OPEN BAR: NO CISNORMATIVE ELVEN PATRIARCHS ALLOWED

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So frustrated here.  I want to be a good friend to someone that has a tendency to become somewhat theatrical when emotionally stressed.  This is then expressed by insults leveled against me, though technically unrelated to the initial cause of discomfort.  I somehow come to represent everything that is wrong with the world.  Overtime, the effect of this is compounded and I eventually snap.  This makes me feel terrible.

Sometimes, I can avoid the reversal/displacement of blame onto me.  The problem is when those insults become entirely preposterous and hypocritical:  grafted from a life other than my own.  It's not just the disparity of the comparison, but how one would intentionally go out of their way to disparage me so egregiously, that hurts.  It then occurs to me that perhaps there is also a shadow at play.  If it is the incongruent nature of the comparison that is insulting, is there then also a small contact point of similarity upon which the distinction rests?

Could my being upset at the inappropriate points of comaprison belie an aknnowledment that there may be other ways, that I am not consciously recognizing, in which the insults hold true?  Put another way, is it possible to take an insult personally when it clearly has nothing to do with you?  Or, does reacting to an insult provide it validation?

I tentatively answer no.  It is not nescesarilly true.  Maybe the upset is caused by recognizing how to even entertain the possibility, I partially betrayed the sovereignty of "myself".  The reversal is then not that the comparison is true, rather, it's that I insulted myself in the first place by processing the comparison; only to expunge it again.

You want to be a good friend. Are they being a good friend?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Now that I've dropped that single 2-credit lab, I feel like I have ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD!

I know this will last only until tomorrow, but I am reveling in it.

[LMNO]

Portland's city slogan is "The City That Works".

Yesterday, it took my bus 40 minutes to go 10 blocks because nobody is sure why.

But that was OK, because when I finally got downtown the streetcar wasn't running because the power was out at the south waterfront research center where my class is held.

Because of an unnamed "incident"

which turned out to be a construction crane falling over.

Portland: The City That Works!

It really depends on what the end goal is. Consider for a moment that this is EXACTLY how the city should "work". It produces an entirely new train of thinkng.

[Doktor Howl]

Portland's city slogan is "The City That Works".

Yesterday, it took my bus 40 minutes to go 10 blocks because nobody is sure why.

But that was OK, because when I finally got downtown the streetcar wasn't running because the power was out at the south waterfront research center where my class is held.

Because of an unnamed "incident"

which turned out to be a construction crane falling over.

Portland: The City That Works!

I believe I have commented on this.  Portland amazes me, in that any of you have survived.

I used to take it for granted. But I've been to several other places now, and I am starting to suspect that it isn't quite normal.

People in Boston bitch because their subway system is OCCASIONALLY glitchy.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Portland's city slogan is "The City That Works".

Yesterday, it took my bus 40 minutes to go 10 blocks because nobody is sure why.

But that was OK, because when I finally got downtown the streetcar wasn't running because the power was out at the south waterfront research center where my class is held.

Because of an unnamed "incident"

which turned out to be a construction crane falling over.

Portland: The City That Works!

It really depends on what the end goal is. Consider for a moment that this is EXACTLY how the city should "work". It produces an entirely new train of thinkng.

[Doktor Howl]

So, I fat-fingered my Nook, and accidentally downloaded some "erotica" (I was looking for the classic SF novella "prison planet", but that's not what I got.  No.)

I can't stop laughing.   

I should do a live reading.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Portland's city slogan is "The City That Works".

Yesterday, it took my bus 40 minutes to go 10 blocks because nobody is sure why.

But that was OK, because when I finally got downtown the streetcar wasn't running because the power was out at the south waterfront research center where my class is held.

Because of an unnamed "incident"

which turned out to be a construction crane falling over.

Portland: The City That Works!

I believe I have commented on this.  Portland amazes me, in that any of you have survived.

I used to take it for granted. But I've been to several other places now, and I am starting to suspect that it isn't quite normal.

People in Boston bitch because their subway system is OCCASIONALLY glitchy.

I can only imagine what it's like to live in a world where "glitchy" is a thing that happens rarely enough for it to be an inconvenience rather than an element you plan your daily life around.

The only upside is that it's very, very, very nice and clean and safe here. So when the power goes out and your train is stuck in the tunnel for 20 minutes or so every once in a while, you just pull out your phone and quietly read or play games, minding your own business just like everyone else, until the lights come back on and the train starts moving again. You can always rest assured that no one will worry about you being late, because these things just happen.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So, I fat-fingered my Nook, and accidentally downloaded some "erotica" (I was looking for the classic SF novella "prison planet", but that's not what I got.  No.)

I can't stop laughing.   

I should do a live reading.

OMG OMG

E-book "erotica" is my favorite! In a way that could never be mistaken for erotic, because it's impossible to be aroused when you're laughing so hard that blood isn't reaching your periphery.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

PLEASE DO A VIDEO READING.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

TOTAL DEADPAN.

[LMNO]

SECONDED.

[Doktor Howl]

So, I fat-fingered my Nook, and accidentally downloaded some "erotica" (I was looking for the classic SF novella "prison planet", but that's not what I got.  No.)

I can't stop laughing.   

I should do a live reading.

OMG OMG

E-book "erotica" is my favorite! In a way that could never be mistaken for erotic, because it's impossible to be aroused when you're laughing so hard that blood isn't reaching your periphery.

It's not just that the scene (all 16 pages of it) is ridiculous, it's that the writing is so AWFUL.

It's like the dialogue in porn.  Only worse.

[Doktor Howl]

TOTAL DEADPAN.

NOT EVEN POSSIBLE.   

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So, I fat-fingered my Nook, and accidentally downloaded some "erotica" (I was looking for the classic SF novella "prison planet", but that's not what I got.  No.)

I can't stop laughing.   

I should do a live reading.

OMG OMG

E-book "erotica" is my favorite! In a way that could never be mistaken for erotic, because it's impossible to be aroused when you're laughing so hard that blood isn't reaching your periphery.

It's not just that the scene (all 16 pages of it) is ridiculous, it's that the writing is so AWFUL.

It's like the dialogue in porn.  Only worse.

I think I have some excerpts from "Punished by the Dark Unicorn" that are exactly what you're talking about. So many exclamation points! More exclamation points than should ever be involved in sex! And then some!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

TOTAL DEADPAN.

NOT EVEN POSSIBLE.   

Read it anyway. There is no way for a big gruff bald guy reading terrible erotica while laughing his ass off to not be amazing.