My inner Republican doesn't remember those kids exactly being left on Jammies' doorstep.
As for the eclipse, I feel like I'm in the weird situation that I think LB described her friends falling into, where they bought a house that neither of them wanted, because each thought the other wanted it. Which is to say, I don't care about the eclipse, but I got some glasses and we'll go out, because kids are supposed to be interested in such things, but I think they'll be bored, and only humoring me.
I tried and failed again to find a clip of Chevy Chase doing the SNL news and saying "The eclipse is over. You can now stare at the sun." Maybe I imagined it?
We'll spend the weekend in St. Louis, and catch the eclipse from someplace just south before heading home.
I want to see the eclipse! By which I mean, I wish the eclipse was viewable from LA, because I don't want to see the eclipse enough to travel for the purpose of doing so. I'll see the eclipse as God intended, via cell phone videos posted to youtube.
If the sun goes dark and people look up into the sky and see, hiding just beside the sun where it would not have been visible before, a slightly dimmer sun reading "Yes, the president of the United States is a shithead," I will feel bad that I missed it.
Doesn't even have to have an apology. Just affirmation.
Waiting for the 2024 eclipse instead. Much more convenient.
Guy in the bar kind of looks like Bo Pellini, but he's wearing a Michigan State hat.
I'm going to be watching the e-clipse on my phone.
I'm not a lazy entitled millennial willing to wait for the moon to block the sun. I'll block the son of a bitch myself when I'm ready to look up.
I was considering a road trip, but, now that I look at a map, South Carolina is far.
I heard millennials are the reason the sun is getting blocked out. Some say it's because they prefer indoor experiences like taking selfies while holding avocado toast, but it's actually because generational inequality means they can barely afford light for a full summer.
Hilton Head is nice and not obviously racist.
I remember an eclipse from elementary school, probably the same one as heebie given the rarity of the things. Our school herded all the kids into the library, wouldn't let anyone near the windows, and closed all the window shades, because they were convinced all the kids would stare at the sun and burn out their retinas. And on top of all that it was raining so there was nothing we could have looked at anyway.
They could have brought in somebody with an arc welder.
Or a melon baller. Lots of ways to hurt kids eyes.
I don't think I'm doing anything. My aunt is meeting people in south Oregon and then driving up the coast to a good spot, which apparently (in consultation with locals) has a reasonable shot at avoiding a lot of the eclipse-chasing traffic.
The sun goes behind something every night. I don't see what the big deal is.
Not doing anything for this one, but there's one in Bilbao in 2026 and I'm already planning a holiday. What's the earliest you can book ahead for these things?
You have to call the scope conditions of the universe before the Big Bang.
In Trump's America we take what we can get.
There was one visible from Japan in 2012. By the time I went looking for glasses they were all sold out, so I made a six-foot-long eclipse viewer out of cardboard boxes, which attracted the attention of enough of the neighbourhood children that my kids were able to borrow their glasses while they gawked at the weird contraption. (Motherhood makes you sneaky like that.)
I am going to experience the totality vicariously through family who live in CO and are traveling somewhere in the path - including my 72-year-old mother, who has never been camping before in her life. Judging by the cool Vox graphic that shows the path of the eclipse by ZIP code I'll be able to see as much as I need to right here, assuming I remember.
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NMM to Cool "Disco" Dan.
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We're headed to the South Carolina beach, so if it's cloudy, we'll still be on the beach.
28 is a huge loss for the Red Line between Fort Totten and Silver Spring.
I don't even understand all this comic-book talk.
i'll be in wyoming too! maybe casper maybe douglas. let me know where you guys end up, heebie.
I'm appreciating art for the next 15 minutes. After that I'm enduring art.
Actually, I need better art to make the 15 minutes.
32: we were only there (Casper) for the night! We'll be back in Texas tonight.
If you happen to stay at Casper La Quinta, I missed taking a photo of the hallway carpet...
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Londoners, I need your help. I'm on an international scavenger hunt team this week, and we need photographic evidence of the following:
"Calliope. Clio. Euterpe. Erato. Melpomene. Polyhymnia. Terpischore. Thalia. Urania. Inspirational goddesses of literature, the arts and science in Greek mythology. On the steps of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, provide a visual representation of the muse that guides you in your art and/or life."
AND
"Two nice suburban monster moms out for a day of shopping at Hoxton's Monster Supplies in England."
Anyone up for the challenge?
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London is pricey to film in. You could probably find the same in Toronto for less.
I don't get it. Are you not in London? Is the idea to find out how resourceful you can be tracking stuff down at a great distance?
36: I'm not perfectly certain, but I believe that's the carpet from inside the rooms and not the hallway carpet, which was better.
Yelp has failed me for the last time.
First one is easy. Set up an elaborate system of mirrors, so you can take a photo of this.
How do you tell a nice suburban monster mom from a regular suburban monster mom?
Read the Pixar character bible.
I'm impressed J, Robot is doing GISHWHES. It seems so difficult and intimidating.
39.1: "I'm your fucking muse you little polyp" http://oglaf.com/blank-page/
48 Coincidentally I just got internet and fired up the VPN which I recently subscribed to when back in NY because they block all VPN sign-up pages here and the first site I went to not five minutes ago was Oglaf because it's also blocked here.
That was relatively SFW, but I should still probably not have clicked it.
Your team is supposed to do the majority of challenges itself, and most aren't place-specific. There are a handful that require leveraging connections, though, so if anyone in London (or anyone who knows a Fortune 2000 CEO with a real sense of humor...) can help that would be amazing.
Also calling dairy queen('s son) or any creative Bay area folk:
"Show us a beautiful mermaid or sea creature performing a politically defiant modern dance solo to the beautiful music of the Sea Organ at Zadar. (Can't make it to Zadar? The wave organ in San Francisco or the high tide organ in Blackpool may be substituted.)"
That's kind of subjective in about three different ways.
I have been so disconnected from the internet and all other sources of news for 2 happy weeks that "what eclipse?" was my genuine response.
Confidential to teo: My time in Alaska was wonderful but I'm plagued by the memory of an NPS ranger reading a required script for our entire visit to Glacier Bay. She did her best to enliven it, but it was pretty tedious.
53.2 Sorry to bust into the confidential message but was the script about how to avoid bear attacks or some other Alaska-specific wilderness survival tips?
The descent from "beautiful mermaid performing politically defiant modern dance solo" to "Blackpool may be substituted" is a tremendous bit of bathos.
She did her best to enliven it, but it was pretty tedious.
"He didn't even wake up for my in-flight safety announcement. And I did the one with all the screams."
I have been so disconnected from the internet and all other sources of news for 2 happy weeks that "what eclipse?
It's not like the eclipse is a recent surprise, like some asteroid about to smash into the Earth.
Monster Supplies is a real business: https://www.monstersupplies.org/
