Hello everyone! I'm finally feeling better mentally for the first time since early Sunday night. After that night everything turned to shit for a few days. So this part of the blog is an explanation for those that haven't been told about the unpleasant things I alluded to on the twelfth in a short blog entry. This also will be part of the whole "update and current situations" I mentioned in the post title. There will be more "updates and current situations" as well but this is one of them. So, Sunday the eleventh was a busy but overall good day and evening for me and then early Monday morning the twelfth at three o' clock am (give or take five to ten minutes) some proverbial shit hit the proverbial fan. I was alerted to the fact that one of my good friends was in the hospital with a broken arm and lacerations on his head in the back of his head and on his face. He also had multiple contusions all over his upper body and even a few big contusions on his right leg in his thigh area. So I rush over to the hospital that he's been taken to and I meet up with his parents and some of our mutual friends that were also called. Upon meeting up with everyone in the surgery waiting room (I'll explain why surgery was required in a minute) I was told by his parents and one of his and my mutual friends that my friend, Dan was beaten for defending a woman at this bar in downtown Chicago. It's also worse than just two guys picking on and harassing a woman because the main reason this poor woman attracted the ire of these two assholes was because she was African American and my friend Dan told me later after his surgery recovery that these two scumbags were verbally assaulting her with a mixture of gross, sexist bullshit and really disgusting racial slurs. My friend intervened and started verbally attacking the two sexist racists and security came over and broke up the shouting match. My friend said that they listened to their side of the story, then to the totally freaked out African American woman and my friend. Two of the bartenders behind the bar heard most of the altercation as well and backed up my friend and the woman's story so the other two dickless bastards were ejected from the bar by security after the bartenders' added comments about what happened. That should have been that right? Well not for these two bastards apparently.
My friend Dan was there for another hour at least he said. Last call at this particular bar is two A.M. so after everyone is getting out of the bar after or during last call my friend leaves the bar and about three buildings down the block into his walk to his car, he gets yanked into a little alley and it's the two pieces of shit from the bar. They were not just racist scumbags as they were so petty and lame that they waited for over an hour for my friend to come out. Also, since they were a few buildings down the block from the bar one of them had to be standing on the sidewalk looking for my friend and what direction he as headed before they decided where to hide to confront him. Like I said, scumbags with nothing better to do right? Once they pulled him in the alley, Dan says he remembered being punched quite a few times in the face, side of the head and gut mostly. He said he started to bring his arms up around his head to cover up and one of them grabbed his left arm while the other one tackled him. So the tackling piece of shit apparently wrangled his way on top of my friend so he couldn't get up easily and the other guy who grabbed his arm when they were standing now was holding my friend's left arm down by the wrist with one of his hands as he began to crouch over my friend's arm and drive his knees down into my friend's arm over and over. This resulted in the eventual breaking of my friend's arm, specifically the forearm and this broken arm is the reason for the surgery that I'll get to shortly. So after the arm gets broken my friend said he started yelling obviously from the pain and he tried to pull his arm away from the one guy and this wrenched his rotator cuff and some tendons that help with movement in the shoulder and arm. The guy who tackled him at this point apparently reaches into his coat and produces a chain (most likely for locking up a bike or something like that) with a padlock attached to the last link of one end of the chain. He stands up and his asshole compatriot keeps hitting my friend Dan in the side after he stands up too and he also starts kicking my friend in his side. So asshole with the chain starts swinging it downward at my friend who's still on the ground and he made contact with my friend's face in one area that left a laceration and at one point another laceration was sustained as my friend rolled face down after the hit to his face and this time, the padlock connected with the back of his skull and tore a big laceration in the back of my friend's head. People had been walking by for minutes my friend said and all of this happened in a matter of five minutes. A few other people started calling 911 and a few cool people jumped into the middle of it and stopped my friend getting beaten further.
So once he gets to the hospital, they do x-rays for the arm and shoulder, CAT scan for his head as well as an MRI for more in depth and precise assessment that the CAT scan could have missed or wouldn't detect outright. He had to have the surgery I mentioned to have screws put into his forearm to hold the large bone fragments together tightly until they heal. Those five screws will have to stay in for the next 8 months and at that time he'll undergo another surgery to remove the screws if everything has healed fine and there were no complications in the healing process. He had to have three stitches in the middle of his right cheek area as the padlock hit his face with the corner (most likely) of it since that laceration was almost more of a puncture than a laceration. The one to the back of the skull though required fifteen-sixteen stitches in the scalp to get it closed. He also had a bone chip mark in the back of his skull where he'd been struck as the imaging testing showed a small divot missing in the skull that was very, very minor and didn't even constitute as anything more serious than a chipped tooth and possibly less serious than that even. The numerous contusions were of course from all the times the chain and padlock just hit him in the upper body and the few times in his legs without doing much damage other than the bruising.
So after seeing my friend like this I was furious but I couldn't do anything about it. It still pissed me off but they had been arrested at the scene since the group of people that intervened forced the two assholes to stay put while the cops were on their way. So I go home and I'm on little to no sleep really and I push onward into Monday, no longer the early A.M. hours but still Monday morning. I get on the internet and immediately head here to the site because I love the community and my friends I have here as I've mentioned many times in many blog entries. So I come on site to unwind and enjoy the mostly hassle free nature of the site and it's wonderful inhabitants and I notice @gadget whom I follow on site is having an argument with someone who's name does not matter since he was a fucking creep, scumbag. So, I jump over there to see what has @gadget upset and it's the page of a true asshole who posted not one but two offensive blogs that morning as well as a highly offensive meme that he claimed was "art" which was of course, total bullshit and @gadget, @gpryme and myself are so offended by this scum fuck that we start asking questions of this "person" for lack of a better word and telling him what a bastard he is. Now, there's a reason this is tied to what happened to my friend. The common denominator? As you might have guessed if you didn't see this interaction between us three and this moron, the moron happens to be a racist pig. His trash meme that he claimed was "art" that he had in place of a profile picture was a My Little Pony in a Hitler/Nazi outfit giving a speech in a room with swastikas all over these banners making the whole disgusting thing a pony version of a Hitler propaganda rally in Germany. At this point, I had enough and I went AWOL at that point.
The other part of the "update/current situation" blog is simply the rest of this entry. So after that happened on the twelfth I spent the next three days dividing my time between going to the hospital to hang out with my buddy Dan and keep him company since being in the hospital is boring as fuck and spending most of the time not at the hospital working on music and building synthesizer cabinets for modular synthesizer modules and also building some home made modules to put into a modular synth setup. I also spent a good amount of all that time getting stoned as hell because, why not? Also if I hadn't I would have been climbing the walls of the hospital that first morning.
Now that I got all that unpleasant shit out of the way, I hope everyone had a better last three or so days than I did! I know I logged in for a few minutes here and there but to anyone whom I haven't responded yet, I'm sorry and I promise I'm getting there little by little so expect to see a reply from me sometime soon!!
Last night was the season finale of AHS and @neyona and myself have been chatting every week discussing theories and fun moments we noticed this season as well! It's been a blast and I'm disappointed it's over already but now we'll have to find another show to critique right @neyona?? :D
So everyone let me know what you've been up to and please, please tell me something good folks!! I'm all for listening to any problems or harrowing experiences you've had to deal with but I'm hoping you all had a good week free of drama and anything worse!! It's the weekend thankfully so if I don't get responses until the weekend is over I'll totally understand! Have a great weekend and special thanks to everyone that asked about me or included me in their awesome blog posts or stood up to an asshole with me on site that day! So @xheartswornx thank you brother for the flattering mention in your amazing blogs about the beautiful ladies of the site! @gadget and @gpryme thank you for standing up to that asshole and for getting the scummy fucker banned for hate speech and past violations. @arroezze, @xheartswornx, @bookcouple and others thank you all for showing support and love when you didn't even know what was happening, you all rock too! Also many thanks to those of you that I speak with in private message and offsite on other apps and sites as well! Of course you're all amazing too and I really love talking with everyone I know on here in some capacity! You're the heroes of the website in my opinion! Those of you that go above and beyond to be supportive of others even if you barely know them! Other's I haven't mentioned by name yet that are amazing as well are @littledot, @willowblack, @naru_blu, @dirtymuggle, @fifix, @heiwa, @thaecos, @lorry, @evanesco, @purr, @chef, @avecalluna, @brisen, @romany, @chroi, @doncella, @leetattar, @elune_, @neyona (I know I mentioned you but you're my best buddy here so I gotta show love!), @psyria_delight, @glip and @gladyce as well as many, many more!!
This blog started with a few bummer topics and ended up on a positive praise piece and that makes me very happy! I'm going to say something I've said a few times before but this site makes us stronger in so many ways folks! The community is tight knit and supportive and if someone messes with anyone in a horrible way, they get dealt with. Multiple people have encouraged and been encouraged to continue pursuing their passions and creative endeavors and it's a beautiful thing to see so many talented people in one place talking about things from random silliness to deep philosophical and existential topics as well as every other topic in between! This place makes us better because we can see others much like ourselves but different in so many ways that you're not just hanging out with people that all have the same things in common, but rather a plethora of knowledge in all areas as well as us all having common unifying interests so we get turned on to new ideas and ways of doing things in the real world thanks to learning from one another on site in the forums, comment sections or in private messages! This site is responsible for bring all of us together for the love of pin up modeling and a lot of us leave with way more knowledge every day as opposed to being an online community of "degenerates" that never evolves either as a community or personally. This site isn't fond of any set "norms" or "social standards" and it draws inspiration from all people from all walks of life making it one of the best places to be online and in my humble opinion, the best place to be online hands down.
So much love and respect as always from me to all of you! If I didn't mention you by name but you're on my page liking my blogs or I stop by your page to say hello out of the blue here and there or you're a follower of my page of course you're all included as well in my many thanks to the amazing people I'm talking about in this blog and other entries!! You're all amazing and special to me and I'm glad to have had interactions with and met all of you here :) I love this site and I love the friends I've made here a ton and that's never going to change!! Have a great weekend everyone and I should be around a lot more tomorrow and the day after too! See you all real soon and keep on being excellent :)
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