Allison

two of my copies of Gravity's Rainbow

LISA: did you forget what today is, you silly old gnome?

DAVID: hmmm... its not my birthday... hey! thats right! *talking insanely fast because Tom Bosley is trying to lip match Spanish animation* today is the day Lisa and I are going to die! We're going to turn into big trees and thats it for us!

they're gonna have to dig me up and unwrap all of my cold dead fingers from the bottle

it won't shock anyone to learn that I'm really enjoying the new mountain goats album about a shipwreck

always saying this while I move the coffeemaker behind the other coffeemaker

just fondly remembering back when I didn't pay attention to football

oh yeah plus that one's Irish so it gets a lot of family attention

(we mostly picked Empires and Jonagolds, a few Golden Delicious and i managed to eat one perfect, decadent and juicy SweeTango)

didn't take a pic but the kids' favorite random apple was FLAT FALL CHEESE. great flavor and nice spice notes, they're developing good taste and the name is funny

sign reading "WINTER BANANA Indiana - 1870's"

Did taste somewhat like a banana! while remaining a pleasant snacking apple. Wild.

sign reading "KING LUSCIOUS North Carolina - 1935"

my drag name? they weren't ripe yet though

sign reading "CAT'S HEAD England - early 1800s"

huge and nasty

sign reading "WISMER'S DESSERT Canada - 1897"

super tart, would make a great pie. next year I'm grabbing a pie amount if I plan ahead

sign reading "SMOKEHOUSE Pennsylvania - early 1800's"

A delight. Perfect balance of sweet and tart for our household snacking preferences with some spice notes

adult in straw hat leading three kids wearing Adirondack pack baskets toward some trees

picked apples at Lynoaken. following is a roundup of the esoteric varieties we tried in the historical section of their orchard today

ok i guess it's a net positive

you really can't take a bus or train to Asheville from here huh

fuck I'm going to be out of town for the Erie Canal's 200th birthday party

love seeing calls to boycott things I already wasnt engaging with due to some combination of laziness & dumb personal tastes

A man putting some foo on his plate with the caption funeral food be so good

let's gooooo

Batman punching Cesar Romero Joker with the word "Schlitz!" in pink at a jaunty angle

Batman punching the Penguin with the word "Pabst!" in light blue at a jaunty angle

Robin punching some henchman in a red and grey striped shirt with the word "Stroh!!!" in orange/red at a jaunty angle

Batman punching some henchman in a blue and grey striped shirt in front of a shelf of books about the Incas with the word "Blatz!" in bright green at a jaunty angle

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

morrissey

you ever fall down a Wikipedia hole and all of a sudden you're watching a turbofolk music video from the depths of the 90s

when i introduced my coworker to Laibach and he started working out to Life is Life

luckily the letter arrives basically wrapped in said beans

have gotten the kids hooked on Bob Ross

the feed looks this empty when no one's posting, it only shows posts from the last 24 hours i believe. i think feeds like this have become less popular since bsky added hashtag functionality

Serious thought corner: people saying “ai is here whether we like it or not” yeah maybe for your crap life but not for all of us!!