OP, one time I was at the Walgreens and they were playing that song so loud, it’s so good. I live inside the city so they had this urban-mix Muzak that was great.

I have not put anything on yet, but will browse Bandcamp today

I agree that nobody should be eating anything they would not prepare - I don’t hunt because I don’t like camping and am a terrible shot, would be a menace with a gun. But I have gently raised chickens, and am at ease with eating meat, and DO want to know what I am eating. So hunted fowl and grass fed ranch animals are great, , I try to eat less meat humanely raised. We are animals and omnivores and we belong to this cycle of life.

People who want meat as a sanitized experience, who don’t want to think about what they are eating, that does bother me. Vegans don’t bother me, that makes sense. Hunters (for food) don’t bother me. Fishing kinda does, because the oceans are so overfished, we need to lay off awhile.

Anyway - I do think it’s ethical, a deer is going to be somebody’s food and a quick death is gentler than what a different predator would do.

That is funny to me; I love seeing beautiful people but they don’t stun me like that, I can’t really be attracted to someone I’ve not met. And I couldn’t define a “most beautiful” because there are just so many different ways to be beautiful.

This is so normal. I always sort of thought it was nature trying to replace the person who died. It does feel weird but is very common.

It’s ok not great I guess? There is a growing disconnect between prices of goods, and wages. Rents and house prices being the biggest example but also electricity, food, gas (I don’t drive much but the gas price shows up in other things like food)

Our usage is higher than that, not 80 but higher than 30 always. and yes I think it’s high. I cook at home, a lot. AC runs a lot, 2 heat pump units. One person working from home. High ceilings. Everything is electric. Our bill is lower in the winter than the summer but our winters are mild.

Holy cow these are good. Thank you!

I have a crazy long Halloween party playlist on YouTube, goes from creepy to kid friendly to party to punky to kinda sad, to follow the flow of a Halloween party. I took out a lot of the kid stuff as mine are grown now but don’t think these were mentioned & I like for kid time at Halloween:

Dead Egyptian Blues - Trout Fishing in America

Dead - They Might be Giants

Half Moon - M Ward

Vampire - Claudia Schmidt

Two more Tom Waits songs I like for Halloween, Tango Till they’re Sore and Cemetery Polka.

I love the Cramps but don’t think Garbageman is the song I’d go for. Rockin Bones and also if you can find their cover of Green Door.

And this year I may actually kick things off with the soundtrack for the Peaky Blinders movie, it is so atmospheric and scary sounding and so beautiful.

I am from here and Florida, at least in the cities, is queer as fuck. I hung out in gay bars as a teenager, because they were safe spaces for all sorts. We used to have a very big gay film festival in St Pete, our mayor in Tampa is a lesbian. I have no idea who that 45% is.

Not sure I enjoyed my 20s, had more of an “it gets better” arc but I would say value your friends. It gets harder and harder to meet up and to make new friends, do the most you can to stay close to the ones you have now & your life will be better for it.

I send a virtual non religious hug your way too. My ex used to make fun of the “Christian Hug” where people just sort of lean towards each other and lightly embrace without hardly touching.

It’s funny because trumped up already means fake in English. Like “trumped up charges”.

Sometimes I do think we are living in a simulation.

If it meant I could download language packs, likely yes. Otherwise probably not. And not in the current setup where some company could likely turn off your brain if you missed a payment.

Millions, certainly. Probably about 2 of them, if we had that today I would be pretty confident. That is not likely to actually ever happen, or at least not before it wouldn’t be enough.

ETA: I am near 60 & husband just past that so we don’t need to plan for as long. It would be more if we were younger.

She said love love love is everything.
I said yeah, I guess, whatever.
She said what the hell does that mean?
I said nothin’, it’s just good to have a backup plan.

She said I guess that means you don’t got love.
I said maybe I love everyone.
She said that’s the same as loving no one.
I said ok, I guess, whatever.

Dan Bern in his New American Language song.

To get sleepy? Yin Yoga knocks me right out. Cold and slow yoga, lots of forward folds calm the nervous system.

Otherwise I just wait until I get sleepy to go to bed.

The complaining and bad kissing. It is nice to connect with someone on a mental level like that but you didn’t write about any sort of physical chemistry (I would be out of there was none). And your initial post focused on the complaining, it sounds like that impressed you. Did you complain he was early or complain about where he took you?

Don’t worry, please. There are other guys who will fit you.

Your description doesn’t make it sound like these were great dates.

A fetish is something you NEED in order to get off or enjoy sex. So a guy who can’t get it up unless the lady is wearing lingerie (or unless he is) that’s a lingerie fetish.

If you enjoy sex more with lingerie but can still enjoy without it, that’s a lingerie kink.

Kids are nicer now.

I am more listened to at work (as a woman) than in the past.

We did clean up Tampa Bay, and at least the clean energy tech is growing so fast.

So, so so much less violent here than when I was a kid