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Post by Deeky on Dec 13, 2021 22:56:59 GMT -5
I can't tell whether you're saying that with admiration or bitterness. At this point I am not even sure I care.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 5, 2022 0:18:34 GMT -5
I figured out where the annoying rattling noise was coming from in my car. For several weeks, I was annoyed by this on-again, off-again rattling sound, but couldn't pinpoint where exactly it was coming from. It was definitely coming from somewhere on the passenger side of the front seats, but I wasn't sure if it was something in the door, or the sleeve-like plastic caddy for holding shit inside the door. Or maybe it was from the passenger seat - or under it?
So, like I say, it bothered me intermittently when I'd be driving for weeks before I figured out yesterday the sound was coming from inside the small console in between the front seats. Derp. I swear it sounded like it was coming from further away like the door or seat. I'm so glad it's solved, but I feel like such a doofus for not even checking in there before now.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 5, 2022 21:40:59 GMT -5
I stumbled across a multi-movie disc I didn't remember owning and slapped it in the player to see THE SENTINEL for the first time in I know nor how long. It's the first time I've seen it uncut and it explains so very much:
Why Kenneth Bianchi is always so familiar to me when I see a photo of him. The male lead in THE SENTINEL, played by Chris Sarandon, could be his brother.
Who Mamie at work reminds me of. Gerda, the ageing German-accented ballet murderer. For starters, they have identical hair.
Why Cristina Raines got the heaves at the top of the stairs. It never occurred to me, in years of watching the movie on network TV, that they might have cut out what she saw that made her sick.
Can't wait to get to the other flix in this disc. I've never seen them before.
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Post by El Santo on Jan 6, 2022 10:29:07 GMT -5
When you're really, really sick, it turns out it's rather disturbing to look out your window and see that your whole end of the street is swarming with crows and vultures. (Both local vulture species, in point of fact!)
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 7, 2022 6:23:02 GMT -5
When you're really, really sick, it turns out it's rather disturbing to look out your window and see that your whole end of the street is swarming with crows and vultures. (Both local vulture species, in point of fact!) Well, they may have only been attracted by the arcane symbology of the Elder Gods scrawled on your interior walls. They haven't necessarily come for you. F'taghn!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 29, 2022 22:40:11 GMT -5
I had no idea pumpkins lasted so long. The one I bought early in October is still solid and has been sitting outside through all sorts of weather.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 29, 2022 23:29:47 GMT -5
I had no idea pumpkins lasted so long. The one I bought early in October is still solid and has been sitting outside through all sorts of weather. I believe it depends on the pumpkin. I had a white pumpkin ("Lumina" maybe?) last a slap YEAR on my kitchen table, inside in the warm.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 8, 2022 23:38:16 GMT -5
I've had a long-time mail art contact in Lviv, Ukraine. I never knew how to pronounce Lviv, but thanks to the invasion coverage, I found out it's pronounced just as it's spelled. I assumed one or several letters would be silent or pronounced completely differently.
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Post by El Santo on Apr 17, 2022 19:28:51 GMT -5
I had Oaxaca cheese for the first time tonight. It's terrific. The same pleasantly rubbery consistency as mozzarella, but with a flavor similar to extremely rich butter.
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Post by El Santo on Apr 20, 2022 20:07:49 GMT -5
And today I learned that my copy of Batman: The Killing Joke, which I've somehow managed not to damage in any noticeable way since 1988, is the printing that goes for a surprisingly large amount of money nowadays. Not, like, "pay off my house" or "send a kid to college" kind of money, mind you, but certainly "I could flip it for a pretty decent Asian-made guitar" kind of money.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 24, 2022 11:15:57 GMT -5
I learned that Bert I. Gordon is still alive! Wow!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 3, 2022 10:11:37 GMT -5
I learned that there were some Bibles printed in the 1600's known as "The Wicked Bible" because the printers screwed up and omitted the "Not" from the 6th commandment about adultery. Most were destroyed, but a handful have survived all these centuries.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 3, 2022 23:30:22 GMT -5
So, I've always been intrigued by the concept of sensory deprivation tanks/chambers. Well, that book I mentioned over in the official ZAQB book thread (Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains) explained in layman's terms why some people have vivid hallucinations in those tanks.
The thing that's always kept me from seriously seeking out an isolation tank is that they're apparently quite cold salt water. But in Unthinkable, the author describes "anechoic chambers". It's a pitch black room built inside a room, built inside another room. It has 3ft thick walls of steel and concrete and is lined with jagged padding. Apparently inside, "you can hear your eyeballs moving and your skin stretching across your skull". The one mentioned at Orfield Laboratories is dubbed "the quietest place on earth".
Anyway, if it doesn't involve floating in near freezing water, I'm up for it.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on May 4, 2022 4:40:37 GMT -5
I am fascinated by the notion of transcendent experiences, and yet I have also become somewhat fearful of them. The very idea of being able to hear my skin has it crawling. Thankfully, I can't hear it.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 4, 2022 6:33:29 GMT -5
I am fascinated by the notion of transcendent experiences, and yet I have also become somewhat fearful of them. The very idea of being able to hear my skin has it crawling. Thankfully, I can't hear it. Not in your noisy Big Apple world! Your skin cries out woefully unheard!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 4, 2022 23:09:20 GMT -5
I am fascinated by the notion of transcendent experiences, and yet I have also become somewhat fearful of them. The very idea of being able to hear my skin has it crawling. Thankfully, I can't hear it.
I think I know what you mean. That little micro-dose of LSD a few months back confirmed that I am old and wary. Was more difficult (for me) to just let go and enjoy where your fancy takes you when you have a house-note and other duties, debts and obligations.
Besides reading about isolation tanks through Dr. Lily's experiences, along with loving the Ken Russell film "Altered States", I recall a fellow art school student from Seattle describing his experiences with one at a university there. He used the tank enough that he grew comfortable with the experience, and told me two hours inside an isolation tank worked like the equivalent of 8 hours sleep for him. That really stuck with me.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on May 6, 2022 10:34:54 GMT -5
So, I've always been intrigued by the concept of sensory deprivation tanks/chambers. Well, that book I mentioned over in the official ZAQB book thread (Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains) explained in layman's terms why some people have vivid hallucinations in those tanks.
The thing that's always kept me from seriously seeking out an isolation tank is that they're apparently quite cold salt water. But in Unthinkable, the author describes "anechoic chambers". It's a pitch black room built inside a room, built inside another room. It has 3ft thick walls of steel and concrete and is lined with jagged padding. Apparently inside, "you can hear your eyeballs moving and your skin stretching across your skull". The one mentioned at Orfield Laboratories is dubbed "the quietest place on earth".
Anyway, if it doesn't involve floating in near freezing water, I'm up for it.
Actually been inside of one, courtesy of my maternal grandfather's work for the Apollo program. I'm not an engineer, so I don't quite recall why Grumman was using it, but I vaguely recall it had something to do with testing the effects of vibration on certain spacecraft assemblies. I was a kid, and of course nobody turned the lights out, but they are...kinda weird. Cannot report hearing my eyeballs do much of anything, though.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 16, 2022 11:10:30 GMT -5
So, I've always been intrigued by the concept of sensory deprivation tanks/chambers. Well, that book I mentioned over in the official ZAQB book thread (Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains) explained in layman's terms why some people have vivid hallucinations in those tanks.
The thing that's always kept me from seriously seeking out an isolation tank is that they're apparently quite cold salt water. But in Unthinkable, the author describes "anechoic chambers". It's a pitch black room built inside a room, built inside another room. It has 3ft thick walls of steel and concrete and is lined with jagged padding. Apparently inside, "you can hear your eyeballs moving and your skin stretching across your skull". The one mentioned at Orfield Laboratories is dubbed "the quietest place on earth".
Anyway, if it doesn't involve floating in near freezing water, I'm up for it.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on May 16, 2022 13:53:36 GMT -5
So, I've always been intrigued by the concept of sensory deprivation tanks/chambers. Well, that book I mentioned over in the official ZAQB book thread (Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains) explained in layman's terms why some people have vivid hallucinations in those tanks.
The thing that's always kept me from seriously seeking out an isolation tank is that they're apparently quite cold salt water. But in Unthinkable, the author describes "anechoic chambers". It's a pitch black room built inside a room, built inside another room. It has 3ft thick walls of steel and concrete and is lined with jagged padding. Apparently inside, "you can hear your eyeballs moving and your skin stretching across your skull". The one mentioned at Orfield Laboratories is dubbed "the quietest place on earth".
Anyway, if it doesn't involve floating in near freezing water, I'm up for it.
Should be able to get one of those on the used market in about five years, if I decide to do something completely insane.
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Post by Portrait in Flesh on May 17, 2022 0:27:22 GMT -5
That I can live in SoCal in a 3 bedroom 1.5 bath home without a mortgage and without a car payment for a 2020 vehicle with under 10K miles and it still feels so hollow.
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