Reblogged fallout-lou-begas
this alien shit get serious
Wouldn't you know it... it's Dust n' Dread update day! This time with some deer :)
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Reblogged dat-soldier
say what you will about the reserve bank of india these are some cracking coins
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Reblogged beetledrink
"there's a guy in the walls" movies exist in a universe that I fucking WISH was real. imagine how easy it would be to install stuff in walls if the space behind a wall was not 3.5 inches/8.9 cm deep and I could get my whole self in there. of course that would mean a guy could get in there too, but what are the odds.
<currently blogging from inside this idiot's walls>
PLEASE help me feed these ethernet cables downstairs or I'm gonna kill myself before you get a crack at me
thread it down here champ, we'll get this installed come hell or high water
you are the best scary murderer who could have ever crawled into my walls
I cannot overstate how much I love Tom Lehrer's story. It sounds so fake but is entirely real.
He's a goddamn genius- he started studying mathematics at Harvard when he was 15 and graduated magna cum laude. He worked at Los Alamos for a few years before being drafted and working for the NSA, where he claims to have invented jello shots to get around alcohol bans.
He then went back to Harvard for a couple years before starting to teach political science at MIT.
Through all of that, he was writing and performing both some of the funniest shit you'll ever hear (Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, Masochism Tango) and absolutely scathing political satire (Who's Next, Wernher von Braun, Send the Marines). Until the mid/late 60s counterculture gained momentum. He didn't like their aesthetic, so he stopped making music.
Shortly after, he moved to California and started teaching math and musical theater history at the UC Santa Cruz for the next 30 years.
I don't know if non-Californians understand just how goddamn funny that is. It's where stoners and math (and now computer science) kids who couldn't get into Berkeley go. Leaving Harvard/MIT for UCSC is peak academic phoning it in. And by all accounts he had a blast.
Plus the whole putting all of his music in the public domain thing. That fucked.
Also he is still alive! 95 years old as of November 2023.
The other day @piecesoftape sent me a text that said, "you probably got a notification for this, but Tom Lehrer outlived Kissinger."
There's a quote attributed to Lehrer, probably in answer to why he stopped performing, that "political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."
I am delighted to report Tom Lehrer is still with us as of January 13, 2025.
He also discovered an English rhyme for "orange," which famously doesn't rhyme with anything.
It's an internal rhyme (parts of two words), but it still rhymes, and the poem goes thusly:
"Eating an orange while making love
Leads to bizarre enjoyment thereof."
happy 97th birthday Tom Lehrer
Reblogged mabelsguidetolife
"a genus of new world pigs" sounds like something rage against the machine might call the american capitalist class. but in fact it refers to the humble javelina
Reblogged juney-blues
first they made it mandatory to log in everywhere. create an account to download your free template Log in to access resource give us your email nowwwww. Now the humble password is being killed too. open your magic email link! type your 6 digit code that we texted you because we required your email and your phone number! we’re gonna call you and whisper a code sweetly in your ear so you can log in to your account. yes it has a password but you cant use that anymore. okay? poob is gonna call you. now poob is just gonna call you.
