Unrelated: Wooster Collective is posting again.
The Secrets and Mystic Lore of the Ancients Purported to Be Revealed through the Research of these World’s Great MASTERS Standard O and B Supply Co. Chicago Illinois. Catalog No. MCMXLIV (1944).
Every page a revelation. What a corker. Fool your friends, Know and overcome your enemies. How to Grow Gold. We make no such claims for Divine Ecstacy Brand Candles but only Guarantee them to burn continously with much bright radiance for 14 hours.
Vox: The day women shut down Iceland [9min].
The New Yorker: When the Government Tried ‒ and Failed ‒ to Silence Catwoman [12min].
See also the Eartha Kitt interview in Incredibly Strange Music: Volume I which begins with the White House incident.
Worst biking day thus far. Very cold day. One minivan driver had to have seen me but still had to skid to a stop at the bike/ped path intersection. I have only been in a tight situation vis-a-vis driver stupidity only once, this one wasn’t a problem. Saw it a mile away.
Problems are the drivers that see me coming up on the intersection and decide to just putt through/cut me off and (this is the problem bit) for some unfathomable reason decide to wave at me. Happened twice today. Nowadays, I go out of my way to enthusiastically wave back with a big-ass grin, because that’s what they wanted, right? The wave doesn’t mean “Yeah, I’m an asshole, such is life, I’ve done this hundreds of times” ... does it?
Anyway, a little later I wiped out because a hidden car came through an intersection. Not a “tight situation,” I just couldn’t stay upright after braking. The groceries were not damaged and we all got home safely.
Four exciting interactions with one grocery trip. Probably more than usual because the cold weather = less bicyclists = less awareness that bicyclists exist in the rotted, graying minds of zombie drivers.
American Visionary Art Museum: “Grandma’s Bottle Village: The Art of Tressa Prisbrey” ‒ Full Movie [29min].
Japanese Noodles Udon Soba Kagawa Shikoku: 600 Customers a Day! A Hidden Self-Service Japanese Restaurant in a Remote Rice Field! [35min]
The Filmosophers: David Lynch on the Quest for the Perfect Milkshake [4min]. “David Lynch discusses his quest for the perfect chocolate milkshake during his 7-year daily lunch visits to Bob’s Big Boy Restaurants.”
The Soak: Why Ghibli Succeeds Where Disney Fails [42min]. Kind of needed this today.
Advertisement, Kuttowait Butter Cutter Company, Trade, Detroit (1906). “How much do you lose on butter? Can’t tell exactly ‒ eh?”
1933: Duck Soup ‒ How Satire Works [15min].
Monster Caesar Studios: Disney stole my artwork and sold it in their parks ‒ Update after 2 1/2 years [7min].
When this slop first starting appearing, I laughed uproariously. If I was in my 20s, I would have put money down for that horse t-shirt because goddamn what a fantastic train wreck.
Nowadays, I kindly request that it all be burnt down.
Even if that means we have to start again.
Top Ten of 2024. No particular odor.
- shunning/getting rid of car
- dutch bike
- visiting old local italian grocery store
- cinnamon coffee cake muffins
- frenz
- coffee
- sleep
- making a dorky wood infrastructure thing that improves my lifeflow™ 0.08%
- oranges
- licorice
That Mitchell and Webb Situation ‒ A Bigger Spoon [3min].
Hoog: Why Barcelona Looks Weird [8min].
Brick Technology: Destroying Lego Towers [15min].
Hoog: The $1.8 Billion Plan for Amsterdam [16min].
Maggie Mae Fish: Is Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey” bad actually?? [22min] [37min]
Brick Technology: Building a Cat-Sized Lego Train [14min].