This is the Missouri motto. It replaced "show me" sometime during the Reagan administration.

XXL Dildo Barn, "You've Got a Deep Discount on the Horizon"

Everything’s A Metaphor For Late-Stage Capitalism If You’re Brave Enough

Driving through West Virginia: Titty bar, titty bar, burn-in-hell, gun store, bloody-fetus-anti-abortion, Sheetz, titty bar, mesothelioma lawyer, gun store, Jesus, "massage", gun store...

I hear ya (replacing strings on my lap while the workbench behind me is piled with stuff)

Wow! Isn't that a pretty thing?

my faith tells me otherwise

I just saw a thing about how the color purple is not "real" - it's just what your brain throws up when confused by red and blue at the same time! The other colors, I suppose, are really there though.

I’m assuming the siren goes ‘ee-no, ee-no, ee-no, ee-no’

and his posters are awesome.

Lovely!

Wow! Those are fun. And...nice price!

These are excellent

Enjoy. We visited last summer. It’s a mindblower.

I've only had the delight of spending one night as part of a trip home from Europe and I very much wish to return to spend some quality time inland there.

@MackReed Truly! This is our 4th? 5th? 6th? Time here. We love it. Always make sure to see a mix of our favs and new experiences each time. Such fun.

@samh Totally should! And I have lots of opinions about good places to go! Hahaha
Also m’wife figured out ages ago that if you’re going to mainland Europe from the US, that going to Iceland first is 1) fun, 2) a shorter flight, 3) flights from there to other places in Europe are then “domestic” and short and dirt cheap in comparison, and 4) you’re already in the Schengen Zone, which can simplify things a bit.
Anyhoo… do it!!! 😊

@wombatman70 I want to go to there! Would love to talk with you about a good first trip plan

<blink>this had me all teary-eyed ‘n’ shit<blink>

If you don't view it on the HSR site you are missing all the easter eggs (just like the good old days!)
https://homestarrunner.com/toons...

And that Flash emulator still delivers ultracrisp resolution free video that is better than YT.

#imissflash #imissflash #imissflash #imissflash #imissflash #imissflash

Seent

Baker is so weird and perfect.

Go to the real Mexican food place, not Taco Hell. First of all, no line, second, good food. We went into the real place and I bought mine. Daughter wanted Taco Bell, we waited in line 45 minutes there. This was that one, crappy weather of every conceivable kind, trip.

FYI they're tearing down what's left of that Royal Hawaiian Motel right now.

Sending katy perry and chums into space is fine.
It's the bringing them back part that gets up my nose.

@roonie they didn't actually make it to space. the Kármán line is an arbitrary boundary that is part way in to the thermosphere, and it was chosen as a regulatory boundary between aircraft and spacecraft.

personally, I think halfway through the thermosphere should be considered "space" - about 400km up, 3x the altitude of this POS flight for bezos's fiancee's hen night.

[narrator: No lessons were learned.]

Catnip. Not even once.

"I IZ COMIK BOOK VILLAIN POYZIN IVY!"

Ch-ch-ch-chia!

The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill

@mcmjolnir 🏆

@mcmjolnir was ABOUT to make a reference to this.

Are we not men?

Catherized.

Chi Chi!

Wah-Wah pedal intensifies

"Golf is the only game where men get to dress like pimps".

Robin Williams.

Goddamn it people used to dress better.

piss is the way.

the bitter warrior

He figured out what to do with those yellow shoes.

Last night at the Old North Church in Boston

@BMK That is awesome, one if by land and two, if by sea, and I on the opposite shore shall be, ready to ride, and sound the alarm, to every village, middlesex, and farm.

We’re Shit

Queer up is the battle cry of '25.

Happy Easter to you!

"Come get some ham"

In all seriousness, I do a helluva lot of writing while lying in bed at 2 a.m. thinking about how to word the thing I'm going to write the next day, much to my wife's irritation.

@mikenmar I don't how many times I've gotten out of bed around 2am to get back on the computer because I've figured out the next section to write

HI HOMIE

Wow! What a fortuitous occasion! Toe beans are the best!

This is pair spellcasting

Is anyone else wildly curious as to why this performance piece is outside, in a snowbank, next to what appears to be a stream?

The work is by Manny Julio https://lassalleworks.com/janelle-...

Ok, but let’s talk about that receiver at the top right. Pioneer?

Seriously, congrats! I bet that amp sounds awesome. Would love to get into some real tube grind that didn’t weigh 60 lbs. is that a 12 or a 15 cab?

Oh duh, caption.

@devilsrancher I was slow with the caption writing! It's a 12" cab, but it really sounds much bigger than that. The amp doesn't get a lot of grit from goosing the gain, but i've only played with it a 20 minutes or so. Great range of tones to work with, i'm just scratching the surface.

And yes, the receiver is an old Pioneer, i picked it up at a garage sale years ago with the matching speakers.

Ooof. I have only a 40 watt practice amp for bass and I am jealous.

Of course I only ever play in my office so even 40W can get pretty egregious, so I have no plans to upgrade. But I'm jealous anyway.

fwiw Andy Field, who designed the Shuttle series of amps, and less frequently Jim Bergantino, both hang out in the talkbass forum. I've learned a lot reading their posts.

It took me years to realize how much I really liked tube distortion on the bass- but it’s heavily dependent on the tone stage. Like, a 100 watt Marshall almost does it, but the low end gets farty when you really crank them- SVT’s get way too loud before the god tone happens, 200 watt Hi-Watt bass amps are crazy rare and expensive…

I had a Mesa Boogie D-180 for years, but the distortion on it was just kind of buzzy and fuzzy, which always stuck me as odd, because the tube structure and gain stages were not unlike a Marshall? Except more? It was a beast, but really only clean.

By accident I stumbled on a Peavey Rock Master 120 watt guitar amp made in the early 80’s, with a very similar gain structure to a Marshall, but the tone section it just… I dunno, different. I run the bass wide open, and there’s a shift on the treble that says “pull thick” which is damn, it’s like John Wetton on King Crimson. I am fucking home. But it weighs So. Much. Argh.

Anyway. /blog

Post a link to some music through that beauty- let’s hear it!

@ardgedee I got this amp from the talkbass classifieds (the cab i found locally). I agree, it's a great resource. Knowing that Andy still does factory service on the Genz-Benz amps was a big factor in getting this. I was seriously looking at the Mesa Subway amps, but nobody near me carries them and used postings for the smaller 350 i'd get isn't much cheaper than new.

@devilsrancher The tube on this doesn't give much breakup, at least with my pj bass and initial testing. I was able to get it pretty gritty through headphones, but i'm going to play around with some pedals to see what a little extra drive does. The EQ range is really useful, it's going to fun to play with on different basses.

That Rock Master sounds cool, never heard of that one.

Be seeing him.

Excellent.