OPEN BAR: 50 Shades of Chronic Liver Disease

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Interesting conversation on FB about which subway line in Boston is "the best": Orange Line or Red Line.  A lot of people are supporting the Red line.  As I live on the orange line, I'm backing that one, but a lot of people are disparaging of it.  However, I noticed something...  Could be coincidental.

Red Line stops: Southie (traditionally white). Kendall  (white).  Harvard (duh). Somerville (white). Alewife (white).
Orange Line stops: Forest Hills (black), Jackson Square (black/Latino), Roxbury (black), Chinatown (duh, part 2).

Ok, there are outliers. The Orange Line does go through Charlestown (working class white) and into Malden (white), and the Red Line goes into Dorchester (black).  Still, it did give me pause.

You are aware that Boston in general is, like, SUPER DUPER racist, right?

Despite the fact that we pride ourselves on liberalism and equal rights and all of that, yeah. We are, as a whole, secretly and disturbingly racist. Problem is that it is subtle. I think that part of the problem is that we DO pride ourselves on being liberal. It gives us a bit of wiggle room to be racist assholes.

[President Television]

Somehow, I cut my finger on a pizza box. I blame Richter.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Somehow, I cut my finger on a pizza box. I blame Richter.

This is the logical course of reasoning. Make sure the pizza hasn't also been sharpened before you eat it.

[Cain]

Application for editorial intern sent.  It's not a major magazine, that I'm applying for, but they're well known in certain circles.  Describe their politics as "progressive"...hopefully not in the American sense, because I morally refuse to shill for Obama unless the pay package is increased.

Would also have to move, but Oxford isn't a bad city, it'd be over the summer and I would be earning enough to rent somewhere out.

[minuspace]

I don't have all the facts.  The plane whirled downward, however, bright to long and staggered thin.  Insult to injury.  Drama over tragedy.  Generally, I do not deal in waste management but this one caught me slightly off balance.  Meaning: someone purports to be a "nurse/caregiver", having every reason to preempt any concerns of negligence in that capacity, continually justifies the deteriorating health of her "patient" with salient disclosures of their sordid personal/private flaws.  Point being that this nurse was actually driving a wedge into her patients recovery.  Fuck it.  I don't know the facts.  Then, then, however, I come to understand that after sai patients' passing, said nurse stealthy chores an expensive personal effect of recently the deceased.  It just makes me turn; the way that gross negligence would be a euphemism in this case.  My new tenants will be awesome.  Oar, I'm open to compassionate suggestions, really, I'm an advocate for advice.

[Cain]

Damn, that's beyond shitty.

[minuspace]

Yea.  Then time fire of deeds and such.

[MMIX]

I was just watching the news and they said it was St George's day - who knew? - so Happy nah, Merry nah, Memorable St George's day to you all

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I was just watching the news and they said it was St George's day - who knew? - so Happy nah, Merry nah, Memorable St George's day to you all

Cheers, to a world that's... free

[P3nT4gR4m]

Well there aint much in the way of dragons kicking around these days so, yeah, good job St George!

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[Cain]

Well there aint much in the way of dragons kicking around these days so, yeah, good job St George!

Says you.  I just got done playing around with some Skyrim mods, and I had a four-way, unleveled dragon gangbang occur. That was my last hour.  Useless fecking guards stood in the open and got slaughtered.  I would say "lol campers" except I got pinned down by two while hiding in cover.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Fuck yeah, Skyrim! Think I'll fire up the PS3 and give it another playthrough when I get home. Should keep me amused until I realise how shitty alchemy is compared to Oblivion 

[Suu]

On the regional headed to DC. If anyone is terribly interested in this stupid adventure of mine, I'm attempting to live tweet or whatever you kids call it these days. My handle is ang_costello. Once I'm on the big trains between DC, Chicago, and KC, I won't have WiFi and signal will be limited.

Other than that, I'm not sure how well I'm going to sleep.

[Cain]

Fuck yeah, Skyrim! Think I'll fire up the PS3 and give it another playthrough when I get home. Should keep me amused until I realise how shitty alchemy is compared to Oblivion 

All the crafting in Skyrim is shitty and overpowered.  Smithing, enchanting and alchemy are terrible...at least smithing allows you to make powerful weapons, and enchating allows you to add an extra layer of cheese.  Alchemy is just...meh.

Once I've finished what I'm currently doing (which is trying to test the Civil War Overhaul mod's latest release), I'll be installing and uploading videos of me playing Skyrim Redone, which has a much improved alchemy tree.  Among other things, it allows you to craft alchemical grenades, poisons for traps and non-elemental explosive bolts and arrows.