“Torture is any experience so horrible that no-one would consider trying it out simply for the purpose of writing a Vanity Fair article about what it’s like.”
— Stoatweasel speaks truth to Christopher Hitchens
Get Swoke!
My parents are on a stuff-eliminating binge as part of their move into a new place, resulting in a number of rather surprising packages arriving at my house. Clearly I come by my packrat ways honestly.
This never-used gem turns a 14-inch wok into a tea smoker. The company still exists and still sells woks, but Google suggests that I may be the only one in the world with an honest-to-gosh Swoke Kit.
I’m pretty sure the included wood chips and tea leaves have lost their flavor since 1983, though. 😜
Headline News
“Microsoft saves sinking ship; passengers leap to their deaths.”
3D Cheesecake 3
Once again into the NAS, selecting items of interest from a random subset of the “hc” folder! I’ll fill in more names later, but if you want to play along at home, read this entry in Chrome, right-click, and select “Search Google for Image”.
No, this collection does not include the sleek smiley cutie from the Makudonarudo song, Meu Ninomiya. Shame about that, but her gravure portfolio is rather slim. One of her movies has been subtitled and made available on Amazon Prime Video, though.
Yeah, it's like that...
Plausible headline...
“Russian Spy Snowden Weds Freelance Spy Manning”
Dear Hello!Project Costume Designers,
I’m pretty sure there’s nothing Egyptian about these costumes, despite their use in your new stage show “Pharaoh’s Tomb”.
