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* I am caught up in Murderbot! I can look at tumblr tags and have discussions without worrying about spoilers! Time to look and see... *drumroll* .... pronoun discourse? What is there to even discuss? No one's talking about the upcoming show? No pics of the actor in the armor?

* I need to pick a new audiobook. I am liking having one book as audio and one book as text. I love David Cui Cui's performance as Murderbot on the full cast version of the audio. It looks like someone else does it on the regular audiobook. Also, I think those books just adapt really well to audio. I do have a few audiobooks to check out and hopefully they are good. What I am looking for is things like Murderbot and Neil Gaiman's stuff that just works really well in that format and have really good productions.

* I had to take a Lyft somewhere and the car was a Tesla and the driver was playing music by Drake. What the fuck did I do to deserve that? It was so weird I was tempted to take a short video as proof, but decided to just stick headphones in and wait it out. Actually, the amount of Teslas in town I've seen used for rideshares is surprising. I've needed to use Lyft a bit recently and I almost know how to operate those weird doors.

* I need to pull data from my cameras this weekend. It's been so long I don't even know what's on there. That hasn't happened in years. I don't remember every picture I take on my walks, but between editing sessions I typically have a sense of what walks I went on and what possible keepers are going to be in my next import. I usually I have a list in my head of pictures I am excited to see how they turn out.

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* I've criticized Gigantic Beer for being a bit gimmicky with their products, even though when they first started doing collabs they made sure to do one with Darcelle ASAP to make sure they honored her while she was still alive and that was awesome. Now they are doing a beer that's a fundraiser for a long-time part of the Portland weird scene who got evicted. A performer and Elvis impersonator since the days of the 24 Hour Coin Operated Church of Elvis.

They were also quick to do a collab with Darcelle's successor, Poison Waters.

It's me, I'm the asshole. I've become too hipster. I've become Indier Than Thou. I officially need to chill out a bit.

Some people in the Keep Portland Weird scene have houses and good jobs, some are very well off, some are on the edge of homelessness, have been or are homeless, for some art and performance is the only work they can do and it doesn't always pay. They are actually looking after the community rather than keeping focus on the more presentable bits. Good to see.

* This is on my mind since I am doing some travel this summer/fall: Man, I get tired of people who make content about one bag travel and stuff being all 'just put your pills in this little container to save space, you don't need to bring your prescription bottle' or 'the TSA actually considered my sunscreen a liquid this one time even though I usually just toss the bottle in my bag' Listen, TSA and other travel experiences are not equal. I'm white and I get extra checks and even detained for having one extra squeeze pack of peanut butter that puts my liquid total over by .3 ounces. People who are not white, or who are disabled, etc, get it far worse than me.

* Oh, when I fly this fall the Portland Airport will have it's old carpet back! This city has a thing about it's airport carpet. When we did a remodel a few years back everyone was upset to lose the weird teal and purple design from the 80s and we started putting it on shirts and coasters and beer labels. I think the designers were caught very off guard. The designer of the old carpet is still around and was surprised to find one of their designs had become an icon. I can take a picture of my shoes on the purple and teal as is Portlander tradition.

* Also, if I am going to New Orleans I need to get caught up in Interview With A Vampire and see if there is any other media I need to consume or rewatch. I saw S1 of IWAV, but haven't seen S2 yet. It would be a shame to come back from NOLA and then be sad I didn't take a picture of a certain building or something.