You're Not Going To Thank Me For This

But Hey! If I Can't Unsee It, You Can Suffer Bleeding Eyes, Too
Because that's BOOJUM! in a nutshell, caring, sharing and underpant-wearing.
     I came across one of the most disgusting video clips imaginable on Youtube a short while ago, whilst conducting a serious search to see if there was any footage* of underwater mud volcanoes.  The reason for that search was a mention on a different Youtube channel - Art?

Misleading and horrid.  Avoid!

     For some reason all the animated people have a ball instead of a hand, and they all, without exception, slowly nod their heads, for absolutely no reason.  THIS IS UNREASONABLE!  Conrad found it so annoying I quickly left the channel.  Also, there is no giant whirlpool.

Wobbly heads - now that's a different matter

     Yes indeed.  They're scary in "Jacob's Ladder", O my goodness yes -
     Here an aside.  They remade "Jacob's Ladder" last year?  Your Humble Artisan was not aware of this, so it cannot have made much of an impact and was thus equally probably rubbish, said the big fan of the original -

I liked "You can't hide from your own mind" better

     Okay, whilst I'm on a roll, here's an aside to the aside.  The bare plot of JL in fact owes a considerable debt to "An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge", a short story by that most cynical of all South Canadians, Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce.  Art?

CAUTION!  Entirely lacking in fluffy bunnies and happy endings

     My, we've gotten well off-track, haven't we?  
     Back to mud volcanoes.  For some reason I went a-looking on Youtube, rather than trying Google, and here's a screen-cap of what I found <dry heaves> - Art?

     It's a mud volcano breaching the surface of the Sea of Azov, and it looks exactly like Mother Nature having a violent attack of diarrhoea**, and it is every bit as disgusting as that sounds.  I shan't put a link in, you can go YT it for yourselves, because I know some of you will, Hom. Sap. being Hom. Sap.

Simply ghastly, Vulnavia

     This kind of phenomenon is not uncommon in the area, and tourists will happily go sit in giant pools of this stinking slurry, whilst the locals pocket their money and remain clean.  Which reminds me, I must get a shower tomorrow morning.

What Base Emotion?
If that sounds like a Shakespeare quote then it's quite accidental, for as you know I loathe the pretentious scrivener and would gladly see him dead - o, no, wait a minute, he's already dead, see, that makes me happier already!
     Where was I?  Dammit, the party going on in my head 25/7 makes it difficult to concentrate at times.  Keep it down, chaps, please!
     Art?  Get your worthless Neanderthal butt into action -

Gaze upon -

     A very long time ago Conrad used to get this weekly magazine for kids, and it was full of all sorts of articles, including a page of illustrated facts, one of which has rather stuck with me, though of course as we are talking forty years ago a picture would be too much to hope for ...

Close enough

     L&L had a painted picture of a hapless driver in his open-topped car, cowering as he ran off the road and into a street-light -
     - which broke off at the base and was in the process of flying over the car.  The accompanying blurb said that South Canadians were experimenting with street-lights that would neatly fracture at the base and fly over a car, instead of remaining proudly inviolate and totalling the car.  
     "Yes, but wouldn't that mean the car behind got impaled by a flying street-light?" a young Conrad puzzled.
     There's a lot more to this than you might imagine, so - we shall return!

Just for you, in colour

Speaking Of Bases -
Hah!  Wargamer joke there.  You may be interested to know the state of play in the Battle of Lower Spleine (yes I've changed the spelling, they did this all the time in days gone by, the inconsistent pikers) as we head into the second part of Turn 9.  Art?

     This is the end of the Parliamentarian move, where they unusually got the drop on the Cavaliers, and have given their infantry a bit of punishment. You can see the Unwanted Geographical Feature has made a reappearance - no matter what I do that gap between the two paste tables keeps coming back, and right in the middle of the battle lines!  Next time I shall either use a different table or put a nice flat board on top.  We have a close-up for your delectation -

     To explicate: here we're looking at the centre of the line, where Essex's Foote Companies (to the north) have shot one of Gerard's Brigades (to the south) into retreat; if you look closely you can see the two injured soldiers next to the base  that each represent a level of "Shaken" for the Cavalier unit - one more such level and the whole unit will rout.  If it continues to retreat, however, it will back into the next lines of Royalist foot, which will make them Shaken.  Meanwhile, the Parliament foot companies have been shooting the daylights out of another of Gerard's Brigades, and it, too, now has two levels of Shaken.
     The Royalist commander (Yours Truly) has a choice now that it's his turn; he can expend some of his Tempo Points to try and Rally his units from Shaken, which will leave him unable to move many of his units, or he can just blast on regardless and see what disasters may befall him.
     Interesting times!

"Hey nonny nonny, I'll chop you up, Johnny."

Finally -
There's only 10 minutes of lunch remaining, so I'm going to really hammer the keys to get this out there.  I only realised a few minutes ago that I'd not gone and looked up the details for "Stargate SG-1", as I had promised, and you know I am an alien man of my word.  So, here's hoping that it helps my digestion as I bolt both pickles and cheese.  Art?

O!  Pickled cheese -

     - a delicacy to the Czechs, apparently.  Until now I didn't know such a thing existed.  Conrad will investigate further and get back to you about this ...


*  None of that metric nonsense here.
**  Not too proud to admit I had to look that spelling up <wry face>