Here is my new car. Yay.
Side note: It's a Chevy. I bought American. I feel so patriotic that I will piss red, white and blue for a week. It is a medical condition.
I am pissed and my rose is dying.
NIce car Matt. But your hair? Where can I find a picture of your hair?
I am sad for your rose. I'll have to get you something with the hair.
I only buy American cars so I can feel superior and keep up my better than thou liberal bullshit.
I have only ever had American cars and trucks. I think we might be even
My Mazda was built in Kentucky.
And here I am making U.S.-grown mushrooms. Each one is embedded with a GPS-growth chip, so I can follow them with my mushroom app from fungal spore to excrement. Right now, someone in Omaha is drinking 3-parts-per-million of my ... mushrooms. Circle of life, baby. Circle of life.
It's a Chevy. I bought American.
So in reality, I actually paid for that car in 2008. You're welcome.
Yeah, we know em Tietz. Plus, you are looking mighty sexy up there on that stage. I wish I could read your lips.
This is Karl the Bulldog. He is sexy as fuck. And he knows it.
Yeah where is Tietz's reading Out Of Touch? I haven't found that one yet.
Yeah, we know em Tietz. Plus, you are looking mighty sexy up there on that stage. I wish I could read your lips.
Yeah where is Tietz's reading Out Of Touch? I haven't found that one yet.
Tietz was the event host, that's why he does the introductions to every video. He had some fun bits though, hopefully Gordon gets them up on the net as well. One of them involved authoring inside me and a free drink.
@Dakota
Gordon put it in dropbox. I watched it on my phone while I was waiting for Phil to come out of the hotel, and then I never went back to it. Now I can't find it.
My actual reading was under two minutes, though, so not much to see.
Now I can't find it.
Damn.
Well nice hosting on the other hand. I try to take away a few pointers.
Here is my new car. Yay.
Mine is a red Toyota Camry. Go Asian!
And here I am making U.S.-grown mushrooms. Each one is embedded with a GPS-growth chip, so I can follow them with my mushroom app from fungal spore to excrement. Right now, someone in Omaha is drinking 3-parts-per-million of my ... mushrooms. Circle of life, baby. Circle of life.
That's awesome.
Agreed.
A picture thread? How do these things work? Must it be a real picture?
Here's a thingie I made for an art test a few weeks ago.If anyone has ever played a facebook game or an app on their iPad, this is for that sort of artwork. I made her specifically for animation, but I haven't gotten around to animating her. Her name is Lily-May and she's a Flowerfolk from Blossonton.
I failed the test, though. :(
Parks, you rock.
She looks preggers too which means she got nailed by another flower.
Nah, it's just a poofy skirt. She can't be preggers yet, she's still a virgin!
You can tell because she hasn't blossomed yet.
I think she got nailed CP.
You can tell because she hasn't blossomed yet.
I totally agree. I think she just has a food belly.
You guys! You make giggle.
And, other CP, you could have said she was "deflowered."
How do you put GPS in mushrooms....hmmmm
The GPS "chips" would have to be nanotized and spliced into the DNA of the fungal spore. This would, of course, create a Frankenshroom that would grow to the size of a Buick and destroy us all.
So.....what you're saying is......you smoke a lot of weed. Right?
Also- this.
That is cool.
My sister and I finally dug out the garden gnomes. It was mostly my sister, though. I never really take care of the garden. My sister just calls me and says, 'Oh yeah, I bought some new soil and I'm putting it in the garden right now." Free labour!
And this is Cleo, the fatter of my two cats:
I'm guessing that Cleo eats the gnomes?
And speaking of zombie gnomes (I mean, really, when aren't we speaking about zombie gnomes?):
That's creepy and awesome.
Beks! Love the garden! I have been debating challenging you to Thunderdome btw.....I wonder how tough it would be to take down a queen. A literary coup d'état
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The GPS "chips" would have to be nanotized and spliced into the DNA of the fungal spore. This would, of course, create a Frankenshroom that would grow to the size of a Buick and destroy us all.
Gary P, I am really beginning to like you.
That is cool Bexster. I want some free labour.
CP, ah, yeah, deflowered. I hate it when I miss those.
Speaking of Gardens and flowers, this thing has been a chore, I need some real life gnomes to tend it. But made some more progress and the rain is really helping. It always rains during The Rose Festival.
Oh, hey. So. While I'm here, I want to share my creepy hobby with you guys.
I collect these things called ABJDs (asian ball jointed dolls.) You buy them blank, so they come with no clothes or makeup or eyeballs or anything. Then you can do what you want with them. I paint mine, spend a fortune on their clothes and accessories, and photograph them.
I have four of them so far. They all look like girls, but only one of them is. (it's okay to be confused. They're "kid" proportioned, and they're a little... uh, anime looking. And I don't make an effort to make them more manly.)
Most of them are based off characters I've written and loved. Some of them are more like writing challenges for me -- I get them, put them together, and figure out what story they should have. And they're fun for artsy stuff, too. Sometimes I wipe off their paint and sell their accessories and start all over with putting them together. (You can see I did that in these three pictures... because it's all the same doll. Well, except for the ginger in the background.)
Okay. I'm going to stop posting up my creepy doll pictures.
For now.
So do YOU think of them as creepy? And do you hear them rustling around and whispering at night when they think you're asleep?
How big are they? Barbie size or small-child size?
@Chester. Your garden looks cool and I like that it's the initials for artificial intelligence.
Sometimes I think they're creepy. I had one that did scare me at night, so I had to sell him.
Usually, I don't think of them as creepy, but I can understand that to some people they're a bit uncanny-valley. And some of the photographs are intended to be creepy, especially if they've come from a horror background.
Sometimes they move on their own. Their limbs are strung together with elastic and ball joints (hence their name) and once in a while gravity and tension with cause a head to turn or an arm to reach out. My roommate collects them, too. One time I joked about one of her dolls being a big baby about something, and his head snapped in my direction. Talk about startling!
They come in varying sizes. My smallest ones (the grade schoolers, I call them) are about 10 inches. The ones in the pictures are between 15 and 17 inches each. I've had my eye on one that's about 26 inches (adult proportions) but he's too expensive for me at the moment, so he'll have to wait. Once I get a job, I'll be adding that giant to my collection.
Here are my smaller ones, to give you an idea of what the 10 inchers look like.
EDIT: I forgot to mention: When you order things from Korea, China, or Japan, you sometimes get cute extra things. The creepy doll I used to own didn't come with anything cute. He came with a horror movie. I can't remember the plot that well, but it had something to do with dolls coming to life and killing people in a house.
I love collecting. CP, you are an eccentric. Those dolls are fucking sweet. I like the subtle creepiness.
Thanks GP. Hey, interesting, I never thought of the raised beds as A I. Good one.
Reb, I like the modern lines on your house.
@Chester - It's nothing super special, but it's home. There are a ton of 1970's townhouses in my area. It's really hilly, and most of the complexes are just absolutely shitty in layour. I think we're in one of the only complexes where the interior layout actually makes sense and has a good amount of space inside. It's nice having an end-unit, but in the spring we have hardcore woodpecker problems.
@Matt - A challenge? Do you DEMAND satisfaction?! Bill challenged me, but then we had to keep things open for the June announcement, which I'm quite sure Bill will be taking part in. I probably won't so we'll see how things go. I've got a story that I tried to write for my final round of WAR that I want to try to finish...
Excuses, excuses. I DEMAND satisfaction!
Where's your white glove, peasant?!
The creepy doll pictures are like a train wreck.
It reminds me of the greatest song I've ever learned called "The Grotesque Puppet" sang from the perspective of a Venuzuelan street vendor. It starts:
Look, I will sell you this puppet
He is ugly, but entrancing.
If you cannot pay me with money
You can pay me, with your dancing
Got any creepy old marionette pictures?
Where's your white glove, peasant?!"
The gauntlet has been laid down, Tyrant!
Sic semper tyrannis!
Is he...holding a bong? What is that?
A sword.
He's doing it wrong.
It's actually the female version of Virtus (the Roman deity) slaying a tyrant king. The sword is supposed to be sheathed. So she is doing wrong, I guess. The phrase was quoted by Brutus before killing Caesar and Booth before killing Lincoln. Now it's the motto of Virginia.
Virtus, the genius of the Commonwealth, dressed as an Amazon, resting on a spear in her right hand, point downward, touching the earth; and holding in her left hand, a sheathed sword, or parazonium, pointing upward; her head erect and face upturned; her left foot on the form of Tyranny represented by the prostrate body of a man, with his head to her left, his fallen crown nearby, a broken chain in his left hand, and a scourge in his right."
Our state motto is United We Stand, Divided We Fall.
Because we're much more reasonable people in general.
LOL wasn't Lincoln born in Kentucky? Hmm
Yes. In a log cabin. We've all been there on field trips.
Is it nice?
It's a log cabin.
But yes, it's very nice.
