PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]

Reading papers and contacting people in that field. I’ve found that university professors can especially direct you to materials in their field, and even like to chat about it sometimes. Half of my book collection was found this way.

Bored music teacher in 2200: “and here children, we find the most important contributions to late 20th centure music: a phonograph of Depeche Mode’s Violator.”

Wallet, phone, keys. Everything else i just keep in my car or work van. Whenever i see someone add a gun to their list, i always find it funny. It’s such a silly thing to walk around with

Chapo got banned, checked out chapo.chat, found the “under construction” page with what i think was “call me maybe” as a chiptune playing, and joined a little while after.

I love a good lentil. Did you know that brake fluid gives car paint a nice sheen? Make sure to give them a nice coat to make look really good.

Crushing up ceramic and flicking them at car windows makes me light up with joy, any other fun things to do?

My wife saw a charcuterie board and under her breath said “charcussy”. I have been repeating that basically every day to her since.

Your website will rot on the vine.

That note at the beginning lmao.

“NONONO, WE DON’T ACTUALLY MEAN THE THINGS WE PUBLISHED, THAT’S RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION”

And a hotdog is a type of sandwich.

It’s even easier than that

Every New Year’s i play the same two songs around midnight: This Year by The Mountain Goats and The Ice of Boston by The Dismemberment Plan. Both help me get through those turn of the year moods.

First half hour is you being a super cool highly trained american spec ops guy being sent behind enemy lines, only to get murked by the actual mc, some guy who used to be a teacher turned nva who now has to fight against the imperialists

Proper chef’s knife and vegetable cleaver. Most of my military surplus clothes. A vaccuum sealer. Second hand books. My Traynor YBA-1. Some good boots. There’s definitely stuff i forgot, i don’t really buy items anymore.

This isn’t reddit.

I’m lucky i find cooking to be a fun task otherwise i would’ve starved to death a long time ago

The Conquest of Bread

Mangosteen

“Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name.”

As long as i am remembered, i exist. While my physical form may be rotting, i will hope that i made as much of an impact in this world as i did to me, and hope that my memory will never fade. It is for that reason that i keep soldiering on, never looking back, and trying to contribute to a better world.

No problem! I’m obviously a bit biased since i’ve been a fan since the late 90s and dabble in the art (i’ve been an off and on pro wrestler since the late 00’s), but i view it as more as an improvisational art than i do a sport. It’s basically live theatre, with the actors and actresses having more to do with ballet then, say, combat sports and mma. It’s actually fascinating to see how professional wrestling had influenced sports as a whole. Muhammed Ali, for example, has cited Gorgeous George as the reason why he would trash talk his opponents. And Conor McGregor, well, he talks like he’s straight out of the WWE. Filthy Tom Lawlor is a guy who basically went from being a pro-wrestling character in the ufc to becoming a full-time pro wrestler. Never mind the fact that there’s been matches where the ring is an entire island, or floating in the pacific with pyrotechnics everywhere, or even more cinematic productions set entirely within a house (or not so cinematically in the case of ddt). All together, though, is it’s an art benched on the back of blood, sweat, and even more blood of its performers. There’s nothing “safe” about pro-wrestling, as even the tiniest mishap could cripple a person, but it’s done through years of training, fitness, and finesse, that it is able to continue.