Damn, I missed that, sorry -- it was making the rounds today and I assumed....
Going with the Halloween connection. But also because hearing the early synth-heavy Ministry makes me laugh every time.
It sometimes is, but the word is already taken for "a young pig"!
Hybrid animal has even started to develop a pair of horns
"Authorities were unable to determine if the suspect was a liar by the time we went to press."
He's holding a bomb, so I'm guessing he accidentally threw one and blew up the crops where the empty tilled land is around them.
"I'm not saying it's aliens, but..."
This is a map I made about a year back after encountering Hamilton Inlet and the associated Lake Melville on a map. It looked like the sort of place a medieval Norseman might call home, and when I checked it's climate was actually nicer than the one around the real Greenland settlements.
In this alternate history it was settled and managed to survive until European fishermen arrived in the area in the 1400s. With closer connections to across the Atlantic after that, it then carried on down to the modern day, a bit like Iceland but not as populous.
Its look was inspired by the National Geographic infographic maps of the 70s and 80s.
Been playing quite a bit recently after not touching it for a year or so. Hit my usual wall right around the end of Year 2 with marriage and the Mines done and just the rabbit's foot left in the Community Centre. I'll see if I can finally get deep into the Desert this time.
Mark Linkous was the key member of Sparklehorse before his early death, and he produced this album of Nina Persson's
My mother's cat stares for food from one side of her chair and then, after being fed, stares from the other side of the chair because that is clearly a different kitty who has not been fed yet.
Ignoring the Stan-shaped elephant in the room -- both songs sample the same drum beat from Dexter Wansel's "Theme from the Planets".
There's a much higher quality copy posted just recently!
Naw, it's got to be Aretha Franklin's "Respect". Or maybe the Beatles with "Twist and Shout". Soft Cell's "Tainted Love"?
Please remember that the Void™ is for screaming into and the Abyss™ is for staring into. Staring into the Void™ is a breach of your licensing agreement.
This is film of Operation Sandy, the first sea launch of a large rocket. It took place on the deck of the USS Midway in 1947, with a captured V-2 setting off at a janky angle and then breaking up before making it to 5 kilometers high:
I've linked to the flight portion of a newsreel about the whole thing.
Paul Drye @lemm.ee Fascinations: Unbuilt crewed space projects, phantom islands, alternate history, Muppets, Atomic Age design, weird-looking galaxies, temporary moons of Earth, languages, cartography, the Ediacaran biota, old cutaway diagrams. Canadian with malice aforethought. Baggage Books on DriveThruRPG.