How on earth are you insomniac, heebie? I thought you had small children. Narcolepsy should be more of a problem, surely.

Ditto in 2 hours.

Small children might cause you to develop insomnia. My mom has had very irregular sleeping patterns since my sister was a baby.

Shouldn't have dredged up the worst of the early teenage memories last night.

Turns out 6:30 am fucking sucks too.

Insomnia sucks. I fell asleep without my CPAP last night (which I had successfully worn 2 days in a row) and am now more tired than I need to be. Don't stay in front of the computer monitor too long though, because the blue light can keep you up.

I went to the blue light and all I got was a good deal on this stupid patio furniture.

The line from "Rogue Male" that I always remember is "no man was ever born who could not feel some shade of hope if he were in open country with the sun about to rise".

Sure, 'cuz the sun halts psoriasis. As is well known.

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That first clip is great.

But remember it was Donald Trump who 'put Scotland on the map for golf'.

I was up because I was at the ER with Mara (who's fine now and got appropriate treatment) for most of the night but because I was singing and rocking and coddling her, I didn't even get to read 12 comments.

But that means you don't know that Donald Trump put Scotland on the map for golf!

The line from "Rogue Male" that I always remember is "no man was ever born who could not feel some shade of hope if he were in open country with the sun about to rise".

Apart from a vampire. Though I suppose vampires aren't technically born.

Vampires are twice born, like Brahmins and American fundamentalists.

Actually I'm in an decent mood because I found that Waitresses' song ("No Guilt") online to link in the other thread. I've been looking for it on and off for years. Probably my favorite song of theirs.

When I think of the sun about to rise in open country, I think of Théoden waiting for the moment to charge. The part of my brain that didn't go to college regrets not having been born in a place where stabbing things from horseback counts as a professional development.

Moby Hick and the Huns of Imaginationland.

Moby Hick is objectively pro-bayonets and horses.

Moby Hick and the Sultans of the Meat Planet

The passage about the charge was the very first thing I ever read that struck me for its sound as well as its content. It started me on a lifelong love of belle lettres that led me to the Unfogged comment section:

And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of war nor of wizardry, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn. And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns, in dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the north wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.

He said a *cock* crowed ... unh, heh ... heh.

Just trying to validate the wisdom of your trajectory.

Took ten mils of dog diazepam (for thunderstorms) last night and got 8 hours for the first time in years.

I usually, like almost every night, lie down at midnight, fall right to sleep, sleep soundly til 4 AM. Then I get 1-2 hours of light nap during the day.

My dad sleeps like that (minus the stealing medicines from the dog part). I pretty much fall asleep as soon as I can and stay asleep until as long as I can.

Here is a nice* little poem by Blok that popped into my head last time I was direly insomniac.

Night, boulevard, pharmacy, lamp,
Wan and arbitrary light.
Though you may live twenty five years more,
There's nothing new. There's no escape.

You die, you start again from the beginning,
It all repeats as it always has:
Night, ripples of ice on the canal,
Pharmacy, boulevard, lamp.

It rhymes in Russian but I'm not in the mood for a challenge.

*FSVO nice

YES my first unquestionable, outright thread kill. In a while.

It's just sleeping.

27 is great, and not just because it killed the thread.

"I think I'll go for a walk."

Obama takedown of Ayn Rand, from a new Rolling Stone interview.

Obama: Well, you'd have to ask Paul Ryan what that means to him. Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we'd pick up. Then, as we get older, we realize that a world in which we're only thinking about ourselves and not thinking about anybody else, in which we're considering the entire project of developing ourselves as more important than our relationships to other people and making sure that everybody else has opportunity - that that's a pretty narrow vision. It's not one that, I think, describes what's best in America. Unfortunately, it does seem as if sometimes that vision of a "you're on your own" society has consumed a big chunk of the Republican Party

I'm often critical of him, but just as a person Obama does have such wit, elegance, and charm...he just carries himself really well. This is a perfect putdown, polite but scathing.