This week I had family staying with me, so I had to work on the horoscope in fits and starts, all the while making sure that the SIL didn’t see what I was doing. She’s the kind of person that believes everything that’s on the news, so she has completely internalized every moral panic since the early 1980s; she strongly disapproves of the occult alternative recreational epistemology. She only lets the kids have graph paper to do homework in order to prevent them from playing D&D. She does make a truly excellent pie crust though, and that matters a lot.
Anyway I had some really interesting stuff in the charts: fire, war, fire, cataclysm, death, destruction, fire and victory. But as I was typing up the results, one of my fire indicators was Sol in Leo, which cannot happen in October. It turns out I had laid out everything for August 8, 1945.
Anyway, this week’s skies are much less dramatic. Venus is still retrograde, but there’s only some BARCO alignments to spread her baleful influence. The first being Terra-Venus(retrograde)-Mercury-Jupiter. This means that news of your venereal sins will reach people important to you. Maybe put those sins off for a week. The other BARCO alignment is Terra-Mars-Luna. This often heralds military deployments, but I understand that Obama ended all wars, so it’s more likely that the alternative reading of “Military Success” is more likely*.
What with all this warlike stuff, it’s worth noting that Mars is still hanging out in Aquarius, where it is conjunction with the moon. It’s an auspicious time for any naval glibs. Scorpio’s dry spell continues with additional warnings not to try and break it in an illegal fashion. See alignment 1 supra. Libra is hanging around with the Sun. And FINALLY Saturn(retrograde) in Capricorn is over!!! It’s now Saturn(direct) in Capricorn. I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to see the sign of famine before. Actually, since the returning to direct motion is such a positive thing, this particular instance of it probably has more to do with success in weight loss than in Live Aid.
Good luck in the coming week. If you need me, I’ll be vacuuming up dog hair.
*These are the best indicators since it doesn’t tell you for whom the success will be. You can read Terra as indicating “us” or it can represent the country being invaded. If I were reading this in Poland, I’d be more constrained.
“Teens comprise just 5% of Teen Vogue’s (rapidly diminishing) audience. Maybe stick to normal dating tips for 16 year old girls instead of telling them to get a second boyfriend.”
https://twitter.com/TianaTheFirst/status/1053735129229680640
“Teen Vogue and the death of women’s media
In an idea stolen from a viral tweet, Elle magazine’s Twitter account posted that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are splitting up. That wasn’t true, but the link took readers to a voter registration website.
Elle’s gimmick has been rightly dragged by prominent culture writers like Roxane Gay and Ira Madison III. For a magazine that still fashions itself as a news source, not the Onion or even a celebrity blinds blog, to tweet out legitimate fake news to Rick Roll its audience with the assumption that they’re too vapid to already be registered to vote is beyond journalistic malpractice or pure idiocy. It’s a self-evident microcosm of proof that the mainstays of women’s media already have one foot in the grave. They should probably go gently into that good night rather than force us all to watch the slow self destruction of women’s media.
Once upon a time, Elle was a fashion magazine, and Teen Vogue published fashion spreads, celebrity interviews, makeup tips, skincare reviews, relationship advice, and the occasional sex column. But a series of inevitable trends, such as a decline of print and the pursuit of clicks intersected with the rise of “intersectionality,” Teen Vogue and, to a lesser extent, most digital operations for women’s mags, began their slow decline into wokeness, and eventually irrelevance.
Teen Vogue traded thigh high boot reviews for “Thigh High Politics,” a humorless grievance column written by the perennially victimized Lauren Duca. Elle, technically the largest fashion magazine in the world, now publishes lovely diatribes like, ” My Woke Hot American Summer: 72 Hours at Male Feminism Camp” and ” How to Prepare for a Post-Roe World.” (Spoiler alert: you go to California because federalism still exists.)
But trading in standard-fare pieces about teen dating and safe sex for aggressively woke screeds like ” How To Masturbate If You Have a Penis” — in Teen Vogue, a magazine for teenage girls — comes not without its costs.
According to data from ComScore, TeenVogue.com had 8,341,000 unique visitors in May 2017. One year later, they had barely half that, at 4,476,000. Most damningly, just 1.7 percent of their May 2018 audience was 17 or younger. Only 2.6 percent were 18 to 24 years old. At the absolute most generous estimate, in Teen Vogue’s digital audience — the only audience they still have after they shelved their print edition with a final copy featuring Hillary Clinton on the cover — 1 in 20 readers is an actual teenager. As it would turn out, 15 year old girls want to read “7 signs he’s into you” rather than guides to using butt plugs and ending capitalism.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/teen-vogue-and-the-death-of-womens-media
Get woke, go broke.
Their readers aren’t reproducing because they only do anal.
I’m not seeing the downside here.
Something tells me that you are completely detached from reality.
I took that as a sarcastic response.
This gives me hope for the future.
It always has to do with Mercury. It’s like you’re about it .
https://twitter.com/Beefslapchest/status/1054012929618657280
LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Polling is useless.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1049681607374843904
I’ve been saying this for a while now. But, for the sake of redundancy, I seriously doubt the result of polls at this point because I think they are oversampling democrats, and maybe not even intentionally. The reason I believe that is that I think a lot of people may equate pollsters with the media. And for a lot of conservative or right leaning people that could result in 2 things, hate or distrust, or both. Myself, if I did talk to one, I never have, I would either lie to them or tell them to fuck off.
If there’s one thing lefties like to do, it’s talk about themselves.
Yep. I’ve known more than a few who will tell you as soon as they meet you how they’re the most liberal liberal that’s ever liberaled.
Relevant
To sort of bolster your point;
North Dakota is voting on legalizing weed in a few weeks. There’s been a few polls taken of likely voters:
My gut is that the 51 in favor is closer to accurate. However, it’s going to depend on those fucking millennials to actually, you know…vote, for this to pass.
WUT? Millennials in ND??
Not all the kids leave when they hit 18.
The book that mexican sharpshooter has been reading addresses this subject extremely well.
True story. I started reading it today; right out the gate he discusses the self-selection bias of people actually willing to answer pollsters, or even to answer the phone when an unknown number is calling.
I don’t answer calls or texts from numbers I don’t know, but I’m not even remotely tempted to answer anything unknown from TX until December: all either polls or “polls” even though I haven’t voted there in over four years.
Neither do I, simply for the reason that 90% or more of those are going to be scams or telemarketing.
Haha. Awesome
When writing, you are supposed to cut anything that doesn’t move your story forward, no matter how much you love that section of words, i.e., “kill your darlings.” Sometimes I don’t because I’m creating a certain atmosphere.
Today, I am cutting about 5,000 words of scenes I really love*. I haz a sad.
*Not sex scenes.
Horny bishop haz much sadz
Indeed. Now is time for church, during which we pray for a Chiefs win.
Booo!
/Broncos fan
You’re both really bad people. Just wait until Chucky gets to Vegas, then you’ll be sorry!
I can’t hold my breath for 9 years.
You mean 2 years.
Condolences.
I just find it hilarious, the false hope that you Donkey and Squaws fans have. At least I know the Raiders suck right now and are not going anywhere. Now that the Patriots have their super weapon, Edelman back, it’s probably all over for the rest ya’ll.
What story? I compose by letting my characters run rampant until I accidentally kill off the narrator.
The Prohibition one. I may have fixed my plot problem.
I am glad you got past the trouble spot.
I don’t know why I’m a writer, I meant the entire comment as a jibe at my own lacksidasical process, and didn’t even notice the more obvious read of the line.
it was obvious self-deprecation: hilarious
giving yourself shit is the thing you do best…..don’t change
The best part is – I’m not kidding. During the draft of the fight scene in Vanguard Hospital, I actually ended up killing off the narrator and went “Wait, that won’t work”
*fight scene in Vanguard Hpsital during Shadowdemon.
I hope you want me to laugh bc I LOLd.
Yes, I was hoping to amuse people. After all I fixed that issue before publication.
Actually, it might be interesting to have narrators change mid-stream, especially if they disagreed on events. The whole issue of unreliability would come into play.
Talk about a plot twist.
have narrators change mid-stream
As I Lie Dying FTW
Ooh, another Rashomon
Or you could have an amnesiac narrator, as in Mirage or Mister Buddwing.
I’ve never read Faulkner, but I’ve definitely seen Rashomon. Wasn’t thinking of it when I wrote that comment, I just personally like the structure. Note: I wasn’t trying to pretend this was original to me – nothing new under the sun, etc. etc.
It’s fitting that the ‘under the sun’ line is about 3000 years old.
Sorry, I missed it completely. Reading in a rush; missed the nuance.
Also, keep us updated. I’m not liable to read the book (Romance is not my genre) but we’ll gladly cheer you on.
Create a world in which Prohibition was never repealed?
That’s an interesting idea. I don’t write alt-history but that’s not to say I couldn’t.
Go for it. Maybe you could create an alternate timeline where Steely Dan created good music. That would take a ton of creativity. Are you up to the challenge?
?
I assume in that timeline Jaws was a lousy movie?
A Glib story where everyone contributes a piece of alt-history…
Steely Dan
Jaws
Pineapple on pizza
Dogs and cats living together…
Unified Glibertarians.
President Hillary: A Dystopia
*doubles up on antidepressants*
in that timeline Jaws was a lousy movie
in which they didn’t need a bigger boat.
I love alt-histories.
two thoughts
a/ Write new meaningful short stories from which your old tangents can provide the plot or theme
b/ Go full Faulkner and ignore conventional advice until the rest of the world catches on to your brilliance. For us Southerners, it’s all theme all day anyway: read only the odd chapters from The Sound and the Fury in reverse and it still makes sense.
I don’t recommend cleaving strictly to rules laid down by people based upon their own processes. At best you turn out a pale imitation of the works of the person who wrote those rules. That isn’t to say ignore all advice, but remember that in the end, it is all merely advice.
I have had a long and painful relationship with Da Rulez. I took a chance and tried to let my freak flag fly (although I was not courageous enough to go full third-person omniscient aka head-hopping) (and I “obeyed” another stupid rule that made the work clunky and I knew better but did it anyway), but have gotten more comfortable with my voice as others expressed appreciation of it.
I “kill my darlings” only when they’re really out of place. A quarter of my first book is just fashion pr0n.
My snippets file usually ends up to be the length of a whole book, and I have recycled more stuff than I care to admit.
I keep scrap files of major redactions, because it’s usually “That doesn’t work now, but it might work in another place/story”.
Yep, same.
But you’re writing for a crowd of bored housewives who like fashion pr0n.
” ‘Adios!’: Mexican newspaper Norte closes after murder of journalist
In Mexico, government advertising is a major source of revenue for many news outlets, and media critics say reliance on that often leads to tame coverage and self-censorship.
At least 38 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 1992 for motives confirmed as related to their work, according the Committee to Protect Journalists. The New York-based media advocacy group says 50 more were slain during the same period for reasons that remain unclear.
“Mexico is clearly going through a deep, full-blown freedom of expression crisis,” said Carlos Lauria, senior program coordinator for the Americas at CPJ. “It’s affecting Mexicans, not only journalists, because the fact that a newspaper closes is depriving people of information that they need in order to take informed decisions.””
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/03/adios-mexican-newspaper-norte-closes-after-of-journalist
I’m surprised it’s only less than two a year.
The Mexicans have a great plan though. They just send all their murderers and other assorted criminals to the USA and say that Trump is killing poor women and children if we don’t let them in.
And we’ve barely heard about this because nobody’s been able to find a way to blame Trump for it.
Of course it’s Trump’s fault. If he’d just open the borders, most of Mexico’s murderers and gang bangers could come here. Problem solved.
Is it pizza?
On the crust* we have red sauce, cubes of leftover roast beef, swiss cheese, and mozzarella
*properly thin, or I wouldn’t be asking
Maybe if you toss the cubes of leftover roast beef into a soup on the side or something.
It’s pizza.
‘Murican pizza.
Red? Check. White? Check. Hopefully that leftover roast beef wasn’t blue.
I feel you on the vacuuming of dog hair, Not Adahn. We have a similar breed to your visitor.
Hey, SP, I haven’t heard from any Glib editors on whether you’ll accept the short story I dropped off.
She’s still recovering from last night.
Indeed, we are planning to publish it. It’s just a matter of scheduling. The editorial team have all been traveling for work the past few weeks so submissions have been piling up around the joint.
Okay, thank you. It was the uncertainty that was more of a bother than either a yes or a no.
Hey Straffinrun, challenge accepted.
Damn cheating, lying-ass stars.
In the TB – CLE game, the current score is 3-2, which is not a score you see a lot in football.
Not so much anymore, now that you can’t touch the QB or receivers. In the near future, they’re just going to ban scoring, as it’s unfair, and judge the teams in terms of wokeness.
I guess the Redskins can pack it in.
I’m sure that a really woke prog can find something offensive about every team.
They can be the Washington Generals to the Woke Cosmotarians.
Generals? You mean like that slave owner Lee?! Or like that genocidal maniac Custer?! What a racist!!!11!
The hatred of losing is the primary fuel workness; this is why accountability is out of style. Coins shall forever more have heads on both sides; yin and yang are not needed to give each other meaning.
I suspect that NFL seasonal score totals and federal non-discretional spending are co-variant, symptoms of the same disease.
Me, I love defense: throw out a guy stealing second, sack a quarterback, check a guy off his skates at the blue line……yummy stuff.
Christ, I can’t edit: The hatred of losing is the primary fuel of wokeness
I think it is a hatred of actual winning – based on efforts, talent, etc. That is what the woke despise.
Winning is supposed to be a matter of proper leftie groupthink and shaming of all who don’t observe obsequiously.
The last 2 great NFL defenses I recall was the 2000 – 2002 Bucs and the Ravens from some year back then. They used to have these highlights back then showing poor receivers getting laid out on the field, now if a player does that, it’s a 15 yard penalty, $80, 000 fine from the league and a possible suspension. I hardly even watch now, the game is just not as fun.
“We’re going to take a knee on first, second and third down to protest sexual harassment, institutional racism, and transphobia respectively. And we only punt as a symbolic representation of how we feel about reality.”
You’re joking, but we are not that far from that scenario. Progs destroy every fucking thing they touch. Once you’ve let them in, it’s just a matter of time until things go do shit.
to
One of the players raised his fist during the Star-Spangled Banner in the London game, and then put it down for God Save the Queen.
All part of the demented narrative about the unique evil that is the USA. I’d love for some of these idiots go over to some other countries and see how racist, etc. other people(s) are.
Male Brooklyn “witch” has exact appearance you would expect.
“Because progressives belong to the Party of Science, they may wish to visit some of their like-minded fellow partisans at Catland Books, where they can also take a few courses: Demonology 101, Plant Magik [sic] 101, or Potions & Tinctures 101, which all are on the current schedule. Everything seems to be 101 — that’s a lot of introductory classes, a lot of foreplay for a master’s course in horsesh**.”
That pretty much sums it up.
I thought “magick” was the witchy way to spell it. Huh.
He’s a 40 something angry feminist with 3 or more cats?
Needz moar cats.
I’m glad you said three or more.
I have, and will keep it to, one. Like human women, I never gave consent for her to move in, she just showed up and refused to go away.
There’s a cat in my apartment complex that’s kind of like that. I’m currently home days, and the cat will come by, loudly meowing to be let in so he (she?) can be let in to hang out. I’d be friendlier to the cat except I currently have an inflatable sofa.
If I have cats again, I’m never doing two. They spend all their time on turf battles, fighting, being scared of each other, chasing each other away from the food, etc.* Ugh it’s so annoying.
*In all cases, it’s a specific one ganging up on the other.
Yesterday I learned on Ancient Aliens that if Hillary would have been elected, her and John Podesta ( yes, that guy), would have already told us all the truth about aliens. They really are the party of science. We’d all know about aliens if not for Trump. You can’t make this shit up.
Like I said the other day, when your bottom line is “TRUMP BAD!!!” And all you reasoning flows backward from there……it’s pretty rich to claim you are the part of science
I remember one time, a few years back, some dumb prog lady posted a picture of ‘faeries’ in her flower garden. Someone on whatever site that was, corrected her and said those are mayflies, not faeries. All of her woke feminist friends came to her rescue and insisted they were indeed faeries. And they were serious about it. /we freaking love science
How dare you question her lived experience!!!! In all seriousness though the solipsism that is post modernism sees no problem with this, they were faeries to her therefore they were faeries in reality. How civilized, technologically advanced people can believe this is astonishing.
When I was a kid, I think 10 years old at the time, someone told me about von Daniken. I was fascinated by this guy’s stuff, I thought he must be brilliant, it all seemed so believable. I bought all of his books. Then I found out the guy was a charlatan. It had a really powerful effect on me, I was angry and even felt sort of hurt by it, and embarrassed that I’d been had like that. I think it had a big effect on me and influenced me a lot. I became a skeptic of pretty much anything and everything. Sometimes I thank that guy for me never falling victim to more serious deceptions, like socialism.
I often say to myself when thinking of, or seeing things like people actually believing there are faeries in their garden, ‘well, they probably believe in socialism, and that’s actually dangerous’. 100 million people never died because some idiot thought there were faeries in their garden’.
Seriously? Who said that? That con man von Daniken, or his lackey Sukalotus?
It was the usual ones, the guy with the big hair and a couple other bozos. I’m not making it up, you can look it up and find it. Bill Clinton, he knows about the aliens too, for real.
Didn’t mean to imply you made it up. I’m just frustrated that they had to get political. I sorta like the show (as entertainment, not science) and am tired of seemingly everything having politics injected into it.
No, I didn’t think that. But being where we are here, I thought you might think I was just being sarcastic.
It’s really the first time, that I remember, that politics were drawn into an episode. But I recalled right away that back in 2016, Hillary was saying shit about aliens and now she was going to make the government transparent about what they know about aliens. Weak minded people. At least evidence of aliens is one thing the government is transparent about. There is no evidence. People want to believe shit, then they convince themselves to believe it, no matter how stupid it is.
Alternate reply: Yeah, just like Carter did.
You know who else was in Leo?
??
I’m with him ^
Mrs. Sayer?
That rapey grizzly bear?
His Catholic priest?
DOES FUNNY POTATO GLIB REALLY NEED TO ASK?
Many young models?
And you thought net-neutrality and Drumpf’s tax cuts killed a lot of people? Just wait for Drumpf’s nuclear armageddon! More proof that he’s a Putin stooge!…er…I think…
Trump’s ‘very dangerous’ decision to abandon nuclear accord has ‘mankind facing full chaos,’ Russia says
Because those treaties have all worked so splendidly.
Look, your deplorable, it’s the difference between you getting killed by 900 nuclear warheads and 1000. You’ll be a lot more dead because TRUMP!
The U.S. has already said we would put offensive missiles on our Defensive launchers in Poland, so the Russians did the same thing. none of this is new, and the INF treaty was a joke from the get go.
Exactly. Both sides have broken it already. Finger pointing over who did it first doesn’t really matter. It’s a joke, like basically every other one of these treaties. All they are is a security blanket to make the Malcolm Chalmers of the world feel better.
Russia is the last country I expect to attack us with nuclear weapons.
Mutually assured destruction is probably the greatest peace giver of all time.
Russia chiding us after they already broke it takes a lot of fucking gall.
This. Those missiles have been in ddevelopment for a long time. Not sure why they got to keep Kaliningrad after the USSR collapsed either.
What, you think ANYONE was giving Prussia back to the fucking Krauts?
Hm… „Königsberg” does have a nice right to it.
er… “ring”
He keeps saying and doing things that are not in Russia’s best interest. How do those left-wing loons keep up the “Putin Puppet” nonsense? I mean, there’s plenty of other shit to criticize the guy on. How in the world can they keep believing that Trump wants Russia to have any sort of advantage at all? If anything, Trump seems pretty rabidly pro-America…you’d think they’d be hitting him on that instead. SMH
That’s adorable how you expect those loons to be employing any sort of logic or consistency.
Today, I am cutting about 5,000 words of scenes I really love*. I haz a sad.
Saving them for another day, I hope.
Always.
From early morning links:
This judge is not ruling in good faith. The government is not arguing in good faith. I wonder if this were a restriction on the most precious of rights, the abortions, whether we’d see this Seattle judge dismiss the case because some common sense regulation hadn’t even gone into effect yet and besides woman could simply abstain from sex or encouraged to use one of the many, many existing forms of birth control that are readily available to them.
Are you up to the challenge?
The slate on which progressivsim is drawn is a vacuum; not knowing how anything works, how to build, grow, or raise anything, having never run a business or read any history are the primary prog pre-requisites. Those who know history easily critique the vacuous assertions of progs with comparisons to the record; what works and what doesn’t is well understood from the skins on the wall.
Then, come we to the question: what of Steely Dan? The proof is the same. As a guitarist of a certain bent and era, I’ve waded through Page, Hendrix, Montgomery, May, Buckingham, Gibbons, and some other predictable personages. I’ve far from mastered the six string, but I can keep up with, say, Elliott Randall in Reeling in the Years (far from genius, far from my favorite SD tune). What I’ve learned while developing the thick callouses on my fingertips is that behind some of the most amazing tunes lies not only theory and art but a physical connection between tone and instrument space: the trail traipsed across the fretboard or the keyboard tells a story that even the most admiring critic cannot fathom.
Accordingly, I invite the doubter to report of his attempt to replicate or improve upon the chops of
a/ Wayne Shorter’s sax on Aja
b/ Larry Carlton’s guitar on Kid Charlemagne
c/ Steve Gadd’s kit on Aja
d/ pedal steel on Brooklyn….Jeff Baxter?
Here’s one I’ve never heard: ya know, it only took me 20 minutes to knock out Little Wing; I got no idea what everyone sees in that Jimi guy. In musical tastes, there is no voter identification required. . .but maybe there should be?
We now return you to your regularly scheduled deep dish pineapple pizza.
That was a beautiful post.