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.
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MANCHUCANDIDATE • Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! Can't that dumb motherfucker get anything right? Now he's trying to Drill Baby Drill Greenland…
JNOV • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Ding fucking dong! The bitch is dayud!
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 @JNOV: Does blockquote no longer work?Huh. Guess not.
JNOV • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Oh shit. “ Cuban state media reported that 32 Cubans were killed in the U.S. attacks in…
JNOV • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 So…. Does blockquote no longer work? Am I 2026’s only loser? (see blurb)