Actually our latest issues with the Turnip in Chief and the period where there was some thought he was an ex turnip made me wonder about a world line where the Point of Divergence was that President Wilsons stroke was a bit more, shall we say fatal. It would take a boatload of research. Assuming the final Oct 2 1919 stroke gets him (probably matters little if it’s the first one in late September 25 its just a week). War is over where are we in negotiations with Germany not to mention the assorted allied powers? I’ll have to think about it.
Aww crap. Far less interesting then mostly just about League of Nations which we pretty much ignored anyhow. S it has to be fatal and sooner to even be of interest.
The difference between ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘Damn, it was true all along’ was 3 months back in 2018. These days it’s more like a week. By November it’s gonna be a day or two.
As long as they keep it at home. Home: Chicago, Detroit, and other liberal enclaves, even Portland downtown. Just stay off of I-5, I-205, I-84, I-405, etc. (Guess where traffic was a PIA yesterday. Knew we should have taken Old Rainer Road instead of hopping back over the Rainer/Longview bridge to grab the freeway coming back from Longbeach. FYI, going back down the coast on hwy 101 wasn’t an option either. (Six hours Eugene, Newport, Astoria/Longbeach on Wednesday. Six hours back via hwy 30, to I-5. It should be 4 hours max.)
Yep. We actually got off I-5 there for bathroom break and food. Got back on after the full freeway merge, to go by the actual work. This was Friday at about 11 AM. Didn’t hit traffic again until I-5, just north of the I-5/I-405 split. Okay through the curves after the two remerge, but just north of where I-205 remerges down until south of the rest area, OMG!!!! There on out traffic was heavy but at least moving. Naturally we get to bail at Beltline. Given 2:00 PM on Friday expected Beltline and Delta to be a PIA, but nope. That was fine. We were so over traffic by then.
Where was summer camp this year?
Have you read about what happened at Jasper, Alberta Canada? 😢😿
We went to Camp Parsons on the Olympic Peninsula (near Brinnon). Overnight at Ashland before the rest of the drive home.
Some of the younger scouts said we should just plow through despite regulations of no more than 10 hours in the car. All of the adults were like, No, there’s a REASON that reg is in place and we are tired!
And yes, I have heard about the fires. Current Northern California fire—the Park Fire—is threatening a council camp that narrowly escaped the Dixie Fire. I have mixed feelings, because the council has put it up for sale because they can’t afford to repair thirty years of deferred maintenance—if a fire takes it out, that’s almost poetic in a horrible sense. (Mind you, the prospective buyer is the local energy company who wants to put up solar on some of the already-cleared land, so a fire might not actually hurt the sales prospects much either.)
“Some of the younger scouts said we should just plow through despite regulations of no more than 10 hours in the car.”
Of coarse not. The scouts weren’t the ones driving. Bet more than a few got some sleep during the drive too. None of the drivers would have, even if you had relief drivers. Because is your drivers and relief drivers are like hubby and I, you have the driver, plus the relief driver is watching out for idiots. It is rare that hubby doesn’t see the idiots move too, but sometimes there are multiple idiots. All it takes for the driver to check rear for clearance to move, and have an idiot 3 or 4 cars in front cause a chain reaction. Or someone to try to crowd into the driver’s defensive space.
Less than 10 hours home from Astoria? Or did you have to take another break?
FYI, there is a road that goes from hwy 30 to Hwy 217 (I think, it has been decades since we’ve taken it). Even Hwy 30 to Hwy 405 would have been better than the mess from Longview south. Don’t know of anything that bypasses the mess caused by 205 remerging with I-5.
I’m pessimistic about winning in November because of fraud but I hope my pessimism is unwarranted. I’d love to see the press suffer like they did on 9 November 2016 for about ten years.
They’re going to fraud even more this time than they did last time. They have to. They know it, we know it, the hamsters that run the internet know it, the commies all over the world salivating for our destruction know it, and the third grade teacher that gave you a C because she had it out for you knows it.
The only problem, for them, is we all lived through the last three plus years. We’re in 2020 part freaking FOUR now. That’s more than a trilogy. This plot arc has worn off its’ welcome. The readers are getting wise.
The problem for us is not just them. The problem for us is the normies think we’re going to win. We need the normies to get off their lazy complacent butts and get to the polls so we can beat the margin of fraud.
This one’s going to get a wee bit tumultuous. Best make sure your local network is solid and your preparations are well thought out.
I feel the same, and all my prayers are that they *can’t* fraud enough, or that they can be fooled into thinking they don’t have to. (I mean. They genuinely thought Hilary was likable enough they didn’t bother to fraud too much, so one can hope and pray they are even more foolishly blind where it comes to Cackles.)
You really start to wonder, don’t you? Because the assumptions they make about people in their reality, and the people I know in my reality … don’t mesh At All.
To be perfectly honest, no. They haven’t. Ever man they’ve ever actually met in person has been completely obliterated in their heads and replaced with the caricature that has been implanted there through gross repetition (education, media, entertainment, social circles, et al.).
They’re also anti-reproduction. That’s why they need your kids. And the illegals. They’re not making any of their own, see.
she was and still is HOT, im more likely to fist bump old DJT than be appalled by his smoking hot model wife, he is popular more and more each day because the establishment and democraps hate him. Im cool with ALL of his haters to go to hell
Sarah, they did this in 2016 if you remember; the “thought” was apparently “Wait until those Christofascist Handmaids Tale fans find out their candidate’s wife is a slut. They’ll run away screaming.”
While I am not a housewife, I *am* Mormon–and I find the idea that Melania once posed nude for something a good deal less offensive than the fact that Kamala is on the verge of getting the highest office in the nation because she gives good head. :/
I don’t know how they do it, but the bookstores are full of them. And have you noticed the amazing shrinkage of the SF/F sections of every store? In some places it’s down to a book case or two.
Personally I write as C.S. Lewis suggested. It might not be deathless prose handed down from Olympus, but least when I’m in charge the story goes the way I want.
Although, sometimes the characters do laugh and point until I fix things. Cheeky.
I usually don’t bother with the dead tree books, but the F&SF bookcase at the Fred Meyer (Kroger) is mostly fantasy, with a selection of SF movie spinoff novels. Been maybe a year (Fred’s revamped the store last summer, and I haven’t ventured into the book section. The dead-tree magazine selection seems much the same as before, though, andit hasn’t been worthwhile in ages.)
There was a comment from some idiot author many years ago–I can’t remember his name, but I recognized it at the time. He apparently said that if you don’t hate your book by the time it’s published you haven’t edited it enough.
It sounds like over-editing, and cutting all the fun out.
Or it could be, “I wrote this ten years ago, and I didn’t sell it until last year, and now I’m a middle-aged writer who has forgotten the person who wrote this thing.”
Oof. Yes. My first shakey steps into the horror field are pretty horrible. Actually, that’s underselling it. They were psycho cringy bloodbaths that relied too much on the ick factor with bad pacing and pretty crap characterization.
On the other hand, there is also stuff you write in a spasm of fifteen minutes or so and go back and say “I wrote that? Really? How they hell can’t I write like that all the time, dammit! It’s actually good!”
Dorothy Sayers in Murder Must Advertise had two copywriters in the agency Lord Peter was investigating. One was a complete cynic, able to write for anything. The other was an earnest fellow who really, deeply believed in the product he was assigned.
And of course the cynic’s copy was much better and sold better than the earnest guy’s earnest testimonials.
Also the one two down from there, about science. My own version: if you can see all the original data, it’s science. If not, it’s a cult.
Another one: if it’s falsifiable, it’s science; if not, it’s religion. This of course explains “climate change” — the earlier “global warming” is falsifiable, as is “global cooling” that preceded it by a few years. But “climate change” is always true and will be so long as climate exists. Ask any dinosaur.
Yes, I’ve heard this. It’s important to complain at least mentally, to point out the injustices and take back some control of the situation, and therefore not to get sucked into some Stockholm Syndrome weirdness to resolve the cognitive or emotional dissonance of your situation.
Some times people are trying for heroic patience, etc., but you don’t necessarily have to go that way to be a good Christian. If you read actual martyr accounts, they sometimes spent a lot of time pointing out everything that was wrong about what was being done to them, the probable bad results for the state persecuting them, the undesirable nature of the acts that their jailers and tormentors were committing, and so on.
And of course, prayer means complaining to the Manager, so you’ve got that outlet too.
I mean…I’ve always been about 95% sure that our Savior referring to human kind as “sheep” in the bible was actually at least half humorous and in no way meant to be flattering, because…have you ever MET a sheep? They are dumbest, unluckiest critters in G-d’s kingdom, excepting perhaps only guinea fowl.
On the other hand, who hasn’t been sitting there talking to the latest sob story of That One Friend who is unlucky in love and KEEPS DOIGN THE SAME STUPID DANG THING EVERY TIME, telling you all about how this time didnt’ work out.
In exactly the same way as the last 45 times.
And if you suggest something like, oh, don’t look at bars/AA mettings/your parole officer’s waiting room/mosh pits for your next date…..
to be honest, I imagine the Author spending much of his time facepalming. He loves us, we are His children…but most of the time we are extremely dumb children…
I expect this is why He gave us toddlers. And then, if we manage to keep them alive through THAT, teenagers. And THEN…young adults, where parents must learn to accept (if they hadn’t already) that their children are individual beings with their own thoughts and they may just take all those painstaking efforts by their parents to instill values/whatever (for good or ill) and throw them away to do their own thing. And that all a loving and sane parent can do is pray that their child someday comes back…
Yeah. Pretty much a microcosm of what our Heavenly Parent deals with for us here in mortality :D
(Also sheep. And I for many years now have been of the opinion that when He refers to us as sheep in the various places in the scriptures…it’s not meant to be all that flattering. For all that sheep are valued and valuable creatures, they are also unbelievably dumb.)
Living in the moment is for our pup friends. And paying attention to the past is not living in it – it’s learning from our unique ability to tell stories about what happened.
TJ: Paw patting mom’s face. “Are you conscious?” Pat, pat, pat, lick. “Pet me mommy!” At OMG thirty in the AM. Note, when it is poke, poke, poke, then I know it is time to clip nails.
Generally can get away with rolling on my side, offering my hand for him to nuzzle, and roll on. Don’t have to actually wake up and pet, usually. Occasionally however he then bites, which means I am not actively participating enough.
I’m not sure if I should be as annoyed as I am about the bronzed image, where someone on the right deliberately erased the woman who was doing her job, and put a man in her place instead.
I mean, whatever you think about women being part of the Secret Service, one was, and she was doing exactly what the guy in the bronze is doing.
If doing that was the right thing to do in the situation, what does anyone gain by erasing the woman who actually did it, just because you think women shouldn’t be in the Secret Service?
Looks like they masculinized the face. It still looks like her, I agree. The hands are the same. I think it looks more masculine primarilly because the artist made her head larger than everyone else’s, but that may be a matter of perspective.
Angry Drill Sergeant provides a heartwarming message of unity in this video.
His comment is that whatever you military or ex-military look like or have between your legs, you all messed up during basic training, and your skills stunk.
This leads me to believe that, should humanity get into the great beyond, meet with other intelligent species, and recruit them into our military, that drill sergeants will be able to find this point of commonality with the little green aliens, the Klingons, the Vulcans, and everybody else.
”Your noncompliance with my clear explicit instructions is not logical. Drop and give me 50, then assume forward leaning rest until ordered otherwise.”
In other news, after the hideous/blasphemous opening ceremonies at the Olympics, Paris has suffered a massive power failure and the only thing lit for miles is the Sacre- Cour Basilica.
Even if this is because they have a backup generator (and I have no idea if they do), we are being presented once again with an example of Himself’s sense of humor.
I think the author is involved here. The Sacre Coeur was built in the stronghold of the Communards in expiation after all. They give all sorts of explanations, which are mostly true about Montmartre being visible and all, but devotion to the Sacred Heart in France at the time it was built was most definitely anti Communard. Anti-Revolution in fact going back to the Vendee and Chouans whose badge it was. very politically loaded is the Sacred Heart in France. I’m continually surprised they haven’t torn the Basilica down.
‘Tis the Batmobile, from the 1960s TV series. You can see a bat logo on the front door, but it is pretty indistinct. Plus I do think it’s missing a couple of its proper accoutrements.
Just to make you feel better, though, I’m not quite read in on the significance of the black Impala mentioned above.
Ah, okay. No, I could not in fact see the symbol on the door–it just looks like a faint orange blur in the photo. And while I did watch some of the Adam West series, the last time I saw an episode was in, oh, 1991 or so. I appreciate Adam West and his genius, but I was never a huge fan of the campy version of Batman. (Don’t dislike him, don’t get me wrong, just not my cup of tea. I grew up on the noir animated series :D)
Oh, and the black Impala: that is the beloved car of Dean Winchester who, with his younger brother Sam, travel the back roads of America putting down ghosts, monsters, and other supernatural nasties.
(I still like season 1 the best, because they hadn’t thrown all in behind the overarching apocalyptic storyline yet, and the takes on urban legends and campfire ghost stories was fun.)
Ugh. Is there any better example of “smug, obnoxious elitist” than Mitt Romney?? I already like JD Vance, Hairgel, you don’t have to convince me further. (Because at this point? Dude, you’re so spineless that if they reintroduced the Mormon Extermination order tomorrow, I wouldn’t trust you to oppose it, even though you are also Mormon…)
I’m just glad I’ll never live anywhere I might have to sustain him as a bishop or stake president (or rather, object to it, since that is most definitely an option, heh)
Actually, just because you can question something doesn’t make it science. There’s a whole lot of questionable bullshit in this world, and most of it ain’t science.
That meme where the voter cat’s face is being shoved into a bowl of mush, the ‘Democrat establishment’ should be a raccoon. Or maybe a howler monkey. :-P
According To Hoyt 
Too much truth in that last one, I say.
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A little too much truth in the DnD one too…
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This absolutely this.
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Which universe did I wake up in this morning?
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The wrong one. It’s been the wrong one since 2020.
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You’re off by years. Or decades. Or … hm, now I want to see the timeline where Franz Ferdinand’s driver didn’t take the wrong turn.
Then again, we could be in the timeline where Thomas Crooks’s aim was an inch to the right. We wouldn’t be making jokes about memes in that one.
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Actually our latest issues with the Turnip in Chief and the period where there was some thought he was an ex turnip made me wonder about a world line where the Point of Divergence was that President Wilsons stroke was a bit more, shall we say fatal. It would take a boatload of research. Assuming the final Oct 2 1919 stroke gets him (probably matters little if it’s the first one in late September 25 its just a week). War is over where are we in negotiations with Germany not to mention the assorted allied powers? I’ll have to think about it.
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The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919.
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Aww crap. Far less interesting then mostly just about League of Nations which we pretty much ignored anyhow. S it has to be fatal and sooner to even be of interest.
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On the other hand, it very easily could have been fatal and sooner, so you can still use that as a divergence.
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Yet another interesting idea shot to hell by historical reality. Darn you Clio!!!
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Eh, like Tom Simon said: just have the stroke happen sooner, and be fatal :D
Certainly, we’d all be better off if that had been the LEAST that happened to Woodrow Wilson…
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It was a nice planet, until the monkeys started playing with fire.
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I woke up on the wrong side of bedlam …
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we all did.
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The difference between ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘Damn, it was true all along’ was 3 months back in 2018. These days it’s more like a week. By November it’s gonna be a day or two.
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Keep up your sense of humor folks.
When we win in November, they will lose their (dookie) and engage in an epic tantrum of vile but futile acts.
And if somehow they fraud themselves another “win”, you are going to need that bent sense humor, Joker style, for your responses.
(Ceasar Romero Joker cackle!)
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(Grin)
Naw, Fred. JK. You looked like you needed some hope. So of course I yanked it out from under you.
(Grin)
(CRJ cackle!)
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As long as they keep it at home. Home: Chicago, Detroit, and other liberal enclaves, even Portland downtown. Just stay off of I-5, I-205, I-84, I-405, etc. (Guess where traffic was a PIA yesterday. Knew we should have taken Old Rainer Road instead of hopping back over the Rainer/Longview bridge to grab the freeway coming back from Longbeach. FYI, going back down the coast on hwy 101 wasn’t an option either. (Six hours Eugene, Newport, Astoria/Longbeach on Wednesday. Six hours back via hwy 30, to I-5. It should be 4 hours max.)
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We were driving down from summer camp on Saturday through there. Seven miles of backup in Longview for the loss of one lane. Learn to drive, people!
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Yep. We actually got off I-5 there for bathroom break and food. Got back on after the full freeway merge, to go by the actual work. This was Friday at about 11 AM. Didn’t hit traffic again until I-5, just north of the I-5/I-405 split. Okay through the curves after the two remerge, but just north of where I-205 remerges down until south of the rest area, OMG!!!! There on out traffic was heavy but at least moving. Naturally we get to bail at Beltline. Given 2:00 PM on Friday expected Beltline and Delta to be a PIA, but nope. That was fine. We were so over traffic by then.
Where was summer camp this year?
Have you read about what happened at Jasper, Alberta Canada? 😢😿
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We went to Camp Parsons on the Olympic Peninsula (near Brinnon). Overnight at Ashland before the rest of the drive home.
Some of the younger scouts said we should just plow through despite regulations of no more than 10 hours in the car. All of the adults were like, No, there’s a REASON that reg is in place and we are tired!
And yes, I have heard about the fires. Current Northern California fire—the Park Fire—is threatening a council camp that narrowly escaped the Dixie Fire. I have mixed feelings, because the council has put it up for sale because they can’t afford to repair thirty years of deferred maintenance—if a fire takes it out, that’s almost poetic in a horrible sense. (Mind you, the prospective buyer is the local energy company who wants to put up solar on some of the already-cleared land, so a fire might not actually hurt the sales prospects much either.)
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Of coarse not. The scouts weren’t the ones driving. Bet more than a few got some sleep during the drive too. None of the drivers would have, even if you had relief drivers. Because is your drivers and relief drivers are like hubby and I, you have the driver, plus the relief driver is watching out for idiots. It is rare that hubby doesn’t see the idiots move too, but sometimes there are multiple idiots. All it takes for the driver to check rear for clearance to move, and have an idiot 3 or 4 cars in front cause a chain reaction. Or someone to try to crowd into the driver’s defensive space.
Less than 10 hours home from Astoria? Or did you have to take another break?
FYI, there is a road that goes from hwy 30 to Hwy 217 (I think, it has been decades since we’ve taken it). Even Hwy 30 to Hwy 405 would have been better than the mess from Longview south. Don’t know of anything that bypasses the mess caused by 205 remerging with I-5.
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Ashland, not Astoria. Other end of the state. ;)
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Misread. Took Ashland for Astoria since we were just there, twice (going up/coming back), last week.
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I’m pessimistic about winning in November because of fraud but I hope my pessimism is unwarranted. I’d love to see the press suffer like they did on 9 November 2016 for about ten years.
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same same.
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They’re going to fraud even more this time than they did last time. They have to. They know it, we know it, the hamsters that run the internet know it, the commies all over the world salivating for our destruction know it, and the third grade teacher that gave you a C because she had it out for you knows it.
The only problem, for them, is we all lived through the last three plus years. We’re in 2020 part freaking FOUR now. That’s more than a trilogy. This plot arc has worn off its’ welcome. The readers are getting wise.
The problem for us is not just them. The problem for us is the normies think we’re going to win. We need the normies to get off their lazy complacent butts and get to the polls so we can beat the margin of fraud.
This one’s going to get a wee bit tumultuous. Best make sure your local network is solid and your preparations are well thought out.
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I feel the same, and all my prayers are that they *can’t* fraud enough, or that they can be fooled into thinking they don’t have to. (I mean. They genuinely thought Hilary was likable enough they didn’t bother to fraud too much, so one can hope and pray they are even more foolishly blind where it comes to Cackles.)
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The Democrats are posting a nude picture of Melania Trump because they believe it will somehow help them ‘win’ the election.
Please, everybody on both sides, for the sake of sanity and eye bleach, DO NOT post any nude pictures of Kackling Kamela and [gag] Hillary!!
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And if you do have the misfortune to see such, the appropriate response/reply is:
“Dude(tte), you’re squicking the furries!”
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”Trumps main voter base is men – let’s post nudes of his smoking hot model wife, that will reduce their will to vote for him!”
”Have you ever actually met any men?”
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You really start to wonder, don’t you? Because the assumptions they make about people in their reality, and the people I know in my reality … don’t mesh At All.
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no offense to our host but the crazy cat lady thing kinda rings true for democrats, even for democrat “men” if you can call them that
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Why expect the Donkuloids to change?
“Jackass: The Party”
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Oh no, an image of a beautiful woman. Naked. Anything but that. ;-)
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”Oh, no, don’t post another one! Or three!!”
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To be perfectly honest, no. They haven’t. Ever man they’ve ever actually met in person has been completely obliterated in their heads and replaced with the caricature that has been implanted there through gross repetition (education, media, entertainment, social circles, et al.).
They’re also anti-reproduction. That’s why they need your kids. And the illegals. They’re not making any of their own, see.
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((“Warning: cognitive hazard!” sign))
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And, to be 100% clear — referring above to the very idea of barenaked pictures of either K. Harris or H. Clinton.
EEeuww!
Give me the Demonic Calendar Models, with clothes, any day…
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Well, that would be one way to blackmail the nation (or get the Right on the side of internet censorship) real quick.
“Vote for me or I’ll post nude pictures of Hitlery to your timeline! Cickle-cackle!”
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Missing: “Unconstrained Murphy” (hat tip Ian Bruene) and “Psi Hazard” (I’ve got a symbol for that that I need to clean up and publish).
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Sometimes I think I need to have that on a shirt for when someone seems utterly unable to comprehend things. Simple things. Simple things for ox.
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she was and still is HOT, im more likely to fist bump old DJT than be appalled by his smoking hot model wife, he is popular more and more each day because the establishment and democraps hate him. Im cool with ALL of his haters to go to hell
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The what? Like anyone cares. Besides, even as completely straight as I am, the woman is pretty….
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Sarah, they did this in 2016 if you remember; the “thought” was apparently “Wait until those Christofascist Handmaids Tale fans find out their candidate’s wife is a slut. They’ll run away screaming.”
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I don’t think anybody on our side is obsessed with that tawdry book. But then Leftroids are always projecting their fetishes at everybody else.
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Dems/left have adopted the color blue (to avoid being tagged Communist red, and making Rep/right get “ironically” stuck with it). And.. Leftroids.
Now things are making an iota, just an iota, more sense:
BLUE LEFTROIDS!
It really IS an alien invasion.
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Fifty Shades of Red, White, and Blue.
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I know.
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If “the religion of ‘peace’” does exactly the same thing as that book, does that make them peace-o-fascists? Asking for a friend…
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“Rag-heads”
“Those are SHEETS, not rags!”
“Very well, SHEET-heads!”
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Noggin-Diapers
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To me they look like tablecloths or dishrags.
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There was some thought that it might bend things a bit with the Morman housewives.
I think housewives are pretty oriented to prices of goods they buy often.
I’m also wondering how much important ‘skin mag, decades ago’ is where the transing now is concerned.
I would be pretty surprised if the Morman housewife demographic has a very significant level of involve with the mechanics of fraud in general.
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While I am not a housewife, I *am* Mormon–and I find the idea that Melania once posed nude for something a good deal less offensive than the fact that Kamala is on the verge of getting the highest office in the nation because she gives good head. :/
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‘Twould be even worse if she got there by giving lousy, or just mediocre head, though. :-P
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Welllllll….given who it is….it might very well be!! :p (I gather some men out there aren’t picky. I half suspect Willie Brown was one of them.)
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You. Had. To. Go. There.
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I can think of worse than those two. Madeline Allbright and the Skeksis* who was part of the white house press ghouls come to mind.
((*)) Name deleted from memory. There’s an advantage to advanced age. :)
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And we’re showing it… If we’re playing old fart one-upmanship, though – Bella Abzug.
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I have been terrible at remembering names for many decades, but it’s a wee bit harder now. Point to Writing Observer.
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…I mean, I’m a straight woman, but Melania Trump nude would be an INCENTIVE even for me :p
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Same.
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Write the kind of books you like to read…
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Why would you write a book you wouldn’t want to read? And how could you hold your nose long enough to write it? :-P
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People do it all the time for $.
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And because what I really wanted to read made trad pub run screaming.
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True then, true now. How much market share is trad pub these days? Compared to thirty years ago? Heh.
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I don’t know how they do it, but the bookstores are full of them. And have you noticed the amazing shrinkage of the SF/F sections of every store? In some places it’s down to a book case or two.
Personally I write as C.S. Lewis suggested. It might not be deathless prose handed down from Olympus, but least when I’m in charge the story goes the way I want.
Although, sometimes the characters do laugh and point until I fix things. Cheeky.
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I usually don’t bother with the dead tree books, but the F&SF bookcase at the Fred Meyer (Kroger) is mostly fantasy, with a selection of SF movie spinoff novels. Been maybe a year (Fred’s revamped the store last summer, and I haven’t ventured into the book section. The dead-tree magazine selection seems much the same as before, though, andit hasn’t been worthwhile in ages.)
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Mostly because the books I want to read — I mean really want to read, not “okay, I’ll read” — are WEIRD
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There was a comment from some idiot author many years ago–I can’t remember his name, but I recognized it at the time. He apparently said that if you don’t hate your book by the time it’s published you haven’t edited it enough.
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It sounds like over-editing, and cutting all the fun out.
Or it could be, “I wrote this ten years ago, and I didn’t sell it until last year, and now I’m a middle-aged writer who has forgotten the person who wrote this thing.”
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That happens A LOT.
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Happens with programmers too.
I found a printout of a program I wrote 30 years ago. Didn’t even recognize the language at first.
(Turned out to be a VAX DCL script to generate reports that IT wanted to charge our department 20K to do in C…)
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Oof. Yes. My first shakey steps into the horror field are pretty horrible. Actually, that’s underselling it. They were psycho cringy bloodbaths that relied too much on the ick factor with bad pacing and pretty crap characterization.
On the other hand, there is also stuff you write in a spasm of fifteen minutes or so and go back and say “I wrote that? Really? How they hell can’t I write like that all the time, dammit! It’s actually good!”
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Arthur Conan Doyle did it for money. It’s really sad when a writer’s hackwork is more genius than what he put his heart in.
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I wonder if it’s one of those cases of really caring how it turns out interferes with the quality of the product.
Like those times when it’s easier to do a project because you are sleep-deprived and your higher brain functions aren’t interfering with the work.
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Dorothy Sayers in Murder Must Advertise had two copywriters in the agency Lord Peter was investigating. One was a complete cynic, able to write for anything. The other was an earnest fellow who really, deeply believed in the product he was assigned.
And of course the cynic’s copy was much better and sold better than the earnest guy’s earnest testimonials.
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Just remember you ASKED for it.
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Not awake enough to make either an intelligent comment or a funny comment.
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Drak. Stop yawning. you have the flame on. You’re making searing commentary.
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Sarah, I’m keeping my flames elsewhere and that place deserves the flames.
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The #LetsGoBrandon flag at half mast is peak meme. I laughed out loud. Genius!
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Sound track: a really good bugler’s rendition of “Taps”.
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Played on a kazoo.
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Or a cheap penny whistle. Both work.
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c4c
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+1 on the Polyarmory!
Also, from back in my active SCUBA days:
“When a six foot-long eel sinks its teeth in your heel, that’s a Moray”.
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Polyarmory, yes indeed, I liked that one.
Also the one two down from there, about science. My own version: if you can see all the original data, it’s science. If not, it’s a cult.
Another one: if it’s falsifiable, it’s science; if not, it’s religion. This of course explains “climate change” — the earlier “global warming” is falsifiable, as is “global cooling” that preceded it by a few years. But “climate change” is always true and will be so long as climate exists. Ask any dinosaur.
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If it’s testable and repeatable? Science. If it works by faith and “consensus”? Religion. If it works by “believe what we tell you!”? Politics.
Real science is boring to non-scientists 99% of the time. I write fake science (fiction!) because it’s entertaining.
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In Honor to Cameltoe’s heritage can we name her mouth the Black Hole of Calcutta?
Or should it be the Willie Brown Hole of Calcutta?
Just asking.
Yes I am going to hell, but I am laughing and screaming the whole way…
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That Rolling Stones logo from the 70s is just sitting there….
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“If you stick your hand in a crack and you get nothing back, that’s a Moray”
Also SFBS
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I’m sensing something fishy about the comments today.
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Also catty? :-P
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Get reel.
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I am reminded of some “PW Resistance” training, where the instructor was a former guest of the VC and NVA.
Humor is essential to survival. Mock the enemy. Relentlessly. Even if you dare not say it aloud, always remember them by an abusive nickname.
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Yes, I’ve heard this. It’s important to complain at least mentally, to point out the injustices and take back some control of the situation, and therefore not to get sucked into some Stockholm Syndrome weirdness to resolve the cognitive or emotional dissonance of your situation.
Some times people are trying for heroic patience, etc., but you don’t necessarily have to go that way to be a good Christian. If you read actual martyr accounts, they sometimes spent a lot of time pointing out everything that was wrong about what was being done to them, the probable bad results for the state persecuting them, the undesirable nature of the acts that their jailers and tormentors were committing, and so on.
And of course, prayer means complaining to the Manager, so you’ve got that outlet too.
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I mean…I’ve always been about 95% sure that our Savior referring to human kind as “sheep” in the bible was actually at least half humorous and in no way meant to be flattering, because…have you ever MET a sheep? They are dumbest, unluckiest critters in G-d’s kingdom, excepting perhaps only guinea fowl.
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On the other hand, who hasn’t been sitting there talking to the latest sob story of That One Friend who is unlucky in love and KEEPS DOIGN THE SAME STUPID DANG THING EVERY TIME, telling you all about how this time didnt’ work out.
In exactly the same way as the last 45 times.
And if you suggest something like, oh, don’t look at bars/AA mettings/your parole officer’s waiting room/mosh pits for your next date…..
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my mom’s brother: the madhouse outpatient treatment waiting room…. No, really.
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to be honest, I imagine the Author spending much of his time facepalming. He loves us, we are His children…but most of the time we are extremely dumb children…
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Toddlers. In the Happy Suicidal Years.
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Infuriatingly so.
“Don’t do that. You’ll get hurt. Don’t do that, you’ll get hurt. DON’TDOTHATYOU’LLGET-”
:DOES THAT:
:GETS HURT:
:WHINES ABOUT IT:
Himself: /sigh
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I expect this is why He gave us toddlers. And then, if we manage to keep them alive through THAT, teenagers. And THEN…young adults, where parents must learn to accept (if they hadn’t already) that their children are individual beings with their own thoughts and they may just take all those painstaking efforts by their parents to instill values/whatever (for good or ill) and throw them away to do their own thing. And that all a loving and sane parent can do is pray that their child someday comes back…
Yeah. Pretty much a microcosm of what our Heavenly Parent deals with for us here in mortality :D
(Also sheep. And I for many years now have been of the opinion that when He refers to us as sheep in the various places in the scriptures…it’s not meant to be all that flattering. For all that sheep are valued and valuable creatures, they are also unbelievably dumb.)
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If you can’t find something to laugh about it, you ain’t right.
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Do you think they were posted for the halibut?
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Do too many of those and you’re gonna need a sturgeon.
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that last one,
yea, the past is so much better.
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Living in the future, also an option.
Even “the way the future was”.
(See — SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully returns to flight!)
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Living in the moment is for our pup friends. And paying attention to the past is not living in it – it’s learning from our unique ability to tell stories about what happened.
Living in the future is what hoomans do.
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This seems apropos.
https://www.gocomics.com/pickles/2024/07/26
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good one. 😎🤙🏻
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Hm. Do you think *all* Facebook fact checkers are transvestites?
Someone with greater meme skills than me should add the fact check panel to that one. “False News. Not all Facebook fact checkers are cross dressers.”
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Some go with standard FBI civilian wear that their superiors in Washington DC require them to wear.
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*Cackles*
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Pretty much:
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You know CS it’s rude to have cameras in my bedroom!
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0530 Jace “Are you awake yet? Because I’m awake and dying of neglect and pet me are you awake?
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Life imitating art? Reminds me of Tay and Lelia…..
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TJ: Paw patting mom’s face. “Are you conscious?” Pat, pat, pat, lick. “Pet me mommy!” At OMG thirty in the AM. Note, when it is poke, poke, poke, then I know it is time to clip nails.
Generally can get away with rolling on my side, offering my hand for him to nuzzle, and roll on. Don’t have to actually wake up and pet, usually. Occasionally however he then bites, which means I am not actively participating enough.
Dang cat.
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I’m not sure if I should be as annoyed as I am about the bronzed image, where someone on the right deliberately erased the woman who was doing her job, and put a man in her place instead.
I mean, whatever you think about women being part of the Secret Service, one was, and she was doing exactly what the guy in the bronze is doing.
If doing that was the right thing to do in the situation, what does anyone gain by erasing the woman who actually did it, just because you think women shouldn’t be in the Secret Service?
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Did they? As near as I can tell, the hair bun is still there, and the face looks about the same.
The “iconic” Trump fist pump photo, explained by an expert – Vox
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Yeah, I think the bronze effect just did a lousy job with her.
Unfortunately one also sees this in real life, with bronze statues done by sculptors who don’t understand the medium.
https://www.businessinsider.com/bad-statues-celebrities-figures-cristiano-ronaldo-2018-7
Look at that terrible likeness of Lucille Ball. Geez, you can tell it’s a human but not much more.
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The head wouldn’t be a bad caricature of Andy Griffith.
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Looks like they masculinized the face. It still looks like her, I agree. The hands are the same. I think it looks more masculine primarilly because the artist made her head larger than everyone else’s, but that may be a matter of perspective.
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My initial guess was somebody asked an AI image thingy to make that photo as a statue in bronze.
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It’s the woman. Just weirdly rendered. Pony tail.
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‘When you swim in the sea
And an eel bites your knee,
That’s a Moray.”
Dad at the window reminds me
I used to smoke Marlboros, and sometimes Winstons, but hardly ever a lot of Salems.
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I wanna see this movie!
https://tinyurl.com/ycxjhn2k
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So does Gojira not need a back plate in that plate carrier, or does he have a split one on either side of the spines?
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Doesn’t Godzilla’s atomic breath make having a gun obsolete?
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Area weapon, versus the selectivity of a good rifle.
Go! Go! Godzilla!
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Oh, no!
There goes Tokyo!
Godzilla!
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Angry Drill Sergeant provides a heartwarming message of unity in this video.
His comment is that whatever you military or ex-military look like or have between your legs, you all messed up during basic training, and your skills stunk.
This leads me to believe that, should humanity get into the great beyond, meet with other intelligent species, and recruit them into our military, that drill sergeants will be able to find this point of commonality with the little green aliens, the Klingons, the Vulcans, and everybody else.
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Vulcan Drill Sgt.:
”Your noncompliance with my clear explicit instructions is not logical. Drop and give me 50, then assume forward leaning rest until ordered otherwise.”
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Hey Drill! Square away that soup strainer pronto.
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From The Notebooks of Kamala Harris (first entry): “To get ahead in politics, you must first give a lot of head.”
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Too coherent and concrete. It lacks the pseudo-profundity of the significance of the passage of time, or the burden of what has been.
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“Winning sucks.”
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Shouldn’t that be “Sucking wins”? :-P
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…
In mine the first word modifies the second.
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What about Karl Urban in the Chronicles of Riddick? Look at his hair there!
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In other news, after the hideous/blasphemous opening ceremonies at the Olympics, Paris has suffered a massive power failure and the only thing lit for miles is the Sacre- Cour Basilica.
Even if this is because they have a backup generator (and I have no idea if they do), we are being presented once again with an example of Himself’s sense of humor.
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Now the Author is just getting cheesy.
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It’s probably terrorists, or a country that doesn’t like France, or possibly some kind of strike with teeth.
But if it’s an act of God… well, they did kinda ask for it.
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Could be just a result of their ‘green energy’ crapping out, like it did in Texas a few years ago.
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Snowvid ’21, and the most recent hurricane, and …
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I think the author is involved here. The Sacre Coeur was built in the stronghold of the Communards in expiation after all. They give all sorts of explanations, which are mostly true about Montmartre being visible and all, but devotion to the Sacred Heart in France at the time it was built was most definitely anti Communard. Anti-Revolution in fact going back to the Vendee and Chouans whose badge it was. very politically loaded is the Sacred Heart in France. I’m continually surprised they haven’t torn the Basilica down.
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Himself is putting the thumb on the scales again, isn’t he?
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To be fair, Himself is the only one I want putting the thumb on the scales.
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All it lacks is as black Impala, and you’d know Armageddon was upon us: :D
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lol I love this picture
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Okay, I’m not sure on the orange and black one. Knight Rider…?
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[sigh] Kids these days.
‘Tis the Batmobile, from the 1960s TV series. You can see a bat logo on the front door, but it is pretty indistinct. Plus I do think it’s missing a couple of its proper accoutrements.
Just to make you feel better, though, I’m not quite read in on the significance of the black Impala mentioned above.
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Ah, okay. No, I could not in fact see the symbol on the door–it just looks like a faint orange blur in the photo. And while I did watch some of the Adam West series, the last time I saw an episode was in, oh, 1991 or so. I appreciate Adam West and his genius, but I was never a huge fan of the campy version of Batman. (Don’t dislike him, don’t get me wrong, just not my cup of tea. I grew up on the noir animated series :D)
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Oh, and the black Impala: that is the beloved car of Dean Winchester who, with his younger brother Sam, travel the back roads of America putting down ghosts, monsters, and other supernatural nasties.
(I still like season 1 the best, because they hadn’t thrown all in behind the overarching apocalyptic storyline yet, and the takes on urban legends and campfire ghost stories was fun.)
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The color is not so great, but it’s a bat-car.
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This:
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And couldn’t we at least get some as smart as Mortimer Snerd?
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Q: What is the difference between Vaudeville and Washington?
A: In Vaudeville, one ventriloquist uses multiple dummies; in Washington there are multiple ventriloquists all using the same dummy.
So Biden isn’t really schizophrenic, it’s just different ventriloquists.
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A couple from Powerline that deserve sharing:
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canceled. Powerline disallows hotlinks.
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What about cold links?
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Found an alternate source for one of them:
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…you know, I didn’t know it would cause a controlled derailment, but I did actually suggest that version when the thought problem was brought up.
It really pisses people off when you refuse to make the false choice they created.
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Donation fraud…. again.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/07/28/actblue-cheating-n2398948
We deserve what we’re getting. Good and hard.
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No. We don’t. What can an individual do right now? Seriously. The institutions were taken before you and I were BORN.
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VileProgs cheating on an epic scale. And in other news, water is wet.
Which confirms that they don’t think either their candidate or their ideas can win on merit.
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The Bee nails it again:
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No matter how much you hate the tech oligarchy, it’s not enough:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTmZKS5XkAAoxh5?format=jpg
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Ugh. Is there any better example of “smug, obnoxious elitist” than Mitt Romney?? I already like JD Vance, Hairgel, you don’t have to convince me further. (Because at this point? Dude, you’re so spineless that if they reintroduced the Mormon Extermination order tomorrow, I wouldn’t trust you to oppose it, even though you are also Mormon…)
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He’d probably be out there, defending how it made sense.
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Undoubtedly.
I’m just glad I’ll never live anywhere I might have to sustain him as a bishop or stake president (or rather, object to it, since that is most definitely an option, heh)
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Actually, just because you can question something doesn’t make it science. There’s a whole lot of questionable bullshit in this world, and most of it ain’t science.
That meme where the voter cat’s face is being shoved into a bowl of mush, the ‘Democrat establishment’ should be a raccoon. Or maybe a howler monkey. :-P
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In other news, Trump’s assassination photo is “altered”.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/07/29/big-techs-efforts-to-make-attempted-trump-assassination-go-away-continue-facebook-trump-pic-n2399001
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Also there is this:
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/07/29/elon-musk-gavin-newsom-n2398984
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And the quote tweets are almost as good.
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OTOH, Elon Musk is a national treasure.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/07/29/elon-musk-gavin-newsom-n2398984
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Right?
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