midjourney 40-minute flight is booked!! Unfortunately I borked the timing so I will miss the eclipse... but there's still Iceland in 2026 :)
- Successfully see Death Cab (already got the tickets and only overpaid a little bit!)

I finally got around to watching the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven, i.e. Orlando Bloom being mildly cool but being effortlessly outshone by the rest of the cast. It's not his fault - how's a depressed blacksmith supposed to stand toe-to-toe with Saladin, Sibylla, Liam Neeson, and Baldwin the Leper King?

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september WIP

Sun, 24 Sep 2023 08:03:13 GMT

- I walked home from my meatspace RPG group on Friday night, getting back after midnight. I get why some women don't like to do it, but I guess I've always had a high tolerance for potentially getting axe-murdered on a side street. There's an unlit shortcut that crosses the train tracks and goes up a big hill behind the plaza. Climbing it in the dead of night felt like a minor spiritual experience.
- I had McD's today. Condiments gotta be ordered separately and they don't have individual self-serve dispensers anymore. But as I was putting stale pepper on my ketchup - I realised, I didn't think of that combination myself. My parents didn't give it to me. Where did it come from?
- How do people grow up without keeping an eye on all the publicly available info on themselves?? But there I can't figure out how to delete my pinterest account because I haven't got a clue what the old password to my burner email was...
- I went to a concert last Saturday. It was fantastic, I will definitely keep an eye out for other acts coming to Toronto.

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TIX

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 02:32:55 GMT

I have tickets - more accurately, one ticket - to see Delain and Visions of Atlantis. I debated getting one for Xandria/Battle Beast/Kamelot but that one is on a Tuesday. I know I'd enjoy it but .... it's on a Tuesday.

Also, all booked up to go to the east coast in October. Finally!

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mix - tris

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 05:06:00 GMT

This is a playlist for my d&d character.

spotify link

1. Northwest Passage - Unleash the Archers
2. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
3. Winterbreak - MUNA
4. Keep the Car Running - Arcade Fire
5. Hand of Sorrow - Within Temptation
6. Storyteller - Triosphere
7. Numbers - Great Northern
8. Delete Forever - Grimes
9. Stray Italian Greyhound - Vienna Teng
10. The (Shipped) Gold Standard - Fall Out Boy
11. Calling the Rain - Eluveitie
12. For Me, This is Heaven- Jimmy Eat World

1. Northwest Passage: And through the night, behind the wheel, the mileage clicking west. Tris came from a community of caravan merchants.

2. Gimme Shelter: Ooh, see the fire is sweepin' our streets today... gimme shelter, or I'm gonna fade away. A mad lich, Raven, raided her caravan with fireballs. Her parents and her younger sister were slain, leaving her the sole survivor.

3. Winterbreak: You're wondering how to leave it here, and I haven't seen you since last winter break. Tris took shelter with the Order of the Silver Dragon, a chivalric society devoted to justice. There, she fell in love with another squire, Ella. It didn't last.

4. Keep the Car Running: If some night I don't come home Please don't think I've left you alone... keep the car running. Tris didn't quite fit in with the Order after that. After a string of anger management issues, she decided to leave to seek her glory elsewhere, promising to return and receive her knighthood. She soon met up with a group of adventurers called the Last Resort, including Carric, Audra, Xavril, and Resha.

5. Hand of Sorrow: The child without a name grew up to be the hand, to watch you, to shield you or kill on demand. After a few years of adventuring, Tris found that her sister, Mariel, had survived under the tutelage of the lich responsible for the caravan attack. Unfortunately, this happened while Mariel was leading a gang of pirates to raid a settlement. During the attack, Audra's sister was kidnapped.

6. Storyteller: And all along she asked why love wasn't worth a fight - was it worth her fight? Eventually, the party made their way to the Ravenspire to rescue Audra's sister, and Tris reunited with Mariel. Mariel had read Tris's published novel recounting her adventures in the meantime, and had grown cynical in her training. But when it came down to it, Mariel sided with the party against Raven. However, this mission was not without price, and Xavril was lost.

7. Numbers: Be careful who you're thinking will save you in the end - maybe we're all just waiting for one beautiful friend. Party tensions increased as the party ventured into the desert of Farrell to deal with Resha's wayward mentor, and then to the jungles of Syland attend Carric's sister's wedding. Carmilla and Fendrell, a pair of twins sharing a single body, also joined the party.

8. Delete Forever: Lying so awake, things I can't escape - lately I just turn 'em into demons. Flew into the sun, fucking heroin - lately I just turn 'em into reasons and excuses. Tris turned to taking drugs to deal with Xavril's death and intraparty stress

9. Stray Italian Greyhound: Oh no not now, please not now, I just settled into the glass half empty. Tris began to develop feelings for Carmilla: feelings that she just could not figure out how to deal with. The two of them went on a few dates. Eventually, the party managed to acquire a second body for Carmilla, temporarily losing Resha in the process.

10. The (Shipped) Gold Standard: I wanna scream "I love you" from the top of my lungs, but I'm afraid that someone else will hear me You can only blame your problems on the world for so long before it all becomes the same old song. Tris's racial insecurities, drug issues, shock of losing party members, and lingering lich threat caught up with her. She rejected Carmilla, ran away from the party, and regretted it almost immediately afterwards.

11. Calling the Rain: Heed, it's like calling the rain, it's like bearing in pain, like embracing life and decaying in death. Tensions on the continent of Suzoa came to a boil as the wizard Lady Zolera tried to gain control of the Arcane Well. Tris couldn't leave her party members behind to deal with that threat alone. She put aside her issues and returned to the party. Facing the Arcane Well, she had a realization that she wanted to survive and wash away the evil and corruption in the world and herself, and live life fully.

12. For Me, This is Heaven: When the time we have now ends, when the big hand goes round again, can you still feel the butterflies? Can you still hear the last goodnight... If I don't let myself be happy now, then when? Tris took up Lady Zolera's newly vacated seat on the council and used her good publicity as a published author to correct the direction of the empire. Years later, she regained enough confidence to ask Carmilla if maybe she wanted to give things another try. And Carmilla said yes.

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Mysteries of Suzoa - finale

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 04:13:31 GMT

The game ended on Saturday, and I'd had enough time between the DM's initial announcement in February and now to deal with my feelings. I'm happy with how it ended. Big fucking shoes to fill though. And also a little embarrassed about how deeply I cared. Like, this was the game where I would get intrusive thoughts at 2AM and be unable to sleep.

It was also the one where, like, I could not figure out how to talk to girls, specifically one girl, and was just kicking myself for weeks afterwards for mucking up the in-game relationship. The two characters got together in the end, though, several decades in the future and offscreen, kind of like Laura and Cassandra at the end of Wicked + Divine. And I was just so... gratified when I realized that, yeah, that was the case, my knight got a happy ending.

I'll post the final playlist with a breakdown later because it won't make sense later without it.

I think I'm going to the concert in September.

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zero to sixty in three point five

Wed, 03 May 2023 00:39:11 GMT

We went from "window shopping is fun but we're not going to move," no mortgage approved, nothing, just having attended some open houses to look at neighbours' closets and stuff... to "holy shit" and accepted offer in 31 and a half hours. Why doesn't this train have brakes???

Utter insanity. We had the mortgage-paid-off celebration dinner only a few weeks ago and just installed a bunch of wall shelves...

Monday - 11:56 AM "Hey, look at this place, ha ha, isn't that literally the place that we thought would be funny to buy if its owner died or something..."
Rest of day: unable to nap on the bus due to thinking about it
Evening: call parents to ask for ticket off the crazy train, they don't give it to us. Call Justin's old real estate agent. Start moving moonies around.
Later at night: Can't sleep, reading Red Seas Under Red Skies until 3AM

Tuesday: 4PM - tour the other place,
5PM - make offer. Start signing forms. cancel d&d game due to stomachache
5:30PM - moonies finishes getting moved around
7:40PM - agent calls back, offer accepted

"You are beyond mad," said Locke after several moments of silent, furious thought. "Full-on barking madness is a state of rational bliss to which you may not aspire. Men living in gutters and drinking their own piss would shun your company. You are a prancing lunatic."

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I was cleaning my desk today

Sat, 29 Apr 2023 01:58:50 GMT

I was cleaning my desk today, but yesterday I did a quick reading. It didn't make sense to me until I moved the junk box back to the bedroom and came back to see a bunch of discord messages, re: the DM having not enough time and needed to tie up loose plot ends asap. So looking at this with the benefit of retrospect:

Past: 2 of cups reversed

Present: 8 of coins - skill development, getting gud
Future: moon, reversed - fear of the unknown
Influences: 10 of coins - mastery, achievement, stability, certainty, having it all and knowing it too
Outcome: the tower, lol

I don't even want to do a full analysis, but I'll leave the following notes for my future self:
- It's interesting that the Present/Future card is 8P and the moon, while Influences/Outcome is what could be considered a clearer, amped-up version of the first pair. Where the first pair merely precipitated a falling house of cards, the second reflects a collapsing castle, as if just to underline the meaning of the first three cards drawn.
- It wasn't a complete surprise when I drew the tower, even though I wasn't sure what I was reading for. Again, that might be the first three cards. What can be devastating is less so when you already knew it was coming months in advance (the moon)

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Books I read on vacation (March 2023)

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 19:47:26 GMT

The Witchwood Crown 2/5
Empire of Grass 3/5
Into the Underdark 4/5

I'm not convinced these books need to be so long. My favourite plotlines included Unver's ascension to Shah, Tzoja's multiple career changes, and Morgan's treetop adventures with Reeree. And not having read the original trilogy I can totally believe Simon and Miriamele as former swashbucklers. However I did not sign up for the Nezeru/Morgan hookup, the fake deaths in books 2 and 3 happened too closely together (and to the same two characters), and the plot, though interesting, takes altogether too long to emerge. Now that it has, I'll definitely read the fourth book, because it's guaranteed to get to the point and be good. I'm a sucker for things entitled The Last X, and I'm deeply, deeply worried for the survival of the royal family. So thanks, Tad Williams, for stoking that anxiety and also for including a synopsis of the story thus far at the beginning of each book.

Old Man's War 5/5
The Ghost Brigades 2/5
The Last Colony 3/5

John Scalzi is an incredibly expedient writer, which is generally a good thing, except when the genre works against him. The first book was fantastic: Starship Troopers, but what if they're all retirees, and the protagonist names his brain implant/personal assistant "Asshole?" I never thought I'd ever read the phrase "Activate Asshole" and am grateful to Old Man's War for bestowing that gift upon me. The second gave me a bit of whiplash, because I really missed John Perry's viewpoint and Jane Sagan was only a minor presence. The Last Colony reunites the two, but with an entirely different genre. And that's where I think he could've slowed down a little. I like a complicated political gambit as much as anyone else, but I think he could've dwelled a little bit more on the colonists in between moves.

The Collapsing Empire 5/5
The Consuming Fire 4/5
The Last Emperox 2/5

Ditto here. I thought the Collapsing Empire did a great job laying out the premise, and coming fresh (ish) off the Expanse, I could immediately grasp the stakes at hand. Scalzi's gambits work better on a smaller scale when dealing with a prison escape, a kidnap attempt, or a bomb threat. But everything falls apart in Book 3. Did the Flow Theories end up right? Did the empire collapse neatly? And how, how, could anyone think that the emperox turning into a supercomputer is a good plot ending? It's a literal deus IN machina and feels like it undermines the entire point of the first and second books. The Expanse did this better in its last half-dozen chapters.

Blackout 3/5
All Clear 4/5

All Clear is brilliant but I don't think the entirety of Blackout was necessary to set it up, since the first of this duology involves a lot of people trying to blend in, not disrupt the pillars of causality, and make their very important appointments. Even though, the atmosphere of WW2-era Britain was THICK. I loved seeing people from all walks of life in the war. Sir Godfrey's last conversation with Polly was the best thing I read on vacation. I didn't even mind all the fake deaths.

Palimpsest 1/5

What the hell?

Alright. It wasn't bad. It's poetry, good poetry. I just was not in the mood to read poetry where people fuck to enter a city of dreams. It was beautiful but also self indulgent, filled with cool stuff for the sake of being cool. And succeeding consistently, but to what end? I don't think I'm ever in the mood for that kind of book.

Uprooted 2/5

The antagonist, an entire forest, was compelling, creepy, and consistently several steps ahead of the protagonists. So I liked that. But I didn't like the main character, or the unexplained magic system, or the romance that robs the mentor character of all the mystique he had at the beginning of the book. Also, ew, the romance. Spinning Silver was ten times better than Uprooted.

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another reading

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 06:04:11 GMT

Past: Emperor, reversed - I interpret this as a loss of authority,
Present: Chariot - movement. pragmatism. a healthier type of leadership than the emperor?
Future: Temperance, reversed - i interpret this one as a drinking problem that this person has
Influences: Page of cups - burgeoning emotional development, or this person has a drinking buddy?
Outcome: Death - WELP, i mean I know change is in this person's future already, I was just really hoping that the cards would have something more reassuring in store

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Tue, 14 Mar 2023 21:08:45 GMT

What has become of me, that I am now a person who bought bikinis from the bikini shack at full price?

Why is it that shops with the nomenclature noun-building are so appealing?

Wonton Hut
Dumpling House
Pizza Hut
Bikini Village
Spaghetti Factory?
Cheesecake Factory?
Condom Shack??? (RIP)

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fork

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:07:11 GMT

Forkin did a site visit on March Break, when tourism as at a low, when one of the station entrances is fully closed, when we're getting about half the ridership that the model says we should be getting, just absolutely FML

Past: eight of blades reversed. "I'm sad" // freedom
Present: three of blades reversed. one more time for the homes at the back: "I'M SAD" // rebirth
Future: star reversed. "I'm thinking about being sad some more"
Influences: eight of cups reversed. So this is one of the cards where I think the Divine Tarot does it better. I mostly read with the Darkness of Light tarot because I like the tactility of the art and the spooky atmosphere, but the Divine Tarot shows the eight of cups as Moses going off into the desert. Eight of cups reversed is Moses NOT going into the desert, being too afraid of the heat and lack of water and making excuses about his sheep.
Outcome: queen of coins. It's nice not to finish off the reading with a card of abject misery but I don't see what this is supposed to represent or how it's relevant, like, I'm going to be sad, but I'm going to make money off it?

Also I dreamed about a thing two people in my life have in common, except that it's WEIRD because one is DEAD and the other one is like, ???. I followed them through the transit system and lost them, like how Morgan loses track of Ree-ree's tribe in the chasm in Empire of Grass. Then I was unfortunately in university again and needed to take a course so I signed up for a mythology bird course.

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insomnia

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 07:50:41 GMT

I gotta go pick up a cat tree in Barrie tomorrow morning but I can't sleep.

Incoming
- Shelley's PC's backstory
- the peace conference
- bikinis
- EH brief
- Irving study
- Dundas study

Outgoing
- THE STORY
- me, ON VACATION
- this year's tax stuff
- Bloor study

Past: The sun reversed. High expectations. Creativity. Icarus.
Present: page of coins reversed. Hard work.
Future: eight of coins reversed. Mastery
Influences: six of cups reversed. I love this card but not in this position. Looking backwards. Loss.
Outcome: high priestess reversed. Secrets. superego. Pretension.

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Dari / The Santa Clause

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 06:57:17 GMT

Today I managed to break back into my deviantart, wikipedia, and three old email accounts. Pretty happy about that. I don't know why my wikipedia watchlist includes Dari (the language) and "The Santa Clause". And I'm a little sad I can't easily swap youtube handles the way livejournal used to let you swap usernames on two accounts owned by the same person. But no can do.

Also at the end of the culmination of the blood pilgrimage arc last night Ben sent me a message: "That was amazing; I got a little teary eyed." I was so fucking happy to see that. I don't even think the pilgrimage was the best thing I'd done so far; the Robots of Tronno arc was better. And before that I thought I'd done a good job with the Malachai and Feywild arcs.

And I think my dental hygienist might be a conspiracist theorist (Today: "Did Will Smith ACTUALLY slap Chris Rock?" and "Microwaves suck all the nutrients out of food"), but I'm not gonna be arguing with the person who has their sharp metal tools in my mouth.

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thundersnow

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 19:42:22 GMT

I went for a walk last night around midnight, when it was snowing, because I was promised thundersnow.

It's an incredibly liberating feeling to wander around the neighbourhood at night, with no cars or people out, and just fall into snowbanks wherever I want to. To just lie back in a huge open field and stare at the snow coming down, and to scream into the sky and know that nobody heard you because of the wind. And also a very powerful feeling, to be armoured up in jackets and snowpants and boots, and just not feel the cold. I was out for about two hours, and only went back inside because the effects of my booster shot were beginning to catch up with me.

I didn't see any thundersnow, though.

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muna - winterbreak

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 01:30:17 GMT

MUNA - winterbreak

This song, like my ex's best friend, conjures for me similar feelings of making the wrong decisions. The hazy texture of the guitars and vocoders evokes frost upon a windowpane in December, as you trudge home in the slush briefly transformed from brown to orange in the sodium street lamps. Yet for all the open-endedness and uncertainty of the verses, there's something cyclical about the percussion and structure of the chorus. This is a conversation you've had before. You already know how it ends because you've seen it end before, in the melting snowbanks of March that reveal all the ugliness and cowardice inherent in your blood, sure as morning.

But - it's not March, is it? It's still December. Maybe this will be the time you get it right. Maybe in this liminal period between Christmas and New Years, where in the song's bridge the percussion barely dares to breathe and the guitars disappear into the background of the shitty house party and you can barely breathe in the air suspended between you, maybe this is the time it'll work. In this moment the weight of failure is a thousand years away, you can no longer feel your own pulse or your skin or the chill of the basement apartment, and there is nothing left to do but to kiss her.

It doesn't end well. It'll end as it's ended every time. But you don't know that in this winterbreak, this beautiful sliver in time with no past and no future.

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Scott Pilgrim was dating a high schooler

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:51:54 GMT

I learned recently that one of my acquaintances from university dated a high schooler, and then married them (after high school). He was 26 when they met -_-

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machine gun kelly - my ex's best friend

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 05:13:22 GMT

As per prompt 30 of the 30-day music meme (more like the 300-day music meme...) this is another song that reminds me of myself for two reasons. The first of which because MGK is a total forking mess in the song. He knows he's making the wrong decision, that nothing good is going to happen. There's a little gasp in the instrumental right at the 0:30 mark in the prechorus when he realizes, oh shit, they're going home. And then by the time they hit the elevator at 0:38, it's too late, it's inevitable that something is going to happen, and that moment is just so delicious that the drums kick in to mark the beat of his stupid traitorous heart, and then there's nothing to be done but to ride that the momentum headlong into the chorus.

The chorus is almost perfunctory compared to the prechorus - but I think that's about right too, isn't it? Sometimes the buildup, the knowledge that you are making the bad decision is sweeter than the reward itself. This leads into blackbear's verse, which is the spare and measured justification to MGK's ex that she has no fuckin business getting mad at MGK. Yet despite the yowl blackbear is able to summon up, it's ultimately uncathartic and barely casts a pall over the second iteration of the chorus.

But here's the thing. You can only do a bad thing so many time before it stops feeling sweet. And that's why I think the outro is perfect. It's a hollow, distorted version of the first verse. It's like a hangover. All the mystery and the excitement is gone and dead in the cold light of day.

This song is perfect.

Oh, and the second reason it also reminds me of myself? He's oversharing. SO MUCH. What is even the meaning of dignity?? I have a whole playlist on spotify about bad decisions and this one is right at the top.

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Bocconcini

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 04:42:00 GMT

Today I ate ten cocktail bocconcinis with salt, olive oil, and peach-infused white vinegar. They were delicious, and also 50% easier to snack on than, say, cheese ON the cracker. As opposed to just a piece of cheese, barely dressed, unabashedly pale in the night.

They are too easy to eat. I wish I'd never discovered the cocktail bocconcinis at the grocery store.

Oh, I also tried out the sakura tube watercolours. They're thirty years old, so I'm surprised that they hadn't dried out, but I hear it's easy to revitalize them if they do. There wasn't any need this time, but I still can't read the instructions at the back because they're in Japanese.

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The $2.50/kg no name perogies, bacon and potato

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:01:10 GMT

First of all, the texture. When pan-fried from frozen according to the package instructions the perogy wrapper gets... puffy. Very sturdy. No give. Like deep fried bread, or tiny pizza pockets. I've had other pan-fried perogies, and dumplings, and none of the wrappers have ever ended up like that before.

Secondly, the filling. The flavour was nominally bacon and potato, but it had a hard time staying inside its fried dough pouches. Also I'm not convinced there was bacon in there. The filling tasted like they had once LOOKED at a closed bag of crumbled bacon bits, demurely, from the opposite side of the fridge, not making eye contact.

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Facelle

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 03:35:56 GMT

My parents gave me several boxes of tissues, several years ago. I'm just about finishing up the last box.

There's a perforation on the back, to attach to one of those tissue dispensers in bathrooms.

The copyright is 1984, Facelle Company Ltd.

Facelle was acquired by P&G in 1991.

There's no moral to the story, I just think it's neat I've been using tissues older than I am.

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my wayward darling's still haunting my dreams [villanelle]

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 17:07:29 GMT

my wayward darling's still haunting my dreams
though years ago you left me on my own
i only see you in the inbetweens

we gave them to the funeral machine
yet after they'd been burnt down to the bone
my wayward darling's still haunting my dreams

usually you look like you're about eighteen
please, you're far too young for the great unknown
i only see you in the inbetweens.

if this be my angel, come to redeem
then might my reckoning be yet postponed?
my wayward darling's still haunting my dreams

but now you visit less and less, it seems
i fear you'll finally leave me all alone
i only see you in the inbetweens.

so if times when i wake i also scream
it's because i've awoken, but you won't:
my wayward darling's still haunting my dreams
i only see you in the inbetweens.

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