Glibbooks 11 – Writing

by | Apr 16, 2023 | Animals, Ballot Access, Drugs, Energy, Family, Fitness | 229 comments

A quick little puzzle this week, so short in fact that I could only use the author’s name as the attribution. I made up for it by being unnecessarily verbose in the clues.  Now this week’s subject – we’ve all heard the phrase “everyone has a book inside them,”  and Hitchens’s addendum “which is exactly where it should, I think, in most cases remain.” Everyone who reads a lot probably thinks about writing a book, I have but I’ve never gotten farther than thinking about it. I have a few characters and a few scenes thought out but I’ve never put down a word in ink or pixels. I know we have a handful of writing Glibs – Mojeaux, Animal, UCS, and, I believe, a few more but I can’t remember their handles. How about the rest of you people, do you think you have a book inside, or ever tried to write one? Enjoy this glibcrostic and let us know in the comments…or don’t, you know the drill.

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229 Comments

  1. Pat

    The night was humid…

    When Fred Allen said this, he had me in mind:

    I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

  2. kinnath

    Hitchens’s addendum “which is exactly where it should, I think, in most cases remain.”

    great advice

  3. Tundra

    How about the rest of you people, do you think you have a book inside, or ever tried to write one?

    I participated in this back in I think 2004:

    https://nanowrimo.org/

    I succeeded in generating a decent story and hit the 50K word mark. I never did finish the story. As has been the story of my life, without a deadline I lose interest.

    Still, it was a fun exercise. I used to do a lot of writing for work and I fear sometimes that it burned me out.

    • Michael Malaise

      I have finished 2.5 feature screenplays and 2 shorts.

  4. R.J.

    The night was dark. And all the bourbon was gone. It was quiet. Too quiet.

    • kinnath

      As dawn crept gingerly across the dew-covered grass, she promised herself never to do tequila again.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        The Walk of Shame?

      • juris imprudent

        The crawl of imbalance?

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        No, that is the night of. The Walk of Shame is the morning after.

      • hayeksplosives

        Been there, done that.

        But if I have a massive grin plastered on my face, is it really shame?

        (Note to self: put a small bag with makeup, hairbrush, toothbrush, and change of clothes in the car tonight)

      • Chafed

        Do tell

      • juris imprudent

        Rawr!

      • Spudalicious

        The doe left the forest, thinking to herself, “I’ll never do that for two bucks again.”.

  5. R C Dean

    “I have a few characters and a few scenes thought out but I’ve never put down a word in ink or pixels.”

    I might have a little more than that in my head, but not much. And nothing written down.

    • rhywun

      Similar. I got a chapter or so down and then moved on to some other shiny thing. Probably for the best; I remember it being kind of embarrassing in retrospect.

  6. Mojeaux

    Animal == Anderson Gentry
    UCS == Robert McCarroll
    Mojeaux == Moriah Jovan

    • rhywun

      Moriah Jovan

      Yeah, OK. 😉

      • limey

        This hath reminded limey to make time to listen to “Moriah” talk to the nice libertarian man.

      • Tundra

        It was a terrific interview. Woods shut up and let her talk.

      • Mojeaux

        🥰

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I honestly don’t hear what about your voice or accent would make you self-conscious.

        Limey! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

      • Mojeaux

        My husband and Agent Sloper both said I didn’t sound like ME. I have a pretty nasally whiny voice, but sometimes my country rube accent goes away when I’m “on.”

      • Pat

        Having never heard your voice until I listened to the podcast (bravo, btw), I thought you sounded fine. I did detect a little twang here and there, which surprised me. Since we’re all just text on a page here, I don’t really have a mentally-assigned speaking voice for everyone, but I guess because I originally hail from the north, I just never think of anyone having any other regional accent. If I’m able to secure a place in Texas it will be a jarring transition.

        FWIW, the only sound in the world I would less rather hear than the sound of my own voice is Geddy Lee’s singing, and am fairly self-conscious about it, but I’ve actually had my voice complimented by strangers. It’s weird the bugaboos we make for ourselves.

      • Pat

        Incidentally, on the topic of the podcast, I suspect the reason there’s little in the way of children’s material that’s libertarian in nature is that the concepts are too abstract. Most adults glaze over, let alone kids. It’s easy to simplify collectivist ideologies into innocuous and universal platitudes that kids have to learn anyway, such as sharing and cooperation. Spontaneous order through mutual pursuit of individual self interest is tougher to break down into a simple enough framework for children. I, Pencil is probably as good as it gets.

      • Mojeaux

        I really do think that you have to approach it from a point of making the grind of life attractive, and then stripping down the principles to “I can do what I want” and “What I want to do is be good,” and then you can ease the rest of the base principles into the work.

        “I want to leave people alone and they will leave me alone.”

        “Why is my paycheck less than what I worked for?” “Well, Jimmy …”

        “Somebody should help that homeless man.” “We / the nonprofit / the church will help him because they / we want to and he needs help.”

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, it’s an awful pen name. I don’t know what I was thinking. Alas, I cannot blame substances.

      • rhywun

        Oh, lord. Thanks for putting that in my head.

      • Mojeaux

        Yeah, that was a problem.

      • rhywun

        Shush. I like it.

      • Fourscore

        Maybe the lack there of. There are some that claim certain substances may make one more creative, or was it hallucinatory ?

      • Mojeaux

        I was so focused on being able to shorten it to MO and JO that I just threw some darts, metaphorically speaking.

      • Pat

        If you’d have gone with Molly Johnson you could have gotten those sweet, sweet Australian royalty checks.

      • Animal

        Every now and then I get asked how I picked Anderson Gentry as a non de plume. My honest answer: “It sounded cool.”

      • rhywun

        Et tu?

        UCS’s seem too real to be fake.

      • Animal

        Et me buddy.

      • Homple

        I wouldn’t even be able to make up plausible character names, let alone write fiction.

    • The Hyperbole

      Do you recall any others, I swear I got a book once from some other glib, ISTR it was a coming of age story with some supernatual stuff mixed in.

      • Tundra

        Lord Humungous. I gotta check my Kindle and see if I can figure out his pen name.

      • Mojeaux

        It’s on the tip of my tongue because we corresponded for a while, but he hasn’t been here in AGES. I don’t know about Lord Humongus.

      • rhywun

        😮 I had no idea.

  7. Mojeaux

    I’m pretty sure my well is dry, but I have been having little flickerings of a new story I thunk up. Paranormal now, though still romance.

    • juris imprudent

      I thought you were working on the missing family link around the Civil War era?

      • Mojeaux

        I can think about more than one idea at the same time. 😜

      • robodruid

        I honestly think you could reskin your pirate works as space opera.

      • Mojeaux

        That’s … intriguing.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        CODS… IN… SPAAAAACE!!!!

      • robodruid

        I am serious. Classis space opera had pirate ships and navy ships with boarding axes/plasma cutters.
        Love angles/politics…..

        Many, many examples.

      • robodruid

        If you ever want to talk about it…
        “my handle”100@gmail.com

      • Mojeaux

        There are a lot of things I can do in an unregulated and technologically lacking society that I can’t do in a high-tech instant communication society. While intriguing, it feels like it’d be a lot of work for a genre I’m sort of not interested in.

  8. The Bearded Hobbit

    I work on trying to write but I am an engineer. Most everything I’ve tried sounds like a tech order. My personal best was published by this site..

    My daughter gave me a subscription to Storyworth. Each week I receive a new topic to write about and at the end of the year I will get a bound copy of my tales.

    OT, from ded thread, RE .45LC/.410

    Thanks for the reply, 4×20. I know of the Judge and I had a derringer that would take either, didn’t know in general.

    • hayeksplosives

      I work on trying to write but I am an engineer. Most everything I’ve tried sounds like a tech order.

      I can relate!!

      “You might be a huge nerd” when pillow talk revolves largely around nuclear physics.

      • Pat

        The chemical formula for Rearden metal has gotten more than one mythical libertarian female all atwitter…

      • Mojeaux

        *perks up*

        Hank Rearden?

        *fans self*

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        “Hey, baby, you can split my atom.”

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        “I’d bang you like the Far Hadron Collider!”

      • hayeksplosives

        Y’all are hilarious!

        Glibs rock.

      • Aloysious

        Never trust an atom.

        They make up everything.

    • Pat

      I made English class my bitch at every level of school right from the jump. 8th grade reading level in 3rd. But I can’t do creative writing at all. The only assignment I ever cheated on was when I rather extensively paraphrased an unpublished poem I copped from a BBS back in high school, before every tittle of the internet was indexed and automated anti-plagiarism software was widespread. 30 page analyses of subtext and metaphor, no problem. A 12 stanza original poem? Wasn’t happening.

      • Mojeaux

        My daughter may or may not have written this for her creative writing assignment, which she was sweating. She was grateful. For a couple of seconds.

      • Rat on a train

        I got an A in freshman composition with a note that my style was best suited for stereo manuals.

  9. hayeksplosives

    “When a proton and a neutron love 💕 each other very much…”

    Eh, I got nothin’

  10. Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

    The night was deep…

    Yeah, I have stories and characters in the ol’ noggin, but I am much more comfortable writing non-fiction: book reviews, movie reviews, screeds, that sort of thing.

    Been on a big Conrad jag lately, going through a lot of the minor and later novels. God, that man was good at his craft. But, I decided to switch it up, moving over to Lovecraft pastiches.

  11. limey

    I was thinking about a particular character that I wanted to include in the crappy novel I’ll never write and whether or not I could write a woman and do her justice. Lots of men write female characters but making her one of the leads is a huge gamble (or it would be if said “novel” would ever amount to more than trouble and strife).

    By and by it reminds me of a conversation I had a few years ago. This woman expressed some apparent fondness for ‘Stand By Your Man’ as a song that really spoke from the heart about a woman staying stoic through the good and bad of a trying relationship (said person happened to be a lesbian, but I suppose it’s applicable depending on the dynamic?). When I pointed out that it was written by a man* (Billy Sherrill) she recoiled, mortified, and expressed disappointment because for her, this completely invalidated the whole thing and made the song a horrendous fraud. It occurred to me privately that if the lyrics had been penned solely by Sherrill, then perhaps he had achieved an extraordinarily poignant expression of empathy in crafting such a ballad. Isn’t that what’s really important? Apparently not. Sad. This isn’t a very interesting anecdote.

    *I don’t know who wrote what, as the song is credited to both Sherrill and Tammy Wynette, although IIRC Ken Burns’ documentary gives lyrical credit to Sherrill – please confirm or deny

      • limey

        Haha! Shame on me for not linking that straight away.

      • Gender Traitor

        I also seem to recall that as covered by Lyle Lovett, it was used to great effect over the closing credits of The Crying Game. It got a laugh out of me, anyway.

  12. rhywun

    in fact if you have one of those silicone egg mold things you should just throw it away anyhow

    Agreed. I tried that route and it just made my eggs taste like plastic.

    • hayeksplosives

      I’ve been practicing making poached eggs.

      Getting good at it!

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        We just cheat and use one of these.

      • R.J.

        That’s a pretty cool gizmo!

      • rhywun

        I know how to do it, I just can’t.

      • hayeksplosives

        The real trick is timing the rest of the meal so that the poached eggs can be perfectly perched on the asparagus and prosciutto (or whatever) with everything at the optimum temperature.

      • EvilSheldon

        You haven’t read my foolproof poached egg recipie in the forum, huh?

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Sheldon, I have a question for you; what is a reasonable price on a P6 SIG that stovepipes all the time? A friend is looking to get rid of one, and I am tempted. Want to offer him a decent price though.

      • Sean

        Malfunctions – Using Sig mags or Promags?

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Sig, I am pretty sure.

      • EvilSheldon

        I’m not an expert on SIG valuation, but…

        I’d pass on it at any price. My time is too valuable to mess around with guns that don’t work. Especially all-metal DA/SA low-cap guns that have minimal collector value and have been out of production for twenty years.

        If this was the gun that really makes your life complete, offer him $400. Keep in mind that the gun doesn’t work as offered. You might only need new springs and magazines, but you might never get it to run with JHPs,or at all.

        I apologize for the bluntness, if you love P225s.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        No worries. I am looking for a solid plinker, and a project is no issue for me, as time is abundant. I rather dislike most double stacks, as they feel like I am holding a 2×4. My Hi-Power is regulated to safe queen, in any case, as I do not want it to end up as evidence if needed in an emergency. I don’t carry (no desire) but I do like well made items.

      • Sean

        New extractor & spring is under $30.

        https://www.midwestgunworks.com/sig-sauer-p225/parts.html

        If you just wanted to start throwing parts at it…who knows, maybe it just needs a really good cleaning.

        Be sure to put a lower weight mainspring in while you’re at it – 19/20 lbs.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Nice, thanks Sean.

      • Sean

        Disregard that link. Looks like the wrong part.

  13. Fourscore

    When I see all the creativity amongst the Glibs I’m amazed. The projects, the art, the musical ability is so far beyond my comprehension. Then the tech knowledge, cooking skills and all the other things you people do are so impressive.

    I am good at getting old though.

    • Shirley Knott

      From what I hear, you’re pretty darn good at bee wrangling, honey, and harvest festival hosting. I’ve seen that you’re a pretty fine raconteur, as well. Don’t sell yourself short.

      • Mojeaux

        Hear, hear.

        And you are beloved by many people. That’s the best thing.

    • EvilSheldon

      Very few people are good at getting old.

      • R C Dean

        I’m starting to take a run at it. So far . . . Mixed reviews.

      • Shirley Knott

        “I don’t mind getting old, but my body is taking it badly.”

  14. Rat on a train

    “It was a warm summer morning when Scrotie McBoogerballs awoke to find his …”

    • R.J.

      Penis wedged in a honey jar.

      • Pat

        “Why do I always find myself in these sticky situations?” He said aloud to himself with a self-satisfied grin, wishing the hooker from the night before had been around to hear it.

      • R.J.

        Across the room, he saw his friend, Johnny Picklenose, fast asleep, a small Mexican flag wedged in his buttocks. Johnny snored loudly, and as he did, the small flag fluttered jauntily as if in a breeze.

    • Fourscore

      …to find his wife and pool boy actually cleaning the pool.

      • Spudalicious

        He was so surprised, he woke the maid sleeping next to him to tell her.

    • R C Dean

      “His wrists itching from the fur-lined handcuffs, and the key just out of reach.”

    • The Gunslinger

      I miss dick slashballs.

      • R.J.

        Me too!

      • EvilSheldon

        Me three!

  15. Sean

    An ice cream truck just rolled through the neighborhood.

    • R.J.

      It’s almost that time here. I am collecting $1 and $5 dollar bills for it. Banana / chocolate pops are great.

    • Fourscore

      Spring has sprung. Here is still snowing, now 6 inches of heavy wet stuff but about over.

  16. one true athena

    I’ve done nanowrimo (Tundra mentioned above) a few times and I write for fun quite a bit, so I have drafts sitting around. But since I know how much work the original stuff would need to turn into something I’d want published, I just let them sit there.

    • Shirley Knott

      Yeah, I’ve got fragments littering multiple apps on the computer and the iPad.
      But I did manage to finish my pipe organ article, which turned into a 2-parter, and got it submitted to Tonio!

      • R.J.

        Fantastic. I am 1/3 through with the next article on TV in 2023. I need to finish it up. I have an excuse, my good PC died. I just now got a decent replacement. I’ve been running Thursday nights on my phone.

      • Shirley Knott

        I’m actually working on a somewhat similar for analog synthesizers, mostly modular’s, We’ll see, this one’s going to need some fermentation time.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Ugh, I have a movie review sitting partial in my head, waiting for the right doorway into it. I will get there, but it might be a bit.

  17. grrizzly

    This is from 2 days ago.

    Mentally ill people in a bubble.

    First time dining in since the pandemic started.. I dunno how to fee, opinions?

    Hey gang,

    Up until this point, I have dined indoors 0 times. I’m one of 2 people in an office of 60 that consistently masks w/ an N95 proper. I go as far as going outside to drink water.

    Now, I’m on vacation with my gf and she really wanted to try a particular restaurant. It’s supposed to have outdoor dining, but when we arrived, we found out they only do outdoors starting in May. She did offer to go somewhere else, but she really REALLY wanted to try this restaurant. Now she has dined indoors already but try to dine during slow hours and far and few between. I asked her, “is this one the one? Are we willing to get Covid for this?” She said yes, she really wants to try it BUT willing to go somewhere else because she knows how uncomfortable I am with it. I agreed to go. The food was pretty good, experience was great, however, the entire time I was incredibly uncomfortable and she could tell. I was spiraling guys.

    Now I’m in the hotel, she’s sleeping, and I’m feeling a little resentful. She did say she’d be afraid of me resenting/upset with her if we got Covid.

    I dunno, what’s your guys genuine opinion? How’s everyone living their lives? Gimme your $.02 man.

    • R.J.

      My opinion? I would like to urinate on your box of N95 masks and see if you still use them…

      I may not be the right person to ask.

      • Ted S.

        Kinky.

      • R.J.

        I know. I am an awful person.

    • Shirley Knott

      For $0.02, you’re a worthless, spineless, weak-willed, herd follower. Your girlfriend deserves better. You deserve nothing.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        My God man, that was pure poetry!

    • EvilSheldon

      “Is this one the one? Are we willing to get Covid for this?”

      I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more flagrant example of manipulative shitbaggery. I hope he falls into an open sewer.

      • Ted S.

        “Tragedy is when I get a paper cut on my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”

        — Mel Brooks.

    • Sean

      These are broken people.

    • Ted S.

      If you’re that fucking scared of covid, you shouldn’t be on vacation.

      • slumbrew

        Precisely

    • creech

      Obviously, a good candidate to run for something like Mayor of South Bend in a Democratic primary. Probably uses two condoms and wouldn’t go down on his GF for all the artisanal mayonnaise in Brooklyn Heights.

      • Sean

        Definately not an ass eater.

    • Grumbletarian

      I might pity him were it not for the fact that he probably cheered on the fucking up of everyone’s lives. I do pity the gf.

      • rhywun

        I’m torn. The guy was obviously subjected to the same brainwashing as the rest of us. At what point does pity turn to scorn?

      • Sean

        2021. At the most generous.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, that’s a pretty good answer.

        No doubt he is and probably always was an insufferable twat but I’m so angry at the last few years that it’s becoming hard to process some things.

      • Fourscore

        “an insufferable twat”

        You think you’ve hit peak insufferable twatishness and then you find you’re still in the on ramp.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        If he is the jackass who goes outside just to drink water!, then I have zero sympathy for his ass. He is exactly the kind of person who thought a Klan hood would protect him from black people. Now he thinks a damn mask is going to protect him from deplorables. He doesn’t want to breath the same air as normies.

        Fuck him.

      • R C Dean

        The gf has also made a choice. I’ve got no use for either, barring something more.

    • Tundra

      Kill yourself.

    • Rat on a train

      3 our vaxxers and 4 hail Faucis

    • Homple

      There’s no point in N95 masks for this poor bastard. He’s already dead for any practical purpose.

    • one true athena

      oh Jesus, one of the follow up comments is from someone “still sheltering in place”. Guys even the universities are finally ending the fucking mask mandates. It’s over.

      I can’t even imagine being these people still. And the worst part is, if these nutjobs actually catch it, they’ll all get “long covid” because they’re so psychotic they’ll make themselves sick.

      • rhywun

        Even my tru-believer neighbor stopped masking*.

        A couple years ago she gave me the “I’m immuno-compromised!” spiel in the elevator.

        *She still has a BLM sign in her bedroom window, though. Some religions don’t die.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        That one is going to take a vampire stake threw the heart to kill it.

    • Brochettaward

      These people vote. And specifically, voted for a group of cunts who are leading us along to WW3.

      • Brochettaward

        Grateful for everyone who continues to mask. I am getting better, just kind of slowly, so I’m hopeful I’ll recover within the next few months, but it is really stressful and frustrating with how little is really known about long covid treatment/prevention/causes etc. I think the booster and paxlovid helped with having a somewhat milder case at least, but definitely trying to do whatever I can to prevent reinfection.

        I claim to be ill for months from something that 99.9% of people recover from in a few days, but I’m sure that without my booster and paxlovid it would have been even worse…

      • Lackadaisical

        Long COVID might be real, but I suspect you only get it from the vaxx.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Glibs revealed, a timeline.

      • hayeksplosives

        The new research sez long covid is related to excessive mask usage.

  18. juris imprudent

    @ TPTB – new content released for your review, etc.

  19. Tundra

    Watching Purple Rain for the first time in a long while.

    Minneapolis was a glorious place to grow up. I wish I hadn’t taken it for granted.

    • hayeksplosives

      Yeah, I’m glad not to live in the Mini Apple anymore, but I am glad I was there for 19 years. Focused on the positive.

      But that town has jumped the shark!!

    • Fourscore

      Even 50 years earlier was fun. There were boys with slingshots, some close to home. Both the grade school and junior high I went to are closed/gone for many, many years. Cars were fewer, street cars way more plentiful. Moving to the country was a big event but I took to it like a fish in water.

    • hayeksplosives

      I watch the 2007 Superbowl (2006 season) Prince halftime show once in a while. Probably the best half time show in my lifetime.

      Dude knew how to entertain.

      This is a mini-docco about it. Not an unbroken performance, but fun to hear the “behind the scenes.”

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NN3gsSf-Ys

      • hayeksplosives

        Purple rain starts at 4:50 ish

      • rhywun

        I watched that SB just to catch the half-time.

        (That sentence will probably never be repeated in my lifetime.)

  20. hayeksplosives

    Colleague’s plane will land in about 40 minutes. I will get him from the airport and then we will decide where to go.

    Pretty sure we already know what to do.

    • Chafed

      Bow-chicka-bow-bow

      • hayeksplosives

        Mission accomplished!

        Decided to discreetly leave and come back home for a late dinner and sleep before the real world crashes in.

  21. Chafed

    I have written two books. Both short, nonfiction, and used to market my practice. If you want information about what I do, they are very helpful. If not, then you have no reason to read them.

    • rhywun

      I actually enjoy writing technical documentation for work. I’m always learning new shit and I’m inspired by good documentation when I come across it.

      • Chafed

        I have trouble writing my firm’s equivalent which is our internal processes. I just can’t get motivated to do it notwithstanding their importance. I eventually get it done but it’s like pulling teeth. On the other hand, anything we use for marketing I’m eager.

  22. Brochettaward

    I have written more Firsts than anyone in Firstory.

    • Brochettaward

      I’ve also gained 70 pounds carrying The First That Shall Change Everything. Do you people know what I sacrifice for your seconds?

      • kinnath

        It’s not a tumah!

      • rhywun

        Kuato lives!

      • Chafed

        Sounds like a perforated bowel.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Sorry, you are just a Fat ass, Firsts are weightless……….

      • Brochettaward

        You are a bigot.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Yep, i despise stupid people

    • Shirley Knott

      Objectively false.

  23. Yusef drives a Kia

    Hey Hey! greetings from South Carolina! Yusef is training for a new job, Facilities type of gig doing big box stores. the plan is for me to run a crew that covers all of San Diego county, Home Depot, Target, Bev mo and a bunch of other stores. good fun, good money. I live in paradise, and I have searched for a decent job to pay for the privilege, now I have it, Yippeee!

    • rhywun

      👍

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Thanks, I appreciate it rhy,

    • Chafed

      That’s great news. Are you supervising HVAC issues or something else?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        HVAC, energy management and the entire lighting for places like Target, HD etc. a large territory and I am paid portal to portal so even the drive makes me money.

    • R C Dean

      👍👍

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        This company really reached out to me which is cool, A 4 star motel and a Charger to drive, full tick for training, it’s looking good, thanks RC

      • Lackadaisical

        Good luck.

      • Fourscore

        Don’t forget the third Sunday in September!

    • Sean

      You’re on the wrong coast!!!

    • hayeksplosives

      Good luck with everything !!

      You’ve put in your time; now let your ship come in as you welcome it from the shore!

      👏🎊🎉🍾🥂

    • Gender Traitor

      🤜🏼🤛🏼🥳

    • Not Adahn

      Get yourself some whole-hog sakalina bbq.

      • Gender Traitor

        Is that the kind with the mustard-based sauce? I always liked that one from the local joint – Oinkadoodlemoo, which seems to have shrunk from a small chain to a single location on the opposite side of town. 🙁

      • Sean

        🙁

    • hayeksplosives

      Lol—that was fucking awesome.

      If I’m ever the getaway driver, I’d want to do it like that.

      I love the “collecting mr smith” attempt to be nonchalant immediately followed by as much attention-getting noise, lights, and action as possible.

      And of course, ya gotta get rid of the pigeon poop. That cramps one’s style.

      • slumbrew

        I assume you’ve seen Baby Driver? TIL that video lead to that movie (same director).

  24. robodruid

    Good Morning Glibs as well.
    It feels way to early to be moving.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, ‘bodru, U, hayek, and Sean!

      It was so lovely to be out on my back patio Saturday and yesterday morning. Then a cold front came through, and now it’s only 41 degrees. 😞 Oh, well! It should be a quiet week at the office, and I have a new library book on my Nook. Maybe I can get some “sneak reading” in between routine gotta-do’s and phone calls.

    • limey

      Time to oil yer joints. Morning.

  25. UnCivilServant

    *alarm goes off*
    Me *opens eyes, looks at clock, silences alarm*
    My Brain: “Come on, you know that’s not the real time, it’s all part of some dream.”
    Me: *gets up anyway because my brain is evil*

    • limey

      Is your Mitsuko hologram fully synergised with your alarm clock? Wakey wakey, UCS-san.

      • UnCivilServant

        There’s no holohgrams around here.

      • limey

        I can only guess that this means you managed to generate a real one a la Weird Science.

    • limey

      That’s almost SMOD-invoking.

      At the very least Congress should be investigating the election interference that NASA is doing via the DART program which is specifically designed to prevent any chance of SMOD ever running for office again.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What, parents that monetize their children and to some extent live vicariously through that can be manipulative aggressive snippy hardassessed bastards? Same as it ever was; see also child actors, child beauty pageants, any category of child media star really.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8374040/

        The meta-analytical results obtained allow us to estimate the prevalence rate of psychopathy in the general adult population at 4.5%

        That’s a lot of psychopaths. Unfortunately fir us, the social structures that helped to keep them in check have largely been demolished.

      • Rat on a train

        Stop stigmatizing psychopathy!

  26. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Link to the SpaceX Starship live feed for you space nerds:
    https://youtu.be/L5QXreqOrTA

    Should be pretty neat, either one of the biggest advances since Goddard or one helluva fireball.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Thanks. I forgot that was happening today.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yep, God and the possibility of Hell used to keep a lot of them under control but not so much anymore.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        We’ll damn, misthread.

  27. limey

    Good morning to all and congrats/godspeed to Yusef.

    There are things to be done and we must achieve the things to make the doing of the things happen so the things are done. In achieving what we must achieve to do the things we will make sure that the things we must achieve are achieved and thereby these achievements will allow us to do the things we need to achieve, and to achieve the things we need to do. My interns get this from chatGPT and put in on the teleprompter and on my cards to see if I will just read it, which I do, and will continue to do so when I am President, because in reading the things I am speaking the words that are written and therefore am reading the words you are hearing, and this is the job of the President nowadays. In becoming President I will have become the President of the United States and in doing so will have…

    I’ll leave that there since there really are things to do and to achieve the doing of and the Harris AI-generated speech thing is a probably a stale gag by now.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good just-barely-morning to you limey!

      Hear! Hear! Well….generated! 😕

      • limey

        *unplugs bootlegged Presidentator 5000*

        Mornin’ Red.

      • Gender Traitor

        Gotta ask – what’s the mood amongst your countrymen regarding King Chuckles’s impending coronation?

        (I just finished reading a survey of sorts of all the monarchs of England/Great Britain since Willie the Conqueror, so I’m curious as to the general public opinion re: the monarchy at this point in history – and the current one in particular.)

      • limey

        Idk. One thing I have noticed is that there are a number of people who declare themselves “republican”. By this they seem to mean that they don’t approve of the monarchy, but have not necessarily formulated any republican values or principles beyond this. Idk. I suppose it depends on the individual.

        Other people really freakin’ love the whole thing.

        I suppose I don’t get particularly excited about it but wish they would be completely self-sustaining. I suspect many “republicans” would be okay with that too. Again, idk.

  28. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, reprobates.

    Congrats on the new gig, Yufus!

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, ‘patzie! ::raises travel mug of more-exotic-than-I-can-appreciate coffee::

  29. Shirley Knott

    Mornin’ all.
    Yup, snowing outside my building. From a high of 84 on Saturday to a forecast high of 37 today, with snow showers. SMDH.

  30. Fourscore

    Good morning to all!

    Beautiful day, 6 inches of fresh snow from yesterday. It truly is pretty but too much makeup doesn’t help at this time of the year. It’ll be slushy by noon but I have a lot to do. On a more cheerful note, I see tomatoes and cabbages popping up in my starter trays. I’ll be ready when the time is right. I’m only planting those things we like and the excess space will be filled with watermelon and squash, those can use more room and easy to give away.

    I’m assuming god is on my team this year.

    • Mojeaux

      That happened super close to me. The news was all abuzz about what are the deets????, but nobody was saying a word.

      • mindyourbusiness

        Yeah, Mo, that’s what bothers me. Plenty of shouting and marching and flinging heated rhetoric, but facts? Not so much…