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Omg YOU FOUND A GUITALELE!

Like Jesus, it was behind the sofa the whole time, with the banjo, the mandolin, the piano accordian, and probably other things I didn’t dig far enough down to see.

Unfortunately, the awesome rainbow string set on eBay for $1 only comes in steel, not nylon, which would be inadvisable for my cheapass guitar. Boo.

But official My Chemical Romance guitar straps are a thing, so there’s that.

copperbadge:

rsfcommonplace
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Boston used to have one that narrow that was wooden at South Station.

A WOODEN ESCALATOR, oh my god, that sounds AMAZING. 

fatfemme-inist
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But … Why?

Because Chicago glories in adhering to the BAREST POSSIBLE MINIMUM requirements of any given federal regulation (in this case the Americans With Disabilities Act).

There are still stops on the red line that have no accessible equipment at all. If you can’t climb two flights of stairs, you can’t get to the Sheridan red line platform. 

plastic-electronics

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“Have I ever showed you guys the narrowest functioning escalator in the…”

is that just for luggage?

No, but that would be fucking adorable, now I want a Luggage Only Escalator. 

ninjaeyecandy

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“Have I ever showed you guys the narrowest functioning escalator in the…”

I actually kind of love that escalator. NO ONE TRIES TO PASS ME. (What were you doing on Clybourne though?)

Makin’ trouble 😀 I had to run some errands at New City and go shoe shopping at REI. 

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“News Of The Home”

In Ontario all offers have to be registered and you should know exactly how many others there are. Is this not the case in Illinois? That’s sketch af

I don’t think that’s required anywhere in the US. Because capitalism! *jazz hands*

Some stations in Sydney, Wynyard Station most notably, also have wooden escalators. A quick Google reveals they might not be around for much longer.

After 80 years Sydney’s wooden escalators face the chop

Hey Sam, because of the Deadpool Trailers I’ve become interested in his comic book appearances & I know you don’t particularly read a lot of Deadpool, but I remember you saying that he can be written horribly, so I thought that maybe you still had some recs about where one can begin, if one wants to read some Deadpool comics. It doesn’t have to be solo though! since he seems to be a character that’s funny especially with other people to play off of :) It’d be very grateful for your help <3

copperbadge:

All I really remember is reading various issues and going “Ew, no thank you” I’m afraid 😀 The only Deadpool comics I’ve really enjoyed were the Posehn run that just ended (it was like 2013-2015 or something like that) – and he had a good long bit part in the last Secret Avengers volume too. 

Sorry I can’t be of more help! 

The short-run Hawkeye vs Deadpool run from last year is worth checking out, too.

Civil War Summer Read Along Week 12: Summary

copperbadge:

Welcome to the twelfth Civil War Summer Read Along summary post. It’s the place to be if you’re not reading along, if you couldn’t find all the comics, or if you just want my take on the Civil War.

This week we read six comics: Captain America #24, Iron Man/Captain America: Casualties of War, Fantastic Four #541, Winter Soldier: Winter Kills, Moon Knight #8, and KEY COMIC Civil War #6.

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Fear not about potential Steve/Bucky being underage. This is the Brubaker run. Bucky is sixteen in March of 1941, and in August of that year, he meets Steve for the first time at Camp Lehigh. The dance hall in Winter Kills is Christmas 1944. He’s nineteen; nearly twenty. Steve is twenty-four. If gay sex was legal where they were and Steve wasn’t his C.O., it’d be perfectly fine. I studied these particular comics A LOT in the last few weeks to help with my marvel bang story. If you want to know the particular issues, there’s Winter Kills, obviously, but there’s also Captain America 012 (The Winter Soldier Part 4) and Captain America & Bucky 620 (which has Bucky’s view of 012’s events).

NOLA Day 4

copperbadge:

So, this afternoon I went to the Presbytere and the Calibdo, which sound like a pair of alien vessels in a golden age scifi thriller. 

The Presbytere is…interesting. The bottom floor is all a history of hurricane Katrina, everything from teddy bears found in the wreckage of the 9th ward flooding to film footage of the storm itself. It’s a sharp and creepy contrast to the second floor, which is entirely dedicated to Mardi Gras. I went there for the Mardi Gras exhibit and it was worth the $10 for the two museum tickets for just that exhibit alone – lots of gorgeous costumes, tons of film footage, and a great deal of really interesting history. 

The Calibdo is a more general history of New Orleans – Native American and early European colonials on the ground floor. The second floor had a good exhibit on the Battle of New Orleans but honestly my favourite part of the Battle of New Orleans is the song. 

I did find it…I’m torn between “amusing” and “inappropriate” that the third floor, which looks for all the world like an attic, is where they keep the exhibit on the Civil War and slave life in Louisiana. 

But then my phone was dying, and I was feeling tired and a little dehydrated despite not actually being dehydrated, so I swung past Sucre for some more gelato and then came back to the hotel. 

I’m not gonna lie, you guys, I’ve eaten a lot of good food and a lot of fancy cuisine courtesy of my company this week, and much of it has been better than the meal I just ate, but none of it has been more satisfying than the flatbread pepperoni pizza I had for dinner in the hotel restaurant tonight. 

Now my roommate for the evening and I are watching Catch Me If You Can, marveling at the star cameos in this film. I’m going to have to catch the whole thing sometime. It’s one of the few heist films I haven’t seen in its entirety.

Tomorrow, the WWII Museum and the Ogden, and thence home. I’ve upped my goals from “do not break a limb” to also include “do not get a sunburn” with a side of “no brain amoebas”. 

Even when I raise my standards I still like to keep them low. 

Seconding the rec for the autobiography of the same name that the film Catch Me IF You Can was adapted from. Fiction like White Collar owes a hell of a lot to Frank Abagnale. TBH, I’d only not recced it to you before because I was certain you’d’ve read it already.

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iamshadow21:

I have to admit, at first glance, that statue in the grotto looked like it was of… something different, let’s just say.

OH MY GOD I was like “I’m not….seeing it” and then I SAW IT. 

I know, right? There’s a really grey area between how much is deliberate and how much is just your brain seeing other shapes in things, like burnt toast or wood grain, for example, but given that Christianity appropriated and absorbed a LOT of pagan/goddess-centric religions on its way, I tend to think that often, it was actually deliberate originally, but the icon itself has been mass produced over and over so much that the original intent of the artist was lost. There’s a lot of phallic and vulvic iconography on really old churches – sheela na gigs and green men along side the crucifixes – and I think the early religious artists did it on purpose, particularly when the congregation needed that iconography of the old ways to accept the yoke of Christianity that their rulers and/or the missionaries wanted them to submit to. Most of the stuff that I’ve read has been based around the Celts, but I have no doubt that a city like Nola with a diverse mix of non-white cultures, traditions and religions would have its fair share of intersection between Christianity and other systems of belief.

copperbadge:

My tour of yesterday: the spires of St. Louis Cemetery, a really proper Catholic grotto, masks in the French Quarter, and corn dogs made with beignet batter.

I have to admit, at first glance, that statue in the grotto looked like it was of… something different, let’s just say.

Civil War Summer Read Along Week 3: Summary

copperbadge:

Welcome to the third Civil War Summer Read Along summary post. If you’re not reading along, if you couldn’t find all the comics, or if you just want my take on the Civil War, read onward!

This week we read five comics: Civil War Frontline #2 and #3, Amazing Spider-man #533, New Avengers #21, and Fantastic Four #538. 

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FYI – the Prodigy in Civil War isn’t David Alleyne from Young Avengers vol.2. David Alleyne was depowered by Scarlet Witch on M Day, hence his job before he joins the YA – using the information he gained before he was depowered. The Prodigy who fights Iron Man here is Ritchie Gilmore.

Someone on my dash keeps saying that Spider-man is Jewish and that the movies are whitewashing him. Does this have a canonical basis? I’ve never heard it from anyone else.

copperbadge:

Huh! I’d like to see the post(s), I bet they have an interesting take on it. They could be basing it off Andrew Garfield’s statements that Spider-man is Jewish, which while valid are founded on inference on his part. (Mainly that he’s a neurotic, nebbishy wiseass from Queens, which is all totally true.) 

As far as I know, Peter Parker isn’t canonically stated to be Jewish in the comics; I haven’t read all of the Spider-man comics but I’ve read up through about 1979 or so, and there’s been no mention, though it could be there’s evidence for it in a later comic, my reading is not complete. He’s not included in art of Jewish superheroes that I’m aware of (like the Happy Hanukkah ads Marvel sometimes does) but then they don’t always include every Jewish person in the Marvel universe. If he were canonically stated as Jewish I would think that we would just be….IDK, culturally aware of it, the way we know Magneto and Ben Grimm and Kitty Pryde and Wiccan are – you would think that diversity would be latched onto and publicised.

Now, all that said, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. There’s no reason Peter couldn’t be Jewish, as far as I know; I don’t think we’ve ever seen 616 Peter Parker in a church, except possibly for his wedding to MJ, and if that was in a church it could be honoring her wishes. He does have a church funeral in Ults, but that’s Ults. He was created by a Jewish writer, and it’s not like we’ve never had to read between the lines in comics before to find diversity. For good or ill, “Jewish” is often a status that is encoded in literature rather than stated, so having to dig a little to get to a conclusion is pretty justified. 

If there is canon about Peter’s faith/heritage, hopefully the readership can pipe up about it. I don’t see any reason he can’t be Jewish and I support Jewish Spider-man headcanons, but I’m not sure one can call it whitewashing if there’s no canon about it one way or another. That’s quite semantic, though, and I wouldn’t go to the trouble of picking a fight with someone over it. Certainly a more diverse Spider-man would be a welcome breath of fresh air, and I don’t think complaints about the newest supawhite Spider-man are out of line.   

It’s not proof or anything, just a cute moment, but Spider-man does wish Clint Happy Hannukah in Hawkeye 006.:)