For all intents and purposes, it appeared to be a croquet ball ready to be propelled through a wicket, that being the St. Louis arch, but lets step back.
It seems that the entire continent shattered and the East uplifted while the West subsided, and traveling south showed no way through. We ran short of water owing to the new land levels but still endeavored to persevere.
As we approached the arch, we noticed the entire park was enveloped in a bright yet diffuse light. Moving on we walked through an envelope into bright sunshine, and there it was, the Object. We walked closer looking for some sort of entrance or some guidance. But what we found were hundreds of people all doing the same thing.
We had to ponder for a second before we approached any of them, not knowing what their objectives were. When finally, we met, we’re amazed to find they were explorers as we were trying to find an answer.
People from all over the continent were drawn to this site to find out what was going on. Why here? We are all here, our planet ruined, yet we still live. We would soon find out.
Bobbo 169877
2029 late? I don’t remember anymore
😯
The East FTW
Im traveling this week, thats when I do my best work. Then inspections and promotions in OKC
Marcel Marceau passed away on this date in 2007.
If he had any last words, they went unrecorded.
What *was* recorded, though, was Marceau’s “Against the Wind,” which Michael Jackson said was the inspiration for his Moonwalk dance.
Nice. I don’t remember that scene but I remember seeing it in the theater & really enjoying it when I was… 7, apparently. Have never seen it since.
I must remedy that.
Oo that would be a nice pick.
No wonder he joined the resistance at age 17. There’s no way the Germans could make him talk if captured.
Thank you for not rick rolling us with the Bob Seger song.
+1
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I finished drafting “Judge of Jinwick”
It’s been a while since I finished a story.
Nice job!
I haven’t finished a story in, well, ever. I periodically get a really exciting idea for a story, start writing down the basic outline, and maybe bust out a few paragraphs. Then I have to go to work or something, and the next time I come back to it, it just seems like a really dumb idea that never would have made a good story. I’m not sure if they’re good ideas and I have trouble following through on things, or if I’m just getting over-excited about a dumb idea. I wonder if I should just force myself to finish it even if it seems like it won’t be good, then try to evaluate the entire completed story and see what I need to do better next time.
I don’t really have advice there. But sometimes a dumb idea can make a good story.
Huzzah!
It’s a novelette ~14,500 words.
I’m finishing up a labor of love that comes in at just under 182,000 words. It makes me happy.
Akira, my two cents is work through and finish. While it might or might not make you happy at the end, the process of working all the way through is invaluable. The more you do it, the better you get.
Go Lions
lol Josh Allen must be enjoying the endorsement $$$ for big-deals like SoFi and New Balance but I just saw him pitching for some Syracuse car dealership lol
Relevant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdopTDcQtog
ha Except that is about 28 seconds more speaking time than Josh got. I don’t think he comes cheap.
Updated my iPad to iOS 26. I expected to hate it, but actually like the added multitasking window features.
I’m indifferent to the new cartoon skin. I’m sure I’ll get used to it. However, safari now “themes” itself to the page you have open. I could without that.
I haven’t yet.
I waited a few days to see if there was some initial issues, but didn’t read any so decided to give it a go.
Yeah macOS 26 has some weird transparent and/or tinted icon weirdness. Wasn’t for me.
The thing I can do without is the back and forth between huge curvy & square corner radii and pretending it’s something “fresh” every flip. Both Mac and Windows are guilty of this over the years.
Ugh. I was pissed when my phone accidentally updated to 18. iPad is still on 17 at least.
Happy holiday to (((some))) of you. I get two more days off 😀.
It will noticeably decrease the number of people on my train tomorrow morning.
October is gonna be lit. Which will get interesting with the hair-on-fire project that we just got and is due (in Production) on Nov. 1 while the company is closed for 5 more (((holidays))).
Apparently it’s even more top-priority than the other top-priority project I inherited from my closest colleague who left a few weeks ago and which is way overdue lol.
And my boss was fired last week so no help there.
hair-on-fire project that we just got
is due (in Production) on Nov. 1
the company is closed for 5 more (((holidays))).
more top-priority than the other top-priority project I inherited
my boss was fired last week
Ahh, rhywun, don’t be the last rat on the sinking ship…
Nah, we abide. There will be no sinking. Luckily it’s all backend shit so no direct impact on the people who give us money. The business types who dump this stuff on us will just use their silver tongues to make the clients happy.
I mentioned Rosh Hashana to a nurse today, and the coming October cornucopia of holidays, and she replied that she was raised Quaker but they liase (? – I don’t remember her exact words) with a lot of (((them))) so she knows about all that stuff (“some of them are very important”).
IIRC from past Jewsday Tuedays a couple of them are listed at the top hier.
I got to thinking that I have no idea at all what Quakers are about. That was Pennsylvania, right?
Yes, and oatmeal.
Also raised as a Quaker
The two big rival gang cartels in Pennsylvania are the Quakers and the Amish. Get out of line and the Amish shun you and the Quakers read you out of Meeting.
Yeah, we have a lot of Amish in upstate NY so I’m very familiar with them.
Quakers, not so much.
Thanks Rhywun. L’Shana Tova to you. Enjoy your time off.
In CT at my (((wife’s))) mom’s. Just finished dishes.
Happy New Year, (((y’all))).
I *really* need it. Kind of burned out lately.
@slumbrew I was wondering what your wife was doing with you for the next two days.
A gift for 40K fans:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/space-marine-mosaic.html
Did OMWC just have a heart attack or is he already asleep?
Do (((y’all))) stay up late tonight?
But yeah, Bills fans are probably OK with this result.
I can’t speak for anyone else. I got home late from work.
A gift for Not Adahn:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/lumberwoods-tarot-cards.html
But the real question is, “Does the driver hate Washington nazis?”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/driver-goes-airborne-on-raised-drawbridge-escaping-cops-washington-police-say/ar-AA1N5Aig?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=68d21133ee93493eb8fad733fc5a1b5a&ei=20
That’s incredibly dangerous but also super cool.
“Them Bainbridge Boys are at it again”
Blessed mother of acceleration, don’t fail us now.
I didn’t realize public polling in Britain is so contrary to Starmer’s proclamation.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/22/keir-starmer-has-emboldened-the-enemies-of-humanity/
Gaza = Hamas and Hamas = Gaza.
Sir Keir can take his proclamation and shove it up his backside.
100%
Huh. But… what are the “conditions”?
I would guess release the hostages, Hamas disarm, and Hamas has no role in government. In other words, a fantasy.
Oof I thought I might comment on Kunstler’s latest and how I also feel that my politics have not changed so much as the world around me has changed, since I first became a fan of Geography of Nowhere 30 years ago, but 670 comments since this morning? Who has time to engage with all that??
I wrote Kunstler an email way back in 2013 in which I told him that there are large amounts of methane on Jupiter which probably didn’t come from living things. Thus, perhaps methane and natural gas likewise formed on earth through some inorganic process.
He called me a poopyhead and stop replying. Actually, he sarcastically suggested we build a pipeline to Jupiter to harvest the natural gas.
I like it. We just need to discover jumpdoors.
I thought, at first, this was going to be William Kunstler. But that made no sense. Who is this guy?
ha William Kunstler stayed at a dive hotel I worked at in Buffalo circa 1990. I had no idea who he was at the time.
You’re Back!
I missed you deplorables.
WTH is goin’ on around here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_XJEQaYRck
Technical Difficulties.
Please Stand By.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BXqPNlng6uI
So it wasn’t just me. I’m so far behind the tech times I always think it’s something I’ve done that I don’t know how to undo.
Relief !
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