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Next time don’t say a wall of text is a short meme

I’m waiting for temperatures to drop for the feral cat to come by. Cornelius drops by when it gets cold out and makes himself at home. My cats have accepted him. It’s been a few months and I hope he’s doing well. His “owner” hadn’t seen him in months last I checked in.

I can see a secondhand market for those pieces of shit with at least one superfluous fender thing busted off. I grow weary of all the battery powered outdoor exercise toys everyone has these days. Take exercise, remove the exercise, and replace it with e-waste. For hundreds a pop. I don’t get it. Batteries will run out and you’re stuck with a skateboard or bicycle that weighs way too much.

Pickled beets. They’re good until you forget you ate them

Need a lot more Pinochet helicopter tours.

I had a good friend who was a clown. I drove a car small enough to call a clown car so I drove for a lot of gigs after we met. He would “clown up” and go to public events(concerts, festivals, karaoke, any excuse really) and be silly and most importantly have fun. He networked and had a few yearly gigs. Some paid but he was in it for the clowning and the cash was just a bonus. Don’t quit your day job and all.

As a person he was great company. Friends with everyone and woke up every day looking to have a good time. One yearly gig we did was a three hours away neighborhood wide garage sale. It was one of the few that paid. After a day of making balloon animals he stood in a chalk circle and I handed kids water balloons and kept the tip jar mostly empty. We made well over $100 each those days.

His backstory is a little more fucked up than the average clown I would guess. His primary networking was AA meetings and back in the 80s he was an alcoholic crackhead living in Detroit sleeping in dumpsters. The dude knew how to hustle. He told me the story of how his daughter had to come up with some cash and the chalk circle and water balloons show(?) outside bars solved her money issues overnight.

He had no formal training so don’t get hung up on some expensive day camp. If you have it in you you can be a clown. Getting a degree from a clown college is just a vanity project. A real clown, at least to me, hung out with Joe C watching wrestling and smoking weed while Kid Rock and the rest of the gang partied after shows. Be larger than life and you can be whatever you want to be.

Shooting down police drones with fireworks sounds like a victimless crime

Why is he so red? Is he about to fight Captain America?

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Knowledge Fight

Trailer Park Boys Park After Dark

The Daily Zeitgeist

Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know

Last Podcast on the Left

True Crime Garage

Behind the Bastards

It Could Happen Here

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

StarTalk Radio

Really? no, Really?

Stone Cold Steve Austin has one too if wrasslin’ is your thing. He did an amazing episode about a woodpecker I can’t seem to find anymore. Everything else is just talking shop about the biz.

These are all still active podcasts as far as I can tell. The first four are probably my favorite of the bunch. I’ve listened to podcasts for close to 40 hours a week some weeks. Sometimes I get the urge to look up what the people I’ve listened to for hundreds of hours look like. Just to see how close my imagination is to reality. Never acted on it but it is an itch I want to scratch.

Why?

Just drink it out of the drip tray. The best water out of a public water cooler is the good stuff that dripped off of ten people’s hands.

Throwing a brick through a tesla windshield sounds 36% more interesting now.

I bought a smart watch and found it collecting dust. My new job is strongly against being on your phone while at work. Nothing against earbuds and a watch however. Now it takes me twice as long to send a text via my watch.

Can I get my gerbil back?

Let them be cake

I have a problem with the character’s animation framerate. I want to like the game but can’t look past that.

Let’s ask Rae Dawn Chong and Ron Perlman

I’m all for exposing israeli war crimes but this is going about it the wrong way. It’s more exploitative than it is informative. Trying to pass it off as something Renaissance is in bad taste.

Take a picture? How are they going to smell or taste it? Either shit at work and don’t flush or shit on the floor at work if you want to flush.