Mick needs one more vote to reach 1400. Vote for Mick.

Merge two movies: Dawn of the Dead Poet’s Society

Merge two movies: Seven Brides for Seven Samurai

Merge two movies: Raiders of the Lost Weekend

Today in dessert history: 69 years ago today (nice), the recipe for “German’s Chocolate Cake” (so named because it used German’s sweet baking chocolate, developed by confectioner Samuel German) was first published in the Dallas Morning News. It became known as German chocolate

Today is the 100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth.

Jupiter and Venus moving toward conjunction.

Well, confirmed, my cousin Jeffrey Buice died in his sleep Tuesday morning. Jeff had been dealing with MS for about the last decade but he never let it stop him doing art, even when he was down to painting with the brush in his mouth. But this year chemo for cancer got added and it was just too much

Waking up to a Boardwalk commercial on the radio ("At the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, in the warm California sun"). Meanwhile the actual weather in Santa Cruz today:

Well, damn. I haven’t heard from anyone in my family yet, but based on the number and nature of posts by his friends in the past 12 hours, it appears that my cousin Jeff may have died. More later if confirmed.

Autonomous trucks are great!

Repost with your first crush.

And now, the vast pile of election mail can go into recycling.

Well, lovely day to stroll along East Cliff. Got to spot a humpback whale and her calf and follow them along the shore for a bit before we returned to our errands. Later we spotted them again off of Seabright Beach. It’s been about three years since we last spotted whales on our walks.

KSFS "The Edge" - getting you most of the way there every day

My weather forecast appears to have been accurate - it was in the 80s and sunny most of the week, and I said to someone at Farmer’s Market on Wednesday “So this probably means the fog will return just in time for the tourists to arrive for Memorial Day.” This morning:

Today in history: Nine years ago, the Ringling Brothers - Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Long Island, New York. Fifteen years ago the world was supposed to end, according to religious radio guy Harold Camping. It did not.

Huh. So it’s corporate propaganda that got repurposed, just like the Westinghouse “We Can Do It!” poster from WWII.

Congratulations @katmabu.bsky.social and your fellow defendants!

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live Steel Breeze Chicago Book of Love Depeche Mode Bachman Turner Overdrive Van Halen Oingo Boingo Glass Tiger Journey Joe Satriani (Those are the first ten bands/performers I saw live. Many of them for free - I was very good at winning tickets.)

So the question is, now that he’s being shunned by Colorado Dems, what does he do for the rest of his term? This could get ugly fast.

Congress emerging from a clown car seems apropos to our current situation.

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

Now there’s a headline you don’t see every day.

@kithrup.bsky.social I have a backup question. There are a number of Synology NASs in various configurations being offered (used) in this area. Is that a decent NAS? (A lot of people seem to have bought them, but that they are now selling them makes me wonder.)

This is just to say I am eating the plums that were in the icebox because tomorrow is farmer’s market and I’ll get more stone fruit they are delicious so sweet and so cold

I can promise you I most definitely fucking haven’t

It’s official!

Today in history: 31 years ago, all Israeli forces were withdrawn from the Gaza Strip as part of the first of the Oslo Accords. 46 years ago, Mount St. Helens went kablooey. Big-time.

All based on a court in Germany that ruled that the Stratocaster design could be copyrighted as an “artistic work”. Technically this ruling only applies in the EU but they’re going after anyone who has sold even one Strat-like guitar in Europe.

Change a letter, change a movie name The Farce Awakens

There was a town in Monterey County called “Confederate Corners” until 2018. Yes, 2018.

Eisenhower?

If you see this, post a Star Trek.

I have my reading sorted for the next few days, I think. #hugoawards #finalist #bestseries

Slightly increase a band. Bus Halen

Tell you what, I am mighty glad I put gas in both our family cars yesterday.

BOHICA!

Give me your favourite Non-Trek performance from a Star Trek actor. DeForest Kelley as Morgan Earp in “Gunfight at the OK Corral”, 1957

Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.

Midsolar Murders 3: Infinite Archive, by @mightymur.bsky.social. Because I devoured the latest Murderbot yesterday.

Okay… is it Elon posting from Maye’s account, or Maye posting from Elon’s account? (Elon had no English grandparents and also wasn’t alive in 1966. Maye’s maternal grandmother was born in England and emigrated to Canada with her parents as a teenager. And died in 1966.)

There’s also a guy named Barack Obama Shaw.

🚨🚨🚨 Ok, we're TWO DAYS to the end of the petition and still missing some pledges! 🚨🚨🚨 www.makeship.com/petitions/pe... Let's make our lil birb frend real! Tell your friends! All it takes is a $2 pledge now, and you'll only pay for the whole thing when she's actually being produced! Go go go! 🪶

Slightly diminish a book: The Slingshots of Navarone

Well, that was quick

It first appeared at the Olympics in 1924 as “military patrol”, with four-man teams (officer, NCO, two privates). Much as the original modern pentathlon, only actual military personnel were originally allowed to compete. Norway and Finland tended to smoke everyone so they tinkered with the rules a

Today in history: 23 years ago, President George W. Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and declared all objectives achieved in Iraq, with a banner reading "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" as his backdrop. He was... a little off.

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and Grogu.