Western Michigan, Coast

by | Dec 2, 2020 | Art, Fun, Travel | 216 comments

Bella walks me here daily. A dog friendly beach, let’s see.

The Big Lake

Some dune grass, and the local pot shop is called Dune Grass, go figure.

Windy, pretty,

Wind Waves!

The next photos are taken with a Kodak Pixpro AZ421, much better than my phone.

Manistee Lighthouse

Action!

Even more

The Big Propeller

Bluffs to the North

Again, this area has a lot to offer in the way of photography, and as Winter comes on, all this will change again, and I’ll be standing in a blizzard, taking pictures.

Long swim

Til next time, Cheers!

 

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Yusef drives a Kia

Yusef drives a Kia

Punctually illiterate But never late

216 Comments

  1. blackjack

    Cool pics

    • blackjack

      Looks like there’s a whole bunch of people with half melted faces in Wisconsin.

      • blackjack

        It wrecks a joke if you explain it, but the sign in the last pic says Wisconsin 54,200 strokes.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        That sounds like it will take more than four hours.

  2. westernsloper

    Looks windy. Love the lighthouse.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I blew my closeup shots, too close! must do them again….

  3. rhywun

    Love the surf pics. Very different from the south shore of my home Great Lake (Ontario) – prolly because orientation and wind direction.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      thanks, very much, the prevailing wind decides, I await the freeze, the pictures should be awesome,

      • rhywun

        You’ll surely get an ice storm or two. Those will make amazing pics.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I have some very interesting Ideas, let’s say I’m not afraid of Ice or Water…

    • blackjack

      I went to my grandpa’s house in Meqoun WI and there really weren’t any waves there, maybe 6″ tall and pure whitecaps. He had the lake in his back yard. Yusef’s pics look like a particularly windy day, maybe.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It gets Bigger, you’ll see, promise,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I will plan, and dress, including life jacket, and plan again, and go do some Danger shots, maybe…

      • blackjack

        That’ll be really cool. Crashing waves make for dramatic pics.

      • The Gunslinger

        All of the beaches I have been to on Wisconsin side of lake michigan are rocky. All of the beaches on the Michigan side are very sandy.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Glaciers will do that,

      • blackjack

        My grandpa’s shoreline was mostly a cliff about four feet tall. It was late summer and pretty chilly, so we didn’t spend a lot of time out there.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’m actually seeking out the Cold and harsh places here, I’ve done the Desert Southwest, I want Tundra! and Frozen Lakes!
        /Fucking cold

      • Hyperion

        “/Fucking cold”

        And boy, are you ever going to get it.

      • Jarflax

        I want Tundra!

        I hate to burst your bubble but I think he is in the other M State.

      • Tundra

        I’m mobile.

        Happy to see you enjoying our world, Yusef!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        @ Jar, you got it,
        @ Tundra, I can’t wait, I’m ready..

    • Don escaped Two Corinthians

      Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
      In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
      Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams
      The islands and bays are for sportsmen
      And farther below Lake Ontario
      Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
      And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
      With the gales of November remembered

      • rhywun

        I was six years old when that was playing on the radio constantly. I was probably in my late teens or early twenties when I got clued in on what it was actually about.

      • blackjack

        We had a shipwreck at the beach I grew up on. Eventually, they salvaged most of it and made the rest into a reef. It was alleged to be responsible for the sometimes huge surf we got there. It was called the La Janelle. I was really bummed when they flattened it, it was omnipresent in my early childhood.

      • blackjack

        This is it

  4. Hyperion

    Great pics, always enjoy your posts.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Thanks for the link, America, Fuck Yea!

    • rhywun

      FREE STATEN ISLAND!

      I just caught the tail-end of Braveheart and now this.

    • westernsloper

      Is that in front of the restaurant the twits viral guy was yesterday? That guy is awesome.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      “Cuomo sucks! Cuomo sucks!”

      Don’t read the replies. I had it right as a teenager: people ARE stupid.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Link?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        The tweety above.

      • Hyperion

        Yes, especially do not read the comments.

        We can’t have Christmas! Because you meanies won’t obey your masters! We could have Christmas if we would all obey!

        Good grief what a bunch of adult children sheep.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yep, the replies are mostly terrible, almost like COVID exists in a vacuum and there are literally no other considerations. I hate those damn people.

      • DEG

        I read some of the replies.

        I’ve heard all that shit before. The “you’ll be quiet when you’re on a ventilator” and the like. It was wrong then, it’ll be wrong this time too.

      • Chipwooder

        If only these fools would sit in their houses 24/7 wearing MOPP gear, no one would ever die again!!

    • blackjack

      They say that Beverly Hills got 955 comments on the outdoor dining ban and 918 were adamantly opposed. Even the deep blue crazy people out here have had enough.

      • Sean

        Good numbers.

  5. LemonGrenade

    I really love visiting Michigan in the summer. Never had the guts to try it when it was cold, though.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      It’s not cold, yet, I’ll post when it is,

    • PudPaisley

      Upper Michigan is stunningly beautiful in the winter, especially the snow belt areas to the west and north in the UP. The winters can be long and harsh, though.

      • LemonGrenade

        We spent time in Copper Harbor and thereabouts for two years running during the summer. Love the UP. In the summer. I tend to retreat indoors if it’s below 30F.

      • PudPaisley

        That is an awesome area. I plan on doing a 3 day snowmobile backpack trip this winter, and we’ll spend a day around Copper Harbor.

        My Grandparents and Mom grew up in the UP, and my parents retired up there. I like to ski and snowmobile up there in winter, but I pick and choose the times I go based on weather. I got no use for doing those things anymore when it gets below 0. The rest I can dress for. Surprisingly, you don’t really get cold snowmobiling unless temps are below 0.

        Oh, and your summer trip sounded awesome. I would love to do something like that, but I never get summers off due to a landscaping business. The bonus is at least I get to spend everyday outside in beautiful environments.

      • LemonGrenade

        The only time we can really travel is when the kids aren’t in school, but since I’ve worked remote for ages, when they do hit summer vacation, we go hog wild. Our “Escape 2020” summer vacation hit fourteen states, with stops at Mt Rushmore and Yellowstone included. We were gone so long, the town sent someone from public works to check up on us because we hadn’t used water or sewer at the house in two months.

        If you don’t get summers off, I would heartily recommend the Florida Everglades as a winter vacation. We spent Christmas break there last year, and it was absolutely amazing. Seventy degree weather on Christmas day, double rainbows, and I got to see alligators and so much wildlife. I’m dying to go back.

      • PudPaisley

        I have a childhood friend who has a commercial fishing boat in the Keys, but spends a lot of time in the winter months just chilling out down there. I’m hoping to spend a couple weeks down there this winter or next. I have an open invite any time I want to go. I’m itching to go fishing, snorkeling, and scuba diving down there.

        My biggest problem is finding reliable help to cover my part of the snow removal route in winter. My main guys are good, but haven’t had reliable part timers in several years. Really puts a cramp on my winter plans sometimes.

      • LemonGrenade

        If you can get the chance, I highly recommend it. We spent a week at Flamingo Point campground and had the time of our lives. Hope you can find the reliable part timers that will give you a chance at a decent vacation.

    • The Last American Hero

      Yes they are.

    • PudPaisley

      Good stuff. I’m gonna have to explore them some more.

      Congrats on the new job.

  6. straffinrun

    I’m killing time in an office where the boss is an asswipe so the atmosphere here blows. Everyone unhappily working. Glad I’m nuking this job when the contract is up. Thanks for pics, Yusef. Lightening the morning.

    • rhywun

      I’ve been getting an up-close lesson in what “micromanagement” is lately. OMG I hate it so much.

      • straffinrun

        That breathing over the shoulder stuff is bad. This boss insists and doing parts of my job for me and is doing it slower and incorrectly. Idiot.

      • rhywun

        It’s because they have someone breathing down their neck and they don’t trust you.

        Fucking toxic.

      • straffinrun

        Well, I guess I’ll just be overlooking those mistakes of hers. Her name is on the doc and not mine.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Use the 3 C’s to your advantage.
        ?‍♀️

    • blackjack

      I thought I was killing time, ‘turns out it was killing me.

  7. Fourscore

    Nine years ago, this time of the year, I looked east across Lake Michigan. Very similar in appearance.That was a sad day for me, had just been to my brother’s funeral in Waukegan.

    Today, on the other hand was better, cleaning up bee equipment. Vacuuming out bees, 1000s alive and not happy. Got stung 2X, in December. Got everything cleaned up, ready for next year and more bee stings. Life goes on.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Life goes on, and I will Photograph it,

      • Fourscore

        That’s the best part, Yusef, the pictures refresh our memories.

        Do you carry your camera with you every time you go out (in the car?).

        Always enjoy your pix/narratives.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Since I bought a real Camera, it goes everywhere with me, most pics never get seen,

  8. DEG

    Great pictures!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      i promise, the next set will rock even more,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I had to buy anti fog Safety glasses just to look into the heavy wind, I have water/wind gear, a PFD, a tripod and a real good eye, let’s Surf!

  9. Yusef drives a Kia

    I scored what should be a real nice job today, interviewed and hired on the spot, on my terms, turns out showing up to work is a new thing, who knew?
    Then he really looked at my resume and began offering me me Bonuses, let’s see how it plays out, but having a skillset Rocks!

    • LemonGrenade

      Outstanding news! Hope you like it!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I like Money, Money buys Freedom,
        If I work hard, i can pay off my house early, then semi retire and go fuck off, forever, but until then, I gotta go Dave Ramsey from hell,

    • DEG

      Excellent news!

    • Fourscore

      Good to hear. You da man!

      OTOH you used that scary 4 letter word .

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I Won’t Lose My House, period, if it means the bad word for another 5 years, so be it,

    • kinnath

      Great news

    • Sean

      Rock on, dude! ?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Music is next….

    • blackjack

      Grats. Working beats scrounging.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Damn Skippy!
        Sitting is for losers

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Awesome news!

    • Count Potato

      Go you!

    • Gender Traitor

      O Frabjous Day! A good gig!

      Thanks for the pics. I HOPE I’ll get a chance to think of them next spring when the Dayton Dragons are playing the West Michigan Whitecaps.

    • Aloysious

      Congrats on the job.

      Guess who gets to buy the beers?,,,

  10. Yusef drives a Kia

    does anyone have any flower seeds they could send me? I can grow anything in my house, and want a nice garden throughout, anything would be fine,
    I like flowers, but will grow anything

    • limey

      Oh sure, let’s see what gets through customs.

      TALL PLANTS!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        LOLOLOLOL!
        I dont know how to respond I’m laughing so hard!
        Tall cans make tall plants?

      • limey

        Only with water and sunlight, ‘Sef.

    • Fourscore

      I’ve got a variety of garden seeds but they do better outside. If you want to start garden plants inside, like Mar/April I’d be happy to send tomatoes/peppers/cabbages, that kind of stuff. Got apple seeds but I’m not sure they are viable.

      I do have about 15 apple trees sprouting in the window, hopefully some of those will make it outside.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        not Apples, but I can grow the others now, my entire house is now a grow room, just need more plants

      • Fourscore

        latvia2112 at the yayhoo place. I’ll put some in the mail, whatever varieties I have. For ex, several pepper, different tomato, etc. Bigger seeds, watermelon, squash?

  11. Count Potato

    “For straight couples, there is one key difference be­tween sex for the male and for the female: a woman gets a penis inserted into her while a man gets to insert his penis into someone else. That’s all nice and good. Sex is pleasurable for both genders. But from what I’ve discovered, only one gender has to save room in her body if a penis is to go into it — mean­ing that sometimes, if you’ve eaten a hearty meal, there isn’t enough room for a penis.

    Sure, women can eat and then have sex. But they really can’t eat a lot. You know the saying “You can always make room for dessert”? Well, you can’t always make room for a dick. Especially if you’ve eaten dessert.”

    https://www.thecut.com/2020/11/too-full-to-f-cazzie-david-book-excerpt.html

    What?

    • blackjack

      That’s why supermodels subsist on mostly individual M&Ms.

    • rhywun

      I’ll sit this one out.

    • limey

      Sometimes I’m just too full to have sex. I don’t know for sure if this is something other girls experience or just me, because I’ve never heard any of them discuss it. Maybe it’s supposed to be kept secret among us girls, information so sensitive that we cannot risk releasing it in conversation. Or maybe I’m actually the only one who gets too full to be able to have sex, and if that’s the case, then pretend this never happened.

      Perhaps she’s “eating” dessert wrong. Kinky.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        YMMV, yuch.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I kill the Males, only Virgins make the cut,

    • LemonGrenade

      I’m not even sure how that works since the organs occupy different areas of the body. Maybe she’s just not brazen enough to say, ‘not tonight honey, I have a headache.’ Although…. I ate too much to have sex? Makes you sound like a real pig.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        We are talking Pot plants here, it’s a bit different,

      • blackjack

        Prolly pull a Karen Carpenter, eventually, that one!

    • Q Continuum

      “I love to eat (ever since I got over my fear of eating). I tend to eat until I feel sick.”

      Homegirl has an eating disorder, not a sexual disorder (though I guess she might have one of those too).

      • rhywun

        And she thinks sharing her disorder with the world is healing instead of narcissistic.

    • straffinrun

      That kind of thinking is what happens when people who barely have the intellectual capacity to mop a floor are given time to write.

    • Chafed

      Larry David must be proud.

    • straffinrun

      Dominican American Woman Educator. Yeah, attack that gold medalist at your peril.

      • straffinrun

        Read the full thread and now am thinking helicopter rides are reasonable to consider.

      • rhywun

        Intersection overload.

        If only the “American” part wasn’t there.

      • Chipwooder

        No, that’s the silver medalist. The gold medalist is the Dominican American panfluid genderqueer Muslim educator who is in a wheelchair.

      • rhywun

        Also LOL

      • Chafed

        Spot on.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I hate being old and Good looking, FUUUUCK!

    • limey

      I hope #32 skipped dessert.

      • blackjack

        Right. Every date, you’re watching. Dammit, she ordered pie! Shoulda bought dinner for Rosie.

      • Q Continuum

        Too full to fuck?

      • limey

        Yes, to paraphrase Jello Biafra.

    • Chipwooder

      24 is pale as hell but she looks like she’d be a wild one.

  12. Yusef drives a Kia

    Since I Bought a real Camera, I am able to see the images i want to see, and capture them,https://photos.app.goo.gl/vkypPAKYjD4vmjhN6
    and I pay attention to where I photograph, and take time lapsed images, to save and compare, this is fun,

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Dependable, and Mad skills, who thought?
      Thanks trashy!

  13. trshmnstr the terrible

    OT: Giuliani may be a dolt, but his closing statement in Michigan tonight confirmed all my biases. Called out the covidians, called out cancel culture, called out the GOP “we’ll set a meeting to discuss creating a committee to tackle this issue” mentality.

    It was refreshing to hear, to be quite frank.

    Also, I was the only person without a mask on at the gun club. That was a bit disappointing. The silver lining is that I heard multiple people asking one another “can you do that?”

    I respect signs where they are posted. There was no sign. Thus, yes I can walk around the gun range without a mask.

    • straffinrun

      Rudy is dirtbag. He’s probably the right choice to expose this stuff.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        He’s a good fit for Trump. Ticks all the same boxes. Not a person I personally care for but sometimes he can speak a good speech.

      • creech

        That new “Empires of New York” tv show purports to show Guiliani as a crusading prosecutor who crippled the NY Mafia families.
        [Probably did more crime busting than Teddy Roosevelt did]. Then he goes on to be mayor of NYC and cleans up its crime wave and decay. then comports himself well after 9/11. T.R. parlayed less than that into eventually becoming president. I guess Cheney stood in Guiliani’s way in 2004, but what about 2008?

      • Chipwooder

        Couple of things stood in his way: 1)war fatigue – there was that famous moment in the debate when he got very huffy when Ron Paul challenged him on the probability that previous American foreign adventures spurred the 9/11 attacks. It drew attaboys from a certain type of Republican voter, but enthusiasm for the war had already been waning even within the GOP. In retrospect I think it’s pretty clear that embracing the GWOT did him no favors, particularly since McCain the God of War was in the race to scoop up those voters anyway 2)He was too New York for a party that generally trends rural, southern, and socon. There were the pictures of him in drag, etc. 3)He’s not the most likeable or charismatic guy around.

      • Chafed

        4) He waited for the Florida primary before making an effort to win or place in a state.

  14. Yusef drives a Kia

    Still waiting for all this “Bad” weather, I need new subjects Dammit!

    • straffinrun

      Michigan winter? No thanks.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s only 100 degrees lower than where I came from, so what,?

      • gbob

        For me,, what breaks a person isn’t the cold. Its the grey. Its relentless. The great lakes dim the light of whatever you give a shit about. Then, in April or May you feel sun again, and life is good.

        Its the time of year I wonder why I ever moved back from Texas to Buffalo.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        We’re “wintering over” in Montana and the grey and darkness are starting to wear on us. Dark at 1630 and still dark at 0730 the next morning. Temps around freezing and grey skies but no snow. I’m beginning to think that a northern NM winter isn’t quite so bad.

  15. straffinrun

    If you were going to do all these aggressive actions to limit the vid spread, shouldn’t you explain exactly how you weighed the costs involved before you implemented them? “We recognize that suicides, preventable disease and addiction deaths will increase at approximately *this* rate. Overall we expect a net of X number of lives saved, however.”

    Governors like Newsom and Cuomo did absolutely nothing of the sort. In any other setting besides government, that type of leadership regarding risk management and persuasion of underlings gets you canned in a heartbeat.

      • Gustave Lytton

        ~2.8M total annual deaths / 12 * seasonal fudge factor = math checks out

        Oh wait, is that excess Covid caused deaths only?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Silly, they don’t have to answer like real companies do,

      • straffinrun

        Not true. Look at all those Coke commercials claiming Pepsi gives you AIDS.

    • blackjack

      Dude, they banned outdoor dining here. They have not been able to explain any rationale for it, either. There’s no science or studies or anything, they just up and thought, ” I know, let’s ban outdoor dining!” And then did it. They’re in court trying to justify it right now. The judge is demanding some form of science to justify it. It ain’t never gonna come. There is none. They asked the county Health Nazi for any form of evidence and she said, ” I don’t have that here” At the fucking announcement of the new ban! Right before thanksgiving, they outlawed dining in restaurants. Fucking evil.

      • straffinrun

        I agree. They had no explanation beyond simplistic slogans. I’m just saying that you could explain to a fence sitter the point I made and it might get traction.

      • blackjack

        Well, those 250k deaths from the ‘vid? They did not bump the normal amount of deaths by 250k. Turns out, those deaths came from the normal numbers of Heart disease, cancer and whatever lese deaths happen every year. We should have had a normal amount of deaths plus 250k, instead, we had a normal amount of deaths. The whole fucking thing is fake. The people who’ve died were the same people who would’ve died anyway.

        If that didn’t get traction, nothing will. It’s become a religion. Pick a side and stick with it.

      • straffinrun

        Eventually the lunacy will be exposed. I’m just trying to snag anyone I come across that doesn’t really follow this stuff.

      • Libertesian

        We should have had a normal amount of deaths plus 250k, instead, we had a normal amount of deaths.

        What is your source for this claim?

        FWIW, I’ve been watching the Human Mortality Database (HMD), and if you believe their numbers, the US has experienced around 335,000 excess deaths in 2020 YTD compared to the average deaths during 2016-2019. They provide a pretty graphical tool here, as well as the numbers used to generate the graphs.
        Here is a screenshot of the graph showing 2020 excess deaths by week regardless of cause.

  16. Yusef drives a Kia

    cooler tomorrow, 3 degrees cooler, thats all you got? meh…

    • PudPaisley

      I grew up on the other side of the lake in Kenosha, WI. Drove along the lake shore almost every day going to and from work. You should be able to get some really cool pictures once the ice starts forming along the shoreline.

      There’s a lot of cool optical illusions, especially around dawn and dusk when the skies are grey. Sometimes the clouds in the distance look like giant glaciers in the water off in the distance. Smoking a joint on the way to and from work every day probably helped with the visuals.

  17. hayeksplosives

    Great photos!

    Have you ever been ice fishing, Yusef?

    • straffinrun

      I love eating hatchet wounds.

      • slumbrew

        What you did there is seen.

      • Tres Cool

        Dont be so vulgar. A kinder term would certainly be ‘stench-trench’.

  18. Q Continuum

    “Americans are suffering from a ‘delusional psychosis,’ according to Los Angeles child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald[…]’there is a delusional psychosis that has taken over where people are impervious to rational thinking. They don’t want to give up the mask, they don’t want to give up the social distancing,’ he said. ‘[People] are impervious to reason, to logic, to education at this point. They are psychotically managed by their fear.'”

    https://archive.li/p8UKa

    I couldn’t put it any better myself.

    • Q Continuum

      More:

      “When New York Mayor Bill de Blasio started to shut down New York City, close restaurants, bars, schools, basically put everybody in a state of house arrest, he said, ‘If these policies that I am enacting save one life, it will be worth it.’ That is idiocy. We do not ever make public health policy based on saving one life. We look at perspective, we look at cost, we look at assets.”

      PREACH.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Just shoot the unmasked on sight.

    • Chipwooder

      Hooboy….see, this is what I was talking about earlier today when we were discussion the probabilities that there will or will not be civil unrest. If this kind of thing continues, combined with people continuing to lose their livelihoods, I could see things escalating.

      • Chafed

        So you’re saying he was lobotomized.

    • Chipwooder

      Uh oh, sounds like somebody’s getting moved further down the intersectionality pyramid…..

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It votes for Biden, thick or thin
        Or it gets the hose again

      • Chipwooder

        It’s still mind-boggling to me that this horseshit has gone completely mainstream now. I mean, even ten years ago or so people would have laughed at you had you described America 2020, but virtually everyone in media, academia, and now even the corporate world has swallowed this eagerly and asked for seconds. It’s completely nuts.

      • LJW

        I think the corporate world for the most part knows it’s bullshit. They just cater to the derp because they know in the end it doesn’t hurt them.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        You’re much more of an optimist than I. I know too many true believers to not think that corporate is all in on this stuff.

      • Q Continuum

        It doesn’t hurt them until it hurts them.

        Hoping the crocodile eats you last is not a very good long-term strategy.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Maybe some of the older more senior ones, but the younger wave is full into that crap.

        I see it like the Cultural Revolution. The momentum with the young idiots and they are de facto in charge of this. The mid level management is either trying to ride it or trying to avoid it while the C suites are trying to avoid getting labeled as a capitalist-roaderracist.

      • LJW

        In the end regardless of their political leanings they rarely practice what they preach. Which leads me to believe they know it’s bullshit. They preach to create good feelz, which in their mind makes them look like good leaders. Meanwhile people within the company who can think rationally don’t call them out for fear of job loss or being labeled.

        Same applies to politics. I don’t think most Democrats buy into the bullshit they preach. They do it for the power. Just look at all the Democrats defying their authoritsrian Coronavirus

      • LJW

        Damn phone finger slipped.

        Authoritarian coronavirus orders*

    • slumbrew

      That headline is a whole lot of (actual) racism in just 10 words.

    • LJW

      They wonder why the polls were wrong…

    • leon

      It’s also from 2017, and the source of our “the Nick Gillespie of x group joke”

    • limey

      Article posted in a section named ‘VERY SMART BROTHAS’.

      ??‍♂️

  19. Gustave Lytton

    I missed the big Shikha news earlier. Good, it’s past time.

    Funny to see all of the fake libertarians like Radley lapping up her assertions not only without question, but adding his own leftist identify politics on top of it. For being such big Shikha fans, you’d think they’ve read enough of her work to see the constant crap she reuses. I also love how people are quick to lay this on the magazine and ignore that she was a Reason Foundation senior policy analyst. If she got canned, it was by her bosses at the Foundation and probably for more than just writing “anti-trump” pieces.

    • Chafed

      I think you’re right. There has to be more to this. She was a one trick pony. I felt like I was reading the same article repeatedly. Hopefully the full story comes out sooner rather than later.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I hope Kyle Rittenhouse gets a better lawyer soon.

    • Gustave Lytton

      A) anyone that names their association “collective” can fuck right off.

      B) still drinking the kool aid and wanting to believe in unicorns

      C) ignore that the governor’s chief of staff is an apologist for destructive criminals and trying to carry on a conversation with a thug like that. Decorating a lamppost is all he is good for.

  20. UnCivilServant

    *grumble*

    I’m trying to find/come up with a way to make fake power cables for miniatures. Those techniques I’ve seen don’t seem practical. Anything requiring heating plastic is right out. I contemplated use of epoxy putty, but getting a consistant diameter just seems to elude me.

    • But Enough About My Pulsating, Geriatric Pecs

      Why not just use actual hookup wire? Comes in loads of different gauges and colours.

      • UnCivilServant

        Because it’s difficult to work with, can’t simply be attached with plastic glue, might not take the same primer as everything else, and I’m trying to keep it all plastic.

      • UnCivilServant

        If the suggestion with regards to coloring was to leave it unpainted, that would stick out like a sore thumb from the rest of the work. The paint provides a consistant look and feel to the elements of the scene.

      • UnCivilServant

        Of course that is going to sound hypocritical if I ever get the last kitbash article done because I use unpainted chain in that, but that chain may actually have been a bad choice.

      • UnCivilServant

        Screw it. I’ll leave the project requiring cables be and go finish the chains for the kitbash.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Use the cladding off of fine gauge wire, like 24-26ga?

    • Tres Cool

      mornin’

      • Sean

        Mornin.

        Time to get ready for work.

  21. Sean

    Covid!
    Covid!
    Covid!

    Yer all gonna die!

    Why do I even watch the news? ?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What are you talking about? My mom used to pour me a nice refreshing RC out of where her head used to be every day when I was a kid.

    • robc

      I was not awake enough for that yet.

    • Gender Traitor

      Do they have license plate-reading traffic cameras? Just wondering if enforcement is technologically possible.

      • UnCivilServant

        You can’t prove who is in that car anyway.

      • Gender Traitor

        “Areas around LA see huge spike in reports of ‘car thefts'”

        Saw your miniature cable conundrum above. Would polyester be close enough to plastic for your purposes?

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t know. I strongly suspect not, but I haven’t tried.

      • l0b0t

        If these are just static cables, maybe try using thin copper wire? You can bend it into any position and It will hold primer and paint.

      • UnCivilServant

        Because making the simple hooks for the chains on the kitbash has put me off working with metal wire. Maybe you have better luck than I do, but I’d be better off trying green stuff again.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I doubt it’s sophisticated enough but this is all about selective enforcement anyway. They can lodge a charge against almost anyone when they step out of line and are from out of town at will with this requirement because very few are going to do it.

  22. Gender Traitor

    It’s BattleBots night! I know there won’t be a studio audience, and I hope they don’t screw it up with too much mask crap, but it helps make up for the lack of Punkin Chunkin’ on Thanksgiving.

    • robc

      Let me know when they go fully autonomous. Keeping your AI alive becomes key then.

      • UnCivilServant

        Why would you want that? It removes the fun from the sport.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Keeping yourself alive will be key when that happens.

    • Tres Cool
    • UnCivilServant

      Translation: “I didn’t think I’d be hit on by ugly people too!”

    • Tres Cool

      FTA:

      I have calculated the following from the messages I get from men:

      * 92 per cent think if you are con-fident enough to be seen in your undies, you must be up for sex.

      * Two per cent tell me that, as a Muslim woman, I will go to hell.

      * Two per cent send sleazy, cringeworthy compliments.

      * Two per cent send decent compliments.

      * Two per cent send explicit photos of their penises.

      Margin of error ?

      /as a muslim woman, Im sure her local Imam would have some strong words for a barely-clad woman sharing her pics on the internet. YMMV.