Notices by Sean Kleefeld (skleefeld@mastodon.social), page 3

Just realized I managed to back order the same comic book from the same retailer three times in past month! 🤦♂️

@multiverseofbadness My brother had a hell of a time explaining Polaroids to his kids.
"So it... printed the picture you just took?"
"Yeah, the picture came out of the camera, but you had to wait for a minute for it to develop."
"You still had to wait for it?"
"A lot of people shook the picture while they waited but you technically didn't need to."
"And it just applied that same filter to every picture?"
"No, your filter was made based on the picture quality of these photos."
😆

I've seen a number of reaction videos for The Terminator and one nearly-universal comment is: "Wait, you could just look up *anybody* in the phone book?! It just had everybody's full address?!"

The past is not worth being nostalgic for. It was pretty fucked up in a lot of ways.

Just learned there's a King of the Hill reboot/sequel scheduled for next year. Not a show I would've predicted would circle back for a nostalgia run, but it does kind of make sense as I think about it. I did watch the original sporadically and liked it well enough, but definitely not enough to sign up for Hulu to watch the new one.

@multiverseofbadness Wow, he's really leaning down a lot to kiss her. She doesn't even come up to her shoulders. Superman's generally depicted as a little over 6' so she'd have to be in the 5' range while wearing those 3-4" heels. Managed to find a photo of people about the same heights for comparison...

When I was ~40, my mom got me a dress shirt for Xmas. At the time, I was wearing 100% cotton shirts in solid colors with button-down collars and I had expressly told her that on multiple occasions. This shirt that she got me, though, was 100% polyester, striped, and sported a flared collar. She did acknowledge it hit none of the criteria I had mentioned but she thought "it looked like" me. I disagreed but smiled and said thank you.

It makes every conversation with her more difficult than the last as she gets farther and farther out of sync with reality. She's not being brain-washed by Fox News or anything so insidious, she just hasn't recognized that the world continues to move on. Her 'happy place' is sometime in 1983 and she refuses to leave.

She still operates in her 1980s mindset. Zero recognition of the changing landscape of the world. She still views the President (whoever is in office) as infallible. She still believes all journalists are 100% unbiased. She still thinks computers are mostly used in business for word processing. She still believes in Reagan's "welfare queens" and "trickle down economics." She still thinks of my brother and I as teens.

It wasn't until a week later it dawned on me why she thought it looked like me: I had owned an almost identical shirt in high school 20+ years earlier. One that she had bought me then. So setting aside that she blatantly ignored my stated preferences, she was also falling back to fashion trends of previous decades. That was when I realized she was still operating as if it were the 1980s. She had her worldview largely set in her 20s and stopped thinking critically about it entirely in her 30s.

Call with mom went better than expected. She was mostly going off (justifiably) about how my brother's ex-wife continues to devastate her kids. The older two have (mostly) figured out her BS but the 15 year old is still very desperate for her love & approval. The only cringe part of our conversation was when mom talked about my cousin's daughter, who transitioned 4 years ago. She still deadnames them, uses old pronouns & can't comprehend how the bullying could be so bad she dropped out of school

Anyway, I'm not looking forward to the semi-obligatory Mother's Day phone call I'll have to make at some point today. Made that much more difficult by my mother also relying on 1970s/80s stereotypes about Black people when thinking about my wife. (Mom's literally said exactly that in trying to "defend" why she has negative opinions about a woman who she's refused to even try to get to know.)

I hate this holiday.

Alvin Toffler first presented the idea of "future shock" back in 1970. The idea that someone can keep acting like time hasn't moved forward at all until they can't and they're suddenly hit with the realization that society seems to have "suddenly" changed. My mom seems bound and determined to push the "until they can't" part of that to her grave.

#ACAB
#DefundThePolice
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/05/08/family-of-florida-airman-shot-death-deputies-claims-police-went-wrong-apartment.html

Here is my latest Kleefeld on Comics post: Bookscan Shows DC Still Hates the Web
http://www.kleefeldoncomics.com/2024/04/bookscan-shows-dc-still-hates-web.html

There's apparently a 2023 Reddit thread ripping up an opinion piece I wrote about Iron Man as a character (specifically, the comic book version of the character) back in 2008.

It amazes me how much time some people must have on their hands.

Let us take a moment to celebrate the anniversary of both WGN and WTTW being hijacked by Max Headroom. The perpetrator has never been caught or even conclusively identified.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs

In today's mail...

Another article from the NYT talking about mass shootings: Death and Heartache in Lewiston, Maine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/opinion/lewiston-maine-mass-shooting.html?partner=IFTTT
This is absurd. The only reason for guns is to kill. We need to ban ALL guns!
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org

Gaiman: " If you really can't figure out which political party or which politician to vote for, just ask if they're on the side of libraries. Are they voting to fund their libraries? Are they voting to keep them free? Then vote for those guys. They're probably the good guys. And by the same token, the book burners, the book banners, they're probably the bad guys."
https://ilovelibraries.org/article/i-will-always-be-on-the-side-of-the-libraries-a-conversation-with-neil-gaiman/