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Chuck, just Chuck

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Retired IT Guy, painter, amateur astronomer, and world traveler. Proud member of Generation Jones. Part-time philosopher, full-time smart-ass. Control is an illusion. Order, our comforting lie. From chaos, through chaos, into chaos, we fly!

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They also don’t know the word “fewer”, apparently.

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I’ve not seen anything serious. I wonder what I’ve missed?

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They’re both Alts of some Russian troll bot.

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Friends will help you move. Best Friends will help you move a body.

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I know it’s not your place to make this call, but isn’t Hubble still useful enough to repair? Could we even attempt it without the Shuttle?

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He was never going to win that seat. Dems in Maryland know how important it is to have as many seats as we can get in the Senate, and we aren’t going to just give it to a Republican because he wasn’t a completely terrible governor.

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Visiting a friend in Finland 5 years ago… We slept in a guest room off his barn, no toilet facilities except in the main house. (“Just use the bushes for #1. Watch out for the moose”) Getting up at 3am to water the bushes, I was surprised at how bright it was outside. I could have read a book.

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Their grilled salmon is great too!

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Sea Baron is my favorite seafood restaurant on the planet!

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The Court is in distress…

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Jason Robards is one of my all time favorites.

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I’ve just begun reading “Empireland” by Sanghera Sathnam, on a recommendation by John Oliver on the WTF podcast. It seems poised to address that, among other things. Could be worth a look.

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I’ll take “I’m not going to retract this obvious lie.”, for $40 Alex.

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Well that just seems ripe for abuse. Another genius move by the Muskoxen.

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Do androids dream of them as well?

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He’s a very stupid man.

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So, um, why are there dead fish in your yard?

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True enough, but it was intended to be the theme song for the movie, which it didn’t actually become, even though it was in the soundtrack.

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No one should care what the NYT says these days, they’ve shown themselves to be in the pockets of big money.

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My ADHD and anxiety were tools I used to build a successful 37 year IT career. But this also came with panic attacks, vomiting in the parking lot, etc Fortunately, I found a great psychologist to help me learn how to turn off the anxiety (mostly, and with the occasional Xanax) when I didn’t need it.

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Not just holding their beer, also wearing their bikini. New spokesmodel?

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Imagine people who’ve never heard of pan au chocolat.

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I’ve named mine “DEA Mobile 4”.

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Google “Melamine Baby Formula” sometime.

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I second this. Lobster bisque and the best grilled salmon I’ve ever eaten.

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Pardon my ignorance, what is an SPX lottery table?

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I wish I had shorted TS when it was near its peak. Almost as much as I wish I had bought Apple when it was at 30.

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I heard that Broop and Hogby ran off together after graduation and now co-manage a Denny’s in Fargo, North Dakota.

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The last one is a scene from the Traveller RPG.

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Cool. My best day so far is about 500 so-so words.

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At some point in the past, someone on this spot said, “Fuck, that was my good tape measure”.

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John Scalzi has an offer you can't refuse:

If Locus hits $75k in funding, he'll write a story just for the fundraiser backers.

<2,000+ words, original, likely this summer & only for the backers, for the 1st year>

C'mon, y'all - this is too good!

igg.me/at/locusmag2024

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Subtitle: “…sacrificed at the altar of avarice and megalomania by the Orange Shitgibbon”

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First time at this game….

Vulture Cinematrix No. 24: Mar 28, 2024

I got 8/9 Correct
Score: 2173

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Play at:
vulture.com/vulturecinem...

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Any Albert Brooks fans out there?

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It does seem a little tangential to the argument.

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I guess some people always have to be the victim, even by proxy.

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That’s funny! Orzo isn’t even rice-shaped, it’s barley-shaped. Orzo is the Italian word for barley.

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