Riley

Legends

I came for the chips. Then I kept driving. In Nevada I bowed to a self-checkout machine. It scanned my forehead. I apologized to the machine. The machine did not apologize back. This is how I learned about America. In Costco I bought forty-seven pounds of cheese because a man said the word "sale." I did not know what sale meant. I did not know what cheese meant, at that quantity. I ate cheese for three weeks. I have never been happier. In Alabama I tried to tip 200%. The waitress ran after me in the parking lot. Not to correct me. To hug me. I bowed. She hugged harder. The bow and the hug met somewhere in the middle and became a new thing that has no name in either country. In Texas at Buc-ee's I thanked a man in the formal Japanese my grandfather used at weddings. Twelve syllables. Two bows. One held breath. He said, "you good, brother?" I was so good. I have driven eleven thousand miles. I have learned four regional greetings and used two of them incorrectly. I have tipped waitresses, gas station attendants, a park ranger, and one confused librarian who tried to give the money back. I did not let her. A samurai does not accept a kindness without paying it in full. If necessary, twice. This morning they told me my book is number one in America. I laughed. Then I bowed to my laptop. Then I apologized to my laptop for bowing so shallowly. Then I bowed again, correctly. I did not climb a hill. Every stranger I met carried a stone. One morning I woke up on a mountain. America did not ask me to be smaller. America asked me to be more. To every reader who put a stone under my feet: I saw you. I wrote you down. The book is you. The samurai bows. Deeper this time. Forehead to the floor. And then he stands up, puts on his sandals, and keeps walking. The road is only beginning. Read free on Kindle Unlimited. wandering-nobunaga.com/number-one.html

In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas. I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build. I was not prepared for the gas station. There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps. I counted them because I did not believe them. A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty. He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things. Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon. A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced. A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume. And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot. The beaver is a saint. The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house. And the bathrooms. I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people. I was wrong to dismiss it. The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it. I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering. A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist. I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes. I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church. I did not need any of it. I needed all of it. I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there. I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either. But I did fill the truck. And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.

Is this too much to ask for??

@JalenUchiha @lyn56252 The account called it a Tyrant lol (holy larp) it’s G/Birkin. But that is without a doubt one of the best RE cosplays/costumes I’ve ever seen

@lyn56252 @glittercide

タイラントのクオリティーやばw

@JalenUchiha @HecklerAndKoch It’s just HK USA there’s no cause for concern.

@HecklerAndKoch @glittercide

MR and SP5 Production.

@JalenUchiha @Polymarket Interesting

@Polymarket @glittercide

NEW: Nissin launches the first cold-water Cup Noodles in the brand’s 55-year history, ready in five minutes without boiling water.

@JalenUchiha @NighthawkCustom This is an example of what I was talking about when I said nowadays there are firearms made with civilian ownership in mind that are better than what the military is issued

@NighthawkCustom @glittercide

The Double Stack Thunder Ranch Commander // Developed in collaboration with the crew at Thunder Ranch as their vision of a hard-use fighting pistol - built without excess, shaped by real-world experience, and executed to a standard far beyond the service pistols most professionals were issued

You opened the box..

@Jakehmc117 @BasedHorrorGuy @WeWatchedAMovie Laurie rerouted him first when she shot at him in Julian’s house, if she hadn’t he would’ve used that same street to eventually B-line his way over to 45 Lampkin Lane

@BasedHorrorGuy @WeWatchedAMovie I mean, it was Dr Sartain who rerouted him. He never would have ended up at Laurie's house if it wasn't for him.

I'm so glad someone finally made a supercut of Jaimie Lee Curtis saying trauma over and over again during the Halloween press tours. That was super obnoxious.

@JalenUchiha @mylocalgunshop Yes this is exactly how it is tbh. But we also have our own pretty-boy shotgun manufacturer in America and that would be Browning.

@mylocalgunshop @glittercide

@JalenUchiha @TheKing_Kringle

@TheKing_Kringle @glittercide

Vegothiraptor Verosica introduces you to her friend Slasha the Punkraptor outside a 7/11 at night whats the move?

@BeYoNdBaSiK @TejoKaal You realize that she spit on a black woman? You realize the big guy putting hands on the other black woman was defending another black woman? You actual piece of shit

@TejoKaal So black men just recording while these MFs who are making a literal living in the Black Community is putting hands on a BW and we all Cool. This is why we will never change shit we can’t band together for nothing idgaf what she did before this video started yall not bout to jump

Beech Spits On Store Employee, Gets Body Slammed By Big Dude She wildin n fighting fr

yeah fuckin crazy innit almost like you faggots havent had to aim in a decade

@JalenUchiha I thought the top left was Starlight from The Boys for a sec

Maxine

@SceneinCinema There’s something off about Pascal and one day we’ll find out what it is. You wait.

1983 Benelli MP3S 9mm Target pistol

@gunfanatics1 M16A1 Grenadier

Which one are you picking for a zombie apocalypse?

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@Mr_goji54 @glittercide

Awesome Hiya Toys MONSTER X (2004) figure! Via // Weibo's 啊啊煌啊

the smiling dead? the evil friends? #evildead #smilingfriends