Took the family to Uncannyland. Really got our money's worth. The 'Menu'-themed restaurant had a Ralph Fiennes chef character with a huge head. We didn't die but we did get food poisoning. The Ex Machina Hotel seemed OK until they locked us in our rooms. We rode the Human Centipede too. WEIRD.
NYT Spelling B 3-6
Full field fiddle duel!
If I lie, I die!
Fidel fell ill (flu.)
Deluded, Leif piddled, diddled; fled, pelf duffle.
Lil (pupil), filled edified; lipped duple fife.
Eluded defiled epee! “Piffle!”, Lil puffed.
“I peddle deep, filled up life!”
Defied!
Fiddled, fifed, deified upfield!
It's always time for whatever your cat says it's time for.
We think interesting things boring and boring things interesting.
We think wealthy people really do work that hard.
We think crooks are honest and honest people are crooks.
We don't work to understand systems. Who does make the effort: those trying to run the systems and those trying to break them.
Yiff is a word disliked by dry cleaners in cities with convention halls.
The ending of Chinatown, Jack Nicholson's friend telling him "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."
Forget it, Jake. It's behind the toilet.
NYT Spelling Bee poem, March 5, 2026
Lorca, jocular: Roll, Cujo!
Cujo: Culo rojo, rural raja!
Lorca: Collar, Cujo?
Cujo: Oral croc, Ur-jarl! Calor.
Lorca, oracular: Cujo, arc a jacula,
corral accrual.
Cujo: A loll, a lull… a carol, a Jura coral.
Lorca: Ocular ajar! A cull!
Cujo: Loco, Lorca! Loco!
I started to google "rough men stand ready" and I realized that phrase might lead to... interesting... results.
2.) I'd say, however, if you won't defend democracy everywhere, you probably won't defend it anywhere in the long run. So those dominoes are mostly the real thing.
1.) Domino theory, closely related to the slippery slope argument, can be considered a kind of fallacy simply because it's not generally true. SOME dominoes really are lined up; SOME slopes really are slippery. But you have to look at the specific cases to judge the truth.
Rip Torn has ripped and torn grown men for less than that.
Nobody ever wants to come out to my isolated cabin and see the crawlspace. What am I doing wrong?
A female comedian on Youtube pointed out that although she is attracted to men, men are not attractive. Even a hetero woman knows women dress better and are easier on the eyes. Nobody ever swivels their head so fast it hurts their neck when an overweight guy in a t shirt and a trucker cap walks by.
Foot fetish cult episode of Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell. Gary The Demon sits on a gold-plated foot-shaped throne in a heavenly afterlife, wearing a saffron tunic. Because of his tiny, perfect feet, he has been designated the High Heel by the cult leader who is humping his foot and also wearing a saffron tunic. Two beautiful women stand at each side wearing tight-fitting light-pink dresses and a crown of flowers. Floating in midair in the background are various shoes and boots..
Foot worship is the next big thing!
Sadly licks fingers and tries to imagine the chip dust. (shnif)
If you start sucking on the tube and it makes a hubbly-bubbly sound, it just might be a cleverly disguised travel bong.
Illustration from the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series, by Stephen Gammell. In monochrome pencil or ink, an enormous skullfaced head in profile, smoking a pipe, emerges from the soil between a tumbledown house and a pair of gravestones under a full moon.
Well, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark has this graveyard-hillside-head-skull-guy smokin da hasheesh.
If mayonnaise is outlawed, only outlaws will have mayonnaise.
NYT Spell B 3-4-26
An intent genet, citing Genet:
“I effect tine igniting engine.”
Fine fennec: “Fit it in netting tent?”
Genet: “Nineteen feet.”
Fennec: “Ten cent inciting intent.”
Genet: “Nine in ten. Net infinite.”
Fennec: “Infecting tinge?”
Genet: “Feign genetic ginning, etc.”
Fennec: “Nice.”
If he's not the Antichrist, he's close enough for practical purposes.
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When the cheap seats were, ya know, cheap.
The Beatles' last concert was at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on August 29, 1966, and the tickets were from $4.50 to 6.50. Adjusted for inflation the good seats were about $60 in 2026 dollars.
Pro sports and A-list concerts are way overpriced now.
Wow, Delaware really handing out those corporate charters like it's candy corn.
It's only fair to give the gators claymores too.
It's the only way they could get Trump to meet the fallen soldiers.
This dress thing again? I'm a come over there and spank your white and gold buttocks until they're blue and black.
I once heard it said that there was no more beautiful sight for an American in difficulties abroad than that of Old Glory flying on a flagpole above a United States consulate.
They don't say that no more, do they?
I've pretty far left and I vote straight Dem every time, even when it feels like a mug's game. Under the US Political system, you don't have much choice. It's either Dishwater Democrats or Ebola Republicans.
Is that Jimmy Shit Breath of the East Hampton Shit Breaths? They've got more money than charm, I can tell you that.
