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macamonium · 3 years ago

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god help

I'm writing this thing and it's gonna make me cry lol

this is (hopefully) gonna be part of a larger fic, but as I was jotting down the outline this just dripped out. its abt self-love thru good food and Bakugou learning to forgive himself the right way

maybe tw for eating disorder stuff, though that's not what the fic will be about

Bakugou emptied a full-sodium packet of beef bouillon into the pan. The smell drafted through the dorm’s empty kitchen, and his mind wandered with it.

He knew, regrettably, that he reflexively went for the full-sodium bouillon because of his mom. Mitsuki had the same impatience for low-fat and low-calorie “diet” foods that she did for backtalk and attitude. She scoffed at the TV whenever it lit up with commercials of dancing, ever-thinning crackers, or the new zero-calorie alternative for something that was never meant to be low-calorie. Sour cream, for chrissakes! It’s fucking dairy, it’s meant to be that way!

She lectured Bakugou about it when he was really little, on some Saturday in the middle of summer. He was inside for the afternoon nursing an injury from what he reported was a particularly slippery log in the forest. Really, it was payback from a sore-loser gang of fifth graders. So his ankle wasn’t really twisted, but his chin sure was bruised - that log had a mean right hook. No way in hell was he letting the neighborhood kids see his face like that, so he was there, in the kitchen, pretending to take extra care of his left foot while Mitsuki made them lunch.

Stirring the curry in his own pan, which was now simmering, Bakugou could picture it more clearly than he had in a long, long while. He had been sitting on the farthest barstool - yeah, it was that one because one of the legs was loose and he was rocking back and forth, back and forth, and when his head swung along with it his mom’s hands, stirring the pan, popped in and out of view from behind the milk carton. He smiled softly to himself now, taking stock of how he was standing. How similar it was. Was she making curry that day?

If Bakugou couldn’t remember exactly what she said, he could make a pretty good guess on how she’d phrase it. He just knew her that well. He could hear her now - it'd have gone something like this:

“You see, when they first started puttin’ the nutrition facts on the packages of food products, back in, like, the 1920s, the chemists had a field day. I mean, really, they ran that industry.”

Katsuki didn’t know what industry was, but he liked hearing his mama talk.

“And at that time, chemistry wasn’t what it is now. It wasn’t molecules and atomic structure and that kinda thing, it was grams of this and milliliters of that. Still, that was more than regular people knew, so it was left to the specialists.”

She held the spatula out for him to lick. He took it in two chubby hands.

“More spice, mama.”

“Whatever you say, baby. And wipe your chin.” He used the bottom of his shirt, but she didn’t say anything. His dad wasn’t around for that kind of thing.

“Don’t get me wrong, knowing what’s in your food is great.” She gestured carelessly with the lick-marked spatula before plunging it back into the curry. “Certainly better than whatever was going on before. They used to put cocaine in Coca-Cola, you know.”

“What’s cocaine, mama?”

“A drug, baby. Makes you go crazy for a while. Don’t go trying it, and don’t go repeating it - though I suppose that’s hard in earnest, it’s what the ‘Coca’ in Coca-Cola is named after.”

“It’s named after D-RUGS??” Katsuki sat forward in his seat, but the squeaky leg cursed a whine at him and he sat back.

“That’s right: Drugs,” Mitsuki said to her eight-year old, her eyes wide. “Though people don’t make that connection anymore so they didn’t ever rebrand. They used to drink Coca-Cola when people got sick. It cleared out your sinuses, sure, but it also made you shout really loud and go streaking through the park. Ha! Anyway, where was I?”

“The. Uh… oh, the nutriss- nuturish-”

“Ah, nutritional facts. Say it with me, baby: Nutrition. Noo-trish-un.”

“Nutrition,” they said together. Katsuki smiled. Bet dumb Deku doesn’t know that one.

“So, the legacy of old-fashioned chemistry is that the nutritional value of foods isn’t really evaluated beyond the physical makeup of the food.” These were big words but Katsuki got the gist, and Mitsuki knew that. “It doesn’t tell you what those things do for you and your body, beyond ‘fat is bad, protein is good,’ and even that’s just considered on a physical level in regards to your body. There is so much more to food mentally, and emotionally, that goddamn counts as nutrition.”

“God-damn.”

“Yeah, don’t say that,” she said half-heartedly. “And I don’t just mean ‘veg out whenever you need it solely because it makes you feel good.’ Don’t totally disregard physical nutrition. I mean that food making you feel good shouldn't be totally disregarded either. Spices, for instance.” Katsuki cheered from his seat. “Yeah, you like spice.

“Food should taste good. It drives me up the goddamn wall when I see those health bitches on the TV drain out the grease from their meat. Right down the sink. That’s what makes it taste good! If you don’t want grease, eat turkey! And the ‘nutritional’ benefits of draining the grease hardly outweigh the emotional satisfaction of a good-tasting meal. At that point, it’s just a practice in self-sabotage, in pointless, self-inflicted suffering. And for what, so you get kudos from Nestle, who happens to be rolling out their new line of trans-fat free crackers? Please.”

She ladled the curry onto a plated bed of rice with a sigh. The smell made Katsuki’s tummy gurgle. He licked his lips really slowly, the same way he saw Spongebob do on the TV that morning.

“Anyway, my point is - when something tastes good, that’s good nutrition. Being healthy is being happy, and if the food you’re eating makes you happy, that is healthy. I’ll eat my pickles whole from the jar, even if Dr. Oz gives me a lip about ‘it’s too much sodium,’ and do you know why? Because I love the crunch of a fresh pickle, and I know that as sure as I know that there’s two grams of carbs in it because the sticker on the side tells me so. I know I love it so I do it, and that’s a beautiful thing. That’s something I deserve.”

She slid the steaming plate, loaded with peas, potatoes, and carrots in curry, across the table to her son. He reached for the fork, but she snapped it away at the last second. Katsuki looked into his mom’s eyes. “Say it back to me, baby: ‘Food should taste good.’”

“Food should taste good, mama.”

“I deserve this good food.”

“I… I deserve this good food.”

“That’s my baby, now eat up.”

A tear squeezed through Bakugou’s eyes at the memory, and fell down his cheek into the pan. He didn’t even remember the last part until it all ran through his head.

God, he couldn’t help it, and there was no one around to prove anything to - he made the effort to muffle himself with shallow breaths, but he let the tears flow free and hot down their tracks. This time they reached his chin. He asked the ceiling, berating himself on how foolish he was to think it would answer: did he still even deserve it?

#bakugou watched spongebob its cannon #idk how to write without long stretches of dialogue in the form of how I talk to people once im immediately comfortable w them #mitsuki as a good mom #let the kid say fuck #bakugou katsuki #bnha #mha #bnha fic #mintbiscuitswrites

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millennial-ring · 6 years ago

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Haunted Chapter 26.5

Tobi sat upright in bed, back against the wall and laptop resting on her outstretched legs that were tucked under the blankets despite the summer heat. Her bright green hair was pulled into a messy bun, stray pieces of hair falling out to frame her face. She kept having to push them behind her ears because they annoyed her, but she made no effort to properly pin them back. It was 5pm on her day off, and she still wore her pajamas, not bothering to change into real clothes despite her and her roommate’s plans to get Chinese before her roommate had to work. They’d both slept all day, exhausted and overworked.

Tobi’s hands hovered above the keyboard uncertainly, the exhaustion showing on her pale face. The bags under her eyes –which she usually liked having, since they gave her a “dead inside” look without having to apply make up at 7am- were much darker thanks to the 18 hours she worked in the last two days. She was attempting –and failing- to write the next chapter of her fanfiction, Haunted. She kept writing one or two sentences, then deleting them. Now she stared at the blank word document like it was mocking her.

“Fuck this,” she muttered, setting the laptop aside and getting out of bed. Her little black cat, Salem, chirped in protest at being woken up, and Tobi proceeded to get distracted with petting the cat for a good 5 minutes before she managed to make her way to the kitchen.

“Drink of champions,” she said to herself as she pulled out her third Vanilla Coca-Cola and cracked open the can. As she took the first few too-big mandatory gulps she recalled that this very drink had inspired her Fanfiction.net username –VanillaKokain, because the sweet vanilla-laced beverage was just as addicting as that white powder.

(In the real world, not fanfic self-insert land, the Real Tobi takes a second to retrieve her own Vanilla Coke from the kitchen before resuming the crack fic.)

Though she really hadn’t done much but write maybe two paragraphs, collectively, she considered taking a break and making something to eat. She wasn’t particularly hungry, but she couldn’t remember the last time she’d had anything to eat, so she set down her Coke and grabbed a box of Kraft Mac and Cheese – the new Star Wars shapes, because fuck you, the shapes taste better.

As she was turning to grab a pan from the cupboard above the sink, she spotted two people who were definitely not her roommate or friends, and dropped the box of BB-8 shaped noodles.

Sitting there on her couch among the dozens of decorative pillows were none other than Malik and Bakura; more specifically, the versions of the two characters that existed in the Haunted universe.

Malik wore his beautiful golden hair up in a ponytail, his outfit consisting of black skinny jeans and a white-to-lavender gradient tank top that Tobi had wanted to draw him in again. Bakura, meanwhile, wore his baggy red hoodie and grey sweat pants, his body surrounded by the weird, other worldly shimmering that Tobi always worried she didn’t describe very well.

The two men stared at Tobi, and for a long moment, Tobi stared back, too shocked to do anything but try and control her breathing so she didn’t scream. At length she picked up the can of Coke and checked the ingredients. “Did they start putting actual cocaine in this shit?”

“I’m pretty sure cocaine doesn’t make you hallucinate after one hit.”

Tobi shook her head, her eyes wide and an unhinged smile working its way over her lips. “No, you’re right, of course, I knew that. So this must just be a hallucination brought on by exhaustion and sleep deprivation and where is my phone I need to call chef and ask for some time off because I obviously need a damn vacation if I’m starting to talk to hallucinations of my two favorite YuGiOh villains!” The more she spoke, the more shrill her voice got, and at the end she took a deep gasp of air after not taking a single breath.

“Oh, we aren’t hallucinations, sweet heart,” Bakura purred, and Fanfic Tobi didn’t know whether to laugh or cringe at the pet name. Real Life Tobi thought it was hilarious, though, so she left it in there.

Tobi stared at them a moment longer before suddenly grabbing a ghost shaped salt shaker and chucking it at Malik. It hit him solidly in the shoulder and spilled salt everywhere.

“Ow! What the fuck!” Malik rubbed his shoulder and stood, shaking and brushing the salt from his clothes.

“Holyshityou’reREAL.”

“Yeah, Bakura literally just said that.”

“But- how- I don’t- you’re fucking fictional! Okay, this has to be a dream.”

“We aren’t a dream, either.”

“No, you totally are, because I have weird dreams about anime characters all the time.”

“But in how many of those dreams do you acknowledge it’s crazy to see two anime characters in your house?”

Tobi opened her mouth, a finger raised in her customary “Well, actually,” pose. She closed and opened her mouth a few times, trying to think of something to say, but in the end she gave up and pinched herself.

Fuck. Definitely not a dream.

Malik smirked as the reality finally, finally dawned on Tobi.

“Okay, but how, and why, are you two fuck heads in my living room.”

Bakura snickered. Malik pulled something from his pocket and held it out for Tobi to see. A glowing golden cube floated above his palm, one corner sheared off and replaced with a YGO-styled Eye of Horus.

“Ah. Yes. The Fanfic Device. Of course.” She paused for a moment, then frowned. “But how the hell did you get that? You guys are totally AU. There’s some stuff in your universe that’s based on canon, but the Dimensional Cube shouldn’t exist at all. Neither should any of the other Items.”

Malik nodded, tossing the cube from hand to hand. “You’re right, it doesn’t exist in our universe. We stole it from our Abridged counterparts when they entered our universe.”

“Your Abridged counterparts? I never wrote- oh shit. A Way Home.”

“Precisely.”

Tobi shook her head, raking her fingers through her hair and managing to pull more out of her bun. “No way. I just reread that fic a few days ago and YGOTAS Malik and Bakura never visited Haunted. It wasn’t even referenced.”

“It was off screen.”

“That’s…convenient.”

“Right? Anyway, point is we stole the Cube and used it to travel to this stupid self-insert crack fic you’re writing like it’s fucking 2005 again.”

Tobi rolled her eyes. “Why? Why would you come to this fic when there are a thousand others you could go to?”

“Because we needed to talk to you, and this is the only YuGiOh fanfic where you exist, aside from Where’s The Tan.”

“We don’t speak that name in this house.”

It was Malik’s turn to roll his eyes at Tobi’s dramatic reaction. “Believe me, I want to forget it exists, too. Thank god you only got three chapters in.”

“Anyway,” Bakura cut in, moving to stand beside Malik. “We’re here to tell you to get off your lazy ass and start writing our story again.”

Malik nodded in agreement. “We’ve been stuck in fanfic purgatory for five months, Tobi. Five months!”

“And you left the last chapter on such a cliffhanger, too!”

Tobi raised a brow. “It wasn’t that much of a cliff hanger.”

“My clothes just disappeared. You were definitely implying I passed on. But even we-“ he motioned between himself and Malik- “don’t know if I did or not because you haven’t even started the next chapter!”

“I’ve started the next chapter,” Tobi said indignantly.

“Yeah, because writing two sentences and then deleting them is definitely starting a chapter.”

“Hey, it’s an emotional chapter! And how do you not know what happens when I’ve outlined up to chapter 30?”

“Because that doesn’t count as a fanfic. We can’t travel to it and see what happens.”

Tobi grumbled something under her breath and rubbed her forehead. “So you stole the Fanfic Device from Sitabethel’s Abridged-based Verse and traveled to this specific fic to chew me out for not updating?”

“Yup.”

“Oh my fucking god that’s so stupid.”

“You’re the one writing it.”

“What?”

The three stared at each other again in silence before Bakura scoffed.

“Come on, how hard can it be? Just write the rough draft, at least! That technically counts as fic, and we’ll be able to travel to it and see what happens.”

“If it was so easy I wouldn’t really be struggling so much to write this chapter, would I?”

Bakura opened his mouth to retort, but Malik shushed him.

“Just do what you can, Tobi. We’re just anxious to see if we get a happy ending or not.”

Tobi winced. “I mean…Do you want spoilers? Because I can tell you what happens.”

Malik shook his head. “I’d rather experience it.”

“Same,” Bakura agreed.

Tobi sighed and picked up her forgotten box of Mac and Cheese, brushing a tuft of white cat fur from it. “Alright, I’ll see what I can do. But I really am exhausted from work, so I don’t know how soon I can get it done.”

“Like I said, just do what you can. Just don’t keep us waiting another five months, yeah?”

Tobi huffed and smiled. “I’ll do my best.”

Malik nodded and activated the Fanfic Device. A projection of various fanfics appeared in front of him and he began scrolling through realities in search of their own universe. Tobi watched, fascinated with the variety of AUs. While he was looking for the Haunted dimension, Tobi spotted a familiar scene and tensed.

“Wait, go back!”

Malik looked at her oddly but did just that, scrolling backwards. The scene on display was one of Malik spooning Ryou, while on the other side, “Amir” was spooning Bakura. Bakura and Malik exchanged confused looks, but Tobi was grinning.

“The Only Human universe! I’ve been obsessed with this fic forever!” She turned to Malik, giving him a puppy dog eyed expression that would have been adorable in an anime or cartoony style, but in the real world where shit was 3-dimensional it looked awkward. “Can you please go there and see how many chapters it takes until that Marik get truly comfortable with Kek and Ryou?”

“You mean, how many chapters are left until the big conspireshipping lemon?”

Tobi just grinned.

“No.”

Tobi’s face fell.

Malik flipped forward to their own dimension, the screen displaying Malik’s empty bedroom, exactly how she’d always imagined it. He tilted his head to the portal. “Come on, Bakura. Let’s go relive chapter 25.”

Bakura grinned. “I thought you’d never ask.” Without ceremony he slipped into the portal and disappeared.

Malik took a step forward, paused, turned back to Tobi. He looked troubled. “I…don’t want spoilers, but… Is there actually a happy ending?”

Tobi chewed her lip. “There’s a lot of pain coming your way but…technically speaking, yes. There’s a happy ending. For everyone.”

Malik smiled. “That’s all I needed to know.” With that he stepped through the portal and, just like that, Tobi was alone again.

Tobi rubbed her forehead, glancing down at her half-finished Coke. With a frown, she grabbed the can, chugged the remaining refreshing beverage, and slammed the can back down onto the counter. She took a few steps towards the bedroom, determined to actually properly begin that rough draft, but her growling stomach stopped her.

“Okay… First, Mac and fucking Cheese. Then I’ll write some angst.”

#haunted #i spent too long on this and no one is gonna read it but that's fine

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aion-rsa · 4 years ago

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The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 5 Review: The 7 Beer Itch

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This The Simpsons review contains spoilers.

The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 5

It feels like weeks since Homer last tasted the sweet temptation of bitter fruit, but there’s lime in his cognac, and extramarital peril in the air on The Simpsons season 32, episode 5. “The 7 Beer Itch” is, hopefully, the season’s traditional flirt gone awry episode. The Simpsons, as a family, like to keep their options open when it comes to romance, but with every near event the show confirms what we all know. The only thing Homer really loves more than Marge is beer.

The title refers to the film The Seven Year Itch, which is about how marriage gets stale after about seven years, and people are more susceptible to outside influences. But by limiting the time frame to seven beers is unrealistic. Homer’s way ahead of them on that. This season has been very musical, and Groundskeeper Willie gets to warble the explanatory song. It’s a tale of two cities, London and Springfield. Willie is singing it for Nelson, which makes it slightly rueful, and he doesn’t accompany himself on bagpipes. Those he saves for a major beatdown in a British pub fight against some wankers who are all in love with the woman of his dreams.

Olivia Colman (The Favourite, Hot Fuzz), voices Lily, a woman so vivacious and magnetic, Willie uses forks and knives in her presence. Her mission is to make life fun. She’s the kind of grand dame who can turn Macbeth into a comedy. She plays cricket on pool tables. Lily is a minor sensation, but like the Beatles and balmy weather she was too hot for England, and is banished to America, or as Willie calls it, Britain’s penal colony. Scots really know how to breathe new life into old jokes. Willie even dangles his haggis as a punchline.

The trip to America sequence is filled with a barrage of effective one-liners, as it tells the story through quip. Lily causes emotional turbulence on the plane. She gets Leonardo DiCaprio, in an uncredited cameo, to admit he plays the same part in every movie before he pleads with her to marry him. She has the same siren effect wherever she goes. Men hold up signs reading “We can kill my wife together.”

The Simpsons always affords more visual gags than might meet the eye to each installment, and while previous seasons lagged on it, they have been making a comeback since last season. While on vacation with the kids to the vinelands, Marge reads a book called “What to Read When You’re Reading.” These little bits, like Sergio Aragonés drawings in Mad, are consistently effective humor enhancers on the show. They are a happy distraction, and the episodes are much more fulfilling with them.

An errant wind on a dart board, because all Brits settle life decisions with pub acts of fate, sends Lily to Springfield: “America’s least romantic city,” a line which works on its own, but is actually a set up for the punchline about it being where men have the lowest testosterone. The most effective jokes follow the rule of three, so by the time she sees the “Welcome to Springfield, we put the sit in obesity” sign, the entire trip is underscored by as much inferred humor as it is moved forward through the musical numbers.

“There are songs about drinking,” a bewildered and besotted Barney asks. This is enough for the whole gang at Moe’s to fully embrace the British invasion. They’re as happy as the “little Nazi kids in Sound of Music,” the revelers enthuse with a deliciously subversive twist. Lily even turns Moe’s frown upside down, actually it’s his whole head, and quite surprising how much better he looks. It is at this point the episode plays with format. None of the Simpsons have made an appearance yet. Groundskeeper Willie makes note of it, and informally addresses his own second-fiddle status as the featured Springfieldian. He is only a small part of the story he narrates, because, even though he still treasures the last letter from Lily reminding him to never come near her again, this is all about Homer.

Homer is a loner in this episode. He’s been left alone before, with some chaotically funny results. This is enough to convince the family to leave the pets, and Abe, in the Flanders’s care. This and the “no Homer” clause in the three-week vacation offer is enough to set Homer up for temptation. Meanwhile, back at the bar, Lily is singing a song which ends “drink it up and throw me down.” Hallelujah. The show gets in a jab at English cuisine, however, when she has to validate her cooking skills as post-’90s.

While Homer spends most of the episode brooding over his missing family, Mr. Burns finds Lily stirs feelings in him he hasn’t felt “since they took cocaine out of Coca-Cola.” He tasks Smithers with tasking Homer with asking Lily for a date on his yacht, “Gone Fission.” The show continues the charade of Smithers’ sexuality when Burns explains he couldn’t have his lacky ask the woman out for him because he couldn’t trust him to keep his “hands off the ladies.” Smithers gives the knowing rejoinder. “How well you know me, sir,” with an underplayed acquiescence. His straight-line composure goes completely against the tried and true buildup, and the grin he brings to it is the subtlest of oral delivery.

Burns, on the other hand, goes full on James Bond villain: He hires a small orchestra like he did when he kidnapped Tom Jones to woo Marge in an early season installment, evilly strokes a cat, and giggles and giggles. Every giggle more maniacally villainous than the last. When Lily makes not of it, he appreciatively says “She gets me,” which, again, is a fine twist on a known cliché. It’s all going less than swimmingly until Burns does his princess cake dance, singingly wonderfully like Gypsy Rose Lee, “and his cardiologist makes three.” It is a grand move, but an anticlimactic ending.

The transition feels like a shortcut even though Homer gets to say “I hear you and I almost understand you” to Lily, which makes up for it. That and his admission that he specializes in saving people from trouble he gets them into. The climax almost comes when Lily asks for a damn proper kiss. Even though he and Ned got married in Las Vegas a few seasons ago, Homer has always maintained himself at unsafe distances. But the one element this almost-incident is subliminal. Lily says he’ll see her in his dreams, and the suggestible Homer takes it to an extreme and surreal level. Although his first concern is his dreams are where he keeps all his stuff.

Homer is very suggestible. Listen to how he routinely repeats every succulent description of any food mentioned on the show. He is a Pavlovian poster boy, the way he drools at the mere mention of even an appetizer. This actually gives the moral battle some suspense. It’s The Simpsons, and while we know the dilemma probably won’t go in that direction, the series finds another inroad to conflict.

On the vacation, Bart gets sick, which leads him to give a good take to a forced joke. When Marge asks if he’d like to watch “Itchy and Scratchy,” he moans, “I am itchy and scratchy.” Between this, the cobblestone roads which are torturing Maggie in her stroller, and the high costs of tourist traps, Marge decides to come home early. For an animated series, The Simpsons does a good job at skirting a delicate situation confined to a home. The unspoken conflict culminates when Homer actually makes an excuse to take a cell call. From a marketer, no less. You know how sensitive they are. The whole scene is actually played down, which adds tension.

The seduction comes down to who can more appetizingly sing about pork chops. Whether kindness, children and a true soulmate overrules the Mary Poppins of the barfly crowd, or if the whole thing can be written off for the chance to watch hot dogs spin at a stand. Homer is not a complicated man, but he is a big one, filled with fried food and heartbreak. Homer makes amends, but he is blameless because he is clueless. This usually works for him, as his cluelessness is his one great superpower. It’s saved him from an unknown quantity of calamity.

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In the past, Homer was more self-conscious of the temptations. He really isn’t a witting partner tonight. He almost exhibits a thoughtful obstinacy, it takes so long to register. This robs the episode of friction, and tips the balance. It turns Lily into more of a predator than she needs to be, but it also makes it all the more predictable. “The 7 Beer Itch” is loaded with funny lines and sight gags, but it doesn’t cover up how many times they’ve given us this premise. They can dress it up with a British accent, but it offers a performus interruptus payoff.

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whimsically-ominously-auspice · 4 years ago

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I took out

Pablo Escobar

Griselda Blanco

Rick Ross

Manual Noriega

Frank Lucas

The person whom sold me took out

Zhenli Ye Gon

Christoper Coke

Demetrius Flenory

I'm up more than two. I've done more she's tried more.

Now Christopher Coke was in a gang that distributed money to the poor, created employment, set up community centers.

Now this gang is the Shower Posse Gang.

So let me tell you Shower Posse Gang. I've heard of you since 2008.

I usually wake up like fuck off around me. You don't exist. No one does but my babies (children) don't talk to me. So i sat there with my testing bitch face.

Some people came in and i had shit time with the desk clerks. So i tried to get guests before they went inside.

So I did the whole scary gambit, walk like I'm,passing by then stop and turn on the pleased smile look. Like a creep. Like a robot. "Can i help you? I just wanted to know if you're staying at the hotel and if you need to check in or if every thing is fine" in a soft responsible caring Secretary voice.

Scares the shit out of people then the voice calls them and my face isn't stony nor stormy. But calm and safe.

Usually they're all "no get the fuck away from me everything iis great!"

And so then i say all hollow and spooky "enjoy your stay" and walk away in a linger ghost.

Then I sit back down and laugh. Right in front of them.

Christopher Coke walked over to me in alert mode "they are you okay?! What was that are you about to OD?!"

I laughed shyly yet with wisdom "no i just get bored"

"Oh do you actually work here?"

"I own it" i laughed.

He totally tripped out. Scared out his mind. He stuttutterd around and finally said "feel my heart. Man! I need to sit down!"

I really scared him. He said he was there to meet some old lady. I told him not to. He said he sure wished it was me he was to meet, i was scary enough.

I took him to my apartment on the hotel site and cooked him and his friends dinner. He was still so stressed he couldn't eat. Three of his people watched me cook the lasagna hamburger helper and saw I only put the ingredients from the box and opened a fresh shaker of garlic powder.

Nothing else. And so he ate. And had thirds.

He said "just like my momma use to make, I mean m6 nurse. A little salty tho. You sure she didn't add salt? Oh man where can i sleep? Oh I know right here on the floor that is a good spot"

And before the dishes were rinsed he was asleep right in the kitchen doorway.

I didn't know him, who he was. I just saw someone in need. Someone who was so terrified the air stood still and I could stir it with ease. Someone I could protect on one of the darkest nights we had had in months.

No stars shown that night, the air was eerie. I felt like an old man sailor ship waiting for his port at a loading dock near a broken light house, that slowly whittled around no light. While I sat at the picnic table near the office door just to smoke.

Someone could have explained to me why. But I just enjoyed the feeling.

Christopher stayed in my apartment with hia friends, blankets and pillows all over the floor, playing with Declan and my Annabelle, video games, cars, history stories, all sorts of children things. And suddenly he said "I having had coke in 3 days!"

He stayed for 17 and only had Coca~Cola.

Not a bit of cocaine. Nor did his friends.

They stayed busy and happy and healthy. In a home like setting.

Did what they wanted when they wanted.

Finally one night I went to smoke next to the office and i felt a faint glow and i heard "I went home. The lighthouse is yours now"

Someone was there watching over Christopher Coke to ensure I took him into my humble abode. With the four children I had taken in. One my own.

It felt good. "You mean these ain't all yours just this one?! And you just let us all stay in your house for free although we got money and all...? Shot woman, you crazy"

I would just nod and smile and watch them play with toys with the children. Then becoming children themselves.

Had they only known how much they truly paid me. But they did. I know they did.

Hearts do not lie.

Love is.

Nothing was exchanged. no explanation of how they were great gang leaders. I did not care. When they tried to say I only replied "there's no need to do that here. Lets just see that we are all safe"

My severe PTSD. It didn't flare or go into overdrive. When it seasoned at me i just stood and looked. Once Christoper caught me crying looking at his friends and the children sleeping all over the living room. He asked why i replied "just see to it you're safe. Id hate for the world to lose... This.. What you see here.. You with your friends"

And he looked at me crazy. A look I know as jailhouse don't make me cry. And so I just grabbed him in a hug and for some reason unknown to me and somewhat unknown to us both we just cried together. Standing in a hug until we both fell into the floor exhausted into a puddle of human heap, we fell asleep.

May 24, 2010. More than 70 people died, murdered, all civilians but one. In a raid of his neighborhood.

Just two years later...

She did it again.

She always does it. And she isn't me. Not my body nor soul she stole.

Same month as David Calloway just 4 days off from the same day.

Really why does she do these things?

I kept him hidden from her, they walked past each other several times. She would turn to stare at him, see me and say hmmmrrrppphhh.

I had children there. I lived there. What? She was going to have a cocaine drug war on my front lawn play red rover red rover until the deeds were done and she won?

She was a newbie. She would never have it won.

Like in a game of red rover you break the ropes. Not the arms. You slide in where you can.

You ask permission. You don't tell. Fight. Call in the dogs.

Work together

In a game of red rover there are two teams. In the beginning each team has certain individuals. At the end usually the teams are mixed. So your team members from Team A are now on Team B.

Cooperation.

Make new friends.

Its not about taking over. But working together.

Those 70 plus are on her head. Not his.

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Now Bry I’m gonna be upfront, I only read the first 6 paragraphs cause this is hecking long, but I would like to point out that “Coke” actually is an example of generic trademark. Coca-Cola got its start as “coca wine” which is basically regular wine with cocaine and caffeine added (the coca and kola of the name (this is back when standardized spelling was still a little new. Not New New, so I don’t fully forgive them for switching so much)). The guy who invented the recipie that turned into Coca-Cola as we know it today was not by any means the first or only person to make this drink, he was actually marketing it as “French Coca Wine” because of how popular the drink was in France. However after his death, on top of other people making other drinks as well (although many of those sellers did not adjust well to the prohibition so their business died out) there was a big legal battle between three parties over both the Coca-Cola name and the Coca-Cola recipe. Even today we see how many similar drinks there are on the market, and some of these rivals go back to pretty near 1920. So often this type of drink was just called Coke, and over time as the unique manufacturing and marketing of Coca-Cola inspired other carbonated drinks to be produced in a similar manner, and the generalization of Coke as “commercial carbonated beverage” took on more and more varied flavors.

‘pop’ is pretty heinous but like, I’ll accept it, yknow? it’s just the other half of ‘soda-pop,’ like how ‘cab’ and ‘taxi’ are the two halves of ‘taxicab.’ it’s fine. it’s chill.

but coke? that’s a fucking brand name! of a specific drink with a specific flavor! that shits RUDE, it’s CONFUSING, it’s DOWNRIGHT NONSENSICAL! fuckin misusing the art of language to confound your fellow man! the gall! learn some fucking respect

#i know too much about the history of Coka #its amazing what one afternoon of hyperfocus can get you

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Comments on Joe Biden’s Ad soliciting donations

Joe Biden sponsored this ad on FB. There were interesting comments. Sharing some. Not surprisingly only “Vote Blue No Matter Who” people support him. Comments are being presented as is - no editing. First his ad:

As a top Democrat, you’ve been selected by the Biden for President campaign to share your top priorities with Joe! We need your answers by midnight tonight, so don’t delay. Click below to begin the survey:

MaryBeth Sjostrom Pasmore

✅Opposes Medicare For All ✅Opposes legalizing marijuana ✅Supports the death penalty ✅Wrote the 1994 crime bill ✅Voted for DOMA ✅Voted for NAFTA ✅Voted for Iraq War ✅Voted for PATRIOT Act. Takes money from health insurance, corporations. ... no, I won't vote Joe.

Jenny Miles

Sorry Joe, you are exactly the opposite of what's needed. Too many reasons: 1. “The younger generation now tells me how tough things are—give me a break... No, no, I have no empathy for it, give me a break.” 2. “Trump is not a bad man” 3. Biden praises former Republican Senator who was forced to resign after 19 sexual harassment complaints. 4. Referred to immoral moneylenders as Shylocks - insulting and offending Jews 5. Supported attacks on Anita Hill (who had accused Clarence Thomas of “ inappropriate sexual behavior“) and refused to call witnesses who could testify in support of her claim. 6. Wrote 1994 Crime Bill heralding “the era of mass incarceration“ 7. Wrote 1995 Omnibus Counter Terrorism Bill “ allowing the Government to use evidence from secret sources in deportation proceedings “ (despite claiming to oppose that section he introduced the bill), and included 1st Amendment violating “anti freedom of association” provisions (became Patriot Act) 8. Opposed marriage equality; “ No. Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage” (has since changed) 9. Voted in 1999 to repeal Glass Steagall - leading to (as expected) the financial crisis 10. In 2001 voted for Patriot Act, emphasizing that it was essentially a copy of his 1995 Omnibus Counter Terrorism Act 11. In 2002 Voted for “illegal” Iraq War 12. In 2005 Voted to end bankruptcy protection for students [ Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) ] 13. In 2018 Presented George Bush with Liberty Medal “presented to individuals for their commitments to veterans “ 14. “I am not Bernie Sanders. I don't think 500 billionaires are the reason we're in trouble. The folks at the top aren't bad guys”. 15. Supported Civil Asset forfeiture, even without an arrest or conviction 16. Pushed for “Cabinet Level Drug Czar” to punish “drug crime” 17. “The punishment should fit the crime. But I think [marijuana] legalization is a mistake. I still believe [marijuana] is a gateway drug.” 18. Opposed spending money on drug research (including medical) on any Schedule 1 drug 19. Supported and introduced mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses that saw “the average federal drug sentence for African Americans was 11% higher than for whites. Four years later, the average federal drug sentence for African Americans was 49% higher”. 20. Despite the strong anti drug stance, his daughter was arrested for drugs (and a decade later caught on video allegedly snorting cocaine), but there is no evidence of a conviction or asset seizure. 21. Again, despite the above, when his son tested positive for cocaine, there was no conviction and no asset seizure. 22. Supported Militarization of the Police - that had no effect on reducing crime, but is correlated with higher rates of police discrimination against minorities (blacks) 23. Unable to “think of any reason not to run for President” 24. MBNA Credit Card Company in his home state was his biggest donor between 1989 amnd 2000. Biden voted against a measure requiring credit card companies to warn consumers of the consequences of making only minimum payments (and others). MBNA hired Biden’s son, Hunter, as a lobbyist straight out of law school, and later hired him as a consultant from 2001 to 2005 — the same years Biden was helping to pass the bill 25. Ukraine’s biggest private gas producer (whilst under investigation for corruption) hired his son to serve on its board while Biden was acting as the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine policy. 26. A mid-sized construction firm Hill International won a $1.5 billion contract to build 100,000 homes in Iraq had Biden’s brother, James, as its executive vice president, despite lacking any experience in residential construction prior to joining the firm. 27. One of the Senate’s top twenty-five earners of outside income — and, along with twenty-two others on that list (of top earners), voted against a bill to limit such earnings. 28. In 1979, after receiving donations from Coca-Cola, Biden cosponsored and voted for legislation that let the soft-drink industry get around antitrust laws. 29. The same year, he voted against a measure before the Judiciary Committee to expand consumers’ rights to sue over price-fixing — one of only two Democrats to do so. 30. Has a very close “revolving door” relationship with lobbyists 31. Vehement opponent of school busing implemented to tackle racial segregation 32. Opposed a deficit reduction military spending freeze, and supported an increase in the retirement age 33. “I have the most progressive record of anybody running" 34. Has NOT signed pledge not to accept money from fossil fuels industry 35. “rejection of the whole movement of black pride.” 36. After being accused by seven women of “inappropriate touching” , hugs kids, and makes jokes about it. 37. Offered Ukraine $1Bn to sack their prosecutor 38. Supports a number of anti abortion measures 39. Proud of his support for the death penalty for a wide range of offenses 40. No statement on pledge rejecting corporate money 41. No statement on GND (Green new Deal) 42. No statement on fossil fuel money pledge 43. No statement on support for universal healthcare 44. No statement on "free" college education 45. No statement on abolishing Electoral College 46. No statement on supporting whistelblowers exposing government criminality 47. No published tax returns for 10 years 48. No declared statement opposing Israel genocides in gaza��

- via Dennis Freeland

Lindsay Shugerman

Don't run. Please don't run. We don't need another corporate paid shill. Medicare for ALL, no fracking, free public college, livable wages (for real), end to Citizens United and lobbyists buying power. Renewable energy, not oil. In other words, NOTHING you support.

Matthew Pace

There is only one priority. Get the Orange Menace evicted from squatting in the WH; stabilize the government and pass it off to peaceful elections in 2024. The insanity in the WH has to end.

Josh Ruppert - Matthew Biden is just as bought why don't you research before running your mouth. Biden is put as a candidate because the DNC wants to loose. If Bernie wins their slush money goes bye bye.

Hugh Stearns - This anti-intellectual trope is brought to you by the DNC. How, before the primary, does it make any sense to interject anyone but Trump? Of course, we want anyone but Trump. This is an attempt to suggest that we must suffer another centrist candidate or risk losing to Trump. This is the same argument that was used against the more progressive candidate last time. If we want to beat Trump and future Trumps we better think critically about the elitist element of the Democratic Party and question their authority.

Allen Heinzer

My top priority is for Biden to withdraw and support Bernie

Allen Heinzer - Biden is a republican lite there is no establishment democrats they all just democrats in name only Fdr was a democrat Look up his record If democrats would run on that they’d never lose

Allen Heinzer - Ask yourself if he is a democrat why didn’t him and Obama give us universal healthcare when they had super majority in all 3 branches

Nancy Hollister Kozlenko - Allen Heinzer I hope you support who ever represents the Democratic Party and not go off in a huff if your guy or gal doesn’t win. That’s how Trump got in!

Lin Bower - Martha Korte Get real,Bernie is a back stabber.He was such a good friend to Hillary until she beat him .Then he wasn’t.A person like that is not Presidential material.

D Kim Sayre-Arnold - Gary Bailey And Bernie WAS THE SPLITTER IN 2016!!! HE NEEDS TO STICK TO HIS OWN PARTY, and please, stay out of mine.!

Pamela Jarvis - Allen, that about sums it up. Biden announced his run at $2,000 a plate fund raiser with corporate CEO's. I am voting Bernie. I may be old but I am hanging with the young progressive's choice..feel the Bern

Tammy Fox Sorry

my top priority is getting Bernie Elected.

Charlotte Arnold - Bernie cost us the last election. Republicans have a lot of crap on Bernie they are going to release if he wins the primary. Bernie will not win.

Lezli Magnani - Charlotte Arnold Bernie did not cause that loss!! The DNC shoving Hillary down people’s throats caused that loss. Again, the clearest candidate that can beat Trump is being ignored by the corporate democratic party. Joe will not be shoved down our throats either. Please just follow the money-look where Joe is getting his money from-always follow the money

Rebecca Sake - D Kim Sayre-Arnold once you take your corporate owned Republicans out of our Democratic Party then you’ll see Bernie is in the right place. And Bernie didn’t split anything, your candidate was too weak to win. #BernieWouldHaveWon

Rebecca Sake - Me too, #HealthCareForAll will only be attainable with #Bernie2020 Biden is backed by big pharma & Comcast. He's not a man of the people and he's out to make his corporate donors happy.

Rebecca Sake - Kim Crane they weren’t her votes to begin with. And every chance she had to earn those votes were blown by her own decisions, remember she said she didn’t need the progressive dems. You can think he took away millions of votes all you want, doesn’t make it true. The truth is, she never earned the votes she needed to win. End of story. Stop blaming everyone but the one who lost the easiest victory ever.

Rebecca Sake - Kim Crane actually it was Hillary supporters who, in larger numbers refused to vote for Obama. In 2016, Hillary failed to even try to court progressive votes. Most of us had very specific reasons to not vote for her, and her cheating her way into the nomination made it very easy to vote third party. A very small percent voted Trump but the majority voted third party. Btw you earn votes, they aren’t given because of the fear of the other candidate. It might also surprise you to know Hillary helped trump in the early primaries because she felt he’d be the easiest to beat. You guys forget that a lot while you’re trying to shame people for not voting for the most owned candidate in history. Your lack of insight and foresight is more to blame for a trump presidency than our educated choice of voting.

Anita Concilio

Health care Joe - and parity for women in the workplace and as citizens of the world. Child care, education, and for goodness sake, job training for the families in the midwest who have lost manufacturing and farming. Oh, and also, immigration reform, like amnesty maybe? Middle class needs some significant help. And campaign financing reform, oh, the list is so long. But I have faith that a Biden administration would focus on the things that will make America respected again.

Nicole F Sharpe

Joe, your time has come and gone by. You've made too many "bi-partisan" compromises that have hurt too many people, especially women, in your need to be liked. We can't trust you to do the right things in office because we know you'll cave to political expediency at the people's expense. You may get the DNC nod but you won't be elected, and we need a candidate that can be elected. Please bow out of the race now and put your support where it will do some good instead of sapping the strength of more viable candidates

Ashley Smuts Pizzuti

Joe - what are you going to do about your history with student loans? I know you love those lenders. We know your history. But you are very out of touch with a problem you helped create.

Mary Nikas

We have predators on our streets that society has in fact, in part because of its neglect, created," said Biden, then a fourth-term senator from Delaware so committed to the bill that he has referred to it over the years as "the Biden bill." "They are beyond the pale many of those people, beyond the pale," Biden continued. "And it's a sad commentary on society. We have no choice but to take them out of society." In the speech, Biden described a "cadre of young people, tens of thousands of them, born out of wedlock, without parents, without supervision, without any structure, without any conscience developing because they literally ... because they literally have not been socialized, they literally have not had an opportunity." He said, "we should focus on them now" because "if we don't, they will, or a portion of them, will become the predators 15 years from now." Biden added that he didn't care "why someone is a malefactor in society" and that criminals needed to be "away from my mother, your husband, our families."” https://www.google.com/.../biden-1993-speech.../index.html

Laurence Bridge

Medicare & the cost of long term care is the most important concern for those of us who having worked and saved all our working life,can end up in a facility that was once called the workhouse.Untrained staff, disgusting food,left to lie in our own waste ,to the tune of thousands of dollars from our life time savings,for these disgraceful places called LONG TERM CARE, perhaps our politicians should be forced to take a long look at the Chinese system,who treat the elderly with dignity in the twilight of their lives.

Cathy Sullivan

i'm going with .. go away Joe Biden .. we can't afford to lose to trumpy again. Make sure Hillary leaves with you

Deborah Birdsong

#NoJoe No more corporate democrats who run their campaigns using special interest monies! #OverturnCitizensUnited#Bernie2020

Mary Nikas

“Biden, by contrast, has been a bag man for big corporations for his entire career. Delaware is like the Luxembourg of U.S. states — a tiny tax haven and flag of convenience for corporations who own the local political system outright, and Biden is no exception. His economic policy career has been one disgrace after the next — sponsoring or voting for multiple rounds of financial deregulation, trade deals that savaged the American manufacturing base, and bankruptcy "reform" that made it much harder to discharge consumer debt (and nearly impossible to get rid of student debt). It's no surprise at all that on the same day he launched his campaign, Biden held a fundraiser including several corporate lobbyists and Republican donors at the home of a Comcast executive.”

Jeffery Ansani

Perfect example of his stupidity. Did he send this to all the "disaffected" white working class males who voted for trump in 2016 whose votes he needs to capture to beat trump? He's so arrogant he thinks his mere presence in the race is enough. And secondly, if I'm a Right Wing Fuckhead I use this to Demonstrate that he doesn't give a FUCK about ALL Americans' concerns. Like taking candy from a baby dinosaur. It's a transparent attempt to bolster small donor roles, nothing more. Seriously! All he has to do is look at the polls. We overwhelmingly FAVOR a Green New Deal, money OUT of politics, Medicaid for ALL, sensible gun laws, reasonable and humane immigration reform, free college, and just about every other Progressive proposals. WAKE THE FUCK UP DEMOCRATS! And when you do, smarten up too. These people have failed you for thirty years while Bernie has been FIGHTING for you. He's the only choice. For Robert Paul PaulKarla Jen Lynn Jannon and any others who may be thinking Joe is a good option. He's not. Look at the polls. Not the candidate polls but the issues ones. You'll see very clearly, he's out of touch. Don't argue with me, he's not the one.

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useofobjects-blog · 7 years ago

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Coca-Cola advertising

In January 2016 the Coca-Cola company released an online tool called “GIF the Feeling” which allowed users to create their own Coca-Cola adverts using a library of pre-selected Coke gifs. So naturally Daniel Joseph, a doctoral student in Canada writing about videogames and labour who blogs at @dropouthangoutspaceout, started trying to figure out how he could turn their tool towards frivolous critiques of capitalism itself. But of course Coca-Cola made this tool for a purpose, and they had taken steps to ensure nobody used it for anything else. A word filter took the sting out of critique by banning the word “capitalism” as well as “communism”, profanity, and terms relating to death.

A spokeperson said:

“Our intention is to invite people to share their feelings in a positive and uplifting way as they discover our new ‘Taste the Feeling’ campaign. We have safeguards in place including filters and moderation to help ensure ‘GIF The Feeling’ is being used for its intended purpose.”

Happily, it was relatively easy to circumvent, creating this image of the business world running gaily into future climate catastrophe.

Deliberately subvering adverts is a well-worn practice by now; theorists and boosters call it culture jamming. As with so many things (eg Pokemon Go) it grows out of French situationism, in this case the notion of detournement, or “hijacking”. A detournement is a variation on a previous work whose meaning is oppositional to that of the original, and the archetypal example is a prank that defaces an advert. Many actual examples of this are of course boring and stupid (COUGH banksy COUGH). Crude corporate attempts to limit detournement are de rigeur (see Buzzfeed founder and Deleuze enthusiast Jonah Peretti’s email chain with Nike when he tried to order custom trainers with “sweatshop” written on them), as is leftist debate about whether any of this is actually subversive or simply a fantasy of rebellion etc etc.

Beyond this there is the more genuinely anarchic thing which happens whenever anyone creates a tool for mass public use. The determination of people in general to hack and break and repurpose almost any tool which comes their way is a kind of playful correlate of Linus’ Law (”given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”) – though being a former humanities student rather than a comp sci guy I believe that social and cultural biases and blindnesses create massive variations in the extent to which that law applies. Anyway, of course thousands of people will have done whatever they can with Coca-Cola’s tool, just because.

These dynamics often combine. Where a company or authority attempts to interact with the public it’s now very common for people to take that interaction and transform it into a space where they can oppose and critique its owners. This famously happened with the #myNYPD hashtag and used to regularly happen to the regular #askBoris Twitter sessions run by former London mayor Boris Johnson.

But the particularly fun thing here I think is the texture of what Coca-Cola chose to censor. Ian Bogost systematically probed GIF the Feeling and found it banned jeez, heck, and hell; cocaine, heroin, beer, and cigarette; fellatio, head, sex, bikini, and even (replicating the persistent issue of dumb content filters blocking innocent queer content) bisexual; liberal, conservative, infidel, Christ, caliphate, black, and white; Pepsi, 7UP, Google, Android, Diderot, Cosby, and Nirvana; murder, death, slaughter, stalking; dementia, itch, and diabetes; lard, celery, coffee, caffeine, caramel; and a grab bag of strange terms such as peasant, junket, gizmo, perky, and divergent.

This necessarily constitutes an unusually comprehensive if bizarre statement of everything Coke considers unacceptable in its adverts. It is, as Bogost says, an “apophatic brand position”, which “tells us everything Coke thinks it isn’t”. It’s a perfect example of oppositional usage revealing qualities of the object being used: in this case, the exact shape of its superego.

But then, is this really an oppositional usage? Bogost concludes that all of this play and “subversion” still ultimately serves the purpose of promoting Coca-Cola and is captured by its needs. In fact he makes a good argument that this tool was much less vulnerable to oppositional use than the public-square-style #askBoris type hashtags. If so then Coca-Cola’s list of banned terms is not the amusingly exhaustive obsession of a neo-Victorian prude but merely damage limitation by a company which, like a submissive partner who could switch her role mid-fuck but chooses not to, knows exactly what is going on, and has priced that in.

#detournement #technology #Coca-Cola #capitalism #corporations #Ian Bogost #Daniel Joseph #censorship #filters

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Bolivia’s Coca Museum: Coca Cola, Cocaine and Culture

La Paz, Bolivia has the distinction of being the highest capital in the world.It is also the only place you will find a museum dedicated to the coca plant which became controversial when the Spaniards arrived and even more so in the twentieth century in the war against drugs.Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was himself once a coca farmer. But what the Catholic Church called “The Devil’s Weed” in the sixteenth century has been part of Andean culture since 2500 BC. The Coca Museum, which takes a studied look at the history of the coca plant, traditions surrounding it to the medicinal and nutritional value of the plant that spawned cocaine. I had my share of mate (pronounced mah-tay), a tea brewed from coca leaves, to help me with the high altitude of Quito. No, one cannot become addicted to coca tea. But it does help in the adjustment to high altitudes. My doctor and a friend suggested an oxygen machine should the need arise for they told me there was no way of knowing in advance who would be able to function at high altitudes and who wouldn’t. I chose the indigenous route.After all, they’ve been doing it for thousands of years and it works. One of the signs of altitude sickness is headaches. I felt like an old woman, exhausted after climbing a flight of stairs. In my first week, I could do very little without getting tired, I did get headaches and breathing was difficult. After three months it was life as usual, so by the time I arrived in La Paz, 3,660m above sea level (12,00ft), the height didn’t register. There was a period during the Colonial era that coca leaves escalated in value and was used for trading instead of gold and silver. However, for the indigenous people of the Andes, coca is a visiting card and part of the fabric of social life for indigenous Bolivians. Coca is also used as a stimulant and for a host of other ailments. I remember a Boliviano telling me that chewing coca leaves helped them to work harder when they had to and relax better at the end of the day. On the museum’s website and at the museum documentation shows: “It is certain that the ingestion of the juice exerts an anesthetic effect on the lower intestinal tract and at the systemic level. This would explain the custom in Andean countries to chew coca leaves or take coca infusion to alleviate pain over a wide range: headaches, toothaches, intestinal cramps, etc. Its use is frequent as a dressing topically applied on the painful areas, for instance in the area of a broken bone or arthritis.” It was not until 1859 that the west discovered the cocaine properties of the coca leaf. It was the wonder drug that deadened pain during oral surgeries. How did cocaine go from being a respected pharmaceutical to demon pill that took over souls? You’ll have to go to the museum or check out the website to know.

#coca museum #bolivia #la paz

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The Effect Of Coca Cola On Your Body

I liked to drink a Coke every day but a couple yeas ago quit altogether with no effect of coca cola avoidance at all. You may have heard that if you drink one can of Coke everyday and you take that out of your diet then you will lose one pound of fat per week which works out to 50 pounds of fat lost in a year.

Healthbolt had the following info about the effect of coca cola and what happens to you when you drink a can of coke.

Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.

Effect of Coca Cola On Your Body

In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.

20 minutes: First effect of coca cola on your body. Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (Theres plenty of that at this particular moment)

40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.

Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This effect of coca cola is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.

The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.

The effect of coca cola caffeine diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.

>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

The effect of Coca Cola After the rush

This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.

Yuck, this is not a nice message on what happens to your body as the can of coke goes through it but it is interesting. Now that we know the effect of coca cola maybe we should see the effect of chocolate next.

In researching some more I have found a few more great articles on the effects of Coca Cola. Livestrong talks about Sperm counts and the effect on stomach acid. Also this great youtube video about the disgusting effects of Coca Cola

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The Effect Of Coca Cola On Your Body

Healthbolt had the following info about the effect of coca cola and what happens to you when you drink a can of coke.

Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.

Effect of Coca Cola On Your Body

Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This effect of coca cola is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.

The effect of Coca Cola After the rush

This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.

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The Effect Of Coca Cola On Your Body

Healthbolt had the following info about the effect of coca cola and what happens to you when you drink a can of coke.

Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.

Effect of Coca Cola On Your Body

Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This effect of coca cola is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.

The effect of Coca Cola After the rush

This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.

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The Effect Of Coca Cola On Your Body

Healthbolt had the following info about the effect of coca cola and what happens to you when you drink a can of coke.

Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.

Effect of Coca Cola On Your Body

Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This effect of coca cola is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.

The effect of Coca Cola After the rush

This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.

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The only company that took legal action was Marlboro. Shortly after releasing a red-and-white sweatshirt with the words “Lichtenboro” in a Marlboro-esque typeface, designer Brian Lichtenberg was sent a cease and desist letter by the cigarette company. “I was like, you’re not even a fucking clothing brand – where’s your sense of humour?” he sighs. “It was so lame.” He destroyed the sweatshirts.

You may not remember Lichtenberg’s name, but you’ll know his work: a playful oeuvre of sweatshirts with subverted designer (and sometimes cigarette company) logos, which enjoyed a robust period of popularity in the mid-00s before being copycatted and appearing on market stalls and Big Brother. The most popular was Homiés, a play on Hermès, although few designers were left unturned: Commes des Garçons, Chanel and Gucci all fell foul of Lichtenberg’s printer.

Cara Delevingne in Bucci. Photograph: Cara Delevingne/Instagram

It started in late 2006, when Lichtenberg brought out a sweatshirt emblazoned with Brianel no1. It was a play on Chanel – who, miraculously, didn’t sue. Buoyed, he tried out some more wordplay. Homiés, Bucci, Féline, Ballin – when riffing on the slogans of Hermès, Gucci, Céline and Balmain, he didn’t once ask for permission. By 2007, business was flying. Bellweather of posh fashion, Browns of London, started ordering boxes of Homiés to sit alongside its real designer pieces, and they all sold out. Rihanna requested a Homiés sweatshirt and posted a picture of it on Instagram. One day, Lichtenberg was walking down Rodeo Drive when he spotted a wealthy-looking woman dressed head to toe in Hermès except for an orange Homiés sweatshirt. She entered Hermés. Lichtenberg went in, too, and asked the staff what they thought? The lady, it transpired, wasn’t the first.

This was to become his Kairos moment and, in fashion, signified that parodies were becoming a legitimate trend – “Back then, the easiest way to show your fashion cred was to mix an original with something bootlegged,” he says. It shows you are in on the joke. Cara Delevingne, Irina Shayk, Lily Collins, Paris Hilton and A$Ap Rocky have all worn them. A few years later, at a trade fair in Guangzhou, China, he spotted a girl in an Alexander Wang bodysuit with one of his slogans on it – “Like it was a bastardised monster!” says Lichtenberg. It had eaten itself.

Santogold in a Brianel no1 top. Photograph: Matt Kent/Redferns

Ten years have passed since Lichtenberg, now in his late 30s, created his first sweater. But something seems to have stuck. “I never thought it would become as big as it did and I wouldn’t dare claim I started a trend but, yeah, but I suppose it did start something.” From Balenciaga playing on Bernie Sander’s look to Christopher Shannon turning Hugo Boss’s logo into “Loss International”, current menswear is fixated on parody with counterfeits having moved beyond eBay and Etsy to becoming legitimate style items. Homiés et al have kickstarted a movement.

Daisy Hoppen of Dover Street Market says Lichtenberg’s sweatshirts are without doubt part of the reason bootlegs have entered the autumn/winter collections. Alongside Shannon and Balenciaga, there’s a surfeit of bootlegs in everyday fashion this season. See Expert Horror’s twist on the Al Jazeera logo and Junya Watanabe MAN’s use of The North Face branding on its jackets. This burst of renewed interest has naturally led buyers back to Lichtenberg. They are back on the Wavey Garms site, and last month saw an unexpected search surge on eBay.

Homiés sweatshirt.

Lichtenberg’s play on Céline. Photograph: Ben Pruchnie/FilmMagic

Of course Lichtenberg wasn’t the first designer to do this. But unlike cult figures like Dapper Dan, who dressed 90s Harlem hip hop starts in custom-built counterfeit Gucci, Lichtenberg’s stuff was affordable (under $100 for a sweatshirt), opening up the world of designer labels to people who couldn’t afford it. A few years earlier, Naomi Klein had published her takedown of the corporate brand world, No Logo, and anti-capitalist magazines such as AdBusters sat alongside The Face in WHSmiths. Logomania had bedded in to the extent that it was being analysed and unpacked in streetwear: “Adihash” hoodies and “Enjoy Cocaine” T-shirts that played on Coca Cola’s logo) were huge among teens and Lichtenberg’s Homiés sweatshirt sat on that much-coveted intersection between hipster subversion and fashion legitimacy.

To Lichtenberg, recontextualising logos “was just quite fun. You know, a bit creative, too.” He describes his pieces as “bastardisations, or mutations. A spin on something, on pop culture, on something familiar.” Lichtenberg says his designs were never intended to be that sophisticated. But that didn’t stop his pieces becoming one of the most identifiable pieces of streetwear in the 00s, invigorating the bootleg scene and questioning the relationship between fashion and consumerism: “I love clever things, like I love humour in rap and brands I can spoof. I basically see a logo and think what I can do with it, aesthetically,” he says.

Lichtenberg himself. Photograph: Lauren/WWD/REX/Shutterstock

The legal wrangles with copyrighting are clear – to legally do what Lichtenberg did required permission from the company – but, it transpires, loosely enforced. It seems dependent on the person. Beyoncé sued Texas clothing Feyoncé for using her name, while shop staff at Céline bulk-bought Lichtenberg’s Féline sweaters for fun. But it is nowadays becoming recognised as an art form. A Cold Wall* designer Samuel Ross cut his teeth making counterfeit sportswear, while sites such as Sportsbanger and Bowcut Garms’ brilliant, wilful logo mockery have both turned bootlegging in a creative form, by and large without trouble from the companies. “In a lot of cases, I think some of the bigger labels are able to rise above it” says Lichtenberg. “They see it as flattery. Some of them practically encourage it.”

At 2.30am, Lichtenberg is plugging away on his laptop. He’s always preferred anti-social hours, but these days it is more work-related – tonight, he’s up sorting orders for his contemporary menswear line for Harvey Nichols in the UAE, so the time difference helps. “It’s nice to do something classic and contemporary,” he says. “But every day I was terrified of getting a letter from Gucci because of Bucci. It hasn’t happened yet, but it was my favourite thing.”

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