I make ends meet

Scritchy and Atchy

So bugs nom'd me alive at Fleischmann last week; they ate me last year as well just about as bad but last year had Jim 2 as chirurgeon and the ointment he had there was magical. The ointments I've had this year are non-supernatural in origin and are working a lot more slowly. I no longer suspect that these bites may kill me.

My nose also briefly misbehaves at random but increasingly more intermittent times (meaning tis slowing down.) Possibly related.

Anyway I did tally the total bites at one point:

78 left arm

50 right

15 face

handful on my legs and back

man what do we owe to each other yet

So the post which would have been my last post were it not for my posting something yesterday as well (guess I'm getting back into the habit; couldn't post last week) wondering what we owe to each other, is...

it's a scam right it's so obvious to me that there's no bottom, just learning of the essential oils thing in church those some-odd years ago and seeing how untenable the distribution model is, but... I have a friend who's getting into an MLM and

(cryptocurrency got to look into the business model of that because from what I already understand of it there are some definite similarities)

I knew it's a bad idea but she hasn't / hadn't sunk that much money into it yet and she says that people fail at them because they're not moving the product hard enough and not recruiting hard enough and I say--and it's as close to a warning as I come, and to me it's a pretty strong warning but ???-- that everyone thinks that they're going to be the one to win the lottery though they know the odds are mathematically against any one person.

(An MLM is a pyramid scheme but technically not illegal; ML stands for multilevel which means pyramid, and M is for marketing which sure let's say it's close enough to "scheme" because that's how you recruit people, they lose money so that you can make money and they hope to regain that money by stealing from- sry recruiting- people under them.)

And it's like, how can I tell her more clearly to get out while she still can? I don't have a job or anything rn and maybe that's a good thing because I can't buy in myself and am unrecruitable.

Ant on a Hand

Ants. Ants getting back. Ants in the car, crawled into the cracks. Ant wonders on my hand; I let it walk and scoop it from hand to hand and each is new territory.

And the road stretched out before us, and we trusted that it led us home; we trusted it was the same road as before, continuing linearly, though really we wouldn't have known the difference.

What We Do Owe to Each Other

OK though has it really been 21 years since the CATS home video film was released??

Wow. 

Wow.

I just gotta... I just gotta think about this.

21 ye...ars...

Wow.

I forget what I was going to talk about. It's just... I'm just...

wow

So Far Hypothetical Artwork

So imagine I've done this painting of a cowboy cat with eggs, maybe juggling them. There'd be some sort of symbolism behind that, wouldn't there? You'd be right, and the symbolism would be this (it's slats easier to cone up with the impression for a piece than doing the piece itself):

The cowboy is Jim who's making westerns and pooping off ideas. The eggs are Pandora eggs, like the box but eggs. That could be symbolic in itself but it's an idea for Cap'n Patches I'm not using; though it's an intriguing idea in itself out doesn't fit the venue.

Boom art.

Movement Post as a Video: gotta dance (x3)

Somehow it always happens that, 

Movement

Watching my own performance in (a recorded performance of) Is There Life After High School?, I'm struck by how physical my performance is, in general especially compared to most of my fellow castmates. Possibly going to do a YouTube thing on it; we'll see. Somebody recorded me dancing as Cowabunga, maybe I'll, fiiind thaat??, aand alssoo have it as part of my video???, because heck that ties into my point here, and meanwhile today I was looking at Chris Evans's stunt stuff, this video, and heck maybe this would be a better observation as a video where I could just show the video instead of just awkwardly link to a tweet, but that choreographer is just on a whole other level, the fluidity of his movements and everything.

https://twitter.com/ChrisEvans/status/1129456332057251841

and also if i'm so physical how come i'm still flabby? or is this just why i'm not fatter, makes sense makes sense.

Pirate Cat Obsession

Just been wild these past few days with all sorts of sea magics and world building elements and off-the-wall action setpieces. It's what I've been dreaming in these past few days, and dreams have been good. Coming up with some nice stuff while conscious, but of course there's really not much of a comparison.

So electric eels aren't actually an eel, though they are an electric- they're knifefish, more closely related to catfish, and some catfist are electric... can we use that? Cat, fish? Mm...

Eureka!, Moar Piracy

Rejoice ! for the mystery has been (prolly) solved (I'm giving it a solid 97% accuracy.) Aiight remember way way back ago when I was searching for a mysterious Sea Dogs comic book about, like, dogs who be pirates? I'd read about it in Family Fun magazine but couldn't find any further information and was starting to doubt my sanity...

https://dielikeadisneyvillain.blogspot.com/2013/11/sea-dogs.html

Getting back into Cap'n Patches [!] again, I decided to dive into pirate cats and dogs again. There have been a few more such properties that have sprung up since then, but obviously I was still looking for something that came out well before 2013. Maybe I'll compile some of those again, like I did before, but still my quest continued. Search terms: sea dogs comic? salty dogs comic?

And I eventually figured it out somehow. So you see how the title of that post, you can see just by looking at the link that I'd been spelling sea dogs as two words? Apparently it was one word.

https://www.amazon.com/Seadogs-Ocean-Operetta-Lisa-Wheeler/dp/1416941037/

Seadogs: An Epic Ocean Operetta, written by Lisa Wheeler with art by Mark Siegel, was published by Atheneum books for young readers (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) in 2004. I'm not sure exactly which 2004 Family Fun magazine the book was featured in, but looking up 2004 Family Fun magazines for sale on the internet reveals that it's around the right time period, the graphic design and covers match what I remember from just about the right period of my childhood.

woo!

So Seadogs isn't really a comic- yes it is, I mean, but the conceit is there's this framing device that the whole thing is an operetta put on by (and for) dogs, and as such the story is told mostly silently with the text being the lyrics of the accompanying songs. It wasn't some epic, Akiko and the Planet Smoo-type deal like I was under the impression that it was, and so I can largely ignore it in terms of, dealing with what the dog-pirate genre already has to offer. Not that it's not wonderful and everything, and it's not like it's totally devoid of originality either: "the Terrier of the Sea!" oh how I wish I had thought of that!

But yeah as far as that goes that '97 (Captain) Claw computer game still has a lot of secrets to divulge... mercats, mmm...

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