I’m an American and a Texan. I feel shame, anger, guilt, worry, and pity.

Bush (a Texan) back in the day started a 10 year war with your country that my taxes paid and my generation died for. This was done with completely fabricated evidence. Bush Senior, about decade before, undermined the foundations of free speech and journalism to facilitate Desert Storm.

I’m part of a military industrial machine that kills people to make some of my country men rich.

I’m very different from a typical person from the middle east. I don’t even abide or respect abrahamic religions. Those differences don’t make me angry though, the world would be better to leave those different than me with peace and quiet. I want Iraqi people to be happy and content, for the selfish reason that I don’t want to think about the region.

I’m extremely fearful that the powers that be in Washington will decide to invade Iraq again in a decade or so.

Yep that thing is nuts, the carvings wrap all along with it. It was most likely used in a type of human sacrifice involving ritual gladiatorial combat. The divot on top in the middle was for holding human hearts.

What?

Actually I haven’t. A cursory Google search shows it’s well reviewed and pretty accurate for what we knew in 70’s and 80’s.

It really is and it’s thorough. It’s got charts of when Tezcatlipoca shows up visually in codices which I can then cross reference.

Currently I’m reading:

Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God Tezcatlipoca, “Lord of the Smoking Mirror”

by Guilhem Oliver and translated by Michael Besson

It’s a text book about Tezcatlipoca.

Tie-dyed baseball cap.

One of the things that fascinates me about pre-contact Americas are the farming techniques. Mesoamerica had chinampas (in the lakes) and South America (the mountainous area at least) had terraces.

I was born and raised in Texas, fuck the Confederacy. All the dumbass descendants of the horrible people that were in charge back in the day made my life miserable.

If memory serves those could produce quite a bit of agriculture products.

A lesser satan is only CR4. Demi-Satans are ironically more powerful than a normal satan being CR 15.

I love how Sony learned nothing from the PS3 launch price.

People are entitled to their opinions. I think Stardew Valley is great, but I could see why someone would hate it.

I’m trying (poorly) to learn it because I’m obsessed with Mixtec Pueblo culture prior to 1500’s CE. In other words I’m crazy about Aztec history.

So you want Crystal Pepsi?

Adapt or die.

Is that cup tied to the pump? Is it a public cup? I think I’m going to be sick.

Tlaxcaltecs were the people of Tlaxcala who were the target of the “Flower Wars”. There’s a very good chance that when Cortés showed up Tlaxcalan forces capitalized on the chance to swing the power balance in the region, by wiping out the citizens in the altepetl of Cholula.

You know Tlaxcala were not innocent.

Great museum, I saw the “Potato Eaters” there.