Barnaby just whimpering outside as Howdy is working, poor pupper give him some love!

denied

To me, Machete kind of has the energy of a secondary villain/coldhearted side character in someone else's story that a lot of fans latch onto, moreso than the protagonist. Question is, would he be the villain in anyone's story?

Why, thank you! I'm actually glad to hear he gives off that vibe. I don't think he set out to become a villain but a lot of people certainly view him as one.

I'm going to be honest, we trusted the wrong uncle with pouring the whiskey. I've had a couple solo cups full now and I think my art broke.

I'm just scribbles now

picking up the pieces

Vorhim Kegran, Morag Tong agent

The things I do for friendship. Happy birthday @sukunasbabygirl.

Too Ugly to Prostitute, Too Honest to Steal

Skyler on 3/9/2024

Above is a photo of Skyler. He is a 32 year old homeless man that I first met about 5 years ago. I haven’t seen him for a long time. He was positioned outside the Wallgreens at 18th and Castro in San Fransisco wearing a pink unicorn costume then . Last Saturday he had the same slogan on his sign that he had in 2019 “Too Ugly to Prostitute, To Honest to Steal”.

He said that he plays loss prevention for Wallgreens. He stops people he thinks are walking out without paying. He can just tell that they are stealing.

He is a very handsome man. His eyes are a rich brown. His face is Olive complected. He’s remained beautiful despite his harsh living conditions. He now sleeps in the parking lot behind Wallgreens. His heath is poor, intestinal problems. He said that he remembers how I helped him out before the pandemic. And, our talks then. Meant a lot to him. He said that the pandemic changed street life. People don’t give as much now.I bought two Sharpies for his sign creation and a mood ring for both of us from Cliff’s hardware across the street. At one point , a blind man was confused as how to enter Wallgreens. I was involved in my conversation with Skyler and didn’t notice the blind man’s plight. Skyer who had been sitting on the ground, got up and lovingly helped the blind man into the store. I told Skyler that he was aware of the blind man’s needs, unlike me. His roll as guardian of the Walgreen’s entrance was important. I bought us both ice cream at Castro Station. We ate and said our good byes, and I started my journey home to Modesto. 

Note:

Skyler gave me permission to blog his photo and our story

message from a colleague this morning:

“have you watched fallout yet because you will LOVE the ghoul”

me, having watched two episodes last night:

fuck

yeah you’re a leftist punk but do you treat fat unattractive men with dignity or do you immediately assume that they fall into ableist stereotypes

I really like how severance makes a point of demonstrating the sheer intelligence, creativity, and potential of every severed worker. mark and gemma were academics. irving is a brilliant artist. dylan is some kind of genius probably. they’re not just mindless drones who opted to do this job because they had no potential to be proficient in any other profession. they were forced into doing this work through external pressures (economic or otherwise) that made this (torture) seem like the best option. just like everybody else in the world.

The Person You Love Least: Jesus Christ

How often we think that but for this or that person in our lives we should be saints! That troublesome person in the office, that exasperating fellow lodger; that spiteful old relative who is on our back like the old man of the sea! They are our stumbling blocks. Why is it allowed? Why is it that we cannot get away from them? It is because Christ wishes to be with them and has chosen us to take Him to them. He loves them, He sees the depths of their loneliness. He has plumbed it with His love. Moreover, He approaches us in them. They bring Him to us in just that aspect that He wishes to be known to us. His presence in them may save us from some particular sin. They may be, to us, Christ forgiving, Christ in his patience, Christ teaching. They may be Christ in His weariness, or Christ in His fear in Gethsemane. Christ facing His death. They may come dependent and helpless as Christ in His childhood or infancy. They may come as Christ in that particular need of His to which our response means our salvation. Possibly the neglected Christ in the Tabernacle to whom we have made such fervent promises of reparation, such acts of self-dedication, still awaits our rudimentary courtesy, unrecognized, unloved, and lonely under our own roof.

- Caryll Houselander (The Passion of the Infant Christ, pages 92-93). Italics original, bolded emphases added.

here we go primal 🥰

the crucification and the bbg-ification

thinking of making a diagram of chine like one of those “cuts of meat” pictures.. what’s everyone’s favorite chine trait?

umm