Lawnmower Boy

No, no, no, no. That's how the boss is supposed to act. ..... Kind of a non-sequitur here, but would anyone mind circulating a call for resumes? We seem to be short staff at work again.

Change Environment or Extradimensional Movement are clearly the way to go.

Elon!

I repeat, more loudly, and without any intention of inflicting punishment (err. . . ) that you're on fire, Hermit. This one is really starting to recapture the magic of the first installments.

"It is 8PM, and this is the BBC news on the hour. Leading off, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill denied allegations in the German press that the recent firestorm in Hamburg was the work of Bomber Command. "We know what their target was for tonight," the Prime Minister said, in what many regard as a nod to his base. Around Kursk, fighting continues between Soviet Russian forces and anti-government militias. Russian sources continue to present alleged German prisoners as evidence that the German army is involved. In a statement from the Reichschancellor's press secretary, Joe Goebbels, the Russians are accused of violating the privacy rights of their, in his words, "so-called prisoners." From Washington, our correspondent files the following report on continuing Congressional investigations into responsibility for the recent battleship-destroying explosions at Pearl Harbor." No disrespect, but I'm a little tired of "false flags."

Yeah, but all those consequences are in the future, and this is the present!

All the 7" tall, green female actors in Hollywood have been booked for Disney's upcoming Lollipop Guild movie.

Because she would stab them all in the talent competition. STAB them.

And somehow I glanced over it so quickly that I got the impression that she was a stripper? Anyway, point is, try harder next time.

This guy gave up a tenured position to be a supervillain? In this day and age? He is nuts. On the other hand, he does get to play with dinosaurs . . . .

There's complaining going on, and I wasn't invited?

Hey! Motorcycles are only dangerous because of other people, like drivers. And advertisers, for making billboards that you can run into. And road engineers, for putting the road right where you'll hit it when you fall off your bike. And Isaac Newton, for inventing that stupid "gravity." Without those guys, motorcycles would be safe as houses.

Geez, geez, okay. I'll participate. So I took another bicycle trip for my August vacation this year. As usual, too much cycling, too few photographs. Made the Hope-Princeton in just less than fifteen hours, no photos. On the other hand, a bunch of photos from my two days in Greenwood, mostly from Japanese internment days. Mr. Fujimura isn't coming back.

Calm down, everybody. It's not like random, armed guys are wandering around demonstrations, killing people, or anything like that.

Pogo continues to remind me of my nieces. By the way, if Aspirant so much as lays a finger on . . . Ahem. I have been told that I need to calm down, that Pogo is growing up, and that Aspirant seems like a nice, suitable boy.

She has girl cooties.

Sexy!

Thunderdome. Armed with pears. Saves on lawyering fees, but makes for a pretty desperate finish. It's hard to kill someone with a pear, especially after the season we've had. When we get a Black people around here we stare at them until they go away. (I think they don't like being stared at?) This allows us to save our racisms for the First Nations people, who deserve it more on account of being the firstcomers in this land.

You have it coming for that Thermodynamics "C", Prof.

Also , I like the subtle way the case of New Coke got dropped in. That's going to pay off big in Series 5

We really, really need to reopen schools. So we're asking reality to make one tiny compromise. It's not like we're asking for no more global warming. Just enough Covid relief that we can get the kids off our back and onto teacher's back, where they belong.

Hilarious.

You do you, you crazy centipedes, you. (Have to admit to being a little worried about the beetles and moths, though.)

Too bad you dont' make enough money to live in a good solar system.

Whereas for me it's always the deep past that fascinates. Sovereign's time travel device was linked to the Basilisk Cauldron in some way that I cannot now recall, and the Mandalorian space elves are linked to the actual elves of the Turakian Age, their decadent Valdorian descendants, and before them, the Martians. Meanwhile, ancient Xenovore nanotech left over from their invasion sleeps in the heart of the Galactic Confederation, waiting for something to call it to life. (Maraud and Sovereign are my two favourite Galactic Champions villains.)