Saint Scrapple

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Beats, Rhymes, & Life in Berkeley. Vacation homes in Tromaville and Camp Crystal Lake. Schuylkill Punch sipper.
@crisps skeleton crew was a much better collection to me but it was still interesting to read the source material for maximum overdrive and graveyard shift
@futurebird I bought a deeply discounted Kindle version a few weeks ago
@olliethewobbly a lotta people like the Oxford World Classics translation but for exegesis check out the Harper One Study Quran
@evilchili I like the sneaker store song!

Watching #EscapeFromNewYork. Charles Cyphers would be a pretty great rapper alias.

#HipHop #RapperNames

@limebar aren't they just NOI recipes? You may be able to find them in How To Eat To Live or old final call issues
@deweyritten I'll eventually check it out and also read the novella. Mike Flanagan is on a winning streak with his King film adaptations.
@mathowie I also subscribe to his channel, he's really great
I have followed this guy on YouTube who reviews restaurants and public transit in LA for the past year or so and today he uploaded food reviews at the LA protests and it's fantastic. You can see quiet, chill citizens marching for better treatment then masked marines looking like stormtroopers deployed for no good reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpeG4S6a7ko
LA Protest Street Food Tour (Military Occupation Edition)

YouTube

β€œFor many in the US, Trump 2.0 is having a devastating effect on dailylife. For others, the routines of life continue, albeit threaded with mind-altering horrors: scrolling past an AI-generated cartoon of Ice officers arresting immigrants before dinner, or hearing about starving Palestinian families while on a school run.”

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-interactive/2025/may/22/hypernormalization-dysfunction-status-quo

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

The Guardian