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Dr continues: Maybe we'd even allow you back into proper, nonfat society. Glad I could help out today.

OYRHA: But my cough.

Dr.: Probably your fat throat.

OYRHA: Yeah, okay, thanks.

Cue sad Charlie Brown music as OYRHA slowly walks out (while coughing.)

I love going to the doctor.

5/5

Dr.: Hey, have you tried eating better and exercising. I’ve got some colorful pamphlets here that’ll tell you important things like “just eating candy is bad for you.” You probably didn’t know that as someone who is fat. These pamphlets should revolutionize your fat life.

4/5

OYRHA: Yes, you’d be surprised at the efforts that go into me trying to not be fat. Sometimes I even succeed for a little bit, but I always seem to creep back up. I seem to have a combination of genetics and mentality that makes it really hard to maintain weight loss.

3/5

OYRHA: Yes, I am well aware of my fatness. As I was saying…

Dr. Because we weighed you again. And you are FAT. And being fat is the worst.

OYRHA: Again, I know that I am fat.

Dr. Here’s an idea. Have you ever tried not being fat?

2/5

One act-play entitled “Tubby Archivist Goes to the Doctor.”

Dramatis Personae:

Overweight, yet ruggedly handsome, archivist
Doctor
Scene: Doctor’s Office

Dr: How can I help?

OYRHA: I’ve got this lingering cough that …

Dr:. Before you go on, I need to make sure you know you’re fat.

1/5

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.

I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

Four college students in costume. Two of the costumes seem inspired from Lil' Abner. One of the costumes combines elements from the costumes of both Shazam and Superman. The last costume is unclear - but consists of a long skirt/dress, a cape, and a garland of flowers.

Looking through the old Colorado State College yearbooks for the first evidence of superheroes, I found a photograph from a 1941 dance. It looks like one of the students is wearing a costume combing elements from the costumes of both Superman and Shazam.

well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy

A well dressed professor is about to punch a skeleton right in the face. The skeleton and the professor are standing next to a table with a couple of glasses, a candle, a book, and a giant bottle.

Looks like drinking with skeletons went poorly. Not sure what was said to start the fight, but it looks intense.

From the 1908 Colorado State Normal School Cache la Poudre yearbook.

In the spirit of Dr. Parcak's post, it is the RADICAL LEFT DEMOCRATS who are making you use a colon instead of a comma in front of the page numbers when citing a journal using the Chicago Manual of Style. My students do want SOMEONE to blame for the CMOS.

The RADICAL LEFT DEMOCRATS are why your midterms are not fully graded

My dog Bishop could be Bagel's long list cousin!

The archivist was a super minor character, but still representing us!

just finished the Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. It was brutal, horrific, and amazing.

There was even an archivist character. Always happy to see my people represented in horror fiction. (We are the keepers of secrets and mysteries.)

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.

They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.

Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.

Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat WASHINGTON—Despite polls that show the American public overwhelmingly supports keeping the ancient burial chamber sealed, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday to pry open the evil tomb of Batibat, a ven...

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat

'Raise the Shire!' said Merry. 'Now! Wake all our people! They hate all this, you can see: all of them except perhaps one or two rascals, and a few fools that want to be important, but don't at all understand what is really going on. But Shire-folk have been so comfortable so long they don't know what to do. They just want a match, though, and they'll go up in fire. The Chief's Men must know that. They'll try to stamp on us and put us out quick. We've only got a very short time. - The Scouring of the Shire, LOTR

ABC Suspends Star Anchor Over Midnight Stephen Miller Tirade White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted “so-called journalist” Terry Moran for his comments about the top aide.

Fuck ABC and all their subsidiaries.

They could have stood by their journalist and the first amendment.

But no.

Enough of this crap.

UVA Tried To Shut Down Its Historical Tours Discussing Slavery. These Students Resisted. A conservative alumni group took issue with the discussion of difficult parts of UVA’s history.

While the university has ended the group's special status designation, with the support of the student body, student guides are doubling down on their commitment to share their campus’ history.

Just spent 15 days in Egypt! It was amazing!

I made a sweet $7.07 during the last six months from royalties on a book that I did with Arcadia press over ten years ago. I am not sure where I am going to invest this windfall. Maybe a sandwich.

Just saw a guy wearing a shirt that said "Size matters!" and it had a bunch of bullets with their dimensions printed all over it. I figure the guy must have gone to the store to buy a "I'm a moron" shirt, but they ran out, so he got the next best thing.

Group of girls holding and waving corn are in a circle.

Mysterious circle of young girls waving corn. I imagine it was a secret ceremony on the campus of the Colorado Normal School.

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When Nazi officials opened their "Degenerate Art" exhibition in 1937, they labeled modern art as ideologically impure. Now, nearly 90 years later, Trump's order targeting the Smithsonian uses similar language about "improper ideology" and "divisive narratives."

“Improper ideology”? Get fucked.

Fixed

A 1927 New Yorker piece on the views of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson: "Evolution is the greatest triumph of Satanic intelligence in 5,931 years....It is responsible for jazz, bootleg booze, the crime wave, student suicides, Loeb and Leopold and the peculiar behavior of the younger generation."

Image of a tunnel from the publication "Greeley-Poudre Irrigation District: the new addition to the Cache la Poudre Valley: irrigation is king" from the 1910s.

They seemed to miss the most important aspect of this picture. I would label it "Tiny ghost at Upper Portal No.3. Tiny ghost seems chill."

If Linda McMahon and the Department of Education believe in "efficiency and accountability" (after laying off half of the department), then I'm sure they'll gladly publish a list of every position that has been eliminated and why that position is no longer needed.