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weekend plans
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photo of a white horse sleeping on the ground next to a sign that reads, "I am NOT dead, just tired and ugly, please let me sleep!!!"
roonie
can relate - just add 'old'
2026 status
A Crow Watching a Mosquito
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Black-and-white woodprint; in front of a leafless branch, a crow sits on the ground, its head craned straight up to look at a bug.
Nash Car
weekend plans
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sign saying "Asparagus Advice Wireless Internet Honey"
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C-c-c-c-c-cocaine!
Name a subreddit, a technology that did not exist 25 years ago, and something you should never call your proctologist.
@octaneTom ++
Words To Live By
jerry uellsman
meanwhile …
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Line drawing of a ma hunkered over a book at a table with a lamp before him and a wall of books behind him. Caption: THERE IS SO MUCH TO UNLEARN
...in order to understand so much time!
Tasselled wobbegong
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An underwater photo of a wide, flat, gray fish with delicate, almost fern-like fringes protruding from its face.
It's a shark! A carpet shark! With complex dense branching dermal lobes along the front of its head!
https://www.sharks4kids.com/post...
https://www.sharks4kids.com/post...
Petroglyphs
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Four photos arranged vertically:
A sea turtle petroglyph carved in a light rock.
And three photos of human petroglyphs carved into lava rock.
A sea turtle petroglyph carved in a light rock.
And three photos of human petroglyphs carved into lava rock.
If you're into this (and have not been there already) the footprints preserved at Keonehelelei are pretty incredible.
Here comes 2026!
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Mary Jane Irving as "The Victim" falls to her death in the unintentionally hilarious 1928 film "The Godless Girl."
The government deregulation dream
A couple of selfies at Puako Beach
it's below zero
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Had to wrap up the dog because it's so cold out (-10 F/-23 C). This photo's actually from a few years ago because I couldn't get the dog to be still long enough for a photo after dressing her today. (She's going to be 17 in April so she has no patience for our shit anymore.)
(If I did upload this previously my apologies, couldn't find it if I did so.)
(If I did upload this previously my apologies, couldn't find it if I did so.)
So cuuuuute! Our silly old lady dog is 15 going on 16. Here’s to catering to good old dogs!
😭😭😭
❤️
2025 shows
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Copying @ufez here. I had some health issues earlier in the year which prevented me from doing much of anything. But the last half was pretty good.
That Calgary fest in particular sounds great.
MY REVIEWS
Calgary Folk Fest: the artists were all fantastic. My health was still not great at this point, but having a weekend where the only thing I had to do was sit in the grass and listen to music was a healing experience. La Lom and Nick Shoulders in particular were really great live. Finally seeing Cake healed my inner child. They shot hot dogs at the crowd with a tshirt cannon.
Wilco: good show, but was at the Saddledome which is a shit venue - shaped like a saddle (duh) so everything echos horribly. Was debating even going but got some free tickets from a friend. Mixed feelings here.
The Descendants: blew my socks off. I've seen some other older punk bands and it's always been a subdued and kind of depressing affair, but not the case here, they still go so insanely hard. Lots of kids there ripping it up in the pit, which warmed my old heart. Best show of the year.
High On Fire: the venue here was a bar I used to work at which is pretty small (400 people max) and in a basement. Absolutely awesome to see Mike Ness and the gang in an small setting like that (I've seen Sleep a few times but only in bigger venues).
The Deep Dark Woods: I've seen these guys so many times over the years and they are always great. I don't think they're known much outside of Canada. Give them a listen if you're into dark, kinda weird, gloomy folk music.
Ben Caplan: listen, if you know you know. And if you don't, it's time to change that. Love him and the show was unreal.
Calgary Folk Fest: the artists were all fantastic. My health was still not great at this point, but having a weekend where the only thing I had to do was sit in the grass and listen to music was a healing experience. La Lom and Nick Shoulders in particular were really great live. Finally seeing Cake healed my inner child. They shot hot dogs at the crowd with a tshirt cannon.
Wilco: good show, but was at the Saddledome which is a shit venue - shaped like a saddle (duh) so everything echos horribly. Was debating even going but got some free tickets from a friend. Mixed feelings here.
The Descendants: blew my socks off. I've seen some other older punk bands and it's always been a subdued and kind of depressing affair, but not the case here, they still go so insanely hard. Lots of kids there ripping it up in the pit, which warmed my old heart. Best show of the year.
High On Fire: the venue here was a bar I used to work at which is pretty small (400 people max) and in a basement. Absolutely awesome to see Mike Ness and the gang in an small setting like that (I've seen Sleep a few times but only in bigger venues).
The Deep Dark Woods: I've seen these guys so many times over the years and they are always great. I don't think they're known much outside of Canada. Give them a listen if you're into dark, kinda weird, gloomy folk music.
Ben Caplan: listen, if you know you know. And if you don't, it's time to change that. Love him and the show was unreal.
My year in music
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Screenshot of a Google Keep list showing the concerts I attended in 2025, including Pelican and Russian Circles, Subhumans and Fea, Soul Coughing, Napalm Death and Melvins, Die Spitz, Saba, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Neko Case and Des Demonas, and a benefit for Stray Rescue of Saint Louis.
This seems as good of a place as any to park my personal 2025 music wrap-up. Nine shows doesn't feel like a ton (because it's not), but I honestly enjoyed each of them quite a bit. I'm either easy to please or my discernment is well-honed, probably a bit of both.
I'm gonna throw some album favorites here too but I got wordy with them, big surprise. Out of respect for everyone's scrolling thumbs I'm going to bury them under the fold, starting with the fourth comment. Click on through if you feel like checking them out.
I'm gonna throw some album favorites here too but I got wordy with them, big surprise. Out of respect for everyone's scrolling thumbs I'm going to bury them under the fold, starting with the fourth comment. Click on through if you feel like checking them out.
Ben Hur 1959
When jazz is free...
Jack hat
Dealing With Difficult People
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How I work
J/k, most of the people I work with are delightful.
J/k, most of the people I work with are delightful.
Erry goddamn day.
Wait, there’s another kind?
easing out of 2025 like
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woman smiling in a recliner
In my youth, we had a Satellite dish so we never got traditional commercials, and this Contour chair was ALL OVER. I find myself reflexively wanting to call now for the free brochure and $200 rebate offer.
whip for ‘26
Rightfully so
first world problem
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Line drawing of two short-haired. Business-attired men sipping through straws from apparently identical bottles filled with liquid, one labeled (a) and the other (b). Indicative lines labeled “coupling” point to both and “one-hole stopper” points only to (b)
Caption: “112. You can and you cannot.”
Caption: “112. You can and you cannot.”
Keys
Coral and Lava
Addressing your concerns
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The Cramps performing
Had a friend who got so squicked out by Lux, could not deal.
Lux is my birthday buddy. Oct 21, 1946...hard to believe he was so much older than me
me_irl
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The (well-known, national chain chicken wing) restaurant my son works at has the servers bus and wash dishes, so I doubt the cheapskates would allow this.
thumbs up
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See also: https://old.reddit.com/r...
YOU REALLY DID IT
Now we need one of a urinal with 🤏
Is this Heated Rivalry?