The grocery store near me is hiring.

Are you in Seattle? Because a friend of mine and her husband are also both stagehands/techs. I bumped into her early this week (going in to the office to get laid off) and learned about the shows in the area and how bad it’s been. A musical that was in an off-Broadway run was just getting into tech rehearsals when…

A couple years ago I realized that I remember the first five or six years of my childhood were spent learning that it was important to share and be fair. Everyone got a cookie first, everyone got a turn with the blocks, that sort of thing. It wasn’t perfect, we were all rampaging little id-beasts, but the idea was…

I temped at Amazon here in Seattle, in the admin/tech area in South Lake Union, before Bezos smeared the city with his balls. Anyway, the work ethic there tended to be very bipolar: people were either super chill or OMGWERKIN’!!!! It was common to see people walking with their attentions focused on their smart phones.…

I spent five years making bondage rope. It was very kink friendly, discussions and props on display but nothing really gross or outré.

I cannot for the life of me understand the people who flush with their feet. I have seen it a couple of times and just... what? I mean, fine, you don’t want to risk your delicate extremities to the unfeeling void of stainless steel, sure. But do you think you’re helping maintain a certain level of hygiene by kicking…

And having been looking for work for five years, I’m utterly baffled by what these companies are looking for anyway. They’re after just the specific amount of experience and not one iota more or less! Or, y’know, desperate people who won’t know precisely how badly they’re being screwed who also WANT to work for Target…

Oh it gets better! Tucker Carlson called Mulvaney out for trying to undermine the administration!

“I never do the show in a place of malice”

“What can I say? Affirmative action...”

Hell there are clips of Mayor Pete saying that elections should just come down to the popular vote and to hell with the electoral college!

“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.” — Doug Stanhope

My (then) local game shop has monthly game tournaments, usually something that just came out in the past month or so. Often fun, sometimes not anything I’d want to play but I went to more than I didn’t back in the day.

If racist asshats can’t eat at Applebee’s, where can they eat? Cracker Barrel isn’t that omnipresent.

Because this slots in nicely with the middle class worldview that The Poors are fucked because they’re lazy/uneducated/etc but if bad things happen to Good People (Like Us!), well... it really makes you think, doesn’t it? Not that it could ever happen to Good People because they’re, well, Good People!

Today at Davos, Greta Thunberg told billionaires to “act as if you love your children”.

Eternally relevant...

Sorry, I was busy...

My girlfriend tells me that apparently there’s a counter narrative building, that the only people who don’t like Cats are the critics and, remember, the critics didn’t like Cats when it came out on Broadway either! Which.... fair enough, but the critics then were calling it a light bit of frippery that would soon be…

I find a dark irony realizing that at the dawn of the 20th century, it was thought that industry would become so efficient that we’d only have to work maybe fifteen hours a week? And that, it was argued, was simply because humanity had to keep doing things because we were too restless.