Author Archives: Joel

Landlady and Ian came up this weekend with a bunch of stuff for Ian’s Cave, including the dresser that’s been hanging fire for a couple of months… The original dresser is a long, low thing made of pressboard somebody was … Continue reading →

That’s right, Mr. and Mrs America. Once – actually twice – again you have proven that you simply cannot be trusted with dangerous assault weapons, with their pistol grips, their barrel shrouds, their hyper-deadly shoulder things that go up. Why … Continue reading →

So appropriate, I don’t know why it’s not already famous. …the National Parasite Collection, a 125-year-old hoard of bloodsucking, fluid-draining, flesh-eating, mind-controlling, and host-castrating creatures that all make a living by living off other animals. Residing in DC, of course. … Continue reading →

Piffle. I had one of these when I was a kid. Only I bought the jacket at a surplus store for like $5 and decorated it myself with a felt-tip and a bunch of cheezy buttons. And I was protesting … Continue reading →

It’s not long for Ghost, I’m afraid. He’s getting more incontinent by the day and it’s clear he’s in pain. L is getting serious about euthanasia. So I had a talk with Neighbor D on Monday, asking if I could … Continue reading →

Okay, so by now everybody knows that USA Today came out with a (I assume unintentionally) hilarious video about the terrifying Ruger AR-556, no doubt leading up to all the reasons it and all ARs ought to be banned. We’ll … Continue reading →

So Monday I was in the food market in the crappy little town about 10 miles away. It is a sufficiently crappy food market that it is slowly losing all its customers to the perfectly good Safeway in the slightly … Continue reading →

LB likes peanut butter. ALL the peanut butter. How does he do that? He’s not saying.

Four words: Monster Hunter International Ammunition. On the one hand you need it like a hole in the head. On the other hand, you need it. Or would, if it were really a cool box of MHI ammo. Really as … Continue reading →

Last night for the first time I put the new space heater into full-dress operation. Yesterday and last night were quite overcast so the night never got very cold, but I happened to be up at 2:15 to, um, do … Continue reading →

And it only took me a month. Big Brother sent me this lovely 12v undershelf LED back in mid-September, when I was by no means ready to hang up shelves. I carefully put it and all its plumbing in a … Continue reading →

also, heh. h/t to JDZ. Where does he get these wonderful toys?

Everybody who ever logged on to a BBS back in the day knows all about flame wars. Hell, for a while they were a fad. Actually old news by the times SimpleMachines-style fora became popular. So the Twitter founders, having … Continue reading →

…it struck me suddenly that I wasn’t reading anything about Devin Kelley. Instead I was scrolling down the page, looking for some info from some news site I don’t completely mistrust. And I asked myself – as I do every … Continue reading →

Excuses having to do with our parentage, or socioeconomic class, or bad fortune. Someone external had to actually – or at least plausibly – rain on our own personal lives. Only then could we excuse our own failures to thrive. … Continue reading →

Sheesh. I had all these great plans for being the last living non-woke person on earth. I was gonna get a .30-30 mare’s leg, drive an Escalade with a plow blade real fast to Pacific Playland… And then it turns … Continue reading →

…I can think of only one I just plain walked off from in disgust. There was one other time I really wanted to, but I couldn’t. Because I was the boss. Turns out I was thinking inside the box. [The … Continue reading →

I swear if Stalin had had Photoshop, the Soviets would rule the world by now dysfunction and all.

If you happen to be in or near one of those (I would have thought already thoroughly anti-fascist) towns into which antifa has promised to bring the light of riot and revolution, stay armed, stay careful, and you might consider … Continue reading →