outside the future site of the Abbey of St. Leibowitz

school bus converted with corrugated metal to a... what exactly? the engine block is gone, you'd need the genie from ALADDIN to make that thing drive again. it looks like a place where kidnappers might stash someone they don't really want to kill but don't particularly like either

Planning on creating a series of mixed-media illustration pieces based on Gene Wolfe's 1975 novel, Peace.

I have this insecurity about small engine repair because Wisconsin

"Mom keeps on telling me to make my bed! I hate her I hate her I hate her!" "don't worry, I've killed Mom for you. everything will be so much better now!"

trying to remove the state apparatus from a potential nuclear power man they are coked out of their minds aren't they how would you de-state-ize, I dunno, Utah? they must think it's all personal. you can't run a society that can build ultracentrifuges on lame-ass deals with crooks and lushes.

the fluid is called "napalm" in the language of the ancients

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time’s noblest offspring is the last.

I will be solely rooting for Spheeris the entire month ON THE CONDITION that the DECLINE films belong on the main feed

man the amount of junk a bit of spadework and a metal detector would find after forty thousand years of human civilization "Mom, Dad, we found a rocket engine from the Last War!" turns out it's a culvert. but valuable because it's pre-atomic and has no trace radioactivity. cheaper than asteroidal!

boo. far too many people in the Kool Kids' Klub (now middle-aged) think REDS is some sort of historical reenactment someday they'll find a substitute for a personality

now in the State of Witchcraft

why does this remind me of that uncollected Vernor Vinge short story in which a cosmic dork converted a planet's oceans to the Universe's driest martini, which promptly set the planet on fire? Vinge more than half-believed his own crap, a direct inspiration to the AI gooners.

Verdict: This has what I can only describe as a Flavor. I would drink this again, because there's something wrong with me

so why doesn't Ross the largest Friend not simply eat the others? Rachel: mate Monica: sister Phoebe: edge case (tastes bad?) Chandler: sister's mate Joey: commensal/wingman (only if Ross is physiologically stressed)

railroads? man there's a whole lot of nothing out here on the line, though I didn't know Iowa had a molybdenum plant.

Pizza Man Amery, WI

Franken and Davis salute the typo whatever happened to them anyway?

my God, I'll never be able to make fun of Filipino food again except for papaítan

she's going to spend more time with her... family?

imagine writing an intelligence emulator and choosing an architecture that makes it impossible to trace its internal execution

The funny thing about this administration is that nobody has been fired yet because Trump is so checked out and the pool of nominees is really smaller than you’d think, so everyone just sorta mills around like Torgo in Manos going “when are you gonna kill me, boss”

You know what. Fuck it. Cold steeping earl grey in Red Bull.

the Ben Franklin online Discourse™ has been going on for over twenty years -- I think the remarkable Doug Muir may have started it (he's the white dude on the righthand side of my cover photo).

that first split-second where you think Beetle might be hanging bimself

RAHOWA

Happy Threads Day to those who celebrate it.

hear me out. what if a Nazi tattoo wasn't that bad? look at this fine upstanding working-class musician. he's got charisma in this new media era; he's got a following, and that spells ELECTABILITY.

our most elite institutions are actually Waffle House and Costco

this is really sad. a million American men can't make themselves interesting enough so that an attractive woman might show them her feet, just for the hell of it. first, maybe get the fuck offline? just a thought.

farmer/dairy worker, teacher/farm wife, farmer and hardware store owner in a very different context, and heiress from a murdered neighborhood. (after the war she sold fried chicken to the Allied troops. Phil Rizzuto was there; I wonder if he was one of them.)

I would apply for this job

Paul Thomas Anderson's OATH OF FEALTY Robert Eggers' 1632 Richard Linklater's WILD COUNTRY

weird to hear someone ramble with a heroin creak to their voice who isn't the Secretary of Health and Human Services

imagine an artifact older than the Sun this is why I mourn science fiction's passing

big piece Star Wars puzzle in my mom's cognitive care facility, and yeah

how many times has a Chotiner interview resulted in negative consequences for the interviewee?

create the Schuyler-verse w/Ryan Coogler's BLACK EMPIRE and Jordan Peele's BLACK NO MORE

checkin in at the other place to see a thread speculating on what Shaquille O'Neal would be doing in the slave trade, and it's even grosser than you think, even taking that it will be grosser than you think into account. (no one is saying, prominent abolitionist speaker.)

learning Pennsylvania Dutch on Amtrak out of osmosis

passing through the recreational vehicle manufacturing belt of northern Indiana. I saw a Quonset hut with a cross on the flat end. out of amusement I'm mentally calculating the number of horses needed to replace the motor vehicles with buggies and wagons. it's a lot.

even Aaronson, who is not noted for his acute personal judgment, listened to his mother about Jeffrey Epstein. so many current subcultures are founded on the principle that Mom is always wrong. I wonder how many of them are in thrall to some rich-ass sex criminal as well.

TIL: Chester, Illinois has a "Popeye Trail" of 19 statues (28 characters) situated throughout the city in honor of hometown hero Elzie Segar. Beyond the main cast they have Castor/The Whiffle Hen, The Sea Hag/Bernard, Alice the Goon & Child, King Blozo, Toar & more. I have a nerdly urge to visit.

"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've plotted on these pages I hold that both claims go back ages."

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

same as NYC. the decline of the third shift is a big part of it, and also the decline of bar attendance. they say the food truck might be replacing it but that's not the same thing.

Tonight I broke fast with the NYPD Muslim Officers Society, and the family of late Detective Didarul Islam.   For many officers, Ramadan means breaking fast alone on patrol. Tonight, we came together for iftar, and to remember Detective Islam. His commitment to this city will never be forgotten.

sometimes you can see a key indicator in retrospect when a bartender in art school referred to Israel as Omelas not terribly long after October 7 shape of ice funnel down to gutter Holocaust denial for an entire cohort who a generation before would have been more interested in cocktail unicycles

Pivot Point Durant, IA

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.