When I say “I’m not interested in politics”, what I mean is “I can’t bear to listen to another right-wing crank regurgitating the latest bullshit he’s read on Infowars”. Sometimes it means “I can’t bear to listen to my 100% white sister-in-law castigate me for not using the term ‘LatinX’”.

I just gave it a listen today on my bike ride. It’s pretty good - not what I expected but not surprising, either. I’d characterize it as Kate Bush meets Dead Can Dance meets early ‘70s King Crimson, and since I like all three of those acts I like Gibbons’ album as well. I was surprised to see that it’s her first solo album.

“Baby’s Got a Temper” is also a banger, but it’s a bit of a tough sell when you’re singing about how great Rohypnol is.

Charlie, poison, voodoo people and of course Keith’s firestarter.

First Prodigy song I ever heard was “Their Law” and that’s still their peak IMHO.

I think if you’re the son of a gibbon, it doesn’t much matter whether you’re a bastard or not.

I wouldn’t mind being Beth Gibbons’ bastard son.

Should we try?

Absolutely. You can feed all the unsuccessful attempts to the Shakespeare-typing monkeys.

I unfortunately have the wisdom of the convert, the faith of a bear, the strength of the aged, and the patience of a very tired mother.

Reminds me of my first anti-joke as a kid:

Knock knock
Who’s there?
Andropov [the Soviet Premier before Gorbachev]
Andropov who?
Andropov the kids at school!

Knock knock
Who’s there?
Gorbachev
Gorbachev who?
Gorbachev the kids at school!

TBH I don’t really know how I managed to eat all that shit, but the human body adapts to all kinds of mistreatment. I’m currently extremely fit and I eat healthy, and even just eating one donut now kind of fucks me up - makes me all jittery and nauseous.

Kids In The Hall forever!

Adlai Stevenson

Not voting is letting trump have an easier time at victory

The core of the GOP’s strategy for holding on to power is the disenfranchisement of voters who are opposed to them. Not voting (or voting third party) is self-disenfranchisement and doing the GOP’s work for them.

That’s why OP wrote “leftist” instead of leftist.

I love how people take the Soviet revolution as some sort of example of success, when what actually happened was that the original government collapsed because it was getting the shit kicked out of it by Germany, then a new government took over and got the shit kicked out it of by Germany before also collapsing, then the Bolsheviks strolled into literally empty government buildings and took over - against the judgement of most of the Bolsheviks who still thought the time wasn’t right to take over. Hardly a replicable or generalizable sequence of events.

My munchies were always worse the more chronically I smoked. The problem with chronic smoking is that you don’t really get much of a high after the first bowl of the day, so I would replace that with the taste rush of a mound of junk food.

That’s crazy. I always associated smoking with pigging out on junk food - like, five to six thousand calories a day of junk food - so I always gained a huge amount of weight. BTW anybody who thinks eating five to six thousand calories a day is impossible has never sat down and eaten a whole box (12) of Dunkin Donuts, one after the other. Or eaten a whole pint of Ben & Jerry’s, driven to the store for another pint, eaten it, and then driven back to the store for a third pint.

Vatican City? Just stay away from those 12-year-olds.

If his flag has yellow, he’s a fine fellow
If his flag has white, you’re in for a fight

What Would Anubis Do?

Harambe!