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[olivermoss]

* 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.

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[mistressofmuses]

That is good to see! (Oh, the curse of suddenly realizing You Are The Hipster, haha.) But it is really nice that they're genuinely being supportive of the community, not just chasing the most popular gimmick.

Ugh, the med thing is too real. Not as much a deal for me, but Alex takes a LOT of medications, and the idea that "yeah, you can just toss your meds together into one bottle, or put them in an unmarked bag, and no one cares if you have the px with you" is uh, really asking for trouble if someone decides to make it into trouble. At best they might make you throw your meds away, which is a pretty shitty "best."

I have not seen any of the new IWTV. I feel like I really should, ha. I just... really didn't like Anne Rice, but whatever, she's dead.

[olivermoss]

Yeah, maybe I'm a bit jaded.

I used to take something that made my body spasm painfully if I missed a dose. There are meds and there are MEDS. And some people never get a close check of their items and some people just do... for some reason. For me, the amount of food I carry or that I seem unprepared for a flight because I wear hiking shoes. I one-bag, I ain't packing the shoes.

Not liking Anne Rice is very legit. I have problems with her myself. My fondness from Interview comes from people trying to deny the old Tom Cruise super mainstream movie was gay. 'You people are always reading into things' Then the deniers looked like clown shoes.

[mistressofmuses]

Right?

There are meds that you absolutely cannot miss a dose of without seriously impacting your health and the efficacy of the meds, whether because a missed dose means the med stops working, or because the side effects of suddenly stopping will fuck you up.
It's frustrating how often people who haven't had issues with something (like never getting pulled aside for extra screening) think that means no one does. (Gee, sounds like a familiar frustration, ha.)
Ugh, the shoe thing! So many "travel hacks" include "wear slip-on shoes" for the airport, but... same! If I've got super limited space in my bag, I'm wearing the bulky shit, not sacrificing my space to it!

Oh lol, I remember that being a source of wank! "It's so not gay you guys, how dare you read into it, damn slashers, Only Pure Heterosexuality For Our Vampires..."
Then again, I keep seeing the Anne Rice purists whine about how the new show is ~ruining it~, so I probably should give it a watch, haha.

[olivermoss]

I remember being told that my medication being tested would be fine because they just take a tiny sliver from it. My medication at the time was time release and I had to take it every 12 hours on the dot or bad things. Cutting the pill gets rid of the layers of coating that makes it time release and would mean I'd get the 12 hour dose all at once and then it would be out of my system for hours before the next dose.

Yeah, most blood pressure and other meds are fine but not all meds are the same!

I am a very experienced traveler who spends ages planning out packing for trips. I've had people in line complain at me like I don't know what I'm doing and try to cut in line when I go to take off my shoes. I am not holding anything up! The lines move slowly, I know this. People are just insane and judgey. I also tend to need a lot of those little bins and to take a lot out of my bag, I do this because I know what I am doing.

So many travel hacks are bullshit, and yet people get static for not doing them.

Yeah, seeing the hetsplantions fall apart was beautiful. I was going to just watch season 1, but since I'll be there!

[mistressofmuses]

Oh geez. Yeah, you can't "just take part of" a time-release med! It doesn't work that way!

There's a stark difference between "people who are actually experienced at the thing" and "people who think they're super experienced based on lifehack listicles."
Also, different traveling requires different things. A vacation where you never intend to leave the pool at your resort vs. a business trip for a conference that will take up every minute of your three days in a city vs. a hiking trip are all going to have different things that are reasonable ways to minimize hassle.

I do deeply enjoy all the people who are upset that the new show is gayer and less white, not going to lie.

[olivermoss]

There are such weird ideas around travel and the 'right' way to do it, when, yeah, there are all kinds of people and all kinds of trips. The amount of time I spend working on my packing for a trip probably seems insane to most people. ... but also a lot of the trips I take seem insane to most people.

[mistressofmuses]

Doing the right amount of planning can be the difference between a trip being easy (or minimally hard, at least, or able to absorb any blips that happen) and a trip being problem after problem. There's certainly some good advice out there... but there's also a lot of mediocre advice, or advice that is only good for one specific circumstance and is worse than useless for any other situation. People just get weird about so many things.