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Another consequence of my Gossip Girl rewatch; I really want a flip-phone now. I mean if I could find one that had a decent Maps app I'd switch to it in a second.
It's old fashioned, I know, but the characters make answering flip phones look so cool.
Like, everybody has one. It's everywhere and even though there might be thousands of variations they are all essentially the same.
It's worse than hoodies at this point, because that basic design with the pinched waistline+obvious cuffed sleeves+upright semicircle collar is just so intrinsic to the design that there is no fabric or pattern you can do with it that will make it new and unique.
It's like the outer-wear T-shirt and somehow that doesn't work for me.
Which is funny, because I usually will say politics doesn't play a gigantic role in Eurovision (Ukraine in 2016 notwithstanding) since Britain and Germany keep making this exact same complaint every year before besotting everybody with the most terrible songs. I don't know if Germany's Perfect Life deserved a practically zero score last year,
but both the music and lyrics were so non-committal I'd personally give it a negative score(EDIT: it didn't it's actually really good and memorable). They're super lucky Spain decided to just blow it on Do It For Your Lover.This year though both Spain and Britain's songs were much better, and I do hope they do well in the overall ranking. I mean, being spoiled on the winner isn't the worst; the rest of the top ten and bottom five also matter a lot.
Basically none of the songs I liked got near the top 5, but Cyprus, the one country who I (and apparently an insane amount of bookmakers) believed deserved the win out of the countries that did make it up there.
Flat land is in short supply here. Excellent views of picturesque scenery, on the other hand, are abundant.
Every American I've ever met has commented on how not-flat it is here that I'm starting to imagine American mountains just pop out of the ground on the horizon with no warning.
also what gck said
greetings from skagway, alaska.
unlike juneau (the capital of alaska) and ketchikan (which has always been a fishing village), skagway was a gold rush boom town that actually died out before being revived as a tourist attraction. basically the entire town is part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park. there's a narrow gauge railroad up to the Yukon Territory of Canada here; it now operates as a scenic railroad trip (at like >100$ a ticket).
I'll talk more after I've actually seen this place.
Remember Maddox? (one of the early internet celebrities, author of The Best Page In The Universe and pioneer in edgy cynical humour). I recently learned that he's become a lolcow. How the mighty have fallen. I wonder if in years to come mid/late 00s internet humor will age as badly as his did, if it hasn't already.
I wonder what'll happen to people whose entire thing is having followers on [Social Media Platform X] in a few years. I mean, for every person who migrates properly to the next thing there are like a thousand who don't.
I really shouldn't have to wonder though; might as well just look up Myspace people.
EDIT: It seems Myspace sucked at being a popularity contest, so there isn't much aside from scene queens who are just emo girls. None of them still matter, obviously, since the instagram generation is all about being as traditionally attractive as possible.
It's weird to see this sort of thing actually where having the majority of your friends on a computer went from a thing for people who spelled.sentences-with-alltheFEELS to being for everybody.
Vine, though, seemed to capture that enormity of modern social media in what was essentially a blip of modern history. It's actually kind of disturbing what happened with Vine; literally all the popular Vine people apparently knew/were told Vine was shutting down way before it did, and so they built up their other social media platforms. Unfortunately people who didn't like Christina Gilles barely come up in a Google search. Some of them, like Cody Johns, suffered massive hits and now have to fight for Google relevance with the guy who played MC in I Am Number Four.
[As if this isn't enough celebrity obsession] Royal Wedding Today. I'm quite excited.
Anyway, greetings from Whittier, Alaska.
You may have seen me mention it before.
I'm here now.
Waiting to get into the tunnel.
It was meant to be very rainy, and indeed, today it is rainy, windy, and cold.
I caught like one photo of Whittier's windsock.
We're waiting to get into the tunnel so it's a little boring right now.
The tunnel is well-equipped. There are three giant fans on both ends of the tunnel. These are used to purge the tunnel of exhaust fumes as well as to keep out snow and sometimes hurricane-force winds. There are tow trucks in garages on both ends. And there are also safehouses with piped-in fresh air and cots, just in case.
The weather on the other side of this mountain, which this tunnel goes through, and whose name I've already forgotten, is unknown from merely looking at this side.
Tempted to get a wolf plushie but it wasn't available either.
Anyhow, here's Girdwood. Appparently a ski resort town that aspires to be more than just that, so there's now year-round stuff going on. Apparently there are artsy types here, including someone who makes his own stained-glass windows.
The late and legendary Sen. Ted Stevens used to live here and got in trouble for receiving improvements to his house from lobbyists, or something like that.
"What's the difference between unlawful and illegal? Unlawful means it's against the law, and illegal means a sick bird."
"Which way are the seven glaciers [for which the restaurant Seven Glaciers is named]?" "Oh, there aren't seven specific glaciers; somsone just named it that and it stuck."
"So where's Ted Stevens's house?" "Which one? Oh, the one he got in trouble for."
I bought a new pair of shoes and the care guide contained two great pieces of advice:
You are very close to a surrealist manga premise.
I'm bummed that I don't really know how to learn to draw, books/websites just teach you a few concepts and then I'm off to practice whatever without having a structured approach to go at it.