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I would really like to renew The Economist, and they keep sending me offers, but their web system is so broken I can’t. Chat support didn’t help either. Support just wanted to negotiate about price.

At this point I’m just going to let it expire and then get a podcast-only subscription, instead.

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🎶 May artists report:

#1 American Arson

#2 Demon Hunter

#3 Front Line Assembly

#4 Zao

#5 Juno Reactor

Two men, one wearing a denim jacket and the other a black jacket, are standing and sitting against a brick wall background.
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Parable of the Sofa

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I have a little bit of sympathy for the “but these crimes are minor, you are just running a vendetta” in the sense that, yeah, these convictions are actually not near the worst of his crimes.

But, you take wins as they can get through the judicial aystem. They got Capone on Tax Evasion, after all.

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Listening to Umbilical feels like smiling while getting your teeth kicked in, because you know how much work it took for the assailant to get so strong.

Making Sense of Thou’s Messy Metal Discography | Bandcamp Daily

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📚 After we got Voodoo Doughnuts and Stumptown coffee, we walked to, then circled Powell’s like vultures, waiting for it to open.

Cool experience, especially the rare books room. Restricted myself to just 3 books and some free bookmarks/stickers.

A collection of books, bookmarks, and stickers, featuring titles like The Happiness Hypothesis, Utopia for Realists, and This Is How You Lose the Time War.
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🍺 whoa, “Gigantic Great Morning Maple Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout” may be better than the Midwest (Goose Island, Founders) breakfast stouts.

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Kinda makes you want to put more former presidents on trial for their crimes.

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They’re playing Joy Division in this restaurant and the song is 45 years old.

How is this possible?

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Saw some women at the Farmer’s market with “plain” (e.g. like Amish/Mennonite) dresses but heavy makeup.

Never seen that combo before and curious what faction it is!

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Malort has made it to the west coast

“Chicago handshake $10&10;&10;Shot of Malort & PBR”
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I’m not usually one for “brands” but I am absolutely making sure to enjoy:

  • Powell’s
  • Stumptown
  • Tillamook
  • Voodoo
  • Pendleton
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World’s smallest park

World’s coolest gal

Mills End Park, which is a to tiny tree in a to y cement enclosure. A woman stands by with her foot next to the park for scale.
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We had to go 6 states away to finally try morels, but this mushroom “crepe” was incredible and I can see what all the fuss is about.

Now I gotta find them at home. My land is too wet for them, but I know they are in the southern areas of the state.

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🎲🎥 Watched the first and (part of the) second recent Dune movies during my travel today, and now I want to play Burning Wheel/Burning Sands again.

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Another nod to Mitch Hedberg, via: Off the Mark

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via bizarro:

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🔎 After the rain a dinosaur came up on the deck

A snapping turtle with a foot-long shell
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the wind has no sound

you can hear the wind

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This Wikipedia line about “circus peanuts” reads like a real-life Mitch Hedberg joke:

Circus peanuts led to the creation of Lucky Charms in 1964 when a General Mills employee chopped pieces into a bowl of Cheerios.