Best posts made by Aria

@surreality The world's stonedest pervert puppy, and I can't stop laughing every time he's on screen.

....I'd probably punch him in the face after 15 minutes in real life.

@Ganymede

....We have five cats. We didn't want to have five cats. We wanted to have two cats, but we live in West Philly where cats just kind of happen to you. The little bags of food are adorable and I presume used solely for a light afternoon snack.

@wahoo

@Lotherio said in Concerts & Goth Stuff:

@Aria I was being a goof, sorry about that, I figured you meant 80s Vandals. The other ones are the British Vandals (70s punk with Ali Moyet on vocals). But they might be more obscure, in the vein of Beastie Boys starting as a punk/thrash outfit before busting rhymes.

Ohh! Derp. Yes, I know both bands. I thought you were referring to their lineup changes. Like.... I have seen Danzig. I have seen the Misfits. I have NOT seen Danzig with the Misfits, and that makes a difference to people.

@Ghost .....try seeing a 70-something Roger Daltrey/Pete Townsend sing "My Generation" live. At least Townsend has the grace and perspective to burst out laughing about the "hope I die before I get old" line.

I second Meske.

I am also a fan of the Frick Collection, but that is very much a "go stare at art you do not touch" museum.

One of the reasons I recommend the Frick is because they have a stunning collection of lesser-known paintings by some of the most recognizable names in art history (Rembrandt, Vermeer, Whistler, Titian, Rubens, de Goya, David, El Greco), but the museum is much smaller and less crowded than the larger and more well-known NYC art museums. So if you do want to hit one up, it's pretty solid.

"Built-in shelf bras" in camisoles are a lie perpetuated by the patriarchy to make your boobs floppy and sore. Change my mind.

@Too-Old-For-This said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

"Built-in shelf bras" in camisoles are a lie perpetuated by the patriarchy to make your boobs floppy and sore. Change my mind.

And there's never, NEVER any underwire. I'm sorry, but if I'm big enough to buy your 'XL' camisole, an extra layer of cotton and a band of elastic are NOT going to cover it!

Right?! As someone walking around with boobs in a bra size I once announced to the nice fitting lady at Nordstrom's as "I thought they made that up for porn!", that stupid excuse for a bra is pretty much just half a layer that's going to warp and wrinkle and lay weird. And the elastic band is just an angry red mark waiting to happen. You fuck off, shelf bra. You are the father of lies and deceit.

@Pandora said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I've never seen a bra bigger than a DD, the site I buy my bras from goes D, DD, DDD and that's the highest they've got.

This is not uncommon. And it gets worse if you have a large cup size that doesn't match the band size it's normally associated with (38D, 40DD, 42DDD, etc). I can think of.... exactly three stores that semi-reliably carry my size and usually in a limited number of styles. If the cup is right, the band is usually too big and they're like "Nope, sorry, we only carry that size with this size band." I suspect this is why most women in the States -- something like 80% IIRC -- are walking around in the wrong bra size regardless of how big they are. Like, yeah, if you're a B-cup... you might not be a 34" band. Surprise! That's not actually how bra sizes work despite what's in your local Target.

And for reference if you're an in-person kind of shopper, those stores are Nordstrom's, Soma, and Lane Bryant. All of which do fittings, but Nordstrom's seem most accurate and knowledgeable about things like.... bras that fit your shape, not just your size. Boobs are many and varied!

@Aria said in RL Anger:

It's been years since I spoke French, but I was following Le Monde obsessively today as it was updating faster than most of the English language news sites today. Provided I've been translating correctly, what we know so far is:

• Two thirds of the roof, including the spire, have been completely lost
  > - As the spire was directly above the altar, this was likely destroyed

Somehow, somehow, the altar survived the spire's collapse.

Watching the trailer for the new Hellboy movie makes me think to myself, "Huh. I really want to watch Hellboy now. That other, better Hellboy." It's not just me, right?

My dog is being a lazy shit right now.

He doesn't chew random stuff while we're out all day, but if there is any kind of food anywhere in the house -- or even anything that might be food, like garbage -- he will find a way to get into it. Locking trash cans. The pantry. The cat food bin. The fridge. The backs of the counters. Inside cabinets. He will find it and he will eat it, to the point that Target has been sending me diaper ads for years because of the sheer amount of baby-proofing we've had to install in the kitchen.

Since he's going to a dog sitter's house for two days this week, I decided to try and curb this instinct by buying him some toys that can be filled with food for him busy himself with.

He is now laying at the foot of the bed giving me sad, pathetic faces as he pretends not to know how to get the treats out of the Kong. Apparently, I should come do it for him.

...Really, bud? Really?

I literally installed Comment Snob as an extension on my browser. If there's three or more spelling mistakes, it filters the post from view. YouTube is way better now.

This is probably more along the lines of "RL Things I Find Fucking Hilarious", but I had a friend of a friend start screeching at me about how I need to get down on my knees and earnestly repent before Christ....

I am not sure that dude realized our mutual friend was one of my teachers during the twelve years I spent attending religious schools and universities, and that I have a fairly solid grounding in Biblical exegesis and Augustinian ethics.

OOPS.

@Selira said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

I really, really wish I knew what to do about my reaction to summer. The heat goes up, the day stretches long, and suddenly my sleep is on the fritz, my anxiety ramps up, and I start to mentally shut down. Yesterday was sunny and hot - I slept until 3 PM and couldn't drag myself out of bed for another hour, I couldn't even motivate myself to make caffeine, and I had no desire to do anything at all.

Today? Overcast and in the 60's-70's. I'm up early, moving around, thinking clearly, happy and laughing and getting things done.

This is a yearly problem and I have yet to find a solution. It builds up, too, until the weather finally cools down and I hit my stride again. It's exhausting, literally the largest problem in my life, and I know it can't be healthy, but I really don't think there's anything that I can do about it. I'll be trying out blackout curtains once I have some income again, but AC isn't an option.

So, just venting.

I was actually just reading an article about how Seasonal Affective Disorder also hits people in the summer, too, just in a much smaller portion of the population than those affected by winter. The theory is basically that the high levels of light fucks with natural circadian rhythms and heat disrupts sleep, making brains and body hormones go haywire. I definitely recommend trying out the blackout curtains ASAP, for both heat and light reasons.

In the meantime, if there's any consolation in having company in the face of your misery, well.... at least you know you're not the only one?

ETA: Try Target for the curtains if money is tight. I just went to check prices on their website because I remember getting the old ones for our apartment, which had single-pane glass windows older than my parents and was therefore always freezing, really cheap. We got ours at JCPenney for something like $12 on clearance. The ones I just saw at Target are $8-$10.

So today I discovered that Skate the Foundry offers adult beginner skateboarding classes and I am completely losing my shit.

I have wanted to skateboard since I was about 12, but first my parents refused to let me because it wasn't safe, then my skater boyfriend refused to teach me because he broke two vertebrae on an aerial trick (and yet then continued skating himself?), and then I just.... I don't know. Felt too old and embarrassed that I would look like an asshole just trying to stand on a board in a skate park full of teenage boys being little turds about the fat old lady who can't keep her balance.

But now I can be a fat old lady who can't keep her balance in a park full of other old ladies who can't keep their balance and it is going to be fucking awesome.

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

@Aria said in RL things I love:

So today I discovered that Skate the Foundry offers adult beginner skateboarding classes and I am completely losing my shit.

I have wanted to skateboard since I was about 12, but first my parents refused to let me because it wasn't safe, then my skater boyfriend refused to teach me because he broke two vertebrae on an aerial trick (and yet then continued skating himself?), and then I just.... I don't know. Felt too old and embarrassed that I would look like an asshole just trying to stand on a board in a skate park full of teenage boys being little turds about the fat old lady who can't keep her balance.

But now I can be a fat old lady who can't keep her balance in a park full of other old ladies who can't keep their balance and it is going to be fucking awesome.

That actually sounds awesome. I, too, would love to know how to skateboard... but I'm still traumatized (Ok not really but really) by the time I tried when I was like, 12, had the board fly out from under me, and got laughed at the rest of the day.

This was also my experience trying to learn to ride a bicycle because we lived by a highway. I wasn't allowed to ride one unless it was with parental supervision, which like most things about having kids, mine were interested for about a week and then went back to ignoring. My mom somehow got it into her head that she was going to try to make me learn when I was 16 and it was incredibly humiliating, so I refused to try again.

A work friend of mine just went to an adult bike riding class for absolute beginners that we also have in the city and said it was amazing.

I guess Philly is the place to be if you're interested in taking a class on "shit I probably should've learned when I was 8 or something and now feel stupid trying to do in public." I'm planning on going to that one when they open signups again, too. I'm told it fills up a month in advance, every time. So apparently, this is surprisingly common.

@silverfox

Only three episodes in (because I went back to rewatch the first season), but the second season of Mindhunter is living up to my expectations.

Save the planet. Watch porn.

(ETA: Yes, I realize this is an old article. But it still makes me giggle that 15K trees were planted from humanity's love of watching other people bone.)