watched first they came for my college today
watched First They Came for My College today. S is a fan of the filmmakers, so plus we’re from the area, so…
anyways: i loved so much the segments about josh, who comes in a young republican and leaves a normal dude. it’s very touching, more so than i want to sully by communicating, but i want to just take a second to note that specific kind of american loneliness that leads to guys like him, that anti-intellectual refusal to take ideas or “the life of the mind” as anything but utilitarian tools. you only matter if your useful, so on so on. so it’s nice to see him find people who care. a diva after all, as malcom x says, is the female version of a hustler
doctors questionnaire as poetic form
q: have you now or even smoked a cigarette?
q: drink: socially?
q: do you use recreational drugs?
q: any history of family wanderings?
q: have you had the procedure before?
q: net worth?
q: are you afraid?
q: did you do the proper preparation procedure? solid foods?
q: why do television commercials often show such anger at the requirements of the social world?
q: do you respond well to the procedure? will you now
(etc etc)
update
tomorrow i have a colonoscopy (don’t guess my age on this, you’re wrong) (don’t expect a post tomorrow, 50/50), and today i am on a liquid diet which sucks. i am hungry and in a bad mood :)
dragon quest x is available in english now, with a little finagling, on Steam deck. yes—yes—i read japanese alright, but i never played an MMO before. i have no clue what the hell’s going on with these systems
quote
L&J’s approach divides their readers into two categories. You can, like the authors, consider yourself among the departed, looking on these wooden characters with a gloating scorn. Or else you must be, like these characters, the object of that scorn. Either way, there’s little room for the empathy necessary to make such stories truly frightening. --- blog post about the Left Behind series of book, contemporary to them
there is a nihilism in denying the existence of the Other, huh. this world is very narrow, all outside of it is naught
(i was afraid of these books as a child, despite what the quote there says. i was too young to know, even, that i, as a catholic, would be among the targets of its scorn. maybe, then, i knew if it was true i should be scared)
lists
Foods that contain fiber
- fruits
- nuts
- brown rice
- oats
- granola bars
- green vegetables
- brocoli
- etc
- anything i want to eat today