I just noticed that the forum's default time zone is still Eastern Standard. Once I'm logged in, it displays as Eastern Daylight.

The other day, I was listening to this song by The Offspring...  (Warning: NSFW for R-Rated lyrics!)



I couldn't help but think to myself that this sounds a lot like the relationship between my SI character, Ezekiel Darkwood, and the god, Raven.  Except that Raven's big thing isn't lies per say.

But what if it was?

It planted the idea in my head about filing off the serial numbers.  Which is doable.  But the thing is that I absolutely detest that sort of thing.  It feels like a grave disservice to the characters to put them behind masks like that.  And I suppose that's part of why I've become so good at characterization is that I don't simply see them as words on paper.  I see them as actual people living out their lives somewhere in the infinite cosmos of the Multiverse.  Actual people with actual motivations and actual thoughts and emotions.

So, yeah.  After that, the idea then came to mind: what if I went beyond that?  Similar situations, similar people, but often very different circumstances and removed from the characters that inspired them.

Thoughts?

A little bit of soul, a little bit of jazz, a whole lot of funk... and I think I don't need to say which Step this is for.



Saidah Baba Talibah, Revolution, composed by Saidah Baba Talibah, copyright © 2012 CLK Creative Works

The New York Times: Trump Declares Opioid Crisis a ‘Health Emergency’ but Requests No Funds
The Washington Post: Trump declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency

Yeah, because (as The Huffington Post points out), the last War on Drugs worked so well... <sigh>

On the Democratic ticket, assuming she's chosen in the primaries.

Sex and the State House, anyone?

Quote:Her announcement sets up a race pitting an openly gay liberal activist against a two-term incumbent with a $30 million US war chest and possible presidential ambitions.

CBC News: Uber halts self-driving test in Toronto after Arizona pedestrian death

It appears the pedestrian may have been jaywalking... but that's no excuse.

Four package bombs targeting minorities in Austin, Texas: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/19/us/austin...index.html

Edit: The last bomb hurt two white people, and appears to be a different design.

Considered putting this in the Video Madness thread in General, but it is about Trump so...

I tried my car key on every car on the walk home until I finally found my own...


...parked outside my door.

Posted by a fellow using the handle Guy Fawkes, in response to a political cartoon today:

"Donny Boy’ or ‘Air from Country Blue’

Oh Donny boy, the votes, the votes are falling
From coast to coast, down with your many lies
The trolls are done, and all the spies are dying
‘Tis you, ’tis you must go and your Russian guys

Don’t come ye back when Jr.’s in the courtroom
Or when Jared’s pushed and brings you low
‘Tis us’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Donny boy, oh Donny boy, I loathe you so

And when you rage, at all the testifying
It’s truth you dread, and the truth well may be
You’ll come to find the price of all your lying
And reel and tweet “Core” to the USMC

And I shall hear the ‘copters whir above me
And all my dreams will warm and sweeter be
It’s you that fails, yes all my country tells me
And I’ll not sleep in peace until you go from me

And I’ll not sleep in peace until you go from me.

*****
Il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un roi pour décourager les autres.  (It is good to kill a king from time to time to discourage the others.)
— paraphrased from Voltaire.  Merci, M’sieur Arouet.