John Hudgens

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holy shit

Damn, what a shot…. 😳‼️

Inflatable Comet stick horses given out at SDCC in 2005, still in their packaging.

I was was at that SDCC panel too! Brought along my original Fox poster, had Carleton Cuse & Julius Carry autograph it there - Bruce had signed it years before…

I still have a couple of those Comets - found them during a cleanup a while back…

Local grocery store had a 4lb package of ground beef marked down to about 5 bucks (75% off!) because today was the sell-by date… still fresh, looked fine…

Damn right I snapped that up - divided three re-packs of a pound each into the freezer, the rest into a meatloaf tonight, with leftovers… :)

Seen it, have all the seasons on DVD…

It’s a shame more people don’t remember this one, but I’d have to go with THE ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY, JR.

Love that show - bought the DVD set on a whim back when it first came out in 2005, as I’d enjoyed Lenny Henry is other things…

My mother still uses a cutting board shaped like a pig I made in a woodcutting class while in the Cub Scouts back in the 70s…

I think the oldest dishes I still use regularly are ones I bought myself in the early 90s, except for a Snoopy mug in got back around 1977…

I recall liking John Gardner's "Licence Renewed" in the early 80s.... only think I read one of two others of his...

Personally, I prefer DST, as we're very close to the western edge of the Eastern time zone, so we get daylight very late into the evenings during the summer.... I like being able to ride my bike and stay out past 9pm, and the sun's only *just* setting...

YouTube video by FT Depot Comedian (2002) Original Theatrical Trailer [FTD-0589]

Obligatory trailer post… :)

Swung by a local comic book show yesterday, was there less than an hour.

Throat started feeling scratchy last night, today, yep, it’s con crud.

FFS.

Tennessee offers plates with the logos for Ducks Unlimited, several children’s hospitals, and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library…

Drive me nuts that they’ve been ambushed by That Thing, they’re on the run from it, and do they try to hide? No, let’s all just hike across ridges and clear areas with no cover!

WET ALIENS - LOL

I paid $2.29/gallon to fill up on Sunday - that same station is now at $2.89….

GasBuddy prices for Knoxville TN on 3/6/2026, showing a 50¢ spread…

Regional price discrepancies never cease to amaze me - this is what GasBuddy shows for my area right now…

That whole special (Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra) is full of wonderful moments, if you can find it… seems like only random pieces are online…

I love his Cockney version of the William Tell Overture…

@doctorow.pluralistic.net good to see you here now…

Sounds like one guy who told me he’d never watch a movie longer than 90 minutes. Told me he turns them off after that point, as he “ain’t got time for fluff.”

I told him he was an idiot.

We’re not friends. :)

Standing in the only remaining hallway using the famous Atlanta Marriott Marquis carpet pattern...

They still keep one hallway with the carpet behind the front desk - if you ask nicely, they'll let you back there... :)

This one, however, is Photoshopped...

People have done it IRL since, tho... :)

No, I said it very much out loud to the brand new container of cantaloupe chunks that sprang from my fridge as I opened its door last night, spilling half of them across the floor...

That's mice. :)

Same - I had a copy of one of them, but it went poof in a long dead computer crash...

WWIV was the most common around here - still have friends IRL from those days, when we started having actual meetups outside the boards... long live the FLUG! (Food Lover's User Group - met every Saturday at a different restaurant)

I remember that last night... it stayed up for about 15 minutes into 2000 before the plug got yanked, IIRC...

I was one of the sysops on the SFRT for years - helped run the Babylon 5 area...