Lucius

I wish I had the self-confidence of a burlesque dancer.

Wow, I'm not sure I've ever been this close to an organizational meltdown before. When a Jesuit does an amateur clandestine recording job, something is drastically ****ed up.

Why didn't somebody tell me my shirt was inside out??

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 

 
Your villainess needs to open a franchise:
 

New York monument honors victims of giant octopus attack that never occurred
 

Thus the tragic story of
 
The Old Man in Tights Without a Country
 
Lucius Alexander
 
In a country for palindromedaries

I always pictured palindromedary scat to be a lot like this:
 

crossposted from rpg.net
 



Thanks, I know some people I think will appreciate these terms.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
I am not plotting with a palindromedary.

Where did you get these four perfectly round circles?
 
I can prove to myself that they ARE four circles by forcing my eyes to follow them around each circumference, but I can't make myself SEE them that way.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The amazed palindromedary says this image is so awesome we got a "like" just for REposting it

Maybe this ought to be Creepy Pictures thread, or the Cancer Stop Trying to Destroy the Universe thread.
 
Helix Nebula, in the visible. Famous object, about 220 parsecs away, across the outer fringes it's almost a parsec across. Old planetary nebula; one of the nearest ones to us, large apparent size on the sky, but low surface brightness, so you need a time exposure to see it (discovered 1824 before photography though, so telescope plus eyeball can do it, but it's a difficult target because it is so large so the light is spread out over a big chunk of sky). Many neat images of it.
 
OK, with that background, now look in the infrared. Then compare....

Why yes, yes, I think that's exactly what was created there. And I rejoice in it.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary however wants to turn it in at Lost and Found

Win Ben Stein's Vagina Monologues
 
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Elemental Evil

I thought Lost, and Gilligan's Island happen on the same island. Later a Mr. Roark came by to claim his property...???

In all these agreements, nailing down the delivery times is at least as important as the actual deliverable.

Oy!

Sex pigs halt waterwheel traffic after laser attack on Pokemon teens

From Outhousers, It's a bit of a sarcastic look at the LA Times suing their fired political cartoonist for complaining about his mistreatment from the LAPD. I know hard to believe.
A link to Rall's version of the events is available. It's amusing at least. 

<pet peeve mode>
 
I am just about certain that this illustration, like just about all of them you will find, give an important and drastically wrong impression.
 
There are lots of astrophysical phenomena which are powered by an accretion feeding onto a central massive object; in this case, a black hole. Accretion disk phenomena are difficult to treat, but the above picture gives the impression that the disk is thin compared to the diameter of the central massive object.
 
At the point where the matter is coming down onto the central thing, that may or may not be true. But further out, it is certain NOT the right picture.
 
The accretion disk is a big fat slab of gas, with the gas moving in orbit around the center thing, and grinding against its neighbor gas, which means the faster it goes the hotter it is (and since it moves faster the closer it is to the center, the hotter it is in the middle), and most (?) of the gas gradually makes its way into shrinking orbits and eventually joins the thing in the middle. A fraction of the gas in the periphery of the disk, though, actually moves outward.
 
This slab is fat. Many many times larger than the central object. In the immediate vicinity of the center object, the disk is pinched thinner. This naturally makes it hotter, as the disk material is grinding against more and more of its neighbors, at higher and higher speeds. And Hot equals Bright, in terms of giving off light.
 
Black holes, kind of by definition, are the most compact things in the Universe. So that fat slab of a disk has to pinch down by a very large factor in the center for the material to feed onto the black hole. And, that only happens in space a few times the black hole's size.
 
The traffic problem is ferocious, and most of the time, some stuff has the spectacular crash with something else that's also trying to cut in line, and pieces go flying. And the only way they can go and keep flying is if they go straight out the pole axis (both "up" and "down" out of it). (Lots of pieces don't go that way; those just rejoin the general spiral-in flow once they've bounced around off of everyone else in the vicinity.) The rest just makes for a nastier hotter traffic snarl in the center, as every car in the Los Angeles Basin tries to swirl down the open manhole in the middle of the intersection of Broadway and 1st Street in the middle of L.A. itself.
 
THE BLACK HOLE IS TINY COMPARED TO THE THICKNESS OF THE DISK. All the pretty pictures of this skimpy disk like an old vinyl LP around the midline of a bowling ball is VERY WRONG.
 
The black hole is a single fleck of black pepper in the middle of a big round fountain a foot deep with pancake batter. If you aren't looking direct down the throat of one of the polar axes, you have NO HOPE AT ALL of having a sightline to the black hole. All you see is either the edge of the disk (if you are kind of in the plane of the disk), or a MOFO INSANELY HOT BRIGHT ZIT right in the middle of the disk, maybe sitting in a dimple but it's hard to see that for sure. And if there has been a cosmic crunchola collision very recently, you may also see the insanely hot blast fragments of the incinerated guts of the sumbeech who tried cutting into line feeding the on-ramp, and those blast fragments have been reduced to fully ionized ten-million-degree plasma and are being expelled at very healthy fraction of lightspeed.
 
But this image of the Big Looming All-Consuming Black Orb looming over the paper-thin sheet of stuff feeding into it ... No. WrongwrongwrongwrongwrongwrongwrongwrongwrongwrongwrongWRONG!
 
</pet peeve mode>
 
Grumble.

The Sword of Goujian- The Ancient Chinese double-edged straight sword untarnished after 2700 years  https://m.thevintagenews.com/2016/07/26/goujian-ancient-chinese-sword-defied-time-2/

Lifted from the Wikipedia article on William B Spong
 
Senator Spong
"was invited with the other freshman senators to address the National Press Club. Fearful that someone on radio or television would call him Senator Sponge, he used his brief five-minute introductory speech to that body to secure proper name identification. His first act as a senator, he announced in his southern drawl, would be to introduce a bill to protect the rights of songwriters in Hong Kong. He would be joined in this effort by the senior senator of Louisiana, Russell Long, and the senior senator from Hawaii, Hiram Fong, and together they would present the Long Fong Spong Hong Kong Song Bill. His name was never mispronounced by members of the media."
 
Lucius Alexander
 
Feeding it to a palindromedary

don't you mean RUBBERDUCK ?

Iron Maus: Armored political statement. Despite his comedic appearance, Iron Maus is quite serious in his war against corporate dominance and its stranglehold on many endeavors especially the creative fields. And his (Iron Maus is presumed male but no one has seen his true appearance). armor is no joke either and is easily a match for some of the most formidable high tech battlesuits available. 
 

Interesting. I keep getting Professor X references. Strange works better though
 
Juan Paolo just sent me another commission he finished for me. This is Kamapua'a, a Hawaiian deity. I love adapting lesser known gods into supers. I feel Celtic, Egyptian, Greek and Norse have been done to death.
This guy has a cool back story, one of adventure, love and sorrow. Perfect fodder for a super, right?
Here is a site that tells his story. This is what sold me on him being an interesting character 
 

Surely they would annilate like matter and anti matter and you would get a burst of energy and the strange particles would form AUSTIN POWERS Groovy baby!

Quoting this old post because I finally had the fourth member drawn up by Brian. Representing Death is Manea, an Etruscan Death Goddess (naturally!)
 

 
And being Horsemen, they needed mounts. Created from Fire Opals, and magically given life, these are the mounts of the Horsemen: