Happy Birthday, Boba!

TIL that young Mark Twain tried to set up a business importing coca leaves to the USA for their magical energetic properties

Hello out there in radioland this is the King Flower News Hour, where Bari bakes current affairs as light and fluffy as her biscuits

sort of thinking about trying to prepare/run a short session of TOR or LOTRR at Westmoot but I dunno. kind of intimidated, kind of don't want to work at a con, kind of not sure if folks would vibe with my GMing style

Huh.

The Dan Ford promise: I WILL kill my characters. Not all of them! Not always! But never assume everyone in the book is safe!

Don't just write conventional fantasy but ALSO your books must have a perfect 3 act structure, everyone must have an arc, you can't have cliffhangers, you better not kill any characters, there should be reader-approved romance but NO sex - how booktok/bookstagram sounds to one grumpy old man

eat shit, shitman

Today would be a great day for the Orioles to sign Framber Valdez

i want to believe in hell because I want to believe Scott Adams has just come to in a featureless expanse of office cubicles that goes on forever, equipped with no Internet connection and the kind of fluorescent lights that make high-pitched squeaky sounds

FINALLY some good news

Scott Adams taught me that it wasn't OK to be weird, RIP now he's making online sock puppet accounts to call himself a genius with the angels.

Leicester’s EPL title win was rigged for gambling interests

Ballot #177 is from Dan Connolly. Nick Markakis is on the board with his first Hall of Fame vote. Félix gains again and moves to +37. Torii Hunter is now over 5% Connolly’s column: www.baltimorebaseball.com/sports/oriol... Tracker: tracker.fyi

While I love my niche stupid hobby of historical board gaming, sometimes it does just make me want to scream. Take the latest example, a board game about the Irish Potato Famine where you get to compete with friends to see who survives best (?) www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Been to the winery and their wine wasn’t bad Fun fact: the real guy that “Nucky Thompson” in Boardwalk Empire was based on became a salesman for Renault after he got out of prison

I am very happy to say that I just finished reading : • The Warden ( #TheWarden #1 ) by @soundingline.bsky.social And it was bloodydamn brilliant, and I look forward to reading the next two books in the series in the near future.

This cute picture of Sugar Plum is begging for a witty caption but for the life of me I couldn’t think of one that wasn’t overdone.

That dude on Camden Chat before 2012 who said the Orioles would win 90 games

The Gunpowder

Babe Ruth in early 20th Century Bartender Getup Bobblehead at Camden Yards

Please consider checking out my Patreon, where I post original short stories, as well as occasional updates, thoughts on books I’ve read, etc. It helps me survive as a queer disabled writer in the rural U.S., and it has a $1 tier! #WritingCommunity

There going to come a day when conservatives say we all have to come together as Americans again. On that day I hope things have changed enough that everyone else can tell them to fuck themselves.

“Eyyyy, you kids a want to play aaaah toss around a slave owner? Is less terrible because space slaves! No, I will not put down space iPad.”

I just found a Fijian/Samoan comedian who is doing a tour of the South and posting it on Instagram and it's the funniest thing ever because my pet theory that Pasifika people are our cousins. Black people immediately recognized ourselves in him and adopted him 😂

please Mike what do you need done to make this happen. nothing is off the table.

MICROSOFT TEAMS: hey, something just happened in the Department channel. ME: is it that message I saw before? TEAMS: no. ME: because I read that message when it popped up. TEAMS: it's not that. ME: *(opens the Department channel)* TEAMS: ... ME: ... TEAMS: okay don't get mad.

I think I am coming around to the idea that there are two (2) comic books I care about keeping in floppy form and everything else can be trades which means I got a lot of floppies to dump

The Burger King implies the existence of the Holy Burger Empire, which implies the existence of Free Burger Cities, and thus, Burger Burghers.

ICE totaled this car, abducted a woman, and then left it in the middle of Snelling Avenue, one of the busiest streets in the Twin Cities. This isn’t law and order, this state sanctioned terrorism. It’s fucking disgusting.

*salesman slaps top of car* You can fit so many Once and Future Kings in this bab....actually two, you can fit two Once and Future Kings in this and they better be comfortable with one another

*lights cigarette* Kids complaining about "sex scenes that don't advance the plot" wouldn't have lasted three books on the SFF shelves of an average bookstore in 1993

plz

Big Monday energy 😅 #MedievalMonday Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 264

In case we have not made ourselves abundantly clear - ICE OUT Yard signs, magnets, and shirts available here - feolagadesignworks.com Proceeds go to printing more whistles

So taking a 2+ week break was the right thing, because I wrote over 2k words tonight, including the following words: The end of The Poor Bastards Volume I: Sinners and Saints [character names spoilers] will return in The Poor Bastards Volume II: The Bladesman and the Black Dog

Every time this stupid insurance commercial at a comedy club called The Laugh Box comes on i snap “I WILL PUT YOU IN THE DEATH BOX” and i think I’m right, amateur improv should be a capital offense

I know Robert Kraft has nightmares exactly like this.

Pouring one out / dropping a tab for Erich von Däniken. How could Our Primitive Forefathers have known what the skeleton looked like before X-rays? Aliens, that’s how.

anyone wanna be pen pals i'd offer this on patreon but i feel like that's a LITTLE presumptuous

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

People should write more letters

On the one hand I feel bad that most Zoomers will never know the joy of home ownership. On the other hand, they will also never feel that icy ball of dread in the pit of their stomach when something ceases working right and a voice says “This is gonna cost ya, pal.”

"..A ruined and terrible form of life. Now... perfected. My fighting Uruk-Hai. Whom do you serve?" ~ "Saruman!" All shot using real figures, lighting & miniature sets #photography #lordoftherings #tolkien #saruman #lotr #miniatures

Plumber en route so about to find out how much a new water heater&install will cost Miss me with “you can totally do it yourself!” nonsense I don’t mess with gas

Combo nomad family/poser gang in Cyberpunk Red based on the 1982 Hal Needham classic MegaForce

When i see a video starting “I need people to understand” I click away as fast as possible because I know there’s 90% likelihood I am about to hear someone badly summarize wikipedia in order to feign expertise

Reading about a woman who spent five months failing to do herself various things that the government does (forecasting weather, inspecting milk, tracking egg prices) and feeling that libertarianism has much to answer for.