Well, I was awakened at midnight by cheers of HAPPY NEW YEAR in the building and then fireworks outside that scare my cat. I put on the TV for a bit and fell back asleep, but here I am awake again. But it's fine, there's no where else I would rather be at 3:37 on NY morning, HAPPY NEW YEAR, everywonk!
The Fox late night host who is the MAGA version of Colbert/Kimmel etc made the hilarious 'joke' that with so many women in the government, NY city could be defeated by a spider. Apparantly this is based on some sort of prehistoric folk belief that women are more afraid of spiders than men are. In real life, I've found that men and women are afraid of spiders in roughly equal proportions. Of course I also have a muslim grandfather, so can probably not be trusted on this issue for many very logical reasons.
In an attempt to appease the right-wing nut jobs, the NYT started including some of the FOX idiot's 'jokes' along with its reviews of the other late night shows. Fortunately I did not have have to watch any of it in person.
I had to wrangle a snek out of my apartment a couple years ago. Just a black rat snek, and neither of us wanted them there. When I told my work colleagues, a LOT of them were freaked out, and gender didn't seem to matter. Is just harmless snek, no? Yes.
I used a forked stick to move a rattlesnake out of the way (and throw it into the canyon) once when my terrified beloved sister needed to get up the stairs and go to class at university. And I was just a girl.
Yesterday morning I sprached up a Zarathustra. I needed two facial tissues and a glass of Coke Zero to clean up afterwards. Some of it got into my keyboard.
That's the sad truth. Even if I want the world to stop turning, it won't. Time keeps marching onwards. My parents and cats and loved ones will get older and leave one day.
This is the world and the life we're given. What do we do with it? That's up to us. I choose to make it better for the poor bastards who have to deal with what we've left them.
MTV Music finally ended yesterday, with the song that started it all, and my favorite song ever. I was born in the 90s, so a bit too young to have watched MTV at its height, but I still recognize that it's the end of an age. Kinda sad, to be honest, but it wasn't going to last forever.
Fair enough. This was the actual music channels, not the MTV that plays reality TV on loop. But they announced last fall that they'd end, and sure enough, they sent them out how they started.
And bloodsucking network executives who realized "reality" was way cheaper to produce than scripted programming. Not coincidentally, after a writers' strike, IIRC.
Happy New Year! I am preparing to make croutons for my salad for dinner. They're so easy and are better that store bought, which you can't find here. I had never done it until about a month ago. Now I can't stop. I'll use them on salads, and eat them as a snack.
I think the botox goes to their fiveheads, and the collagen and HA filler goes to their lips, but I am no cosmetic surgery expert, just a simple country non-commenter so...
Well, I was awakened at midnight by cheers of HAPPY NEW YEAR in the building and then fireworks outside that scare my cat. I put on the TV for a bit and fell back asleep, but here I am awake again. But it's fine, there's no where else I would rather be at 3:37 on NY morning, HAPPY NEW YEAR, everywonk!
Good lord it's been quiet for a few hours now and starting to sound like an artillery barrage outside. It's 0235 MST for crissakes. I hate Phoenix.
The crew are like, "WTF??"
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I should learn this one I guess. Quite a choice for NY day.
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The Fox late night host who is the MAGA version of Colbert/Kimmel etc made the hilarious 'joke' that with so many women in the government, NY city could be defeated by a spider. Apparantly this is based on some sort of prehistoric folk belief that women are more afraid of spiders than men are. In real life, I've found that men and women are afraid of spiders in roughly equal proportions. Of course I also have a muslim grandfather, so can probably not be trusted on this issue for many very logical reasons.
Watching Faux Snooze causes neuron rot.
In an attempt to appease the right-wing nut jobs, the NYT started including some of the FOX idiot's 'jokes' along with its reviews of the other late night shows. Fortunately I did not have have to watch any of it in person.
RWNJs think they have a sense of humor and what they have is just plain stoooopitt.
They are SO freaked out that it would be funny if it were a more normal moment in history. Which it is not.
One of my uncles was very afraid of sneks
I had to wrangle a snek out of my apartment a couple years ago. Just a black rat snek, and neither of us wanted them there. When I told my work colleagues, a LOT of them were freaked out, and gender didn't seem to matter. Is just harmless snek, no? Yes.
I used a forked stick to move a rattlesnake out of the way (and throw it into the canyon) once when my terrified beloved sister needed to get up the stairs and go to class at university. And I was just a girl.
https://youtu.be/qJK3eUP5Hvg?si=NMQ_C_oFAnh-0Z7L
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Good night everybody. Stay safe, stay sane. Welcome to 2026, The Year We Come Back, all you happy people.
Yesterday morning I sprached up a Zarathustra. I needed two facial tissues and a glass of Coke Zero to clean up afterwards. Some of it got into my keyboard.
One time a friend sprached a Zarathrusta and they were never the same after that.
And there are too few proctodermatologists in existence to treat it.
Simba from yesterday. He's threatening to end my coke zero consumption until I order more tacos.
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Do you feel lucky, punk?
Nearly 9 hours into the New Year over here. Signs are OK so far.
Have a happy, prosperous, healthy and peaceful one everywonk.
Hopefully my hangover will subside.
hair of dog
Water and aspirin.
People -- keep on learning
Soldiers -- keep on falling
World -- keep on turning.
I wish us all Higher Ground
https://youtu.be/AcS3NOQnsQM
That's the sad truth. Even if I want the world to stop turning, it won't. Time keeps marching onwards. My parents and cats and loved ones will get older and leave one day.
Time keeps on slipping slipping slipping, into the future.
This is the world and the life we're given. What do we do with it? That's up to us. I choose to make it better for the poor bastards who have to deal with what we've left them.
Land of Confusion, indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7FKO5DlV0
MTV Music finally ended yesterday, with the song that started it all, and my favorite song ever. I was born in the 90s, so a bit too young to have watched MTV at its height, but I still recognize that it's the end of an age. Kinda sad, to be honest, but it wasn't going to last forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs
Music TV ended twenty years ago. It finally died as Mulch TV.
Fair enough. This was the actual music channels, not the MTV that plays reality TV on loop. But they announced last fall that they'd end, and sure enough, they sent them out how they started.
Well, it's not like I condescend to watch any of that dreck.
I don't either, mind you. X3 I just find it weird when a cultural touchstone, or something that once was a cultural touchstone, ends.
Reality TV is a stark demonstration of towering human vapidity and banality.
And bloodsucking network executives who realized "reality" was way cheaper to produce than scripted programming. Not coincidentally, after a writers' strike, IIRC.
I thought they quit playing music videos decades ago. They had all those contrived "reality" shows and shit.
They moved the music videos to a separate channel, MTV Music. That's the channel that ended broadcasting.
YouTube killed the video star.
YouTube kills the human spirit. The Algorithm is the new Satan.
https://youtu.be/wy709iNG6i8?si=QtkSqT0og5Te5Cjk
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Happy New Year all you filthy fuckaducks. WomanInThePersistance sends her regards, as does Freddy the dog and Julius the cat.
Oh, and fuck Ted Cruz.
happy new year!
It's truly not New Year's without a 'fuck Ted Cruz'.
Happy New Year, to you and your multi-species household!
Thanks! We need to go out drinking sometime. Love to you and yours.
Happy New Year! I am preparing to make croutons for my salad for dinner. They're so easy and are better that store bought, which you can't find here. I had never done it until about a month ago. Now I can't stop. I'll use them on salads, and eat them as a snack.
Laura Loomer seems less than nice
Maybe, but apparently she has "Big tits and an Ashkenazi IQ."
When asked to comment, Nice said "I don't know her."
Also less than hooomun.
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GAAAGH!!!!
That's exactly what The Crew and I said when this image first came up like a bad bowl of vichyssoise.
Like a ten day old chicken lips burrito
Botox to the lips makes the MAGA women look like they all have Howard The Duck as a father.
I think the botox goes to their fiveheads, and the collagen and HA filler goes to their lips, but I am no cosmetic surgery expert, just a simple country non-commenter so...
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Perxactly except moar fowler
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"Soon."
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