Category: play
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snuff it
Armaments, Chapter Two, Verses 9 to 21: Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, “Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.” 15: First thou pullest the Holy Pin. 16-17: Then thou must count to three. Three shall be… Read.
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road trip
Well, I’m back from another 500-mile road trip to the frozen north. Not back as in just now. Not even as in just yesterday. I left early Tuesday morning with a couple of coworkers and we were back Wednesday night, so the news is a little stale, I’ll admit, but I’m doing the best I… Read.
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loopty-loop
From high atop the tallest stepstool I own, I took this aerial view snapshot of the Lost Continent Railway: My phone camera can also do panoramas. Nifty keen neato, right? The latest addition to the LoCo is the benchwork along the backside of the layout. The eastern terminal, yet to be named (although it’s rumored… Read.
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tornado room
For our last Friday the 13th dinner of the year we decided to dine at the Tornado Room on Main Street in downtown Madison. This was our first time at the Tornado despite having heard nothing but good things about it and telling each other for the past six years that we would have to… Read.
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can’t wait for the video
Hypothetical question for you: Pretend for a moment that you have somehow been sucked backward through time. Like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, you find yourself experiencing events that have already happened to you. As a general rule, what’s the one thing you should never, ever do? Anybody? Anybody? Okay, I’ll just tell you:… Read.
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The Astronaut Wives Club
It’s possible that the seven wives of the first American astronauts may have been boring people. I haven’t met any of them. It seems unlikely, though. What I’ve read about them (up until now) suggests that they were at least as interesting as most people. And being military wives, they’d traveled back and forth across… Read.
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57 channels of shit
All those channels of shit TV shows make it easier for you to get the quality shows you like to watch, according to the geniuses who study and write reports about his kind of crap. Having just returned from a business trip to Hayward, Wisconsin, where there is very little to do in early December… Read.
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hannalore gets it
In today’s installment of Questionable Content, a light bulb goes on over Hannalore’s head when she finally gets why Marigold wants to see Dale … and it’s a CFC light bulb. I wonder if this is the first time a CFC light bulb has been used in a toon to illustrate a eureka moment? Read.
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basketfull
This is how I end up with so many tools. When my Mom was preparing to move out of the ancestral manse, she lead me to the bottom of the basement stairs where Dad had built a work bench, waved her hand at the piles of tools he had accumulated over the years and said… Read.
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