Max @max@smeap.com

Fortune cookie: A beautiful, smart, and loving person will be coming into you life.

Me: Et tu, dessert??

Waiter: You know that’s normally for two?

Me (to myself, crying internally): is there a dating site for people that just want to split a seafood on random snowy nights so I don’t have to get this kinkshaming every time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j6VtKcJXxM

All that I want / is keeping it easy

It’s what I want / that’s easy

It’s getting it / that’s complicated

Dying on this hill labeled “I believe TMP is the exact same movie as Kubrick’s 2001, and TMP is better in just about every way but especially because I much prefer long panning shots of the Enterprise to long panning shots of some useless monolith and also no product placement for Pan Am (lol) or AT&T.”

No one:

Snake: Whoops, I dropped this Apple on the ground, hope it isn’t forgotten here long enough for it to start to ferment. We’re going to party tonight. 🐍🧃🍹🎉

Forbidden fruit seems a weird choice. Fruit is one of the longest things our ancestors ate. Wouldn’t forbidden meat be a better metaphor for (carnal) knowledge than fruit? Especially given our species unusual position as omnivores?

Though fruit might work if it is rotten and thus full of alcohol, rather than picked straight from a tree. Our species love of alcohol also strange. Rotten fruit would spoil Eden, also a better metaphor.

Tired: It was a Suicide Squad callback?

(Idk, I didn’t see Suicide Squad)

Wired: Flash versus the Birds of Prey would be an interesting movie

There was a humor beat of passing by a wanted poster of Flash rogue Captain Boomerang and I keep thinking about that and why Captain Boomerang would be in Gotham

What if the monster killing property of silver is just misattributed from silver/quicksilver confusion?

If you could fashion a mercury bullet somehow it’s hard to imagine it wouldn’t (painfully, slowly) kill almost any kind of monster

Would also explain the trope of monster hunters going mad as hatters if they use mercury equipment

I love how the growing foreshadowing every monthly content update since the Anniversary Update has been “here players, grind all this shady stuff for rich short term rewards and never mind that it probably will have terrible long term consequences (muahaha)”.

As a player much invested in said short term riches I realize how much of a complicit bilge rat I am for the evil (and fun) to come. Yarr

Birds of Prey was the Deadpool-like Batman (adjacent) movie I didn’t know I needed

It’s what Schumacher’s films wanted to be when they grew up and *earned* an R rating, and I think that means it is now my favorite Batman live action movie

Famous singer coming to town to play with local orchestra? Neat!

Famous singer coming to town to play with local orchestra on new songs composed by local tenor saxophonist I’ve followed for decades? Now you have my attention

Next question is do I want to fight jet lag?

Sunday I finished a full revision pass on my first “finished” novella. Current working title: The Space Train on the Way to the McMaster Heist

I’m not sure what I want to do with it now. With a short story I’d probably just blog it by now. I think I want a beta reader to tell me if it is less dumb than I’m currently worried it is. I don’t know.

Remember when people thought CONTROL might be proto-Borg? 🤣

All I want to know is where is Agent 99 in all this crisis to get smart?

People keep wanting to find a meaner term for techbro and Disco here with “logic extremist” like it’s easy. Sure, not all techbros believe in the supremacy of pure blooded Vulcans, but yet extremists that belief in some weird Vulcan version of logic what doesn’t exist in the real world 🧐

Fairly certain they did not have Warp valuable shuttles at this point in the timeline

This beer was filled with glitter for Valentines Day and I didn’t see it yesterday, but today you can really see the glitter, especially in motion.

Extra lager with Arbol Peppers and Glitter. Name is “Love is Un-Fehr” which is a local beer joke. (Fehr’s Beer, pronounced like most pronounce Fair, was a local favorite for generations. Band tonight at the brewery is the Fehr Weather Boys.)