the ghost of bvance

@4xisblack
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Essayist; curator at Heart Projector; videogame programmer; specter of the anthropocene

A little toast to the no ones,
with a nod to the masters
To the ones with the riches
from the ones who the rags fit

A little smoke for the gone boys,
a little nod to the spirits
We're still here runnin 'round screamin,
they're still here pointin and laughin

To me it seems like these guys put their sherlock holmes deerstalker cap on the moment some poorer people even opens their mouth, but meanwhile any dipstick in a business suit can convince them of whichever tall tale he chooses so long as he promises it will bring them more money. And it reminds me of one of my fav RTJ lyrics!
Basically my role within this particular act of political theater is to recount the story knowing I will be laughed at, and that I/she will be disbelieved by these landowner guys in the crowd. I don't have time in my 5 minute address (nor would it be respectful to her tbh!) to try detailing the anecdote in a way that defends its credibility (e.g.: I have met chatty old ladies in that part of town precisely once in 20 years, perhaps because I have also been mugged there)

The other evening I visited city hall to once again lobby council to create car-free streets here! This time I recounted the story of a woman I met in the industrial butthole of town who asked me to walk her across some roads, give her some change, and also told me about a time when she was hit by a car!

The esteemed community members in the audience laughed, bawdily, as I recounted this anecdote, I guess because they assumed she was making it all up in order to get change

A scene I often think back to, from the period when kris ligman was a moderator for a kids' MMO:

A cg penguin waddles up onto the stage at an in-game karaoke bar. Approaches the mic, taps it once. Begins their performance: "I LIKE BAD BITCHES THAT'S MY FUCKIN PROBLEM"

the penguin is then immediately banned for life

I wrote a piece for my BRAND NEW cultural criticism website called "Super Plumber Odysseus" https://www.corporatefuturenightmare.world/2018/01/05/super-plumber-odysseus/
Super Plumber Odysseus

In the corporate future nightmare world history has shit upon the notion of ‘fairness’ with such gleeful malice that fairness itself died, and now exists as a ghostly poop joke from some idealized …

Corporate Future Nightmare World
The Orville is dumb and, well, low-key sexist in that blue collar way, but I sorta... like it...

Listening to Kendrick some more and this:

"Love's gonna get you killed, but pride’s gonna be the death"

is a fun lyric

Of course ASMR is a big thing, but here is a video of a fairly successful performer workshopping some random new voices to gather data about whether they might work (for "sinister roleplay"!) https://youtu.be/xpHKqBC_9Ck
Voice Assortment Trigger Test For ASMR

YouTube
The past couple days I've been sliding into some pretty bonkers youtube holes. There are a lot of good performers on YT! I think a disproportionate amount of it is, preeeetty pornographic