Dad says he paused in disbelief and went back to his seat, said nothing.
Outside a Dollar General, dad gives a $2.00 bill to a little girl and she immediately hands it to her mother, “Here, I heard Daddy say we were broke."
Last time he told me about this he said he wished he’d handed them more.
Then they talk about Texas because dad is wearing his Houston Astros hat.
In a restaurant dad hands a $2.00 bill to a little boy and the adult (grandparent?) man says “That’s mine.” Takes the $2.00 bill from the child and hands the boy two $1.00 bills.
Update on dad’s $2.00 shenanigans.
“It’s your lucky day, there’s an old man handing out $2 bills in a parking lot!."
Boy takes $2.00 bill and says “It is a lucky day. These aren’t my parents, they’re my /foster/ parents and it’s the first time I’m going home with them."
A selfie of a man wearing a black polo, glasses, and a camera strap with a leather badge that says “wapiti” in Papyrus font. There are a bunch of people milling around in a hallway, there are photos displayed on stands.
The next evening, Photo Night 2026, UTC. Pretty cool event. PJ Billy Weeks announced the launch of southernphoto.org - the Southern Photo and Film Collective.
Black and white diptcyh of a woman’s knee with a powerpuff girl, Bubbles, tattooed above it and her smiling face in the second frame.
Black and white diptych of a man’s calf with a skull tattoo and a bullet hole tattoo above a tube sock and the frayed edge of his trouser leg pulled up to show the tattoo, in the other frame a curly haired man in glasses tilts his head back to catch the light from overhead.
#legtatdiptych got CJ and Koleby just this past week. CJ said the Powerpuff Girl tattoo is a family tattoo - her brothers have the other two, her dad has The Professor, and mom has Chemical X. A delight. Koleby and I shared an elevator ride and he was rad as hell.
Black and white photo of a brick entrance to a football field except the entrance structure is all that was preserved, the rest is paved to make space for other campus needs. In the distance, trees and streetlamps.
Bessa I, Ortho 80. UTC Photo Night, March 2026.
Wasn’t BOFA SECURETES in Snow Crash?
Black and white photo of a man in profile holding a Kodak Medalist in portrait orientation to his face.
My man, Zed. Pen F, Delta 400.
Black and white photo of a brick hall, figures mill around sorting and hanging photos. A figure in the foreground is blurred from walking.
Bessa I, Ortho 80.
Scary stuff, glad you’re OK.
A photo of a black and white negative, the visible frame is about 3x2 and it shows some people milling around in a room
Today I completed main story of Resident Evil Requiem and developed the last three rolls of film I exposed. 2x 35mm and this roll of 120 Ortho.
So My Chemical Romance is on tour with Orville Peck?
Sad times, friend. I’m sorry.
I love tiger demon.
found family, alternative structures to patriarchal violence whose only means of cultural perpetuation is conquest, dominion, empire. I didn’t lure the players into an estuary of centaur conscientious objectors.
So the centaurs were always going to be bloody dangerous, like Polyphemus, and I had another angle about their societal angst: fertility. Present them as an all male society incapable of reproduction. We didn’t spend a lot of campfire time with them so we didn’t have heart to hearts about
*Green Ronin’s Dragon Age RPG had dice fights and I liked the campaign I was in because of the people at the table. I really didn’t like combat at all. I did, however, play as a rogue and I /loved/ playing him.
To be clear I think if people are having fun together they’re playing right.
Some other games with a framework less dedicated to dice fights*
Ash Kreider Our Traveling Home
Takuma Okada Stewpot Tales from A Fantasy Tavern
Paul Czege The Clay That Woke
Heart of the Deernicorn’s The Fall of Magic
Jason Morningstar Fiasco
D Vincent and Meguey Baker’s entire catalog pretty much
I try to practice “play games that are fun” not “follow the rules best” and while I could probably play games I want in 5e, TB or Blades In The Dark, Apocalypse (or Dungeon) World turn the focus to the interactions I’m interested in exploring. Looks like Mork Borg does that too.
drawing of a bay centaur with a horse head, dressed in green robes, wielding a long wooden staff
centaur druid. i dont think d&d is for me (rng rolls for combat / heals stressed me out) but making up stories and listening to / about everyone's characters is fun
@lalage.bsky.social I like that your centaur has a horse head but the upright torso & arms of a man! That’s a cool difference from the familiar human+horse mashup. The colors & texture are great and I want to know this guy’s story, what he’s like when he eats (whole fruits? ash cakes?). He’s sweet.
Internet is out at our house. My wife is hotspotting the switch 2 for Pokopia. 😭
At Chattanooga airport at 4:30am to fly home and this reminded me that Tropical Fuck Storm’s You Let My Tyres Down (2018) is redolent of Lo Fidelity All Star’s I Used To Fall In Love (1998)
Room pod machine is missing basket - piercing with inkpen just made a mess (which I cleaned up because I’m not a dick) and coffee at breakfast buffet was exceptionally weak & sad. Didn’t finish it.
A man has needs (this man, caffeine dependency)
Hotel coffee exceptionally sad. Went to Trail Town coffee for an Americano and channeling Jerry Saltz bought a coldbrew to stick in the mini fridge for tomorrow morning. It would be more authentic to get gas station coffee but that’s reserved for driving.
Chose a lunch restaurant specifically because they had caldo de res - very different from Red Taco’s but more veg and made with shortrib. Just fantastic. fixins were diced white onion, cilantro, rice, avocado, and corn tortilla.
seem to be within spitting distance of Sunny 16 right now so it good I loaded the Ortho first.
I mean I also brought my beloved Pen F, my Zf, and my OM-1.
The horrors are horroring. I brought Bessa I and two rolls of 120 (Frankenstein 200 and Ortho 80) on a work trip to Chattanooga because you gotta look forward to something.
Thanks for sending me such a beautiful camera @papashittycams.bsky.social
Aaaaaaah, sneaky.
