#stuff for laughs

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Had a coworker ask me how I stay so up to date with current events if I don’t have tv, social media, or a newsfeed, and I didn’t know how to tell her about the Destiel meme.

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“Don’t put your thumb up a shark’s ass!” — Taliesin Jaffe, 2024

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I save pictures of art for a number of reasons. Sometimes it’s because it sparks a story idea. Other times because I go “Ooh, that’s pretty! I wanna make that dress!” even though I probably never will. And sometimes it’s because I just find it pleasing to look at.

But every now and then I come across something that reminds me that people have always been people, and not everything was serious.

And on that note, I present:

Google tells me this is L'Escalade by Maurice Leloir.

I feel like this has potential as the next big meme.

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“Yes, I’m completely normal,” I say at 4 a.m. as I google how to attract crows.

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The Lochdubh/Cicely Twin City Initiative

Because this idea from three years ago came crawling back into my brain at 2 a.m. this morning and refused to leave. Have some sleep-deprived headcanons of what a Lochdubh/Cicely sister city program would look like.

It’s Maurice’s idea, because of course it is.

Maggie and Joel are both on board with the idea, and are slightly horrified to learn they agree on something.

Lochdubh’s introduction to Cicely is “Welcome to Cicely: A Film by Ed Chigliak.” Cicely’s introduction to Lochdubh is Lachie Jr.’s pirate radio program.

Marilyn and the Lochdubh ladies immediately form a knitting circle.

Hamish doesn’t like Maurice. He and Holling hit it off right away, though.

Joel initially likes the idea of going to Scotland because travel! and culture! until he gets to Lochdubh and realizes he’s traded one town’s quirky eccentricities for another’s.

Chris sets up a system to take long distance phone calls on KBHR from Lochdubh. Everyone abuses this.

TV John can see One-Who-Waits. Joel has concerns. Ed does not.

Lachie finds out about Cicely’s local cryptid Adam, and immediately enlists Hamish to help catch him. Hamish goes along with it until Joel informs him that Adam is, in fact, a real person.

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Today while I was cataloging my books and snapping photos for what will eventually become my Book of the Week posts, I came across part one of a two-part set of Shakespeare’s tragedies from 1944, and... well...

Let’s just say the illustrations leave something to be desired.

Verily, Lady Macbeth hath seen some shit.

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My mother’s response when I asked if there was anything she wanted from the library before we shut down.

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Me: *out in the stacks, shelving, just minding my own business*

A patron: *one aisle over, whispering to themselves* Muh muh muh myyyy Sharonaaa! Damn it!

I feel ya, man.