tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post6611645274850791328..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Spicy out, sour in: Lemon / citrus mania, as the 2020s revive mellow vibe of the '90s / y2kagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-62403413072254112042022-08-13T18:31:02.474-04:002022-08-13T18:31:02.474-04:00Kronii chased down the ice cream truck IRL, and wh...Kronii chased down the ice cream truck IRL, and what does it say on the wrapper of her popsicle? "Even MORE sour!" (From her Twitter feed.)<br /><br />The brand is Lick-a-Color by Popsicle, and that company also makes Sours, and Sour Patch Kids popsicles. Someone else makes Warheads popsicles now.<br /><br />Sour sour sour!<br /><br />BTW, "Sour Times" was a hit alternative song from 1994 by Portishead. ("Nobody loves me, it's true. Not like you do...")agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-44190760477157126682022-07-31T07:48:06.308-04:002022-07-31T07:48:06.308-04:00Also, logos are becoming less stylish.
https://mo...Also, logos are becoming less stylish.<br /><br />https://mobile.twitter.com/david_perell/status/1545819896004624384Aidan Barretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09206683868950960625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-1218549239489082332022-07-31T07:33:54.650-04:002022-07-31T07:33:54.650-04:00The world is becoming less colourful!
https://mob...The world is becoming less colourful!<br /><br />https://mobile.twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1551976051860963333Aidan Barretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09206683868950960625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-21553533922062360742022-07-30T21:08:49.623-04:002022-07-30T21:08:49.623-04:00Goodbye, Sana.
And remember, fair space girl, sho...Goodbye, Sana.<br /><br />And remember, fair space girl, should you need us...<br /><br />Yes, should you need us, for any reason at all...agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-40803025430165429322022-07-29T15:09:48.309-04:002022-07-29T15:09:48.309-04:00Now that you’ve mentioned the citrus hype trend I ...Now that you’ve mentioned the citrus hype trend I can’t stop seeing it everywhere. A big name YouTube cooking channel I follow sometimes posted a citrus stir fry recipe, also even at Walmart I’m noticing fewer Flaming Hot flavored chips and more subtle flavors being stocked like chili lime.Vladimir Berkovnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-68881674605852282422022-07-25T21:04:35.692-04:002022-07-25T21:04:35.692-04:00I wonder if now that your olfactory neurons are re...I wonder if now that your olfactory neurons are regenerating, that gives you an opportunity to bombard them with subtle scents and create a super sense. Lol, lemons to lemonade!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-60847386275261286002022-07-25T17:26:48.528-04:002022-07-25T17:26:48.528-04:00Getting better now, though still blunted in degree...Getting better now, though still blunted in degree. But at least the weird qualitative changes are gone -- mustard doesn't taste like burnt pine needles and ashes anymore.<br /><br />And I can smell the aldehydes and citrus notes in Aramis again, it's just not as intense as usual.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-332410971424549762022-07-24T19:25:07.087-04:002022-07-24T19:25:07.087-04:00How’s your smell/taste?How’s your smell/taste?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-52969722195350812602022-07-24T03:08:22.018-04:002022-07-24T03:08:22.018-04:00Mmm, lavender lemonade served up tonight by Fauna,...Mmm, lavender lemonade served up tonight by Fauna, who looks rather lemon-lime herself with the chartreuse coloring. :)<br /><br />One of the soaps from an earlier ASMR was citrus & lavender scented as well.<br /><br />Seriously, if you haven't already, you should try out some chypre perfumes. Citrus top, mossy bottom, other heady green notes in between.<br /><br />The heyday was the '60s and early '70s. You could dip your toe in with Charlie Blue, available for about $10 at any drugstore / Walmart / etc.<br /><br />Jack Mason swears by Aromatics Elixir, from Clinique (and the elixir name is right up your magical, witchy alley). Hard to find in stores to test, but available online.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-82297519537972835452022-07-24T03:03:00.650-04:002022-07-24T03:03:00.650-04:00It's not political, it's psychological, re...It's not political, it's psychological, re-connecting with your humanity (hunter-gatherer-ness), in order to alleviate the diseases of civilization that plague every denizen of a modern society, especially a collapsing empire like ours.<br /><br />I should add that this isn't "connecting with your feminine side" -- guys could hypothetically be the streamers who allow you to experience an egalitarian social context. But guys are more wont to form teams for some kind of battle or another.<br /><br />Girls are more comfortable returning to monke, since they aren't adapted to warfare, commerce, and all that other post-H-G stuff.<br /><br />And the point of the streamer format being an empathy box is that you are feeling what someone else is feeling -- even if it's not the kind of thing you normally feel.<br /><br />I've never been in a group hug that was sobbing as one collective mass, but I can still resonate with it and appreciate what the girls are going through during such an episode.<br /><br />That's why I prefer female streamers -- I already know what most guy experiences are like. I'm curious about the unfamiliar ones, and those mainly come from girl-world.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-34077848743213749112022-07-23T22:06:37.183-04:002022-07-23T22:06:37.183-04:00How does one form effective radical egalitarian gr...How does one form effective radical egalitarian groups while avoiding the Tyranny of Structurelessness?<br /><br />https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_StructurelessnessAidan Barretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09206683868950960625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-66943662564466742872022-07-22T21:15:07.493-04:002022-07-22T21:15:07.493-04:00It was also a nice demonstration of the egalitaria...It was also a nice demonstration of the egalitarian nature of female bonds. That can veer off in the chaotic direction, where none of them will accept hierarchical leadership from within their peer group (*cough cough* Ender dragon stream, hehe).<br /><br />But it also means that they'll all mirror each other's emotions and form a single mass to comfort even one of them who is going through a tough time, or who has to leave the group. It's not only if she were the leader or Queen Bee or the most popular in the broader social context -- most girl groups don't accept such a role in the first place. It happens no matter who among them is feeling down.<br /><br />It's very much like hunter-gatherer groups, and unlike the more alienated, fragmented, and callous social atmosphere of a large sedentary civilization.<br /><br />Females are the noble savages of the two sexes. And males, the civilized sex, need to connect with them in order to re-humanize themselves, lest they drift too far in the robotic extreme of civilization. Civ has social as well as biological diseases that come with it, especially alienation and autism.<br /><br />But even when IRL has vanished, by plugging into the empathy box that has female streamers on the other side of the screen, guys can experience this re-humanization during tender moments like that.<br /><br />It's the opposite of using the internet to escape into an autistic echo chamber of shooter video games, and dying because you stayed up 40 hours grinding for better weapons.<br /><br />I was never into that stuff, but you can tell a lot of the audience for girl streamers used to be, and are using the new social streaming format as an off-ramp from that ghost-life. And far from a dull, joyless halfway house -- it's a really fun and exciting place to hang out! :)agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-1381734485187279152022-07-22T21:12:47.767-04:002022-07-22T21:12:47.767-04:00That was such a tender, genuine moment, not only t...That was such a tender, genuine moment, not only the song, but then the whole group forming a cathartic crying group hug around their graduating member. And tens of thousands in the chat sobbing along, too.<br /><br />I've said it periodically before, but this new format is the closest we'll get to the empathy box from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? TV never did this to its performers and audience at the same time, nor did movies, video games, or anything else.<br /><br />It's not to sell them short as artistic media, I just mean they're not empathy boxes like the online streaming platforms are.<br /><br />And it's a bittersweet reminder that none of this is fake -- it's real people, with real relationships, real emotions, and real changes that can disrupt their bonds. It's not an AI-generated script, AI-generated images and movements, AI-generated voices, or AI-generated anything.<br /><br />Vtubers are not "making anime real" or "bringing fictional anime girls to life" -- it's all totally real to begin with, it's just wearing an anime-themed costume for sub-cultural aesthetic purposes.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-79756051467882645632022-07-22T20:44:45.644-04:002022-07-22T20:44:45.644-04:00I watched Faunya play Stray the other night, but t...I watched Faunya play Stray the other night, but the great thing about streaming is that no two people will behave the same way, even while playing the same game during the same week. It's not about the game itself -- the game is just a pretext for hanging out, and forming an emotional bond with a real person (who happens to wear a 2D anime-girl costume).<br /><br />And since Gura and Fauna have different personalities and behavior, why not watch the same game twice? :)<br /><br />PS, after hearing "Secret Base" during Council's send-off for Sana the other night, I looked up who else sang it from Hololive, and whaddaya know, the sharky chanteuse herself gave quite the lounge-y jazzy interpretation.<br /><br />If you hold another karaoke session before her graduation, maybe you could "duet" along with Council's version? What would that be, a septet? To honor Sana herself, as well as join the great big choral group hug to comfort the other Council girls.<br /><br />It wouldn't even need to be an entire karaoke stream, actually. You could set aside 5 minutes during any other stream -- and you wouldn't get DMCA'd, since Council's version is archived.<br /><br />I know you all are working through this amongst yourselves behind the screens, this is just a thought for bringing some of that love and comfort to the chumbo audience.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-915631649576779152022-07-22T20:42:14.361-04:002022-07-22T20:42:14.361-04:00Gura's back tonight! I hope it's regular w...Gura's back tonight! I hope it's regular work stuff that's kept her away, and not COVID round 2 like with everyone else.<br /><br />If she is sick, I just want to make her some lemon chicken soup. Never tried it before, but it's just adding lemon to chicken soup, to jump on the lemon craze. Hehe.<br /><br />And then some lemon cheesecake ice cream for a nice refreshing, soothing dessert -- no joke, some of the best ice cream I've ever had, and it's the Kroger brand! No fat-free lemon sherbet or Italian ice -- nice rich, saturated fatty ice cream, with a bright lemon breeze. Real cheesecake pieces mixed in, too!<br /><br />Here comes the citrus plane, sharky, open wide. :)<br /><br />I know you're more of a strawberry fiend, but maybe the lemon scent would help clear out your head if it's stuffy.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-7461821767163918602022-07-22T20:41:05.438-04:002022-07-22T20:41:05.438-04:00LimeWire! It came out in 2000, part of the low-ene...LimeWire! It came out in 2000, part of the low-energy cycle of '90-'04. Probably the most remembered file-sharing client, even if others were bigger.<br /><br />I seem to remember DirectConnect and Kazaa and others more, but everyone else remembers LimeWire -- because it activates a broader set of associations with that '90s / y2k zeitgeist, namely the citrus mania!agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-58674649600906773462022-07-21T08:10:15.665-04:002022-07-21T08:10:15.665-04:00Yuzu also came onto the American stage in a big wa...Yuzu also came onto the American stage in a big way over the past 2 years or so. It’s the citrus component in ponzu sauce. Flavor like a meyer lemon with a bit of the piney quality mangoes have. You used to just not be able to get them at all in the states but now every sushi joint has a couple of yuzu cocktails and the fruits themselves are being successfully cultivated in California. Joäonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-18310993505247022532022-07-19T03:04:25.544-04:002022-07-19T03:04:25.544-04:00:::BIG HUG::::::BIG HUG:::agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-62356913720309878422022-07-19T02:52:41.164-04:002022-07-19T02:52:41.164-04:00So, please don't personalize things toward the...So, please don't personalize things toward them or toward yourself. Any group of 5 girls will not accept the authority of any 1 girl trying to play the role of leader.<br /><br />Maybe if you had begun that way, like you were a teacher or coach, but not when you began as peers.<br /><br />Guys can form teams from a peer group, but girls cannot -- and that's OK. That's just the difference between the sexes. You can't hold it against girls for acting like girls.<br /><br />Maybe looking at it humorously will help to de-personalize it. "God, what was I thinking -- trying to get a group of female peers to accept leadership from within? It was doomed from the outset!" Just like herding the proverbial cats -- you can't hold it against cats for acting like cats, sometimes even those that are your own pets will scratch you.<br /><br />I promise, they were not trying to scratch you in particular. They were making a general point, that we girls do not accept leadership, and if someone -- anyone -- tries to, we will act like ungovernable children, even if we don't normally behave that way. Just to make the general point.<br /><br />For entertainment value, it really was a feminine chaos stream for the ages, and although you were on the receiving end of that chaos, you shouldn't take it seriously or personally. It would've happened to any girl who tried to lead any group of 5 girls. In your own pained way, you played a crucial role in creating this Hall of Fame content.<br /><br />Maybe to balance things out, you all could take turns attempting to play the leader (in Minecraft or anything else), while the others devolve into chaos. Then the shoe would be on the other foot for awhile, hehe.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-55165731099478355642022-07-19T02:48:37.787-04:002022-07-19T02:48:37.787-04:00Fauna, we all felt your pain. But please, don'...Fauna, we all felt your pain. But please, don't take their behavior personally. I take it you're a grad student, in evolutionary / ecological bio probably. (Who else is talking on stream about eusocial insect sexes, and greenbeard altruism? Hehe.) So maybe an explanation will help you get through it?<br /><br />Females rarely form hierarchies, at least in mammals. That's more of a guy thing. Yes, even if there's "only" 5 females at the lower level, and 1 female above them. You found that out tonight -- it doesn't even need to be a team of dozens, hundreds, or thousands, for mutiny and chaos to break out.<br /><br />Females are more egalitarian in their social structures, and do not accept one of their own attempting to lead, guide, or give orders over them. They are adapted to, and specialize in, activities that don't require parties and teams and hierarchies, like looking after the children, and foraging for nuts, berries, and the like. Not tracking and hunting large game, and definitely not warfare.<br /><br />One woman leading one other woman, OK. But a group of them? No way. It's not because they're resentful, like "Who died and made her queen?" They just don't get involved in activities that require military-type hierarchies, so they don't accept that kind of authority.<br /><br />Trying to play that kind of role, even in a playful or mock-military setting, will not work. It's not *you* who they were disobeying, they would've devolved into ungovernable chaos no matter who attempted to be the leader.<br /><br />It was the abstract role of "leader" that they were rebelling against -- not you, Fauna, the individual person, who they still love and value as a friend and colleague, who they just had a bunch of fun hanging out with IRL. :)<br /><br />And vice versa, it's not that those particular 5 girls chose to rebel against you, as if your friends or your children were betraying you. *Any* group of 5 girls would've acted that way if you tried to play leader, including strangers (like if you were a substitute teacher).agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-29348410289125723262022-07-19T02:05:40.963-04:002022-07-19T02:05:40.963-04:00Google Trends shows a spike in interest for lemon ...Google Trends shows a spike in interest for lemon loaf and lemon cake during the spring of 2020, and a higher climb after that than before. It's not quarantine-related because you can think about cooking or ordering any kind of food -- no reason for it to be lemon-related.<br /><br />Also, Ame drinking some raspberry lemonade tonight.<br /><br />Also, tonight's Spanish Wordle was "limon" (got it in 3). Major synchronicity going on here...agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-55770492130807610912022-07-18T15:23:44.355-04:002022-07-18T15:23:44.355-04:00Warhead candies were all the rage in the late 90’s...Warhead candies were all the rage in the late 90’s. Super sour. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-21949692124314197292022-07-18T10:50:48.569-04:002022-07-18T10:50:48.569-04:00well, IPAs are normally very bitter but they also ...well, IPAs are normally very bitter but they also have citrus aftertastes, one of the most prominent hops use is called 'citra' hops. the hazier, jucier "New England" IPAs make the citrus even more pronounced and are no where near as bitter as traditional "west coast" IPAs. LDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-22975012392398081192022-07-18T04:36:45.020-04:002022-07-18T04:36:45.020-04:00Lemon pairs with "Honey", the new Big Ti...Lemon pairs with "Honey", the new Big Time Rush song. I had no idea who they were, some Disney boy band from the early 2010s, but Gura name-dropped them when singing One Direction, and I take her references seriously. :)<br /><br />I don't really dig their original stuff, but this new one is pretty groovy and danceable:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdoeHlf-9Ws<br /><br />Mumei acting as Gura's wingman tonight during Q&A, emphasizing how well Gura can dance. It's not surprising to me: you can't be that good at rhythm games, and not be rhythmic on a whole-body level as well.<br /><br />She could collab with a choreographer on TikTok and make her own novelty dance -- the Sharky Shakey, hehe.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-20637723624470481802022-07-18T04:20:42.013-04:002022-07-18T04:20:42.013-04:00And Gura is a fan of Shirley Temples! That's p...And Gura is a fan of Shirley Temples! That's part lemon / lime juice.<br /><br />Oh nyo, I just had an image of her next cooking stream, where she decides to take a big bite out of a raw lemon, like the red onion in the meatloaf stream. Don't do it for the content, sharky! It'll mess with your mouth, and we won't be able to hear that iconic voice.<br /><br />If you meet IRL with some of the girls again, you could bond over a small clam bake -- easy way to ride the lemon trend there, and share with them part of your cultural heritage from Atlantis. :)agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.com