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Our neighbour
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Barred owl perched on a tree branch.
Barred Owl has been hanging around the cottage this week. Let us get quite close today.
25 years!
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We sent this as our invitation... in a tube. It's 3 feet tall. We have it in a frame in our living room and everything :). My friend, Brodsky, who is the bravest graphic artist I have yet to meet helped me crush the design. A friend of ours, Elke was a CD at an agency where she had these printed for us. We stuck them in tubes and USPSed them out for a couple of bucks each.
It was a wonderful wedding. We had $0 to spend on it. Most of the money wound up going to the New Leaf Cafe. They were in Fort Tryon Park in way north NYC. They hadn't opened yet, so we cut a deal with them using us as a practice event with a buffet with a pay-bar. We put goldfish in take home bowls on the tables instead of flowers. Heather found a gorgeous thrift store gown. We used the venues speakers with a random playlist and that was that.
A friend of ours who was a freelance philosopher and now teaches at Oxford, gave a dissertation on marriage that I cannot remember a word of because I was holding my new wife's hand and sweating in my suit jacket in the usual sweaty August of the city. Fuck it was hot. But that just led to people giving up the usual wedding stuffiness. A lot of clothes went missing almost immediately.
We gave everyone point and shoot cameras, called in a favor for some portraits and table shots. The photographer completely failed, saying "I've never been at an event where I couldn't get people to stop laughing long enough to take a group photo". He was pretty drunk when he said it.
We had a cake with Wonder Woman and The Tick on top that we brought. We had totally forgotten about it, but saw it when we started happily saying goodbye to everyone.
It was a wonderful wedding. We had $0 to spend on it. Most of the money wound up going to the New Leaf Cafe. They were in Fort Tryon Park in way north NYC. They hadn't opened yet, so we cut a deal with them using us as a practice event with a buffet with a pay-bar. We put goldfish in take home bowls on the tables instead of flowers. Heather found a gorgeous thrift store gown. We used the venues speakers with a random playlist and that was that.
A friend of ours who was a freelance philosopher and now teaches at Oxford, gave a dissertation on marriage that I cannot remember a word of because I was holding my new wife's hand and sweating in my suit jacket in the usual sweaty August of the city. Fuck it was hot. But that just led to people giving up the usual wedding stuffiness. A lot of clothes went missing almost immediately.
We gave everyone point and shoot cameras, called in a favor for some portraits and table shots. The photographer completely failed, saying "I've never been at an event where I couldn't get people to stop laughing long enough to take a group photo". He was pretty drunk when he said it.
We had a cake with Wonder Woman and The Tick on top that we brought. We had totally forgotten about it, but saw it when we started happily saying goodbye to everyone.
A billion congratulations, my friend. What a glorious artifact.
Yes much love, forever!!!!
That's just so lovely. Thank you for sharing!
Big Basil Bed
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A three-panel image of my basil garden. The bottom panel is a distant shot encompassing all of the large leafy basil plants and the lemon balm plants on the right.
The top left is just a top-down shot of their bushy leaves, and the top-right photo is from the side, with a tape measure sticking out above the basil leaves to show that the plants are about 30 or 31 inches tall at the highest.
The top left is just a top-down shot of their bushy leaves, and the top-right photo is from the side, with a tape measure sticking out above the basil leaves to show that the plants are about 30 or 31 inches tall at the highest.
Another bumper crop of basil this year!
I let the front two plants flower and flower without nipping any of it off until today because I felt bad about taking flowers from pollinators (we have other flowers, so I didn’t need to feel guilty), and although those ripped taller than the rest at first, they didn’t really feel like keeping up the pace since I let them bloom.
Since we were out of town for two weeks (and had a lot of rain) I only just now finished trimming all the flowers off all of them, and they’re beautiful. As you can see, at their tallest they’re about 30”-31” high now.
At the far side, past the anemic looking basil, are my thriving lemon balm plants, that are lower than the basil. Watering and mowing over here is great. Lemon & basil all the way!
I let the front two plants flower and flower without nipping any of it off until today because I felt bad about taking flowers from pollinators (we have other flowers, so I didn’t need to feel guilty), and although those ripped taller than the rest at first, they didn’t really feel like keeping up the pace since I let them bloom.
Since we were out of town for two weeks (and had a lot of rain) I only just now finished trimming all the flowers off all of them, and they’re beautiful. As you can see, at their tallest they’re about 30”-31” high now.
At the far side, past the anemic looking basil, are my thriving lemon balm plants, that are lower than the basil. Watering and mowing over here is great. Lemon & basil all the way!
This is impressive. I only have one basil plant on the deck but this was the first year I figured out proper cultivating and now have a nice bush.
@homerj Three cheers! 🍃🍃🍃
The firat year we had a basil jungle like this we made enough pesto (froze it into cubes) that we still have a few bits left these five years later. I recommend it. 😂
The firat year we had a basil jungle like this we made enough pesto (froze it into cubes) that we still have a few bits left these five years later. I recommend it. 😂
Horizontal rainbow, Skógafoss, Iceland
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Rainbow colours seen in mist rising from black rocky ground
Gorgeous!
👏👏👏
Halloween Nears
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Looking through old Halloween decor I cam across these skull cutouts from Beistle. They are remakes from at least 50 years ago: https://www.beistle.com/vintage-...
In fact, there's tons of vintage Halloween stuffs going back 100 years here. Most of it is on Amazon too: https://www.beistle.com/holiday...
In fact, there's tons of vintage Halloween stuffs going back 100 years here. Most of it is on Amazon too: https://www.beistle.com/holiday...
Halloween Nears is a term that can be applied from the day after Halloween. Every dam year.
That does not mean that we must start a deep dive focusing in on bloody Halloween IN EARLY AUGUST!!!!! ffs
That does not mean that we must start a deep dive focusing in on bloody Halloween IN EARLY AUGUST!!!!! ffs
Ooohhh look Christmas is coming!
bah humbug
bah humbug
@roonie a Spirit Halloween just opened near us. It is end times
Hey Dog, how's the family?
linkedin bio
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back of a woman's shirt reads "pabst powered fuck machine"
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source: https://mastodon.au/@wendypa...
Shaming your high rollers is certainly a business strategy of some kind.
It me. And this would drag my ass directly into a bookstore if I was walking past. It’s impossible to be laser targeted so pristinely and not feel drawn in.
I'd say "it me" but I've given up all pretense that I'll only buy books at the same pace that I'll read them.
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Out walking my friend's chihuahua a couple weeks ago! This is Goomba 🩷
This is a cool photo
oh no the chihuahua has The Dots 😍
Looking forward to your and Goomba's album.
This broom, it vibrates?
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An oldy-timey newspaper illustration of a woman wearing a skirt, blouse, and large tam and holding a basket, wandering a landscape with some artfully illustrated rocks. She's holding a snake by its neck.
GIRL SNAKE CATCHER.
She Makes a Snug Little Income by Securing Reptiles for Traveling Shows.
SHE JUST GRABS THEM.
GIRL SNAKE CATCHER.
She Makes a Snug Little Income by Securing Reptiles for Traveling Shows.
SHE JUST GRABS THEM.
Mushroom 🍄
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Looks like a bolete butterpilsen.
That looks like something you could spend the rest of your life eating.
bulbous
Floating wife, happy life
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My wife doing her favourite thing on a calm and sunny day on Georgia Bay, Lake Huron.
So calm!
That stretch of the bay is wondrous. Sunrises AND sunsets.
FYI
Doris
🔥
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My folks worked in academia all their lives. I feel this cartoon in my very bones.
Damn you, trustees of Miskatonic University!
I found a sheaf of Doonesbury strips depicting a literal Academic Marketplace, that my Mom cut out of the paper in the early 80's when she was finishing her Ph.D
I thought this belonged here.
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I canna remember where I came across this. Either green or orange.
More than anything in the world.
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When I abruptly moved into the parents' house, 5 years ago, I found that even I had gotten more solitude than I wanted or needed from COVID, but it was really kind of great for a couple of months. I felt a bit guilty about enjoying it, but honestly, I did enjoy it. The transition was abrupt: I went from being alone basically all the time, with just a couple of people in my "pod" as some called it. to being with people all day every day. I went from having no one to please or take care of but myself to having two elderly people with dementia (Mom's was still mild) to supervise. There were times that I wished to be back in my fortress of solitude, to be sure, but it was also deeply fulfilling, and it made me realize how lonely I had become.
@thelonius I think Keanu Reeves talks about the sparkle of hermitism and that it is a hollow soft of safety and insidious in its allure
I was a hermit for four years, sometimes going weeks without speaking (except pleasantries when I shopped). It was hard to give up.
To Kill a Robocentaur
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Chart indicating how to kill a robotic quadruped, using knives or guns, as provided by the manufacturer
Folk art shark.
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A primitive rendering of a hammerhead shark in blue and pink on a circular black background. As much as a non-human creature can be said to express the emotion we call love, this work overflows with the emotion.
Today's favorite kid art in the 'to be framed' pile. I know it resembles an elephant, but it's a hammerhead shark. The tag says so.
The Hammerphant.
Me and my mural
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A good friend of mine dropped by and wanted to take my picture.
massive organ
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a young person takes a photo of the red-and-gold-painted console of a pipe organ in the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, AZ
"The massive red‑and‑gold console of the Chicago Stadium pipe organ now sits in MIM’s United States / Canada Gallery with six manuals and 800 stop tabs. ... Installed at Chicago Stadium in 1929, the organ was the first of its kind in a sports venue."
I absolutely heard this thing in action at the Barnum & Bailey Circus at Chicago Stadium when I was a kid.
"The instrument, which provided the soundtrack for many opening faceoffs and tips, was the largest built by the Maxcy‑Barton Organ Co. The behemoth cost $250,000 in 1929 dollars, nearly $5 million today."
The Musical Instrument Museum is fully worth the visit if you're ever in Phoenix.
source: https://azbigmedia.com/lifestyl...
I absolutely heard this thing in action at the Barnum & Bailey Circus at Chicago Stadium when I was a kid.
"The instrument, which provided the soundtrack for many opening faceoffs and tips, was the largest built by the Maxcy‑Barton Organ Co. The behemoth cost $250,000 in 1929 dollars, nearly $5 million today."
The Musical Instrument Museum is fully worth the visit if you're ever in Phoenix.
source: https://azbigmedia.com/lifestyl...
Also visit: https://organstoppizza.com/
[Phantom of the Opera theme intensifies]
This is worth seeing if you’re ever in San Diego https://balboapark.org/arts-cul...
So, imo, Brooklyn still has it.
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Not shown is their sandwich-board outside with a blazon reading
“GET OVER HERE!!”
https://myrtlewombat.com/
“GET OVER HERE!!”
https://myrtlewombat.com/
Sounds fabulous. I was really hoping this was going to be in Greenpoint. I know, it wouldn't be a great neighborhood for it, but still, it's where I spend most of my time when I'm in NYC.
I weirdly just came across this 10 minutes ago. Here's the sandwich board.
https://www.instagram.com/reel...
https://www.instagram.com/reel...
elsewhere
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Someone took a flash photo in that cloud right after the kaboom
@kokogiak that'd be Zeus
Gluing metal
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Are we not men?
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A street sign: "This dimension protected by houses who walk like men; For more information call: 1-844-517-4445 Ext: 781". The sign hass ome stickers and graffiti. There are three stylized logos of red houses with little feet and an eyeball.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
More surreal Toronto street art signs at the link. "Warning! Frog", etc. The phone number apparently works but I haven't called it yet!
More surreal Toronto street art signs at the link. "Warning! Frog", etc. The phone number apparently works but I haven't called it yet!
Slava Ukraine
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Andrea and I saw DhakaBrahka tonight in Portsmouth. They were amazing as usual.
Amazing.
Amazing.
They showed up at Worldfest in Grass Valley and strolled out onto the stage like they owned the world. Sat down and made a noise that turned to music
I’ve had the privilege to see them a couple of times and they are always so good live.
DakhaBrakha are always a good time. For more thoroughly wild Ukrainian folk, I can strongly recommend Yagódy: https://www.youtube.com/channel...
A deer I encountered
My ride is here
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Mac and Me (1988, dir. Stewart Raffill)
Toonces, no!
@BennyTheIcepick +1