infranatural

overheard a balloon salesman blame his high prices on inflation.

Realized it’s been a while since I posted my Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring so here the lads are again

It could take inspiration from a famously non-contentious and morally unimpechable sport College Football Belt Tracker www.cfb-belt.com

Literary Hub » In Pursuit of the Elusive Spanish Forger lithub.com/in-pursuit-o...

The Spanish Forger Saint Cecilia patron saint of musicians Playing Music | Les Enluminures www.lesenluminures.com/artworks/cat... Huh.

much like the guys running the orgo waste and compost business (they pay you to take it away and they pay you to bring it back) there's an opportunity for 2-for-1 lipo clinic.

equitare

taking the kids to the ancestral homeland of white sand beaches, orange groves, and wally world for xmas

considering the Oregon Coast in March. the tourism board makes a strong case. youtu.be/doVV1a7XgyQ

Man goes to doctor. “Doctor- internet is driving me insane.” Doctor says: Cure is simple. Move to Sunbelt suburb, buy 4000 square foot house with lawn to touch grass, finance large pickup truck, marry beautiful wife, have children. Man bursts into tears. “But doctor!”

She knows. They know she knows. She knows that they know she knows. We're a knowledgeable pluribus.

human flesh search engine mass iterative problem solving.

Why is Jet Li action vehicle THE ONE being advertised to me on Netflix with a behaired Jason Statham?

sure, I was raised in the American Civil Religion but I really only go on holidays now.

if you keep using that vocabulary, your vernacular is going to stick.

The Cook, The Grinch, his Wife, and her Lover

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

what if they made the whole Administration out of the black box?

CINTAMANI KIMIA ALKAHEST YLIASTER LANGGAN AZOTH

We used new material technology to solve problems that old material technologies solved with design and structure, and the new materials have unaccounted for downsides that are now revealing themselves with new and difficult problems.

No Gaston backstory is necessary, but now I want him to Flashman his way through Revolutionary/Napoleonic/Restoration France. Like he unwittingly foils the flight to Varennes, is nearly executed in the Terror, betrays both Napoleon and Louis XVIII, that kind of thing.

if something cannot stop, it will go on.

I think about this all the time (from catandgirl.com/the-genius/)

<van Fraassen intensifies>

THE WHITE ROSE, Glen Cook , 1985.

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Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

the western bacon cheeseburger of the dead

going to the library with Oldest for the new series he's obsessed with. youtu.be/jXdGQ3IeNzM

Construction nearly done on a couple of sweet new Glendale rain gardens along La Crescenta Av. City reconfigured intersections, eliminated slip lanes, & added multi-purpose greening in place of former asphalt. Coming soon: bike lanes, artistic crosswalks, & more. la.streetsblog.org/2025/12/12/e...

I can't believe they navalized Ace Combat

Former studio and home of ceramicists Otto and Gertrud Netzler for sale for the first time in 80 years. Absolute dream home. 7837 Woodrow Wilson Dr Los Angeles, CA 90046

It's always the biggest elementary schoolers who play the violin or flute, and the smallest who play the cello.

yet again betrayed by a too-clever-by-half code name.

Optics & Photonics News - Half a Century of Laser Weapons www.optica-opn.org/home/article...

At the library: Watch out for those ‘Mountweazels’ www.shreveporttimes.com/story/life/2... "Lilian Mountweazel" is somewhat of a @cheatlines.co name

what do you mean you hate black licorice? do you also hate picking at that itchy little bit of skin around your fingernail? do you also hate walking in the rain when a cold breeze cuts through you? do you also hate the feeling of knowing you've let down a loved one?

dual mandate of heaven

One aspect is how sometimes the local elites hate and fear the region elites, who hate and fear the national elites, who hate and fear the international elites, because these are levers of power inaccessible or at least attenuated to them. American Gentry patrickwyman.substack.com/p/american-g...

I think this is true for a lot of things, that people have become confused about the markers of THING (here, status) for the existence of THING. of course this is a never-solved issue, the driver of much fashion and cultural change, the permanent state of humanity.

marking this prediction: peak 15%, over 10% for 6 months.

the biggest sign of increasing land value here is when the mall sold off chunks of its parking lot to developers.

For ten years now, I've been writing letters from Santa to my young relatives. To mark this decade, I wanted to include something really special, and after a lot of research into his workshop’s size, location and layout, I'm confident that this checks out. Hope they like it!

started @robertjbennett.bsky.social 's THE TAINTED CUP, almost immediately enthralled with Immunis Anagosa Dolaba, Iudex Investigator. Learning of her philosophy of self-assembly is another delight (as it is my own, hard-won)

sailing the Dirac sea in search of the Island of Stability. mutineers will be made to walk the Planck.