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  • Black Hole Sun and Beavis and Butthead were both on MTV back then. I don’t remember if they watched the video on the show.

    Anyhow, that video was up there with NIN’s Closer for general weird awesomness. The crazy smiles and expanding eyes are burned into my memory.

    Also, proto Hank Hill on Beavis and Butthead.

    I remember my grandfather being very upset about the “Beaver and Butthole” show.


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    What cheap woods are the most impact resistant for splintering and splitting?

    What is the best way to cure wood to prevent splitting without a kiln? Slap a heavy coat of latex paint on a log/burl/root and let it sit 6mo/year?

    What are the most machinable hardwoods? (In particular as regards tearout, warping, and tolerance of thin sections)

    In your opinion, what is an available underappreciated or interesting wood to work?









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    I’m waiting to pass judgment on the flyover. He’s totally that petty, but, I don’t think he’d plan that far ahead. He’s way more reactive than proactive, especially when it comes to stupid stunts.

    While it’s possible the flyover’s purpose was to intimidate the victims, it feels like disinfo or convenient rumor.



  • His ideas are fantastic. Execution and characterization are spotty. Been a while since I read anything of his, but IIRC, he has a tendency to dip into surrealism or absurdity that feels cringey instead of his artistic target.

    In some ways, it’s similar to a lot of Golden Era SF. You read it for the ideas, not the story.

    I do have a favorable opinion of him and his work. I’d really enjoy Doctorow being paired with a traditional fiction author and both being rode herd by a hardass SF editor.






  • That’s pretty much what I figured. Wish trans folks had something like the old school hanky code.

    As far as my preferences go, I was in a triad for a while with an NB. If I were stuck on a desert island and had to pick between a vanilla woman or a sub boy, I’m picking the boy. However, like I said, I have a strong preference for female genitalia. The whole tomboy/NB thing is the sweetspot for me in this spectrum.

    I also have smell preferences. MtF, many NB, and cis women smell much more attractive to me. I imagine it’s related to test levels. I don’t find heavily transitioned FtM very attractive. There’s an androgynous smell that’s kind of like fallen leaves that I really like.

    Not trying to fetishize here, but thought the perspective might be interesting. I’m very masculine and fall somewhere between a wolf or bear.