I have learned the hard way not to put my personal life on the Internet. But suffice it to say that, God willing, things should be pretty much back to normal by November 2022 and my blog can resume its regularly scheduled programming.
– Abagond, 2022.
Update: I hope to be back on December 15th.
Update: Okay, make that January 2nd!
Update: Okay, make that January 3rd!
Abagond 
“I have learned the hard way not to put my personal life on the Internet.” Really!? Your posts say nothing personal about you? Unless you lied, your posts say a great deal about your personal life. Let’s take the way you spell some words. I deduce that you were raised in a nation that adheres to British spelling or you’re a rabid Anglophile. Glad you’re over what kept you from posting. I missed your outrage performance. Your posts on China says you’re a liberal who swallowed all the propaganda about ‘democracy’.
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@ Abagond
Here, have a mermaid story:
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/apolepisi-a-de-scaling
🧜🏿♀️🧜🏿🧜🏿♂️
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Come back to us soon honey
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Could you do a post on why you were absent?
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Yeah, what happened?
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Abagond doesn’t owe anybody an explanation for his absence. It would have been nice if he had told us he was going silent and if he intended to return. The fact that he didn’t do so tells me he didn’t plan on going away, a nervous breakdown or a family emergency might be the explanation. He doesn’t work for us. He doesn’t owe us an explanation.
It would be great fun to let our collective imaginations run wild and create embarrassing but amusing speculations for his absence.
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Lol I assumed he got doxxed but gro jo called it
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@ v8driver
Earlier in the year Abagond mentioned that he was packing up most of his books to go into storage for a few months. I assumed he was either moving or renovating. Either one of those could have turned into more of a hassle and timesink than originally anticipated.
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OK, thanks! because newsy neighbors need to know!
🙂
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Keep doing you bro. I appreciate your posts. The honesty, vulnerability, and intelligence conveyed are a breath of fresh air, even if sometimes I have a differing perspective. I hope you have plenty of support for whatever is going on in your life. You’ve got quite a blog. People who really appreciate the value of what you put up here (for free no less) will eventually come back to see what’s up when you’re ready to post again.
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Ditto what Kankuro says.
If and when you post again.
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“… The honesty, vulnerability, and intelligence conveyed are a breath of fresh air, even if sometimes I have a differing perspective.”
“bro” has shown “vulnerability, and intelligence” but not so much honesty, remember when he plagiarized the work of somebody else in this post?
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Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white?
Wed Jun 16th 2010 by abagond
Please see Matt Thorn’s “Do Manga Characters Look ‘White’”?
Note: Professor Thorn asked me to take down this post because he said most readers would think the ideas were original with me, even though I did link to his article and do not in any way present myself as a scholar of anime or even an expert. An unscientific online poll showed that 25% thought the ideas were original with me.”
“bro” also wrote about the Tiananmen ‘massacre’ as if he had witnessed it. I tried, in vain, to set “bro” straight on that bit of nonsense: ”
on Sun Jun 6th 2021 at 15:20:48
gro jo
“When the tanks got to the square they knocked down the statue of liberty. The people threw bricks and stones at the army, whatever they could, they set trucks on fire, they beat up and killed soldiers who got separated and took their guns. But the army kept shooting and shooting and shooting. Some students stood in front of the monument where the funeral had begun all those weeks before. They waited for their deaths.
By morning the square was cleared. The hospitals said at least 1400 died that night.
– Abagond, 2009.”
As the Wumao designate, those damn fifty cents checks are a pain to cash, I must protest this cinematic confection of our genial host. Why? Because that vivid scene was the brainchild of Ms Chai Ling, a student leader in 1989, not reality.
Her Wikipedia entry says the following: “Controversies
Documentary controversy
Footage from a documentary titled The Gate of Heavenly Peace shows viewers parts of an interview between Chai and reporter Philip Cunningham from May 28, 1989, a week prior to the Tiananmen Square Incident. In the footage, Chai makes the following statements:
Chai Ling: All along I’ve kept it to myself, because being Chinese I felt I shouldn’t bad-mouth the Chinese. But I can’t help thinking sometimes – and I might as well say it – you, the Chinese, you are not worth my struggle! You are not worth my sacrifice!
What we actually are hoping for is bloodshed, the moment when the government is ready to brazenly butcher the people. Only when the Square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eyes. Only then will they really be united. But how can I explain any of this to my fellow students?
“And what is truly sad is that some students, and famous well-connected people, are working hard to help the government, to prevent it from taking such measures. For the sake of their selfish interests and their private dealings they are trying to cause our movement to disintegrate and get us out of the Square before the government becomes so desperate that it takes action….
Cunningham: “Are you going to stay in the Square yourself?
Chai Ling: “No.”
Cunningham: “Why?”
Chai Ling: “Because my situation is different. My name is on the government’s blacklist. I’m not going to be destroyed by this government. I want to live. Anyway, that’s how I feel about it. I don’t know if people will say I’m selfish. I believe that people have to continue the work I have started. A democracy movement can’t succeed with only one person. I hope you don’t report what I’ve just said for the time being, okay?”
The footage has been verified by third-party media specialists as genuine, and is readily available online.[74] Chai, however, claims that she had been misquoted and that the footage used “interpretive and erroneous translation”.[75] Although Chai later decided to remain with the students, declassified US embassy cables published on Wikileaks contradicted her later witness testimonial of experiencing a massacre in the square.[76]
Chai and her firm have launched multiple lawsuits against the film’s non-profit producers, the Long Bow Group. An initial suit, in which Chai alleged defamation, was summarily dismissed. An additional suit claimed that the organization infringed upon Jenzabar’s trademark by mentioning the firm’s name in the keyword meta tags and title tag for a page about Jenzabar on its website.[77] Her lawsuits were subsequently criticized by some commentators, including columnists for the Boston Globe and the New Yorker.[78][79][80][81] In the end, each of her legal actions against the film were dismissed by the Massachusetts appeals court.[82][83] The Superior Court handed Jenzabar its comeuppance, which is a rare ruling – an award to defendants of more than $500,000 in attorney fees and expenses, “subjected Long Bow to protracted and costly litigation not to protect the goodwill of its trademark from misappropriation, but to suppress criticism of Jenzabar’s principles and its corporate practices.” in the ruling.[84] ”
A more accurate description of what transpired can be found here:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbEpfOPPay8)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bITnthkgwRc)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyRWxsnYmPg)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mQ3OYrl0hI)
‘Wumaoism’ at your service.”
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on Fri Jul 2nd 2021 at 10:19:41
gro jo
Yesterday, the CPC celebrated its centenary, yet, not one ‘heartfelt’ condemnation of such meretricious celebration of all that’s unholy, at least from your point of view, what gives?
It was the perfect time to remind everyone of the Uyghur ‘genocide’, ‘Tiananmen Square massacre’ where you ‘witnessed’ “… the army kept shooting and shooting and shooting…” and of the ’40 million plus’ that you ‘know’ Mao starved to death.
“abagond
I never dreamed back then that the communists would still rule China 20 years later. Back then not only was communism falling in Europe but so did white rule in South Africa. It seemed like all the bad guys were on their way out.”
Twelve years after you wrote the above, this ‘bad guy’ the engine of the global economy and the only nation able to mobilize its entire population to control an epidemy health officials around the world knew would arrive. I guess ‘evil’ triumphs in our ‘sinful’ world.”
I wish “bro” a quick recovery, flaws and all. Reading his claims have kept me mentally active. Thanks bro.
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What happened Aba, did you get doxxed?
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13 more days left for “…God willing, things should be pretty much back to normal by November 2022 and my blog can resume its regularly scheduled programming.
– Abagond, 2022. ”
So, God hasn’t been willing for the last 17 days? They don’t make Gods like they use to.
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Nor good little chicom workers
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Nor bulbous nosed unintentional comedians.
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@grojo just meant Covid riots and Foxconn, also, that’s from fighting not alcohol ( ie my 4x busted scnozz).
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“… that’s from fighting not alcohol ( ie my 4x busted scnozz).”
What’s your win loss ratio? You could make some extra cash by calling out boxing influencers like the Paul brothers. Just a thought.
“@grojo just meant Covid riots and Foxconn,…”
You left out people protesting being ripped-off by real estate speculators and other “mass incidents” caused by all sorts of outrages. In other words, the PRC isn’t that different from the USA or any other nation.
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@grojo you must be bored. No, specifically Foxconn & the Covid riots in china. Trigger much? It’s a crack at the seam although I do realize no one asked and apropos due to the recent raising of the specter of the tiannamin (sp) square thread,
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Lol @grojo my w/l ratio is not enviable since I never got my nose broke sober, I have won a couple fights in the street
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@ Abagond
More Black mermaids:
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/09/30/black-mermaids-the-little-disney
There’s a book excerpt right after the end of the article.
I hope you know how missed you are.
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https://theportalist.com/books-with-black-mermaids
https://www.themarysue.com/8-black-mermaid-books/
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What’s Solitaire up to with all this mermaid nonsense? Is she implying that Abagond is “transitioning”? Will our genial return as Ms. Abagonde? I hope not. Abagond, ignore her, don’t throw away the ‘family jewels’.
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Mermaids are something I know Abagond likes:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/mermaids/
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/mermaid-poll/
If I knew he liked dragons or griffins, I would post stuff about that.
The Nisi Shawl story in one of those links is about a merman, actually. But there isn’t much fictional or artistic representation out there of mermen, Black or otherwise.
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https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/nisi-shawl/2043(a-merman-i-should-turn-to-be).htm
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Well, shoot. The link above appears to be broken in my comment, although I copied it exactly from the website (htm, no L).
Maybe this one will work:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58969483-2043-a-merman-i-should-turn-to-be
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@ gro jo this has come up before.
(https://youtu.be/UKs46ndFneI)
from ’68
1983…(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
jimi hendrix
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“Update: I hope to be back on December 15th.”
10 days before Christmas! Don’t you have family to celebrate with? Take the rest of the year off, comeback 1/2/2023.
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@ gro jo
Good point.
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“Update: Okay, make that January 3rd!”,4th,5th…
Ok, the thrill is gone, eh?
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