From July until now

 Alien Cool the first alien villain from UltraSeven

Chamoy mexican sauce I had never heard of until recent

Air Conditioner (movie)

Odd Sweetheart emo band I found.  I like their sound but not the vocalist.  I always will have a soft sport for midwest emo

VCV Rack modular synth program I want to play with

Stonewall Inn  - I saw someone reading a book about the stonewall inn at Dmen one night and I can't remember which one it was.

Camel Up  - Board game I heard about that I want to check out

Sally Dige Another darkwave artist I could dance to.  I think I found them on a playlist

damn big list ahead

Oakley Oven - backyard venue/pizza shop??

Melody Marks  - American pornographic actress in JAV films

Dandelion Hands - how to never stop being sad - I have no idea.  Spoken word songs speak to me.  I don't know anything else about this band.

Sullivan's Scissors - Eva unit 1 colorway on scissors

Spellbound - Goth dance night in Indy

Bobby Mackey is some haunted place I want to read about

Grafica Obscura collection of computer graphics hacks from ages ago 

Horror Anthologies

 Night Train to Terror

From a Whisper to a Scream

Tales of The Third Dimension

Memories

Two Evil Eyes

Southbound

Asylum

Terror Eyes

Kwaidan

Trick 'r Treat

Creepshow

From Beyond the Grave

The Signal

Poison

Scary Tales

Body Bags

Tale of Tales

Black Sabbath

Der Todesking

Dead of Night

After Midnight

The Vault of Horror

The Uncanny

The Monster Club

Grim Prairie Tales

The Willies

Ghost Stories

Nightmares

Screams of a Winter Night

Three Extremes

Tales of the Dark Side

Tales from the Hood

Family Portraits

Falafel time

 I learned that there were radioactive materials in smoke detectors from the story of David Hahn.  Only in reading about it recently did I find out that he had died.  

Sultan's Market:  I can't find a good link for it.  2057 W North Avenue in Chicago.  I want falafel from here.

Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee.  Hopefully I can get here when I visit Milwaukee next to go dancing.

Tickets go on sale for the X League soon.  I'm ready to get some merch for this goofy ass league.

I had this mp3 player way back in the day.  I bought it from ebay in maybe 1999?  I couldn't even afford extra storage for it so I was rocking 32MB internal memory on this thing. 

1-27-22

 Ishkur's Guide

Cluck It is a restaurant I would like to try.  I need to keep it in mind next I'm in the city.

Jo-ha-kyu japanese art concept

Ca suffit, french for "That's enough"

Go go go!

Human Giant - I was having trouble remember the name of this old show.  Starred Rob Huebel, Aziz Ansari and Paul Sheer back in the early 00's

Hololive - Company that makes streaming anime avatars and hires talent to voice them.  I've been watching a few of them lately.

Contrapoints - Video essays on interesting topics running about an hour.

Bloody Beetroots - Electro band I used to listen to and was looking into again.

Holiday Club - Bar in Chicago with an 80's night

Evangelion Genocide - Story extending the Eva universe

He's all that - Terrible movie with a tiktok star and incredible product placement

Der Fan - German horror movie about an obsessed fan I ran across

Acerbic - a word that I have heard used for years

ASMR - Didn't think I liked it but the versions with lotion really interest me

Takis - Rolled tortilla chip snack that's covered in spicy powder

Catch up as always

 I got interested in blood type personality theory after watching seeing blood types listed in anime bios.  Japan treats blood types like zodiac signs.  

Blood type B was mentioned in Megazone 23 which I started watching.  It's longer than I thought so I'll have to break it up into parts to watch it.  I was always interested in the premise for this one and the animation is really beautiful.

Been listening a lot to sewerslvt recently.  They just put out a new album that I haven't had time to listen to yet.

Went to see DJ Synthia at X-Ray Arcade in Wisconsin a month ago. Nice venue, had some of my favorite arcade games there also.

new drug

Sunday morning and foggy

 Waiting for the perfect time to watch ...

February updates

Dorohedoro weird manga/anime

Refuge Recovery, a different kind of recovery

Seam Tape Chuck, pair of shoes that was gone before I could get them!

The obstacles in the path are the path

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher I want to read about

Been tossing this one on a lot recently:

foodnotbombs an organization dedicated to providing people with vegan/vegetarian food

Destroy All of Humanity It Can't Be Regenerated is a manga taking place during the beginning days of Magic: The Gathering.  

Evangelion Re-Take alternate extended to Evangelion.  Popular and prolific.  A bit pornographic but not terrible.

Weird movies

 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Donkey Skin

The Company of Wolves (not the full movie, only the trailer)

Various subjects from late January

Tiktok led me down a small rabbithole about TempleOS. Weirdo programmer that created an OS that was supposed to be the third temple. From what I understood there are VOD's of him working on it.

 
Been thinking about Tarot and fortune telling again. Someone one the RAW board was talking about Frinkiac. Makes some sense to me and I have more of a direct connection to it that Tarot. Less of a barrier to understanding it.

 
Uncle Ben's Tek board on reddit.  Need to buy some spores soon.

Some music I liked from the last month

Notes from early January

Going back through some notes here.
Something Wild
Small World is a game that I played that had an intertesting mechanic.

I heard today abouut a woman at Michigan State University that achieved the world record for longest stool. She didn't use the bathroom for a week and then excreted onto a lane at a bowling alley. I really don't know if it was real or for an art piece.

Needs further research.

I found out that Frog Fractions actually had a sequel I need to play!

Thinking about collecting things here.
Millenium Blades https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/151347/millennium-blades

The simulation
3 Body Problem
Morphogenetic field, which I what I called it wrongly. Morphic Resonance is what I meant.
Worm thoughts This is my own idea about what makes living things want to continue living. Starting to read about it here

November 21, 1985

Now we get the teacher putting quotation marks around tiger.  I wonder what Calvin was like before this to make everyone think he can't have any imagination. In the future I don't think Hobbes is brought to school much later in the strips but he gets put into lockers or something.  In the last panel I feel Calvin looks very real in comparison to the strips so far.  I think it is that it shows him having teeth for the first time.

November 20, 1985

I am wondering if this first arc takes place on the same day?  Calvin's dad is pretty busy, washing the car, writing at his desk.  Then he isn't even in bed himself when he goes in to yell at Calvin.  Big news in this strip!  Hobbes appears to be a stuffed tiger!  One of the biggest aspect of Calvin and Hobbes and it takes until the third strip to get there.  Calvin's dad also puts Hobbes' name in quotation marks.  He is a no nonsense guy here.  He can't even let Calvin have an imaginary friend!  Another note here, at the end if Calvin was playing the cymbals, why is Hobbes holding them at the end?

November 19, 1985

Calvin's head shape is much better without the pith helmet.  Calvin's dad says he should bring the tiger home and stuff it.  Subtle stuffed animal reference there?  Noticing the blank background in the first two strips.  I remember there being a lot more going on, even in the dailies.  Hobbes was eating tuna, now everything in the fridge.  We are establishing his early hedonistic tendencies.

Starting a new project today.  In the spirit of several podcasts I listen to, Go Bayside for one, I am going to start reviewing Calvin and Hobbes strip by strip.  One every weekday.

I have been thinking of starting this for a while and while thinking about the first strip I realize all I have to do is start typing.

#1 Nov 18 1985

First strip 4 panels.  We are introduced to Calvin, Hobbes and his dad.  It has been a few years since I have read many Calvin and Hobbes but I don't remember the tuna fish sandwich thing coming up again.  Calvin has his early squat looking head and Hobbes also has a weird head.  Dad looks mostly the same.  I do like Calvin's pith helmet, makes it seem like he is really out hunting tigers in the bush.

The joke is decent, pretty much Hobbes is aware of his weakness to tuna fish.  I know from reading about Bill Watterson that he feels he didnt need to introduce the relationship between Calvin and Hobbes at first.  It works for what it is and the start is understandable given how most comic strips have some kind of introduction.

I am looking forward to some more interesting strips coming up with more interaction with Calvin and Hobbes.