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Look at this cool photo I took last night!
August 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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My thoughts on last night's magical show. It's always amazing to see them play Jersey. Warning: the second screenshot is a MILD CRITIQUE, just be glad I'm not wanking about it on tumblr.
I didn't know anything about the high concept behind this tour until we hit the road. H called it Gerard's world of make-believe and Gerard himself later referred to it as "some bullshit I made up." I love it when he makes up bullshit and the idea of a dictatorial country and commentary on the demands it makes of artists and the dangers of cooperating is a genuinely good one. It was so successful1! The perversion of the Black Parade from a literal embodiment of death carrying out the task of shepherding the dead to the afterlife into a tool used to further state violence! I loved it. I didn't even realize how much Gerard was acting the part until he started getting smiley towards the end of the album part of the set. And then goshhhhh they SO HAPPY. It was pouring out of them in the second set. The moon was gorgeous and full and they had a great view of it from the stage, and at one point G got distracted by it. Cute. The mayor of Belleville presented them the keys to the city and in return they gave him a sheaf of wheat and a wrapped up fish "from Draag." You can't make that shit up. It was very liberating to have one of the Draag rules be that you can only sing when you're unsure of the lyrics, although unfortunately I know almost every word of Black Parade and still sang nonstop. Call me WANTED I guess. Like all of their shows, it was that transcendent communal experience that left me both wrung out and full. E and I were talking about how polite everyone was getting out of the parking lot. At most venues in the DC area, getting out is a nightmare - everyone is cranky and rushing for the exit and you will be cut off unless you risk imminent collision or happen, after a dozen cars, upon someone willing to let you through. I don't think this is due to better manners of New Jersey folks but the way that show made you feel like part of a community. Critiquing Gerard's conceptual art has always seemed so beside the point to me but unfortunatelyyyyyy I have to do it this time. I think the imagery they used for Draag was not it. When I first learned they were doing a dictatorship story I was like, oh, a timely commentary on the state of our country! And I think it still is a valid commentary but the Soviet imagery (mostly the fucking sheafs of wheat, and the Eastern European accent and the vaguely Greek/Cyrillic-inspired script) distanced the commentary from the here and made it much less effective. The enemies of the state all being white, too. Or maybe it's me making it all out to be a lot more deliberate than what Gerard really intended.
August 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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This is great and led me to reread the book. Did you know the original edition of a case of possession has been replaced by a Japanese economics textbook? Lmao
February 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Ok so this is a different edition! I got mine a long time ago, it has this cover! And Amazon thinks I don't own the new edition of this book. I think this is the key, it's like they've recycled the URL of my book or something
February 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Here are two cats
February 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Uh, I have a weird problem? I was rereading The Magpie Lord, iykyk, and then I opened the second book on my Kindle and it's a random Chinese textbook? If you own this book, could you check and report back??
February 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Anyway, I learned to use the lathe on Saturday!!
November 4, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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I'm on Marco Island on vacation (leaving this afternoon though) and just look at these birds
December 23, 2023 at 3:28 PM
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I made pies!
November 23, 2023 at 3:21 PM
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Actual bumper sticker I saw yesterday that Ed Teach would have
November 2, 2023 at 1:33 PM
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Pumpkins! Scream is Erin, the other one is me. Not bad for less than 2 hours of work.
October 30, 2023 at 9:31 PM
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A polite catte who sticks to the lap
October 20, 2023 at 11:53 PM
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This is an Ellie call-out post
A cat laying on my chest looking like she never stood on my stomach, which she did
October 20, 2023 at 9:26 PM
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On @thirtysixsavefiles.bsky.social's tip, I got a sample of this TMA perfume called Jon and Martin. It's more Martin than Jon. Not enough paranoid sweatiness, though maybe it'll come out in the drydown.
October 20, 2023 at 9:22 PM
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This image is unfair
October 5, 2023 at 2:41 PM
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He's impossible to see without a screenshot
September 17, 2023 at 9:55 PM
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September 2, 2023 at 4:46 PM
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I've fallen into a fucking Tennant in Richard II gifhole and I want out
David Tennant as Richard II with ridiculously long hair and a nightshift, reclining on the floor with his goddamn head thrown back and fondling his own neck and also his feet are bare, fuck right off
August 21, 2023 at 2:03 AM
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@slip-stitch.bsky.social E and I are big mad at the case this museum chose bc it's casting a shadow right over the artwork
August 6, 2023 at 8:05 PM
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Suddenly, Jonathan Coulton????
August 4, 2023 at 12:13 AM
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We're seeing Regina Spektor and Aimee Mann :)
August 4, 2023 at 12:03 AM
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Also I saw the barbie movie AND a play this weekend. Here are my fits for both of them, respectively.
July 24, 2023 at 3:05 PM
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Yesterday I tried fused glass with @v-greyson.bsky.social and it was really fun. Breaking glass was fun, putting together little pieces of glass was fun. I came up with this design!
July 24, 2023 at 3:03 PM