Man card

 As I carried in my laundry from the car in the rain, I realized I had two choices. I could cry about being single and having no one to help me, or I could be a man.

People these days make being a man something like a dirty word. They argue that you're not being in touch with your emotions or something, and it doesn't make things not hurt.

To be fair, it's not good to abuse someone and say "Man up." However, there's nothing wrong with telling yourself to man up.

Men had to use the man card when they built the first houses, ever since houses existed, and they couldn't cry about failing to build a house or having no one to help them build shelter. They did what had to be done, because they were men, and they had to get out of the weather.

A butler patiently endures abuse because he's a man, he's tough, and he can handle it. Plus he gets paid a lot, which helps.  When you're a boxer or a fire fighter, you gotta fight through the pain to do what needs to be done.  That's what being a man is about.

The man card is what you show yourself to remind yourself that you can endure difficulty without having to cry over every little thing.

Maybe it's not emotionally healthy, but it makes me feel better to say that I'm a tough man who can handle things on my own, than weep about nobody coming to help me.

If women want to take this idea and run with it, that's fine, but they already can take advantage of something men can't: Feminine charm.

Sliders: Ruined multiverse 1-2

 I haven't watched Sliders since the nineties. I forgot more than I expected. I'm making notes on the issues that never get resolved.

In the second episode of Sliders, they leave the parallel universe of President Oliver North with some interesting unresolved problems.

1. They have introduced two flying wasp spiders into the world. If they are not drones, the world is history. 

Quinn does not kill them due to his inexpert football throw, so they are still out there, ready to be cloned or bred, bringing the end of civilization.

Come to think of it, it would be best if that happened, for:

2. Quinn and Arturo left equations for the construction of a slider device. Someone took pictures. I am pretty sure this will become a plot point later on, but just in case they don't, let's hang on to that.

3. Rembrandt Brown slept with his parallel universe wife. If she becomes pregnant, the DNA will match the husband who went missing during the Australian war, but he probably will behave like a real son of the crying man, rather than the rebellious snot she currently has. It may have unforeseen consequences in the universe's history.

I wonder if their inability to go home was a butterfly effect from Rembrandt's slipup. Again, it would have been better if the swarm wiped them out.

4. I don't think anyone cares what happens with the commune after their guru left.  I guess, honestly, nobody cares what happens to society when they jump off to a new universe. But it does make you wonder if they made anything better.

Episode 3: Most of this storyline falls under the category of "Don't care, humanity will survive." 

Nothing jumps out as too damaging to the universe, except leaving behind the Constitution. Mainly I wonder if they understand the hastily scribbled document enough to make it into official policy, or if someone kills the prince and society falls back under the monarchy. Or if they left out some details and it's still not entirely fair or American. Hey, they did it all by memory, and a lot of people don't know or remember everything about it.

And what kind of ripple did Rembrandt make my telling everyone about James Brown? If the James Brown there is a doctor or an automechanic...

Also, a crowd of people saw them slide. That has to have some kind of consequence. Of course, this happens almost every episode.

Gays don't bother me

 It doesn't bother me that people are homosexual. What bothers me is how people try to sugar coat it. That's why I think they should have kept calling gay marriage a "civil union" and still give them property rights. Honestly I don't see any other legitimate purpose for those except property rights. 

To me it's about the same as sleeping with a whore. If I slept with a whore, I wouldn't dress it up and say it's something legitimate and holy and good as a real marriage, I'd call it what it is. 

It's one thing to live in sin, it's something worse to live in sin and claim what you're doing is sanctioned before God. And that's exactly what "gay marriage" does.

Just being gay doesn't offend me. The most offensive thing about our modern culture is how we are no longer allowed to call sin what it is.  

Art Commissions

 I don't like art commissions anymore. As I wrote about in the "make me pretty" post, some people can be unreasonable to the extreme. I ghosted, or thought I ghosted this person who expected too much from me, but they came back, weeks later, and said the sketch I made wasn't good, and to try doing like this anime drawing that I sketched already, the same one I drew and sent earlier. What, do you want me to trace the damn thing? 

People don't understand an artist's limitations. You don't go to Charles m Schultz or Scott Adams and ask them to make an amazing Sistine chapel looking thing. Not everyone can do the same kinds of things. If you ask a Snoopy type artist for a Mona Lisa, be prepared to receive a picture of Snoopy as the Mona Lisa, not something that looks as great as the Mona Lisa.

I've learned to accept the fact that I'm not a super great artist, I'm a cartoonist. I enjoy drawing cartoons. I don't like it when people  expect miracles from me, and imply that I'm not a good artist because I can't make pictures like Rembrandt. I can go to my dad if I want that kind of treatment.

You're not the Medici family. If you were, you'd go online and find a perfect artist instead of complaining that I can't fulfill your artistic vision to your impossible standards.

You're cheap, that's why you're asking me instead of a pro who can actually make your perfect picture and charge you full price for the annoyance. You prefer to go the cheaper route and demand premium work for peanuts.

Straight pride

 They don't have straight pride month for the same reason why they don't have rich people soup kitchens.

 When straight people brag: "We just got married, going to honeymoon in Cancun."

Gay marriage is pretty much response like this:

"OH YEAH? Well...I just...got married to this blow up doll."

And then after the honeymoon, when the straight person says, "We're about to give birth to twins! I'm so excited!"

The gay marriage answer is similar to:

"YEAH? Well, I still got this blow up doll... And I'm going to adopt some puppies!"

Escaping Magicant

 In the Earthbound/ Mother video game, I have gotten stuck in Magicant (the cloud city with elves) several times.

No, the game isn't broken. You're not trapped in the cloud city forever.

I just now realized that there's a man inside the well dungeon, near the sleeping dragon.

You keep going down holes inside the well, just keep going down the left one till you reach a dead end, then climb the ladder and go down the one next to it until you find a dungeon that doesn't look like a square.

You go inside the box shaped hole, catty corner from the path above the sleeping dragon and fight the fish. It looks like just another enemy, but you can't get the magic hook without fighting him.

The important detail I kept missing was how that blue blob in the crack near the top of the dungeon wall is a guy that you're supposed to talk to.

If you choose 'check,' it only says 'no problem here.' You actually need to talk to the blob.

 The hook only takes you back to magicant, which sucks, because the door blob guy is blocking leads to a new area with semis that give you asthma. You can't do anything once you get asthma, so it wipes you out and you end up in the Magicant save point again.

Sucks

 Trying to clean up in the corner,

Trying to fit a big assed vacuum in there

But I never seen a Hoover Upright

Do Bare Floor in a one inch square

Vacuum doesn't fit there

Vacuum don't do s### there...