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RDCanecutter

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  1. That's shooting at the Tiger Tank with a Pistol Crazy Brave right there. Firefighters came in like the P-51s.
  2. Yep. Got a replacement engine from Brazil when I owned mine, back in the 90s. Porsche. So like a VW, but 2x price. Wish I had it now, he said.
  3. That guy is 2025's Sons of Liberty. Now drive (toll-free) to Boston and dump some tea in the harbor.
  4. Having not done that, and blowing two #3 cylinders, I believe you.
  5. Carpenter? Either work van or pickup. Whichever he got the best deal on. Scuffed up paint job, but well-kept mechanically and miraculously long service life.
  6. You really didn't have to do that.
  7. A wise man (and possible meth-head) once told me that the last thing you want is for some guy to be scared of you. Especially some bat-shit crazed lawyer who is already shooting at you. Steady... steady... and good luck with these assholes.
  8. Still spitting up light Covid chunks, so not the time to go corner my favorite silver guy in his tiny store to sell my stuff. And he is going to an out of town coin show until Monday. Called him and asked prices. His generic silver (what I'm selling) has had the premium evaporate. He buys it a dollar under spot and sells it a dollar over. 29 would still beat what I paid for mine by about 16%. Ah well, it'll do one of three things by Monday, up, down, stay the same, and two of those are a win. Main thing is to get a patch on this sucking chest wound of credit card.
  9. That show I ranted about, turns out it is about 100 dollars cheaper than I first thought, and the county vendor fee is miniscule. So maybe, just maybe, I'll pull out of my snit, grow up, go there with the type of art they want, sell like the wind, and just basically get over it. I have about 30 paintings, 100s of drawings, and heck, maybe I'll hand-pull some prints, and legit number them. Rational thought feels weird.
  10. My dad and grandad were electricians, but it's not my job to flip light switches for people.
  11. So name it for an Italian instead of Aztecs.
  12. I never think that. I do agree that they can't come up with any ideas, because of how they think. There's no scrap in them.
  13. Most things in the world I don't know inside out, but what I do know, when I check AI, at least half of the time it's wrong.
  14. Sounds like a way to passively lose. But by golly we'll be right.
  15. Think of a taco truck, and replace the tortillas with recycled cardboard art.
  16. [Let's pop open the bottle of plonk here in the linseed-reeking loft and have a good ol' Art Rant about some art shows.] Determined to fill the entire calendar with profitable shows in 2025, I reached out to the Hive Mind of my friends, and it looks like they've got me some good suggestions. But instead of focusing on the many good things in life, I'd prefer to spit venom about one that I doubt I'll go to. Right down the road in TTown, is one that COULD be good, but they just had to gimp it up. Two-day show. About $250. Probably about 100 overpriced for what it is, but maybe not. Then they have something about needing a business license. And the county has no info on business license price. You find out after you send your booth payment. This is "stick your head in the noose, and trust us." It's worse, because it's a red flag of sloth-- lots of well-organized shows have deals with their cities where a business license is waived for all vendors. In an area divided like the Holy Roman Empire, it's the only way shows happen. But that's not the best. They decided all prints must be hand-pulled and numbered. I could number them all, but it'd be a scam. I worked in several print shops as a ute, and numbered prints. I also numbered xerox prints from Kinko's. I don't feel like engaging in fuckery anymore. Furthermore, just ordered a few thousand more dollars worth of Photographic prints. I guess I could diddle around the categories with those too, but I am still stuck on some county admin gouging me for a pay-to-play. Fuggit. [/No actual legit art shows were harmed in the making of this rant]
  17. We must have already liberated France's "No-Go-Zones" as reported by Hannity, and inhabited by me, the deadly Moroccan storekeeper on crutches, and many old ladies going about their business.
  18. If we were Ancient Greeks getting our teeth kicked in by plagues and famines, we'd probably thin out that demographic. The remaining humble folk would be wary.
  19. My best UT housemate was a South Asian from Canada.
  20. "Between the seats sits a piece of Travertine stone..." I dunno if I'm fancy enough for that, but in the 90s I carried a log inside my VW Camper Van and I'd use it to chock the wheel on hills because I was building up the energy to crawl under it and repair the parking brake line.
  21. Silencio has decided to annoy the living shit out of me. I missed a day or two, so what happens is, I'm out the door ready to walk, and it'll tell me that to restore my streak, I either have to pay coins, or else watch three ads. Well, I can't waste any of these super-valuable coins, so I click on "watch ads." And get a firehouse of one Idiocracy AI game ad after another. I let the things run... then it wants to start them again, and again. Nah honey, I'm just not that into you. Phone off, walk like caveman. Happy. I had fun with it while it wasn't grifty, and my Little Empire of green hexes still stands. If y'all are having fun, keep on going!
  22. Self-publishing a book is about like self-planting a tomato plant. Except with the latter, you might get tomatoes.
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