Happy EVERYTHING!

Now, surely, that will spare me the trouble of sending 

all those seasonal wishes... eh?

Frees up time to devote to all the frivolities life makes us encounter - all the ludicrous stuff that makes absolutely no sense at all - yet it is the very basis upon which rests our society, our comfort, our very existence...

Top Ten Most Ludicrous Things - EVER!

Pandemic Times

There's all kinds of sad and crazy things going on 

- simultaneously-  in the world right now ~ 

and one doesn't know where to even start 

when it comes time to sum up all the 

"...battiness." 

Sure, sure ~ you can still get naked 

BUT WATCH OUT FOR THEM 

MURDER HORNETS! 

Fine! THE RACCOON gets the top gig of the year; 

but if you're really looking for support 

the HONEY BADGER is your... honey?

"When the looting starts, the shooting starts!" 

- Drumpf 

*NOOOOOO - no bullets! No shooting! NO!" 

- Batman 

Yeah, like... 

where are all your MARVELS at NOW, 

Marvel Zombies?!? 

You running SCARED - 

ARE YA!? 

"First a bat virus, 

now riots and looting; 

we're turning into 

GOTHAM CITY!" 

- unknown 

AND DON'T FORGET: 

THE RIGHT TO OWN A FIREARM 

IS CONSTITUTIONAL... 

(quoting Moses on this one now; Charlton Heston!)

Miscellaneous Oddness

#2For1 Deal On The 14th

Richard Benjamin famously said it: 

in the introduction to his most-forgettable film 

"Saturday The 14th" (which co-starred his better half, 

Paula Prentiss - both stopped acting afterwards.) 

his voice is heard, off-camera, stating this simple fact - 

"things get bad on Friday The 13th 

but they get rrreally bad on Saturday The 14th!"

(we merely paraphrase here...!)

Well, this year of Our Lord 2018 

in the misbegotten USofA, 

Saturday The 14th is, also, 

(on top of being "the day after the 13th") 

two very incompatible things: 

AND

NATIONAL 

NUDE 

DAY! 

... okay, it might have been

*international* really...?!?

anyway!

That's one way to participate...?!? 

That is mighty unwise 

to have those two, er, 

"holidays" 

coincide like that...!!! 

IT IS NOT SAFE 

to eat your macaroni 'n' cheese 

HOT FROM THE STOVE 

when you have no clothes on!!! 

  YOU MIGHT BURN YOURSELF...  

  LIKE... ALL OVER!!!  

W.O.D. VS C.D.

... which is more popular?!? No, that's not it... 

 ''W.O.D.'' as in World Oceans Day (June the 8th!) 

and ''C.D.'' as in Cousteau Day (June the 11th!)

(and they follow very closely other such days: 

World Environment Day (June 5th!) 

International Biodiversity Day (May 22nd!) 

etcetera!)

All the AQUAMEN of make-believe remain absolutely mum on such days -verily, only Cousteau's grand-daughter, the apex aquaficionada Alexandra, said anything at all, as one would be certain that she would- aaaaand, well... that is just sad. 

Considering the abysmal state of our oceans nowadays, the constant hazards faced by its seafaring denizens, the threats to entire ecosystems, the deterioration of the all-important coral barrier reefs, the depletion of the fish stock and sea mammal population, the sadistic usage of the seas as a dumping ground by countless toxic industries AND several parts of the oceans having become a death trap with the dubious consistence of a soup of plastics WHICH WAS PROVEN TO BE THE CAUSE OF DEATH OF A WHALE, RECENTLY... well, it sucks that all of those sea heroes and ocean defenders are simply not in the mood to talk about it - ever - and not even on WORLD OCEANS DAY...!!! 

THE BLOOD OF COUNTLESS SEA CREATURES 

IS ON YOUR HANDS --- ALL OF YOU!!! 

THIS CANNOT CONTINUE --- 

IT SIMPLY CANNOT CONTINUE LIKE THIS 

Banning plastics is a start... a very necessary one. 

The question is... is it too late, already? 

The industrial age brought about the revolution of plastics - they replaced virtually everything that used to be made with other materials. They were good, cheap, reliable. But then their volatile (e.g. disposable) nature and easy-to-throwaway ''quality'' soon turned into a nightmare as these plastics started to show up ---resurface--- virtually everywhere in nature. Everywhere they shouldn't be present, most particularly in the oceans; and in cataclysmic quantities, at that. This has got to stop. But doubt lingers on many minds that such an AQUAPOCALYPTIC trend can be reversed now, this late into its very visible effects... 

Aye, it may be far too late already 

for all of the world's oceans 

and the Seven Seas... 

But that doesn't prevent our man 

-King of the Oceans, eh; K.O. is O.K. eh- 

to take out ALL of the anguish 

on that lousy representative 

of the industry of PLASTICS! 

He's a big-time freakish JERK... 

And a pervert, on top of that...!!! 

WITH NO RESPECT FOR SEA LIFE 

Aye, I tell you, verily... 

PLASTIC 

MUST DIE! 

ALWAYS SAY NO TO PLASTIC! 

No more single-use bottles - no more! 

(well - that's a start...) 

I mean... what about the 1L and 2L bottles? 

Goths Have It Their Way

... AND they're having their DAY!  

Everything under the sun, 

everyone and their most distant cousin;   

ALL seem to have "their day" set in stone now 

--- i.e. on the social calendar, these days... 
WHY NOT THE 
*METROGOTHS* 
TOO - EH? 

AND, ON MAY THE 22ND, 
IT IS THE GOTHS' TURN IN THE... SUN? 
(... although they're celebrated on every other 
occasion: Valentine's, Halloween... Christmas?)

Once again, for the record -and right off the bat- 

the only "goths" that we will ever acknowledge 

in these luminous parts here

are the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths 

--- capisce? 

(This in spite of what they did to ROMA! 

A barbaric twist on Veni, Vedi... Vinci, eh? 

Well - we forgive... but we don't forget! 

Don Luciano will *never* forget...!!! 

But... Hmm... that is another story.) 

Modern Goths are... 

just not the same thing at all. 

Now, we've gone over those sad details elsewhere already; 
on that certain other blog of ours (no, not Lunacy!) 
(But... yes... on Lunacy, too!) 
... where we define what the Goth is, how it goes 
and why it has to go... 
We coined the term "Metrogoth" there, also! 
Not as rough as an Ostrogoth, nor as tough as a Visigoth... 
Just a Metrogoth! 
Could be a slogan - or a tee! 
No? Never mind... 

The Goth lifestyle is very much alive 

(lest it is... undead, really?) 

It runs the gamut from the bloodletting 

wanna-be vampires out there... 

... now, they may not look like it just like that,  

but those are the harmless ones, in truth! 

... to the borderline cross-dressers 

with very strange taste in music: 

...but never mind those sordid sounds anyways! 

LET'S MOVE ON! 

And what better way to wrap everything up here 

than rounding up all the usual suspects 

(as we simply love to do - you know it)  

in an attempt to beset the plague, 

extirpate by exposing the bad weed 

and circumvent any further propagation... 

perhaps? 

Hmm... Worry not, we are not so deluded 

as to think a single man -or single blog- 

could possibly ever be able to...! 

We can round them up, though - 

that we sure can do! 

Et les voici... And here they are... 

(as seen on Twitter)

I am absolutely certain that the odd ones 

over at the United Kingdom of Englandshire agree that 

... this guy and this gal should meet...

... this World Goth Day didn't fall on a Wednesday this year; 

eh? Too darn bad...! It had #WCW written all over it...! 

Aye, ultimately... it does fill my heart with sorrow. 

Aye, it really does. 

For the *metrogoth* is but the saddest of 

night creatures --- 

they put on a brave face, especially on the 22nd of May, 

but deep inside their dark hearts... there is loneliness. 

Anguish. Sullenness. Fear of rejection - or, 

worse yet, of contempt. 

They fight all those feelings off with this front 

that rejects conformity and embraces oddness. 

Yet all they truly want is acceptance... 

It is all very... sad. Aye, it is.