Nobody likes it except that one guy who gets to change the really big clock because they let him swing from all the gears while he does it. The Old Clock Master they call him. He gets up there on those gears and gets to swinging and whooping and he's the only one who likes this.
The wagon isn’t much more spacious inside, it’s the same size car, but it has a roof rack and even a trailer hitch for anything the little 1.8L 4-cylinder can pull 🥰
Last year when my ‘01 Saturn S-series sedan got too rusty underneath to trust on the road, I started haunting Marketplace and replaced it with a ‘97 Saturn S-series wagon (which had spent winters in a barn or in Florida so is decades behind on the rust). There might be a Fit out there for you still.
When I disparage pickup trucks, Rangers and Tacomas and their ilk are exempt. They have to do a lot less work in order to justify their much smaller footprint, and usually they do more.
(My husband asked me out the day we met because I looked interested when he talked about his Dakota 😅)
🍜 new life hack unlocked when i'm debating if i should cook i just go on DoorDash fill my cart with the food i wanted to make then look at order total on checkout screen and suddenly i would rather cook
works bc i think it's wasteful to pay someone else to do something if i can just do it myself
This is genius. Kind of depressing but brilliant.
Book Group The last Thursday of every month was Book Group, when the books would gather together to discuss Brian. “It’s no fun here any more,” remarked Bleak House, glumly. “Why doesn’t he read us?” whined the Grapes of Wrath. “It makes me so angry!” “I’m sure he only bought me so he can show me off to his friends,” complained Ulysses, in a stream of self-consciousness. “I bet he can’t even remember my name, The Idiot,” muttered a voice from the Russian literature section. “That’s because he avoids you like The Plague,” said another. “C’est vrai!” came a cry. “It is like I do not exist.” “Let’s not give up on him yet.” It was Brave New World. After some Persuasion, they agreed to give him one last chance. “Be quiet!” cried Waiting for Godot with Great Expectations. “Here he comes now!” Brian entered the room, with his phone. He sat down and watched some videos of baby pandas falling over. After an hour or so, he started googling cats dressed as celebrities. On the shelf, the books waited with uncracked spines, their silence speaking volumes. Brian Bilston
In celebration of World Book Day, here’s a poem called ‘Book Group’.
exceptions:
Scientists don't want you to know that they're making moonshine with that lab equipment they got you to sign off on
Scientists don't want you to know they aren't wearing trousers on this zoom call
Scientists don't want you to know what they think of you, another scientist
By “foggy” I mean precisely that at first they’re a barely discernible suggestion, getting imperceptibly clearer until suddenly they resolve as whole and solid as if there was never any fog to begin with.
The slow, laborious joy of remembering a song you haven’t thought of in years, piece by piece over the course of a day instead of immediately rushing to look up the lyrics.
I’ve been awash in memories, many unrelated but just as foggy, all night.
I need to give my brain time to work more often.
I don’t have to imagine, John Prine wrote about it youtu.be/OLSGLOLsuTo?...
This makes me miss playing #FindThatLizard back on the old site.
Here’s the admiration your brag was expecting! As a new parent constantly racking my brain for songs I know enough words to sing for the kiddo, the longer the better, I looked up American Pie to try to learn it and had to give up two or three verses in.
The literal genie is a very common trope: when you "make a wish" you get exactly what you wish for.
This is one of the explicit limits on the spell Wish from D&D - often called the most powerful spell in the game because its effect is "make a wish and it comes true."
(this is a thread about tech)
I’m so glad you called out the hexagonal spots in your alt text, otherwise I wouldn’t have zoomed in to appreciate them 🥰
I feel like I’m being called out here (along with most people, really) and instead of getting mad I’m going to try really hard to follow the advice in the reply and become an easier person to get along with.
Reposting because I don’t think I can buy it more than once 😄📚
Two important points:
- NOT looking to argue, just to learn the opinion of anyone who cares to weigh in
- I enjoyed most of the Hyperion Cantos collection I picked up from a book exchange shelf, mostly objecting to the way the sex scenes were written, but I’ve learned I’m not a very critical reader.
I’m curious about your comparison to Philip Pullman. I first read His Dark Materials as a teenager and haven’t reread in years; I’m interested in seeing people’s actual critical opinions outside “zomg life changing and incredible” and “merely picking up these books will guarantee damnation.”
A 1977 executive order mandates federal agencies avoid direct or indirect floodplain development when alternatives exist.
Take your like and get out
There’s a bit like that in Terry Pratchett’s Maskerade, where the famous aria about how hard it is for the hero to leave his lover ends up translating to “this damn door sticks, the sign says pull but maybe it should be marked push.”
I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img
acefoundationict.org
This was running through my head all last week. It lives there rent-free but earns its keep in timeless joy
Screensavers Brick
Pipes
Aquarium
Shifting shapes
Eras
Ok, egg masses like that still give me the creeps, but you’ve lowered the creep factor significantly for me with this post. That’s even better than buying a round of beer!
Turns out you can get past AND future. www.jacquelinestallone.com/rumps.html
Various listings of lava lamps for sale all titled “larva lamp”
