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Last night I went on a proverbial milk run. By the standards of western MA in early January, it has been insanely warm and rainy the last few days. My driveway is a fun combination of ice covered in water, meaning it has a coefficient of friction that I suspect requires negative numbers to express. When I unloaded the car, I was extra careful and made two trips. I moved slowly and cautiously on the both the first and second passes across the sloping, treacherous terrain. The first time I made it just fine, as did I on the trip back to the car. On my second and final return trip I cleared the ice and water without a Wile E. Coyote incident ...and promptly tripped on the steps of my porch. I fell face first into the woodpile by my front door. The two gallons of milk cushioned my fall. My thick skull impacted with the woodpile, but it's a far more dense entity than rain soaked firewood. My right wrist got a really nice twisting (which is making writing this especially painful) but I can still move my hand and make obscene gestures. The milk was ...not so fortunate. My porch looks like the murder scene of some strange white blooded creature. I ended up doing an unplanned load of laundry last night in a furtive effort to avoid having anything REEKING LIKE ROTTEN MILK in the next few days.

70's Bowie fans. Half Dome at Dusk. Yosemite National Park. A frozen Haunted Mansion at Walt Disney World (Paris). Newport Coast, California. Pyrenees, France (1956) Abandoned farmhouse with supermoon. Snow in Athens. This dude's penis is huge. Fall at Fifty Foot Falls, Havasupai Indian Reservation, AZ. Perito Moreno Glacier, Patagonia, Argentina by Luca Galuzzi, 2005. 6 second exposure in downtown Osaka. Truckee River outside Reno, Nevada. Belfast. Cliffs of Moher, Ireland. 23 second exposure over a motorway near Colchester, England. Bonsai Rock, Lake Tahoe, NV. Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona. Single unbroken Line Protrait Audrey Hepburn, Aquarelle Paper and pen, A4. Turenne, Corrèze, France. Antelope Canyon. Twelve apostles sunset. Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. 15 Second Exposure Over the Williamsburg Bridge NYC. New York City. Howe Sound. Squamish BC. Winter has come to the Sierras, Bishop, CA. Santa Monica Pier, California. Ersfjorden, Norway. Bonnie Lake Day and Night. White Pond, Sudbury, MA - Frozen Winter 5900 Silver Creek Falls State Park, OR.

This is, like, blatantly partisan, Man.

Laurie Spiegel 1971. Ronda, Spain Abandoned House in Nova Scotia. Sautens, Austria. Grinnell Lake, Glacier National Park. A lone surfer in Rio. Thórsmörk, Iceland. Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy. Bridge to Ronda, Spain. Salar De Tara, in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Rural Colorado stream. Mt. Rainer peeking through the clouds. Lake Pukaki, New Zealand. Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite, CA. Clocaenog, Wales. Snow Covered Mountains in Napp, Norway. Colorado Mountain Valley. Lake McDonald. Hocking Hills near Logan, Ohio. Raven Crag overlooking Lake Thirlmere, English Lake District. Sunrise over Mono Lake CA. River Mondego in Portual. Hamnøy Norway. Lofoten Islands in Norway. Blue Mountains, OR.

http://flashbak.com/yugoslavian-computer-magazine-cover-girls-of-the-1980s-90s-370271/ Santa Cruz, CA. When the trees don't render. A carbonised loaf of bread with the stamp ‘Property of Celer, Slave of Q. Granius Verus’ from Herculaneum (near Pompeii), 79 AD. Daniel Sorine photographed a couple of mimes performing in Central Park in 1974. Thirty five years later, while going through his old photographs, he realized that he had captured a then unknown Robin Williams. Christmas in Vienna. Yardley, PA. Northern Ontario. Askja in Iceland, where two volcanic craters sit one next to the other. Mike Dred's The ACID LAB UK. 1992. Milton Road East. Crater Lake, Oregon by Alex Noriega. McWay Falls - Big Sur, California. Yaquina Bay Bridge. Winter morning in Stockholm, Sweden. Sunset over the mountains of Las Vegas. Sunset at Boulder Bay, Christchurch, New Zealand. Motorhead cake. Reventador Volcano, Ecuador. Sunrise at Bradford Beach. Milwaukee, WI. Moody weather on the Cliffs of Moher - Co. Clare, Ireland. Faroe Islands. Tarcului Mountains, Romania. Odell Lake, OR. Heceta Lighthouse in Oreogn. Salem County, NJ. Hays, KS. Nevers, France. Faroe Islands. Aurora over Thingvellirkirkja, Iceland. Swift River in White Mountains Natl. Forest, NH. Kirkjufell just after midnight, West Iceland. Roxborough State Park, CO. Star Trail Over Nederland Colorado Combined with a Single Still Image. Cape Schanck, VIC, Australia, looking towards Pulpit Rock just after sunrise.

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Imgur appears to have un-fucked itself. Strap in, this is gonna be a big one. By my standards. Jonsrud viewpoint in Sandy, Oregon. Norwegian Hut. Comet Hale-Bopp over Stonehenge. General Sherman Tree - Sequoia NP, CA. Frozen Athabasca Falls in Jasper, Alberta, Canada. One day apart in Langley BC, Canada. North Coyote Butte, Arizona. Östersund Sweden. Loughrigg Tarn, Lake District, Cumbria, England. Stokness, Iceland. Cabo da Roca, Portugal. The westernmost point in continental Europe. Black Forest, Germany. The ice caves of Rifle Mountain Park, Colorado. 29 Bad Walthersdorf, Austria. Peyto Lake in Banff, Alberta Canada. A clear southwestern sky above Point Reyes, California. Mont Fort - Verbier, Switzerland. East of Eugene, Oregon. Lake Annette, Cascades. NYC shot from the Hoboken Train Station. Akaroa Harbour, New Zealand. Zec Owen, Québec, Canada. The Milky Way's core from the Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. McWay Falls, Big Sur, CA. Sunset near Red Deer Alberta. Cascades in the Smokey Mountains. Yosemite Valley, California. Milky Way over the 101. 15 seconds of the rising tide at sunset. Northern Lights in Northern Norway. A Calm Medina River - Near Bandera, TX. Hall of Horrors, Joshua Tree National Park. Salton Sea, California

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. As further proof that I continue to live the wild DJ lifestyle, I spent my birthday getting my car working (yay!) then going ...grocery shopping. I did splurge on some organic, free range tree hugging hippie Kielbasa. It was eye-wateringly expensive, but damn is it good.

Damn, dude. Tyrus Wong was a few months older than my grandfather, who died in 1990. That was a pretty epic life.

Did not know him, but 54 is way too young. RIP.

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This is slightly long form by Slow standards.

This is the third battery the Fit has had. In 3 years. First two were whatever Honda uses. A year ago I could have had it replaced under warrantee again, but opted to go to a local mechanic shop and get the best they had (which was an Interstate.) It was like $180 for the [gosh darn] battery. The problem is the Fit has a tiny fucking battery (like 360 CCA) and I store it outside, in New England. I'd love to retrofit a 450 CCA battery in there, but that is beyond my ability. I just ponied up $110 for a Swiss mate (WTF ever that means) car charger. I'd pour myself a drink at this interim, but after what two "non alcoholic" (.5%) beers did to me this summer, I'm afraid any of the Scotch in my house would fucking kill me.

Car's battery is dead for the second time in a week (first was Christmas Eve.) I am now super fucked, and apparently in the market for one of those home charging kits.

Someone said "the magic prize" in conversation yesterday and it brought back a flood of memories of listening to college radio in the 80s.

I was gonna post this in Slow Forum at some point. :/

RIP jazz drummer Alphonse Mouzon. http://www.soultracks.com/story-alphonse-mouzon-dies His drumming was sampled by ...everybody.

Scientist who discovered dark matter, Vera Rubin, passes away at the age of 88.

The following post was supposed to be much bigger, and posted yesterday. Inexplicably, imgur refused to accept any more uploads halfway through it. Today, imgur is STILL not working. I think it's the "I'm not a robot CAPTCHA failing." I spent half a fricken hour monkey with my adblock, and two other browsers. Got exactly nowhere. Here's as far as I got. "My friend tried to give her reindeer cute bowties...and accidentally created monsters." Spoiler: http://i.imgur.com/WdeZ3Gr.jpg Akureyri, Iceland.

Maybe it's not the western 2016, but the Chinese year of the monkey, which ends Jan 28th. Or maybe the Chinaman's not the issue here, dude. Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian American, please.