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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 30/09/2026

honestly for a second I thought it was one of the nameless off-model villains from the Konami Simpsons arcade beat-em-up

Four-player Simpsons Arcade beat-em-up from Konami, with two nameless besuited boss characters, one big with red tie and brown shoes, one too small for his identical suit with blue tie and black shoes.

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 28/09/2026

I used to live near the closed-before-I-moved-there Poo Ping Thai Chinese Cuisine in Tujunga, CA

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 28/09/2026

For October I’m starting a quixotic quest to bring back the phrase “fourple platinum” from Get Fuzzy

Panel 1: Bucky B. Katt, wearing sunglasses, says to Satchel Pooch “See? My album is right there on the Internut. So you know it’s true.” Satchel reads text off a laptop screen—“Bucky Katt’s debut album - Bucky Katt’s Greatest Hits: Volume 2, went fourple platinum in a record 2 hours…”

Panel 2: Satchel furrows his brow. “Fourple? What is this website, anyway?” Bucky replies “Wikipedia, baby.”

Panel 3: Satchel is skeptical. “Hm… seems more like Wackypedia to me…” Bucky grabs the mouse and says “Hey, scroll down to the bit about where I won Wimbledon.”

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 25/09/2026

I also have both the first and second Grant editions of The Drawing of the Three, which have identical text but vastly different illustrations by Phil Hale

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 23/09/2026

Share an image that shows how many years you’ve been online (Legend of the Red Dragon by Seth Able Robinson was a daily play for my friends and me 1992-94)

ANSI.SYS ASCII art version of Legend of the Red Dragon’s splash screen

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 23/09/2026

“But how can three people 69?” You ask. “It’s impossible!” Not so, as this comic will demonstrate.

Only the relevant panels have been transcribed.

Panel 5: Roast Beef tries to reason with Ray. “Three dudes can’t 69 man think about it”
Panel 6: Ray disagrees. “Actually, they can. It’s called the Isosceles Lock.”
Panel 7: Ray deploys a projector screen.
Panel 8: Ray in the dark: “Invented by the dudes from ABBA, the Isosceles Lock has revolutionized…” The diagram is nonsense but is Copyright © 1978 Ulvaeus, Andersson.

The comic’s original alt text is “Agnetha I will be not at home again this Evening”

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 18/09/2026

how it started vs. how it’s going:

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

A MANAGER MUST NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A SCAPEGOAT MUST ALWAYS MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 15/09/2026

Drop a closed restaurant that you still miss.

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 05/09/2026

Post a picture of you from another era

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 16/08/2026

listening to Philip Glass?

Still frame from a classic Vine where the kid says “I do that.”

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 14/08/2026

anyway here are some choice shots

Sunset in Lancaster, CA, behind a single tree.

Electricity pylons near Chickamauga Dam, Chattanooga, TN.

Mysterious boots in the middle of a country road on a sunny NASCAR race weekend, Henry County, VA.

Metrolink train station at night in Sylmar, CA.

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 10/08/2026

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

a Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me DVD cover in the style of a late 90s/early 2000s romantic comedy film. Credit to… Syartir Standoagar? Idk I can’t read it

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 09/08/2026

it’s a little scary how quickly Facebook decided I wanted more of these kinds of listings, especially more-or-less deniable ones. Again, these are not listings I usually see; only after I gawked at the St. Andrew’s cross did they show up in my feed.

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 09/08/2026