hello, my old heart

Happy Halloween, an oldie.

I'm not actually inherently against the idea of prison labour in the sense that I am not against fairly compensated, voluntary jobs for prisoners. If there was a well-regulated program in place to give prisoners jobs with the same paycheque anyone else in that field gets, with training, work experience, job skills, etc when they got out I'd be all for it. That way they'd have a proper resume and demonstrated skills to fall back on and could find work and rejoin society again on their own independence, like how rehabilitation is supposed to work. Actually, add some financial literacy and life skills education on top of that while they're serving their sentence, and you're setting them up for success rather than re-incarceration when they get out again. What I'm against is slave labour forced upon prisoners for pennies on the dollar, if they get anything at all.

ME: ah, fuck! these allergies are going crazy!

THE PERFIDIOUS POLLEN PARTICLE:

Gimli’s Jig, from Chapter 42 of Sansukh. Composed and played by myself on the violin (though you will most certainly recognise that middle jig!)

It is surprisingly fun to write jigs. Also, to play them :)

Sheet music for the violin part can be found here!

Not like that film was a one-off either.

I would like to add The Birdcage (1996) to this list of drag queen movies (mind you, it's based on a French stage play from 1973).

Which starred Nathan Lane as a drag queen just two years after he had voice Pumba in "The Lion King":

And we ESPECIALLY need to remember Victor Victoria from 1982 (during the REAGAN administration) which is SET IN THE 1930S and stars everyone's favorite curtain-sewing nanny as a struggling soprano who decides to pretend to be a boy doing drag (DOUBLE THE DRAG FOR YOUR MONEY). I mean look at this photo:

Count Victor Grazinski isn't putting up with your transphobia (or you being a dick to Robert Preston).

Unfortunately, the representation of drag and female impersonation (as it was often called pre-Stonewall) is scant in mainstream American cinema due to the Hayes Code. There are definitely more, but these are biggest, "family-friendly" names I can think who have starred in major motion pictures as drag performers.

On the topic of Leftist Andrew Tate and other mythical creatures of the liberal mind

he's just ricky trailer park boys if you think about it

Medieval Toy Unearthed in Poland

A 800-year-old horse figurine was found during an excavation conducted as part of the construction of a new fire station in Toruń, a medieval town on the Vistula River in north-central Poland. The small clay horse was glazed and has a hole in its underside. Researchers think a stick may have fit into the hole so that playing children could pretend to make the horse gallop or use it as a puppet.

https://www.archaeology.org/news/12186-240301-torun-horse-toy

go Poland

Yes YES The horse is out

Hey, pals, love the energy, and that's why you should be shouting to the hills that the Biden-Harris administration MADE THIS HAPPEN.

If you are getting a federally-backed mortgage through Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, your positive rental history DOES COUNT.

Whaaaat?!?!

Okay this t-shirt design goes so hard.

they should pay you extra if you have to be the only fag in the workplace. they should give you a bonus for that.

bringing this here bc i watched mamma mia! last night and the only sensible thing to do next is to watch andor

Shipping a man in a canon het relationship with another man but I'm shaking my head the whole time so you know it's not out of misogynistic disregard for the woman character