Stuff and Moonshine

Dave Malki! has posted a link to an hour-long vid of one of his “True Tales from Old Books” presentations – apart from the Beard Movement, ballooning, and a deeply weird, probably satirical children’s book, it also looks at recipes for invalids – beef tea I’d heard of, and to a lesser extent milk punch, but now I also know how to make toast water and toast soup. Thank you Mr. Malki!

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This is hilariously sick and twisted:
Wicked Witch of the East bookmark

Um, you know how recently on fandomsecrets several people have confessed to writing fanfic about a show they've never watched/game they've never played? Well, it's been a couple of years since I last watched S5 Buffy, and I've seen just enough of OFOtCN to know it's too triggery to watch in front of green_trilobite.

Nonetheless, this keeps happening. My main worry is whether I'm getting the tone of the dialogue right - most of the characters I'm basing off descriptions in wikipedia or people's lit-crit essays, and I suspect Ben is a little snarkier than he was on BtVS, but that's because I've discovered I don't like him much and I enjoy making him all passive-aggressive and manipulative.

So, um, Chapter 1 of my insane crackfic is up. You have been warned.

Via cowboybooks.com via Making Light: Nine drawings on acid, a 1950s government experiment in which a professional artist was given LSD, and then had to draw portraits of the scientist observing him.

I especially enjoy the dry descriptions: "Upon completing the drawing the patient starts laughing, then becomes startled by something on the floor."

OK, I think it's a toss up between "Calder Tully" & "Jay Loden" as Tin Man's real name.

Meanwhile, in PI, Sid "the Squid" continues to be a fan of absurdist humour, as I
imagined yesterday that his favourite downloadable show is called I Love Rock. It is in fact about a man in love with a rock, but played as an old-fashioned sitcom, probably with a laugh track and everything. Sometimes I really don't get what goes on in my head.