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Honestly, I think Billy likes wearing Stu’s clothes more! I think he likes taking stuff like his jackets and stuff- whenever I draw him with the flannel jacket, I always picture it being Stu’s

Stu seems like the type to like matching outfits more! Especially with the ghost face costume. Even something as small as wearing the same boots gets him to flash a goofy ass smile

2-YEAR CHEDDAR

from GRAFTON VILLAGE

I usually try to review cheeses virginally - that is, ones that I’ve never had before. In this case, this is a cheddar I’ve had many times before. But I couldn’t leave it off the blog, what with its obvious appeal to leather and rubber fetishists.

As far as cheddars go, Grafton’s 2-year aged isn’t going to shock you. It’s mild, light on the salt, with a slightly sweet and grassy flavour. It’s got a nice texture. It’s dense, more moist than I expected, and smooth.

So what is the deal with the gummi suit on this cheese anyway? Well, cheese has obviously been around a lot longer than fridges. Fresh cheeses like mozzarella are too moist to last very long outside of a cold place (bacteria and fungi do so love damp places), though I don’t think anyone was too mad about eating that stuff quickly. But cheeses that have been aged (and dried) more have some more preservation options, which is where cheese wax comes in. The wax is a physical barrier, stopping fungal spores from landing, and also blocks moisture and air, making the cheese a pretty unfriendly place to grow. Even drier cheeses can be bandaged in cheesecloth and then slathered in lard to preserve them while allowing some ventilation.

But from what i can gather thats Crystal Thierry, also known as page73girl. Who seems to have been a model for the now defunct biggestletdown.com…

to Immanentize the Eschaton means to bring about utopian conditions and create heaven on Earth

the phrase is first cited in the Discordian religious text, Principia Discordia (1963), for whom Discord (aka Eris) is goddess:

the first line of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s 1975 The Illuminatus! trilogy: “It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.”

in Frederik Pohl’s The Eschaton Sequence (1997 - 1999), the human race is caught up in a galactic war between two alien races attempting to immanentize the eschaton

in Ken Macleod's The Stone Canal (1997), one of the chapters is “Another crack at Immanentising the Eschaton”

Leptogidium dendriscum

Inland woollybear lichen

Is that a caterpillar? A caccoon? An gummy? No, its a lichen! And a friend. This precious little baby fruticose cyanolichen grows on thin, mossy branches of broad-leaved trees in cool-humid regions of the northern hemisphere. It grows in puffy, densely branching cushions of smooth to nodulose filaments. It is blue-green to gray to brown in color, with a shiny surface and jelly-ish texture when hydrated. It occasionally produces flat to convex, red-brown apothecia on the ends of branches. L. dendriscum has a Scytonema cyanobacterial photobiont that looks like this in microscopic cross section:

Just as cute on the inside as the outside!

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