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Not a product made of mechanically recovered and processed meat. He/Him
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When I think of it, I associate pine/birch tar/pitch scents pretty strongly with the times we went to visit the rels in Norway when I was growing up. That and tarring my cross-country skis, which was also a bit of a Scandinavian thing.
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Walking home from my workout this morning, I heard the most pathetic little cries. It turned out to be a couple of hawks silhouetted on a power pole against the dawn sky, and sounding absolutely disconsolate. I guess even raptors have those mornings.
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Mignola incorporated a similar legend into an early Hellboy story (I think titled "Wild Hunt").
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If there's one good thing about having bouts of insomnia in this day and age, it's that 3:30 am is a great time to dive down rabbit holes. Last year, I learned so much more about the song "Ça plane pour moi" and its twin "Jet Boy Jet Girl." How did I survive before the Web?
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They get ectoplastics
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IIRC, Lemmy became a roadie for The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and toured as such for a year or so. Supposedly, he and another British roadie were given thank-you gifts by Hendrix: valises full of Sandoz LSD. This sudden influx may be a bit of a hidden variable in the late 60s UK scene.
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I mean, you're going to pay for stuff one way or another. Might as well have some public goods from it. I can remember my dad sardonically remarking about the fact that my Norwegian uncle Per-Olaf liked to complain about his taxes whilst lounging aboard his 12-meter sloop in the Oslofjord.
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Is it just me, or does "Error at Bluesky's End" sound like the title of a well-regarded post-war British novel?
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It's a bit like someone deciding to compose vertically-stacked Garamond. Once that decision gets made, the pooch is screwed.
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Yep. Well said. And it's certainly been a good day to build my personal Block list.
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And I have to assume also that the Biden team has started working the recent SCOTUS ruling into any contingency plans around GOP/MAGA voting or certification interference. We already know those people have disruptive plans, just like Jan6. We don't know what "Dark Brandon" might respond with.
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Judging by the approach to anatomy and proportion, someone trained a Stable Diffusion bot on old Don Martin drawings.
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One of the side-effects of Biden's age may be the ability to think in longer terms than the media and many voters are used to, and I think his team has run with it. Also, they don't telegraph all their moves in advance, a skill which has been uncommon for decades.
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No potatoes, no lefse, AKA the tortilla of the far north.
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Perhaps "And you can put that in your burrito and eat it!" can replace putting it in one's pipe and smoking it. How often does anyone smoke a pipe these days?
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Has the NYT weighed in with any deep and serious thoughts on how this can only be Bad For Biden? That'll put the tin lid on it for me.
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Yep. There's also a traditional American version which requires that I am not only white and male, which I am, but further demands that I live along the Eastern Seaboard and hold to the values of the mid-20th Century, while having great anxiety about them. That can all fuck right off.
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Just read about this campaign:
www.sfgate.com/la/article/s...
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Given that the 19th Century brought sculptors innovations like 3D pantographs and copying lathes, it's hard to guess where people outside of the field will decide to draw a line. In this case, I can only assume some time around Phidias.
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Out here, I've long kept an eye out for the Virtuous Vehicle (used to be a Volvo, now it's a Prius) with "Visualize World Peace," "COEXIST," and other beautiful thoughts. If you're on a bike or motorcycle, or anything at a 4-way stop, these people will straight up kill you without thinking.
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We have such discourse to show you...
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I still find myself doing a version of my late father's measured professorial voice under some circumstances. At times, it has made me the Designated Speaker to the Cops, and it's generally handy for turning down the temperature. In my case, it's also amusingly at odds with my appearance.
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Gonna make my fortune as a ramen bootlegger to the Danes.
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The tonality of Norwegian produces some weird cases as well, at least if you aren't used to tonal languages. One of my native-speaker Mom's favorite examples is "the weather could be worse," which in Norwegian sounds almost like it uses the same word three times, since only the inflections change.
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It's one big part of what makes Wodehouse's Jeeves & Wooster stories work so well. If Bertie ever caught the slightest clue, the stories would no longer work. Lord Emsworth can be argued as a similar case.
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It's in case of ChedderGeddon
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It's probably held as a Strategic Cheese Reserve. Only the gods may know what the strategy is, though.
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I think the epically sweary Mr. Santoro over at the Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't channel on YouTube covered these in at least one or two episodes.
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When I worked for an arborist back in my teens, the boss forbade mirrored sunglasses on the job, because male hummingbirds will absolutely attack their own reflection, and are fast and very pointy.
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Glen Cook's Garrett, P.I. books are set in a fantasy world. There are some laws, although they're a bit arbitrary and mostly about property and inheritance for the rich. The main character is an investigator who is just trying to thread his way through it all, and not get killed by, say, unicorns.
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There is a bit of a Don Martin/Fester and Karbunkle feel to this, at least part of which is the sound effect. The other part is that I am old.
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What are the odds that when they find this dude, it's some conservative "family values" type, and maybe a state legislator? Solid citizen. Former Scoutmaster or football coach.
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There's a classic cocktail called a Monkey Gland, but I doubt that this is it.
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Heh. I still remember being a high school kid in 1980 and getting lectured about how the markets were there to ensure the rational and efficient allocation of capital. Ain't seen that yet. Don't expect to, either.
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I went to gyms for many years, until I stopped and canceled during the lockdown. Since then, I work out outside in the park, with a mix of exercises, and I don't miss the gym anymore.
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You just know that someone is working out a smuggling route to bring this ramen into Denmark clandestinely. Given all the small-time smuggling over the border between Sweden and Norway, maybe a lot of someones. Gonna be a bunch of wood-hulled little trawlers pulling up to the docks at midnight.
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I hope that someone creates four albums of weird art-rock that use these terms, in order, as the track titles.
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I keep thinking that the livestock birthing lube that Mythbusters used repeatedly is inexpensive as a bulk powder, and would make enough goo to douse Farage, his BNP pals, and much of AfD, to the point of looking like an All-Eurofash bukkake-fest.
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I recently found out from a vid by an academic that there are romance novels centered around Amish characters. According to him, these are generally written by Evangelical women who live in strongly Amish regions. That was news to me.
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See, part of my problem with the Cybertruck is that they really, truly, deeply, want to look menacing and badass. But they're so crappy, so awkwardly proportioned, it's like a scrawny 14-year-old heavy metal fan trying to look dangerous. It causes acute second-hand embarrassment.
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RoboGoose. Half Goose. Half Machine. All Bastard.
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Starting with all that late-80s/early-90s Men's Movement Iron John-ass trash, I have stayed as far as I can from anyone who wants to discuss Masculinity, Manliness, or any frickin' thing else along those lines. Don't care what side of the issues they think they're on, it's not my side.
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There was a nice neighborhood Vietnamese place not far from me that had a rep as the place where the old-school Vietnamese mob in this area hung out and did business. Good food, reasonably priced.
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When they get older, you can buy them a bunch of Robert Rankin's novels, many of which feature sprouts. Sometimes in speaking roles.
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There's a nice video featuring an antique humbug roller here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eIa...
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Aaaand there's today's addition to my Block list. Wow, that's some crazy you accidentally attracted. As a real-world lunatic magnet myself, I can only sympathize.
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There's also a lot of simplistic thinking around change. I think we're still seeing the hangover of the psychoanalytic mythos of the 20th Century. The main character is supposed to have a profound, life-changing experience. Fiction as an allegory of therapy.
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"Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose" JBS Haldane
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With what looks like a bonus Leonard Cohen, as well.
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On the one hand, you'd be heading a company with a huge number of fundamental problems. On the other, it would not be hard to be an improvement on Elmo. Axe the Cybertruck, delete any "full-self-driving" tosh, and focus on making a solid mid-price electric sedan.
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