"I'll have what he's having."

Simplifies your drink order in an unfamiliar town or fabricates camaraderie as you take your seat next to someone with which you're about to have a conversation?

For whatever reason, a Batman movie disconnected from the DCEU doesn't seem to interest me. If you're gonna stand alone, you best be bringing me some Joaquin Phoenix Joker level art.

I guess if you took the Moondeer Lite concept and inverted the primary then what I've been writing would amount to Director's Cuts.

Now I'm picturing the art I would use for a sub-blog with versions of the essays that've had their volumes turned back down to 7, aimed at the folks for whom I'm more than a bit much, that I'd call Moondeer Lite.

Totally squares.

Today's metaphor → research → rabbit hole basement

The tone I hope to disappear once I've gotten through the history lesson. Here's what, as of 3:05p on Saturday, I've deemed exceptable as a transition between the western dragon from the medieval manuscript and the Chinese dragons I've yet to re-introduce…

This little f$&ker is the kind of dragon that most of you were probably picturing upon first taking it upon yourself to read this … this what? … whatever the f$&k it is you want to call this thing you're reading now … like right now … like your eyes line up with this blinkity f$&king cursor now … like *slap* *brief pause* *blinky eyed head shake* … what say we head east and have a look at what the rest of you were picturing.

Here's an example of my useless brand of humour. I'd probably write an essay where words would materialize with a 50/50 shot of appearing in their bastardised form (the honor of determining which is which I leave to you) but who the f$&k would pick up on that?

The bit about the Greek dragons that I've been stuck on since I decided to drop them in front of those Egyptian dragons I posted (history lesson transitions are some bullshit)…

I originally began the globetrot in Ancient Egypt; however, taking what I've just relayed into consideration, I think Ancient Greece may be the better destination. The reasons are threefold:
⑴ Those for whom the previous passage applies likely received a western education that included at least a little taste of Greek mythology; and, the backbone of Greek mythology is a dragon bone.
⒝ The etymological origin of dragon is the f$&king Greek word drakōn (pronounced δράκων).
(𒄩𒂔𒌈) Some Greek dragons had wings, like the burdened beasts Helios had hauling his chariot about the sky ; but, the majority of these little f$&kers look more like snakes.

Looking like a snake would be totally on-brand for a beastie known to the world as the Lernaean Hydra (which is English for Λερναῖα Ὕδρα) since the word ὕδρα (pronounced hydra) means "water snake" in Greek.

Hera raised this particular hydra for the sole purpose of killing one mighty annoying demigod by the name of Heracles (pronounced Ἡρακλῆς). Buddy's birth-name was actually Alcaeus. Hera sent two serpents to end the boy in his crib. They failed. He'd hoped changing his name to glory of Hera would get her off his ass. It wouldn't. Hesiod's Theogony tells us that the Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, two badass MFers, living in the lake of Lerna in the Argolid.

With multiple heads (one of which was immortal … all of which would grow back), poisonous breath, and blood so corrosive it could kill with a whiff, the Hydra was f$&kin' fierce. King Eurystheus gave Heracles the task of slaying this sucker as his second labor (during his post-murdered-my-wife-and-children atonement tour). They battle. Heracles wins. Yada yada yada let's move on I'm bored.

The _kētŏs_or κῆτος (latinized as cetus) I have to show you appears to exhibit a few more physical similarities we might expect from a western dragon (I mean … compared to a snake).

The depicted mosaic was discovered in the floor of an ancient Kaulonian residence now referred to as the House of the Dragon. His attack position pose would suggest that this little fella served as the last line of defense against malevolent forces for the adjacent banquet's airy ambience. The Museo archeologico dell'Antica Kaulon, the mosaic's current home, describes the discovery as, "a polychrome mosaic depicting a sea dragon and … framed by a pattern formed by sea waves."

Let's review. The Lernaean Hydra looked like Hera tied herself a handful of water snakes in an overhand knot like they were auditioning to play opposite of that little, problematically portrayed Japanese Beetle in an episode of The Blue Racer. The Cetus, by comparison, looks all kinds of dragonish. The museum calls him a sea dragon and his place of birth the House of the Dragon. What about a creature whose name f$&king ends with Dragon?

Meet the Colchian Dragon (Δρακων Κολχικος), guardian of the Golden Fleece until Jason and his merry band of Argonauts came calling.

So … yeah … he looks like a f$&king snake. Like I said, if it's a giant serpent, you can probably get away with calling it a dragon. They are all dragons. Just go with it.

Bee tee dubs @Crunchyroll, even dubs need subtitles for when you can't figure out WTF someone is saying (or how the f$&k you'd spell what you registered hearing should it happen to be a reference you totally didn't f$&kin' get and feel like tracking down).

When you're waiting to feel like doing shit again.

I'll read yours, @BarackObama, if you'll read mine (seeing as you seem to be saying now what I've been saying for at least the last two years): https://moondeer.blog/2021/09/07/on-the-american.html

Feels like I'm getting bogged down in what amounts to the boring shit in a book that got quarantined in a side box or italicized beneath a figure.

Not sure how much longer I can stomach watching these pundits on television without them having received what I spent all that time desperately throwing their way.

cc @TiffanyDCross

In case you've been wondering why I keep speaking of transients, I give you the growth chart since ceasing Twitter promotions (turns out I'm kinda fine with this trend given the poll results I recently posted):

Click through challenge for the folks reading this on the MB timeline aside from @pratik and @JohnPhilpin.

Here's the essay I asked about: On the American Upside Down

You can't help but comment when read.

3 readers for every 5 non-readers I'll totally take.

Seen by at most 753 people, out of what at the time was 8K, with 8 f$&king answers?

FFS, what's the point of this platform aside from tribal meme distribution?

Forgot all about Danzig

Just finished a poem for berating y'all. Imma Procreate that sh$t and see how y'all take it.

Perhaps I ought polish each patch of posted prose perennially perchance to properly prepare perfectly patinated pearls for posthumous publish upon my passing.

Watching these book writing f$&kers on #MorningJoe Trumpofantical, not understanding the root of what has happened to their party. FFS.

If you were to read this, you'd not understand it; for what it would say lay beyond your comprehension.

Prove me wrong.

On the American Upside Down

While the beltway press, the pundits, the influencers, the organizers, and the cogs that compose the political machinery at large desperately cling to those norms and precedents with which order has …

3:24 PM • Sep 28, 2021reading time 8 minutes

F$$&&&&k … when you realize that properly expanding on the argument you want to make in the essay you're rewriting could also fill a book (and it wouldn't even mention the bifurcated information ecosystem). #ADHD