Charles Olson

BIG WHITE NEMESIS
A BOMBOGENSIS
EVERYBODY SHOVEL
WHEN THE SNOW COMES HOME

You know that's from the shutdown deal back in November, yes?

Trolldans YouTube video by Tempest - Topic

Post a banger that isn't in English. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Let me guess, Nordic skiing?

They're using drones for the downhill skiing too. Really fast ones, so they're kind of loud.

No way in hell did he write that by standing up and peeing. Did not happen. It's conceivable that he's been practicing pee-writing for years, but that raises a whole lot of other questions that I don't want to know the answers to.

That was my guess as well.

Expected traffic volumes.

That is AWESOME.

This is an amazing song.

You've heard of "Minnesota nice". Ever hear of "Massachusetts nice"? Didn't think so.

in political comms, waking up to something like "she was a parttime yoga instructor who also runs a facebook group of 163 people who like old movies, but recent events have caused her to mobilize against you" is the equivalent of being woken up on a flight by the sound of someone starting a chainsaw

Nice! Where are you going skiing?

Hard times make good protest songs.

The Charles, obviously. I was even born right next to it.
[prompt is, "reskeet this with your home river.]

Part of what problem, specifically?

[the prompt here being, "introduce yourself with what almost killed you", or at the very least in this case, saved you from traumatic brain injury.]

Hi, I'm a steep narrow shot in the woods with a big rock in it, that my ski helmet did its job against. Bought a new helmet that day, same model because I knew it worked.

That has to be the most depressing music video ever.

Oh yes. Get used to multi-chapter biographies of characters who get like half a paragraph of actual involvement in the plot. Hugo makes Neal Stephenson look terse and minimalistic.

Then-President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe visited my university campus once. I was riding my bike around the back of the Campus Center and saw an important-looking Black man being escorted to a limo by several obvious security men, who kept a close eye on me as I rode by. Then realized who it was.

I did the same thing with Sketchup when I was reorganizing my very small and overcrowded wood shop. Fortunately most large tools and machinery are available for download. It also came in handy when I was planning the dust-collection ductwork.

Finder is an awesomely fun read. As is the entire tetralogy (is too a word) that it is part of.

The end of indoor public smoking being socially acceptable is up there with same-sex marriage and the end of the Cold War as one of the most awesome societal changes of my lifetime. "non-smoking sections" in restaurants and airplanes were a fucking joke.

Are you thinking of a different place? The Burren has quite good food and I believe always has.

Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. There is of course the obvious corollary, "don't let crazy stick its dick in you".

There's a saying among my cohort of friends who went to Harvard (which I did not): "If someone asks where you went to college, just say 'Fuck you', you'll offend fewer people that way"

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif.

Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. (Or RHPS)