#curioser and curioser

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

David Rowe

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

A number of people telling me we all need a night off had almost convinced me not to write tonight. 

But then Trump spoke at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where he told a long, meandering story about golfing legend Arnold Palmer that ended with praise for Palmer’s… anatomy. 

He went on to call Vice President Kamala Harris—whose name he deliberately mispronounced—“a sh*t vice president. The worst. You’re the worst vice president. Kamala, you’re fired. Get the hell out of here, you’re fired. Get out of here. Get the hell out of here, Kamala.”  

As Trump’s remarks got weirder and weirder, the Fox News Channel cut away and instead showed Harris being cheered at a packed, exuberant, super-charged rally in Georgia. 

Trump’s speech comes on top of his repeated backing out of interviews and his bizarre appearances. Last night, his advice to an audience in Detroit to vote took its own wild turn: “Jill, get your fat husband off the couch,” he said. “Get that fat pig off the couch. Tell him to go and vote for Trump, he’s going to save our country. Get that guy the hell off our— get him up, Jill, slap him around. Get him up. Get him up, Jill. We want him off the couch to get out and vote.” 

Trump’s performances over the past few days seem to confirm that the 2024 October surprise is the increasingly obvious mental incapacity of the Republican candidate for president. 

It seems clear that a vote for Trump is really a vote for his running mate, Ohio senator J.D. Vance, who if he becomes president will be the youngest American president in our history. At 40 years old, he is two years younger than Theodore Roosevelt was when he took office in 1901 at 42. Vance would also be one of the least experienced presidents ever. His 18 months in the Senate has given him only slightly more experience in office than Chester Alan Arthur, who succeeded James Garfield in 1881. Arthur was a political operative who had never held elected office at all before becoming vice president. 

I’ll be back at the wheel tomorrow.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[elibean]

why did they retcon them meeting in highschool 😭 it doesn’t even fix the timeline. in season 1 it’s said they graduated two years ago (so 2019) but they are freshman in 2019 in this new episode.

also as much as i love them being so devoted so fast, they are going on this yingdu trip months within meeting each other. i preferred them knowing each other a bit longer.

Wait did they!! I thought they always met at the basketball court wait my brain’s breaking

But anyway it’s not 100% retconned yet bc it could be that they met one way originally but LG fucked it up when he jumped back!

Yeah I can see that! I think a part of this is bc this isn’t LG’s first rodeo so he already feels at home with CXS but yeah!

[lavellaned]

That one set of armor Davrin was wearing in the release date trailer had a certain Orlesian flavor to it. Rotating the idea in my mind that he’s somehow connected to the Orlesian wardens from dai

[hopelessgingerbread]

having a pessimistic outlook on life is weirdly comforting.

it doesn't have to get better for me to keep going. it might always be slightly bad, or else I'll be pleasantly surprised for a short period of time. I take medication, I go to the gym, I meet up with friends, have pizza and delicious pastries—this is system maintenance. there might never be doplhins and ranbows, and that's okay.

[purple-link]

WARNING ENDWALKER, SHADOWBRINGERS, AND PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ELSE SPOILERS

I wonder how the dragons fit into all this.

Aether is malleable, the Ascians learn how to control it.

It gets out of control, the Final Days happen.

The World get sundered, Zodiark and Hydaelyn are created.

Etheirys gets split 14 ways.

And that's when Midgardsormer arrives.

The dragons are not part of the Ascian's efforts with Aether, they weren't created, they were pretty much aliens from outer space. Hydaelyn, Norvrandt, and much of the recent population have been effectively "created," but the Dragons are not part of that equation.

[megahorous]

This time, I did the Alice in Wonderland missions in Power Wash Simulator; it was my first time doing them. I wondered if Alice herself would host any of the missions, but no

This Frog reminded me of PaRappa the Rapper's hat. Actually, someone suggested PaRappa DLC for Power Wash Simulator--that would be wild, but probably not likely

[edmy]

Well, well, well...

Who do we have here? 👀

[romance-club-daily]

Now that I realized that on the YSI Facebook page for the Narrative Designer/Scriptwriter vacancy, they asked for prior knowledge of the history/universe of Heaven's Secret and the ability to work with a concept from other writers (more or less that)...

It is a helper for Alice to expand the HS universe or...

This was posted February 1st/2023 btw

[nymphoutofwater]

And why? Cultural norms? Personal schedule? “Cause I’m always late to everything”?

Bonus points: Region and/or ethnicity?

[afrofeministe]

People can be very odd, I must say. I followed a cute blog a few days ago, then today I log in to find out they've blocked me.

Our blogs have (had?) very similar vibes so I'm not sure what caused them to do it. Like I said, very odd.

Wishing you well, random person who apparently doesn't want any new followers on here.

[gayyvamp]

Feels like my hair gets curlier and curlier

[oodelally3]

[greychristina]

templeoftogether - my favorite temple so far ❤️‍🔥✨🔥

#burningman #burningman2024 #curioserandcurioser #ᴜɴɪᴄᴏʀɴɪɴɢsᴏʜᴀʀᴅ #bubblesandbass #esplanade #blackrockcity #lovelock #thatthinginthedust #thatthinginthedesert #artcars #burningmanfestival #deepplaya #fuckyourburn #templeoftogethe

[solomons-poison]

JUDE ROUTE ANNOUNCED JUDE ROUTE ANNOUNCED

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.