Ken Layne

@philipaklein @rkylesmith Why Dogs Are Actually the Worst Pets

@rkylesmith The old Slate model.

These pieces are so lazy and tiresome. Right up there with the "I regret having kids" genre.

@Cary_Bleasdale The Kermit D. Frog live report would not be pretty.

@KenLayne I mean It's a terrible tragedy But Can you imagine

NASA almost sent Big Bird, the actual person in the large muppet costume, on this mission. But Big Bird wouldn’t fit, so they got this teacher lady to go instead. I’d like to see a movie where Big Bird is on this mission.

@whiskyjackburns They fit ol’ hoss Big Bird in there w/ Waymore & somehow no room in the space shuttle.

@jimlux Don’t ruin it.

@KenLayne Sally Ride wasn’t a teacher. You’re thinking Krista McAuliffe.

@Cary_Bleasdale It wasn’t actually Sally Ride’s flight, as much as I like the idea, but yes they were going to put the Big Bird actor in costume on the the Challenger.

@KenLayne To be clear, was the plan to put Carol spinny on the ship? Or literally Carol spinny in the Big Bird costume?

@pintleinjector Thank God!

@KenLayne sally ride was not flying on STS 51L

@SeanParnellUSA Save money on paint, name it the USNS Cesar Romero.

We are on it Congressman. 🫡🇺🇸

Evelyn Waugh chatting with Elizabeth Jane Howard about being old [he was 60 at the time].

These culverts were constructed by local land trusts under highways in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Mountain lions, deer, bobcats & other critters use them, like this now-famous Coyote & Badger hunting duo. Three crossings cost ~$12 million, cheap for Calif. x.com/skepticaliblog…

Wildlife crossings are *needed.* Animal-vehicle crashes injure 20,000 Americans annually & cost $8B. The LA wildlife bridge is 3 years behind schedule and $20 million over budget because it’s California NGO grift. Utah finished 6 new wildlife crossings in a single year (2020).

Wildlife bridges are good things. Proven to reduce wildlife/car collisions (1 million+ crashes & 200 human fatalities per year). Good for health of deer herds & other prey. Florida did the 1st US crossing in 1955, for black bears. Utah opened its I-15 overpass *50 years ago.*

@bakersfieldnow Replace it with a 50-foot statue of Kevin Federline.

The statue of Cesar Chavez on the campus of Fresno State was covered by a black tarp and black plastic on Wednesday. bit.ly/3PK2yER

@totally_not_ace @Interrobang_2 I keep some old DALL-E pictures because they achieved some sort of visual poetry / horror from fairly simple descriptions.

@Interrobang_2 @KenLayne People have already started using "slop" in a similarly somewhat affectionate way.

“Slop” moved into the vocabulary so easily because it replaced “schlock,” which means the same thing, but East Coast Yiddish terms have fallen out of favor. “Slop” is very Old West / Frontier.

@nxd1979 Schlock: “of low quality or value.”

@KenLayne schlock and slop are not the same thing. schlock is charmingly bad while slop is barren and meaningless and devoid of soul

@Interrobang_2 Schlock: “Goods or artistic works that are cheap or low in quality: markets selling schlock; schlock TV shows.”

@KenLayne completely different things. i’d go so far as to say they’re mutually exclusive.

Thomas Robinson Carroll (of Washington, Louisiana) wrote this family history in a 1909 letter to his brother, Absalom Washington Carroll. The patriarch was 1 of 5 orphan boys, four times a widower with years of proud service under General Washington, “the father of his country.”

Some of my Irish ancestors, the Carrolls. My great-grandmother was Caledonia Carroll. She came from a long line of Carrolls who followed “Charles Carroll the Settler” to the Catholic haven of Maryland in the late 1600s. Originally from Ely O’Carroll (Co. Offaly).

@mycenaeas Got myself one of these new Ford Mavericks. Just what I wanted, a pleasure to drive so far, half the price of the F-150 XLT that I can’t afford anyway, and it gets 40mpg in town.

@KenLayne What did you get?

Of all the highs & lows of life, there’s nothing like the first week of having a new truck.