These kinds of things are really cool! I love interactive fiction/games that have a real-life component.

Do you have any more information about your projects?

That’s really cool! Do you have an example of the calligraphy you like?

I have a habit of looking at archive.org’s recently uploaded magazines because it is always cool to look at periodicals from a different time.

Even things that seem unrelated to my interests at all end up being a riveting window into something unfamiliar!

This was funny because I went back to see if the review I just read was Sticky Mustache, and it was actually pruwyben!

This is a great topic! I have more than one kinda odd hobby.

I got a bunch of old newspaper comic strips of Mary Worth from 1947 and 1951 (almost two full years’ worth) that I’m putting into ~3”x12” poly bags so I can read them more easily. I need to put them into a book of some sort.

I also got some color Sunday strips from 1951 but they’re a crazy size so I may need to put those in a separate book.

I think they’re so cool though! The strips have ads on the back from the time period.

Oh, that’s just a risky proposition, that’s all!

I would wager most people don’t know themselves well enough on psychedelics to trust watching weird shit with someone who is also on psychedelics.

I don’t find this odd at all! Just difficult to clean up if it drips on the coil.

Similarly, I have made a decent number of s’mores in the microwave with marshmallow fluff.

This is how it came across to me too but maybe there’s context I’m missing.

A younger or less-experienced person comes up, says “I drew this like you draw!” and you’re mad? That’s a you problem.

I thought everyone keistered their mangoes

Correct, in the book they have multiple groups of soldiers that run ahead (in vehicles) if there is a vanguard.

I’m reading it too because I read it over a decade ago and making it into a movie seemed stupid to me. So I wanted to know how stupid.

It’s such a funny example. He was so famous in the 80s!

Never Gonna Give You Up was literally #1 in 25 countries in 1988. He was nominated for a Grammy but lost to Tracy Chapman.

He’s sold 40 million albums.

During the period between his debut release and his fifth single (in 1988), Astley outsold every other artist in the world. (From his Wikipedia article)

I would argue he wasn’t accidentally famous at all, as he partnered with the Hit Factory. They produced Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” in 1985.

“I knew, though, that when I got my turn, it would be a big thing, because Stock Aitken Waterman were becoming this big hit machine.”

Having a big hit is why he started working at their production studio as a “tea boy.”

Or sometimes history if I can’t remember at all.

Oh my bad, two other people said that too I was just excited

I aspire to use this as a reaction image to one of my friends someday

I’m trying to think what would be too much for this…

I’ve never seen anything like it, that’s for sure.

I was 100% thinking that too! I saw it and immediately was like “wow, that looks like it will win a prize.”

Cool to hear you go to the press exhibition each year! You must see a lot of amazing photos there.

I’m an amateur photographer and mostly do insects.

Incredible timing, positioning, and framing. Also preparation I assume, being able to take the photo in that environment. Even the wind had to be right! Remarkable.

As mentioned in comments below, it’s a Chicago Tribune photographer, Stacey Wescott. Amazing photographer!

It’s both! Though Lay’s came first. I looked it up because I couldn’t remember.

Pringles is “once you pop, you can’t stop,” in the mid 1990s.

Lay’s is “betcha can’t eat just one,” starting in the early 1960s!

Now I want chips.

I think they thought it meant “veiled compliments” and not “veiled insults.”

Which isn’t hard to confuse really.

I too thought it was bread. I was like “marbled!! Oh.”

It can also be social anxiety. It can be a lot of things!