It's Personal...

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 4:20 am

Maxus wrote:I just fielded a call from a lawyer named Andrus Wagstaff.

Now I'm missing Terry Pratchett all over again. That's an Ankh-Morpork name right there...

I'm now imagining characters from his universe have to go out and find life in other works since he has passed on. Detritus gets an office job. Captain Carrot runs a little bakery in New York.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 4:42 am

Carrot would find a police department somewhere, possibly one in need of motivation and inspiration.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 7:12 am

That would make either a great fic or a great game.

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri Jul 03, 2015 8:36 am

Note: Statin side effects are better than having a stroke or a heart attack but not by much. It is giving me more motivation to change my diet so I never, ever have to take this again...

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:12 pm

Ess was on statins for a while... But it wasn't for cholesterol because that was just fine. We never did figure out why they gave them to him, but we talked to a cardiologist who told Ess' PCP that they weren't necessary and to get him off of them.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Jul 04, 2015 5:24 pm

To whom it may concern:
Happy 4th . .

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Jul 04, 2015 11:27 pm

Ah, so a bunch of boring stuff happened a hundred years ago. It's more exciting that this is the birthday of Sean Galloway.

angelfromanotherpin · Sun Jul 05, 2015 12:42 am

Shrapnel wrote:Ah, so a bunch of boring stuff happened a hundred years ago. It's more exciting that this is the birthday of Sean Galloway.

Spoken like a man who doesn't have fighter jets fly over his house this time every year.

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:08 am

So, I was driving home from Missouri this afternoon and had some excitement. Stopped at Effingham, a growing city at a highway crossroads in middle Illinois, with constant road construction and changing lane closures. When merging back onto the highway the road signs were a bit ambiguous and apparently not just the entrance ramp merged over (as expected), but I had to merge one further lane over before things cut down to single-lane traffic, and with little notice had to do it while next to a semi. Anywho, I was already passing the semi and was almost ahead of him so I sped up a bit and came in, technically cutting him off but there was a few car lengths between him and the next semi and both were going the same speed.

I felt a little bad about it on principle but I had few options at that point as the lane merging ahead was somewhat sudden. I'd have slowed to go behind him but I couldn't see if behind him was any better, and I knew I could make it ahead.

Semi driver flipped the fuck out. There was plenty of room ahead of him between him and the next semi trailer, but he sped up, cut over into the left lane (which was vanishing as we merged) and he sped up to put himself next to my 4 year old's door right behind my door. I didn't have any room to shift over to the right thanks to concrete barriers, and I couldn't go forward due to the trailer in front of me as I edged forward and away from him as he crept over after speeding up. Putting his cab extremely close to our car.

I don't know if he wanted me to slam on my brakes next to him so that he could cut in front of me instead or what, but that seemed even more dangerous given that there was not much room up ahead and if he cut over in front of me without me slamming hard on the breaks (in front of whomever was behind him) I'd be crushed by his trailer.

There was a short while of him riding like that where I was threading a couple inches on either side between the barricade and a semi, it felt way longer than it actually lasted, then he had to decide if he wanted to hit the barricades or me. Eventually he slowed down and came behind me to tailgate and blare his horn in impotent rage. I think he just wanted me to choose an option which lead to my death without actually him hitting my car first.

Once we got back to double lanes again he sped around me so that he could cut *right* in front of me. Ooookay. I wasn't going to race him and gave him a goodly distance.

I would have taken a picture of his plate to report him, but I was busy driving and my wife can't take usable pictures in the car with the phone (history of muscle tremors). About 15 minutes later I wound up passing him and it actually went somewhat smoothly. I thought maybe he'd gone back to sanity.

And then we hit road construction almost immediately afterward.

We got back to single lane traffic again and he was stuck behind me and started blaring his horn again. Like I could magically make more lanes appear or move the traffic forward.

We were in single-lane traffic jams off and on for 2 hours with this shit head right behind us. Good times. He didn't blare the horn the whole time, but I was on high alert the entire time watching to make sure he didn't step out of his cab or anything. It was more relaxing when we finally got 2 cars to slip between us during the brief periods when it wasn't just single lane traffic.

"Don Olive" was written on the roof fairing of his semi trailer. I'm not familiar with that trucking company but they employ at least one fucker who needs a vacation from driving. Or maybe that was his actual name.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:19 pm

erik wrote: I would have taken a picture of his plate to report him, but I was busy driving and my wife can't take usable pictures in the car with the phone (history of muscle tremors). About 15 minutes later I wound up passing him and it actually went somewhat smoothly. I thought maybe he'd gone back to sanity.

Yeah, that fuck should not have a job driving a truck. That shit is crazy dangerous.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 11:13 pm

Weirdest thing in the mail today: a Japanese manga adaptation of "Medusa's Coil."

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:23 pm

My book is being shelved between grimoires and genitalia-shaped candles: http://www.bkmag.com/2015/07/07/a-guide ... -brooklyn/

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:18 am

DESIREE MWALIMU

Crown Heights

Specialties: Tarot reading, Reiki, sex magick

Da fuck is "sex magick"? Sounds like a bad eighties garage band.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:20 am

It's a variably legitimate philosophy of magic. You actually see it in some ancient civilizations, the Norse come to mind, but modern reconstructionists, especially those who spell magic with a 'k' basically just want to fuck and legitimize it as magic. It's like calling Vampire the Masquerade an "Erotically Charged Sexventure" when really you're just using it to pick up chicks and fuck them with bloodplay and not actually playing VtM at all.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:32 am

Aleister Crowley started spelling it "magick with a k" to differentiate it from stage-magic, and to sound cool and hip to all the flappers. And unattended homosexuals. Any hole, really.

Sex magick was the result, largely, of Victorian pre-occupation with both. I have a section of the book on Lovecraftian sex magick, you can read it here.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:36 am

Yeah, I should have brought Crowley up. He's basically exactly what you would expect heavy repression and emotional abuse from a christian mother to produce in a clearly satyromanic and hedonistic occultist.

I'm glad there was at least a reason for the k, but it still is kind of dumb.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:54 am

If someone willing spells magic with a k, they probably also call vampires vampyres. From what I've seen. Absolutely disgusting.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:41 am

"Magick" is not just the spelling you use when you want to be pretentiously goth - it is also the spelling you use if you want to sound like a vaguely Victorian-era scholar. The "Magick Obscura" in "Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura" is pretty solid, and if you disagree ill fite u.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Jul 08, 2015 4:30 am

I'm feeling kind of depressed with my health right now. I try very hard not to allow myself to dwell on this sort of thing (besides, just world fallacy and all that) but I will admit that right now I'm kind of irritated that I'm on all these drugs for obesity-related health problems when before I had to leave my circle of friends in disgrace I was literally the second lightest out of all of them... I'm talking guys that are 400+ pounds (180+ kg for my freedomly challenged acquaintances). I'm talking about I'm the only person in my group except for one that can get around, that can stand up from the ground without needing a hand or leaning on something, and the only one that's fighting in the gym to get better. Yes, I'm 68 pounds (30kg) overweight, yes that's terrible and yes I need to continue to reduce that. It sucks that I'm the only one with diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, etc...

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 11:41 pm

So I realize that this is a general thread and bringing up sudden tangents is actually totally normal and accepted. But goddamn, Shrapnel didn't even think for half a second what another petulant whinge about toys would look like coming immediately after Count's post, did he. I mean, I'm not surprised or anything, but Christ. That level of obliviousness and mood whiplash is worthy of a sitcom.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 11:47 pm

Jesus Christ, so now I can't post about anything unless it's concerning the post before it? Fine. I'll change it.

Happy now? See what petulant whinging can get you?

Grek · Post by **Grek** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:34 am

Ladies, ladies, there's more than enough forum for everyone.

Count: That sucks ass. It would be great if things were fair and there was a well defined, "Diabetes kicks in at exactly 403 pounds" cutoff or something, but bodies are complicated and life is unfair. I recommend making yourself feel better by mocking Sharpnel for being so butthurt about Chamomile that he literally had to change his Location listing to "Chamomile Go Fuck Yourself, MA, USA". What a fucking nerd.

erik · Post by **erik** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:35 am

Count that does suck. I work at a clinic where I'm often at the shitty task of trying to help people work through why they are the rare % of people who get a genetic dystrophy, or a complication from surgery. There's not a lot of great answers, mostly just trying to take the world as it is and make the best decisions from there. Definitely keep at it and don't give up.

Now, FWIW, I poo-poo any attempt at setting a precedent that people cannot post about their life even if someone else had something crappy going on. I get your sentiment Chamomile, but stuff it. If you wanted to say something to Shrapnel you could PM it. If you wanted to give Count support then you should have fucking done that. Instead you just shit all over to what, try and bring other people down?

Shrapnel. You misspelled quiet.

Goddamn it.

And moving onward, I've been invited to start jogging with a friend for the past 2 weeks, but work is keeping me late pretty much every day so I haven't joined. Now another friend of mine has joined the pack and I'm irritated since by the time I can join them I'm going to be far more out of shape comparatively and unable to keep up, which makes it hard to want to join.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 6:28 am

HOW ABOUT THAT WEATHER? IT'S CERTAINLY HAPPENING, ISN'T IT? YES, WEATHER IS DEFINITELY OCCURRING RIGHT NOW. WELL, GOOD TALK, SEE YOU GUYS TOMORROW.

This is an asynchronous communication medium. We are very specifically not having a conversation, and nothing anyone says will ever interrupt anything anyone else says. This thread is full of dozens of examples of people talking about sad things followed by random bullshit like lovecraft, tetris, and... huh... more lovecraft. Ancient History, shame on you, you insensitive douchenozzle.

No but seriously this is dumb and painful to watch. Let's just pretend this whole thing never happened.

Count Arioch the 28th · Thu Jul 09, 2015 7:11 am

This is hilarious... it's kind of funny when people overreact to things when I'm not the one doing it for a change...