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They're definitely characters with distinct vibes, so I just went with the flow, glad to hear my read was true to the characters!

"Fleet Foot" by Black Pistol fire is a banger, for sure. (Though I could very much see Remy punching out "Trouble" by Bones of JR Jones, and Cam doing a pretty compelling version of "Hoozier's "Too Sweet")

Reminds me a bit of the old urban legend of British soldiers making tea by boiling water with the cooling jacket of the Vickers belt-fed.

A cosplayer dressed as a gothic, skeletal Miss Frizzle with skull face paint.

A badge ribbon with Miss Frizzle’s skeletal head. It reads “TAKE BONES. MAKE CONSTRUCTS. GET MESSY!”

There’s a Locked Tomb Miss Frizsle I am CRYING

(Though I suppose it is a little bit of a confidence boost that on the times I thought it was someone else, I was eager for them to send it over so I could read it, because I quite liked the way "that person" wrote on the topic.)

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised. And TBH, I spend far less time off my face, and there's been more than one time where someone has quoted an article I wrote back to me, but I've not noticed/thought it was someone else, because while I remembered writing about it, I forgot exactly what I'd written.

I first heard it from Von Hoffman's son, who is also a journalist, but found the article later, but your Dad was right, it was never unclear or hard to figure out where Garry was getting his info. Hunter was, for better or worse, pretty much the diametric opposite of secret about his life.

What happened when Hunter Thompson told me Garry Trudeau was spying on him. Comic-strip people are supposed to stay on the paper or the screen. Any reader of Doonesbury has a legitimate expectation that Mike or Jeff or B.D. or...

AH! I found the short article Von Hoffman wrote about it in Slate, in 2010, as a thing for Doonsbury's 40th anniversary. slate.com/human-intere...

It turns out, Trudeau WAS basing it on Hunter, from a very close personal source...Hunter Himself. He was just basing it on Hunter's own words in his columns, which Hunter had forgotten writing. Von Hoffman relayed this, and Hunter, quite deflated, mumbled that he was a liar, and hung up on him.

Uncle duke, Hunter insisted, contained so many details of his life, and his personal thoughts, and was so regularly accurate, that there was no other way that he could have gotten the information other than close surveillance. So, Von Hoffman, who was also a friend of Trudeau, called and asked.

I recall a story I read once, by a journo friend of his, about the time hunter called him up and demanded he look into the Doonsbury Cartoonist, insisting that Trudeau was spying on him, had bugged his house, interrogated his family and friends, etc, because of the Uncle Duke character.

He's also a New York Cop, so probably not the worst idea to give him a weapon that inherently discourages him from using it as a all-purpose problem solver, at least until he breaks out of some bad habits.

When I finally made it through the other side, packaged them down with an extra frame story weaving it's way through about a writer slowly descending into madness, then finding freedom in the creativity the madness allowed. Doubt it's still in print, but it did okay for a while in uni bookstores.

I did! I did a writer's residency in the UK, and I was struggling like hell to actually work on any of the things I planned to work on because I was so out of sorts. Ended up just going a little bonkers creatively, and just writing a long series of insane, entirely unplanned short stories.

a pontiac vibe with a huge check engine light in the back window and a cluster of bumper stickers that read: remember ir you honk all you honk at me i will honk if you get any closer you have to i honk honk if you will if myself want honk if you have ever been personally victimized by honk

this is such a vibe

ace wolf will crack you in the head with his guitar if you impede love

Also in retrospect I should point out just to be extra clear: They didn't make it up not because it's true, but because they just cribbed it from old documents. MS is not trying to, talking about, or in any other way attempting to buy Valve.

I don't remember specifically, I think that one slipped me by, but propably.

Almost, yeah. The only difference is that they didn't make it up - it's based on VERY old MS internal documents, which listed a bunch of nonsense acquisitions including Nintendo and Amazon. They never intended to acquire any of them, and it's embarrassing that folks are still getting fooled by this.

I think likely no, but only because my money is that they're still running with the same old technicality they always have - all of their advertising spend isn't a budgeted item, it's just an as-invoiced spend, thus they get to advertise, but also don't have an advertising budget.

I agree. Which is why it's so much more baffling the people who act like it was some impossible shot, you could teach someone to do that consistently in an afternoon.

That makes sense, considering every single one of the shots was between 80-90 yards of distance.

The Magritte is also an obvious fake, and there's a glass replica of the Maltese falcon mixed in with the Jeff Koons, the Martin d28 isn't the guitar McCartney took to the farm to write Blackbird(it's the one that was in the music video from a song on the album that they returned to shoot later).

Honorable mention to farming simulator, who followed tradition by just straight up just had a Clutch song in their promo trailers for fs2022

I do remember that they still claim to have somewhere around half a million installs, but the only independently verified numbers available put it closer to 3-4k total, with an unknown number of those still installed and operating.

Hell, I know a place that can make and embroider it real easy, and fairly affordably, I'm happy to help

1. That's interesting, I'll have to look I to that and find out more
2. I used to be a mechanic.

You'd lose. The tweet that the linked tweet is QRT'ing is from a metric country, and it's showing up in both metric and imperial-using countries. On top of that, apparently the QRT'ed user contacted tesla support...who just straight up admitted that it doesn't accurately record mileage.

I mean it seems like everywhere every ship we've seen goes, they end up entangled in some annoying and often life-threatening bullshit, if I were them I wouldn't exactly be rushing either. Helm, warp five, I wanna finish my book before the next time someone holds me at phaserpoint.