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Reading: One chapter of each textbook: Done!

Two to five page autobiography for Human Services: About half done? It's a little over a page, and I've covered a lot of the material I'm supposed to.
Due date: Sunday night, 11:59pm

Watch video for Social Problems: Done
Take notes on video for Social Problems, including at least three observations on specific time stamps: Not yet
Due date: Sunday night, 11:59pm

I'm going to try and get my autobiography at least another quarter done tonight, and then I might call it quits for the evening.

Current Mood: too much homework for so early

thewayne

My, my, how time flies! But fly it does, and October will see the release of a 4K HDR box set of the newly-restored movie that will have TWO documentaries!

A lot of the movie cast is still with us, though we lost Meatloaf a few years back. Interestingly, the movie was not a success in its initial run, it wasn't until the midnight circuit picked it up and the shadow casting and other fun started and it took on a life of its own that it really became a success. According to the article, RHPS may be the origin of cos-play!

I'll definitely be ordering this when it comes out. As it happens, I listened to the soundtrack just a week or so ago.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/08/celebrating-50-years-of-the-rocky-horror-picture-show/

chazzbanner

Public service announcement

In case you didn't watch The Wrong Box recently, the video I linked to has been taken down by the channel owner. However, if you search YT you can find another complete version. Note: this one is labeled a classic American movie. It is not. It's as British as it can possibly be.

I wonder if I saw it on television, or was it shown in the Little Gym at school?

On another kind of comedy: I remember all the kids groaning when it was Curly Joe or Shemp in the day's Three Stooges film. Curly forever!

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birdfeeding

Today is partly cloudy and warm.

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.

EDIT 8/30/25 -- I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 8/30/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 8/30/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 8/30/25 -- I potted up 10 Ginger Gold apple seeds.

EDIT 8/30/25 -- I watered the apple seeds and the new picnic table plants.

I've picked several groundcherries today.

Cicadas and crickets are singing. I saw one firefly; it's cool for them and terribly dry.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

jadelennox

Thought process: "Why isn't there a biopic about John Brown? His life was weird and full of adventures and it would be a banger. Wait, maybe there is, let me check wikipedia... oh my goodness these are very different movies."

If anyone's seen any of these and they're worth watching (because good), or hatewatching, or avoiding like the plague, then let me know!

Santa Fe Trail (1940), with Raymond Massey as John Brown, also Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Ronald Reagan as General Custer. That's certainly some casting?

Wikipedia says:

[The film] depicted Brown completely unsympathetically as a villainous madman and Massey plays him with a constant, wild-eyed stare. The film gave the impression that he did not oppose slavery

and quotes from the film:

Mammy: "Well, Old John Brown said he's gonna give us freedom, but shuckins, if this here Kansas is 'freedom', then I got no use for it. No, sir." Then, a black man adds, "Me, neither. I just wants to get back home to Texas and sit till Kingdom Come."

So this certainly sounds like a gem.
The Good Lord Bird (2020 miniseries), starring Ethan Hawke as John Brown and an large cast including Daveed Diggs, Orlando Jones, and...Killer Mike? Sure, why not.

Did I know about this one? I bet I did—it won a lot of awards—but everyone's brain was oatmeal in 2020 and I am not sure I formed long term memories. Also maybe I heard of it and assumed it was about the Lord God Bird (the ivory billed woodpecker) because who wouldn't assume that?

Anyway the assessment of this is mostly a lot of awards and a positive rotten tomatoes rating so probably a safer bet watching Daveed Diggs as Frederick Douglass instead of Ronald Reagan as George Custer, yeow.

Current Mood: listless
Current Music: In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher by Chumbawamba

kaberett

Went out to get mozzarella to have with lunch. Realised halfway down the hill that we could go all the way down the hill and watch the latest batch of cootlings. DID SO while eating raspberries. Excellent.
Lunch also included home-made Tomatoes and Basils and Bread, and also separately a small baguette with fig jam courtesy of my mother and brie courtesy of Somerset via The Supermarket. V pleasing.
Excellent chapter of book has introduced me to all kinds of things including pain asymbolia.
I have DONE SOME ADMIN: THE LRP PAPERWORK. There is paperwork that is DONE and consequently in the RECYCLING. I have sent SO MANY E-MAILS. I am getting some really lovely responses! And soon there will be FEWER THINGS.
Playing with pens! Continuing to really enjoy playing with pens.

earthobservatory_iod_feed

Posted by NASA Earth Observatory

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/154744/haze-sweeps-over-the-mediterranean

An oblique photo from the International Space Station captured haze spilling from valleys in Italy and France and streaming south along the Italian peninsula.

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scans_daily

Words and art: Jerry Ordway

The second half of the original graphic novel.

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ranunculus

Lots of produce coming out of the garden. Lots of canning.
Table saw is finally cleaned, lubricated and ready to work. I got the wood insert table extension bolted it place, sanded and waxed. It looks lovely. Yesterday the dust reduction machine (dust sucker) got cleaned and polished. I don't polish things usually, but every 20 years one should clean up. Today I'll go to Home Despot to try and find 4 inch flanges and a hose for the dust sucker and then I'll be ready to use the table saw. Still need to build, or modify the chop saw table so it has a dust collection hood. I miss the old cabinet at Henry St that has a slightly lowered chop saw space with hood around it. Unfortunately that bench was built in and won't transport easily. Also I don't have room for it here.
Farmer's market today. I need meat and not much else.

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thisfinecrew

Because RFK Jr. is out to get us, CVS (and possibly other pharmacies) isn’t shipping the updated covid vaccine in 16 states. https://www.idse.net/CDC-News/Article/08-25/CVS-stops-COVID-shots/78068

In Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Nevada, state law says pharmacists can’t give vaccines that aren’t CDC-approved. In another 13 states, they can, but it requires a prescription.

These are state laws, so call your state respresentatives.

Here’s a script, and the Massachusetts phone numbers:
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This is in addition to calling your doctor’s office (if you have one) to ask for the vaccine.

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vvalkyri

Just got home from a truly excellent trip to the San Francisco area, where I stayed with

whitebird and his winery friends and

ciphergoth and Carlos and my cousin and his fiance, and managed to meet up also with Lindsey and Rob many years ago DC Acro (getting them to their first acro jam in San Fran after they moved there 2 years ago) and

megnaab and Dhananjay and Dierdre (all together in Menlo on the way to Ciphergoth) and a mask evangelist Fusion dancer named Alice, including vids of dancing by the water.

Even got to go all the way in the ocean, which was very much a surprise. And since one of the things I missed by being in San Francisco was a burn at a nudist camp, there was something completing in that ocean being a clothing optional beach.

I got to be out of here in half an hour or less to make it to lone bears kids barmitzvah, so there's more I want to write but I guess not just now.

What inspired me to actually show up on dreamwidth was there's all this talk of a certain Orange person maybe he's dead and I keep thinking I'm not sure that helps. Honestly I think it's going to be harder. Vince's still going to do everything out of project 2025 and probably listen just as much to Miller. Not being total chaos and making utterly WTF statements will normalize.

Showing up on dreamwidth meant I saw the Mississippi announcement and talk of Proton VPN as worthwhile. . . and in the comments learned of some other VPN that secretly screenshots everything you do:

https://www.koi.security/blog/spyvpn-the-vpn-that-secretly-captures-your-screen

cmcmck

More woodcarving from the church.

The sheep and the goats.

( Here be pics: )

Current Mood: photographical
Current Location: 'ome from the market

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Posted by Daily Bunny

https://dailybunny.org/posts/2025/8/30/those-back-legs-are-75-feet

Thanks, Lila and bunny Chester!

https://dailybunny.org/posts/2025/8/30/those-back-legs-are-75-feet

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Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils and inks: Steve Leialoha

I can’t tell you how close I was to dropping this series. Thankfully, this is the end of the Shadow King story.

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siderea

Current rumors engulfing Bluesky have me recalling an old Communist-era Russian joke:

Every day, a man walks to a news stand and pays for a copy of Pravda, unfolds it, looks at the front page, and throws it in the trash. Every day he does this, for months, until finally the news seller asks the man, "So what is it you are looking for on the front page every day?"

"I'm checking for an obituary."

"Comrade, the obituaries aren't on the front page."

"Oh, this one will be."