David Seaver

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A little MAD SCIENCE for the weekend, @thephilfoglio.bsky.social ?
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At this point, an action movie gag that would actually impress me would be a multi-vehicle chase in which all parties, by increasingly hilarious maneuvers, manage to not hit any of the usual fruit stalls, stacks of empty boxes, heaps of vegetables, and so forth over the course of five minutes.

They might know about the cartoon version, but the idea of an actual decent-sized wild canid that might wander into town is kinda weird. Like, no, really, much bigger than the foxes that knock over your trash bins.

They have native wolverines in Scandinavia, so I assume that they recognize them there, at least.
And thanks to some bad ideas in the last century, some of Northern Europe also has raccoons. Oops.
It's harder trying to explain to them about coyotes and mountain lions.

Some years ago, I was on the train into San Francisco and another passenger was wearing a shirt that said "Hail Seitan."

Only for food and drink

No need for us to raise a DIN, certainly.

Actually, I expect I'd eat the hell out of that.

I'd be at least a bit more impressed if this was "Why Every Man Should Study Herbie Popnecker."

Philosophy #FAQ Ontology: what the fuck? Causality: why the fuck? Epistemology: how the why the fuck? Phenomenology: the fuck.

Cover of the Marshal Law graphic series collection, by Mills and O'Neill, showing the titular character of this extremely violent 1980s book.

Or indeed this guy

Yep. They may take away my patience, but they will never take my litotes. They'll have to pry it from my mildly cool and devitalized fingers.

There's a thought: with enough flavored syrup, every sidewalk becomes a kind of linear Sno-Cone.
Forget the salt trucks, and bring on the Torani tankers. We'll crowdsource the snow problem.

Similarly, the system I studied in for many years had a technique for countering a rear arms-pinned grab called "Squeezing the Peach."
For several reasons, like not all attackers having nads you can lift them by, it has variant opening grabs, but the name was kept for the overall technique.

Given his oddly piscine appearance, perhaps he was attempting to return to his ancestral waters.

Not helping here may the way the old orthochromatic photo chemistry tended to turn light eyes into pale zombie orbs.

I guess we can look forward to some sort of mutant superhero emerging on the streets of Houston: "The Prawn, armored foe of crime and Old Bay seasoning."

I enjoy this sort of music, but I can't help thinking my Norwegian grandmother, a society dame from Oslo that would have given Bertie Wooster the fear, would have hated it. Imagine someone from New York's "400," and how they might regard fiddles and banjos.

That sounds like one of those questions that make the entire pub go suddenly silent.

Since I've known dudes who did things like outlaw bareknuckle fighting and old-school full-contact martial arts bouts, I can definitely say that a lot of impacts will absolutely give someone a distinctive look. I'm just not sure it's one most people want. What's with these people?

It's great until they stick you with the bill.

🚨 Breaking news in Epstein Case 🚨 The New Mexico Legislature has passed HR1 to convene a Truth Commission and investigate Epstein’s crimes in NM, including at Zorro Ranch—led by State Reps Andrea Romero and Marianna Anaya.

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To be fair, the average dictionary is unlikely to contain the word. You need to refer to a Brontësaurus.

The Cramps' cover of "The Crusher" is a real improvement on the original, as far as I'm concerned.
On the other hand, both the Eno original and the Bauhaus cover of "Third Uncle" are killers.

I can now look forward to seeing ads for audiophile-grade mud.

Probably water mains access. There's a string of them in my part of Sunnyvale along the southern branch of the Hetch-Hetchy system.

Wallace wearing the dangerous Techno-Trousers from "Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers."

Presumably, they are now working toward these:

The ICE List

“There were no attacks on members of the KKK—it was a boycott of them in public life, and then slowly the KKK disappeared.

That’s what we’re trying to do here, to allow the public to know which of their neighbours are involved in this.”

– ICE List Founder

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I know there is/was an indoors curling setup somewhere up in Marin County, California. One of the other designers in the same department that I was in used to take off early every couple of weeks to compete there.

Perhaps that's when you add spirits.
I usually pick rum.