Dexter De La Paz

Good evening everyone, For the month of May, the STS book club will be reading Aberration in the Heartland of the Real. It's a long one, but a good one. If you are planning to attend one of the meetings I would get started on it now. As always if you prefer, there's also a text channel in the discord. Please see the Patreon page for the full announcement.

Me: texting my Japanese friend from a convenience store Why are there hot drinks in vending machines? Friend: Because it is winter. Me: Yeah but emotionally this surprised me. Friend: Foreigners are always shocked by warm canned coffee. Me: I bought one and now I feel like a divorced detective.😂 Friend: That is the correct experience. pause Me: Why does everything in Japan feel strangely cinematic? Friend: Because you are sleep deprived and projecting meaning onto beverages. Me: That's fair honestly. Friend: Also the jazz music in the store helps. Me: WAIT. You're right. Why is there smooth jazz playing while I buy instant noodles at 1 AM? Friend: To make your bad decisions feel sophisticated.😂

@TLEbird bird, please do not let this be real

Finally we can make hantavirus at home

Clint Eastwood skateboarding in Rome on Via Veneto, 1965.

There's a chain in Japan called Yoshinoya. You walk in. You sit down. You say "gyudon nami." Thirty seconds later, there's a bowl of beef and rice in front of you. Three bucks. I moved to Tokyo at 18. Some months, after rent, I had nothing. Yoshinoya kept me alive. One bowl. That was dinner. That was enough. Three days before payday, if I had three bucks on me, I knew I'd be fine. The counter was always the same kind of crowd. A salaryman with his tie pulled loose. A guy in work boots, still covered in dust. A student who missed the last train. Sometimes a man who clearly had nowhere to be. Nobody spoke. Nobody looked up. Everyone just ate. It was strange, but the place felt safe. No winners. No losers. Just people eating the same bowl, at the same counter, for the same price. Yoshinoya opened in 1899, inside the old Tokyo fish market. The guys working those pre-dawn shifts needed something hot, fast, and cheap. That's what Yoshinoya gave them. It's been doing it for 127 years. There's a Japanese phrase: umai, yasui, hayai. Tasty, cheap, fast. Used to be the Yoshinoya slogan. Most places can pull off one. Maybe two. Yoshinoya's done all three for 127 years. Three bucks. One bowl. Kept someone alive every night for 127 years.

I pretend I do not see it

i have spin-off character syndrome

youre going to jail

@jammles9 youre getting deported right along with your pets here

If you’ve ever wondered what happens when an HOA president loses an election, here she is, terrorizing a rec league soccer game over permits, food vendors, and the national anthem.

@TLEPaz I’m in your house, Paz, watching you not finish the movie. Finish the movie, Paz

@EmmeryTanith Same,but I was watching much more analytically this time. Still quite enjoyed it but I was looking for things not just immersing

@TLEPaz Yes, but I was captivated the first time I watched it.

Lost highway goes hard, it's just so, so long

@Altphilologe It's a trip

@TLEPaz On my list to watch.

@fleshsimulator I lived in Kenosha, I SAW the buses of paid for rioters come up from chicago. There were apartments set on fire with people still in them that never got passed the local news. I'm as ACAB as almost anyone, but thank God for the Marshals specifically.

I was in DC for the BLM protests and going outside on nights 2 through 5 sounded like the instrumental for Lock Your Doors. I could smell the tear gas INSIDE MY APARTMENT. They were rotor washing rioters with Blackhawks. Someone bombed Carnegie Library

To the limited extent that we can reverse engineer Christ's ministry in order that we can best serve him, by the time of his crucifixion, he had collected 120 men who could do the hardest human cognitive task: parse extended metaphor. And the concentration of these men created the largest empire in world history, from scratch, during an epistemological collapse.

@CeciliaGlennon I would too. I've been steering clear of Chinese for a while, all cuisine styles have, but it seems there especially prices are running wild.

@TLEPaz I mean, how about a 3-for-$5? Pick your meat, sauce, and mini appetizer? I'd do that.

When I want Chinese food, I want four pieces of breaded, fried chicken breast and one crab rangoon smothered in sweet and sour sauce. To have that, I have to get a "small" order of sweet and sour chicken (about 12 pieces) and an order of six rangoons. It always comes with rice that I don't want. Why does Chinese food have such huge serving sizes?

@TSA Why the hell do any of you still have a job

Protein shakes? 3.4 oz or less, but rotisserie chickens??? As many as you can fit in your carry-on.

blue romanian camo in stock!

Need to create a website that's like the sex offender registry but for restaurants caught using Sysco food. Hiring private investigators for complex stakeouts. Unrelenting, merciless slop policing. Social lashings. Complete and utter shaming.

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