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I saw a Mini Cooper SE on the road yesterday and it reminded me of the goatee I started wearing in the ‘90s and held onto well into the current decade.

I was mentioning the opossum and raccoons to someone and they thought I was describing a single blended family and no, but I wish it was. Like the possum isn’t the stepdad, he’s the dad who stepped up.

The 5k was a Halloween thing, so there were a lot of people and dogs in costumes. Tons of kigus, some spandex. One corgi was dressed as a baked potato with a plush blob of sour cream and a square pat of butter on their back.

Giant Dog and I walked a dog friendly 5k this morning. Highlights included a basset hound who had clearly not been consulted about taking such a long walk and periodically lay down in the middle of the path for a rest.

Who ya gonna call?

Thank you, YouTube ads. In one image Bugs Bunny is horrified to see Betty Rubble using the toilet while peeping through her bathroom window, but in the other he’s clearly into it. In both, Betty obliviously continues reading The Joy of Cooking on the toilet while soiling her dress.

If werewolves change at moonrise and change back at moonset, you’re going to have times when that’s like 5pm and 8am respectively. Dude’s commuting to and from work in broad daylight and everybody just sort of pretends not to notice the wolf person in the car next to them or in line at Timmy’s.

I mean it’s set in medieval Europe, everything was scratchy and uncomfortable back then.

On a recent Some More News, Cody described artificial grape flavor as tasting “not like grape, but like a clown’s memory of a grape”, which pretty much nails it.

The guy from the Take On Me video’s cats.

“Somebody found my socks!”

I swear if these mfers make me update ONE MORE MAP

Someday the Kid will go to his first tiki bar, get handed a drink in a mug shaped like a moai, and think “oh, like Squidward’s house.”

When I joined the Kwik Trip loyalty program they had a reward of a shirt reading “No Ordinary Chicken” and “Chicken With Rizz”. Fortunately for my wallet this rollled off before I earned enough points because if I had such a shirt I’d have been pretty much obligated to get a rooster partial.

The times & locations I see a lone opossum & a small family of raccoons are consistent enough that I’m pretty sure I’m seeing the same specific ones that have moved into our corner of the forest and am in danger of naming them. No photos due to darkness & distance but here’s a starfish I saw later.

Don't tell any of the trainers at work that this is how I complete the modules I'm assigned. www.youtube.com/shorts/K4xcY...

We may never know how many advances we’re missing out on due to modern lab safety standards, with chemists no longer eating or smoking in the lab and tasting something unexpectedly yummy or tripping balls.

Saw a car with a “DEFUND PAW PATROL” bumper sticker. Didn’t get close enough to see if the driver was Mayor Humdinger or just, like, anyone else.

Ian Fleming died years before the making of the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), but it’s worth noting that having a female lead named “Truly Scrumptious”, a character not appearing in the novel, is exactly the kind of shit Fleming would have come up with.

"October", 18 x 24", five screens. Chicago is trying to do Autumn right now, with mixed results.

A reminder that you can buy internet enabled “smart” ovens for under a thousand dollars, but you can save yourself some money by just buying a can of gasoline and burning your house down yourself.

Occurred to me recently that JD Vance is the exact type of guy that thinks he can pull one over on Columbo

The Chevy Bolt EV is basically the Chevy Bolt EUV: Jimothy Edition.

Me watching a promo for a documentary on the Australian woman who poisoned her in-laws by serving them food prepared with death cap mushrooms: “Huh, I haven’t had Beef Wellington for quite a while…”

Ah the nostalgia of drinking Mountain Dew Baja Blast in the original glass bottles, just like grandpa enjoyed.

Back in high school a friend described a nightmare he had where dinosaur bones rose from the earth, cracked open, and released a plague of painful burrs that eventually covered *everything* and decades later I still think about this whenever I get burrs on me and it wasn’t even my dream.

Just got back from two nights of camping with the Kid and his scouting pack. Couldn’t ask for better weather for it, but I’m ready for a proper night’s sleep with a bathroom that isn’t a pit toilet a hike away.

Today I learned that an Action Packer is a trademarked name for a line of storage totes sold by Rubbermaid and not a gender affirming garment worn by trans men.

cow is a fan of smashing pumpkins

Getting shrunk down to less than a foot tall was definitely inconvenient, but Steve found it hard to be anything short of delighted when he saw how big Ritz crackers were for him now.

après moi le déluge, fuckfaces

Digger (2026) hasn’t met expectations at the box office, but Tom Cruise deserves some credit for taking a risk and the make up crew’s work is genuinely impressive.

I’m not saying sports mascots have to be native to the team’s area or anything. There are no bears in Chicago or royals in Kansas City and that’s fine. But flamingos are so Florida coded that I keep thinking “What are you doing in Wheaton?”

At the overlap of a complex Venn diagram there are some romantasy fans who feel very seen.

no more rectangle

Annie Jacobsen is clearly willing to go the extra mile to promote her books.

Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert has passed away at 84. You have to assume he felt kind of put out that he went to prison for molesting kids only a decade or so before Republicans decided that wasn’t such a big deal. www.npr.org/2026/10/05/g...