Makuus (Măkūs)

A photograph of an indoor mini golf course, featuring a hanging shark and lots of nautical theming.

A photograph of an indoor mini golf course, featuring an anchor, fiberglass rocks, and nautical theming.

A photograph of a mini golf score card.

Ladies and gentlemen, what. an. upset! After a tight game—in which our contestants matched stroke for stroke for 9 holes—Kelby has taken game 3, and the tournament!

From all of us here, in beautiful Ocean City, thank you for tuning in. This is I. P. Freely, signing off. See you next year!

Addendum: There are times when I see these and just want to throttle those whose focus is on the petty and mundane.

Wealth, power, bigotry, hate. Look, fuckers: none of that matters. You and I and everyone we’ve ever known were born of stars and destined to return to them some day.

Remember that.

A photograph of the night sky, featuring more stars than can easily be counted.

Long-exposure star photos on the water always reveal so much more than meets the eye.

I have yet to stay in a hotel with a jacuzzi that works.

I have to admit that these intrigue me…

A photograph of a bank of Skee Ball machines.

It’s the end of day one and our contestants are participating in a mid-tournament Skee Ball competition. We tune in as Kelby has swept the segment, 8 games to 0…

I often think that life is about experiencing what it has to offer and having fun.

And, if pretending that 3-4 rounds of mini golf is some fancy tournament during the height of the pandemic’s lows—when we had the first one—ends up being fun, we do it. 😁

A photograph of a mini golf course. Featured is a painted fiberglass pirate drinking from a barrel of rum, on top of which is a rat drinking from a tiny barrel.

A photograph of a mini golf course. Featured is a pirate ship.

A photograph of an indoor mini golf course. Featured is a wooden walkway.

A photograph of an indoor mini golf course. Featured is a painted fiberglass mountain, on which is perched a gorilla.

Welcome back to our coverage of the 3rd Annual Open Invitational Charity Mini Golf Tournament, here in beautiful Ocean City.

We saw a game 1 sweep by Makuus, who took the Pirate course by 6 strokes. But, in a surprise upset, Kelby clinched game 2 on the Jungle course in the tie-breaking round.

A photography of a mini golf course.

Thus begins the 3rd Annual Open Invitational Charity Mini Golf Tournament at Ocean City, benefitting the Society for Little Dragons.

Congrats on your continued survival! 🍻

A photograph of the Atlantic Ocean, taken from the balcony of a hotel room.

A POV photograph of yours truly in TMNT footed pajamas.

May be a skosh chilly, but it’s the ocean. And, besides, I have some PJs to keep me warm.

Their names? Yanny and Laurel…

Not Bob’s Watches, sending me a cherry of a deal on an Omega Chronoscope. Dude, flipping let me go make the super-big tech bucks before you show me that shizz…

Good. Fucking. God…

Headed to the beach for the weekend. It’s not going to be beautiful beach weather. But, I don’t need it to be, honestly. I just need a change of scenery.

I’m sorry, Sock… 🫂

I’m sure there’s a money angle in there somewhere. PE wants to buy the company with the Motrin—or Advil—brand name for a song or something…

They’re actually pretty decent. 👍👍

It’s been hard being sick this last week and change. I’ve lacked the energy—in no small part because I had five sleepless nights I’m still catching up on—to do anything more than work—which doesn’t stop—and the basics and it shows.

I have the antibiotics now and am hoping things improve quickly.

Can’t wait until karaoke next WPAFW. Thinking of additions to my list of favorites.

I’d do karaoke between now and then, but I kind of like having an audience—even shaking of stage fright as much as I do—despite being a serial shower- and car-singer, an audience of one. 😁

A common meme screenshot of Magneto from “X-Men: First Class”. A caption reads “perfection”.

Just your average little red dragon, diaper-bound, and skeptical/disgusted/cynical af—choose as appropriate to the situation.

Sure…

Reminds me that I might be interested in Foundation…

Da fluff happened here?! Good God!

AppleTV+ is such an odd service. I’ve been buying movies on the cheap, and watching them on it. But, as I go through their own offerings, they’re just so weird and niche.

Some, I’m given to understand, are worth it—like Severance and Ted Lasso—but otherwise completely un-talked-about by anyone.

I’m sure that’ll come somewhere down the road. Bought the three for less than $5 apiece. Am enjoying this one, so I suspect I’ll enjoy at least the sequel.

“I'm a Catholic whore, currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with my black Jewish boyfriend who works at a military abortion clinic. So, hail Satan, and have a lovely afternoon, madam.”

O. M. G.

Villain is a very underrated role for SLJ. He’s done a few, yes. But, it’s the ones in which he displays a quiet malevolence that are his best.

Hence, I think a movie with Samuel L. Jackson with a lisp, some ridiculous action, and not taking itself serious was probably right choice.

This is a fun movie. 😁

I think the lack of sleep is catching up to me.

Did my damnedest today. Caffeinated. Kept moving. But, every blink is lasting a little longer than it should.

I’ve spent much of the afternoon fighting sleep, knowing that even if I went down, I wouldn’t really get rest.