Is ‘greetings, fellow overloads’. I look forward to serving you on this planet.
Good lord, wouldn’t it be nice if some aliens showed up and went, dummies.
This is how you transcend your planet.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 930 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Sylvie And Bruno Concluded, Lewis Carroll
Comics: Tomb Raider v3 7-10
Music: Wheels, Foo FightersHonestly, yes, we have to push back against fascists, but what I really meant was we need to find a way to see that all this dichotomy bullshit is just a way for the rich to keep us focused on bullshit, on hating each other, instead of going after the only enemy that matters.
I’ll give you a hint – the words used to describe them usually ends in -illionaires.
Keep focus, no matter where you are on the spectrum.
The enemy is the 0.01%.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 621 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Sylvie And Bruno Concluded, Lewis Carroll
Comics: Tomb Raider v3 3-6
Music: Wheatus, WheatusI think the whole thing I’m trying to do with this Bad Neighbours thing is to really explore how absurd the political dichotomy is, and how destructive.
I’m not exploring a third option, and the crazier the right gets, there becomes an increasing need to draw that hard line and say, no.
No more.
No further.
Enough.
And then push back the other way until sanity is restored. The problem is, the rhetoric on that side, so willingly and completely divorced from any kind of reality or genuity, is almost impossible to engage on a conversational level. You can’t argue the points, because they don’t care to listen, and won’t respond in good faith.
There is no argument that will stop this anymore. We need to convince ourselves to take action, whatever action we can, procedural, legal, etc., in order to slow this monster down enough to make it to elections, which at this point, is a question of whether they’ll even happen or whether these fascists will try to find an excuse to suspend them or rig them, because they know in any even remotely just system, they’ll get blown from the water, and then, they’re all fucked.
Basically, every obstruction that can be made, every inch fought for; give up nothing without extreme cost. Make them feel it. Wear them down; they’ve shown a great deal of incompetency.
They will make exploitable mistakes.
Use the bureaucracy against them, especially since you can no longer trust the Supreme Court, and every block at a lower level just gets pushed up to the shadow docket. Plus, even when the court rules against them, they just ignore it and do it anyway.
So, block, obstruct, don’t make it easy. Make them work for every inch, make every yard a Herculean effort.
It’s the only way.
Push back, push back, push back.
And when it’s all said and done, and the extremists have fallen by the wayside, then maybe we can get back to ending the dichotomy.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1313 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Sylvie And Bruno Concluded, Lewis Carroll (god, this is shit)
Comics: Lara Croft And The Frozen Omen 4-5, Tomb Raider v3 1-2
Music: Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles?, Local H (quite possible the most underrated one hit wonder ever)It’s a fact that I’m not technically allowed to watch Bruce Lee movies, in that I get kind of hyped up and destroy college apartments.
But damn, man. So good. He beat up Jackie Chan and broke Chuck Norris’ neck (Chuck, who had a good thing going until he came out MAGA and now, no one thinks he’s invincible; he’s just another asshole).
Anyway, I should probably clean this mess up.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1699 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Sloppy Seconds, Tucker Max (somehow even stupider than the other ones)
Comics: Tomb Raider v2 18, Lara Croft And The Frozen Omen 1-3
Music: What Hits!, Red Hot Chili PeppersAt the end of Fist Of Fury, Bruce Lee jumps toward the police, doing his classic kick pose. The screen freezes and fades to black, and we hear the police shooting, sending the suggestion that he’s committed suicide by cop.
However, there is a whole gang of people standing only about twenty feet behind him. His girl, the other students of the schools, the Japanese consul. All those people are directly in the line of fire. No doubt he thought he was being selfless in his sacrifice, or maybe it was straight hubris, but it’s pretty well a guarantee that at least a couple of the people beside him, the woman he loves, a major diplomat, got shot, possibly fatally.
Jerk move, Bruce Lee. Jerk move.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 787 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Sloppy Seconds, Tucker Max (why do I do this, again?)
Comics: Tomb Raider v2 14-17
Music: What Evil Lurks, The ProdigyPart of me is just why – why live in this shithole world we’ve got now?
Why wait for what horrible thing is coming?
Why bother?
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1484 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: SNAFU, Ed Helms
Comics: Tomb Raider v2 10-13
Music: What Else Could You Want?, Bullet TreatmentI honestly don’t know where to go from here. The situation in the States gets worse and worse; they don’t even pretend to care about reality or facts anymore. They just spout lies.
How long before they just start murdering their opponents? I mean, Virginia Guiffre did not die of suicide – that’s bullshit.
They’re already doing it. The question is, how long before they just fake some charges and start doing it against the people they really want to do it to – senators and governors and journalists and such.
Someone hide AOC.
You know it’s where they’re headed – there will be no election in 2026. Not if they can help it.
You know if there is, and it’s not just a total scam, they’d get blown right the fuck out of office.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1086 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Sloppy Seconds, Tucker Max (nascent right wing culture, right here)
Comics: Tomb Raider v2 6-9
Music: A Western Harvest Field By Moonlight, BeckAnd beer. The local Barks ‘n’ Brew, always for a good cause, and a good time.
Beats yardwork, which is all I did this morning, after editing. I could use the break.
Every day seems more than a marathon, it’s a car chase, a manic Daniel Radcliffe running around with guns taped to his hands, a sprint with obstacles that goes the half-circuit.
I’m way too out of shape for it.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1347 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: SNAFU, Ed Helms
Comics: Tomb Raider v2 2-5
Music: West Coast Vs. Wessex, NOFX/Frank Turner (oh my god, Turner turning Fat Mike into a lyricist with his beautiful arrangements? I love me some NOFX, but whoever would have thought? Too bad the NOFX covers of his songs were... less good. The second half of this album is brilliant.)Thought I’d be caught up by now, but nope.
Too much doomscrolling.
Motherfuckers. Stop being so doomsy.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1013 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: SNAFU, Ed Helms
Comics: Monster War 4, Tomb Raider: The Greatest Treasure Of All 1, Tomb Raider: The Beginning 1, Tomb Raider v2 1
Music: Werewolves And Lollipops, Patton OswaltThe shooter’s not a lefty. He’s a right wing nut for whom the man who wants to stone gays and take away women’s right to vote isn’t extreme enough.
Shocker. Colour me shocked.
And yet, still, MAGA rages on, vowing war and retaliation against the left, who, once again, had nothing to do with the violence.
That is, as it has been and will continue to be, exclusive to the realm of fascists and bigots.
AKA – the modern right wing.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1402 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Carpet People, Terry Pratchett
Comics: Tomb Raider 50, Monster War 1-3
Music: We're Outta Here, The Ramones