baki
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layabout, no-goodnik and general ne'er-do-well. an unseemly hullabaloo. absurdist. people should realize how very special they are.
forget the b.s. of "abnormally high call volume" & "please listen to the options as they have recently changed." it's the gosh darned hold music.
businesses have tried to make hold music so inoffensive to anybody that they've made it completely offensive to everybody.
#TheInhumanityOfItAll
businesses have tried to make hold music so inoffensive to anybody that they've made it completely offensive to everybody.
#TheInhumanityOfItAll
January 29, 2026 at 6:27 PM
forget the b.s. of "abnormally high call volume" & "please listen to the options as they have recently changed." it's the gosh darned hold music.
businesses have tried to make hold music so inoffensive to anybody that they've made it completely offensive to everybody.
#TheInhumanityOfItAll
businesses have tried to make hold music so inoffensive to anybody that they've made it completely offensive to everybody.
#TheInhumanityOfItAll
that feeling you get when you're anxious about picking up a beloved book you haven't read for years because you're afraid reading again will ruin it.
January 28, 2026 at 7:44 PM
that feeling you get when you're anxious about picking up a beloved book you haven't read for years because you're afraid reading again will ruin it.
"The Actual" by Saul Bellow - DNF'd. Utter balderdash. Complete claptrap.
Saul Bellow is a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Foundation Medal, and Nobel Prize winning author, so I probably just don't know what I'm talking about.
www.librarything.com/work/29414/t...
Saul Bellow is a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Foundation Medal, and Nobel Prize winning author, so I probably just don't know what I'm talking about.
www.librarything.com/work/29414/t...
The Actual by Saul Bellow
The Actual by Saul Bellow
www.librarything.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:48 PM
"The Actual" by Saul Bellow - DNF'd. Utter balderdash. Complete claptrap.
Saul Bellow is a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Foundation Medal, and Nobel Prize winning author, so I probably just don't know what I'm talking about.
www.librarything.com/work/29414/t...
Saul Bellow is a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Foundation Medal, and Nobel Prize winning author, so I probably just don't know what I'm talking about.
www.librarything.com/work/29414/t...
not-so-fun-fact: i've been a groomsman in 6 weddings. every one of those weddings ended in divorce.
slightly-more-fun-fact: all those people have gotten remarried and stayed married to their 2nd spouse.
slightly-less-fun-fact: i wasn't asked to be a groomsman at any of those 2nd weddings.
slightly-more-fun-fact: all those people have gotten remarried and stayed married to their 2nd spouse.
slightly-less-fun-fact: i wasn't asked to be a groomsman at any of those 2nd weddings.
January 27, 2026 at 8:20 PM
not-so-fun-fact: i've been a groomsman in 6 weddings. every one of those weddings ended in divorce.
slightly-more-fun-fact: all those people have gotten remarried and stayed married to their 2nd spouse.
slightly-less-fun-fact: i wasn't asked to be a groomsman at any of those 2nd weddings.
slightly-more-fun-fact: all those people have gotten remarried and stayed married to their 2nd spouse.
slightly-less-fun-fact: i wasn't asked to be a groomsman at any of those 2nd weddings.
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This is @edwardsung.bsky.social wife. My beloved husband passed from this world unexpectedly one week ago. I’m posting because I know he made connections with some folks here and I don’t want him disappeared.
December 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is @edwardsung.bsky.social wife. My beloved husband passed from this world unexpectedly one week ago. I’m posting because I know he made connections with some folks here and I don’t want him disappeared.
q-tips used to be cool, man. like, the bee's knees. now? they bend like all those other cotton swab chumps. anyone have any cotton swab alternatives?
January 7, 2026 at 1:13 AM
q-tips used to be cool, man. like, the bee's knees. now? they bend like all those other cotton swab chumps. anyone have any cotton swab alternatives?
totes adorbs
Oh my word, 2 really young Graneledone!! Adorable big headed youngsters. @Schmidt Ocean 🌊 dive 887 #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife
December 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
totes adorbs
"9:00 P.M. Crawl into bed exhausted from the cultural weight of being the town spinster librarian, but grateful I can read all day and enjoy peace and quiet and generally do whatever the hell I want. It actually is a wonderful life."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-d...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-d...
A Day in the Life of Mary Hatch in the Alternate Bedford Falls
7:00-8:30 A.M. Wake up whenever I want—no kids!
9 A.M. Open library, feeling refreshed and ready for the day.
10:30 A.M. Send another overdue notic...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"9:00 P.M. Crawl into bed exhausted from the cultural weight of being the town spinster librarian, but grateful I can read all day and enjoy peace and quiet and generally do whatever the hell I want. It actually is a wonderful life."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-d...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-d...
Pass the butter, Wisconsin: A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is pushing to strengthen limits on margarine. The effort is a reminder of a centuries-old squabble between the butter substitute and the state’s ensconced dairy industry.
thebadgerproject.org/2025/11/24/p...
thebadgerproject.org/2025/11/24/p...
Pass the butter: State legislators want to tighten Wisconsin’s margarine laws
A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is pushing to strengthen limits on margarine. The effort is a reminder of a centuries-old squabble between the butter substitute and the state’s ensconced dairy i...
thebadgerproject.org
December 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Pass the butter, Wisconsin: A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is pushing to strengthen limits on margarine. The effort is a reminder of a centuries-old squabble between the butter substitute and the state’s ensconced dairy industry.
thebadgerproject.org/2025/11/24/p...
thebadgerproject.org/2025/11/24/p...
Wife's teaching me hockey. I keep comparing NHL players to babies: they're totes adorbs, group hug for celebrations, chew mouth guards like pacifiers, & every once in a while they throw a big tantrum & get put in a timeout. Oh, & every time an announcer states the players need a change? I giggle.
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Wife's teaching me hockey. I keep comparing NHL players to babies: they're totes adorbs, group hug for celebrations, chew mouth guards like pacifiers, & every once in a while they throw a big tantrum & get put in a timeout. Oh, & every time an announcer states the players need a change? I giggle.
Brussels, 1511: people lined streets with more than 100 lewd & satirical snowmen to protest against the Holy Roman Empire...an early form of political commentary, a Woodstock-like event held by illiterate residents who felt otherwise powerless against their rulers.
www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/...
www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/...
The history of snowmen isn’t all ‘jolly happy.’ Here are the Frosty facts.
A snowman scholar provides the backstory on snow figures through the ages.
www.csmonitor.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Brussels, 1511: people lined streets with more than 100 lewd & satirical snowmen to protest against the Holy Roman Empire...an early form of political commentary, a Woodstock-like event held by illiterate residents who felt otherwise powerless against their rulers.
www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/...
www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/...
*puts in monocle, adjusts top hat, sips sherry*
"I say, my dear, I know a Wisconsin Library Hall of Famer."
heritage.wisconsinlibraries.org/categories/l...
"I say, my dear, I know a Wisconsin Library Hall of Famer."
heritage.wisconsinlibraries.org/categories/l...
Hall of Fame – Wisconsin Library Heritage Center
heritage.wisconsinlibraries.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
*puts in monocle, adjusts top hat, sips sherry*
"I say, my dear, I know a Wisconsin Library Hall of Famer."
heritage.wisconsinlibraries.org/categories/l...
"I say, my dear, I know a Wisconsin Library Hall of Famer."
heritage.wisconsinlibraries.org/categories/l...
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The entire PNW is a tale of exhausted explorers refusing to hold back their opinion. In Washington we have Deception Pass, Useless Bay, Point No Point, and my favorite: Dismal Nitch.
December 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The entire PNW is a tale of exhausted explorers refusing to hold back their opinion. In Washington we have Deception Pass, Useless Bay, Point No Point, and my favorite: Dismal Nitch.
From the ODOT Flickr stream - beautiful video of the most recent landslide: www.flickr.com/photos/orego...
OR 229 slide video Dec 12 2025
OR 229 is closed between Kernville and Siletz, near milepost 14, due to a massive landslide that has overtaken the highway. This will be a long-term closure. Travelers will need to use U.S. 101 to get...
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December 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
From the ODOT Flickr stream - beautiful video of the most recent landslide: www.flickr.com/photos/orego...
i see a bunch of 55+ communities around here. why 55+? did they look around and see bunch of rowdy 52 year olds and say, "Nope. No way, junior. Too rambunctious. Half a century and change isn't enough. Wait til you hit that double nickel action, then we'll talk. Get off my lawn."
December 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
i see a bunch of 55+ communities around here. why 55+? did they look around and see bunch of rowdy 52 year olds and say, "Nope. No way, junior. Too rambunctious. Half a century and change isn't enough. Wait til you hit that double nickel action, then we'll talk. Get off my lawn."