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tobiasdrake · 3 months

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The final battle to break the curse! Let's rescue and/or fuck up this guy!

(Alright, be cool. We might be able to handle this civilly. Talk him down. No need for violence. Just be chill and smooth.)

Sucks about your girlfriend.

(FUCK.)

Okay but, counterpoint: What if you didn't do that? What if, and I'm just spitballing here, we set fire to everything around us?

My guy, your message has been passed around more than a blunt at a rock concert. Part of that's on you; you never listed a mailing address and we've had a hell of a time tracking down your Return to Sender.

But I'll admit a little bit of fault on our part too. Everyone too busy playing Messenger; Nobody wanted to play Recipient.

With all due respect, I have permission to be here from who I'm pretty sure is the woman in that portrait. So. Y'know. Why don't you fucking leave? I don't recall her signing off on her property being used like this.

What I'm trying to say, asshole, is that this is a mail call. And the package is an eviction notice.

Oh wow. She was not kidding when she called you a powerful curse. But you won't fucking stop me! Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this courier from the swift completion of his appointed rounds!

Come on, man. We all have to face the music sometime. It's over. You're not welcome in here anymore.

Go on, then! Keep shooting. You want Amazon shipping? Huh? You want privatized carriers taking over the industry? No? Then you should--

Respect your goddamn postal service!

Don't thank me, citizen. Thank the existence of public goods and services, funded by your tax dollars. Allowing the erosion of those services in pursuit of unsustainable privatization is the real curse.

And now the whole music box is shaking. That's not a good shaking is it? On a scale of 1 to "Why did I set the music box on fire again" how bad is this?

RIGHT BEHIND YOU

Not to be that guy but, uh, are we sure we want to count our chickens while we're standing on what looks suspiciously like a Boss Fight Podium?

Not the time, Artificer. Let the man catch his breath first.

Yeah, I've been wondering about your loop. You were living on Mesa Island before the flood even happened. How long did it take for you to get called as Messenger? I'm genuinely curious about how you got roped into all this.

Oh fuck. See? This is why I didn't want to count our chickens. The curse mask got away. This isn't over yet.

Sigma!? Is that you!?

And then let it all out at once when we break it out of confinement.

Well, if we're all fucked anyway then there's no reason not to go out swinging. Violence, everyone? Because I'm voting for violence.

What, the golem? I kicked its ass solo. Don't we have something better than that?

Is it more powerful with six of us?

Fuck it, I'm not hearing any better ideas. Let's do this.

IS THAT THE FUCKING ECLIPSE CANNON

Never mind, Artificer! I profusely apologize for ever doubting you! Fucking nothing stands up to the Eclipse Cannon. And, hey, you even made it mobile! So long, one weakness.

CHOKE ON MY RADIANCE, FUCKWORM

Sorry, I just. I always wanted to say it. This is the best day of my life.

The postal service always comes through.

Assclown.

What.

No, for real. What. What the actual fuck.

What am I even supposed to make of this.

What the fuck.

#the messenger #drake plays the messenger

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mightyflamethrower · 2 months

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In the last six months, we have borne witness to many iconic moments evidencing the collapse of American culture.

The signs are everywhere and cover the gamut of politics, the economy, education, social life, popular culture, foreign policy, and the military. These symptoms of decay share common themes.

Our descent is self-induced; it is not a symptom of a foreign attack or subterfuge. Our erosion is not the result of poverty and want, but of leisure and excess. We are not suffering from existential crises of famine, plague, or the collapse of our grid and fuel sources. Prior, far poorer, and war-torn generations now seem far better off than what we are becoming.

What is happening to us is not due to an adherence to a too strict conservative tradition but is almost exclusively the wage of the progressive project.

In short, we are seeing fissures that America has not experienced in our cultural history since the Civil War. The radical Left apparently feels such chaos, anarchy, and nihilism are necessary to topple past norms and customs and thereby adhere to a socialist, equity agenda that no one in normal times would stomach.

Some of the decay is existential and fundamental; some anecdotal and illustrative. But either way, while decline came about gradually over decades, its sudden and abrupt chaos during the three years of Biden’s presidency has shocked Americans.

Financial Implosion

As long as interest rates were de facto zero, both parties ran up gargantuan debt. Now the national debt has hit $34 trillion. But two odd things have also happened under the Biden administration that are beginning to undermine the very existence of the U.S. financial system:

1) Interest rates have soared from de facto zero and are on a trajectory to 5.5%—meaning that the interest on the debt, in theory, in the not too distant future will require 20 percent of the annual budget, squeezing out both entitlements and defense.

2) Yet the upcoming rendezvous with economic Armageddon has not slowed a Biden administration intent on borrowing nearly $2 trillion in the current fiscal year.

The public is baffled: is the Left playing chicken with us? Is the strategy to “gorge the beast,” thereby demanding even higher federal taxes, which, combined with many state taxes, now exceed 50 percent of one’s income?

Is the goal massive “redistribution” by ensuring “equity” by gouging the middle class and rich? Or is the left’s goal more nihilistic: to force a remedy for insolvency by ensuring high inflation, renouncing government debt, or government appropriation of private capital?

Military Crises

Americans have lost deterrence abroad.

Confusion reigns among the public over why the Biden administration fled from Afghanistan, leaving behind billions of dollars of munitions and equipment in the hands of Taliban terrorists. Why did it allow a Chinese spy balloon to traverse the continental U.S. with impunity?

And why did Biden signal to Russia when preparing an invasion of Ukraine that our reaction would depend on the magnitude of Putin’s offensive? Why has military recruitment cratered, shorting the Pentagon of thousands of soldiers?

Why do Iranian proxies attack almost daily U.S. installations abroad and ships in the Red Sea, apparently without fear of reprisal? Why did Hamas slaughter Israelis on October 7? What explains our indifference or ennui?

Is the answer a deliberate effort to curb supposed American “arrogance” by once more leading from behind? Are we rebooting the Obama Administration’s bankrupt idea of empowering an Iranian crescent from Teheran to Damascus to Beirut to Gaza to ensure “creative tension” between Israel and the moderate Arabs and Persian-led theocratic Shiites?

Why do our officer classes rotate in and out of lucrative military consultantships, lobbying billets, and board membership on corporate defense contractors—as if their innate talents rather than their lifelong contacts with current serving procurement officers earned their exorbitant fees?

Why did our retired four stars with disdain violate the uniform code of military justice by serially and publicly trashing the commander in chief? Why has the Pentagon revolutionized the entire system of recruitment, promotions, and tenure in the armed forces by predicating them in large part on race, gender, and sexual orientation rather than merit or battlefield efficacy? Did we learn anything from the old Soviet commissariat system? Would we prefer to lose a war by promoting equity than win one by ensuring liberty?

Why did the top brass go after supposedly “insurrectionist” white males (who died at twice their demographics during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan) in the military, only to discover from their own internal investigations that no such cabal of “domestic terrorists” existed, and only to drive out thousands more of the maligned by stupidly requiring COVID vaccinations from those with naturally acquired immunity?

In sum, the U.S. will either undergo a post-Vietnam-like revolution in the military or, in late Roman imperial fashion, our armed forces will be unable to defend the interests or indeed, the very safety, of the U.S.

Race

Why, when so-called non-white ethnicities and races were achieving parity with or exceeding the majority population in per capita income and when racial intermarriage was commonplace, did we blow up the values of the civil rights movement and revert to precivilizational tribalism? Who were the sophists who convinced us that racially segregated dorms, safe spaces, and graduations, or using race as an arbiter of admissions and hiring, were not racist?

When did we lump together an entire cadre of diverse ancestries, ethnicities, religions, politics, classes, and values and dub them all “white,” and then smear them collectively in stereotypical fashion? When did we calibrate race as the chief determinative factor in our identities? Have we become premodern tribal people—feuding clans right out of the Norse sagas, ghosts of the Balkans nursing ancient grievances and hatreds? Since when in history has a nation’s “diversity” ever been preferable to its “unity”?

The Sexes

Did anyone in, say, 2004 believe that in just twenty years, the Left would try to mainstream the previously rare medical malady of gender dysphoria into a transgendered civil rights issue by insisting on three rather than two sexes?

Would anyone have believed that leftists, gays, and feminists would have done their best to destroy a half-century of female athletic achievement by allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports and thereby erase the record performances of three generations of women?

Would anyone have believed that a feminist and accomplished swimmer like Riley Gaines would be cornered, swarmed, threatened, and barricaded in at a university for the crime of daring to state the obvious: that transgendered women are still, in terms of their musculoskeletal physiques and frames, males and thereby have no business competing in women’s sports?

Would anyone have believed that a gay senate aide would have engaged in passive, unprotected sex in a public and hallowed Senate chamber, filmed in graphic detail his act of sodomy, had it circulated among friends and social media, and then, when outrage followed, claimed victimhood by accusing those offended of being homophobic toward him and his active homosexual partner?

Lawlessness

We are witnessing the steady erasure of jurisprudence, both civil and criminal. Does the law as we knew it a mere decade ago still exist? Massive looting with impunity is now largely exempt from justice in our major blue-state cities. In Compton, a van slams into a Mexican bakery as waiting crowds swarm, loot, and destroy the business. And for what? Some free pies and cakes? Or the nihilist delight in ruining the livelihood of a hardworking family business?

Such smash-and-grabs rob stores of billions of dollars in revenue each year. Can we even comprehend that employees and security guards are now ordered to stand down, as if the apprehension of such thieves might in some way seem illiberal or racist?

Does anyone even care that pro-Hamas protestors—many in America as guests on green cards and student visas—shouted support for the October 7 massacre of Jews, screamed for the destruction of Israel and the Jews in it, shut down the Manhattan and Golden Gate Bridges, defiled the Lincoln Memorial and White House gates, and disrupted Christmas celebrations in our major cities with complete exemption? Is storming the California legislature, and disrupting it in session, now a felony in the manner of those convicted after January 6, or do we have two sets of laws, dependent on ideology, race, and party affiliation?

In one of the most chilling videos in memory, Las Vegas Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus was recently violently attacked by an unshackled career felon defendant (with three prior violent felony convictions and facing additional new felony counts). The assailant, Deobra Redden, leaped over the justice’s bench with ease and began beating her and pulling her hair before two bailiffs, with great difficulty, managed to restrain him. Why was Redden out on parole given his violent record, and why was he not shackled given his toxic past? His self-admitted effort to kill the judge, his ability nearly to pull it off, and the record of past leniency accorded him are a commentary on a sick society.

But then again, in our major cities, George-Soros-subsidized prosecutors have all but destroyed civil society. They have been systematically releasing felons with violent criminal records on the same day they are arrested, freeing convicted felons early from prisons and jails, and sabotaging the law by arbitrary enforcement on the grounds that it is inherently either unfair or racist.

The post civilization civil bookend to that precivilizational subterfuge was a systematic legal effort, for the first time in American history, to remove in an election year the leading primary and general election candidate Donald Trump from various state ballots. The Soviet-like charge was that he was guilty of “insurrection,” a crime he has never been charged with, much less convicted of. Meanwhile, three state prosecutors and one special federal counsel—all leftists and some previously bragging in their own election campaigns of their intention to destroy Trump—have charged candidate Trump with an array of felonies. The vast majority of Americans agree Trump would never have been so charged had he just not sought to seek reelection—or had been a liberal Democrat.

Education

In ancient times, the President of the Harvard Corporation was a signature scholar and intellectual, befitting Harvard’s own self-regard as the world’s most preeminent university. No longer.

Now-resigned president Coleen Gay’s meteoric career was based on a flimsy record of a mere 11 articles—the majority of them plagiarized. Her entire career was fueled by the tired pretext that the privileged Gay was somehow deserving of special deference given her race and gender.

Confronted with such corruption, the Harvard Corporation, its legal team, and 700 faculty sought to downplay Gay’s intellectual theft. Indeed, they smeared her critics as racist—only then to deal with her new billet as a professor of Political Science with a long record of plagiarism that was exempt from the sort of punishments dealt out to students and faculty for less egregious defenses.

How did Ivy League degrees so quickly become mostly certifications of ideological and woke orthodoxy? Or is it worse than that? Does a Stanford history major or Yale literature graduate know anything, respectively, about the Civil War or Shakespeare’s plays? Do they even know that we, the public, know that they don’t know?

Was Elizabeth Warren really Harvard’s first law professor of color? Was Claudine Gay truly an impressive and respected scholar of political science? Are the governing members of the Harvard Corporation the nation’s best and brightest?

How in less than five years did our elite universities destroy meritocracy, abolish SAT requirements, require DEI oaths and pledges, and mirror the worst commissariat institutions of the old Warsaw Pact nations and Soviet Union? How and why these elite universities blew themselves up in a mere decade will baffle historians for decades to come.

The End of Sovereignty

The Biden administration has shattered federal immigration law, as some 10 million illegal entries will have crossed unlawfully and with impunity in the first Biden term—all by intent. The southern border is not merely porous; it no longer even exists.

Did the Left want new constituents? New entitlement recipients to grow government and raise taxes on the clingers and deplorables?

Did it want a larger DEI base to replace the steady exodus of non-whites from left-wing agendas? Does it shun sovereignty, preferring a global village without arbitrary borders? Do these utopians in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard similarly feel their own yards and grounds need no walls, no barriers, and no boundaries to deny the underprivileged their rights to enjoy what the predatory classes possess?

In this new America of ours, Joe Biden is hale and savvy, while Hunter did nothing wrong. Our heroes are Dylan Mulvaney, Gen. Rachel Levine, and the two Sams, Bankman-Fried and Brinton.

In today’s America, Karin Jean-Pierre is truthful, while Alejandro Mayorkas is honest. An innocent and saintly George Floyd was randomly murdered; his death proof of systemic police racism. And defunding the police brought calm and quiet, in the way our border is secure and the homeless are mere victims.

Dr. Jill is an impressive academic. Oprah and LeBron are the downtrodden and victimized. Gen. Mark Milley is a brave maverick, and so is Adam Schiff. The flight from Afghanistan marked a brilliantly organized retreat.

The Chinese balloon really did not take too many pictures of sensitive areas. January 6 was an armed insurrection, preplanned by fiery conspirators and revolutionaries. Ashli Babbitt deserved to be blasted in the neck for entering a broken window.

Kamala Harris is a wordsmith. Russian collusion really happened. So did Russian laptop disinformation. Christopher Steele’s dossier was mostly true, in the fashion of Claudine Gay’s dissertation and Barack Obama’s memoir. And 51 former intelligence authorities bravely came forward to offer their expertise in certifying that Hunter’s laptop was cooked up in Moscow.

With all this, what do we think the Iranians, Putin’s Russians, the communist Chinese, the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas now think of the United States?

That we are the nation that won World War II or fled from Afghanistan? Did the eight million who broke our laws and simply walked across our border respect us, fear us, admire us, or come here to manipulate and use us? Did Hamas appreciate the hundreds of millions of dollars we gave them, in the same way Iran was friendlier after we lifted the sanctions?

In sum, American civilization has been turned upside down, and we have a rendezvous soon with the once unthinkable and unimaginable.

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shcherbatskya · 4 months

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do NOT listen to them by the way that cd is NOT 25 dollars it’s THIRTY SIX because they will make you pay for tax and shipping 😐

#i’ll buy it anyway because i’m in a mood but what ever 😐#samael speaks

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 5 months

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[W. D. Cooper, “Boston Tea Party,” The History of North America (London: E. Newberry, 1789); Library of Congress, public domain. Accessed on Wikipedia Commons.]

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

December 16, 2023 (Saturday)

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

DEC 17, 2023

Today is the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, when 30 or more men boarded three trading vessels in Boston Harbor. They broke open 342 chests of tea and dumped about 90,000 pounds of the valuable leaves overboard.

The pointed destruction of a cargo worth about $1.7 million in today’s dollars escalated the ongoing struggle between the British government and thirteen of its North American colonies.

Trouble had been growing since the end in 1763 of what the colonists knew as the French and Indian War. That conflict dramatically expanded British possessions in North America, but at the cost of badly stretching the Treasury. To raise revenue, the king’s ministers and Parliament placed a number of taxes on the colonists, including the 1765 Stamp Act. This law hit virtually everyone by taxing printed material from newspapers and legal documents to playing cards.

The Stamp Act shocked colonists. At issue was not just money, but a central political struggle that had been going on in England for more than a century: could the king be checked by the people or were his powers unlimited? Colonists were not directly represented in Parliament and believed they were losing their fundamental right as Englishmen to have a say in their government. They responded to the Stamp Act with widespread protests.

In 1766, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act but claimed for Parliament “full power and authority to make laws and statutes…to bind the colonies and people of America…in all cases whatsoever.” This act echoed the 1719 Irish Declaratory Act, which asserted that Ireland was subordinate to the British king and Parliament. It also imposed new taxes.

As soon as news of the Declaratory Act and the new taxes reached Boston in 1767, the Massachusetts legislature circulated a letter to the other colonies standing firm on the right to equality in the British empire. Local groups boycotted taxed goods and broke into warehouses whose owners they thought were breaking the boycott. In 1768, British officials sent troops to Boston to restore order.

Events began to move faster and faster. In March 1770, British soldiers in Boston shot into a crowd of men and boys who were harassing them, killing five and wounding six others. Engraver Paul Revere made an instantly-famous image showing soldiers in red coats smiling as they shot at colonists, including Black man Crispus Attucks. The altercation became known as the Boston Massacre.

Parliament removed all but one of the new taxes—the tax on tea—but trouble continued to simmer. In 1771 and 1772, an official in New Hampshire ordered a search of sawmills for white pine that bore the mark of the King’s Broad Arrow, three blazes on a tree— one straight up and two making an upside-down V— designating trunks thicker than 12 inches as the property of the king. New Englanders had never liked the law that claimed their valuable forests for Royal Navy masts, and had ignored it when they could.

But in April 1772, officials charged six sawmill owners with milling trunks that had been marked with the King’s Broad Arrow. One of the owners was arrested and then released with the promise that he would provide bail the next day. Instead, the following morning he and 30 to 40 men, their faces disguised with soot, assaulted the government officials and ran them out of town.

The so-called Pine Tree Riot suggested that British authority could be defied. Just two months later, a Royal Navy customs schooner, the HMS Gaspee, ran aground in Rhode Island while chasing a packet boat suspected of smuggling. As the captain waited for high tide to float the schooner free, Rhode Island men rowed to the ship, boarded it, and burned it to the waterline.

Eight of the men who participated in the Pine Tree Riot were later charged with assault, but the local judges who sentenced them let them off so lightly the verdict could easily be seen as support for their actions. The government had even less luck prosecuting the men who burned the Gaspee: it could not identify suspects. But its threat to extradite colonists to England for trial seemed to the colonists to prove the British government intended to strip them of their civil rights.

Then, in May 1773, Parliament tried to bail out the failing East India Company by giving it a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies. This would make tea cheaper in the colonies than it had been. It seemed to colonists the plan was to convince people to accept the cheaper tea…and thus establish Parliament’s right to govern without colonists’ input.

Ships carrying the East India tea sailed for the colonies in fall 1773, but mass protests convinced the captains of the ships headed to every city but Boston to return to England. In Boston the royal governor was determined to land the cargo. On December 16, 1773, after attendees at a meeting at Boston’s Old South Meeting House heard that the governor refused to let ships loaded with tea leave the harbor until the tax was paid, a group of colonists hid their faces, some with soot, other with overt symbols of their new identification with North America rather than England: as Indigenous Americans.

The men boarded three ships moored at a wharf in Boston Harbor, hauled the chests of tea out of the holds with the ships’ block and tackle, broke them open with axes and pry bars, and dumped the tea at an exceptionally low tide, turning the harbor into muck. They were careful to make sure that no other cargo was harmed and that none of the tea was stolen. They were making a political statement.

Parliament responded by closing the port of Boston, moving the seat of government to Salem, stripping the colony of its charter, requiring colonists to pay for the quartering of soldiers in the town, and demanding payment for the tea.

By fall 1774, concern about the government’s actions had grown deep enough that delegates from the colonies met for six weeks at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia to figure out how to respond, and also how to work together to advance a constitutional opposition to tyranny, as Boston leader Samuel Adams put it.

Over the next two years, American politicians would find an answer to the question of whether the king could be checked by the people. They would get rid of monarchs altogether and declare that the people had the right to govern themselves.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#History #Heather Cox Richardson #Letters From An American #Boston Tea Party #American History #Library of Congress

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“Donatello Trashes Slash”

Season 6, Episode 11 First US Airdate: November 21, 1992

Evil mutant turtle Slash returns from Dimension X.

The sixth season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles continues with “Donatello Trashes Slash”. This is the second of four episodes in a row written by David Wise and serves as a sequel to the earlier adventure “Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X”.

We kick things off today with Leonardo and Raphael waiting for Michaelangelo to emerge from the kitchen with pizzas. If you’ve been keeping track of the occasional instances of friction between this pair then here’s another one to take note of, as Leo condescendingly points out that “a ninja is always patient”, leading Raph to give him what I can only describe as a Death Stare.

Mikey arrives and begins serving the goods as expected, but before Leo and Raph can chow down, Donatello arrives, keen to try out his new automatic pizza slicer machine. The wheeled contraption soon goes haywire, splattering pizza across the walls of the Lair and destroying the furniture. Even Donatello’s own Bo staff gets destroyed in the process of de-activating his invention (marking the second episode in a row where this has happened). Frustrated by Donnie’s machine ruining their meal, the other Turtles head off to Vinnie’s, leaving the team’s resident inventor to clean up his creation’s mess.

Later, Splinter arrives to find Donatello mopping up the living room floor. Donnie confides in his Sensei that this is the third time this week one of his inventions has malfunctioned, making him begin to doubt his role within the team. He’s ready to destroy the pizza cutter machine but Splinter offers words of reassurance, suggesting that he shouldn’t act too hastily.

With his cleaning done, Donatello settles down to watch some TV. Vernon is broadcasting from a reptile house about the opening of a new turtle habitat. In the report, April’s rival gushes about how this facility will be a great help in preserving endangered species of turtles and create greater awareness about their plight with the public.

The façade abruptly ends when Vernon thinks the broadcast is over, and he begins complaining about tax dollars being spent on “dirty, smelly reptiles”. As it turns out, the feed is still live, all of Vernon’s true feelings about turtles going out on the air. Donnie is infuriated by this, in fact I don’t recall ever seeing him this livid before. He’s about to head down to Channel 6 to confront Vernon – what's he going to do, beat him up? - when April appears on TV with a breaking story. An alien spacecraft has arrived in the city, and reports say that a large turtle emerged from it wielding advanced weaponry. Donnie briefly considers that the description given sounds like “Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X” (referencing the title of the evil mutant’s prior appearance), but swiftly dismisses this idea.

During my break between writing about seasons five and six, I rewatched the first season of TMNT, rewriting and expanding the Turtlethon entries for those episodes. One of the observations that I made in that second go-around was that the payphone elevators seen in “Hot-Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X” were almost immediately abandoned, manhole covers and ladders to the surface quickly becoming established as the main way that the Turtles enter and exit the sewers. We get a quasi-return for that idea here as Donatello is seen emerging onto the street via a concealed rising platform, minus the phone booth. He sneaks past a crowd and underneath a police barrier to see that the trash ship sent to Dimension X, “The Space Scow”, has indeed made it back to Earth.

Donnie – now wielding his bo, which he apparently had concealed under his trenchcoat since leaving the Lair – confronts Slash, who is in the process of raiding an electrical supply store. This isn’t the same dopey foe that the Turtles battled before, however, as Slash now speaks like an erudite Englishman and wields an advanced laser blaster. Figuring perhaps brute force might work more effectively, Donatello tries to strike Slash with his staff, but gets hurled into a wall for his efforts. Seeing that he’s outmatched, he flees the building as Slash decimates a good portion of it.

Slash pursues Donatello outside, destroying the car that the smaller turtle was taking refuge behind with a single laser blast. The returning villain declares his intention to become the dominant turtle in the city, hurling Donnie into the path of a group of collapsing logs in a construction site as the first act ends.

We pick things up following the commercial break as Slash has buried Donatello under a pile of debris from the construction site. Announcing that this marks one Turtle down, three to go, the villainous mutant goes on to reveal he’s heading to Channel 6 to complete the construction of his trans-frequency flux oscillator. Wondering where Donnie is, the other Turtles reach him via Turtlecom, and after learning of his predicament, leave the Lair to dig him out.

Slash goes on to set up a forcefield around the Channel 6 building, and after going inside confronts a receptionist. She rejects his request for access to the roof’s broadcast antenna and is sent skyward (along with her desk) after being hit with a ray from Slash’s anti-gravity gun. Two security guards are taken out with an Immobiliser blaster, and a further group of employees are handled with a gust of cold air from a third weapon the evil turtle has invented.

At the construction site, the other Turtles free Donatello from the pile of girders and assorted junk pinning him down. The team find the idea of Slash beating Donatello incredulous – I don’t know why, he had no problem defeating all four of them before – and laugh in Donnie’s face after he tells them the deranged mutant is now super-intelligent.

Burne is entirely unfazed upon discovering that the alien Turtle reported to be on a rampage is now in the Channel 6 building, figuring that it’ll make a fantastic story. He soon ropes Vernon into joining him in investigating the situation. Meanwhile the Turtles reach the station’s premises and discover the forcefield that’s been put into place. As the dome only extends halfway up, our heroes use a grappling hook to gain entry via an open window.

An older lady is hosting a cooking show when Slash arrives on-set, scaring the crew off. He goes on to imagine the world populated by turtles that will exist after his plan has been implemented, leading to an extended fantasy sequence: a turtle equivalent of the cooking show host goes through the motions, before we see turtle news from “TNN”, a turtle home shopping pitchman and a jowly turtle providing a weather report.

Slash��s dream is interrupted by the arrival of the Ninja Turtles, but he hits back by opening fire upon a roof-mounted lighting rig, pinning down our heroes. The Turtles quiz Slash as to how he became so smart, which leads to another cutaway, this time for a flashback. We see the Space Scow crash land on an alien world, where a variety of creatures with differing goofy designs would take pity upon Slash, performing a procedure on him that would dramatically increase his intelligence. The evil mutant would take it upon himself to return to Earth and turn everyone into a turtle with his new animalizer ray, with himself positioned as the most powerful turtle of all. Listening in on this recollection of events are Vernon and Burne, who manage to attract Slash’s attention and become the first victims of the animalizer, now resembling pet turtle versions of themselves (but retaining the ability to talk).

[NOTE: During Slash’s flashback, Michaelangelo notes that the episode where the Space Scow was launched was show #74. I don’t know where this number came from, as it was the 83rd to be broadcast and the mid-seventies would place it during the syndicated stretch. Granted, both the syndicated and network portions of S4 had a super-screwy broadcast order that generated all kinds of continuity goofs – perhaps David Wise had it earmarked early on as being episode 74 and that never got updated once the final running order had been finalised, but it’s just as likely that he pulled a random number out of nowhere here.]

The Ninja Turtles attack Slash, who counters by jumping on a floorboard to send the team flying. More confusion abounds here with the line “And Slash fights with brain power!” being delivered out of nowhere – presumably Leonardo was supposed to utter his “Turtles fight with honour!” catchphrase when the group were attacking, and this wound up on the cutting room floor. Slash uses his ice gun against the Turtles as the second act wraps up.

Having frozen the Ninja Turtles, Slash scoops up the transformed Vernon and Burne, declaring them to be his first subjects and placing them in a shoebox before heading for the roof. As he begins work on amending the station’s transmitter, April finds the frozen Turtles. Back and forth scenes follow of the Turtles slowly being thawed out, alongside Burne and Vernon’s long journey back downstairs after escaping from their shoebox. April is astonished to see what’s become of both her old rival and her boss, who take turns in explaining Slash’s current plan. Vernon pleads to be offered protection and turned back to his old form alongside Burne, but Donatello continues to hold a grudge for the reporter’s earlier remarks. Nevertheless, our heroes agree to let them tag along.

The Turtles confront Slash on the roof, but his modifications have allowed him to turn the transmitter into a flying platform that he uses to escape. It becomes apparent to the team that Slash is heading in the direction of the Trumpet Tower apartment building, a giant golden skyscraper which we’re told is “the tallest structure in the city”. (This implies the existence of yet another Donald Trump expy in the TMNT universe, which is wild given that two prior Trump stand-ins were present in the first Slash episode alone, and one of those guys was Donald J. Lofty, whose own Lofty Tower was introduced as “the world’s tallest skyscraper” in “The Big Zipp Attack” - why not just incorporate that into this story?) Slash intends to use this vantage point to gain maximum coverage for his transmitter, and so the Turtles must act quickly.

A throwaway scene follows in which Donatello rushes back to the Lair, carrying Burne and Vernon in his hands as he passes the same building six times. Meanwhile the other Turtles confront Slash atop Trumpet Tower, only to be met with a wave of small, wheeled enemy robots. The outlook is bleak for our heroes until Donnie arrives with his pizza cutting robot, originally retrieved with the intent of disconnecting the antenna. The contraption easily decimates Slash’s machines, but the problem of the animalizer remains. Donnie goads Slash into using it on him and his team-mates, as turning them into humans would leave Slash the only mutant turtle in the city. When Slash opens fire, Donatello hurls Vernon and Burne into the path of the blast, reverting them back to human form.

Slash is furious at being tricked, and charges at the Turtles after his equipment is destroyed, knocking himself, Leo, Mikey and Raph off the side of Trumpet Tower. While our heroes are saved from impact thanks to Michaelangelo’s grappling hook, Slash isn’t so lucky. The Turtles assemble around their enemy and find that, while still alive, the impact has reverted him back to his former self. Donnie announces that the team will take Slash to his spaceship and send him on his way again.

Back in the Lair, Michaelangelo reveals to Leonardo and Raphael that while he’s relieved the day was saved, he feels ill-at-ease as every other adventure has always climaxed with a “big, humungous explosion”. This plainly isn’t true at all, but in any event, Donatello arrives with another innovation, an automatic cheese grater. I’m sure you can see where this is going, as after a single piece of parmesan is placed inside, an enormous explosion follows.

Slash’s first outing established him as a fan-favourite villain, and wisely – no pun intended – left the door open for his potential return. Two years on, we finally get that here, but I suspect that this isn’t the sequel that anyone imagined, much less wanted. The demented, chaotic energy that made the character so entertaining in his first go-around, coupled with the comedic tragedy of his origin and his endless quest for his “binky” don’t factor into this story at all, and instead we see him acting and talking like every mad scientist villain the Turtles have battled over the course of the last three seasons. Since this is a David Wise episode, there’s plenty to enjoy here regardless, but I can’t shake the feeling that this story denied us the chance to see more of Slash as Slash. That’s particularly disappointing as he’ll only appear in the series once more next season, in “Night of the Rogues”.

In prior episodes, Michaelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo each went through the process of doubting their value to the team and confiding in Splinter about their feelings. This of course only left Donatello, and had me joking that given how integral his intelligence is – coupled with his growing ego over the last few seasons – he wasn’t about to go through this rite of passage. Clearly, I was wrong, as that’s exactly what happens here. Though Donatello’s crisis of confidence does tie into the conclusion of this adventure, I do get the sense that we never fully got to explore these themes as Slash’s antics consumed so much screen time. It’s clear that some things were rushed through in this story to squeeze everything into twenty-two minutes – the extended fantasy sequence about turtles hosting TV shows certainly didn’t help.

Vernon’s increasing prominence isn’t something I ever would have predicted heading into season six, but aside from “Phantom of the Sewers” he’s been a notable factor in every recent episode going all the way back to “Return of the Turtleoid”, where he had a memorable interaction with the departing Big Louie. Subsequent outings have seen him plotting to steal April’s new office, attempt to impress the boss’s son and of course show off his nephew Foster to his co-workers in one of his biggest roles to date. Here, Vernon is back at his sneering best, getting in trouble repeatedly in an outing where April is barely seen at all. Even more strangely for a Channel 6-focused episode, Irma is nowhere to be seen, although as anyone who remembers the curious case of Mildred will know, this isn’t entirely unprecedented.

An entire month in TV time has passed since we last checked in with Shredder and his bunch, and there’s a real sense that while the Technodrome crew remain the show’s foremost villains, they’re not quite the dominant bad guys that they were in the heyday of the first three seasons. We’ll see if Shreds can turn things around next time as he returns with the rest of the Foot Clan regulars in “Leonardo is Missing”.

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King of the Beach pt. 0

Apparently you aren't allowed to buy six chinchillas at once.

And what a shame, because Cameron Otterlake just felt like a fucking genius. God emperor of boyfriends. He pointed out a dog on the TV, saying he'd always wanted one but the state had outlawed breeding that particular "crime against nature." Something about their hearts not pumping enough blood around their cute little bodies. Olivia Achenbach then said she always wanted chinchillas (plural) but her mother didn't trust her ability to care for gerbils or whatever chinchillas are exactly. Information Cameron filed away.

Cameron Otterlake and Olivia Achenbach, soon celebrating six happy months of mostly-serious dating, had seen the now illegal dog while watching HGTV's Malibu Million Dollar Makeover. A home renovation show with a twist: its subjects could afford lots on the Malibu beachfront. Case in point: Olivia's older sister, who along with her fiancé had just bought a three story 1997 development, now appearing on HGTV to catalogue the interior redesign. Vince Neil had owned that place for a time. As did Thomas Eisenberg, owner of the Golden State Privateers, a WNBA team active from 1997 until 2010 when Eisenberg sold to an anonymous buyer that immediately dissimilated the franchise for an obtuse tax incentive.

Emmaline Downer-Achenbach thinks bar trivia like this makes for good TV but Olivia is so enchanted by the sight of her sister on the small screen (technically a Samsung 4K projector) Cameron lets this bit of sass dissolve on his tongue. TV appearances are uncommon in her family.

Him and Olivia come from different worlds. The Achenbachs are jet ski royalty. Barons and baronesses unto some ten percent of all Lake Tahoe rental cabins. Her uncle owns the patent for swim goggles (Cameron didn't know such a thing existed or was allowed). Impressive. Eyewatering money for, statistically, ninety-three percent of all people who will ever hear the name Achenbach. All of this makes them only a noticeable wedge of the Otterlakes.

Excusing himself to the bathroom, Cameron had rang up a boutique pet store he remembered seeing last time he was downtown.

"Do you carry chinchillas?" he had asked.

"Are you asking for supplies?" the clerk said.

"No, the animal."

"Yes, we have two families in our breeding program. We could have one prepared for adoption--"

"One isn't gonna be enough. I need, like, three."

The clerk hesitated, briefly, then asked Cameron what someone would need with three short notice chinchillas.

"Girlfriend wants one. Ever since she was a kid."

He'd been peeking out into the sitting room, eyeballing where a pet pen could be laid without interrupting the gigantic couch. Or maybe he should just have them all wandering the couch and rug. That might be cute. Oh, and she just... keeps finding more.

"Actually let's make it six. Even number. Can we do three boys and three girls?"

The pet store clerk had had enough. Like Cameron's some kind of stupid kid, she tried telling him people are always coming in and adopting pets for a cheap thrill when even a goldfish is a big responsibility. The pet store was categorically uncomfortable with selling him six chinchillas with no prior experience, nothing to suggest a positive quality of life, something something God's creatures blah blah blah. He hung up.

"Cam?"

He jolts back to reality. He had been thinking about the call with the pet store and getting mad again. "Mm?"

"Tez is taking his yacht out tonight for the fireworks," Olivia enunciates extra hard. This must be her second or third time saying this. "Did you wanna go."

"Who is Tez?"

"TezasterHD, the YouTuber I was telling you about."

"And YouTubers have yachts now."

"No, YouTubers whose parents sold Key West houseboats to all the Wahlbergs have yachts. Don't think like the huge ones--the mini cruise ships. It's one of those big sailboats."

"I don't know that guy," Cameron repeated, "but you can go."

"But I want you to come."

"I can't invite myself on other people's boats."

"Yes, you, Cameron Otterlake, actually can. Tez would scream. Bianca Thomasson is gonna be there."

"Who?"

"Do you know anyone? She was on Disney Channel."

"Tell you what," Cameron offered, scooching down on the small island of a couch until he was looking at the ceiling. "We take my boat. Fill it up with people that people actually know. Watch the fireworks without a big fucking sail in the way. Hm?"

Olivia laughs. Her smile flashes a lot of gum. Like it's mostly gums. It's not that it's not cute, it's just always what Cameron's gonna focus on.

"You don't know who this guy is but you wanna emasculate him."

"I want to give you, Liv, the best fireworks experience. We'll launch my own, even."

"You have your own fireworks," Olivia repeats like she's caught him in a lie.

"Custom-made. Some of them spell out the Otterlake monogram. We had them made for my great-grandpa's 100th, but Dad ordered too many."

Olivia laughs again (gums). She lies down parallel to Cameron, tucking her head under his armpit left splayed while he scrolls his phone. "I'll call some friends," she says, "we wouldn't want your way better fireworks boat party to go without bikini girls."

"Not necessary in the least," Cameron's quick to say.

"Well, aren't you a gentleman."

"No, I mean don't overextend yourself. I can call my own."

Victory for Cameron Otterlake. He'd just got done exchanging emails with the 12th Avenue Petco who hooked him up with fourteen chinchillas. Ready for pickup tomorrow. Olivia's gonna lose her mind.

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8cfc00 · 7 months

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GRAHHHHHHHHHH i need those dndads keychains so bad but with shipping and tax theyre SEVENTY SIX DOLLARS

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mad bc i found a cool sock yarn but 1. it must be ordered in quantities of six 2. it is not available in store so i will have to pay 10 dollars shipping. 3. on top of that, it isn't exactly cheap. its 7 dollars a ball (x6 means id have to pay 42 bucks PLUS tax PLUS shipping) and 4. you can only make ONE SOCK per ball of yarn, so even if i COULD just get one or two, it would still be 14 dollars for a pair of socks i have to knit myself, AND i've touched that brand of yarn irl and its too scratchy to be worth all that.

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parfumieren · 1 year

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Aedes de Venustas (L'Artisan Parfumeur)

Spring is coming, and with it, the age-old compulsion to clean house. We fast, detox, wash windows, file taxes, and swap out everything heavy -- food, clothing, attitudes, and of course, fragrance -- for something healthy, bracing, and light.

To kickstart the renaissance, here's Aedes de Venustas, a fragrance created by Bertrand Duchaufour exclusively for the eponymous NYC boutique. Online or on-site, Aedes serves up its house blend in just about every imaginable form -- votive candles, diffusers, gift sets, room sprays, and oh yes, eau de parfum -- all gorgeously packaged and seizure-inducingly expensive. (Sixty-five dollars for a candle in a jar-- really? No, seriously-- really?*)

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The bottom line is this: do whatever you have to do to get your hands on Aedes de Venustas. And then wear it. Wear the hell out of it.

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So why have I only given it four stars? Because I reckon that's sufficient for a fragrance made to be used daily, in an almost utilitarian manner. (Why else would they make it in a room spray?) Aedes de Venustas seems born to be a signature rather than a show-stopper... and that's just fine. Save that last star for the perfumes you hoard like gold, and get happy with AdV-- an affordable**** little luxury for everyday living.

*A price which now (in 2023) seems giddily cheap. **Now $245 and (going by its notes) not the same perfume. ***Dream on. ****Oh god.

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webionaire · 1 year

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In its report, McKinsey suggested that containerisation was the palliative for an unruly workforce whose demand for better wages and working conditions was eating into the profits of the shipping and port management companies. McKinsey argued that containerisation would better utilise ‘material resources ... through improved process control’. More important, ‘expensive labour can be replaced with cheaper capital equipment.’ Cutting back on labour was not only value for money: it removed the unpredictable human factor.

Iwas hired by the Houston office of Andersen Consulting straight out of an engineering undergraduate degree in 1991. Every spring, the consulting firms arrived on campuses and scooped up imminent graduates with good grade point averages. They hired everybody from engineers to English majors, though those with a technical education were put on a starting salary of $27,000 a year; the humanities graduates earned a few thousand dollars less. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Big Six accounting and professional services firms – previously the Big Eight, later Big Four – all had consulting operations, which enabled them to provide clients with strategic advice and software services as well as fulfilling their original tax and audit functions. Andersen Consulting was the only one to have branched off from its parent company, Arthur Andersen, under a slightly different name.

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Am I lucid dreaming??

Y’ALL.

Not only did the weather cooperate -- snowed last night instead of rained, so the roads were fine AND it was so sunny it felt at least twice as warm as the 15 degrees the high was -- but when I went to my book sale...

there were ONCE UPON A BOOK CLUB SUBSCRIPTION BOXES THERE.

Six of them. New in package. With all items present and unopened. Ten dollars each.

When I tell you I SCREAMED!!! (silently. did audibly gasp though)

I know I am not lucid dreaming because they did not include any of the few super-special boxes on my genuine dream list, but I have wanted a box for so long and not in the more than a year since I’ve been following their releases have I seen a book in YA or adult that I liked enough to spend $50 on. I came close to caving during the Christmas in July and Black Friday sales, but there were still weren’t any I wanted enough to spend $25+ on, not to mention shipping and sales tax. I debated some individual items, but even held back on those. I’ve looked all over Mercari and eBay; the resale value of subscription boxes is nuts. But ten dollars flat for everything???

I ended up buying two -- initially I chose The Lost Love Song (”Love and Music,” December 2020) because I remembered that was one of the boxes I’d considered before, and I think there was an individual item I’d considered as well. I was going to stick with one, because I didn’t want to be greedy or overwhelm myself when one box is already such a treasure.

But after I took it back to my car, I decided I’d better look up what was in the other boxes, because the items might appeal to me even though the books either didn’t or were unknown to me, and immediately went back to buy In Another Light by A.J. Banner (October 2021) because the stuff sounded pretty neat.

Boxes I left behind:

-A Betting Woman: A Novel of Madame Moustache by Jenni Walsh (May 2021) - although this looks like it has some very neat stuff if you are into the games!

-If The Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy (August 2021)

-Reset by Sarina Dahlan (June 2021)

-Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley (June 2022)

I am officially in love with whoever donated these instead of turning them into quick cash, especially during the holiday season. I wonder how many the sale started out with, if there were any more -- I got there 2.5 hours after opening, but I was browsing around for more than an hour and nobody else, that I saw, even touched these.

Regardless, I am SQUEALING!!! I have been squealing for two hours straight. I think I might just wrap these right back up and wait until Christmas to open them properly, because seriously, this was an actual-fax Christmas present from the universe. M’book fairies, you have gone far above and beyond anything I could possibly have expected. Or actually, I suppose if I was ever going to say “thanks be to God” and mean it, this is the moment.

I did get a few actual books too, but that’s for another post.

#book subscription boxes #a day in the life of televinita #really THE day in the life of televinita #I haven't had such a good book day since January of last year when the Barnes & Noble with the used book section had #a $1 fire sale on everything in that section #(AND it turned out to be just to free up some space. they weren't phasing that section out or anything.#once upon a book club

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