Original Twosheds

Hard to disagree.

Submissions for the HOA phone directory cover were open at the time, but my carefully crafted drawing of protestors in Klan attire wasn't accepted for some reason.

Concerns were voiced about the traffic [on the main street about three blocks from the highway, so not pertinent to 99% of residents] and the "element" it might introduce.

Back in the early 90s there was a proposal for a group home for lower-income elderly adults in the neighborhood I lived in, and people freaked the f*ck out. This was a solid middle-class single-family home Levitt development in Northern VA.

@kaine.senate.gov
Tim Kaine, I kind of liked you when I lived in Virginia and you were governor, but you've lost your damn spine and lost your damn mind. Glad my Maryland senators have actual backbones to stand up for their constituents. Shame on you!

Any idea where DC would have landed in there?

WTF? Are you doing glassblowing now?

Virginia elects Spanberger as first female governor on big night for Democrats Democrat Abigail Spanberger has won the Virginia governor’s race, the Associated Press projects, after campaigning on the economy and promises to stand up to Trump.

WaPo changed the headline from "Virginia elects Spanberger as first female governor in rebuke to Trump" to "Virginia elects Spanberger as first female governor on big night for Democrats". Now why might that be?
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

And still fully soaked at 7:30 in the evening. Can't complain about being in retail now.

The real glamour of winemaking is standing there with a hose and a brush in your hands, no?

Make me one like the sleestak shirt and I'll wear it.

I'm currently a Maryland resident, so I got no dog in any fight tonight, but I'm over the moon for the people of Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City. You mostly voted for reality, dammit. Hope California gets it done too.

Hoichi has calligraphic characters written on his face.

Just had my traditional Halloween watch of the "Hoichi the Earless" segment of Kwaidan. Always feels perfect for the occasion.

I merely made an observation, which in hindsight was uncharitable.

I've been judging you since you wrote that scurrilous graffiti on the mailbox when you were 9. Still not counting out the prospect of reconciliation though. Someday in the future. Maybe.

Gahhh, I've clearly been conflating it with another time all these years.

Don't remember either of those, but I do remember the night you were ostensibly at [some innocuous friend]'s house, and wound up broken down on the beltway coming back from Merriweather Post. Don't remember who the band was, though.

Dylan Sizemore crowd-surfs during a Frankie and the Witch Fingers show in Allston, MA on October 10th, 2025.

Great show from Frankie & the Witch Fingers in Allston, MA last night!

And nobody got brained by walnuts.

Oof!

I never had a big yellowjacket or wasp problem in the vineyard [Virginia], but I could rely on getting stung every couple of days while pressing. How do you deal with the traps once they've served their purpose? Freezer? Seems like catch-and-release would just create a cloud of angry hornets.

Why, after all these decades, is it only striking me now how weird it was to have "Texas History" be a full-period all-year class in 7th grade in '81-'82? Can't imagine anything similar happening in any other state.

Well, I'll be looking forward to the produce. I do love that grape. Just got in the new vintage of Sipon from Kobal [NE Slovenia] today.

I'd be kind of excited about botrytis on furmint if you hadn't been talking about rain this week. Or maybe that's not from today? It's October and furmint is still on the vine?

Wow! Is that yellowjacket-induced sour rot or what on the adjacent clusters?

Can I ask the approximate region? I think of mencia as a cooler climate kind of grape.

Holy cow! Didn't even know there was any mencia being grown in the USA. I'll see what I can do to offset the carbon when the wine's available.

If the fruit's worth that, I'll buy the wine when it's ready. What are we talking about here?

Frank, I was in my early 20s in the early 90s, living with my parents and was frankly kind of a resentful dick back then. MST3K was something that we all really enjoyed together. You were part of a bright spot in a kinda bleak part of all our lives, so I owe you thanks for that for sure.

I don't think it was an overt response, but that's what she told Mom.