Whirlwind Brain: Clark Kent truthing and Wil Wheaton

Quotes For A Coronavirus Sampler

quill:
"Every single time mask mandates are shot down or the CDC drops their advice from “wear a mask” to “it’s okay to not wear a mask” infection rates go up. More to the point: you WILL be wearing a mask 8 hours a day again at some point before the end of spring, as there’s yet another wave rising in europe and most of america has relaxed masking requirements. It will be better for your mental health to work on ways to accept it as inevitable NOW instead of declaring that you’re over it."
Anonymous:
“Nothing says vaccinations like a stripper pole.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci:
"“If you are fully vaccinated, you don’t have to worry about anything." Angela Rasmussen: “We will not be living like this forever. Vaccination is your ticket to getting back to a normal life.”
Carolyn Hax:
"Know, too, there’s no single code for “how to keep going.” There is only whatever works — and that can even mean just staggering from day to terrible day, food-work-sleep, until things change. Because things will change. They always do."
NotTheRedBaron:
"Reading about interesting times is fascinating. Living through interesting times is very much not."
Ginny S:
“I value things like my friends, my school, my teachers, so much more now. I know that I can lose them at a moment's notice, or even less. And I've been able to speak out more, because when every day might lead to your death, there's no payoff to keeping silent. I've learned that adults are not completely useless, but they sure as hell don't actually know much about the world. I've learned that we have to save this world, because of course we do.”
Michael Fazio (NYT)
“The outside world doesn’t work very well right now, so we really have to create our own inside world,”
Ken Sofer:
"I've seen enough of 2020 to know that the actual worst-case scenario is often much worse than my envisioned worst-case scenario,"
Linda Holmes:
"And it is not lost on me that my year has been much better than most. Much easier than most. And still, I have been so challenged, so unhappy, so anxious. I don't even know how to wrap my head around it."
hanov3r:
"We don't know when *waves hands* all of THIS is going to end. And that feels HUGE and insurmountable and makes me want to curl up in the foetal position with my numbing agent of choice and never get up again. If you look at the entirety of all of THIS, it's almost beyond the scope of imaging, and it becomes everything. But, today? Today ends. And tomorrow may be different. It may not be, but today has an end, and I can get to the end of today. Whether I can get to the end of tomorrow's "today" is up to tomorrow's hanov3r."

Speed-Reading List

Mur Lafferty: Station Eternity
Reviewed January 22. (****)
Christina Lauren: Love and Other Words
Reviewed January 21. (**)
Prince Harry: Spare
Reviewed January 15. (*****)
Katherine Addison: The Witness for the Dead
Reviewed January 2. (***)
Kerry Winfrey: Just Another Love Song
Reviewed December 24. (***)
Megan Bannen: The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Reviewed November 29. (****)
Dwight D. Eisenhower: At Ease: Stories I Tell My Friends
Reviewed November 9. (***)
Ruth Goodman: How To Be A Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
Reviewed November 8. (****)
Beth Revis: The Princess and the Scoundrel
Reviewed November 2. (***)

December 30, 2019

Clark Kent truthing and Wil Wheaton

"For most of my adult life, I was a total Clark Kent Truther. There was no way, I figured, that just putting on glasses would make Superman disappear.

Then, one year at ComicCon, I bought a fake mustache, for a joke, and put it on OVER MY REAL MUSTACHE. In literally seconds, people stopped looking at me, and I vanished into the crowd."

I seriously wonder about this one, though. Like, god knows I've tried the Reverse Clark Kent and removed my glasses, and folks still recognized me. In the last few months, I wore a rainbow wig to a bar around Halloween and still got recognized. I wore a plain brown bob wig around while shopping in Sac one day (I was going to a 1920's event later that day and decided to wear the outfit around), met up with a friend without warning him about this and he still figured out it was me. And then there was the Rainbow Hippie Santa outfit.... So so far, no dice.

On the other hand, another friend, who normally has short black hair, wore a long blonde wig in a show and afterwards said that people didn't recognize her and when she ran into someone she knew after she's changed clothes, was asked, "What are you doing here?" "I'm in the play?" (And to be fair, I saw this show about nine months before meeting her and didn't realize until she told me this story that it was her either.)

I'm not sure what exactly causes the non-recognizing, but if someone figures it out, let me know?

In the meantime, I just got my hair redyed something crazy and put on some extreme lip gloss I got gifted for Christmas, so.....I guess this look will be great if we ever get around to doing that vampire themed escape room we always talk about.

Alas, I still fear I shall be recognized the next time I go into the bar in a few weeks. Darn it, I keep hoping to get unrecognizable!

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