Misspent youth

I never really had a misspent youth cos I never actually had much inclination to misspend it (nor indeed much money with which I could do so), and part of me now regrets that. So when I spotted this image on Tumblr, I had to compare and contrast myself…

* Greasy, stringy hair… yeah, somewhat guilty. Dyed and backcombed, though. Too lazy to look after my hair properly, so also too lazy to do anything like that.
* Smokes, drinks… the latter, once upon a time (stroke more or less ended that). I only ever smoked once or twice. As I may have said before, not taking up smoking was the only good thing I’ve ever done for my health.
* Slouches… yeah, I’m exceedingly bad for that.
* Black eye…. no? I never got into physical fights or anything like that.
* Uses bad language… well, I speak English, and frankly that’s as bad as language gets.
* Too much makeup… no. Even in my peak goth era I was too lazy for anything of that sort.
* Always chews gum… never.
* Rumpled clothing… um, yeah, guilty, pretty much. Leaving the house tends to be an adventure in finding the t-shirt with the fewest creases. None of the female fashion choices really apply here, which may or may not be a disappointment.
* Carries a switchblade… no. Probably a good thing.
* Dirty jeans… yeah, more guilty than I like to admit. I don’t do untidy cuffs, though, cos I don’t do cuffs of any sort. Haven’t needed to roll up my jeans since I was little.
* Old shoes… yeah, definitely guilty. The current pair have been with me for what, 12 or 13 years? They are past their best, much like their owner.
* Stealing… I actually have shoplifted, so… yeah. Never stole a car, though. Never learned to drive one of the fucking things, so it would’ve been a bit silly.

So I think I would’ve been a somewhat substandard delinquent in 1965 when Al M. Bradley drew this thing. Can’t find anything about the latter, so I don’t know who he produced it for nor why… the only other source I can find for it refers vaguely to an unnamed “delinquency scare book”, so if nothing else I’m guessing that he meant this seriouslu. Don’t know about you, but Al’s “common delinquent” seems relatively mild; he/she might pack a knife, but their chief offence seems to be dressing badly and engaging in theft, they’re not doing drugs or killing people or anything like that. Maybe they had to graduate to the next level of delinquency to do that. Maybe he needed boots like hers.

A reasonable response by a reasonable man

As I have possibly said more than once before, I’m kind of sick of those people who get the vapours about Trump doing something he legally can’t do, as if they think he thinks he is constrained in any way by little things like laws. That said, when a court finally deigns to do something about it, it’s always pleasant to see, and though the renaming of the Kennedy Centre was a minor thing compared to, you know, international incidents in Iran and Venezuela, there was something singularly irritating about him doing that, it just seemed particularly egregious for some reason. For all Kennedy’s faults, he didm’t and doesn’t deserve to be associated with Mushroom Cock, who seems to have taken the judge’s decision… personally. I know he’s prone to verbal diarrhoea on Truth Social but he really went off on this one, as far as I can tell that’s a single post (just divided in four, click to enlarge, etc).  On the plus side, maybe performers will actually want to play there again if his name’s not on it…

Projection

Stephen Colbert’s time on the Late Show finally came to its premature end last week. This was Mushroom Cock’s reasoned response:

I know they say every conservative accusation is really a confession, but damn, Krasnov’s really pushing that here. This could be absolutely about his own worthless self, and people will absolutely be saying that last sentence about him when his own unnecessarily delayed and protracted season finale comes.

A story you won’t see in Penthouse Forum

No refunds for 15,000 Australian ticket holders after Candace Owens’ tour cancelled

Honestly, I really am sick of all these fucking people, but I still want to be able to laugh at their misfortunes; I’ve been greatly enjoying the recent collapse of Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire empire, and now I’m equally pleased to see his erstwhile employee and Hitler apologist get caught short…

None of the 15,000 ticket holders for conservative influencer Candace Owens’ cancelled Australian tour are expected to get their money back from the promoter, after it spent all its money then collapsed.
Owens herself says she is hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket and claims she was misled by the promoter, Rocksman, a company with links to the influential conservative lobby group Turning Point Australia.
Rocksman collapsed with just 21 Australian cents in its bank account and will never refund Owens, her Australian ticket holders or other creditors, according to its liquidator’s statutory report to creditors, filed with Asic and dated 3 March.

Oh FUCK, TURNING POINT (indirectly) fucked with Candace again! That just makes the whole thing even better!

Owens claims to be among those owed money: her spokesperson said Rocksman had promised to cover the costs of challenging her visa refusal at the high court.
“Candace’s team ended up paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills, as well as providing numerous loans to Rocksman to make refunds [before] it became apparent that their assurances were meaningless,” the spokesperson said.
Owens’ spokesperson said she only learned of the company’s liquidation through the Guardian’s reporting in January.
“Right up until the last day, they were still promising us that refunds were just around the corner,” Owens’ spokesperson alleged.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This is one of the clowns at fault, being Damien Costas (who is six years my junior but somehow already looked older than me five years ago), characterised in the article I got this from as the “Sydney porn king”; he was the local publisher of Penthouse, but back in his native South Australia he’d been a Liberal staffer, and somehow I am not as surprised to find Penthouse was published here by a South Australian Liberal employee as I wish I was. This debacle with Rocksman is not his first bankruptcy rodeo, as he’s got two major fuck-ups to his credit already, and by the look of it the main lesson him and his partner Joel Jammal (the guy who founded the local Turning Point chapter) have learned from this one was to spend all the money before they were forced to return (as they had to when their tour of Don Jr. fell apart). I think that may prove to have been silly of them. No sympathy for anyone involved, and that includes all the chuds who bought the tickets. As for Candace herself, eh, she’ll be fine; she just needs to make a couple of videos accusing Erika Kirk of something, and the Youtube revenue will soon make up the shortfall…

Magic über alles?

It appears the Nazis weren’t the only Germans deploying occult powers and dark forces in wartime; evidently the Germans were being accused of that during the original world war… For some reason this put me in mind of Dion Fortune, who “defended” Britain with her own occult powers in the second war, but I discovered she took a more practical role in the first one by joining the Women’s Land Army; given how much havoc the Liftwaffe would cause during the Blitz (including damage to Fortune’s own group’s headquarters in London), I suspect she would’ve been a lot more useful doing that again…

Life goal indeed

My friend Matt (that’s him at the bottom) posted this on BS:

I’ve always had a particular animus towards Nickelback cos Chud Kroeger was born on the exact same day as me (albeit in Canada, so I think in real terms I’m probably nearly a day older than him). Don’t know what Wax Trax did to deserve this, but it was clearly the right thing, and I need to do it myself…

World Goth Day ’26

It’s the darkest day of the year again, so I give you a new mix to celebrate the big event. Click that link in case the widget doesn’t work for some reason.

    1. Alaric, Eyes
    2. Siouxsie & The Banshees, Into the Light
    3. Eternia, Shattered
    4. Attrition, The Fiftieth Gate
    5. Sounds Like Winter, Ishmael’s Bones
    6. Faith and the Muse, Battle Hymn
    7. Sunshine Blind, Regodless
    8. The Wake, Sideshow
    9. Voices of Masada, Wondering
    10. Death Church, Generations of Hate
    11. Bauhaus, Lagartija Nick
    12. Cult Strange, New World Ordeal
    13. Fields of the Nephilim, Reanimator
    14. Big Electric Cat, Bed of Nails
    15. The Cure, Cold
    16. The Sisters of Mercy, Amphetamine Logic
    17. Glorious Din, Tenement Roofs
    18. Lycia, Defective
    19. Christ Vs. Warhol, Into a New Ice Age
    20. Creta, Silence