A Costco Update

12 Thursday Aug 2021

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I’m putting together tomorrow’s post and I’m hesitant to throw this one out. I don’t want to be an alarmist, but the ‘gitchy feeling’ has infected me for three days now, and I’ve been doing extra prepping.

I’m not a conventional prepper. I’m not holding out for the apocalypse. I’m more in the “have a couple months of food/stuff you’d normally use over that time on-hand, rather than rely on the grocery store to supply you for the conventional three days.” It’s uncomfortable, and possibly insane, but I’d rather be viewed as an alarmist fool than let someone go without a head’s up. Continue reading →

Vox Popoli: Unalived Yet Living

11 Wednesday Aug 2021

Posted by in Behind the Frames, Evil League of Evil

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Blogspot nuked the popular Vox Popoli blog today. Love him or hate him, you had to be aware of him. His backup is up and running at voxday.net or milobookclub.com. According to announcements on Social Galactic (his social media platform) it is a temporary location.

All comments from previous posts have been nuked and will probably not be restored unless Blogger (ie Google) restores the original site. They don’t have comments enabled yet, and his team are still working on fixing the links on the side bars. He does have an interesting war post up.

Rumors that he got hacked with the ransom being the release of “A Throne of Bones III” have been denied.

We at Tempest in a Teardrop are eagerly watching as the legions of Vile Faceless Minions, Ilk, Dread Ilk, Evil Legion of Lawyer Ilk, Camp Followers, and Well-Wishers  are assembling before the mighty evil throne of the Evil Lord of Evil himself. We imagine he’ll pop in, fully armored, eyes hungrily glowing for more skulls. Good luck, men, and remember: It’s chew, then swallow.

We don’t think ‘Evil Tummy Seltzer’ has the right tone.

A Humble Burger. Only $3500. Maybe $4500.

06 Friday Aug 2021

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Day One of our hiatus was a total success! We cleaned out our freezers. It had to be done. We’d stocked up at the beginning of the pandemic madness, had been cycling through the contents, but realized that some serious reorganization was needed. We are eating older, humbler fare (so as not to be wasteful) as we begin the process once again.

We’re at halftime here, folks. We hope that you are also getting prepared.

Serendipitously, I happened to stumble across this.

It’s a hamburger. It only costs $6000. Yes, I double-checked the number of zeros. Yes, that’s real gold dust encrusting the bun. I assume Bethel Church had a sale. Continue reading →