Fans of the band Bury Me Standing will know from whence I thieved the title of today's post. According to Gralie Bohe's novel, The Boy in the Yellow Leatherette Portmanteau, Dante Jivanadalli originally wanted to call their first album of the new century Ideocracy is an Idea Mispelled, but Josue Baluende was emphatically against it. Teri Ainsworth and Ross Kerrinza also disliked it, but Jivanadalli remained stubborn.

What’s the weirdest movie you’ve ever watched? View all responses Oh! Just last night I experienced one of those weird dislocations movies can create - maybe not the weirdest movie I have ever watched, but it is still worthy of a note here. The movie was Naayak, a Telugu language film from India. I understand the weirdness comes from the cultural differences between Telugu and English/US cinema, but the weirdness was still an undeniable delight.

The Memo Pilchard I know an answer to a question. This life has become a dream without shadows. Somewhere, I am awake. Somewhere, my hands smell like steel and rust. Somewhere, I am climbing up the Eiffel tower in an early morning mist. Somewhere, I am walking on a frozen river in 3-inch mother-of-pearl heels. Somewhere, I am a Slavic peasant prying a dried lump of pony shit from my boot heel.

Tattoo flash, no. 45, "Knotilus" I did not have anything planned for the Cephalopod Jamboree this year but then I realized I could post some examples from the "Knotilus" set of tattoos in our flash series. The word "knotilus" is of course a play on "nautilus". If I had a favorite cephalopod, the nautilus would be my second favorite, after the cuttlefish.

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ALT: Jr NTR's Epic Animal Scene from RRR Movie Interval

For jackalope families, the practice of rolling around in a big heap of fallen leaves is an autumn tradition known as the Scapegracery Frolic. On this third day of October, you are invited to celebrate your escape from grace and your escape from the machine. Most Inultarumet tribes use the word "scapegracery" (from the English word "scapegrace") for the concept of the holiday, but of course the festivities must have their own set of names in the languages of the Inultaru.

A former archivist at the Geranium Lake Properties Animist Sanctuary wrote a note attached to this image: "Discolored misprint from the DB published on Feb. 1rst Rabbit Rabbit Day." No one currently associated with the archive knows which newspaper is or was indicated by the abbreviation "DB". My own note will read "Unsure if this is an actual misprint. The discoloration may be the result of improper storage at the archive.

The date at the top of today's Geranium Lake Properties comic is the first day of the fourth week in the Procession of Entropy. November 11 is Katadesmostermymy, or Cursing Day, in the JMWL1 calendar. From notes we found in the Black Oxford Notebook (BON), we have learned there are several days that are eminently good for cursing people in the classical sense.

Tattoo flash, no. 51, "A poltergeist hidden in the flowers" Today is Michaelmas. Today I had hoped to describe why, according to Jackalopian customs, Saint Michael is the archangel who gets assigned all the shit jobs by his boss.1 That post has tangled itself with Jackalopian tales about the durable but doomed relationship between Michael and the Morning Star, aka Astarte, Venus, Lucifer, Chak Ek and Yotrildochet, among many other names.

It has been my intention to write about the Inultaru's concept of Michaelmas, the Feast Day of the Angels, for many years. I hope 2026 will be the year I accomplish this feat, but my post for September 29 is a mess right now, so we will have to see if I can bash it into some kind of coherence in the time I have left.

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Carpet Tacks(The Hardware Ballad) A good Australian of large experience,an exporter of blue shoe tacks, foundthe mousetrap in the letterbox andwas flattened by an unknown grinningdog sitting in front of our schoolmany years ago. Many years agowe used small ballad arrangementsfor Young Children and Hardware.We also researched a variety ofsharp pins protruding through…