Author Archives: Joel

So yesterday evening the Secret Lair got its very own moat for a while. Remember a couple of weeks ago I told you the boys and I bailed from the Lair to escape an oncoming storm, and it turned out … Continue reading →

Of course technically it didn’t land…

Davi Barker at The Daily Anarchist did some number crunching and came up with a figure you probably won’t find particularly surprising. The methodology is a little casual, and I agree with Linoge that a couple of terms could have … Continue reading →

…now that I’ve got a kitten, I need a puppy? Not in this lifetime, but it did work. Kitten slept through the afternoon, having worn out both Dharma the puppy and Little Bear. We had a dinner party at S&L’s … Continue reading →

Landlady showed up at the Secret Lair this morning around eight, bearing gifts. I forget who sent what, forgive me, but I got boxes containing three Larken Rose books and a whole bunch of empty brass. Thanks, guys! Anyway, she … Continue reading →

“I mean, that really bothered me. You notice he said anger twice. He’s really trying to use racial coding and access some really deep stereotypes about the ‘angry black man.’ This is part of the playbook against Obama, the ‘otherization.’ … Continue reading →

. Light posting today. No sun yesterday and so far none today. The batteries recover slowly and I’m currently abusing them. On the kitten front, chaos and confrontations continue. Click is living in the yard, keeping Ghost company. She comes … Continue reading →

Harry Harrison has died. Yeah, he was an annoying Esperanto fan. But you ain’t done anti-authoritarianism until you’ve done Bill the Galactic Hero. RIP.

You ever find yourself wanting to do something you really aren’t interested in, just because that would plausibly allow you to do something peripheral that you do want to do? Example: I suddenly want to get a motorcycle just so … Continue reading →

There’s no point to this post, really. Except I’m glad I don’t have to drive in Russia.

It’s amazing how much junk you accumulate, even when you’ve ditched a helluva lot of junk. Just stay in one place long enough… Landlady asked me to please, since I now have a storage shed, please please do something about … Continue reading →

Yeah. Way to bring all metals recycling to a complete halt, there, Senator. Schumer said his proposal would federalize penalties for metal theft and increase documentation requirements for scrap metal buyers. He said the bill would require documentation proving that … Continue reading →

…thank god for the loft. There are negative design characteristics I didn’t consider seriously enough when I raked the Lair’s roof so steeply and put in a sleeping loft. I can live with them, but there have definitely been times … Continue reading →

CBS News writer laments the poor prospects for anti-gun blood dancing: Why is this? One reason is surely that guns have effectively become the emblem of the ongoing great white male right-wing freak-out. (Ladies might pack a pink pistol, but … Continue reading →

Which means it’s time to play my two very favorite games… 1. Keep the hell off my keyboard, and 2. Don’t climb Daddy’s leg. No, seriously, don’t … GET THE HELL OFF MY LEG. She keeps making dashes for LB’s … Continue reading →

Via Claire: A Claxton, Tennessee man is accused of assaulting his live-in girlfriend over a photo of an unknown man he spotted on her Facebook page. That man? GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. According to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department, … Continue reading →

For the past two days I’ve barely left the Lair, exiting only to take care of essential dog stuff and admire my new PV panel’s efforts to charge big-ass batteries. That involves going in here… Yeah, I suspect that after … Continue reading →

Stolen from Guffaw.

…you can call me unpatriotic if you want for not supporting the .gov’s selfless efforts to “help” us into serfdom and servitude. But let somebody actually invade and you should look for Mssrs. Simon and Springfield on the beach, where … Continue reading →

Also, ouch. Okay, so I told you I threw out my back on Friday evening. True. Saturday morning hurt, but not so bad I couldn’t function with care and I figured by today I’d be fine. Then Saturday afternoon it … Continue reading →