Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: “This is a Woodlawn-bound 4 Train.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwZdDyH9LLc Ah, yes, summer in the big city. The subway stations are oppressively hot (dear god, Herald Square in summer), the Mister Softee trucks have been pushed out by bootlegs (like New York Soft Serve), and the Canada wildfire smoke has (mostly) subsided! We hope. It's that time, because they don't yearly

Mittwoch Holiday Week What The Crap Else Are You Doing This Week Thread

Welcome reprobates, degenerates, and occasional nice people. It's that weird middle-of-the-week day in between Christmas and New Year's, and this year it happens to ba Wednesday for Peak Weirdness. Kids don't have school, and most people I know who have actual job-type-job take this week off, too. Where does that

You Make The Call – Should Hippo Retire From (Non-DFO Yahoo) Fantasy FITBAW?

I will still play in Freezer Vodka League, if nothing but to keep my decaying mind functional.  But I swore last season would be my last in my high-intensity, moneyed fantasy auction league. True, there is NOTHING like the rush of the auction itself.  Pre-Pandemic/Zombie apocalypse, I drove from Wake County,

Help BFC Stock the Bar

Greetings, imaginary and non-imaginary friends alike!  Lady BFC and I have ceased our nomadic lifestyle and have finally landed in a new home.  That's all very exciting, yes yes, but let's focus on the important thing--I can FINALLY stock my bar.  My neglected, nearly drained, and yet still-beloved-despite-largely-being-abstract-for-nigh-a-year bar. For the

Subsequent GTD reflections

Hello there fellow DFO'er.  Hope you're well today.  And thanks for coming back to see last weeks comments of the week as decided by my brain.  There's no reason as to why some comments make it and others don't.   10 shipping days until Christmas. It's not like any of us

2021 Quotables – Week 7 (Submissions)

An incredibly handsome writer sits in front of a computer, staring at the unfinished draft of a Quotables post. RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY: "Text needed"? What the hell does that mean? RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY starts sweating. RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY: Okay, Rikki, you can do this.  Just write some shit down. RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY stares at the keyboard. RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY: [inner monologue] It doesn't have to