It is wonderful to have room temperature butter around to put on the baked goods. This butter bell is the crock that makes it happen safely.

Simply fill the bell with warm butter and put about 1 ¼ cm of water into the crock. Place the bell in the crock when you are not using it. The water creates a seal to keep bad things out, and butter is mostly just fat so it is fine at room temps for up to 30 days.

Warm butter spreads easy and can help make a loaf of fresh bread disappear.

Norpro Glazed Stoneware Butter Keeper via Amazon

Punk-rock magic absurdist Zabrecky is at it again, and this time he's got Puddles Pity Party joining him!

Saturday the 12th of September will see two shows of this new 'Magic Extravaganza.'

I never lived until I ate off a Zoo Pals plate.

The best paper I have found for writing with a fountain pen in a notebook is Maruman Menemosyne.

I am lost without these notebooks. While I have a bunch of Moleskine books around, I think the paper is merely OK for use with fountain pen ink. Maruman Mnemosyne has been sucking up ink, not feathering, pooling or ending up all over my hands and arms.

I prefer Noodler's inks but this paper works fantastically with everything in my collection. Pilot, Parker, Mont Blanc and Noodlers.

Maruman MNEMOSYNE Notebook 5.83 x 8.27 Inches (Horizontal A5), 5mm-squared, 70 Sheets (N182A) via Amazon

Last night I tore thru Diego Piraro's Peyote Cowboy.

A fantastic story about a cowboy who mistakenly eats some peyote while trying to save his son from starving, the art will blow your mind.

Stevie gives an amazing performance here. Where can I get his pants suit?

Senryu are sort of a sister poem to the Haiku. While traditional Haiku are about nature, Senryu follow the same 5-7-5 syllable format to address elements of human nature.

Latitude and longitude are available for the seriously committed.

(h/t Ava)

A recent study has shown that the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was a Bad Idea™.

The Hill:

Based on the increase in case count, the researchers group, estimated that cases connected to the gathering resulted in $12 billion in public health costs, not including the costs associated with any deaths that might be tied to cases from the event. That dollar amount is based on another estimation that an average of $46,000 is spent on each patient who tests positive for COVID-19.

Researchers concluded that more than 266,000 cases were tied to the event attended by more than 460,000 individuals.

Sometimes, in my dreams, I am the lead in Kool Moe Dee's I Go To Work.

A gentleman aggressively borrowing THE plot device from a beloved children's novel is surprised people want to win a candy factory.

Fast Company:

David Klein, who sold his stake in Jelly Belly in 1980 and now runs a company called Spectrum Confections, announced last week that he will give away a candy factory to one lucky winner who is able to locate the "ultimate treasure." Additionally, one treasure hunter in all 50 states will receive $5,000. The contest has sparked enormous interest, with the "Gold Ticket" Facebook group gaining tens of thousands of members in just a few days and the website TheGoldTicket.com crashing from an apparent influx of visitors.

Reached by phone, Klein told Fast Company he was caught off guard by the surge. "This is the biggest response to anything we've ever done," he says.

It costs $50 to play in his game, but people are willing.

I have not heard this in years. Packed with the best.

Pretzel discovered bowl hockey as a puppy and has never looked back.

Affectionately known as Zuul the destroyer, Pretzel will bat that that bowl until I put food into it or take it away.

She is the most snuggly of puppies and sleeps on my head.

Sometimes I just sit and ponder how great chocolate and peanut butter might taste with a modern graphics card!

Also I think the new Peanut Butter cups come with HOTAS and VR support.

These No-Hide chews have been popular with my most aggressive chewers and spare me some worry.

There are good and bad things about rawhide, and I have had two very aggressive chewers in my life. My dogs can vouch for the deliciousness of these No-Hide chews but are not a statistically significant sample of safety.

Electra, my golden retriever puppy, is always happy but she is MOST happy with something to chew in her mouth. These 'bones' are amongst her favorites.

My Great Pyr, when existent, was a real challenge. Nemo wanted something that took more than 2 seconds to monch apart, but my vet was very clear about no more real bones or plain rawhide. The real bones were breaking teeth out of my Cavalier King Charles head, and the rawhide was potentially causing digestive issues. These No-Hide chews could give Nemo 20 minutes or more. An eon of chewing for a 125lbs of pure fuzzy monster.

Both the Golden and the Pyr could destroy these chews in moments with their jaws of power, should they so choose, but they seem to not do that. Electra is running around with half of last nights bone in her mouth.

Earth Animal No Hide Beef Chews 7" (5 Pack) via Amazon

What a shot! A Ranger used a shotgun slug to break two horn-locked bucks free.

Yesterday I drove a new-to-me white 2012 Ford F150 V8 work truck from LA to San Francisco to see my daughter and deliver her bicycle plus other summer beach stuffs that were abandoned in the dead Vanagon.

The truck is like a giant living room that never need stop for gas! Electra and I were able to take puppy pee breaks in pleasant places to let her walk, instead of a gas station. I still have 1/3+ of a tank of gas left and the average highway speed was likely north of 75mph. Mileage, while still not the 27mpg of an economical Porsche 911, was still a lot better than Volkswagen's famous "fuck aerodynamics! We can push a brick thru the air!" design.

While Ford has sponsored Boing Boing in the past, the only Ford I've ever owned was a 1965 Galaxie 500 convertible. While fantastic for the soul it was hard to keep running.

My daughter wants a teardrop trailer. Electra loves riding in the cab. Pretzel misses riding on top of the sink in the VW, but can sleep anywhere.

It'll do.