• Miep Gies, the last of the group who hid Anne Frank from the Nazis, turns 100 today (hat tip to aisb23).
• Weekend news anchors at a local TV station have a ritual they do during a commercial break - get up and DANCE! (h/t andrewducker)
• Jabba and other beach huts on the Lincolnshire (UK) coast - just in time for our bathing suit competition.
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A new superhero comic with handknitters in mind, containing a pattern in each issue.

Rorschach from THE WATCHMEN at Eustace Tilley; my favorite, but I’m a huge WATCHMEN fan.

Black mutant squirrels are taking over Britain, comic book denizens are aging, setting sheep on fire when you’re drunk will cause extra problems when they turn out to be people, and kids stealing parental credit cards and ordering up hookers - to play X-box games with them in hotel rooms.

From the Brooke McEldowney LJ (
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I have been working my buttsky off with The Basement this weekend; dumping out ten-plus boxes of books, tons of magazines and whatnot. And scanning and dumping tons of papers, and working my butt off on the household finances. Dale Cozort, the present co-OE of POINT OF DIVERGENCE, came over to riffle through the dumped books and took off with ( Read more... )

Brrrrrrr.

Love what you’ve done with your hair and the outfit.  Is that a Cuban cigar?

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Aka Paul Gadzikowski, from his dailies many years back - with a beardless, much younger me talking to Paul about Heinlein / M*A*S*H crossovers.  (Note: I usually don’t care for crossovers, I’ve not a media fan, and I never cared for the TV show M*A*S*H.  I’m also known as a hard-science SF person.)   The full four-panel strip is here….


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