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Stoic Friday CXLI
To those who are vexed at being pitied Part IV
Friday Morning My Brief Career In Politics Links
Here in the Gulch, we had our Team Red and Team Blue caucuses (cauci?) this week to nominate candidates for the village Board of Trustees. Now me, I always think of trustees as some position for squealers in a prison, but here it applies to the elite set of...
Uranus Attacks!
…I just can’t. Make your own bad joke.
Thursday Afternoon Links of Post-Migration
WTF JUST HAPPENED, NON-TECHNICAL VERSION: We (the website) packed up and moved in the middle of the night because the old landlord (hosting service) wasn’t keeping the place up. It took the Post Office (DNS) a while to process our change of address. There is still...
Tech Update
Hello everyone. I'm working to restore the comments and posts from yesterday. To do this I have to connect the old site on the old host to this new site on the new host. There may be some glitches this evening and some lagging as this takes place. Will update this...
Coffee Table
Grummun builds a coffee table.
The Hat and The Hair Animated: Rerun ep 51
Remember the time the Easter Bunny corralled a wandering Joe Biden to get him...
Lady Gaga Returns to Her Home Planet
In a beet field on the outskirts of Freehold, Iowa, thousands of well-wishers...
A Penny For Your Thoughts
If you’re invested in the thoughts market you might want to hold.[1] I like to...
Monday Afternoon Links
OK, I am not that wound up. Work is kicking into high gear - Our Swiss masters...
Prince of the North Tower – Chapter 39
I'm not sure if Marcelene ever got around to talking about her idea, as our...
IFLA: The “___” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of March 9
This has been kind of a terrible week for my bullshitting creative...
Augusto Did Nothing Wrong
We’re in one of those odd circumstances where somewhere in the government,...
First Fish Fry-day of Lent.
It's that time of year, every VFW, American Legion, Rotary, Kiwanis, church,...
Stoic Friday CIII
Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Meditations How to Be a Stoic...
Curse of the Queerwolf
No! Glib Flicks and sh*t post! Double Feature! Curse of the Queerwolf Queen...
Air conditioning and you
In the early 20th century, a man named Willis was tasked with a problem with...
The Hat and The Hair Animated: Rerun episode 50
This episode was kind of a meta peak into the writer's room that is my brain....
Homeless, Senile Man Mistaken for Senator
WASHINGTON DC - A shabby, disheveled vagrant was escorted from a closed...
¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos?
As I mentioned on the Zoom last Friday I helped my FIL move and came across...
Food Fight: Pure Bread Jellyism – The Right Way to PB&J
Recently, I learned that what I thought was a harmless but wrong thing my wife...
What Are We Reading 2025 March
LCDR Fish Working through more naval history books recently - easier to read...
Prince of the North Tower – Chapter 38
"I do believe you have miscalculated," Verner Birke said. I turned to look at...
Mystery Box
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Saturday Morning Disturbance in the Gulch Links
Here in the Gulch, we on the Planning Board are wrestling with a controversy, STRs. Initially, I thought that was some kind of venereal disease but it turns out to mean "short term rentals," as in "AirBnB or VRBO." Given the bright vivid Blue of the village's makeup, one would expect major opposition to them since someone might...
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The Crider Chronicles: Forest – Part X
Part 10
Dunham – 21
It’s 1780. American privateer Captain Fury and British pirate Captain Judas share a kiss that leads to a tavern brawl, but their common enemy—King George III—keeps them fighting to make a life together on the American frontier.
The Crider Chronicles: Forest – Part IX
Part 9
Dunham – 20
It’s 1780. American privateer Captain Fury and British pirate Captain Judas share a kiss that leads to a tavern brawl, but their common enemy—King George III—keeps them fighting to make a life together on the American frontier.
The Hat and The Hair: Episode 167
Camera One “Am I going to have to go to every town where a black guy...
The Hat and The Hair: Episode 166
Monday Morning “Charlotte,” the hat snarled. “A shitty city in a shitty...
The Hat and The Hair: Episode 165
“Yeah, Post Office, take it. Uh, yeah, take it. Tell me how big it is,...
The Hat and The Hair Extended Universe: Joe and Finnegan
“Kermilla,” Joe slurred, his eyes wandering away from the whiteboard....
The Hat and The Hair-Animated Episode 31: Black Swan
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The Hat and The Hair: Episode 164
When Donald, tipped back in his office chair, buried under reports he refused...
The Hat and The Hair: Episode 163
“I gots the DEMON DNA in me!’ Donald screamed. “I can feel it runnin’ all...
The Hat and The Hair: Episode 162
Pluck them from the streets, bind them tight. Load them into trucks,...
The Hat and The Hair: Episode 161
“Why?” the hair wailed, heartbroken, “Why do they have to pick on me?...
The Hat and The Hair Extended Universe: Hillary and Huma
The smell of frying meat woke Huma from a night of uneasy dreams: hands...
The Hat and The Hair-Animated Episode 30: Ennui
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The Hat and The Hair: Episode 160
“What is it?” the hair asked. “I have no idea,” the hat replied. “But I...
The Hat and The Hair: Episode 159
The hat let out a chuckle that filled the Oval Office with a miasma of...
Food & Drink
We like to eat, ok?
Will You STFU?
They’re just kids.
Chocolate Snobbery, Part Deux
The snobbery is strong in this one.
I Finally Made Cherry Bounce!
Cherry time!
I’m in the Dark, Here!
Hooaaaaaaaaaaah
August Friday Afternoon Links the Second
August continues along, as locally, everyone and their churches is getting their festivals in. Unfortunately, I will be otherwise engaged this weekend, as I have a family obligation that I would rather not deal with. But you lot don't care about that, so let's get to...
Allamakee County Chronicles XXVII – Booze
Note: A prologue from my upcoming autobiography, Life’s Too Short to Smoke...
Post Autistic Public Health
More and more things are returning to normal. Some commercial for something a...
Coping with Rising Grocery Prices
Grocery prices are way up, at least in my local stores, and I expect them to...
Sacred Headgear
Another story that might be considered too local? Nah, there is nothing too...
Summer cocktails – Frozen drinks in an ice cream maker
Today we’re finally talking about frozen drinks. Now, the traditional method...
Another Trip to the Range
I took the combat shotgun to Front Sight (TW: website still crap) for their...
Nothing is Over
Last year for Memorial Day I had a special theme of the worst war movies to...
Flaming Hot Garbage
Long gas lines. Runaway inflation. The never ending Israeli-Arab conflict....
Moar Random Thoughts
Of all the misplaced outrage I encounter online, the anger at wealthy people...
Create Your Own Cake Adventure
I rarely cook with recipes. I prefer to create my own as I go. I also like to...
Its a Gas
Somehow this came up in conversation, and think it is useful information for...
Lime in the Coconut
I’d link back to the article I wrote a couple years ago on Cinco de Mayo but...
Random Thoughts
Random Thoughts If you have some ideas for possible submissions to the site...