I’m Jimi.
I quietly contemplate these days. I enjoy reading about and infrequently discussing #SciFi, #Fantasy, #Horror, #Science, #USPolitics and #Noir. I’ve been #TentCamping over half my life. #CozyGroveCampSpirit
#StarTrek🖖rocks.
I love all #Tolkien.
#MST3K is hilarious.
Michael Myers🔪the 1st shape.
#Ghibli storytelling is *gorgeous*
#Svengoolie rules!
Han shot first.p
Early Gen X feral latchkey kid. Married. Mostly harmless. I block AI & jagbags.
We call them gym shoes round here.
| Human | Not Immortal. Really. |
| Location | In far Northern Illinois. Previously Braga, Pt., Funchal, Pt., Barrie, Ontario. Far Northern Illinois before all that. |
| Banner Image | Fall is the season on the lakefront in Barrie, Ontario. A photographer in a yellow jacket sits under a reddish dynamic sculpture. New construction is visible in the background. Blue sky with scattered white clouds. The lake is reflecting the blue sky. |
| Toots | Toots disappear like tears in the rain. However it takes a while. So I got that going for me at least. |
Astounding vol. 48, no. 1 (September 1951)
The day of the moron, you say? Is the story set in the far-off year of 2025 by any chance?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v48n01_1951-09_Sam_Hall
#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration
Free the Spokane 9.
"The arrests in #Spokane — not the first time in recent weeks that the government has aggressively gone after anyone involved in resisting the ICE raids — are a window into how this police state plans to operate."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-protesters-arrested-spokane-20250717.html
Indeed! I like the way you put that. 😊
Weiner Circle in Chicago. Used to go there after hitting up the Laugh Factory or Kingston Mines. Back in the fricking mid-90’s. I’m talking with my spouse’s (younger) cousin, an Oak Park native who is all like, wait, wtf, way back then? I’m like yup, used to drive down there from the Aragon brawl room after shows occasionally too. I can’t remember most of the joints we used to stop at in the late 80’s after shows. As I was a far-West suburban kid, the names didn’t stick.
This is the true lifestyle, isn't it? I also love and enjoy such moments mostly on kayak/canoe hiking tours in the club. You can't buy true luxury for money, you just have to know how to enjoy it ..
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Taught some pinball repair classes a few times. During tournaments we'd bring in techs from all over, but we RAN OUT AND HAD TO GROW OUR OWN, so I started off with coils and power supplies and how-the-hell-do-an-electron-go, y'know, the fundamentals.
Did a quick bit on bridge rectifiers and smoothing caps and coil drive transistors and then held up one of these lads and said right let's fix one of these and everyone, all these pinball teching newbies, took this Indrawn Breath because HOLY SHIT JUST LOOK AT IT, you mean we gotta UNDERSTAND that?
I said don't worry. The biggest, most complicated, most intimidating system you can think of, is made out of smaller, simpler systems, and then those systems are themselves made out of even smaller, simpler systems, until you get right down to stuff that's very understandable and very fixable by the average person, and if all the little easy bits work then the big complicated thing has no choice but to work.
I'm posting this now because someone just called that post "philosophy" and it's not philosophy it's just literally how pinball machines work lol
Head's up, the "you must confirm your profile" scam is proliferating on the Fediverse. I wonder if they are trying to gather driver's licenses and credit card numbers? It's a scam.
That Buick is just amazing
Took some last shots of Harry and then we toodled on home
#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars
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SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers
Pete
It's Going Down
grobi
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
AI6YR Ben
bythehandofbob
Frank
Bob O'Shaughnessy
Hervé 
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