a five year old note among my 1588 saved notes that just reads: four-dimensional salmon

OH WAIT I REMEMBER WHAT THAT MEANT

a higher-dimensional creature whose life cycle involves 'swimming upstream' backwards through time from the end of the universe to their spawning site at the birth of the universe

ngl i'm glad you posted a better description than "4d salmon," because that was a banger of a thought homie

@autumninfall so how's work going for ya

Pierre Fouché. 1994.77 or Lebenslänglichen Explosionsglück, 2020.

Rayon chords from a World War II parachute.

Here's the reference image:

And the context: "This young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY rescue mission has just jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor to rescue a badly burned Marine pilot who was shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul."

Here's more about the lace: "994.77 or Lebenslänglichen Explosionsglück (2020) is a bobbin lace work crafted from World War II parachute cord (Rayon) gifted to me. The medium’s provenance was authenticated by a crumpled piece of newspaper dating from the period, used as the core of a ball of 2m length cords. Lovingly sorted and preserved by generations of women, this thread holds the spotted residue of bright orange length markers, possibly dyed with mercurochrome. With too many to edit out in the thread selection and too few to incorporate in any meaningful way, these blemishes add nuances of stochasticism to the greater purpose of the work: an invitation to contemplate what humanity values enough to preserve."

Vintage Moschino Fall 1989 Leather Jacket with Floral Appliqué Details

Your straight male friends after two beers: "Hgey man can I smell your hair"

Your friend with the haunted shamisen: [plucks a baleful chord of ill portent]

Kawanabe Kyosai

Cocaine was a stimulant used by a priestly caste of the middle period United States called businessmen in order to commune with The Market. [1]

which is definitely not an omen

This is where Brexit Britain has gotten us. Can't even have a proper apocalypse now.

if yr doing a final girl in yr horror movie YOU NEED TO KILL HER BOYFRIEND that's the absolute rule

did you know? if you do your laundry you can get your clothes back

not the socks.

I think the greatest tragedy about the fact that my students don’t check the study questions I set them is that they miss the fucking impeccable poetry I write for them.  I wrote an I Lik The Bred poem for them this week and not one of them will have read it.  Philistines.

Tell it to us!

I definitely hyped it up too much it’s actually pretty pedestrian, but they’re still missing out. I make my students compose a short poem to share each week in a specific meter. I always write an example one in whatever meter it is so that they have an idea of what to aim for.  This week I told them to do whatever they want, so I went full self indulgent.

My name is Niamh, And wen it’s term And students al Do try to lern, I read wif joy Al ther esays - I mark them wel. I gyv them A’s.

It’s our duty to pass down our culture. Sing it from the rooftops. Bishounen……

the spirit is not willing and the flesh it is not so into the idea either

Collection highlight:  man leading a sheep (the Passover sacrifice) - detail of an 18th century Galician matzah cover

Cant have fucking shit in Detroit

Cant have shit

Okay so door saga

You are completely right because I have now investigated the knob and can confirm the screw holding the knob to bar was loose. I have tightened the screw and it SEEMS fixed but I’m very Fool Me Once on this since my neighbor also thought they’d fixed it.

There is a Home Depot trip in my future. Or maybe an online purchase if Patches would get off my laptop

Merry Christmas I hope I know how to install a doorknob

Complication. Doorknob is here and I tried to install it, but because my door is older than God, the latch-majig (technical term) is offset like an inch higher than the knob. Modern doorknob has the latch LEVEL with the knob.

To swap in the new knob I'd need to cut a new knob-hole an inch higher in the door which

I think what I really want is just the knob like above tags said. Like the knob and the rectangular bar, which I can substitute in for my stripped-bare knob and rectangle bar. I WOULD do this with the new knob, but it's got two welded-on spokes poking out from the knob.

I can maybe drill two holes for the spokes in my door...?

(Squinting at shitty amazon listings trying to see if any knobs don't have the two spokes)

(I think the two spokes might be standard.)

Developing new respect for Jesus (carpenter).

In the meantime, because I'd already unscrewed a lot of things I DID take the genius action of flipping my current doorknob around.

This way the side that causes problems is on the INSIDE.

Doorknob fall of while INSIDE house significantly better than doorknob fall off while OUTSIDE.

I'm retightening all the screws.

Patches has offered no solutions.

So it does!

Never heard the term "spindle doorknob" before so I never would have found this on my own.

They're also all labeled "vintage" which extra feels right since my door predates the Cambrian Explosion.

Crowdsourcing my door fix on Tumblr dot com! Doorknob 2.0 is ordered.

At least 4,000 but we still got time

New doorknob should get here tomorrow, but in the meantime things in the notes of this post:

DOORKNOB

ALSO MY PAPER TOWELS

(Ran out of paper towels)

Old knob coming off.

Wretched thing. Accursed knob of woe.

Get undid

New knob reign by forceful coup. Went to great pains to PRECISELY wait Patches is escaping

Patches retrieved

Anyway GREAT care was taken to ensure both knobs are ALIGNED, EVEN, SCREWED ON, with the wait hang on

Patches retrieved again.

Anyway

DOORKNOB SCREWED ON

KNOB

Still gonna keep the emergency screwdriver in the hall for probably the next month.

In conclusion look at my cat

stop forgetting to leave a seat open in your car for elijah! he is cramped up in the trunk! he is on the roof! he's sitting on the lap of whoever's in the passenger seat! he's very uncomfortable and he would just like a proper seat to stay in.

(also yes if you drive home for long enough from the seder elijah joins you but you do have to get out at a rest stop and stretch your legs so he has the chance to enter)