@SatuUnelmia I don't know how that would work with Alfred, but I can tell you I've found CoSo to be a place where you can just ask.

My guitar strings need to be changed. One of my favorite plants isn't likely to make it to the start of spring. Everybody in the house misunderstands what I'm saying except the cats and the snake. The dogs and ferrets aren't even paying attention. They're so focused on how happy they are that we exist in a shared space.

It's Sunday and I'm already done with the week.

@Shenango_Linda The cats in this house know what their position is. They are often disappointed by the humans who forget that we live only to serve them.

I am done with today. It seems like everyone within several miles woke up In A Mood, and I'm just done. I'm going to go lay down and read. I finally got Stephen Rule's book "Welsh and I". And a cat wants to lay on me. That alone is reason to go lay down. I dare not disobey the cat's orders.

Yes, he pointed out that within the world of Sesame Street Elmo is a child. And he acknowledged his own trauma reactions and personal view. He was mostly focused, though, on how Larry David was pitching a disruptive fit - acting like a child - because he wasn't happy with the focus on mental health as a topic.

Obviously, lots of people hate Wil Wheaton because of how he speaks about politics and his activism. But I also think a lot of people became very uncomfortable with how much they have enjoyed his childhood acting when he opened up about how he hadn't wanted to do it. But he did also say knowing people enjoy it has given him some happiness to be found in it.

Larry David was being an asshole, and I doubt anyone really believes Wil Wheaton was literally accusing him of child abuse.

The articles said a lot of what Wil Wheaton said, but from a removed perspective. Not with that personal touch of being an abuse survivor. And not many people seemed to notice or react.

But today! Today the news has a lot of Wil Wheaton Accuses Larry David of the Same Shit We Did a Few Days Ago, But We Make It Sound Ridiculous When Wheaton Says It! And people are reacting! Because Wil Wheaton needs to shut up! Because it's popular to want him to shut up!

So, a few days ago, I saw some articles about the whole thing with Larry David and Elmo. I wouldn't have known about it otherwise. It seemed the whole thing was unplanned, which was very disrespectful to the hosts and the Muppet performers, and words like "assault" and "attack" were being used in the articles.

Larry David was quoted in the articles, and he said he "throttled" (his word) Elmo because he just couldn't take it that they kept going on and on about mental health.

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@rleebyers That's not that far off from how Lovecraft told Randolph Carter's story.

@SandHillThicket That is a beautiful pine green!

Since everbody keeps talking about it, I went and watched the video of Tracy Chapman performing "Fast Car" with Luke Combs.

Oh, y'all! I CRIED. My younger self cried. My current self cried. Me and myself cried together.

And now my fingers are crying because I haven't made enough time for playing my ukulele over the past few months. My fingertips went soft and they had to play "Fast Car" over and over today. Because I HAD to!
#CoSoMusic

@John_Ripley @ACG2 @richquaal @Reincarnation_3 Oh, I missed the - on -4. Just read it as 4. Thank you for explaining.

@Reincarnation_3 @richquaal I've got 48. I also have dyscalculia. If -24 seems like a logical answer, I have terribly misunderstood it.

@sentientdessert Oh YES! My dad was at work when Dr. Demento's show came on, so I would record it on my stereo and then we'd listen to it throughout the week.

@QueenOfEverything I never forget how to do it because it's all there in the story. And people who have seen it before love to watch it again when I'm doing it for somebody else.

I was asked to tell the pirate story tonight. That made me want to share it with everybody again. It's one of the things I use in social situations sometimes. Meeting new people is a little easier when I just did something they think is cool. Adults are sometimes even more impressed than their kids are.

https://diydiv.substack.com/p/the-pirate-story

@GaLiberal I swear I'm not missing the point you're making. I just have to say I really appreciate that you know it's "cut off your nose to spite your face". I've had people actually argue with me and insist it's "despite your face".

@Jezibaba I agree. Checked with my nose ring, and it kind of wiggled like it was nodding...so it agrees, too.

@JKMooney Putting "(Alpha Male)" after his name sends me the polar opposite message.

@Rocker I got kinda suspicious/kinda excited thinking there's some movie with Richard Feynman depicted as a hero! But cats named Feynman are good, too!