Prufrock451
@prufrock451
Wrote Rome Sweet Rome, Acadia, and encyclopedias. Bylines in Wired, Mental Floss, Slate, Boing Boing. Won Jeopardy. Alum of WGA, SFWA, AFSCME. Let’s be pals
The myth of consensual landscaping: Isn’t there someone you forgot to ask?
The person who OKed this license plate has a safe job for life and I am simultaneously furious and overjoyed about it
Also, impossibly, after almost 20 years, my first reference book earned out the advance and I will get $50 a year until I die. It’s crazy y’all
FUN: when some mussels lay eggs, the larvae hatch into mucus structures that look and wiggle like minnows. When a bass comes to eat it, BAM it gets a mouthful of 50,000 larvae. The larvae then latch onto the victim’s gills to suck blood until the larvae can survive on their own!
This little guy is going to spew out like a billion spores over the next week. Insane
Okay, refreshed and finally at the edge of my real patch. Let’s see where this goes
This has been kind of a side quest because this is the thin end of my patch but I do love how much of the river you can get to yourself here. Des Moines has a green belt out west that is now like eight times the size of Central Park and I have been out here all day without seeing another human
A few minutes later, two morels. If this doubling trend continues by nightfall I will have enough morels to collapse the earth into a black hole
The answer is, six minutes in, a morel. I retain the favor of the gods
“I like to imagine I’m hearing something funny, so I guess we’re both disappointed! DOHHHOHOHOHO”