Who is this guy? he's an actor who makes his own movies and writers his own effusive character summaries of himself as the commensurate badass of all badasses, to be delivered on screen.

I remember even at age 10 when I was trying to jump kick and karate chop everything, finding this shit cheesy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O3ibD82k9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq4dhgD07qo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvU9D4M_uAg

one of the more amusing/instructive bits i remember picking up is how kids don't expect the adults to communicate with each other outside of what they see. like the benefit of cooperation and communication hasn't sunk in yet, so its a magic superweapon that can be used against them. the staff had this post meal meeting where the kids would have supervised play in a big field and we took about 20-30 minutes to identify the days issues like little douchey cliques to separate or who was acting shitty earlier in the day or who was having a hard time and needs a little extra, because they all floated between our tracks however they wanted.

the troublemakers and bullies were always baffled that yes, everyone else knows what clever moves you were pulling before lunch. like the adults were some other species of humanoid with a hive mind.

nobody wants to sit on my couch anymore

for real. I have some childless friends. which I should say I am also childless, but I like kids and used to teach kids from ages 10-17. my friends have never worked with kids and never interact with them, but they remember school as being mean to them and not letting them achieve their maximum individual potential, so they think kids should just have all this unstructured magic playtime to explore their own genius.

I'm not saying we need to be shitty to them, but kids are crazy. they need to be constantly reminded not to cough in others' faces, not to dig in their own assholes and then touch group food, not to act like goddam maniac when someone it's someone else's turn with a shared resource, and that it's important to play in a group activity or accomplish a task with a partner and realize a shared vision.

kids can be absolutely fuckin bonkers' ass little terrorist monsters with no impulse control, and people who think they are magic enlightened angels should be forced to work with them for like one day.

I think careful and deliberate tactics are used to frame questions so that headlines and executive summaries of polling data are often just another piece of propaganda for the ruling class to make sure we all believe nobody gives a fuck anyway so there's no possible future to organizing any resistance to them.

I like how the pitch for austerity is always, "look, when we do this everything is going to get so much worse for an indeterminate amount of time but then I promise it will get better and everyone will be better off."

and no matter how many times it is done and only serves to ruin lives and devastate communities beyond recovery with no benefit ever being recognized aside from a tiny, ultra wealthy minority using the chaos to purchase control over critical resources and exponentially increase their net worth, they keep promising it will be different this time and everybody will benefit.

it's completely illustrated because reading beyond a 5th grade level is gay sorcery. Osteen Chapter 3, Verse 6.

man, that is wack. I guess the sea level dropped dramatically? cause "old New York" being up on that island ridge in the back with the old bridges connecting it across is wild.

10 years ago, after moving around a shitload and hoisting one of those TVs around many times, I became a projector guy. started with some cheapy on a white wall and over time, burnt bulbs, wall surface/painting, and improved technology I now have a whole different mentality to it and endeavor to hide my entertainment setup in plain site, with trickery and whatnot. all of this is in service to my favorite move when I have people over.

they enter my cozy living room and we sit for tea and conversation or whatever, and they assume, "oh you're one of those enlightened monk-like people who doesn't even own a TV he probably just reads poetry and meditates on mortality."

and then I touch a small button and everything changes as they come to understand, we are in fact, inside the world's most incredible and Star Trek ass TV set up so let's get high and watch Dune about it.

the "you are wasting your vote when you vote for someone who won't win" is one of those weird frames that Democrats have been deploying since I was young.

it's so deeply stupid it's hard to know where to begin. it made me want to say that I would only vote for whoever looked like was most certain of victory so that I could support the winner and therefore win at this game of voting and brag about being in the winning team.

yeah I did it for the first time 3 years ago. I had a cannonball in my gut about everything for about 60 days and at least had a friend who had gone through it I could ask all my stupid questions to.

but I will say, once you are in one, so long as you had enough cash and decent enough credit to get a non predatory loan, it's nice not living at the whims of a landlord. and you can fix shit correctly or make it how you want it. which all costs more money, but when you get something fixed the right way or make a change to suit what you want, it fucking rules every time you see it/use it.

it's one of those things that is better over time as you live in the house and cumulatively make your little changes and fixes and have more of it paid-off.

which I guess ends in an ecstatic crescendo when it's paid off and you're just paying taxes and insurance and using that discretionary income on like gold trim and leather couches and chandeliers or whatever.

that "I'm 22 but my GF is 28" was such a record scratch moment. age gaps don't have to be bad, but I'll be damned if they aren't revealing of a conflict's subtext.

like, you know someone is emotionally fucked when they are almost 30, in a serious relationship with someone who is 22, and the 22 year old is the sensitive, mature and empathetic one with totally normal, reasonable as hell boundaries. I didn't even understand I was allowed to have boundaries until I was much older than this guy.

of course it all started to make sense as the context of grooming for years, brokered by the parent, came into focus. what a fucking disgrace of a situation he is escaping.