RT: @AndrewLiptak: Amazon’s pilot of PKD’s Man in the High Castle is now up: amazon.com/​gp/​product/​B00… – 06:00 PM GMT
Thinking about the irony of “Sniper” getting a nomination at the expense of “Selma”, I started googling on snipers in Iraq. Just curiosity. – 07:40 PM GMT
Immediately found this long 2006 NPR piece on a civilian shot by a US sniper (who was not acting as a sniper). npr.org/​templates/​stor… – 07:41 PM GMT
Impossible to read that piece and look at the diagrams and not think of Ferguson. The sniper was found to have engaged properly. – 07:42 PM GMT
That’s not saying Cooper didn’t turn in an award-worthy performance, or that Eastwood doesn’t make thoughtful movies about violence. – 07:45 PM GMT
but, uh, MLK was shot in the head from a distance. – 07:49 PM GMT
@agent_cooper that’s my impression, based on the 2013 NYer piece. or possibly war-damaged and compensating. or both. newyorker.com/​magazine/​2013/​… – 10:18 PM GMT
@surlygourmand Viv wants French tomorrow. I’m, of course, talking about dinner. Where should I take her? /braces for it – 10:28 PM GMT
@surlygourmand Northgate area, Seattle. – 10:47 PM GMT

@sculpin hell yes! – 12:10 AM GMT
someone on Fb posted this: julianbevan.com/​the-jockey-clu… /// attn @johnpstrohm @misskeli @AlpacaQueen77 – 12:53 AM GMT
I was at the Cramps show with the gold lame jacket stage attire for Lux. Many of these shows preceded or followed by next-day gigs in Bton. – 12:54 AM GMT
@misskeli @johnpstrohm @AlpacaQueen77 several of these shows were day-before gigs for bands headed north through Bloomington or Indy ’84-85 – 05:09 AM GMT
@misskeli @johnpstrohm @AlpacaQueen77 JFA gig for example. JFA that year was also 3/4 Sun City Girls, who played the same shows. – 05:12 AM GMT
@misskeli @johnpstrohm @AlpacaQueen77 3/4? Parts, at any rate. Think that drummer is Charlie Gocher. – 05:13 AM GMT
sleeping dog issues long, deep, not-kidding-around growl – 07:09 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm @misskeli @AlpacaQueen77 On FB someone noted that Mike Heminger is visible in the Henry Flag shots, so Scott must be there too. – 03:35 PM GMT
@johnpstrohm who needs furniture? i ask you – 03:44 PM GMT
RT: @DanEngler: @mwhybark GREENWOOD MURDER ZONE. spdblotter.seattle.gov/​2015/​01/​14/​to-… – 08:54 PM GMT
@mubay wasabri? – 08:58 PM GMT
Certain other people I live with who shall remain nameless never, ever enter their financial data in our records: a PITA at tax time. – 10:16 PM GMT
Naturally, all our financial institutions are cutting off parsable data downloads at X months where X is less than a year. YOU FUCKERS. – 10:17 PM GMT
Hopefully tabula.technology will resolve things. But fuck you, you anti-transparency fucks – 10:17 PM GMT

@ElSaborAsiatico heEYYYo – 12:12 AM GMT
side effect of Banks jag: desire for dopey non-combat hex game app concerning Culture and Special Circs. – 12:25 AM GMT
JUST REALIZED “BANKSY” MUST HAVE TAKEN NAME DUE TO IAIN M. BANKS FANBOINISS – 12:39 AM GMT
@mubay HE’S A GAEL – 01:16 AM GMT
@mubay wei – 01:18 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 brian’s kind of a sweetheart. he posts tons on FB. brianwalsby.net/​BrianWalsby.ne… – 01:22 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 he did, i would guess, hundreds of Flag riffs in 2013. That one was prolly for merch sale at a (non BF) show. – 01:24 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 to wit: google.com/​search?q=walsb… – 01:25 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 as I understand it, Ginn hates everything and everybody. Brian hasn’t gotten dragged into the fracas, afaik. – 01:27 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 here’s a good ‘un: blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/​uponsun/​580713… – 01:27 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 ah, you found it without me! awesome! – 01:27 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 the LP format mashups w/ color done on the road with the Melvins IIRC. He was doing something like ten a day on foamkore. – 01:29 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 oh, for sure. He did the 7 Seconds “Walk Together, Rock Together” cover illo back in the day. HC4L. – 01:31 AM GMT
IN BED MOTHAFACKAS hell yes new team best – 02:53 AM GMT
@anticdent indeed sir – 02:06 PM GMT
RT: @JoeTheDough: Untitled Woody Allen Problem – 02:40 PM GMT
remember what i said about orbital columbariums? um pic.twitter.com/​DsFlzN2VgS – 03:06 PM GMT
that was the ipad app. here’s the biz site. elysiumspace.com – 03:07 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough aye, guv – 04:56 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough also “innit,” “enit.” i blame the innerwebs – 04:57 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough io9.com/​5939480/​the-ps… – 05:03 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough okok maybe it’s brain damage actually – 05:04 PM GMT
uh, let’s see… Mad Men, Orphan Black, GoT, Wolf Hall… think I’m missing one, what is it? – 07:10 PM GMT
is there a space joint? – 07:13 PM GMT
@middleclasstool @JoeTheDough si, ese – 11:20 PM GMT
The chicken stew is edging into range – 11:21 PM GMT

every now & then I notice the 2011 drawing of my now-dead dog Rocket on my header, and I’m like, damn, *I* did that? pic.twitter.com/​zOmoSkrepw – 12:06 AM GMT
man on NPR in handwringing tone says “looks like they got something” re waterboarding, then goes to detail how they got nothing. Fuck you. – 01:16 AM GMT
@deathmtn “gladsiding” excellent – 01:43 AM GMT
@zipties i have in possession (wait, maybe it’s at my folks’) a 1950s Stratego and it, original though it is, in no way resembles this – 01:49 AM GMT
huh, the grey-box wooden-piece Hasbro Stratego set I grew up with is internet-invisible. – 01:54 AM GMT
@zipties ours was a longbox with an allover grey-burlap pattern and some vague red and blue military imagery. – 01:56 AM GMT
@zipties plastic pieces appear associated with an MB license circa 1962. Hasbro boxes associated with the wood pieces more deluxe than ours. – 01:58 AM GMT
@zipties a ha! ours was an MB version, first image here. ultrastratego.com/​history.php – 02:00 AM GMT
@mathowie @maxsparber my wife, who has “everything is awesome” as her ringtone, says, “oh i believe that” with sincerity – 02:23 AM GMT
@maxsparber @mathowie it’s wurra purty, and very ambitious. we were knocked out. @arthurwyatt said he liked HTTYD1 better. – 05:18 AM GMT
watching a *quite* peculiar pelicula, “The Ruling Class,” 1972, produced by and starring Peter O’Toole. Holy shit, what the fuck is this? – 05:24 AM GMT
RT: @naxuu: reminder that a bunch of tech bro douches named their company Genius – 05:30 AM GMT
seriously, this movie is NUTS – 05:54 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt well actually – 08:08 AM GMT
@alan_maguire amazon.com/​Space/​dp/​B000T… – 11:59 AM GMT
@alan_maguire spoiler: everybody dies – 12:00 PM GMT
Pretty sure if you care you worked this out already, but this is helpful: blogs.mediapart.fr/​blog/​olivier-t… – 05:11 PM GMT

@mighty_flynn the TOR games here this year are premium $, BOS is not (based on 20-g flex plan $) – 02:32 AM GMT
@mighty_flynn yeah, since they introduced premiums, it has always been NYY / BOS. TOR games here always sell out though. – 02:36 AM GMT
RE London Zero-Gee Jets: scifi.stackexchange.com/​questions/​2280… – 03:24 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt little songs? – 08:24 AM GMT
two books into what promises to be a big Banks jag, then back to Western Hemisphere economics and trade in the 15th-18th centuries – 08:28 AM GMT
reading about the Culture is kind of like a mind shower – 08:28 AM GMT
RT: @DunkingBaby: Take the FoxNFL poll! Text SEA1 to 3466 if u think Seattle will win the SuperBowl. Txt HELP to 911 for all other teams u are having a stroke – 06:49 PM GMT
@DanielWickham93 epic. when a storify goes up, make it known. – 07:12 PM GMT
Storify of @DanielWickham93’s epic roll call: storify.com/​tometty/​staunc… – 09:50 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt but beloved! – 10:03 PM GMT
@poupou ? – 10:03 PM GMT
@poupou wow, he should have a fansite. – 11:50 PM GMT
white guy workout: changing the cushion covers on your ikea lilleberg sofa suite – 11:52 PM GMT

@surlygourmand ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, VA, MD, NC, SC, GA – 12:23 AM GMT
@protectedstatic @surlygourmand d’oh! Sorry Jersey. And Delaware, hung up on Maryland stuff I guess. – 01:17 AM GMT
vague remembrance of anxiety dream in which my Ethiopian cooking was dismissed as inauthentic due to being “too lacy.” – 05:50 PM GMT
RT: @brownpau: More on potential “Mad Men-D.B. Cooper” connection by @lindseymgreen: medium.com/​@lindseymgreen… – 05:59 PM GMT
@brownpau @LeavittAlone nice! i remember worrying that thread but a couple seasons ago, I like that analysis. – 06:00 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt certainly less than $100 to fix. jcdrepair.com – 06:06 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt just thinking of the children – 06:10 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt but also viv had a stuck home button and a stuck volume button and they fixed those easily – 06:11 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt by attempting to get our phones to 7 years, i’m hoping area field sensenet holography will be a key feetch at reup. 3 to go. – 06:15 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt that or the actual full-on gold-cased pocketwatch with a flipout holoscreen. – 06:16 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough like it! – 06:18 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt exactly our sitch. although someone (my mom?) is running latest on iPad 3, similar era. minimal app/data load, though. – 06:22 PM GMT

@ElemPenguin @misskeli and there is that *shudder* scene in “SE7EN” – 05:22 AM GMT
beer good – 05:29 AM GMT
@kelliebob a twitter app on my phone did that to me during a trip this spring with, like, five tweets, over and over, for several days – 05:31 AM GMT
@kelliebob naturally, the majority were @ replies. eventually the recipients started replying to each repeat tweet, futilely shaming me – 05:33 AM GMT
@the_hereford enjoyed this one on your behalf. it was hoppy and cool. “Hop King,” Bridgeport, PDX. HEY OKONOMIYAKI FOR LUNCH 2MORROW MAYBE – 05:35 AM GMT
@middleclasstool isn’t that maybe more Scooby-Doo? – 05:36 AM GMT
@middleclasstool well, no, that is more Herculean – 05:37 AM GMT
@middleclasstool just thinking they would have gotten away with it if not for these meddling kids, but the firm tap of a silverheaded cane – 05:38 AM GMT
@naxuu and released as six 20-min online-only webisodes with tie-in merch and direct prop sales – 05:43 AM GMT
@manwhoyells @DanEngler i started here. nytimes.com/​2006/​11/​08/​din… – 06:25 AM GMT
yeesh, rough patch there NPR – 01:18 PM GMT
@esinclai well, it was partly the desk host literally unable to accurately grasp the information her remote was clearly saying in English – 01:26 PM GMT
@esinclai @azender that is certainly unusual. cringey. not quite Blitzerian, because there was no booming attempt to convey false clarity – 01:29 PM GMT
@esinclai it was the national feed, they broke in with a live remote due to breaking news of 2nd hostage situation. male anchor away at 1st – 01:49 PM GMT
@esinclai part you heard was after he came back into the room to save, flailing, stuttering colleague. painful. – 01:51 PM GMT
@esinclai er “save flailing, stuttering” – 01:52 PM GMT
@esinclai ah could be. I posted during segment as male desk came on. not using names (or @ npr) because irrelevant, just a bump in show – 01:57 PM GMT
ooh! irrelevant – 01:58 PM GMT
RT: @sumit: It actuially is, though. (Sort of.) azcentral.com/​story/​news/​loc… – 02:03 PM GMT
@DanEngler at least it wasn’t Dylan Cody – 11:21 PM GMT
pic.twitter.com/​Yfyvvw7Q2K – 11:24 PM GMT

holy shit it’s like 9/11 in there – 02:55 AM GMT
my darling wife is first-generation American. Her parents and siblings were all born in Cuba. – 02:59 AM GMT
More than fifty years after they arrived here, my in-laws still have rich, dense Cuban accents. – 03:00 AM GMT
Among the stuff my wife kept with her when she moved up here is a childhood manuscript, from like first grade or whenever you first write. – 03:01 AM GMT
When we found it, we were confused by the child-wife’s description of (now now, that’s my wife when she was a child, settle down, peanuts) – 03:02 AM GMT
her description of her favorite sandwish. She loved, above all, the peeno botr. – 03:03 AM GMT
Tonight, we’re on the phone and my father-in-law asked how Pinot was doing. I was confused, as Pinot is a neighbor’s dog he has not met. – 03:04 AM GMT
After a great deal of verbal wrangling (“I’m not shouting, I’m Cuban!) it was made clear they were asking about our resident. Stellar’s Jays – 03:06 AM GMT
We feed them peanuts, and they come looking for them. – 03:06 AM GMT
As a result, we call “PEA-NUT” to bring them to the yard, and that is their name, “Peanut.” – 03:07 AM GMT
So my father-in-law was asking not after Pinot, but Peanut. My wife’s favorite sandwish? Peanut butter. – 03:08 AM GMT
@esinclai she wants the tee – 03:09 AM GMT
@esinclai well, flatteringly small, one hopes – 03:12 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone don’t even joke homes – 03:12 AM GMT
@gjcharlet @LeavittAlone single-occ? – 03:13 AM GMT
@gjcharlet well, after a life like that, some uh (gendernoun)spreading seems alright – 03:15 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone YE BANSHEE ME BAIRN – 04:11 AM GMT
“Under the Skin” tongiht. Fully tight. – 04:18 AM GMT
@emilypostpunk doin it roight – 04:26 AM GMT
so i’m a dumbass and can’t site search or google the quit button on mefi. help. – 04:46 AM GMT
found it, nm – 04:52 AM GMT
@matthewbaldwin when do you show up on the lawn of the dead kid’s parents, posse in tow, child in arms? – 04:57 AM GMT
@mubay fucking hate it – 04:57 AM GMT
@mubay but i grok – 04:58 AM GMT
@jbushnell @naxuu nax, this reminds me, do due dilly here, it’s up the scarcity/demand alley. think you’ll dig. henryart.org/​exhibitions/​an… – 05:10 AM GMT
@naxuu @jbushnell the ‘9x thing in the same space was amazeballs. img srch: google.com/​search?q=ann+h… – 05:41 AM GMT
@naxuu @jbushnell google.com/​url?sa=t&rct=j… – 05:42 AM GMT
@sculpin unknown at this time – 05:57 AM GMT
RT: @wsdot_traffic: Seeing slowdowns in our typical spots. NB 5 into Seattle jamming up like the @Seahawks will jam up the @Panthers running game. – 04:26 PM GMT

The dude built himself and his son Mercury-era mock suits and a freaking transparent red Mercury capsule. Hell yes. – 07:42 AM GMT
Mercury capsules are important in Indiana space iconography because Gus Grissom is from Indiana and there is one on display at his memorial. – 07:43 AM GMT
Grissom Memorial in Spring Mill State Park. roadsideamerica.com/​story/​9780 – 07:44 AM GMT
whoop, that’s a Gemini capsule at the memorial. The point stands. – 07:46 AM GMT
well shit goddamn motherfucker – 02:10 PM GMT
RT: @brownpau: “Dentist Princess” appears to be the hot new kids’ game subgenre on the App Store. pic.twitter.com/​yvXMrxw3mL – 02:12 PM GMT
rough story prompt tweet count currently at 35. actual story prompt total less. – 03:04 PM GMT
RT: @YearbookOffice: A Practical Guide To Getting Lost In Space by @wedgexyearbookoffice.com/​lost-in-space-… – 03:12 PM GMT
@YearbookOffice @wedgex @ardaniel handy considering my brian currently – 03:12 PM GMT
uh – 10:51 PM GMT
pic.twitter.com/​0MV8AXoH6P – 10:52 PM GMT
they’re watching – 10:52 PM GMT

@AriTruscan i loved it when i was a kid. as an adult, not so much – 04:48 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone OMG John John I am remembering being traumatized by a Brenda Starr strip continuity from the early Seventies! – 06:01 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone Someone (Brenda? a child?) has been kidnapped by bad mens. There is conflict. As punishment, the bad mens BREAK HER FINGERS. – 06:03 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone or maybe even amputate them? I don’t know. I remember FREAKING THE FUCK OUT, crying uncontrollably. I was, like, seven? – 06:04 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone unluckily for my parents i was reading the comics in the same small room with them while they packed for a trip – 06:05 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone so one minute, all’s well, next minute, a child with comics-induced PTSD throwing a fullbody bodyhorror fit. Jesus. – 06:06 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone the event was like, shown, somehow, with CRAAACK sounds and EEEEYAUUUGH and oh god, i mean you can imagine – 06:07 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone now and then I remember this and vaguely try to find the strips, seems like last time i tried was before online paper archives – 06:08 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone you would think this would have been at least controversial, but i haven’t ever turned up a controversy, so … – 06:09 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone … it’s possible that i misinterpreted something in the strip or misremember a tantrum or something. but still. – 06:10 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone CAAARAAAACK CRACK – 06:10 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone *shudder* /bites pillow, stimpy eyes full of tears – 06:11 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone with terrifying sound FX typography. – 06:13 PM GMT
manmade black pinholes become primary power sources on long-duration space missions. Cumulative temporal effects unhinge crews, lead to war. – 09:33 PM GMT
RT: @jccabel: Working on the fabulous Stephanie Foo. @imontheradio #wip #outonthewire pic.twitter.com/​4jT8tv9I7T – 09:38 PM GMT
aesthetic appreciation, deep meditation, & ecstatic exaltation harnessed as primary energy sources. Nations compete to etiolate the masses. – 09:47 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @DanEngler GREENWOOD MURDER ZONE – 10:17 PM GMT