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LOVERS prepare and anoint yourselves here are HILITES from THE MARCH 2020 SKEWER
Tom's opener was left off the recording BUT here are highlights regardless because i took notes and i have access to his SHARED GOOGLE DOC
cc @TomHarrison19
cc @TomHarrison19
"After seeing the UK gleefully elect a bad hell man who appears to be Donald Trump 2 but with hair that is somehow way worse, it’s hard not to be pessimistic!"
— @TomHarrison19
— @TomHarrison19
... sidenote from last night ...
Vlad: "Boris J/hnson is in intensive care."
erica: "Don't tell me that. Don't make me look at the part of myself that hears that and feels joy."
Vlad: "Boris J/hnson is in intensive care."
erica: "Don't tell me that. Don't make me look at the part of myself that hears that and feels joy."
"... you want to just get it over with, but the real way to do that is just forget about it. Which is the fucking opposite of what we actually do which is to stare at the fuckin election needle and take huge amounts of poison damage."
— @TomHarrison19
— @TomHarrison19
"I know that if I have to work as a serf building exterior walls around Jeff Bezos's compound to keep out the rising seas, at least when I go back to my Prime Barracks there will be people I love to make my allotment of nutrient slime that much sweeter."
— @TomHarrison19
— @TomHarrison19
afterward ...
"You should see the first draft. It was REAL grim. I read it again like, 'oh, this is a suicide note.'"
— @TomHarrison19
"You should see the first draft. It was REAL grim. I read it again like, 'oh, this is a suicide note.'"
— @TomHarrison19
Fake News Quiz!
re: a story about a ceramics teacher blaming video games for why children broke pots in the classroom
Davon: "The third one is the lie because you're explaining it."
Kevin: "I could do this for any story though."
cc @_avenon
re: a story about a ceramics teacher blaming video games for why children broke pots in the classroom
Davon: "The third one is the lie because you're explaining it."
Kevin: "I could do this for any story though."
cc @_avenon
related, from the before times: Zelda is the Boy https://twitter.com/i/events/942165790677225472?lang=en
"... a xenophobic spray tan was elected into the highest office in the country. You can imagine how pissed off I was that I didn't have enough experience for entry-level positions, when this Category 5 dumbass is in charge of our foreign policy."
— Donna Das
— Donna Das
"Al Gore, John Kerry, Nigel Dukakis, all electable, none of them President. In fact, these people are talked about so irregularly, that everyone here born in the '90s didn't think twice about the fact that I said 'Nigel Dukakis.'"
— Donna Das
— Donna Das
big time mic drama, here are visuals for our podcast listeners
"I can tell from the density of jean jackets and undercuts that this room is dense with liberal arts degrees. Lookin at you twee motherfuckers."
— Dan Lastres
— Dan Lastres
re: Fall of Delta Green
"Honestly I find that one personally cathartic as a Cuban-American whose cultural and historical awareness was forged in the fires of the confusing — but sexy! — 1960s."
— Dan Lastres
"Honestly I find that one personally cathartic as a Cuban-American whose cultural and historical awareness was forged in the fires of the confusing — but sexy! — 1960s."
— Dan Lastres
"For those of you who are not already members of hashtag Bachelor Nation, GIRD YOUR VIRGINAL EYES WITH YOUR LIFE!"
— @alisarosenthal
— @alisarosenthal
"My next favorite is MyKenna, the fashion blogger, who is the human personification of a LiveJournal blog circa 2002, who says things like, 'I need that time with him! For my *whole heart*.'"
— @alisarosenthal
— @alisarosenthal
"Are you an adjunct instructor in love with Chicago? But even more in love with the idea of getting to see the world, working at one and not four schools, and seeing a doctor some day?"
— Ian Randall
— Ian Randall
re: being at a Cinco de Mayo celebration in Japan
"Seeing your first MAGA hat in public! Yeah! There it is across a crowded crowd on the head of an either very large current military member or current military hairstyle cosplayer."
— Ian Randall
"Seeing your first MAGA hat in public! Yeah! There it is across a crowded crowd on the head of an either very large current military member or current military hairstyle cosplayer."
— Ian Randall
AND THE DEBATE! For which type of badass person is getting coronavirus most cool?
@ericaricardo: Coronavirus is for Jocks
Roxane West: Coronavirus is for Goths
@ericaricardo: Coronavirus is for Jocks
Roxane West: Coronavirus is for Goths
Roxane couldn't be there tho
after the show:
"'Who? Who will speak for the Goths?' I wish @RayleighJeans had come tonight, he would've been like, [solemn face] 'I will.'"
— @musingmeredith
after the show:
"'Who? Who will speak for the Goths?' I wish @RayleighJeans had come tonight, he would've been like, [solemn face] 'I will.'"
— @musingmeredith
"In writing this piece i have come to realize that: i am a jock ... This is my real sweatband that i have filled with my sweat. i have several spreadsheets that i use to track my gains."
— @ericaricardo
— @ericaricardo
"Goths consume a nutritionally-void vegan diet of potato chips and black coffee with sugar, which has left their constitutions vulnerable ... Goths should be planning their leather and lace funerals, not attending them!"
— @ericaricardo
— @ericaricardo
List of Goth Jocks
"They can do push ups and are comfortable wearing eyeliner and talking frankly about depression.
Keanu Reeves.
The Crow.
Tessa Thompson.
Furiosa.
Vin Diesel.
Shia LaBoeuf.
Mr. Spock.
probably most of the Doctors Who."
— @ericaricardo
"They can do push ups and are comfortable wearing eyeliner and talking frankly about depression.
Keanu Reeves.
The Crow.
Tessa Thompson.
Furiosa.
Vin Diesel.
Shia LaBoeuf.
Mr. Spock.
probably most of the Doctors Who."
— @ericaricardo
check out the whole show HERE: https://soundcloud.com/theskewer/the-skewer-47-march-2020
we don't know when and if there will be a next Skewer. if we do a Zoom / YouTube Skewer we'll obviously let everyone know. right now the business of surviving and caring for each other consumes the days.
Tom and Joe are also hard-working on glorious @AnimeSickos episodes which you should absolutely listen to
PLUS AnimeSickos watch parties
AND you should also subscribe to the goodgood newsletter:
https://animesickos.substack.com/
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PLUS AnimeSickos watch parties
AND you should also subscribe to the goodgood newsletter:
https://animesickos.substack.com/
cc @AnimeSickos @TomHarrison19 @ShariaUncle
a reminder that you can support our beloved home @CafeMustache here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-cafe-mustache-staff
thank your grocery checkout people, your pharmacy checkout people, anyone you see out there still working with the public
if that applies to you, THANK YOU, you are braver than the troops
(not a meme reference)
if that applies to you, THANK YOU, you are braver than the troops
(not a meme reference)
we love you unironically. regular love. all day every day.
