For my sins I recently rewatched Far Out Space Nuts and for best guest star I can't decide between Robert Quarry and silver-painted John Carradine

Does Claris have a brother who's a five foot, 400 lb. quarterback with the world's best running game?

...to what was in my great-grandparents' stories about living under the Tsar as Poles, I knew he'd been stewing his brain in hyper-nationalist bullshit and was irrational enough to believe it.
A lot harder to back off that than if he had stuck with realpolitik justifications

I thought at first he was just making threats for extortion, since the likely result for an invasion was get lots of people killed just to end back at the de facto status quo.
But - the Partitions and Russification were living memories in my family when I was a kid, so when his rhetoric changed...

Cat loaf?
No, cat boule

You're going to get the "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" speech from a post on its 59th minute

I do love a song about a song that sucks so hard it collapses into a singularity and pulls everything else in with it.
Just like I love songs about drug addled killer clowns, Ballard-esque snapshots of car accidents, and someone becoming a giant through force of will. And sinister sericulture.

He also complained that her breasts were too big. Like dude, just say "Well, we simply didn't work out" and leave it there rather than expose your foolishness to the world

I remember bands like Nitzer Ebb, who had pretty clear left-wing politics, being called fascists in the US because they had precisely those early 20th century European working class haircuts

Chesterton in The Incredulity of Father Brown: "It really is more natural to believe a preternatural story, that deals with things we don't understand, than a natural story that contradicts things we do understand"

Mango is a cat of quality

Hey, James Garner spotted an enemy patrol in Korea by smelling the onions and garlic from their food, so onions and *mustard*? Who knows what danger that Border Patrol agent averted!

A lot of post-2001 Islamophobia in the US was *precisely* 19th/early 20th century anti-Catholicism/antisemitism with a search and replace, including both "concealing" and "It's not just a religion but a whole behavioral system, so it's perfectly constitutional for us to ban it"

And we're making in noisier, though the good kind of noisy 🥳🎂🎁

Putting her at the end, when she should really be in the middle

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Why thank you!

This was local news for me as a kid (the earliest memory of my time in the Upper Peninsula in fact) and I invite all who wish to be a Yooper for a day

I see it was welcomed to its doom