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"“If we abolish the police...

@lookingatstufflookingatme

only criminals will have police.” - The Onion / Capricorn / INFP-T

One Year Later.

One year ago while watching the Ignition Fire show at Midsummer Renaissance Faire, I exclaimed to my friends and family "I want to do that...I'm going to do that!"

As a longtime member of the faire I'd been watching the troupe perform for a few years, but due to life events hadn't had the bandwidth to join, but in that moment something felt different.

Jump forward a year, and I did it!! I got to fulfill my dream of performing with Ignition on the Midsummer arena, and words can not express how amazing that felt.

While I, and many others were sad to hear the news that we would not be performing at Midsummer for weekend 2 & 3 I still feel so fortunate to have had the chance to live out my dreams of performing with Ignition on that stage.

A huge thank you to all the fans who came out to support us, to Ignition for giving me the skills to live out my dreams as a fire breathing dragon, and to Midsummer for supplying such a great venue for folks to gather.

While I do not know what the future has to hold, I'll always be grateful to have had the chance to fulfil a dream of mine, and for all the new friends I've made along the way.

For those who would like to see Ignition perform, or would like to help us fundraise for our upcoming show at Burning Man please consider donating HERE.

Our fundraising venue recently burned down (not due to troupe activities) so any little bit helps.

Also a huge thank you to Angel González Rivera Angel & Alexandra Triplett for capturing these photos. My mom was hoping to catch my performance the second weekend, but due to recent events these may be the only photos of me performing at Midsummer so having them to share means so much. Thank you both! ❤️

See you all at many more fire shows to come. 🔥

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Retro Technology LEGO Kits by Chris McVeigh

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Fun fact about this: Chris McVeigh no longer sells these custom kits. You might think “aww, did Lego send him a cease-and-desist or something?”

NOPE! They hired him. He’s an official Lego set designer now. 

I’ve got his Old PC Ornament kit:

And his My Old Desktop: DOS Edition:

NOPE! They hired him.

He’s an official Lego

set designer now.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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Please, never let this meme die.

This is the best one I’ve seen so far

What kind of quantum fucking memeing from 2056 are you people beaming to us

It’s fucking back

shooting star. i can’t believe i’m hearing shooting star again in the year 2020

The fates have ordained that this cross my timeline again and you better fucking believe i’m reblogging it.

This is the only good meme, don’t @ me

mojo dojo casa house

Howdy folks! Sorry for the delay, I was, uhhhh covering the Tour de France. Anyway, I'm back in Chicago which means this blog has returned to the Chicago suburbs. I'm sure you've all seen Barbie at this point so this 2019 not-so-dream house will come as a pleasant (?) surprise.

Yeah. So this $2.4 million, 7 bed, 8.5+ bath house is over 15,000 square feet and let me be frank: that square footage is not allocated in any kind of efficient or rational manner. It's just kind of there, like a suburban Ramada Inn banquet hall. You think that by reading this you are prepared for this, but no, you are not.

Scale (especially the human one) is unfathomable to the people who built this house. They must have some kind of rare spatial reasoning problem where they perceive themselves to be the size of at least a sedan, maybe a small aircraft. Also as you can see they only know of the existence of a single color.

Ok, but if you were eating a single bowl of cereal alone where would you sit? Personally I am a head of the table type person but I understand that others might be more discreet.

It is undeniable that they put the "great" in great room. You could race bicycles in here. Do roller derby. If you gave this space to three anarchists you would have a functioning bookshop and small press in about a week.

The island bit is so funny. It's literally so far away it's hard to get them in the same image. It is the most functionally useless space ever. You need to walk half a mile to get from the island to the sink or stove.

Of course, every McMansion has a room just for television (if not more than one room) and yet this house fails even to execute that in a way that matters. Honestly impressive.

The rug placement here is physical comedy. Like, they know they messed up.

Bling had a weird second incarnation in the 2010s HomeGoods scene. Few talk about this.

Honestly I think they should have scrapped all of this and built a bowling alley or maybe a hockey rink. Basketball court. A space this grand is wasted on sports of the table variety.

You would also think that seeing the rear exterior of this house would help to rationalize how it's planned but:

Not really.

Anyways, thanks for coming along for another edition of McMansion Hell. I'll be back to regular posting schedule now that the summer is over so keep your eyes peeled for more of the greatest houses to ever exist. Be sure to check the Patreon for today's bonus posts.

Not into recurring payments? Try the tip jar, because media work is especially recession-vulnerable.

This is like the Billy Mays version of the Winchester Mystery House.

Rep. Matt Gaetz has sparked a backlash on social media after saying that only through "force" can change be made in "corrupt" Washington, D.C.

The Florida Republican, who is known for his unwavering support of former President Donald Trump, made the comments on Saturday while with Trump at the Iowa State Fair.

The remarks came after Trump was indicted earlier in August for allegedly working to overturn the results of the 2020 election, before an angry mob of supporters, fueled by his election claims, stormed the U.S. Capitol in a deadly riot on January 6, 2021.

There was a time in this country where the assumption was “People are smart enough to know that they don’t really mean violence when they say things like that.

I would have those days again.

Republicans are domestic terrorists.

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So, let me get this straight. Blizzard's plan for regaining audience goodwill with the 1.0 release of Overwatch 2 is to open with a heavily promoted PvE mission pack (i.e,. thereby reminding everyone of the vapourware PvE campaign they built Overwatch 2's entire marketing strategy around, then quietly axed once they had everybody's money), and the premise of this PvE mission pack is basically doubling down on the broadly disliked "our heroes put down a slave rebellion" PvE storyline from the first game? Have I got all that right?

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of course not.

they also released it on Steam.

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Huh.