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20+ years later, this song still cracks me up - and the ASL interpretation just puts it over the top. Happy First of May everybody - celebrate as you see fit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEjR...

One must imagine Pinhead happy

New karaoke video: "I Wish I Was In New Orleans" - Tom Waits youtu.be/8w4guFrcVWE

Can't wait to get my new passport!

I've been taking "Emergen-C" gummies, and while they are tasty and probably quite potent, they do tend to get sticky due to absorbing moisture from the air. So as I smack the bottle to separate them, I say They could be microscopic! They could be hygroscopic! Why, they could be... Greased Vit'mins!

Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else. The pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong. - Umberto Eco, _Numero Zero_

Two of my faves are covers: Dead Souls (Joy Division) and Get Down, Make Love (Queen). Great originals, given an unmistakeable NIN touch. Kinda sorta like what Johnny Cash did with Hurt... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp_u...

The motto here is that a new door opens every time you push another man out of a window. - Ian Caldwell, _The Fifth Gospel_

I was at Costco and a big package of toilet paper fell on me. I’m ok, just some soft tissue damage.

I find him holding his dirty cassock over the laundry bag that our mother once embroidered with the words "Genesis 1:4 - God separated lights from darks." - Ian Caldwell, _The Fifth Gospel_ I am SO stealing this.

This commercial for the Agua Caliente Casinos keeps running, with the tag line "There's something life-changing in the Agua". I'm thinking maybe... giardia?

"The Ghost of Tom Joad" became one of my favorite songs the first time I heard them play it together.

🎶Girl, leave your boots by the bed we ain't leaving this room 'Til someone needs medical help or the magnolias bloom🎶

Opening a bike shop called Vélo City

In the end *exhales puff of smoke* Icarus flew too close to the ground.

New karaoke video: "Lullaby" by James youtu.be/-dVW3mybxto

Every time I have to deal with towels made of anything but cotton terrycloth, I wonder anew at the folly of the world.

I always turn off autocorrect as soon as I get a new device, but my phone keeps changing commas to periods and it's annoying af. I thought at first I might be fat-fingering, but I use Gboard - comma and period are on opposite sides of the space bar. I wish it would quit doing that.

🎶Put me in, Sarge I'm ready to shoot And scoot Put me in. Sarge I'm ready to slay Today Look at me I can aim Center mass🎶

Always wanted to be the IT/telecomms guy for the Vatican; I would set the CSID (i.e. reply-to address) as "Fax Vobiscum"

Having awakened with a splitting headache, I have improved to the point that I feel just fine! as long as I don't move my head at all

Many people are saying that JD is quite ignorant about the history of religion in Europe and the Middle East but that overlooks his expertise on the ottomans.

rip to all the people excommunicated by the pope for their heresy but im different. and better. maybe even better than the pope

My sister found* ants in her cereal this morning, and is a little freaked out by the fact that, before realizing what they were, she sorta enjoyed the flavor. I told her chocolate-covered ants aren't bad - why not just mix some Nestlé Quik into the milk? *by eating them

Periodic usage rant: "epi-" means "above" (e.g. the epidermis sits atop the dermis). Earthquakes happen far underground; the center might be miles down. The epicenter is the point on the surface of the Earth directly above the earthquake center - it is not a fancy way to say "the very center".

New karaoke video: Willie Nelson, "I Never Cared For You" youtu.be/rKz3lix89Xg

Wegroovy was _right_ there.

I've been getting messages all week warning that we _might_ get some rain this weekend - any time from Friday night onward. Nothing Friday, nothing yesterday, and this morning I was prepared for disappointment. Well, worry no more - the weather has delivered. Now I'm getting local flood warnings.

In the running for greatest giveaway of all time

When Slate first launched, I found myself in basic agreement with most of its contributors; over the decades, they've nearly all gone full MAGA or "centrist apologist for MAGA". I find myself wondering: did they change? did I? or were they all always This Way and I was just dumb?

Iran must open the Strait of Hormuz immediately! And the Strait of Hormuz is already open because we won! And our allies should help us open the Strait of Hormuz! And we are blocking the Strait of Hormuz ourselves! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

maybe dogs don't like baths bc they're Spot clean only

ESCAPING ASTRONAUTS RECAPTURED DARING GETAWAY CUT SHORT JUST PAST LUNAR ORBIT SPACE CRIMINALS BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH TO STAND TRIAL "We're all in this big blue boat together." SAYS NASA SPOX IN NEW STATEMENT. "No exceptions allowed---not on our watch!" MOST SUCCESSFUL BREAKOUT ATTEMPT SINCE 1972

NEW: Saruman calls surprise press conference denying relationship with Sauron

Brouhaha™️: Does This Beer Taste Funny to You?

This Vabysmo commercial starts the same way as "Rear Window"; I keep expecting one of the cars the guy is photographing to jump the barrier and break his leg.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

New karaoke video - something a little different today. "The Ding Dong Song" by Williams & Ree, a staple of the late 1980s Dr. Demento Show... (Sorta looking forward to performing this; my sister will never forgive me if I do.) youtu.be/Q3mmKbieixw

Periodic tech support reminder: Wired Ethernet is almost always faster and more stable than WiFi; if you CAN plug in to your network, do. However: Windows prefers WiFi for some reason and will randomly switch if both are available. If you have wired Ethernet, disable WiFi - it will save headaches.

I like to think of MDF* as an even ruder version of MF - like you're involving the whole family *yeah, yeah, medium-density fiberboard

As a consumer of (far too much) woodworking YouTube, it will never stop being weird to me when English woodworkers cut rabbets but call them by another name. Every time the New Yorkshire Workshop guy mentions a "rebate", I wonder when I'll get my money. Divided by a common language indeed.

New karaoke video - "Here On Earth" by Love and Rockets youtu.be/8AHjT5fgcwI

he got rizz