Silliness, Spiders Georg, and good news
Feb. 20th, 2026 08:18 pmThis DW post has the Spiders Georg reference I was looking for. Since that posting, my friend's partner has gone into remission! Yay!
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Feb. 20th, 2026 01:07 pmПопасть на концерт Гоголь Борделло я пыталась начиная с 2010-2011 года, возможно раньше.
Каждый раз, когда я покупала билеты или хотя бы пристреливалась -- умирал кто-то близкий или случался иной глобальный пиздец.
Поэтому в декабре билеты покупал Патлатый. У него рука полегче, и карма почище.
Но вчера, целый день, я всё равно ждала, что где-то что-то ёбнет. В концерт-холл заложат бомбу, прилетит стадо зимней саранчи, начнётся третья мировая. Пока нннет, не началось.
И таки шо сказать, дорогая редакция? Ожидание длиной в 15 лет того стоило!
Панки живы, веселы, адекватны политически. Не подвели ни грамулечки.
Сегодня у меня болят шея и ноги, и голос сиплый. Just like the good old days.
А ещё Евгений выкинул все русскоязычные вставки в песнях.
Без "ах подайте нам карету, вот эту, и мы поедем к ебеням" немножечко грустно.
Но зато когда он объявил "this song does not have russian words anymore, heh-heh, you know why", несколько лаптеногов демонстративно изобразили драму и покинули зал.
Ах, какая утрата! Невосполнимейшая.
2.
День святого Валентина мы так-то не празднуем (я в принципе не люблю колхозные праздники и предпочитаю сугубо личные, как-то понятней, что праздновать), но в этом году мы решили, что харэ тянуть и нет в году более подходящего дня, чтобы купить себе настоящий, взрослый матрас.
Гусары, молчать.
НЕ из Ашана, НЕ из Икеи, НЕ из стрёмного постсоветского магазина со стрёмной тёткой. А такой, как в отелях, высокий и прям за деньги.
Больше скажу, он не белый, и не в мерзкий цветочек, а чёрный! вааау
И таки шо сказать, дорогая редакция? Инвестция достойная.
Адекватные жилищные условия в мою жизнь заползают крайне медленно. Вот нормальный матрас случился только в 44 годика, например.
But better late than never, right?
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Feb. 20th, 2026 02:00 pmHey guys, it's time again for our Annual Texas Cowboy Poetry post!
(My apologies in advance to Texas, cowboys, and poetry in general.)
Ahem hem hem.
swirling poo vortex
moistly encircles my horse
keep it off the boots.
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There once was a rodeo clown
The best of the whole bunch, hands down.
A real Texas Star
He's sure to go far
If he'd just stop horsing aroun'.
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Dangle the Dog's show had to close
The problem? Right under his nose.
Since it's hard to erase
the things on his face...
Now he just does puppet shows.
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Kill.
Kill, kill, kill
KILL!
Killllllllllll....
Kill kill.
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And for our grand finale, we'd like you to know that John wrote the next one. That's right, JOHN DID IT. So it's not my or Sharyn's fault. We're just saying.
Take it away, John!
Once upon a morning dreary, while I sat there, drinking beery,
Thinkin' 'bout this girl I'd ogled at the game the night before.
How we went back to her trailer, thinkin' I was gonna... uh, regale her
Shame she fell into the baler, just below the hayloft door.
"Geez Louise!" I screamed in terror as her bits lay on the floor.
"Now she's boobs... and nothing more!"
Thanks to Jodee R., Erica D., Tug T., Samantha R., Kristen, Emily S., & Willow M. for helping John get that off his chest.
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P.S. I see you appreciate poetry. Might I recommend...?
I Could Pee On This, And Other Poems By Cats
This hardcover gift book costs less than $10 and will have your friends feline fine.
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And from my other blog, Epbot:
Remembering Eric Dane (1972-2026)
Feb. 20th, 2026 08:09 amInteresting Links for 20-02-2026
Feb. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Looksmaxxing: Myth Vs. Fact
- (tags:funny trends beauty society bodyimage )
- 2. An excellent break down of the EHRC trangender toilet case, and the High Court findings. It is, as you might expect, a mess.
- (tags:law transgender uk lgbt )
- 3. Sizing chaos - an incredibly visualised look at how and why women's clothes sizing is a mess that lets down half of all women
- (tags:women clothing visualisation OhForFucksSake history society )
- 4. Psychology of Gen X Parents (I feel called out. Or described. Or something)
- (tags:psychology demographics history video )
- 5. What is Going on with Colorectal Cancer in young people?
- (tags:cancer age statistics )
2026/025: The Dispossessed — Ursula Le Guin
Feb. 20th, 2026 08:51 am... all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men’s acts, even the terrible became banal. [p. 130]
Technically a reread, but when I read this at the age of 14 or 15, I didn't really understand it: I recalled very little of characters, themes or incidents.
The brilliant physicist Shevek comes to realise that the collectivist society of Annares, a moon colonised by an anarchist movement, is not conducive to his work. He travels to the 'home world', Urras, which is ebulliently capitalist. Eventually he realises that Urras, too, stifles his scientific creativity.
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