It’s just the dark meat.

big radish

They’re called daikon.

I’ve just kind of grown comfortable with the idea that there is no real point. I’m fine just floating through my time here seeing neat shit and hearing cool stories, and doing what I can to make things a little better for the people around me. Sort of a cozy or optimistic nihilism, though I’m probably misusing that word.

Joss Whedon is problematic in a lot of ways, but nevertheless this scene from Angel has always stuck with me: If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.

You’re talking about “common metre”, and it also includes Amazing Grace, the Gilligan’s Island theme, House of the Rising Sun, Casey at the Bat, and the Lay of Nimrodel among many others.

You can swap any of the tunes and lyrics and they more or less work. One of my favorite music trivia things.

Ohh shit, I know this one. My dad had it on tape and I watched it a few times back in the day. This IS some good mindfuck.

Ooh, I really like the old-school animation throwbacks I’m seeing in pictures for The Congress. And it kinda sounds like a Black Mirror episode. Definitely going on the list.

Paul Bettany and Karl Urban

Oh, I’ve heard of this one, but I never got around to it. Sounds like the perfect time to cross it off my list.

I watched 28 Days Later during a delirious fever spell, so I think I understand where you’re coming from, lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_clown_sightings

Also holy fuck, that was only 2016? I was thinking like 2009 off the top of my head.

Disagree, green boobs are awesome.

My ideal “non-book library” would be a public woodshop with a Ron Swanson librarian figure to help people use the tools safely.

Woodworking seems so satisfying as both an art and a craft, but between the cost of materials, tools, and the space needed, I could never take up the hobby in the foreseeable future. But if I could go to a public workshop and use shared tools, just providing my own raw materials, the barrier to entry falls dramatically.

Two men walk into a bar. You’d think the second guy would’ve seen it coming.

You might also like Auditory Anthology then. Their original stories are sometimes a little hit or miss for me, but one neat thing they do is they rebroadcast old episodes of a 50s radio show called X Minus One between their own stories. Often ones that they used as inspiration for a modern rewrite in an earlier episode.

I tend to go for story-telling podcasts, and within those I gravitate towards Twilight Zone/Outer Limits/Black Mirror style weird anthologies.

Right now I’m finding a lot of great stuff in:

• The Other Stories (all kinds of stuff, they have a different theme every month or so)
• The Wrong Station (similar, but less likely to stick to a theme for a while)
• Gray Matter (lots of modern adaptations of older horror/sci-fi, like Lovecraft)
• The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings (higher ratio of dumb stuff, but still some gems)
• The Program (Black Mirror-esque)
• The Truth (various radio plays. Many aren’t sci-fi, but still weird in some way. Kind of reminds me of the bits of Inside No. 9 I’ve seen.)

small kitten at large

Absolute legend. He certainly didn’t invent musical comedy, but he’s a paragon of the genre and has brought it into the public eye like no one else.

I always thought if the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame ever pulls their head out of their collective ass and inducts him, it would be a fantastic tribute for all the living artists he’s parodied to perform his version of their song.

Shadow Madness was an amazingly bad PS1 RPG. The details have faded with time, but I remember it was an incoherent hodgepodge of every RPG trope, every party member was a bad cliche, the random encounter system was this terrible “red light, green light” thing. It was insultingly easy, and Harv-5 was like someone’s shitty Shadow the Hedgehog OC of Bender from Futurama.

I have had a grudge against this terrible game for 25 years.

…how long are your fuckin showers, man?