We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Stocking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UQ2vqFJvpA
One of the enduring frustrations of our childhood is that we could never get the damn Hot Wheels track to work. We now recognize that this was a monumental failure of imagination.
Chris Burden’s latest project “a portrait of LA” [Kottke]
[Sport TJ] Ron Santo, Cubs third baseman and broadcaster, dead at 70. To say that this guy was beloved in Chicago doesn’t do it justice. Just sad.
No love for Lego?
Okay. Very fucking cool. I’m assuming those Fuller brushes are meant to align and slow traffic? DOT should take note.
@ManchuCandidate: Erector Sets are where it’s at. I think mine was bootleg — stuff bent and didn’t quite operate as promised. It was probably procured from someone’s car trunk. My chemistry set was beyond awesome until I started doing weird things with sulfur. Inside our apartment. Then my flying spaceship on a string (not RC) was confiscated. My HO trains disappeared, too. I worked damned hard on my model cities. I think my mother was worried that I was catching a case of the ghey. Pfft. Boys’ toys rock.
BURR DEMING • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Thank you for this, nojo. He was a wonderful talent and, by all accounts, a wonderful human…
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Oh, and there’s a Catholic church across the street. Maybe I can do a little dance for them!
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Now that I’m in NYC, plenty of pigeons to poison in his honor.
NOJO • All the Vice President's Men 2025 update: Nothing happened. And here we are!
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Weeping Angel Imagine going from hope to Fascism in less than two decades enabled by greedy ass (millionaire)…
NOJO • Nightmare at the Museum From the last time he threatened to bomb Iran, 2020. Remember that one? All a misty blur now.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: I have birthright citizenship in Cascadia, so I think I’m good.
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @nojo: Only the sane parts... like the West coast, New England (minus the Bruins and…
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: So, can you guys annex us now?
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! PP is done. 51st state, my ass.