#karate the band

[funkpunkandpunkfunk]

Karate - Rattle The Pipes

I really don’t make it a habit to like Karate albums but their In The Fishtank EP is hands down amazing, and this new record has a wee bit of funkiness, so

[porridgefeast]

an undetermined number of people you’d like to know more

I did away with the “nine” because I’m not tagging anybody anyway. I was tagged by my dear @emotionallychargedtowel.

last song i listened to

The last song I know I listened to is this cover of the Karate song “Gasoline,” which I really love and find cathartic. Pelican is an instrumental band and as such they don’t have a singer, so they enlisted this guy Chris Hansen from a band called Pinebender. He does a great job—his voice isn’t completely unlike that of Karate singer Geoff Farina, but he has a different, very affecting yell-y quality that really pays off when the song reaches its climax. And it’s a very climactic song / version of the song.

currently watching

Uncharacteristically, I don’t have one main thing I’m currently watching. I should soon. I just finished watching Not Me for the second time. I’m partway through the new miniseries of Justified. Like many people, I watched the first episode of Only Friends earlier today. Already a lot going on there! And this evening I thought I’d take a look at Gay Ok Bangkok per @waitmyturtles and I guess I got sucked in because I made it all the way through the show’s first season. Oh, and Jun & Jun.

currently reading

I’m near the beginning of Harrow the Ninth, which I’m finally picking up. I read Gideon the Ninth ages ago but I felt like I needed to reread it before I attempted the sequel. I got a new ebook copy of that one & read it on my July trip to Washington. I had bought a hard copy of Harrow in June when my colleague had an event for the release of her first novel; I wasn’t going to buy her book because I already had a copy by then, but I made sure to buy one book every time I went to one of her events. Another book event was my excuse to buy a copy of The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz, which I’ve wanted for years. I guess I’m also reading that, just very very slowly and not from beginning to end.

current obsessions

I often have at least one cooking obsession but the insane heat where I live has made that hard to keep up. At a certain point, food is barely interesting. Closest thing I've got now is tofu scramble.

Making cold-brewed tea in the fridge.

Fermentation, as per my reading material. I want to try doing water kefir soon.

I've wanted to make a scarf like Kaito's (below) from Zenkaiger since I saw it, maybe 1 1/2 to 2 years ago. ("Like" as in stitch pattern, though I'd probably also do stripes.) It just looks really soft. I have yarn brain at the moment because I'm scheming about yarn for this and a knitting project.

Probably my biggest current fascination (of a non-media-related variety) is mending things and practicing mending. My bestie is an avid thrifter who wears clothes to pieces, so I have a near-endless source of mendable items to practice upon.

Organizing, if something can be both an obsession and a source of dread.

[chaoszonex]

I think about this look daily. The hair. The shirt. Him. 🤭

[russolaw]

Daniel’s insta story from my model/musician au

[yourfavghestie]

so I was chatting with my ghesties on Discord and we came across this interview…and…

YOU TRYNA TELL ME ALL THE KARATE SHIT THAT COPIA DOES IS REAL?!?!

THIS WASN’T A LIE?!

I uh—

Wtf Tobbe 😭

[struck-by-the-rain]

sleepies.....

[tournament-terror]

if u showed me the og cobras together without any previous knowledge of the karate kid or cobra kai i would’ve thought they were a boy band

this is how they look to me with their gay ass matching jackets and motorcycles

[lady--katie]

THAT PART AT THE END THO 😳😳

(philadelphia 4/22/2023)

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

|Limp Bizkit + Halloween Costumes|

[philipjohnclapp]

Drop a request, I’m feeling frisky.

You can request AS MUCH AS YOU WANT IDC

(Check my pinned for what I’ll write for and if it isn’t there just request for whatever anyways, I’ll write anything no matter how immoral. Nothing is off limits REMEMBER THAT. Also stop asking if requests r open THEYLL be open forever no matter how old this post is.)

[gay-caveman]

song : the murder of love by propaganda

[jhsharman]

Commercial sell-outs

One of the more obscure Marvel Comics super villain was The Chairman, who made his appearance across several comic books in 1978. He had the power to turn people into chairs and was on verge of doing so to Spider-Man. I guess he just may exist in the same comic book universe as this alternate band, Josie and the Cup Cakes. We are not too far from mainline Archie here -- this premise for this story -- something of it was done with The Archies a couple times as Betty and Veronica needed to shoo away temporary replacement of "hot chick".

And a premise that shows up in Josie as well as Archie -- a psychic or medium or guru exposed as fraud. Though on this one -- I guess this guy ends up checking out.

A recurrent. Melody slips and slides on ice, panties flash a couple times, and guys rush in to pick her up. On the marathon dance contest, seems like a sitcomy set up.

And this is the world where problems are solved through Hostess snack food. So alluring, the guys just drop Melody. Familiar set ups continue to arise. Melody runs a lemonade stand. It's been done. For this particular lemonade battle, though, I see a plot hole -- why are they in competition at a charity bazaar? And won't this deplete the profits pretty totally?

And gorillas love Josie. At least twice. To be fair, in this third off-note time, the gorilla does not particularly have any affection toward Josie -- but he sure likes Hostess foods.

And while DC and Marvel are running with superheroes foiling dastardly actions by off-note supervillains through the help of Hostess pies and cakes, Archie has their teenagers deploying the pies to win favor or attention with either specific love interests or the opposite sex in general. Real "pie appeal" -- as a title of one of them puts it.

They make for good conversation fodder on a boring blind date! But if you find a shared interest he is interested in rambling on about and you are interested in hearing, go for it I guess.

Hostess food stuff is also useful to show up the snooty rich. The class war theme rears its head.

Proper motivation for athletic deeds.

And fighting crime and monsters. Now we are we are in Hostess universe Superhero territory!

Other good uses for Hostess products: insulting and taunting your supposed friends.

Dude really likes his Hostess products.

Good for sports injuries.

White trash candlelight romance.

Andy Warhol lives.

Whatever can Josie do to appease Alan M after a battle of the sexes saw the girls best the boys ... 30 to 9??? Good lord, that team stinks! On overhearing Melody in the changing room, supposing they assume she is trying on clothes -- what are they to make of Melody referring to some piece of clothing as "Yummy"?

Funny thing. Josie Hostess add did not appear in the pages of the Josie and the Pussycats comic book. There they switched out for an Archie one. The logic for this -- keep the comic book content separate from ad copy -- might be an explainer on why there are more Josie Hostess ads than Archie, Sabrina poking in with a few at the end. I am guessing that DC Hostess Superman would stay clear of Superman Comics and Hostess Fantastic Four not appear there either. For that matter Wendy the Witch is hawking Hostess titles not her own. Hostess Archie could not stay stay completely clear of the Archie titles, but they lightened the load.

[terr-hedgehog]

The birthday boy, Tomatillo Frittata (Fiddler from Clark)

[duffyduffles]

IM CRYING MY FRIEND SAID DUFF LOOKS LIKE JOHNNY LAWRENCE

[caito-does-stuff]

the tension between me and writing a crossover for my band au 🤭