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Nat Moes
@grandpabelcher.bsky.social
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Not really a grandfather. Senior editor, Wizards of the Coast, husband, dad, baker, gamer, and eternal MTG player. He/Him #BAOM!
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Really glad Wikipedia has a year end wrap up now.
Graphic with a puzzle piece at the top and listing my “top articles” the Wikipedia articles I visited most in 2025: 1. French Republican calendar 2. Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act 3. Taskmaster (TV series) 4. Adam Sandler 5. The Sandlot
December 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Well, you see, Ohio is dumb.
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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New profile picture courtesy of @cleverpseudonym.bsky.social, commemorating the fun of being a local TO.
My Bluesky profile header. Profile picture is me in a comic explosion patterned blazer and Team Serious T-shirt, gesturing with hand raised in explanation. A handwritten word bubble says “I expect six people.” The background is a Microprose MTG sealed bracket with an error message saying the victory AVI movie file can’t be located. It’s 8:09 p.m, I have three bars, and the phone is 67% charged.
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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If you’re bored.
It says two by for. Should be hyphenated, and four is spelled wrong. This is the worst. It’s late and I and everyone else in my house had stomach flu this week and I just don’t know how to interact on this website anymore. Did I ever? I miss my friends in real life and my friends from the old internet. I hope this finds you. Thank you for your attention in this matter.
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Arby’s receipt randomly made me wonder. Have you cast 399 Demonic Tutors in your lifetime? What was your 399th DT for? #wotcstaff
A section of an Arby’s receipt for a kids slider meal. The order number is DT399.
October 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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I guess he’s an A’s fan.
Crude acrylic painting by an adult (me) of a purple onion headed fellow wearing a green shirt with yellow trim. Blue shorts (jorts?) are maybe a little short, but within acceptability. The yellow shoes and orange laces coordinate with the shirt. Impossible to tell if he’s really an A’s fan or likes baseball at all. He looks sad.
September 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Anyone else have this book as a kid? I remembered poring over the illustrations when I was young and bought a used copy. Has been a hit with my own kids the past few nights.
Cover of “INvisibles” by Larry Evans, a hidden picture puzzles book. An illustration of a rustic country road with cows, a tree, and rocky hill. Instructions say to “Find the hidden fox and the horse he frightened.” (Spoiler: The fox is integrated with the base of the tree with his head in the grass. The horse is rearing up the hill.) An intro page. “In-Visible 16, Haunted House, Nancy and her sister Elizabeth thought they should explore the old abandoned house on a warm summer’s night. Suddenly lights appeared upstairs and weird noises echoed through the house. You see, the house is really haunted. Find the skull, owl, bat, ghost, spider, black cat, and the old witch hidden in the picture.” A creepy black and white line illustration showing a huge old house with a turret, with one upstairs window lit. Two girls run down a crooked path in front of the house, holding hands. A large leafless tree stands over, and leafless bushes surround the path. Within the illustration are hidden images of a skull, owl, bat, ghost, spider, black cat, and an old witch on a broom.
September 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Eternal Weekend watch party?!
September 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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OK, more context. @kyleccarson.bsky.social suggested I at least get a picture. It is a darling commode. (Will not be requesting an action shot.)
A larger white toilet and a smaller Eljer blue toilet, outdoors apparently, on a covered patio. Title: “Don’t talk to me or my son ever again.”
August 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Ad from our small-town paper, with no other context.
Small newspaper ad: “VINTAGE TOILET Eljer, blue. Soft close matching seat, working when removed. Text Scott” and a phone number.
August 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This would have been the winning poem. Castmaster is my favorite time of year, for making friends do things.
Text of the poem by JR Goldman and Jimmy “Sprinkles” McCarthy. This is just to say Thave resolved The Brainstorm That was on the stack And which You were probably Expecting To be faster Forgive me My plays were lengthy So many And so insane
August 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Not making it to Gen Con this year and it is already the pits.
A red and white parking lot sign found in the wild that says “No gaming, Private Property” in large, unfriendly letters.
July 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Certainly it was a conscious choice to play music from Apollo 13 for people in line for this ride.
From Wikipedia: Windseeker, a very high set of swings that spins around above Lake Erie at Cedar Point amusement park.
July 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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These Luke Cage crossover cookies are delicious!
A picture of a blue and white square food package with a giant sugared flat cracker on it. The label says Ines Rosales The Original Sweet Olive Oil Tortas.
July 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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$15 at our local library. Quick estimate suggests it will hold 32,000 cards.
A used library media shelf. Looks like solid wood. Four sliding drawers with rows of storage. Has a $15 label on it.
July 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Another task had players triple sleeve themselves in a morph suit, t-shirt and sleeping bag. Many instant classic moments.
Angelo, one of last year’s winners, who dressed himself in a green morph suit, T-shirt, and blue sleeping bag in less than 2 minutes.
June 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Here are the entries for the art portion. Teammates alternated drawing segments of their favorite non-Human creature using kids markers on long banner paper. Creature names are in the alt text.
Old Fogey (including the spacecraft crash and glasses, but minus arms), Serra Angel (with a well-drawn sword arm, and some nice texturing on the wings and skirt). Lodestone Golem (headless and armless, but nicely defined kneecaps, and two small figures below for scale) and Deathrite Shaman (including the skull but also headless). Four drawings, top to bottom: Lurrus (who fell apart in the middle, but either end looks good and there’s a nice Black Lotus added for effect), Goblin Welder (not sure what happened—includes two metal guys, two goblin butts, and a third robot with a brass nipple), Skittering Skirge (with excellent texturing, though some disjointed body segments), and Nether Spirit (with two heads, one of which has eyeshadow and lipstick, nice spikes on the tail end).
June 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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The Land compound is so large that if you were to walk across it at a rate of 3 miles a day, you would get goose poop all over your shoes. (Cat is unrelated.)
A lazy gray and white cat. Well worn.
June 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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I feel powerful. As powerful as Arthur!
Picture of a ClevNet library card, from Ritter Public Library.
June 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Mail day! Every time I think I have all of Baxter’s books another one appears, and I buy two other books along with it.
May 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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They come in pairs for pondering!
May 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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The mysteries are mysterious, but the prize is defined.
May 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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A little preview of Castmaster season 2, coming up at The Land.
A mysterious pink gobbet, shrink wrapped in clear plastic.
May 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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View from my hiding place under a chair with cow print. A knitted footrest and a disarrayed copy of Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel are beyond the chair. A dining room table and a pair of skinny legs are in the background.
May 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I am playing hide and seek again.
I peek out from behind our bedroom door. My hiding place is revealed by our wardrobe mirror.
May 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM