David Erik Nelson's Blog, page 20

I LOVE this web comic! 👨🏾‍🦲

“Your Black Friend” by Ben Passmore

This is a situation where I want to grab frame or two to put here, to entice you to click through and read the whole thing. But at the same time, I don’t wanna grab a full frame, b/c every frame of it—and the way the entire thing locks together—is So. Damn. Perfect, and such a perfect presentation of the thing it’s trying to talk about.

I love it. There’s nothing left to say. It’s 100% perfect for me. It is MAUS for this moment.

Conjoined Twins AMA (“Ask Me Anything”)

Extremely interesting from start to finish, but the bit at 7:30 where they are talking to another set of identical (non-conjoined) twins about sexuality and fetishization (though only one minute long) is fascinating.

Can’t precisely say why, but this was extremely pleasant

“A Short Trip,” a game (of sorts) by Alexander Perrin

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s claim that “the leading cause of death among children is a firearm” is actually MUCH MORE upsetting than you think

Yes, “the leading cause of death among children is a firearm” is an extremely upsetting sentence—and also, a sadly accurate one (given that you define children as “humans between the ages of 1 and 19”; infants in their first year die from lots of stuff that doesn’t kill you after your first year; if you include them in this number, then it skews toward premature birth, birth defects, and SIDS).

But, the truly upsetting part is buried in this chart (shown below with a big dumb pink circle to emphasis the “Mechanisms” section), which was an addendum to the original source Schumer’s staff cited. 

Population wide, gun deaths are usually ~66% suicide and ~33% homicide. Among children, that’s now basically flipped.

In other words, in America today most gun deaths are suicide, and most adults will die of something else (probably disease). But for kids in America, the leading cause of death is guns, and most of those gun deaths are murders.

This Idea is so Bad it seems like an SNL ad for “The Bad Idea Store ™”

Dude is Living His Best Life; Good on Him!

Stay classy, Ancient Rome!

Please note that the cock-lion’s “tail” is itself another phallus. *fingertip kiss* Magnifique!

Anyway, the next time you hear someone sounding off about how hopelessly depraved and perverted the present is, just remember this 2,000-year-old ding-a-ling and laugh in their prudish faces.

“Bronze tintinabulum hung with small bells to function as a wind chime. It is decorated with a winged lion-phallus which was believed to provide magical protection against evil and to bring good luck to the household. (Date 1st-Century)” source

How the hell have I never heard of the Sadistic Mika Band? ♬♫♪

More importantly: How the hell have you never heard of the Sadistic Mike Band‽

WE’VE WASTED OUR LIVES RIGHT UP UNTIL THIS EXACT MOMENT!!!

(also, this TV host is sort of amazing, right? like, in that it’s hard to believe he isn’t a character Bill Hader made up for SNL)

Not for nothing, but Tristan is *kinda* my dude

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“May the Fourth Be With You”—Ada Lovelace

I have only a vague recollection of making this—or why I did so. I presume I was tickled by the fact that several of the portraits of Ada Lovelace (English mathematician and writer, widely regarded as the first computer programmer and Mother of Modern Computing, may the Lord have Mercy on Her Soul)—including the one I started with for this image—depict her sporting a very Princess Leia ‘do.

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