Friday Ephemera (769)
Hippo expresses displeasure. || For the hungry among you. || So how was your day? || It was, alas, a very long drive. || Logo outrage. || An athletic use of the buttocks. || Obstruction of note. || Today’s word is ambitious. || FBI artefacts. || “It seems like here in Portland there is this super-big need for spiritual care.” || Meet the Bin Men, 1976. || Artful bouncing. || The thrill of martial arts. || She feels that a lot of assumptions are being made about her. || Choices were made. || You may gasp when ready. || We have ignition. || Wanted woman. || What the hell are people doing? A planet-wide statistical extrapolation. || Towing is hard. || A noteworthy indifference. || Incoming. || Niche skills. || New speech rules update issued. || Luminous. || A little steep, I grant you, but on the upside it is organic.
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Out of curiosity, I tried to find out how much they are charging for Witchcamp. No can do without fully going through their online form (12 pages!), so yeah . . . we don’t do that here.
Although I did notice you have to indicate your “magical or preferred name.”
D’you think Arts and Crafts will feature banners? I bet they’ll be banners. If there is one thing you can expect from pagns, evangelical Christians, and progressive types, it’s banners.
[ Signs for delivery. ]
Oh good. They’re here.
Only grifters fail to state prices up front.
The best part is the fact they have one of Fat Electrician’s Fat Files playing in the background.
And all the way at the end of the article: “Brown was arrested on an outstanding warrant.”
Curmudgeon Status: Confirmed.
It’s rarely the first time.
A bit of good news going into the weekend.
Amazing the amount of crap that they hold onto. Even and especially stuff they are not supposed to have. Imagine what we pay for managing the storage of all that useless, long-past-its-purpose junk.
Added: And that’s just the FBI.
More half-baked than cooked.
When them stamps hit.
Time and place.
What if the victim’s family want the perpetrator to be drowned in acid on live TV?
‘Cause we can’t find it.
And can’t find this.
“I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.”
from Scott Adams:
Well, the inapt forgiveness of the family evokes vomit in the throat and rather suggests that they’d be willing to risk the robbing and death of others – events quite likely – in order to spare this worthless beast from the fate that he deserves.
We’ve been here before, of course.
Sometimes motivated by delusional beliefs about likelihood of rehabilitation–delusions instilled by decades of leftist propaganda.
But also often motivated by the desire to feel good by forgiving evil.
Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles to Race on the Oval Ahead of Indy 500
It’s heartening to know that in some ways this is still America.
[ Nudges ping pong balls closer to dicentra. ]
[ Does innocent face. ]
I actually am a Wiccan and I have zero desire to go. You can skip right to marking yourself safe from secret yearnings.
the inapt forgiveness of the family evokes vomit in the throat
https://abcnews.go.com/US/son-home-depot-worker-fatally-attacked-theft-seeks/story?id=99732402
If the Foundation for Iowans but with Better Food had provided me with my lifetime opportunity for racial healing, I would imagine my deceased relative spending their final moments contemplating an alternative timeline of their murderer gesturing at a transparent whiteboard explaining the vector opcodes in the latest JVM to his delighted diverse team.
On film reviews in an age of AI.
Representative government.
Regarding which, this came to mind:
If you haven’t seen that one, worth a poke, I think.
[ Looks at clock, ponders socially appropriate hour to bust out the gin and tonic. ]
Like Scientific American but worse.
I may have said this before but I used to have a strict rule against drinking before noon. Then Kim Wilson broke my heart in algebra class and that was the end of that.
This would have been national news if the races had been reversed.
More here and here.
[ Slurps gin and tonic. ]
On our local interstate there’s a portion where the lanes separate, and between them is a deep, deep gully. So deep that it’s never mowed and trees grow in it. Many times I wondered if dumping a body there would ever be found.
‘Organic’ is code for ‘scam”.